001what we're live good evening everybody and welcome to our bound Brooks Board of Education meeting for tonight uh I'll get started with some procedural stuff uh read our own public meetings act and then I'm going to turn the floor over to Dr Freeman and hopefully recognize some of our fantastic students of the month as well as our educators real looking forward to that so the boring stuff sorry uh the New Jersey open public meetings mom was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interests is discussed and active on in accordance with the provisions with this act and our own board of education policy zero one six two the Board of Education of the borough
002of Bound Brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office and at Bound Brook High School and mail the facts of The Courier News Board of Education and any person who has requested individual notifications please stand for the pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic which stands a nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice please here it's awesome here Miss Casino yeah Miss Lima Mrs here Mr zupco Januzzi here Mr President you have a quorum present this evening great Dr Freeman over to you good evening everyone and everyone in our audience and online welcome you to our November board meeting tonight is a very special night uh tonight we begin the tradition of recognizing our staff outstanding staff members
003and students so at this time I am going to turn the mic over excuse me outstanding students good evening congratulations class Oliver has two older sisters Sam is in second grade and Madeline is in sixth grade Oliver enjoys answering all those people's questions during morning meeting he also loves to work in the table toys area with his friends when Oliver grows up he likes to be a police officer congratulations Oliver [Applause] [Music] Leah has an older brother Katie who's in second grade her favorite school subject is centers and her favorite hobby is swimming Malia grows up she wants to feed the animals congratulations [Applause] thank you [Applause] next up for I believe is Lafayette School Mr Smith sister foreign hello everyone so if I call the names of students you can come on up get
004your certificate and then we're going to make our way right up around the stage for a picture okay so for Lafayette School uh we are going to start with our first student that we're going to recognize Peyton Evans not here yet so Payton it comes from the teaching team of Patel and Reese and has uh two sisters as well so Payton's favorite subject is having fun my favorite subject as well and going on Epic to do arts and crafts Peyton likes science too because you get to answer questions and that is what science is all about finding the answer to questions and when Peyton grows up even at this very young age he wants to become a doctor and help people get them medicine or hair stylist because Payton works on Nana's hair so for
005all of the paintings working on Nana's hair listen to what Nana says they always know everything so Payton are you here yet Peyton not quite yet so we're going to recognize paint with a little round of applause and next up is Dolce dimitrio Espinoza nominated by the team of Cella Zella and chianta so dolce's favorite subject is Mac which is awesome because I'm a former math teacher and especially adding numbers and favorite coffee hobby is playing soccer and when adult teeth grow up wants to become a cheerleader are you in the house here adult side where are there [Applause] [Music] second we're going to get is to die forgot to take a picture all right we're good [Applause] next up from Smalley school is Ashley Picone Ashley has been nominated by Mrs dashenka and miss
006bilafer um so I believe art and math are Ashley's favorite subjects in school and definitely like animals feeds squirrels all right that is pretty cool because I like to bring peanuts and feed squirrels as well and enjoys playing with our puppy let's have a round of applause for Ashley [Applause] okay we'll ask you [Music] okay all right we're good [Applause] community next up from Smalley school is mariely Reyes Mejia marielli has been nominated by Miss Christian and let's see here we have PE and our physical education and art which I happen it does sound a lot of fun and favorite hobbies is drawing and Mary Ellie are you here where's where are you at wants to be a doctor when she grows up well done thank you foreign school is geliani Gonzalez de Santas so
007giuliani's favorite subject is math because it's interesting I love all our Mac leaves that are out there today very nice and favorite hobbies are saying blogging and drawing admittedly I don't know as much about vlogging but singing blogging and drawing and career plans for wants to graduate with a teaching degree and become a fourth grade teacher I love it make sure you come back [Applause] not here today tomorrow all right and lastly from Smalley school we have Hugo Morales nominated by Mr Coney so Hugo's favorite subjects are social studies and physical education and enjoys playing soccer hanging out with friends spending time with his sister and watching television and Hugo wants to be a professional soccer player when he grows up and a computer engineer and wants to go to Rutgers which I love that's
008where I went to school Hugo come on up [Applause] foreign [Applause] next up we are changing buildings to the Community Middle School and the first student that we will be recognizing from the Community Middle School will be Allison Mora Allison's been nominated by her math teacher Mrs Giovanna Romero Allison is an outstanding student and according to Mrs lamara favorite subject is math but I happen to know Miss America very well and I think she thinks everyone's favorite subject is mad okay however what I do know is Allison you're extremely well-rounded student enjoy soccer swimming and reading fiction and when Allison grows up wants to become a lawyer so Allison you are well on your way to fulfilling your dreams and all of us at Community Middle School are proud of you and thankful for being
009for letting us be part of your growing up and part of that process [Applause] thank you all right we're good [Applause] the next student we will be recognizing from the Community Middle School is Andrea obando Herrera Andrea has also been nominated by her math teacher but favorite subjects are both Mac and Eli and enjoys the challenge of all the work associated with each subject the truth is Andrea is an outstanding student and excels in all subjects she's a pleasure to have in class and has a determination and a drive to succeed and not surprisingly Andrea aspires one day to become a doctor the teachers and Staffing community school thank you for your efforts and are here to help you achieve your goals Andrea foreign [Applause] okay next up for my High School Mr Smith hi
010good evening everyone okay our first recipient of the Crusader citizen of the month is urban Gonzalez Irvin has three siblings who all went through the Bound Brook schools his favorite subject is English and his favorite hobbies are playing soccer and eating [Laughter] I can't say that I disagree um in terms of his future career plans um he's undecided on how he is going to proceed in his future whether or not he wants to go to college or enter the workforce so Irving I don't believe it's here foreign [Music] okay our next recipient is uh Leah Mendoza uh Leah is a southbound Brook resident who has one sibling um Leia's favorite subject is social studies which is a woman after my own heart as I was a former social studies teacher um Leah likes to learn
011about um about other states in past U.S history least favorite hobbies are baking softball bike riding and shopping Leah hopes to go to college and become a pediatrician so congratulations Leah [Applause] okay um I know Zara Contreras is unable to attend this evening but uh zarek has one sibling um his favorite subject is algebra 2 and hobbies are reading exercising and hanging out with friends uh Zara hopes to study interior design in the future foreign [Applause] not least Elijah Lewis Elijah has four siblings um favorite subjects are English and auto mechanics uh Elijah enjoys playing soccer and going out with friends and family and career plans are continued uh continue your studies and to be an auto mechanic engineer so Alaska from here [Applause] tonight okay I don't like the Phillies later okay okay at
012this time the parents parents and students of the month would you come up to the stage to take a picture [Music] foreign [Laughter] I did not go to theater schools yeah it's probably gonna have to be from an angle yeah some how wide are we do we need to be uh you're pretty good you guys can keep coming up how about we do parents and parents okay he's down a little more parents squeeze in um here foreign okay I think we've definitely got a great one in there somewhere thank God thank you so much and congratulations thank you okay after the first one right okay moving on with the agenda we have Mr Santa's serma who is going to announce our employee of the month and our district support staff okay hello again the Bound
013Brook School District would like to recognize this month's educator of the month from Lafayette School Mrs Katie sandor this is sandor is in her second year as a first grade teacher in the Bound Brook School District during her short time here she's had a positive impact on her students by ensuring they receive support tailored to their specific needs all while guaranteeing they are met with age-appropriate expectations Mrs sandor has also taken on the role of turnkeying professional development to staff doing faculty meetings in order to further support our efforts in increasing student achievement in writing and critical thinking Mrs sandor is dedicated to the teaching profession and to making sure her students are academically socially and emotionally successful she is always willing to help her colleagues and share her resources and ideas in the words
014of principal Eric Erica Clark we are lucky to have Mrs sandor at Lafayette school thank you and please come on up [Applause] foreign [Applause] Brook School District would like to recognize this month's support staff member of the month from the Community Middle School Mrs Zahara badar Miss Vidar is a classroom paraprofessional at the Community Middle School and is an integral part of the success of the lld program at CMS in addition to the many duties inherent to this position Miss Bedard takes the initiative to get to know her students on an individual basis and is able to work with each one in accordance with their individual learning needs Ms bedar understands the social and emotional factors that impact each student her patients understanding and persistence are key to helping students achieve individual success on a
015daily basis her genuine acknowledgment and praise of students efforts give them a positive sense of self and help them believe that whatever they do is possible on a personal note I have had the great Fortune of working with Miss Vidar both as a building principal but also side by side as a math teacher at Smalley through the years I can say without any hesitation that Miss Vidar is one of the kindest individuals ever to Grace the Bound Brook School District no amount of words could ever fully Express the impact Ms bedar has had on both her students and colleagues on behalf of the students and staff from CMS I would like to thank Mrs badar for her contributions and for making the Middle School a better place each day [Applause] congratulations to our District employees
016of the month um [Music] all right hello hello everybody um so I'm going to give a presentation on the new uh the NJ SLA testing that took place uh last spring um for the board you have my presentation on the agenda I also gave you a handout which is where I took the the data from to make the presentation these are the performance uh summaries that I got from from the state okay so first the scale level one for ELA and math means I did not need expectations level two partially met expectations three approach expectations and then um we want our students in four and five four is met expectations and then five has exceeded expectations Okay so these are all of our scores district-wide in English language arts so the first row is third
017grade level one the state percentage is 20 percent um did not need expectations and are district is 30.8 did not meet expectations especially as you go across level one two and three um we did not our numbers for not meeting expectations uh are compared against the states then in level four and five level four met expectations for third grade we had 21.8 percent in the district meet expectations in grade three compared to 36 for the state level five the state had six percent exceed expectations we had to break okay so these are the numbers um all the all the way through uh grades three through nine which is uh who took these tests last spring okay now math is um a little different when you get to the high school because in math at the
018high school it's not great the test is not grade based it is subject-based foreign -based but once you get to the high school uh it's subject based and uh for algebra one Algebra 2 and geometry now we do have a small number of students that take algebra one in the Middle School and their their scores are reflected here so again level one did not meet expectations we're above the state average a 13.3 level two we're at 18.3 this is for the third grade and and the district is at 20 just under 26 but partially met expectations level three approaching expectations 23 percent the district is at 26 so we're close there on approaching expectations and then level four and fives we had 23 and then 5.2 so we had 28.2 third graders in math meet
019or exceed expectations and these are the numbers all the way through district-wide okay moving on so we also had science Testing as part of the njsla although only three grades test for science grades five eight and eleven same performance level scale so for this I'll highlight grade 11 at the high school level one 46.2 percent of the state did not need expectations district-wide that was at number 64. we're close in level two partially met expectations okay um I'm sorry level three is proficient now so there's one less level here for science so the state is 20.5 we're 10.1 and then finally at the state in grade 11 is 8.4 in science that are Advanced proficient and the district is 1.4 okay now we're going to look at each test on District subgroups again with the
020state and the district members but we also broke it down by gender by ethnicity and academic disadvantage and then academic programs at the high school at the high school at the uh at the district okay so the State numbers foreign we want to be above 36.2 met expectations this is third grade ELA we want to be above the 6.2 state level that have exceeded expectations and we're not and we're not quite there and then you can see how that's broken down for each subgroup do this for every test so this is grade three same grade but now the math test you see the State numbers across the top how we compare below expectations to the state and then level four Med expectations and then exceeded expectations so the state had over 44 percent need or
021exceed expectations grade free math Bound Brook had over 28 percent exceed expectations and then you see how it's broken down per subgroup okay grade four pla all the way all the way through grade four math thank you the state level grade four math 30 over 39 meter exceed expectations Bound Brook had just under 15 of our students leader exceed expectations in grade four math we did meet the state levels in some in in some subgroups though grade five Ela the state had just under 50 meter exceed expectations in grade five Ela Bambrook had just under 28 percent of it of our students meet or exceed expectations [Music] so I know that that was charges broken down the state versus the district and then the district to Define our categories which are made out of a
022lot is there a similar comparative number that we could utilize from the state level eat your own comparison uh the state does not provide a subgroup you actually have all of the state information there yeah but I but I'll take a look for that tomorrow I think that's a really good point because I think if we're going to break it down into subgroups the a fair thing to do is to compare that to how the State recruitment yeah I do I don't recall that the state does that but I'll I'll take a look in fact I have my computer I could take a look right after my presentation sure yeah my guess is going to be that it's going to be comparative the subgroups are going to be comparative you know as you break it
023down let the state for each subgroup okay I want to I want to if I may I want to jump ahead to Community School where we where we are entering closer to the state uh the State numbers uh for for Matt and for exceeded the states over uh 52 percent met or exceeded and the district's over on there I believe that's 30 percent for grade 7 Ela grade seven math okay this is where our grade eight numbers uh get even stronger you see the state met uh 30 almost 36 percent uh Community School 34 and you see that we have more than one subgroup that exceeds in level four the state percentage and then the same from level five we're we're close to the state number and again we have more than one suddenly well
024that that comes close to level five for grade eight Ela a map where we're close as well okay grade nine Ela up at the high school okay once again um we're down a little over 10 percent level four Med expectations level five exceeded expectations okay now subject specific yeah high school we do have some students from from community that take algebra one so they take this yield this uh njsla test um even though they're in grade eight so sorry so this is how the numbers compare in algebra one up to algae with two Algebra 2 the state does not provide numbers um for grades 11 and 12. um so that's why you see the zeros under District the majority of our students in Algebra 2 are in grades 11 and and summary 12. geometry okay
025again the science numbers grade five up to create and then finally grade 11. the science okay any questions on NJ SLA so moving on to NJ GPA sorry for all these testing acronyms NJ GPA is New Jersey graduation uh proficiency assessment brand new last year it's the pilot year that's why the state said it doesn't count so all of our class of 23 students current seniors have the assessment that they need the assessment is waived for them because it was a pilot year last year they took it in March our second NJ GPA will be this March for our junior class and again our seniors away from the graduation assessment requirement which is great for the high school because that means we don't have to rhyme with portfolio classes so a lot of our seniors
026are either in electives or they're not in portfolio which is nice for them notable achievements the high school added two advanced placement courses AP biology and AP Government which brings the total to 11 AP courses at the high school we also added another AP level class although it's not an AP it's the Raritan Valley English 2 to go along with what we already have English one it's a dual enrollment course we have a lot of seniors in that course also for the students that um are not traditional in terms of going to college want to go into a career we've had Advanced manufacturing that's the second year we audit we added auto mechanics and mud makeup which is cosmetology so we have students who are taking classes dual enrollment classes and have a solid direct
027path to careers and then finally the best news of all our SAT score uh average went up 13 points with the class of 22 over the year before okay these are just some of the intervention strategies that that the district is undertaking as we try to improve our test scores each grade level analyzes link it assessments to identify standards not being addressed prior to the state assessments we have Extended Learning Academy in grades one through eight with instruction focused only on Ela and math we have ASI which is academic support instructors in grades K-8 in ela and grades four through eight in math we have subjects specific supervisors in the area of ela math K-5 revoke and special ed we have organized team planning four days per week for teachers and grades K-12 we have
028building-based skip committees this year's the fourth year of avid at the high school advancement via individual determination which works with kids specifically on skills that they need for a post-trent for post-secondary transition specifically for college we have the high school youth college readiness program through Middle Earth and finally we have the BTE bridge to Employment Program at the high school thank you that's it any questions from the members first of all thank you for the presentation I know that's a data defense set of slides you know I do know continue to embrace and use data in driving the educational experience here in Bound Brook I think this is one of the data points that we can use to keep it in context but you know thank you very much to do that so questions approximately
029how many of the academic support teachers are available do we have I would probably be I would be you guys not the answer to that I know we have four ASI at the middle school two of which are still open positions one down at the annex looks like we have some openings at community we have four spots but only two are filled right now so we have two openings we're still looking for for two more SATs um do we have any data that shows us that are taking the SATs and the average score of the SATs um so we have all of our students take the SAT on on Sat school day they're all invited to come in this year if my memory is correct we had about 110 out of our 140 seniors take
030take it this year so that that's a pretty good percentage um and those scores are actually going to be up this uh this week or next week or early next week so maybe as an action member for our next meeting could you either in committee uh next week or at the next board meeting just provide that information to the member the SAT scores I have uh I have a chart five year Trend in terms of the ap's territory number of students gets scored for your for your higher on the uh great and just making sure I would call correctly three or higher is the criteria to actually receive credit for College correct yes I think it depends on the company it depends on the college course some take threes those are the scores you want
031the three and above and our numbers in those areas are going up there's three reasons did not accept and you'll see in the trend you'll see a dip during the code of years shortly and you know with our we we're offering more AP classes we have more sections we have more students taking them so you know we have more kids getting that college experience than those AP courses other questions from them because I've got a bunch of questions um so um on the intervention strategy specifically are multiple of Youth purely caring they they're not necessarily new from this year okay yeah do we track or measure progress or impact of any of those strategies as it relates to changes in our performance and if not is that something we could do um I'm going to
032guess that that's something Mrs Fisher does and have she probably has that information knowing her okay so I'm probably just going to refer that one to education um and then my last comment really is a comedy it's not a question except for in terms of an availability of data so most of the matrixes that you showed had the state average at the top um and uh the challenge that I would have for our board members and you know our general Community is I'm just deciding whether or not that's um you know average I think is is good and compared to where we are right now we would represent Improvement and Improvement support um but quite frankly I don't think that's where I would want to aim right I want to eat for the top box
033the top of one percent the top five percent um and honestly not stop until we get there so um again that's my personal feel he's not sure how everybody else feels but in terms of what we compare ourselves to when we Benchmark because our Benchmark ourselves too I want to Aspire so agreed um I would just say that um Improvement is is slow and incremental and I I aspire to growth um no matter how small I want to see year over year a change in a positive direction we're not going to jump kids from a two to a five it's just not no having done this now for a lot of years it's not going to happen I want to move my twos to threes and so on uh it is going to take years
034and years of changing the culture and changing effort the way we do things to get to where you want to be again your goal is a long-term 10-year out goal and I agree with it that that's what our goal should be long term but I see that as I mean I see when when we we get data back and we said we moved you know five percent of our students from um what's the the two called from three to three to four um we celebrate that you know that's a that's a big deal for us so it's small and but again your goal is admirable and I think I think it's the right way to the right place to be shooting but I would caution again saying next year we didn't get there what are
035we doing wrong we're probably hopefully moving towards it it's just gonna take a while yes and I know by the way I also know I'd say Dr Freeman's there in daggers I know he doesn't like it he he doesn't want to hear slow progress I I I'll have a nice report about us spending some time together Dr Freeman wants everything done a little bit more aggressive time scale than I do so well to support your point the evidence says that if we're able to identify the kids that need the help and getting get them the strata the strategies that we have are sound we could get if we could identify and get the kids the help that they need then we're going to shrink that level one you know the level ones are going to
036shrink and the numbers are going to flow upwards yeah and it's again someone who's done this a lot of years that probably is the most alarming number to me it's the ones right I mean not everybody has kids all over but I find when I look at most districts in the ones that seem to be a lot smaller from these numbers so we really are starting you know at the beginning we're right at the beginning now we have a long way to go 18th yes one thing I think we as a board should think about is doing a deeper dive into what different tiers of instruction look like at each level so what exactly are the supports at tier two and tier three what do those look like for those students in tier one and
037what does this data show us about the viability of our curriculum for the needs of the kids that we have in our classroom and how effectively are we targeting those interventions you know I think it if we look at some of these results where we've got nine or ten percent of kids where we would like them to be and 80 90 percent of kids where we don't I'm not sure that's a situation we can intervene our way how to think to me that suggests we need to do a deeper look at tier one and the curriculum we're using just by commentary yeah well and again I think it comes all the way full circle again because from a board perspective we're looking at what is our strategy overall where are we allocating the resources how
038are we spending our money trying to maximize you know the impact that we're having about the district and while it's aspirational to have as many AP courses as possible I think in that case we're talking about moving kids who are threes and fours and fours and fives as opposed to moving ones and twos to twos and threes so it might not be one of these situations where we just homogeneously spread all the resources but to since the point we have to do a better job of targeting but again without the information without the data without studying and understanding it it's hard to make informed decisions so I think it starts with the data so again thank you Doctor all right I also know unfortunately because of coven we are missing a large chunk of data
039right there in the middle to prepare all of this too which which hurts us tremendously because we can't see that any group we don't know where they were or unfortunately and remember they also know that they that there's been what I know when no one likes the phrase but a learning loss that um that we also have to account for so there's a lot of challenges particularly now that may not have even been three years ago unfortunately the results you saw were after two years of not taking this test I mean just the fact that they haven't taken a state standardized test in two years that's worth points right there just just a familiarity with the test itself forget the content for a minute text is worth something all right so any other questions or
040comments for Dr mobile tonight at least on this topic all right then I will say thank you for your presentation Dr Freeman back to you okay okay yeah I think the only thing that I would call everyone's attention to is that item 2.5 has to do with our current board vacancies which there are two we did receive a letter of interest uh over the course of the last few weeks it's been included in the public content of the agenda so anybody that hasn't already checked it out please feel free to do that um unfortunately the Kennedy couldn't be here with us tonight to discuss um her joining the board but I think in you know my own personal opinion her resume really speaks for itself but she would like to be a great addition to
041the body so we will be entertaining that later in the meeting as well as comments during uh public Global session all right yeah so and I apologize you know in in the course of wanting to get to our Awards and recognition we skipped over president's comments for this month and actually they will be vice president's comments from this month uh because Mike actually attended the NJ SBA convention uh with Dr Freeman Mr gorsky Mrs Fisher and our administrative team so uh Mike's gonna recap for us his experience and his findings and hopefully share some of the information um so I got down there um it was Monday to Wednesday uh I did not get to Atlantic City until I have to work on Monday but uh once I got there um I quickly learned kind
042of what it is and how it works I I really didn't know what I was going to and what to expect um Mr Hershey did a great job of briefing me ahead of time but until you're there you can't really know honestly I attended five different workshops while I was there um a lot of them had to do with um how to conduct a board meeting or how to deal um effectively with uh comments from the public things like that I also and I think the most important one that I attended was on um how to recruit and find your next board member and also once they're here how to properly kind of onboard them so those are things that I definitely want to share and committee at governance um and and we'll report that
043out to you some of it um was not applicable our community or our board specifically uh most of it was quite honestly I did find out because you meet with so many people from other boards I found out how unique some of our challenges are especially in finding new board members being a small community especially um and our turnover rate and how that affects it and how that compares to others so there's a lot of interesting things there beyond all of that quite honestly uh this is for the boardroom in the public honestly I would encourage all of you to attend because if you're able to eventually I know it's hard to get things online to take days off of work um I was you know those of you who have been in a classroom
044know that leaving for two days is challenging when you return it basically when you leave two or two you lose at least one more when you come back so I didn't want to do that but it was it was invaluable because you also get an incredible insight into the people that you're working with um I I mean to use the phrase like I hung out with Dr Freeman and Mrs Fisher Mr of course Mr DeMarco Nick was there for a while but uh he left the day before reading but just to kind of get to know them on our personal level and Beyond the person we did a lot of you know um bonding that way but also we talked a lot between sessions about what we had just learned and how we can apply
045it to our district and the goals that we have for our district and that's what I I mentioned Dr Freeman before because if you don't know this already and I'm sure everybody who has met him knows this he is like on fire like he's ready to go and um he walked out of one session and he was so energized he said I want to I want to present next year I'm ready I want to present what we do and I was like oh my goodness you've been here a month like what are you doing he's like I'm ready to go um but you learned so much about these people and what drives them and what they want out of our district honestly that was maybe the most valuable part of the conference was just defending
046two nights with you know the administrative team and it was it was wonderful I would encourage all of you to go honestly it was great so and and you know at the end of the night beyond all that and the dinners and all those things you get free time to kind of again be more personal and social with those people and to see them as people as opposed to employees of the district which is great so it was really wonderful honestly I would I would say if you can find the days off and you can make it happen get ready look up the dates for next year and put it on your calculator for sure awesome any questions anybody who's there when I had anything [Music] excellent thank you um we are up to committee
047meeting reports um I'm not sure if there are actually any committee meeting reports uh yeah it's the Somerset County Educational Services very good so the only reminder that I will give to our chair people is that based on our new schedule we should be developing our agendas for next week so if you haven't already connected with your administrative liaison and reach out to your members in terms of topics that they would like to discuss please make sure you do that uh let's get that ball rolling before we hit the weekend so that the administrative team has as much time to prepare before Monday night's Marathon as possible all right and with that we are open to the public for agenda items only can you check and see if you have any comments online of course
048open our agenda uh [Music] seeing none thank you sir all right and seeing no questions from the room so we are up to item 5.1 approval of minutes from 10 12 2022 resolve the development report of Education approves the minutes for that meeting regular and executive session motion thank you Mr Dawson a second second Mr Powell thank you any discussion please spell yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes Miss Lima yes yes Mr Januzzi yes support president motion passes thank you we are up to item number 6.1 resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in Personnel resolutions Under The District High School this is 6.2 through 6.13 evolution thank you [Music] second thank you Mr Dawson any discussion all right hearing none can be able to roll call please Mr Powell
049yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes Miss Lima yes yes Mr Januzzi yes ocean pencils thank you item 7.1 resolve that the superintendent recommends for approval of resolutions as outlined in Personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools 7.2 37.23 remember motion foreign Yes except for abstaining 7 23. so another thank you and Mr Januzzi yes motion passes thank you item 8.1 resolved at the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school this is 8.2 and 8.3 I have a motion motion thank you Mr Midas thank you thank you Mr bow any discussion all right hearing nothing to do a roll call please Mr battles yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes Miss Lima yes Mr minhas yes Mr Januzzi yes motion passes item 9.1 resolved
050at the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under middle and elementary schools is a 9.2 through 9.5 I have a motion motion thank you Mr Bowles II second thank you Mr manhass any discussion [Music] Dr Resh you're going to have a full calendar coming up foreign yes Mr Dawson yes Miss Casino yes Miss Lima same house yes Mr Januzzi yes motion passes thank you item number 10.1 resolved at the Battle of Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in policy resolutions under district and high school this is 10.2 through 10.4 motion thank you Mr Bell second thank you Mr minerals any discussion I just want to raise everybody's attention to 10.2 we made a late adjustment there because there were two policies that didn't make it through
051the governance committee during our last committee meeting that they had been included in the agenda so just note that those are crossed out on this final version and unless there are any questions on that can we have a roll call Mr Bowden yes Mr Dawson yes yes Miss Lima yes Mr Minos yes and Mr Januzzi yes thank you item 11.1 resolved at the boundary report of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in Special Services resolutions this is 11.2 through 11.4 I have a motion motion thank you Mr Dawson a second second thank you Mr foul discussion thank you all right hearing none can we do a roll call please Mr Bell yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes just Lima yes yes thank you uh we are up to item 12.1 resolved that the boundary
052report of Education approves the resolutions as Allied in financial resolutions this is 12.2 they're 12.20 have a motion motion thank you Mr Bowles second thank you Mrs Museum discussion thank you for the donations thank you hearing no other questions can we have more confidence Mr battle yes it's awesome yes yes and Christopher present yes motion passes thanks so we are up to section 13 other matters to come before the board which we did not have any for this evening which leads us to new business think we would like to entertain a motion yes I'm going to read the resolution firm to fill our board vacancy to bear in mind that this is Mr gorsuch's attorney here we go where I think there's a vacancy in the membership of the Bound Brook Board of Education [Music]
053number 0.43 the board has the authority to appoint an interested Advocate to fill the board of agency and whereas the board has received a letter of interest and resume the board vacancy anywhere as the board is determined but the applicant is qualified and would be a good addition to the Board of Education now therefore being resolved as follows but now the report of Education hereby appoints Mr Reese Sue Hi to Philip a board of agency and to serve a term as a board member until January 2024. before and do I understand correctly that you would like to move a motion is that the proper protocol I don't make a motion yes yes and I still moved thank you can I have a second second thank you Mr Dawson any questions comments or discussion I'm sorry
054I just missed because I had to step back what was the yeah that's okay to a point to appoint this miss high as our new board member for one term she would be taking over Mr Fazio's time so she would be until January 2024. thank you Mr any other questions I think it's great and I think her credentials look amazing so I'm excited yes a normal personal note she happens to be my neighbor she lives directly behind me and she's a wonderful human being beyond the credential she is just the nicest person you will ever meet so she'll she'll fit in very well with us for sure yeah so that means the only two people ever actually interviewed for the report is myself a rich thank you okay hearing you know other questions or comments
055can be able to roll call please yes sir Mr Bell yes Mr Dawson yes Miss Casino yes Miss Lima I've seen Mr minhas yes and Mr Januzzi yes Ocean passes please send her a message right now congratulations uh so at this point we are open to the public for discussion uh Tom can you give us a check of Canton no comments online awesome all right hello everyone serma principal the Middle School uh I just want to point out a couple staff members who are leaving us um there's more than two but two that I've worked with over the past um first Miss langoski uh I can tell you several years ago pre-covered uh it was a significant effort to try to help transition the sixth graders to middle school and we had many articulation meetings
056and uh miss langoski being a very big part of that always looking out for her kids and then in our covid year that was the year we remember back we were doing our project at Smalley so our tight building actually took on the entire sixth grade and we fit in and uh it it took quite a bit of uh care from all of our teachers to make that happen miss langoski being a big part of it um so just want to publicly recognize all of her efforts for the Bound Brook School District over the years and say thank you um as well as Mr Edwards principal Edwards is on we'll be moving on uh having worked closely with him as an administrator for the past several years uh good person and and worked extremely hard
057to to make uh smallly all that it can be grew in size from two grade levels that year he only got two right and then now to four grade levels so uh a big thank you to principal Edwards I know I'm speaking on behalf of the administrators in the building and the board members as well thank you thank you I appreciate it thank you hello Lauren Paxton president of the Bound Brook Education Association on behalf of the association I just want to thank you for passing the one-year agreement I also would like to thank you for uh providing us with a more cordial negotiations uh team in meetings and we actually look forward to the next round of negotiations thank you appreciate it thank you all right so at this time we are up to
058item 16.1 which is to move into the executive session so resolve at the boundary Board of Education enter executive session is allowed by njsa 10.4-11 under uh items one and three I have a motion motion thank you Mr Dawson a second second thank you Mr Bob all in favor um you're unmuted 17.1 as soon as my computer connects the resolutions has outlined the approval of HIV cases under middle and elementary schools is 17.2 17.3 matter of motion motion thank you Mr Bowers second second thank you Mr Dawson Mr Matt yes Mr Dawson yes this casino yes Miss Lima house yes yes possible at this point I will entertain your motion to adjourn motion sorry yeah I just wanted to um so next week is is um has been designated as school psychology Awareness Week um
059in the state of New Jersey and so I just wanted to acknowledge and thank the school psychologist in the district um as well as in the state of New Jersey uh for the as a school psychologist myself for the um the work that we do um and just know that uh you are all appreciated um for that [Music] now I think we actually had a motion to adjourn already motion again thank you second Mr Dawson all in favor aye thank you very much