001um so again you know we've added those links um we really believe that providing those and having superintended to provide those is very helpful okay we strongly suggest you set a calendar and then stick to it okay so you know your board president is superintendent to work together to establish that timeline to get the goals in then get it to the board Hunters please please do not make your boy president chase you around to finish it there's a statutory timeline you know in the old days your board president had to email me and say who's finished and I'd say geez this one's interest but not this one is and if it comes to this like weekly test we've Now set it up so that the board president and all of you are able to see
002online who has completed transparents published yes well no but it's easy to see anybody having to email and each other about getting it completed that way everybody they can't see anything you manage it's completely anonymous no one can get in to see your individual evaluation all they can see is your name and the date you finished it okay and there's the start date and then a complete date once everyone has completed I hit a button it compiles automatically I'm not evaluating the superintendent I don't read it I have a safe secure way to get it electronically to your work president I send it off to the board president and then you take it from there to complete the other steps along in the process but it is completely Anonymous it is pure again I don't
003have access to your password you know it works okay one just one quick question yes is it mandatory for all board members to complete that process before we can move on or is there a cut off drop dead date that we could say I would tell you it's your responsibility as a board member unless you have a conflict you know conflicted out of the process it's your obligation to fully engage in this process you have wanted fully the superintendent this is a major responsibility not only is in statute but it helps to cement positive working relationship with your superintendent and all of you know how critically important because your student account is for that is and so again it's a Communications tool if you have a concern this is your opportunity to say you know
004I think this went really well but I'm still concerned about this right it is the opportunity that you have to make sure that everyone is staying on the same page once and then you can move forward with different priorities for the following year you know it's a way of saying okay what do we finish what do we finish what happened in the middle of all of this that we need to still work on you know what's in progress but we haven't been able to finish and then how can we finish effectively okay um so again I will send you the link to be able to get on you'll get an email from me um there are multiple ways to get into the evaluation there's a link that is sent to you from the email I
005send it's also on a front page down at the bottom right hand side it's also on the field services page if you go to the field services on my website you can get into it from there so there are multiple places to get into the evaluation so if you lose the email from me which is very likely to get married somewhere or put into spam you can just go to our front page go all the way down on the right hand side it has been there for the 20 years at the association all right so um here's the sample of what the compilation will come back what it looks like once it's all compliant you might say well what does it look like when it comes back here's the goal here's the superintendent's comments here
006are the board's comments and there you can see that seven boards say satisfactory progress was made one said it was achieved and one said let alone no progress was made when you complete the written report that goes to the superintendent if this is a compilation it's not the final report final report must reflect the majority perspective of the board so on this particular standard you would say the majority of the board believe the superintendent made satisfactory progress in this whole area now what happens if you're one of those folks who's in the minority well as everything that you do as a board is by majority the minority voice is protected because it's all requires that the full Board of Education non-conflicted members only but I don't think you have anything so the majority of this
007order must meet with the superintendent to review the evaluation that is the opportunity for a board member who perhaps has a different perspective that's not reflected in the written report to say you know what I know my colleagues thinking we make progress but I'm still really concerned about this goal I'm really concerned about you know HIV or I'm concerned about safety and teacher or whatever the concern is that you have and I think you can say anything you need to say depending on the words you choose and the tone of you take those of you who had teenage daughters know that they can just look at you without just don't even have to talk to you um and you get defensive right they rule their eyes they hear people like but again that goes to
008what they're choosing to do I'm suggesting if you said I'm still concerned about this and here's why it's dramatically different than say you failed to take care of this right it's about the words you choose and the tone of the table and how you address issues is so critically important because you want to have a fruitful discussion about it you don't want people having um upset years I was a teenage girl none of them none of them are used I can tell you they will grow up okay here's a compilation for the standard and at the end you can see on each of these indicators where the board fell out and then what the overall indicators were and where the board came out on that as well okay so once again I compiled it I
009did secure retrieval to the board president I sent you a direction somehow to do that so that you know how to do that and you will then be able to print it out and you'll have it okay so the compilation is not the evaluation either the word price limit the vice president or Committee of the board whatever you have position done or want to do you can do um come up with a final report of summative evaluation incorporating in the standards and the goals that reflects the majority of people the board is allowed to meet it's the one time you were allowed to meet without your superintendent you have to send him or her license to discuss the summative report so that you're sure that it reflects the will of the majority of the board
010once you have met and accomplished that um then it will go to the superintendent ahead of the meeting that you will schedule with the superintendent to review this evaluation all of that can be followed the closed session superintendent must receive a rights notice Mike will send the superintendent Vice notices who in both instances because you have to make sure you embraced and agree to be able to discuss their performance um and then you will sign a company's board president on behalf of the board got the freedom to sign the copy the signature from the superintendent is not agreement with or disagreement with it's acknowledgment if you see they get stated a copy is given to the superintendent for him to keep and the words copied we strongly suggest you put in an Avalon Market confidential
0112022-23 school year superintendent evaluation and give it to your board attorney so that we will always have access to it because even if you change board attorneys they will give the file to the next Attorney because there are ecs's that will say and I've had the age call me in the panic and say I nobody's got a copy what happened to the person that moved out of town you know all kinds of things and we don't keep it we are not in the business of evaluating evaluating anyone once it's compiled it is wiped off our system because we don't want to see the Personnel records not our responsibility to do that and he'll call us and I say continuity because another board down the road may not be able to produce lead either okay yes
012yes is looking for it you'd be out of luck and that's the reason for doing it okay so um again you're going to hold that annual conference that ends the process as with all certified staff in the school district the superintendent has 10 teaching staff days and that's the actual language from the statute even though it's due July 1st and no one's teaching typically or not most schools in July that's the way the law says so it's we consider those business days you can learn a lot of those teaching staff days um to append to the evaluation any kind of additional information documentation that he or she believes amplifies clarifies or better provides a reader with an understanding of that person's performance that's true for teachers supervisors directors anyone with a certificate has that opportunity
013to append to the evaluation you should be made aware be able to read it but in support of Education you can't say no you can't do that so they're kind of I want to do that as is every certified employee okay that's not unique to the superintendent and it's not typically done but again it is something you need to know can be done in case someone likes to do it okay um again you're going to write that report you're going to meet in an executive session um and again you know make sure you hit those areas progress on goals the leadership skills and then talk about you know what's spelling progress that you may need to think about moving forward and it becomes the starting point for goal setting for the following year which is
014why it looks nice to get it done by July 1st because then you have some time to do also and that's and you want to finish it your assessment of that long before I also strongly recommend that once you agree to the summative document as a board that you share it with Dr Steven ahead of time or any superintendent ahead of time because you want to be able to have an informed discussion if somebody hands me a document five minutes before reading and that says so what do you think give me 15 minutes to read it maybe you know you're talking about someone's 40 years worth of work so it just is a consideration and thoughtfulness so that they can reflect um you need to give it to them a little bit ahead of time
015so they have time I have a question so is July 1st that's the date that everything has to be completed so in 10 days prior it would be June whatever no 10 days after the event I don't believe it or not have some words that actually need on July the first because they're so under the bottom my recommendation is looking at your camera to figure out when you can get it done so that you can do those closed sessions both of those meters attached to avoiding if you can so you don't have to have a separate media but I do have some boards that do it on July the first because the talent yes I know the calendar gets away from them and then they're behind you know behind the eight ball so to speak
016um 10 days after the evaluation to attach it so if you did it you know June 1st you had to do the luck assuming there's no reasons but just for attendance distance you have like nonetheless you'd have 10 business days to attach so it's 10 days after you have that conference an employee has an opportunity first yeah that additional 10 construction phase can be an African language yes we can absolutely can if you were doing it on July 1st okay we also developed a template um for writing the summative report because so many boards have struggled with this um so when I send the word president evaluation that officers into the template in a Word document so that you can cut and paste to make it a little easier to complete that summative document so
017we did that as well again and the remarks that you provide should be the ones that support the majority of women that are written in the um as part of the summative document okay um and again you know you can check more than one box there is no limitation to say but you only have one area of strength is necessary and if you don't think there are any particular standards that have been have been ignored or need great Focus you don't have to check those okay it's up to the board Okay so we've talked about this again by July 1. so just some thoughts um you want to make sure that you fill out these things carefully and thoughtfully and by that I don't mean to be kind thoughtful I mean think through it this
018is someone's professional evaluation so it's important to be thorough and fair and Equitable in your approach um remember you're reflecting on the big picture not just the one item that nobody approves that you really supported you know because that's not the purpose of this we all have our Little Red Wagons right that we pull along behind us the zip set about put this in this this is a big picture total performance okay um and again including the timelines um by July the first okay so you know this is not a once a year event it begins with that goal setting and the evaluation is simply the culmination of the work it's done over the course of the entire year um we often see the superintendents sometimes you may want to develop a system for retaining
019the documentation when things occur that support your goals who are standard just to make it easier when it gets to be you know February March timeline and you start thinking about this it's like oh I remember we did something but I don't remember where I filed it maybe everybody does a lot better at that you do but I think it's helpful to just keep a running path and for those of you who are board members you know if something really stands out to you you may want to hang on to an agenda or something else or put it in the file for evaluation yeah for the year that you're going to be doing just to help you when it's time for you to fill out your portion of it um and again it's the responsibility
020of all eligible board members to fully participate because each of you has an equal voice and so I have and I say this all the time every year I've never met a superintendent ever they did not want to meet the expectation of their employee members that doesn't mean that they always fit the market for all board members all the time but they work hard it's a tough job they deserve an evaluation that is thoughtful and carefully done and that's important and that means everyone participated so I recognize that you're volunteers I know you leave busy lives deeply appreciate everything you do but this is something that really needs to be done and done well okay the board census I know Mike is on top of it on the book and then it's your email we
021just have that so here is where it is under Field Services it's the first entry um it's on our front page on the bottom right hand side we also have all of these online resources when you log in and put your username there you'll find a copy of this you'll find an FAQ with frequently asked questions there is also a word dot I mean it's a PDF but you can create the whole evaluation of blank if you want to look at it ahead of time I have some board members who like to think about it write out their comments first not on the computer you can go out and go in so that you have time to do it so if you have an hour you want to start it but then you've got to
022run the kids to please follow the cross or whatever and you have things you have to do um you can sign out and when you come back it'll take you right to the page where you left off okay and it won't be easier so that's something that you can do so that you can think about it that way it doesn't become too overwhelming there's a PowerPoint very similar to this one that's available there there's a webinar you can watch me do this in the recorded version um and so all of those things are there for you in case you have questions and then if all else fails or you dislike me and you have a question you can call me you can email me I will be happy to help you in any way okay
023questions good all right well thank you very much some of your students are here already we've been a few minute break before you have to go out to the next part um thank you very much and I hope to see you all um at the Somerset County meeting you're being certified congratulations I look forward to seeing all of you there whereas many of you asking maybe it is a celebration and you should feel very accomplished I feel accomplished for you you did a lot of the work okay thanks thank you thank you and then the tutoring I had to go get me a baseball pictures before the kids so I've been home today for about a half hour just long enough to get the boys I just ate a six inch Quick Check stuff on
024on Route 28 on the way good to see you too thank you we'll be in touch about the next one I'm not sure what's next but we'll let you know yes um all right okay everybody so very quickly in a second yeah thank you thank you all in favor um foreign thank you very much thank you foreign thank you foreign let me just make sure the audio is still working let me just all right you are unmuted and it seems to still be working great okay so we're going to reconvene a meeting now that we have abusive majority of our uh award recipients here and before we kick off this next part of the meeting I just want to thank everybody for coming one of the things that we as support enjoyed more than anything
025else I think is [Music] um and what better way to do that and to bring our students here for recognition um again one of the priorities [Music] in the community and so we're happy to have both a few of our distinguished seniors here tonight our Middle School Board basketball team and a robotics team among others so that we can really thank you for the great work that you're doing and the Imaging so just letting everybody know how important it is to abort my Administration and I will turn over to Dr who believe in everybody [Music] good evening everybody I can't tell you I'm happy we are to see you in the stands as our president said one of the most important things for us is to get the community together is recognize accomplishments so we
026made a change tonight to make sure we recognize some of our seniors who are going on some of those who have uh done well at scholar athletes and also our wonderful robotics programs so we're going to award them tonight to get their just recognition in front of their parents hit that round of applause [Applause] [Music] we're going to recognize our students of the month from each School some of you have every meeting now and right now it's outstanding academic and behavior in our schools everyone who recognized by our principles we will start with [Applause] thank you student in this Sebastian's class uh his favorite subject is to play Lego store in small group favorite hobby sports TV and career plays wants to be a dad when he grows up congratulations thank you again [Applause] [Music]
027he wants to be a police officer congratulations Carlos thank you [Applause] next up we're lucky at school we have [Applause] thank you I feel like I didn't do anything so on behalf of Miss Clark from Lafayette school we'd like to recognize two students of the month our first student of the month is Brenda Campos Arrieta and has one sibling at the middle school and favorite subject friend us favorite subjects are math and art and favorite hobbies are playing baseball and drawing when it goes up wants to be either a doctor or a nurse would you like to make people feel better congratulations [Applause] yeah [Applause] our next student of the month is congratulations and Bella has two siblings one at the middle school and another sibling at preschool and tell us favorite subjects are reading
028and math and enjoys playing games especially with your best friend and when you grow up best part for me wants to be a teacher [Applause] Molly would like to recognize our third grade student of the month Eric Alonzo media he is uh in this Stover's class he has two siblings Alonzo and grade six and nicolasa in grade two he likes Matt the most because he loves to subtract multiply and divide and he loves when he goes to math rotations he likes to play soccer and play in nature he likes to listen to birds to sing their songs and when he grows up he wants to be a soccer player congratulations Sarah our fourth grade student of the month is he is in this tax class he has one sibling Diego at CMS his favorite subject
029is also math I love that he likes to play soccer games and playing with his friends and with his career plans are to study storms and maybe be a weather chaser but if that doesn't work out he's going to be a soccer player [Applause] foreign [Applause] she likes to play basketball and she hopes to be a professional basketball player other than that he's still thinking about her career congratulations Brittany thank you [Applause] and our sixth grade student of the month is Isabella Espana she has one younger brother her favorite subjects are art and Spanish she likes to draw paint play soccer and basketball and when she grows up she hopes to open up her own restaurant and be an entrepreneurs [Applause] oh [Applause] next up for Community Middle Schools hello again [Applause] Community Middle School
030is proud to recognize two students of the month our first student Olivia Fisher [Applause] Libya was nominated by her language arts teacher Mr Crowley Olivia's four siblings and favorite subjects math Ela and science I guess no to social studies all of them favorite hobby is piano and I love this wants to attend Juilliard [Applause] the next student of the month from Community Middle School is Kenneth Salas yarina [Applause] I have the siblings and sisters and also really enjoys math social studies and gym and I forgot to mention the teacher that recognizes Miss zang's math teacher so favorite hobbies I kind of like this your favorite hobby is playing soccer and teasing my sister and career plans because I'm guessing keys and your sister doesn't pay well professional soccer player well done [Applause] okay good evening
031first Crusader citizen of the month award recipient goes to Nora trujilo banjobar [Applause] 13 siblings I thought I had a lot of kids at 5 13 wow very impressive her favorite subject is history favorite hobbies are music drawing and going for walks uh once she graduates from high school and attends college she intends on pursuing a career in psychology congratulations [Applause] our next recipient is jakai Jones in English he enjoys listening to music drawing gaming and reading he's going to attend Drexel University in the fall and he plans to study a career in mechanical engineering [Applause] no no I didn't know how to build the phone for it okay I wasn't wrong correctly all right our next recipient is Kennedy Jordan [Applause] all right Kennedy has one sibling sibling Darian her favorite subject is biology
032she enjoys sewing playing basketball snowboarding and cooking she would like to become a cosmetic nurse or an orthopedic nurse in her future career [Applause] and last but certainly not least Roman dabrowski [Applause] David Dylan and Jake his favorite subject in school is English his favorite hobby Is Lifting and he holds the pursuant career in welding congratulations [Applause] [Music] to recognize our educators however we would like to read uh first story to recognize her outstanding accomplishment is so once again on behalf of Miss Clark from the Lafayette school we'd like to recognize Catherine Reina Lopez an ESL teacher from Lafayette and our Bound Brook District educator of the month this afternoon passionate teacher her exceptional work ethic and expertise are evident in the way she approaches her lessons Catherine uses a variety of teaching methods to
033engage her students including Hands-On activities interactive technology and group works her lessons are always well prepared and she adapts them to meet the needs of her students ensuring they have the support and resources necessary for success Catherine is always willing to help her fellow colleagues improve their communication with our Spanish-speaking families she's an asset to the Lafayette Community and her contributions to the school are immeasurable in recognition of her outstanding work Catherine Reina Lopez has been named April's educator of the month [Applause] s okay next up for our uh state recognized robotics team and soon to be massively [Applause] thank you so first first and foremost thank you very much for honoring your robotics team uh we've had ourselves in all the work we do because we do more than just robots um so we
034were awarded two Awards this year one was a team sustainability award which uh is a award that honors students to have a sustainability program uh that allow the teams to continue year after year this is our 27th year of doing robots and we won the prestigious first impact award which is for spreading stem and personal robotics for Rapture Community local community uh so we have Oregon Quality suited up [Music] Olivia [Applause] thank you [Applause] hello [Applause] Daniel Bagley okay [Applause] Armand things thank you and there are a few other students who couldn't be with us this evening geez I did know okay [Applause] on behalf of our entire team as well as us to you guys the Board of Education as well as our high school administration we couldn't do it without you guys [Applause]
035to recognize a few of our outstanding senior scholar athletes [Applause] thank you Dr Freeman thank you Board of Education and we appreciate all your support of all our Athletics and extracurricular activities as always so thanks for having us tonight um I have a few individual Awards to present from the winter season we did have some outstanding accomplishments and these three individuals definitely deserve the recognition our first recipient tonight I'm just going to read what the plaque says then that person can come up our first is Lennox horseberg a member of our Varsity wrestling team Lennox is being honored tonight she won her third straight Regional individual wrestling championship and she placed second in the njsi state individual wrestling tournament in Atlantic City so with one more year to go we hope to see her on
036that number one spot in the podium next year presented Bound Brook High School on April 26 2003 2023 Sorry by the bound report of Education congratulations thank you [Applause] okay all right our second athlete senior Casey Miller congratulations thank you all right Casey's been a four-year start of our successful girls basketball program and she scored her 1 000th Career Point this year on the road at Delaware Valley so this this award has been presented Casey Miller for 1 000 career points as a member of the Bound Brook High School girls basketball team again presented April 26 2023 by the Bound Brook Board of Education congratulations [Applause] foreign [Applause] our third recipient tonight is another senior Jordan Summers [Applause] Jordan also a four-year starter of our highly successful boys basketball program he scored his 1 000
037Point here at home against uh he almost did it on the road but luckily he was able to do it at home which was kind of a cool experience for him um Jordan will also continue his basketball playing career at Caldwell College when he enrolls there in the fall this again presented to Jordan Summers one thousand career points Bound Brook High School boys basketball presented April 26 2023 by the Bound Brook Board of Education [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right thanks again everybody appreciate it foreign [Music] this happens without you so we appreciate you and coaches as well let's talk about the flaws [Applause] next up we'll have Coach Rollins that come up to Awards [Applause] I'm good all right uh thank you Dr Freeman and the Board of Education uh I'm so proud of the
038girls number five for our middle school program [Applause] thank you for the gear [Music] um Denzel and everyone cooked everything lazy and okay moving on sorry about that uh I'd like to fall down the girls middle school basketball team but I'll go with Lauren Paul and Kevin's first because she's on crutches come on down there we go Valentina [Applause] Giselle Torres [Applause] RJ's missing okay guys um [Applause] football team how come nobody anymore we have these beautiful jackets in the Board of Education that they picked out that they're going to be everywhere proudly which shows that they are lead champion so we're very confident for all of their hard work and we look forward to the next season [Applause] uh that's actually it for the award proportion of our ceremony let's have all of the
039students of the month come up with your family so we can get a picture [Music] so everybody fill in here everybody here thank you so much for coming out tonight [Music] thank you oh my God [Applause] yeah that way thank you Merry Christmas [Music] all right questions [Music] first shot okay um [Applause] thank you I've done something nice [Music] assistant [Music] thank you let me see my screen yes [Music] we will start with sanitation [Music] sure he's committing that recently several weeks ago we had a brief discussion uh this month in our conversation center around the value of our relationships with local universities and opportunities to create certification Pathways for staff members within the districts you may just pursue additional professional certification um and that was uh our discussion thanks Mr Dawson any questions for
040Education committee all right okay so governance was actually very short this month there were some policies that are there in the notes that I will bore you with the only one that is of really any consequence to us is um that we are going to be looking at our building our policies for um using our buildings and our grounds because some we've been getting some kind of some sporadic use and people have been paying fees so we're going to look at those policies uh in the coming weeks review and amend if necessary other than that the policies were kind of given to us by Mr processing and we don't really have much say in them so you can read them in the notes section on board dots we also are going to be slightly reconfiguring
041some of our restructuring some of our committees which is also in the notes um one that we really have to get started is the Athletics and extracurricular committee we really want to start assessing what we're offering at every level of our district how it compares to our neighboring districts neighboring communities and what can we do better what can we offer maybe that we don't uh and and where we can how we can move extracurriculars and activities forward from here we're also looking at possibly uh for the time being anyway um stopping our community outreach committee with the understanding that we still want to be connected to our community that that part of it doesn't stop but we may not need a formal committee to do so if the need arises in the future we can
042always bring it back as an ad hoc at that time and really that was about it from government it's very short this month thank you Mr Brown any questions any strong feelings about continuing the community relations act up or suspending it as was recommended by governments here that one in particular if there's anybody that feels strongly we can continue it or we should continue it now would be a good time or any any members so when we say two or three months or something like that yeah so the ad hoc nature of the community is really just that it's not one of our standing committees as a part of our governing documents a one that we created so the idea would be if there's a need for us um [Music] exactly and part of the
043thinking here was that we needed to create some room and Make Way for our extracurricular committee which means that we wanted to tackle this year but everyone materials so hopefully with that kind of balance I think I think we can definitely especially since other things in the first year we've been about 15 and um accumulated I'm sort of activated to those communities that's the question uh after those fires that displaced our families I had asked a general question or are we as board members which would be on the community outreach are we as board members allowed to go to a Target to a Costco and solicit them to help these people because I was willing to go to Costco and say hey we've got damaged to burn Bound Brook we shot at your stores all
044the time and you got families that were just placed can you assist them and I never got an answer and that would be something that I guess community outreach would be responsible for yeah and you know I would walk them into it from our attorney as well I think generally speaking the board really is about acting as a unit you know when we're all assembled if there are actions that we won't take into behalf of the board that's what we really should be directing our superintendent and our Administration to do it I do believe they took a significant amount of action in that regard especially for the data center um the uh the way we normally worked is considerably board members as individuals can take action engaging fundings and attraction purpose if it's going to
045be as important resolution people authorizing times without really interesting yeah that's good and just this uh I have reached out to the families that are experience in the situation in ask them if there was anything else official they needed what they said to me was that the community the local community even outside communities so so helpful that they contributed so much that they really couldn't take any break because they couldn't do uh they could use all the stuff that they had so it makes film they got to pay for a while taking care of enough to this point thank you any other comments or questions on governance committee okay so the next up is human resources and U.S Nelson is not here at this point um so I'm just going to give a brief report
046for everybody uh we did discuss a few different issues any new development some of which you will see on the agenda this evening those are two new uh job descriptions one for the director of curriculum and construction dealer for the gifted and talented teacher for grades teacher six um the discussion is very positively we also received an update regarding all the new open positions that have been included in the budget the fact that they have been posted interviewing and hopefully hit the ground running uh we reviewed the uh nonrenewable list and maybe a discussion um there are some additional items on the agenda tonight specifically regarding amending uh resignation to our education for the middle school and we were really kind of the situations we were prepared to support the students in the middle school
047we learned about and then it goes out with a continuing discussion regarding negotiations where things stand and really solidify the form of economic proposal to the groundwork Education Association which was prepared to exchange proposals with anything and that is it for human resources any Financial questions um with their anything about this updates uh an issue that we have to work through creatively because some of the things we believe in the past [Music] um was Charming deal when you said uh tuition repair tuition so the idea there being that if there has been a traditional reimbursification for the teacher that does come with uh certain extremes attached namely the need to stay in District for uh redefined period of time as included in our policies and when a teacher accepts the oceans of the University believes
048the district prior to that then we look to reclaim any money's paid beyond what was so we reviewed the Dynamics that are in play there as well as a particular incident or a situation that is currently being addressed and we discussed potential solutions for that into the future I don't believe there's anything to be acted on in this agenda but it's something that they may bring forward again if there's a new address of reprise policy cases thanks any other comments or questions for each other all right I think that brings us up to operations yes well the operations I was not at this last meeting but I'm going over some incredible notes that were presented so uh it was a very eventful meeting so I'm going to convince it [Music] all non-essential spending will be
049deferred until the next school year and the essential orders will be processed this year the concept was that when a purchase order was cut in April May or June from the Congress of books and services and there is a little utility in the current school year with only once again Dr Freeman will decide reporters are essential in nonception so that was uh the second part is going on the incredible budget update the benefit budget was submitted to the county office at the time of the meeting that they have not heard any feedback Mr Dorsey presented a consideration to the committee to modify the budget to improve the replacement of a 24 or 19 passenger bus um Mr Dorsey can you just very briefly go into why that bus would be needed yes sir thank you
050Mr Zucker the consideration was that because of supply chain issues speaking to vendors in the industry there is up to a two-year back order on buses and bands because capacity delays coming from manufacturers and so on so buses and vans the transport students have a mandatory retirement schedule from the state and we had a couple vehicles that are approaching that in the next year or two so the quote was we would like to get into queue now for a purchase order so that we could buy some replacement vehicles and as I as I mentioned in the weekly update we were able to find some resources from Savings in the current year budget support us even a couple months Advanced order time to get the order in and charges against this year's budget so we did
051uh received a approval from the county office for the tentative budget it was approved without any changes required or any questions which was very pleasing to everyone and therefore there are no changes from the preliminary budget for the final thoughts I like for a while and Beyond impressed along the way with the proactive nature and I want to thank you on behalf of the board and Dr Freeman for thinking ahead so we are here um there was so much allocation but we talked about the food service center they talk about the food service fund on the divorce to provide a committee for the recommendations for allocating additional expense charges and current service fund operation expenses including a portion of business office salaries that are directly tied to the program utilities and other miscellaneous expenses approve
052service function was safe directly sir um we also they also talked about the restoration of balance sheets reserves accounts of 2223 budget Mr Dorsey informed attorney that only statutory thought that the only statutory opportunity to transfer anticipated access Surplus in the budget was for the board to do so via a resolution and June public reading Mrs Worcester provides the current Reserve account prescriptions and their approximate balances it's also inform the community that the auditor has recommended a quote not to exceed figure be used in the resolution suggests what the year uh there was an update to insurance policies and again I want to on behalf of the board congratulate uh this administrative team because the committee that the district has locked into a zero percent increase in health benefit premiums of 22 for the 23
05324 sleep that is incredible and we wanted to thank you for that uh on top of that then we have you know I think we were kind of sentence on Mr Dorsey um the reason for that was there was we were late with uh payroll taxes for 2012 . cafeteria expansion now this when I read this I was intruding perplexed and massage at the same time because um we have there was a brick position suspective yeah always just so you uh folks on the board who have not been able to get up there and start passing them around thank you sir so the dilemma and I'm going to uh I'm going to back this in the divorce in relation to the thank you um after receiving the first palette of accent breaks which would be
054the the outside back wall um next to the parking lot in the back of the school without our Administration identified that the brick color to the left um was a bit darker and would not contrast the existing bright color of the school very well there's also some concerns about energy consumption with the additional heat that could be absorbed by the darker bricks and just be a general Aesthetics is also identified through or discussion that before somehow got skipped in the process of selecting for color and that's generally performed via board resolution and um we found a record for that so there were discussions with the architect to change the color of the accent brick as something that matches the school a little better and that also involves the lures on the side of the village
055match to the accent there are smaller expense items the architect expresses concerns about event supply chain issues with Rick orders that a custom colored brick like the one to the left could take up to over 20 months in order to ship and deliver an air for um and uh and there's actually a resolution on the agenda tonight look forward to authorize me to negotiate a change order with the architect to replace the accent right to the left to a color that we hope to find available and in stock will better match the existing brick color of the school you're confident that we will be able to do that which is why the resolution's not for tonight and of course the ones that change order is processed and the architect and um and the Mason identify
056a better matching brick for the board we will bring the brick selection to the operations committee and as of course going to committee structure works for everybody's understanding the committee's deliberate issues in advance of the board so that they can make a recommendation for the board and it's a more efficient process so the committee hopefully will make a recommendation on the new substitute brick color it would then go to the board as a full resolution with a change order and that um I was down at Lafayette which obviously I got the bricks my new best friend Joe was Pharaoh says the company and um as it stands now there are enough works to finish this project albeit we don't like that particular color so I asked him this morning as a it sees though if
057the concerns about the Aesthetics the look facing Second Street I said why can't we put the darker bricks on the driveway side because nobody sees it there's trees and two houses he said well if you want to do that you're gonna have to order probably twice as many groups okay I said what about the option then of taking the darker bricks and doing something like bands use the existing the new lighter bricks and Bandit rows of darker states to use up the darker bricks on the side which nobody sees and then have the new bricks which will come to the entire back wall so you have then you're aesthetically pleasing he said that the Border breaks yes 26 to 28 weeks so we would be stalled probably seven months yeah so you know there are
058a variety of factors that I think are like here um and you know Mike's suggestion of reworking some of this stuff with the architect uh I think it makes good sense because they have the opportunity to reassess things like maybe changing suppliers for where the brick comes from multiple different designs designs that they could go into and I'm sure that they would consult with the contractor so I think the general idea though is we want to be mindful that we don't make frivolous changes that waste money for the district or that we create situations where we're going to extend the timeline like you're talking about uh to the point of course we might not be ready for uh the school year when it opens in September so I think those are all aspects of the
059plan that liking the administrative team are going to take into consideration uh as they come back operating with a recommendation and hopefully like you said it addresses over so thanks there's one more point in the committee I'm sorry [Music] Committee of a recent warning that was issued by the county office the districts must allocate 20 of the award or risk being at compliance Mr Gorsuch formed the committee that previous administration's uh did this not happen uh and um [Music] so again uh Mr President closing in our remarks uh the committee is thankful for the diligent work and the incredible uh the incredible care that the administrative team is taking for the district Personnel facilities and the budget so with that I've including my reviews again you might recall that we've used the majority of that
060funding or we allocated individual HVAC upgrades to make it safer and improve the air quality and most of the buildings classrooms and so tying that back to learning Factor has already been allocated might be a difficult um and not one that we at work would be a moment and attempted to so I think it's just important to know who the parties are in that conversation and kind of the photos further comments or questions yeah um but um if as you mentioned the supply chain issues and the preparing tunnel the process comes consistently gone up even though it's literally happened coming down the last few months um is there concerns and about cost overruns or the costs number between more now than what they were looking three months ago and then if so is there [Music]
061to come back foreign other questions or comments operations awesome well thank you for agreement okay for Community average engagement uh I'll just make a few comments on behalf of the committee Movement we did discuss what came out of uh governments there was agreement generally that we needed to free up some of the members time to start to tackle the new issues regarding new work Community workers activities and generally the conversation is in support of meeting less frequently and continuing we're asking um [Music] no I'll agree with you and I'm actually looking forward to the new committee build um to focus more on Athletics clubs um I think we've done an excellent job uh with our Outreach I think Dr Freeman has been doing a fantastic job in his own right of reaching out to community
062members working with families working with Community leaders so I think we're right on track with what we were hoping and expecting out of that committee now it's time to sort of switch gears a little bit and focus on some other areas position makes sense any other questions on community engagement the winner wouldn't want to land yeah I think we're going to do it in the next Community cycle I'll probably go back and I'll revisit the account we'll make sure that it's in there and should you keep me honest do we have any updates on the scesc um another precipitation was for about the Architects what they're doing is they are it's a proposed Supermarket career lab renovation where they will have the actual um chakra update they have to be showed there so that they
063can prepare and serve food um they have it really is insinuating their life skills program they um Instagram they're also fully districts and we came in touch with case managers to see what this what district difference to be far and then trying to just adapt to those [Music] new members who welcome the reporting school districts so it became involved it was very Church Somerset Hills Warren chapter school district and each had members who were sworn in and it was just kind of reiterated that the money that they get is generated through Services they have no taxes they also went for grip and were super important provides cans and security the special transportation numbers that's a lot but you know you get to all different auditions they also talking about the food programs that were coordinated
064and they served 120 to 160 students daily usually ideas and the community courts were going to finance what they were having funds Transportation just renewal of different routes of sun um and the personality um wouldn't have job descriptions 11 in the staff two resignations and inspectants for teachers assignments they went over some policies and just approval and kind of uh abolishing some that still had to be um in the handbook so that if anybody refers to them say yes but that was the sunset um there I think last time too I mentioned that Don of US Mobile Library it's still there there is um an article that is going to be coming up soon like within the week and it's a wonderful program and um that's just about it excellent thanks to any questions for
065Sue regarding the SCE that's a great summary of the meeting I also attended as the representative all right foreign [Music] would you like guys like to come down so you can see the presentation and not get blinded uh yes we do have slides similar to the tentative budget adoption we will have abbreviated presentation welcome to someone comment down because you're followed by a board deliberation and questions just to warn you I'm turning that projector back on so [Music] you guys can feel free to stand goes also robotics dropped off these lovely keychains that I am very jealous I do not get one of them they're a little robot keychain so um do you want to use the microphone from here and the clicker how do you want to do this right here is perfect all
066right I know just need to click okay [Music] sadly just red lasers [Music] okay uh good evening as as mentioned a few minutes ago we're very pleased that the county office has approved the very comprehensive budget submission that we sent by the deadline and they have approved bound Brook's budget without question without exception so this was a unique process for developing the budget Dr Freeman joined us in July and he evaluated programs and and all of the school instructional programs and identify the need for a new budget vehicle to meet the needs of a comprehensive education which we offer in Bound Brook and that is called zero based budgeting it involves eliminating the previous traditional way of budgeting which is putting a percent on top of what you had before and instead developing an entirely
067new budget from scratch and it is a very Democratic process that involves contributions from teaching staff members principals supervisors and um and assistant superintendent and we believe that this budget is like a custom tailored suit that is really going to serve the needs of this District very well in the coming school year so the final budget adoption is exactly the same as the preliminary um and again the beauty of this which is a unique process is the zero-based method which we'll get into a minute and the only significant change to any estimates that we had in the tentative budget to now is as Mr zubko um indicated with the health benefits the tentative budget had an appropriation estimate from our broker of a 3.95 blended increase in the health benefit costs and that would be
068an increased cost to the Board of Education as well as every employee who by by negotiation agreements has to contribute to health benefits but we were successful with the help of our broker negotiating a zero percent health insurance premium increase for next year so everybody's rate will be exactly the same and there will be not there will not be another dollar of Appropriations needed for health benefits other than to cover new staff and certainly again I would like to thank Dr Freeman for his Innovative style and method for the development of the budget and the strategies that we implemented Miss Fisher for all of her curriculum and instruction expertise all the principal supervisors directors and teachers also thank you very much to the Board of Education members who were very supportive through the whole budget
069process and especially the operations committee who represented some preliminary topics about the budget um most noteworthy being the seven million dollars of capital outlay construction projects that are included in the 2324 budget and we were very fortunate that the state of New Jersey came out with a new program called the rod Grant programmer they'll reimburse school districts like Bound Brook 40 of the eligible costs for construction upgrades and it's mainly for the shell components of the buildings which we have a number of projects that are eligible boilers bathrooms and and we'll get to those in a minute and a special thank you to the central office administration um School administration District supervisors teachers this was really a very Democratic as I said collaborative effort and a lot of hands went into its design the goal
070of the budget process was to develop a budget that supports an educational program that meets The Learning needs of all students while getting a strong consideration to fiscal efficiency and the impact on the local taxpayer this budget does not use or or appropriate any banked cap where the Board of Education made a decision before to budget for less than the statutory limit of going to cap we've left that money to expire and that's out of respect to the taxpayer in the previous boards um directives the mission statement District goals are all incorporated into the design of the budget board goals District goals vision mission if you're not considering those with the design of the budget you're you're missing the point key budget considerations Bound Brook is growing we have increased enrollment we have some beautiful
071school buildings that have been maintained but because of their age require a little more upgrades in TLC New Jersey student learning standards student performance data is one of the areas that we really wanted to push the needle on with this budget student teacher ratios and a tax impact on the community the executive summary and by the way all of the budget information much more than what is required is posted on the district website and I would strongly encourage everybody to take a look when you get a chance we have 37 projected additional students for next year we're going to allocate an increased amount of money toward program and instruction we have accomplished that with this budget expansion of curriculum programs and Staffing to broadly improve student performance in all areas budget for capital outlay projects
072taking advantage of the rod Grant Pro program where the state's going to reimburse us 40 percent off the project costs budget for inflation we're hitting some areas of the budget with estimates from vendors where things are considerably higher than last year contracted busing is one of the big areas as well as cleaning and maintenance budget to cap meeting the needs of student growth this budget goes to account but does not exceed cap by using Bank cap and the budget has been professionally constructed to afford every student an opportunity for an exemplary education by well-trained committed staff and a safe and secure environment opportunity is made available through a comprehensive curriculum which offers diverse course offerings and co-curricular clubs and activities we believe that our budget process continues to be more efficient as evidenced by a
073successful County budget efficiency review in January last year the budget was 3.4 million dollars under adequacy which is a state model it's a hypothetical concept of what it should cost to run a hypothetical School District and with the additional spending that's committed in the additional resources we've cut that under adequacy number to 1.5 million here's the budget creation timeline it starts with the board discussion on the budget philosophy what are our goals what do we want to really focus on this year with the budget enrollment patterns and projections reviewing staffing needs budget development budget defense rounds Governor's budget address comes and then they award state aid 48 hours later we adopted a tentative budget unanimously by the Board of Education and tonight is the final step which is the public hearing and again you could
074read um all about what was one of the nicest aspects of this budget which was Dr Freeman's contribution of zero based budgeting and there's also a comparative chart showing the traditional budgeting method and how zero-based really has a lot of advantages it's a lot of work it does not have to be done every year like we discussed at the tenant of adoption but this really started with um started from scratch where does the money come from 58 of revenues come from state aid only five percent from federal aid 4.6 from fund balance that's an area where administrative Lee we can control spending in the previous budget which carries over as a revenue source to subsequent years budget local taxes is 26.68 that's lower than average miscellaneous revenue is up to 5.33 we're doing everything we
075can to invest any available uh cash into CDs which are now are earning over five percent and there's a couple handouts showing all of the different categories of Revenue that are in this year's budget and I'll leave those for your review the general fund tax levy is at cap and that starts with last year's general fund Levy there's an automatic adjustment for health care costs then it's inflated by two percent compared to last year's 2223 cap our tax levy is increasing 588 000 and again no prior year Bank cap was needed or used one of the big contributions as far as revenues was the additional state aid that Bound Brook receives it was approximately 5.4 million dollars above last year and that may cause a lot of folks to salvate at the opportunity to spend
076that extra state aid but when you consider as Dr Freeman rightly said a lot of bound Brooks programs have been impaired previously because of underfunding that's why we're one of the beneficiaries under S2 and we're getting more money now this budget is helping us catch up with spending that could not be possible in previous years and fortunately there's one more year of the implementation of S2 and that's next year so we can anticipate probably an uptick in state aid next year as well depending on state revenues key facts on state aid there's two big types Equalization Aid which is designed to support a District's adequacy budget and also categorical Aid which is designed to reimburse districts and encourage districts to be efficient in certain areas including special education security transportation and a few others general
077fund state aid again is 58 of our revenues that's a double-edged sword with S2 we've done very well but um you know in recessionary periods where state aid is cut and that could happen even after the state makes an award to a school district and you base a budget it could be a challenge and that's one of the reasons why is Mr Januzzi said we have every intention of of of refilling the reserve accounts on the balance sheet to make that a little more healthy in case of uh unfortunate times that may come with a recession here's a comparative chart on the general fund state aid you can see the equalization Aid is the largest category on the top and then the various categoric leads that we're eligible for state aid again increased 5.6 million
078twenty percent increase over last year where does the money go over 50 percent goes directly in the classroom with program and instruction Appropriations capital projects is growing because we have seven million dollars of new Appropriations to keep the investment that this board and previous boards has made in your facilities alive there's another schedule available for appropriation detail again that's on our website if you want to see it and what drives spending it's enrollment this is the number one area that that pushes the needle on spending and you could see how Bound Brook is one of the few districts that is actually still growing in enrollment and and to be proactive Dr Freeman and the Board of Education recommended a demographic study which we had in a demographer is a someone with a specialized degree in
079enrollment projections helped us to determine that we are going to continue to experience enrollment growth in the district and that's helping us plan for future facility needs what's included in the budget certainly there's inflation hitting our out of District special education Transportation Bound Brook is a walking District because of our two mile two square mile geography but special education students are still required to be transported and in most cases that's contracted with as Miss uh as Hyde said the Somerset County Educational Commission walking through the schools with Dr Freeman and Mr Molina our facility director we identified a lot of areas here that we feel were crucial to upgrade for next year number one bathrooms we have a few bathrooms here that although they're still functional go back a number of decades and are in
080need of replacement we have boilers that hate our schools that are from the 1970s extremely inefficient if they're on off type Oilers and that leads classrooms to be incompatible with temperature and opening of Windows and so on we have spoilers that are proposed to be replaced in this budget 40 of which state is going to reimburse us uh the track is going to be replaced and that's going to complement the beautiful upgraded turf field that we invested in last year the field house roof and the Press Box roof is going to get changed and Mr Molina had offered some good ideas for the use of the the uh the darker brick that we talked about before perhaps being used on the field house or other areas in the district they will not be wasted staff
081and curriculum there's a number of new Staffing positions that we'll get to in a moment and this District commits heavy resources to the classrooms and to additional Staffing here's some fantastic pictures of the programs in action in our district what programs are in the budget we went over all of these with um Miss Fisher during the tentative budget adoption what new Staffing positions are in the budget I believe there was 14 new positions altogether District behaviors most of these are in special needs and instructional areas okay here's a list of the Capital Improvements 1.8 million for bathroom upgrades at the high school in Lafayette 2.7 million for boiler Replacements at the high school Lafayette Lamont and Smalley and that's net of the state's contribution architectural fees related to that is still an estimate High School
082track and fences is being replaced copy machines for instruction High School field house roof high school gym floor District instructional teaching monitors security cameras new phone system seven almost seven million dollars at gross cost which we estimate the state's going to kick in about 2.4 million leaving 4.5 million to be budgeted this budget is more efficient than ever and we have two schedules that you're welcome to take a look at that show all of the shared service agreements that we have at the municipality with our receiving District southbound Brook all of which create efficiencies and spending and help the district to keep the resources in the classrooms and then finally how does the budget conclude on the tax rate the factors that influence tax rate are state aid and and that we're having a very
083advantageous year with an increased award fund balance applied rateables we talked about this a little bit last time raidables are the aggregate neck valuation taxable property assessments that are updated every year in Bound Brook they share the municipal and the school district tax letter so the more readables that are coming online the more homes that are coming on the more commercial rateables the uh the less of a rate that everybody has to pay because there's more people sharing in it and of course student enrollment and Appropriations influences the tax rate and we're very pleased that with all of the additional spending that's incorporated into this budget with all of the additional Staffing with the confidence that we have that we're going to improve test scores and push the needle on performance that the tax rate
084that the community is going to contribute is actually decreasing the school tax rate last year was 1.278 it is dropping to 1.210 the average assessed home in town of 390 700 will experience a school tax decrease of 264 dollars next year so you could say this is almost the perfect budget it provides so much additional services and programs it's going to drive performance in the district it's going to continue to invest in facilities that belong to the community and it is most uh respectful to the taxpayers and again we want to thank everybody who contributed to this budget because there was a lot of hands involved especially Dr Freeman who brought some novel ideas from the beginning and now we will hold the public forum section anybody from the public who has any questions at
085all about the budget is welcome to come to the microphone and and ask you questions then we will have a board deliberation on the budget and take a vote thank you thank you yes thank you before we go oh don't forget your pins on the way in oh yeah sorry I'm okay bring them up this is cute I'm just gonna bring them up last time I looked there were none but I will double check are we on open to the public or anything [Music] any comments or questions regarding the audience thank you Mr here it's okay all right so for the resolution is published so the resolution so at this point we are up to deliberations from the board any questions or comments um so now we are open for discussions um yeah I just
086wanted to complement the whole process of it you know I I've seen it from the industry aspect of it and this is just so well it is yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes Miss Lima yeah yes it's hard yes yes motion passes unanimously thank you the board of education for your support all right we're up to item number 5.1 which is open to the public for agenda items yes anybody from your room all right item number 611 it was all the development for the education upon recommendations approve the minutes for the following meetings and motion thank you second thank you Mr Zucker any discussion yes yes Mr Vollmer yes and Mr Jersey yes motion passes yeah I was thinking I feel like I missed on my knees but I haven't enough but I don't
087believe Elizabeth it was like that's a long time ago [Music] thank you that carries the silver up to item 7.1 be a resolved with the superintendent recommends for approval the resolution District personal resolutions also thank you second second thank you mess up any discussion yes I have some questions um the amount of conferences are looking at I and there's some that are absolutely you know incredible but then there's some that I'm noticing that include overnight lodging for personal continuing education credit I don't think that that's in my profession I do not ask my employer for personal education credit to go overnight Center so I'm just a little confused and concerned in relation to the the amount of Consciousness thank you the one wrong for foreign [Music] I also attend the National Association sometimes Iowa State
088but the only thing that we're allowed to ask for is for like the conference fee but any like other additional like Thrones or other stuff but not it's not a group only for like conferences [Music] I think for seven points 7.8 summer work I see social workers and student assistant counselors and so I was wondering what that is for eign what they're doing or what the summer programs were good the workers okay that's for uh assessing data from this year from all the different programs um for example the survey that we just conducted at the middle school and high school that's for assessing data and for our program planning for next year and this is only at the high school or like district-wide they're all different required of employees no but the data that they're
089assessing is at the high school level or is District One thank you with the follow-up on that the resolution is for 20 days at seven hours a day says 140 hours for five people to look at the data so I'm gonna go back to that um so had the things done with less people in the past or is it always that number or is this like something new that you're doing no that's it's been uh that's been ongoing so I'm going to summer the the department has grown up but is everyone so everyone in the department is given that uh opportunity for summer or or is that that is that something that you were able to do with less people okay so it's not regardless of how much work you have if everyone works in
090the summer 20 days uh regardless of the data that you have or the amount of everyone is given 20 days into summer everyone's given the opportunity to not everyone not everyone takes us up on it so I think the question that we're really trying to get an answer to has to do with the number of hours that we're projecting to employ for the summer versus the amount of work that we actually expect has to be done over this so has there been any thought given to matching those two things up and do we feel that they're roughly yeah we talked about it as a cabinet okay let me get you specific numbers okay so for clarity we are withdrawn item number 7.8 for now and 7.24 two four is that correct what's the question I
091believe it is so as we're deliberating here just note that those things are now off of the role and if we were to vote they are not being voted on so are there any other items with questions or comments here you're not going to do a more apologies Mr Community Friday pick up on I just want to make sure there was a couple conferences with overnight travel was 7.24 the only one at the board table I mean I think we should look at all of them and that's just my personal information I'm going to be honest I'm gonna use this amount of conference requests for overnight travel it's it's a lot and I I would like to see more uh so so what you're saying is to take all those that would reliable as one
092member of the board that's what I'm saying but the rest well so would it be possible for us to take a roll call on that action alone so that we can get confirmation with a majority of the board members feel the same so at this point then we're going to act on emotion which I'm going to ask the sponsor that we table any items that require overnight job can we list which items they are I mean so yes [Music] like 7.22 there's also mileage reimbursement for future deliberation so I don't think we have to sort out the individual line items we're just going to go home right off okay so so far just two two two four that's all that I see as well before we move on does anybody else see any other items
093that would be subject to this all right so uh motion look like this is up close seconded by uh yeah 7.22 7.24 7.8 that is correct Mr Bob yes this is awesome yes this casino yes Miss Lima yeah yes yeah it's high yes Mr Bowman yes um table entertain a motion to improve I believe discussion is open so we'll close discussion with a roll call vote on the remaining provisions yes sir motion was moved by his foul seconded by its high Personnel answer the exception of 7.87.24 7.22 Mr doc yes Mr Dawson yes yes yeah this is up yes hi yes Mr Bowman yes yes thank you we are up to item 8.1 resolve the development report of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in District education resolutions this is 8.2 through 8.17 I have
094a motion motion thank you Mr zip for a second thank you discussion I don't know if this falls under this but I know the calendar for next year is only the 23-24 calendar so while it's on here um one thing that I don't remember I know was being discussed that I don't know if it ever was actually upon was maybe staggering star cards did that is that ever still happening okay wasn't sure if that was an hour later okay any other questions or comments I have had uh one question it was just that there were a couple changes um one in when the conferences were for the low grades The Exchange convention to the following but I didn't have any understanding that was due to um quotations yes virtual conferences so that the isn't as
095much [Music] as a struggle as it's been you know we'll be able to be very flexible in terms of what we had a great idea the other thing um the days what is the um [Music] and if if somebody is built in okay you know thank you sorry any other comments or questions please Mr battle yes this is awesome yes this casino yes double aspects so yes within us yeah it's high yes Mr Bowman yes yes foreign Mr Mass yes Mr Dawson yeah yes Miss Lena yes yes it's high yes Mr Homer yes Mr Jersey yes most impressed thank you we are up to other matters to come before um do I understand correctly that our student representative question for Market care for this evening I'm just checking in with you to see if you
096have you'd like to share with us uh yes so I've been talking with uh Mr Smith recently and we've conducted a student climate interview not a survey right now it is tentative it is not finished all the way but I do have some some information that I have to assume [Music] sort of thing applies to if the students arrive late to school and for safety around the school buildings um the majority of the students um voted like as a three out of five which me and Mr Smith have discussed ways to possibly like you know like make the students feel more safe same thing with plastics or curricular some ideas that we have will work to um start the winter track and field team again since there is a lot more interest into the sport
097now with the spring and we've worked a student council to have a much more to just like change the structure of like how it works and everything like that and we also have other plans but I do not remember it after the top of my head uh yeah that's it that's a good start thank you very much we appreciate the research obviously it's difficult for us so probably more difficult for us to relate and represent the student body than it is so the direct feedback as well appreciated all right for the board members of your open for new business anything that's not on the agenda this evening um for the Committees because this really would officially add that new committee or do we not need to do that and vote on it I believe we've
098actually already created that ad hoc community so it exists we just haven't started meeting got it and so it's just that our descriptions we'll begin in the next conversation okay good question is there anything uh thinking about our training from earlier tonight since we really have to move May and June on evaluations is there anything that we need to do as a board before our main meeting to get that going do we know or from what I gather Dr Freeman has to move first right and get everything to us yeah thank you okay it's a fair point though in terms of planning for schedule clearly we have two meetings between now and the end of the year what it would make sense to me for us to do is for us to have our Executive
099review of the Consolidated responses during our main meeting and then have our meeting with Dr Freeman an executive during the June meeting in order for us to do that we would have to start the process and get to a timeline where we have an opportunity to consolidate pull together over those things prior to the Navy I think what that really means more concrete terms is we've got a couple of weeks and so we'll want to kick that process off as soon as we can be possible you know obviously get Dr Freeman's conflict compile his information the most thorough of everybody at all and then for the board members to be prepared to ask someone so it is in order for us to stay out and then that date of this any random date I think
100what I'm actually proposing is that we do it in conjunction with the aortic scheduling board meetings okay so I believe it's um Monday the 15th so we would do adult Board review without Dr Freedom during that meeting and then shooting force that first Monday our committee meetings next week or the weekend to the first Monday of every month [Music] that's where I am it must have been sent out because you and I both have it listed on the yeah thank you and in terms of training do they have one again May 4 board evaluation we haven't set up anything official with her going forward no so I would say I would say that these evaluations probably cause us to run a little long in May and June that we hold here till July because we
101are ahead of schedule repairs for the year um all right any other new business to be all right here and now we are now up to item number 12. open to the public foreign ER I am the director of The High School drama club uh and so first of all thank you for your support and our Administration it's part of our programs which we are slowly Ministry Lee we're building after the pandemic and I just came say to remind you all please come to Musical it's a great job um this is a very special show for us because it would have been our 2020s at all um which obviously didn't happen so uh our senior students and our alumni and Mr Smith we made the decision so um the shows three years in the making
102we've got 20 High School casting crew and 40 students from Smalling School participating um and we hope to see you next weekend can you give us the official date yeah oh I'm sorry yes May 6 and Mesa Friday and Saturday uh at seven and Sunday at two also the creativity show will be going on please come experience some great articles thank you thank you I don't know if there's enough for everybody but um if you need one after this no thank you [Music] uh last I looked uh there were none but I will look one more time there are none any other comments or questions from the public nothing online three I think that's it did I get them right motion thank you thank you Mrs all right we're unmuted [Music] Board of Education proves
103the resolution and motion motion thank you Mr Dawson II thank you Mr Bell abstain yes it's hot yes Mr Homer yes yes thank you here at the item 16.1 okay [Music] there is nothing to move how was that no there is she's right let's get right over it I actually skipped over sorry we went out of sequence do we need to move items number 13 and 14. 14 years yes 13.3 is a settlement so yes I'm 13.3 and yes okay so may I have a motion to endorse the settlement as noted in item 13.3 motion thank you Mr just for a second second thank you Mr Brown yes Miss Casino yes yes it's high yes it's a homer yes yes [Music] in high school this is 1422 motion motion thank you Mr Bell a second
104thank you Miss Hari um yes this is awesome yes Miss Casino yes yes it's hot yes Mr Homer yes yes so now let me just say thank you for catching that because otherwise we would have walked away from the table with that movie was too very important I appreciate it and now we really are for sure up to 16 [Music] . Thank you Lisa over here all right