001all right you are alive [Music] all right good evening everyone we're gonna call the meeting to order uh the new jersey public open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to advance the notice of and to attend meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interests is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0-162 the board of education of the borough of bound brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office and at baltic high school and mailed or faxed to the courier news found brookborough clerk southbound board of education and any person who has requested individual notices [Music] mr vale here this is fazio here miss gazina here mr januzzi here
002miss lima here mr miss rosamano here mr you're zuckerberg set all right uh for president's comments i just have a couple of key topics hopefully they'll talk forever um on the superintendent search i just want to know that the first interviews have been completed uh we're currently working on second round of interviews which are progressing nicely and are expected to be concluded this week uh we're about to read behind the original schedule that's posted on the district website which i think is not too bad all things considered since that was set back in september and we're looking forward to concluding the process hopefully in the very near future uh so still much more to be done but also more information as we progress with our teachers we're continuing to try and put our best forward
003from the boys perspective um i had a nice conversation with mr paxton yesterday which we both found to be relatively productive um and we left hopeful that we can begin a meaningful dialogue in terms of the contract in the very near future uh our board committee assignments have been completed and uh that work is just getting started uh our operations committee was the first committee to meet that was earlier this evening uh so i'm hopeful that over the next month each will be able to meet and set out their plans and objectives for the next few months uh quick congratulations i want to offer to both the boys and girls high school basketball teams uh both clinch their respective regular season skyland conference valley division championships uh so looking forward to seeing what they can
004do in the playoffs but you know job well done so far um and lastly uh we're in search of not one but two new members which were recruiting for open board of education seats uh we did receive one letter of interest since the last meeting from uh mr midhas uh if you're here mr manas can you yep can you please come on down [Music] you're the next contestant so for our newer members when there was a board vacancy to be filled middle of last year mr minhas also volunteered at that time um so for those of us who are here should be a familiar face you might remember it but yeah but for our members who are maybe a little bit newer and may not have mentioned the first time um maybe just introduce yourself
005and give a couple of words in terms of what your interest is in the board of education and then if there are any questions from the members that would be a good time to ask them uh okay awesome so my name is daley minhas i level 161 west high street been living in bamboo for about five years now so uh transformation is this question about education i am a very very very strong component of education i love education i'm always reading on my spare time um in fact uh you know i was when i grew up here my parents were immigrants when they first came over here and they came over there with literally nothing in there in their pockets and they you know went from failed business not to fail business just struggling to
006make things work here i remember growing up in brooklyn and um in uh in new jersey just living in an apartment in the one bedroom cover with me and my sister my mom my dad working like five in the morning until 10 o'clock at night and you know and it was all this all this hard work was because my dad believed in the education system here in the us and he instilled that quality of education on me and unfortunately he passed away so he never got a chance to see me uh blossom to where i'm an analyst myself i've worked with many big companies myself and you know at the same time i'm trying to instill the same thing someone stole it on me but my parents through my kids and as well through my
007friends they're about their children as well i'm constantly working with our church uh we do like career fairs job fairs i work with some individuals um helping guide them when they decide not to pursue secondary education so like if they don't want to go into college or not which is perfectly fine you can still have a good future there and it's more of just engaging that conversation and um so yeah long story short you know i i probably went a little bit too long but yeah it's education is really really big for me and you know as my kids are maturing and being a part of the school district here uh just want to give back the community is providing for my kids i want to give back to the community great thank you so
008much are there are there any questions from the members for mr minhaus i mean i'll ask you an easy one do you have any prior experience with uh either not for profits uh boards local committees or things of that nature uh yes i've actually worked with a couple um since before i'm going to sound a little geeky i've worked with a couple different psychiatrists uh science fiction conventions um especially here in new jersey uh averaging around 10 to 15 000 attendees so i've worked with their board i've mentored individuals that have gone on to serve onto their board i've managed a couple departments and overseeing like for example we have a convention that's down in atlantic city that unfortunately dude covered we haven't been able to run for the last few years but um i
009used to be the second in command for the dealership so the dealership would have about 200 different vendors and we managed everything to ensure there was no counterfeits um to ensure any any issues or elections anything that you could think of that popped up we had to deal with it um before that i've also ran operations so just being there opening up date on the first day from seven o'clock in the morning to when we closed which is probably like two o'clock in the morning and uh yeah it was all nonprofit and we did it because we loved it we wanted to share that um to share that um that love put science fiction with other other fans that enjoyed it and all the people that wanted to attend it and you know knowing that
010every year our cameras kept going up and up and up it just it created more of an overhead it wasn't created some new headaches but this was all fun you know i mean these new challenges for a lot of we'll just always end the day it was fun because it brought us new obstacles that we had to try to achieve so yeah i hope that i answered your question thank you i guess i think yes it's the last time and i think there's a couple of new people but what would you say uh is the greatest challenge here in that room and what is our greatest strength as a parent right um your your guys from your children are school age yes okay so you do have some interaction so what would you you know
011what would you say for those two well the greatest strength is definitely the first life um i've gotten i mean the teachers that i've worked with and the administrators i've worked with have been amazing um every question every qualm every issue that we've had they've been um amazing to help out with in fact a big shout out to dr s has always been very helpful for us um so sorry i have to do it um yeah so um you know it's there's always somebody if you can't get one person due to whatever reason there's always somebody else so is that and i'm assuming also that you've enabled them to go above and beyond the means to try to rectify any situation any any problem that comes up and for not being you know micromanagement allow
012them to solve those issues i mean amazing job you guys like to allow them to empower us to do that um the greatest challenge i think would have to be the engagement with the community um it's both a pro and a con because on one side it's it can be a very awesome positive um contributor you know they can you know take take something that was done about a year or two ago with the food bank you know i mean the community helped out with that which i believe was run by somebody from the school district that i don't know all the details about it but um but when they they work together i mean look at how much all the beautiful things that they were to accomplish and all that one day to help
013out all those families and kids and it was a beautiful beautiful thing i mean you can't not love it you know so that's the positive side of that but the negative side of that which is why i call it a challenge is when things are not in synergy and you know when you're on two sides of the coin and you have that clash then yeah that's going to be that can create some negativity but it gives a chance for communication to open to the other side and to come to a common ground so i think that's probably one of the biggest challenges because there's a lot of community members you'll see like if you read like social media or something they're too busy typing awareness keyboard and they're happy to sit behind the computer because
014there's no face to them and they can type whatever they want to say one push comes to shove you know i mean like you said we only have one person there's two seats so you got so many people that want to complain but nobody really wants to step up and do anything about it so i think having a positive um relationship with the community will help address those issues at least thank you sure thank you thank you [Music] so they don't meet every month and it's usually around four o'clock somewhere in there that they meet usually in the week thursday thank you all right so first off what i'd like to do is uh publicly congratulate dr marmile he received so as we call him up here to do his presentation so dr mormont we
015please come up with a presentation for the board please we're going to say it as many times okay hello board members the week of february 7th is national school counseling week it focuses public attention on the unique contribution of school counselors within u.s school systems it also highlights the tremendous impact school counselors can have in helping students achieve school success and plan for a career the 2022 theme is school counseling better together this is the perfect theme for our school counselors here in downbrook because they work wonderfully on counseling initiatives together also our school counselors are compassionate student centered appreciative of diversity caring and always available to listen i want to publicly publicly thank all of the school counselors in the bbs state okay and i have all their certificates i'll give them to them
016this week um from the lamont annex school nicholas moran lafayette elementary janine kinney from smalley emily ayanella and jeff jaegel frank community alyssa d jerome and from the high school phyllis hayes anthony abazada mahan ryan hanaway and our [Applause] on to my next presentation okay here's our beach opening violence and danielison reported for the first half of this school year okay here are our numbers for the past uh school years the first time [Music] we had 29 total hiv investigations district-wide with 12 of them being confirmed hivs last year's home from the year with remote and hybrid learning was 23 investigations and five confirmed hivs and then the year prior the first school year 111 investigations and 48 confirmed hivs so we're back to in-person learning this year so our numbers are more than last
017full year already and i want to point out that we're world war iii specialists which is a majority of our school counselors as well as our administrators um that we've had wonderful training at the start of the school year um by mr david nash from njpsa who was like the hiv expert in the state of new jersey and he went over trends um how to deal with different scenarios it was wonderful training for us and our specialists have been utilizing that training uh every day school by school the high school this year has eight investigations with three confirmed last year was seven and one new year prior 20 and 10. okay community middle school this year the first half of this year has eleven investigations with four confirmed hivs the year prior nine with one
018and then 2019 2020 26 total investigations for the school year with 12 confirmed and swollen this year so far 10 investigations with five confirmed hivs last school year seven investigations with three confirmed hivs and the year prior investigations with 12 confirmed hivs okay for both lamont i'm sorry lafayette and the animals we've had zero this year last and then a couple of years ago in 2019 2020 we had one or two in both of the schools okay that's it for hiv um the other part of the state reporting mandate is for us to put in our violence and vandalism funnels district one so here they are at the high school we reported we had 19 incidents to report total six of them were violence random vandalism six of them were incidents with substances one was
019a weapons offense and reconfirmed hiv for 19 incidents total okay at the middle school we had seven incidents total two of them were violent one of them were vandalism four hiv confirmed and then in addition we have 12 other incidents that led because slowly the five incidents were the five will confirm the hivs you didn't have anything that's it any questions um i noticed that there were students that were removed from the district and my question is uh for every student that's removed from the district what's the financial implication is it the same as a student coming in when a student goes out of the district who is covering that student when they go to another district okay my son might have been misleading that just meant removed from school they might have been in
020an out of school suspension for an example no problem i wanted to answer this year is [Music] a question for you statistically speaking um it seems like even though the case load is up compared to last year um we're still trending below the same pace that we would have been on the year prior which is really the comparable year anyway and i noticed that at smalley school actually the numbers seem to dip even more dramatically than uh the high school girl yet is there anything that you're aware of behind that trend uh or is it just maybe everybody being happy that they're back well i [Music] i think are hiv specialists for another year into their position so they're doing a better job of prevention so i don't know if any many principals want i
021would say probably it's trending even lower than what that shows because you're talking about two years ago when we actually went out in march so even compared to the previous year which was the real last whole year i think it's trending a little lower than that if that helps good yeah i think that the the big thing is that every year as we've gone through this you know we've identified areas that we needed to train um not only you know administrators and hiv specialists but also teachers and staff so i think you know some of those things are starting to really take hold on yes [Music] and i think also the counselors teachers and principals having conversations that it might be a conflict and inappropriate behavior doesn't necessarily mean it's harassment and bullying it takes
022a lot of time to get to that point and sometimes parents are a little upset with that but i think once you take the time to sit down and explain that to them it's a little easier for them to understand you know media get to the bottom of what's going on but just because someone's unhappy or upset doesn't necessarily mean i'd also say our social interactions still aren't what they were three years ago being that we are still wearing these all day long so once that timeline expands we'll probably have have a good view of what's uh you know what's going on over time yeah that's great now you know just to echo something that miss clark said and you know where we started this whole thing you know even my own personal experience i
023think the counselors are doing a really great job with not letting situations perhaps get to some of the places where they would have gone in the past so i think you know wrapping this all up in a single thing just thank you again to the great job and the great work that they're doing i'll pass it on to them thank you all right dr gallagher is there anything else you want to cover in your report no that's it for tonight great um so we do not have any committee reports to offer this evening though i hope and expect that that will change at our next meeting where we can at least debrief on what happened in the operations committee meeting earlier today so at this point we are open to the public for agenda items
024only do we have any comments from the group and uh online you have no comments online great i don't see anybody approaching the podium so i think we will move on the next item is the approval of the minutes from our last meeting january 24th 2022. can i get a motion motion a second second thank you mr baldwin any comments or discussion hearing none can we have more problems mr bale yes mr fazio yes ms casino yes yes and mr zipko motion cap thank you number six resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions is outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school this is 6.1 through 6.10 i have a motion motion a second second thank you mr zipko discussion you have a question on 6.4 when you have the 5 000
025stipend everyone received the exact same amount except but someone has less time like their starts february as opposed to january is that yeah i mean the way the agreement was written um they're all getting their 5 000 now um even though we have somebody just starting they're gonna have to pick up and do all the work anyway but i think when we approved that we also said that if anyone were to leave the district early would there be on pro-regional where it says retirement um but the letter says resignation i i think that's the way she put it in but it's for retirement i just wanted to take this opportunity to thank our retiring vivian for incredible service and i wish her the best in our future endeavors thank you that's great roger any other
026comments okay here you go man i have a motion i'm sorry may i have a roll call absolutely i'm sorry mr bail yes mr fabio yes ms casino yes mr gennady yes miss lima yes mr samantha and mrs yes thank you item number seven result that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions is outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is seven point one through seven point eleven battle motion yes we have to make a change um if you go to 7.2 the very first item is christensen um it says on there that her effective date would be february 21st actually the teacher came back early from her leave so her effective date is 2-1 so please make that change on all your agendas for two point uh for february first instead
027of february 21st thank you thank you dr gallagher any other comments or discussions yes with an abstention on 7.6 um miss lima approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school this is 8.1 through 8.8 may have a motion motion second thank you mr paul open for discussion i have a question on this one um i noticed that newcomers program required two marking periods a minimum of two marking periods do we have any information that shows what the average amount of marking periods is student will stay in is it is it more likely to learn for two and then that's it more likely they're very longer than that and then it would be a half of the year right right but you know with language proficiency they're usually in and they
028stay and then my other question was on the title three federal grant does that affect enrollment like as far as when a student comes into the school no so it's just any other comments or questions um on the trips regarding the university visit where is that university um 8.6.6 is hour and 47 minutes if you're wondering i think it's great taking these i like to see the trips coming back getting out of the building these things okay any other comments or questions hearing none can we have a roll call there's the bail yes mr fabio yes escazino yes yes miss lima yeah we are up to item number nine resolve that the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in policy resolution to under district and high school this is 9.1 and 9.2
029and i have a motion motion thank you mr fazio a second second we're going to give that one to mr zamotto time goes to the runner open for discussion you might want to explain yeah yeah now this is the the we're in policy one policy one point one sorry sorry sir it's okay yes but it is it is tricky sometimes to find the documents and to be able to review them on time so so on your weekend report that's where you're going to get your your edited copy so you can see what's going in what's coming out also in there is um usually the policy policy alert brief that's in there and in there i'll tell you why you're making those changes on each one of those policies you know whether it's a state law
030change whether it's a case law change or whatever it is so they give you a quick outline on what those are um you'll see on some of them you know there's some options sometimes usually for us us to fill in um but they're pretty pretty vanilla like you know you get a line like he's gonna be the destiny for this or you know on this one i think it's the high school um okay thank you any other comments or questions okay can we have a roll call please mr bale yes mr fazio yes mrs xena yes mr januzzi yes miss lima yes mr samana yes and mr zupka yes i'm sitting here waiting for somebody to start reading the next one we'll be here a long time i know i know number 10 resolve that
031the brown brook board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions this is 10.1 they're 10.17 may have a motion motion thank you mr farzio a second second thank you mr paul uh discussion i just wanted to thank for the donations for the small elementary school said the pizantes family thank you i'd like to make a note of one change in the financial resolutions you'll see in there for the first time um probably ever um you guys are recruiting the list for student activities please know that the auditors um and again this is part of what regulations think student activities has to come back into the full of general accounting principles so we have moved um to repeat the moved student activities to our po system so uh on a monthly basis you'll
032now start to see what is being expended out of student this is where i asked activities the grants so what you're seeing there is um the grant application is actually filled out the year previously okay um if we don't spend we're allowed to try over 10 of the year previous fund okay so what it's showing you here for example under um ten point eight numbers and left glass is four point eight yeah okay so um our original allocation amount of there that's what we were originally given in the gram okay and then the carryover amount is actually from the 2021 school year we did extend it so then that's our new amount in the last column okay so it has nothing actually to do with the narrative of the application funding of the application carry
033over from what we have i just wanted to give a shout out to the communities middle school yearbook club i know it's a lot of hard work and the mr mr subs the fundraiser but for the 15 sales really excited that that's going to be occurring please you know that's incredible yes thank you really good job please tell them awesome is this um 10 15 is this like a re-application of it's the uh for architects to submit is that the same thing and we're just resubmitting it to try and get a better price oh no no this is this whole new one this is for the um hdec systems um if you recall we have that extra fund that was here kind of earmarked for hec so at this moment time while we kind of
034headed the game in terms of we have air conditioning heating every classroom this is the opportunity to um replace a lot of unit ventilators particularly in smallie lafayette and vermont that are really outdated and actually in this we're putting ventilators into the animals which never happened before um but it gives us the opportunity to do that it's it's one of those things that um you know it's there so you might as well take advantage of it um type of thing so all and again all of it's going to be through the arp extra funds nothing from local taxpayers or the state and whatever or is that other thing just dead on arrival the cafeteria pretty much i mean again what we what we suspected out was again when we did when we did small we
035we roughed it out at 350 square foot we came in right about there a little less than 350 square foot so you know obviously we went out at 400 square foot was our best projected estimate for the cafeteria at um lafayette unfortunately the lowest bid was 3.8 million which came in roughly around seven and a quarter square foot just to give you an idea of the price variation obviously right now between labor supply chains and everything else um it's not the time to even think about re-bidding or going out or anything like that um you know until we so we can either either prices come down or we could approach a little bit more you gotta go over our stances we're gonna try and pay cash on that so there was no tax increase there's
036no referendum there's nothing coming from the state we're gonna use internal funds to try and make that happen um so those funds are still there you still you're still there you're they're still in your your tax reserve um obviously the the only other issue that you have is you do have a number of other things that are also coming due that we're gonna have to take a look at and start to say okay um you know let's let's talk about the football field i mean football field duck definitely needs to be replaced that's something our lights are dangerous in the field we really need to start talking about replacing them yeah if we're going to do that we got to replace the track replace the fence so on and so forth so there's a number
037of conversations that have to be had and a number of you know quite frankly difficult difficult decisions are going to have to be made um in terms of what you want to do what you want to prioritize going forward i just have one quick question it has to do with uh budget transfers i think when we received the audit report for the most recently completed year that was an area of concern so just a quick you know snippet of how are we doing there in terms of um having our budgets appropriately aligned relative to the transfers we're making out yeah we're doing really well there um and i think the audit recommendation was more on the grant side not getting the approvals to do those transfers so on the transfers you need are general general
038are general accounts which you know inside again i don't want to get suits belabored on this but there's a number of different account numbers um i think we have over a thousand account numbers so inside those thousand account numbers you may have another two thousand sub account number so you can make transfers underneath all those sub account numbers without a problem it's never going to be an issue or anything like that that's kind of what you're saying very good all right any other questions or comments hearing none can we have a roll call please mr bail yes mr fazio yes yeah okay so you're yeah miss roswell yes yes thank you okay we are now into uh i guess new business if we have any otherwise uh we are open to the public for discussion
039so i know what i want to ask um i wanted to bring up the governor's announcement today that um the mass mandate is no longer coming from the state and both seemingly being left up to districts come march 7th sounds like we're going to have to make a decision there and i know that uh previously we had always relied on our uh chief chief school physician for the for that because none of us are have any real medical training so it would be better to rely on someone who does so i had a very long conversation with dr frank today okay is his recommendation which he's going to be sending out to us in the near future is um not to mandate masks he basically said it's time to get back to normal um what
040he said was leave it a personal choice if people want to wear a mask or a parent wants you to wear a mask allow them to wear a mask and i'm really summing it up for you but you know basically it was um i don't want to get into the semantics of it he doesn't you know you know why are we going to march 7th like you know he was kind of really questioning some of the science behind it and things like that so um but that was that's going to be his recommendation um and as you know i i discussed with the board leadership i would reach out to him because we kind of knew this was coming and we wanted to be able to rely on our chief medical inspector for this so
041um that's going to be his his opinion okay or his recommendation and ultimately that does still come down to a board decision already so we still have to make that official that we're accepting his recommendation shouldn't be clear that's the process right but i don't know i don't know if you necessarily need to approve his recommendation um we can talk about his recommendation um if you feel as though you need to approve this recommendation you can do that um but but ultimately it really just comes down to you know um there is no there there's not going to be a man right so if we do not forcing us to do so if we do nothing then the mandate goes away we would have to actually act to we don't think about the map right
042okay [Music] he is letting his his masked mandate expire march 7th you don't have to do anything his man his mask mandy is expired what he did say from what i you know and again i didn't see his whole press conference but allowing people to choose to wear masks was his statement that's also what the recommendation was from dr frank i would anticipate between now and mark 7. we're going to get guidance we're going to get something from from the department of education or the department of health saying hey this is going away this is what we think you know the guidelines should be going forward because quite frankly we're already getting questions on you know what does that mean for contact tracing right because contact trains if you're not wearing a mask that changes
043all the contact tracing information that we've been doing and what's been going on so there has to be some sort of guidance coming with this um you know obviously this is early i just made the announcement today you know obviously we kind of anticipated this so we wanted to get you know dr frank's recommendation on this but i would have to say that there has to be more coming in the next 30 days to kind of give us a little bit more guidance on what the state's anticipating us to do the mandate it wasn't just for schools it was just a blanket removal for businesses or just not schools schools schools and child care centers specifically but what about but businesses haven't had businesses i don't think have had that specific mandate i think it's
044been up to up to individuals so you know i'm not going to panic over that or i'm not going to say we need to jump and make x amount of decisions at the moment i think you know patience is on our side we have 30 days let's let's see what other information comes out in the next week two weeks yeah we've got another meeting on the 21st so maybe we'll have more by then okay but i think maybe the important thing to realize at this point is we've got an informal recommendation from you know our expert on call that if we do nothing the mandate will expire and if we choose to act between now and march 7th that would be something that we would have to do all right okay got it thank you
045so i just want to ask as far as i know mr minhaus is here um as far as the opening what is the date for the close of that of accepting applications and then what is the process going forward that that's happened twice now are they two different dates for the two different positions we propose they were because when we advertised we after we were getting ready to advertise the one the second one can we advertise both at the same time so we had one closing application deadline and then we extended it to this past drive all right so we're done so then well again as as you know i'll go through everything that i went through with the board leadership you know you still have time um i don't want to say that listen
046you you're you can't accept any more letters of of interest or anything like that i think the problem that you have though is technically you're supposed to have an interview but then you're supposed to appoint right so i think what what's going to happen is you know normally what happens is you interview that was our interview or meeting you will be the next so i think in this case we have any more letters that we might be doing that all in one night um you know so would that look like an interview and then maybe a quick executive and then come back out can we consider yeah if there's more if there's more than our positions yeah okay so all right can we consider what mr minhas did yes that's his interview right yeah that
047was his interview yeah all right step one again our next step is we'll go into the second session you guys will we'll talk some of yourselves and if you say we're appointing him i'm going to call him tomorrow he's going to be appointed because again you have to remember before he could take before he can get sworn in he's got to get his fingerprints done he has to get things done that's why you know you really want to do one board meeting and then the next board meeting hopefully do an appointment because you gotta give him time to go do the fingerprints and everything else and all the background checks you can always make an emotion to accept him pending depending on pending yeah right and the county is gonna be you know he's going
048to have um any concerns about is if you don't have somebody should buy a certain date then it's going to fall to him and he is going to exercise his his people but like where is he i don't know does he have like a fishbowl of like all right we don't have somebody this is i've been here a long time we've never had the problem we always had somebody right so this is the first time we're really coming down to the wire where we don't have somebody so i have to wait and see all right i just thought i'd clarify for everybody yeah and maybe for anybody watching at home if you're really interested please submit a letter using the information on the district website um so at this point um i believe we we
049just handled those two things under new business would that be fair yeah i have one more sure sorry sorry it's okay um rich as far as getting went in to give i guess we're gonna wait until we get at least one more then we should look to do the training as to that she does yearly for yeah what is what we're supposed to be doing what yeah yeah mr baldwin actually asked that specific question and she recommended that we wait till we're back full capacity yeah usually what will happen if you guys will tell me and i'll set that up with when you give her coordinates and you also mentioned the possible retreat then as well to generate yes so i think one of the things that i would like to catch up on are
050at minimum some goals uh because you know for whatever reason we are where we are we don't have goals yet for this year but we can look at whatever we can accomplish over the next five to six months maybe a little bit remember orientation since we have some new members already on and we'll be acquiring hopefully a few more um and then we can do things like evaluate where we know relative to strategic plan and other stuff like that so i think a retreat would make a lot of sense if people are up for interested in yeah because i know that it was a while ago uh we had done a retreat over at raritan valley and we had also had administrators there as well yeah so and again i think at this point in
051time my recommendation would be to wait until you finish your shooting process you know when you've decided and all that is kind of settled and taken care of they can take part they can take part in it so i think that would be important to have a a retreat to go over goals forward strategic plan over those things without that person in place would be a mistake in my opinion right you don't want to undermine the next part correct right sure is that something that they would be able to participate in between when they're named and when they actually sure because as long as it's not interfering with their current job and again we've done our retreats at night so as long as he's free that night he would be more important it would be
052possible for him yes i think that's fair yeah [Music] anything all right so then at this point we will be into item number 13 which is open to the public for general discussion good evening um if you recall a couple of board meetings ago um we recognized lee casperson as so who's going to be representing the state of new jersey um in the national conversation so we'll be uh attending a dinner um april 16th in tom's river at the clarion hotel which will be recognized and then hopefully he'll he'll win the nationals and we're super impressed with him hello lauren paxton president of the brownbrook education association since the district has the ability to continue the mass mandate or take it away um i would like to ask you to [Music] get the feedback from
053the stakeholders of the people in the classroom before you come to that decision to see if that's something that they're comfortable with moving forward i will say that this has been a hot topic uh amongst the presidents and uh some districts are phasing in um starting with the they're continuing the mass mandate for the younger ones the ones that are not backs yet and then as that proceeds they will make that decisions going forward so there are a lot of districts are doing a lot of different things based upon uh the vaccination levels and the comfort levels of the stakeholders in the classroom that's great thank you for sure thank you yeah i do not have any comments online thank you sir so unless there are any other comments from the room i believe we
054are now going to move into executive session we are moving in executive session under item one two seven and nine great motion thank you michelle mr bell we consider you a second so we are adjourned to the executives [Music] all right you're good to go you're live thank you [Music] all right we're ready so item 15 result of the boundary board of education uh presents for the approval of resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under high school this is 15.1 through 15.3 can i have a motion motion mr fazio second second yes thank you mr powell mr bell yes mr fazio yes mrs casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima [Music] board of education presents for approval of resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under middle and elementary schools one through
05516.3 have a motion motion mr fazio a second second thank you mr powell mr bale yes mr fazzio yes miss casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima everything mr samantha mr zipper yes resolve that we are at the end of the agenda motion thanks motion second second all in favor all right have a good night