001[Music] at which [Applause] please stand for the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states mr [Music] at this um so let's go let's do those students of the time hi good evening [Applause] thank you thank you [Applause] hi hi [Music] all right congratulations [Applause] edwards okay for third grade we have samantha marcia [Applause] for fourth grade he has the bathroom azana [Applause] foreign [Applause] for community middle school we have mr sam cheryl good evening everybody the community middle school is proud to recognize for students of the month camilla navarro [Applause] and dana pacheco ortiz [Applause] [Music] foreign diaz [Applause] william sawyer who i knew would not be here to this evening [Applause] and michelle santa maria sandoval [Applause] okay for our gems award presentation we will start with my abs and
002doctor pass again so congratulations to uh mrs kiss um this is always looking for ways to improve the school and goes above and beyond to make things happen during this summer together with a smile and a positive attitude we greatly appreciate her willingness to lend a helping hand whenever succeed thank you mrs and congratulations [Applause] clark [Applause] all right lafayette again for the month of september is our school nurse melissa sherman this is melissa's second year at lafayette and she was tasked with covering two buildings for the start of the school year handling nursing in one building is obviously a task in and of itself never mind while you're preparing for the start of a new school year while consistently advocating for our students with the sharing of our website of what was important and
003strived every day to give us her absolute best mr sherman thank you for always putting our students first and for being the caring and compassionate nurse that you are blackie i appreciate you [Applause] our jump for the month is mrs gina petresky and he has served in the balkan district for 23 years i've had the pleasure of working with her as a special area teacher and i cannot tell you how much i enjoy going into her classroom she has such high expectations for her students and she really lends a helping hand whenever you need it i am so thankful to be giving our first gem award to mistina petresky community middle school we have mr santa clara hello again the community middle school is proud to recognize this is carina de nuvio eighth grade math
004and algebra one teacher as this month's representative gem award recipient by the time students reach middle school they often form strong opinions regarding their affinity or displeasure with the topic of math therein lies the challenge for middle school math teachers how do i engage students who negatively feel about the topic while at the same time providing challenges and enrichment to those who tend to excel this past year and a half has added an entirely new dimension to this process when we think of math we associate with pencils papers and erasers however kovit has changed that medium from written work to computers apps and online programs mrs denubio has done an excellent job transitioning from in-person instruction to virtual to hybrid back to virtual back to in person and i'm sure mrs denuvio would be able
005to chart those data points and determine a bell curve in addition to classroom instruction this is denudio as coach varsity cheerleading began the cheer dance workout club several years ago at the community middle school and was the co-chairperson for the cms yearbook committee mrs denubia was unable to join us this evening but is logging in virtually to this meeting so on behalf of the community middle school teaching staff as well as a decade of current and former students i would like to thank carina de nuvia for her contribution and for her efforts in helping our students achieve greatness dr kyogre if you don't mind one of our students came in yeah there were some other students that came in as well melissa santa brian [Applause] okay it's a great pleasure that we recognize miss janelle
006philiantro as the gem recipient for bound brook high school ms philiatro has played an integral part in creating the star program which stands for students and teachers achieving results this is a new program at the high school which is centered on a functional approach to the core academic classes as well as social skills motor skills self-help vocational skills and community-based instruction its purpose is to allow our students the opportunity to practice and master independence self-advocacy advocacy skills engage in social interaction access community resources acquire and maintain vocational placement and participate in recreation and leader activities it is our goal that these students will transfer these skills into their adult lives following high school graduation and it's for this reason among others that we congratulate miss philliatro for being named the recipient of the general board
007at the high school a recognition [Applause] olivia perez [Applause] michelle santamaria sandoval [Applause] though hello [Music] and last but not least marcos garcia diaz [Music] that was the old days when we first hired this person yes with a different name at that time it was bonneville then now mrs trulis who has been working in central office as a supervisor of special services worked integral with ms filiatro on the star program has been running esy or extended school year for us and works with our curriculum and our teachers on a daily basis with special education students and teachers making sure that our curriculum is delivered in the best way that it can be so miss treliss this is truly congratulations on being in the district [Music] all right so uh so any of the parents if
008you need to get your children home we're just gonna take a couple minute break uh so feel free to leave you're certainly more than welcome to stay if you'd like to uh but we're gonna just take a five minute break how are you foreign [Music] uh i'll see you um [Laughter] oh along with all committees have met since our last board meeting um titles for those who will be posted to the website shortly number four open to the public for agenda items only if there's anybody here approval of minutes [Music] motion minutes this movement is miss morris yes is nissan yes this is mr ricimano yes mr tomaselli yes mr batalaire yes mr zuko [Music] second second yes [Music] yes [Music] can i have a roll [Music] club stain mr zipko yes mr fazio yes
009and mr januzzi yes ocean passes represent me he's right now [Music] um that's very great those gentlemen just to share that story looks very interesting i'd be curious to hear how the how the students react to that yeah yeah thank you oh and 8.4 can the arc glass come in with the presentation sure i i love when they do come out get out and you get to see stuff yeah i know can i shop around now she said she was looking for three chapters yeah i don't think my principal's gonna let me out on that one well i'm free okay discussion nope mr bob there yes but i'm standing from 8.5 mr zipko yes mr faggio yes yeah because i was trying to go through the past gazillion um we used to like just highlight
010what wasn't what the actual revision was and i didn't on policy 1648 11 the rope forward um i have a question regarding how we're doing is remote learning the kids warranty the way we're doing that right now is very simply is the scene that said we have to give them a comparable instructions in person so right now they're doing google links at home so they're in in the classroom itself um any questions those particular students have they would email the teachers we'll get back to them we're also giving them um an hour a day of extra extra help after school but for the students why we all we have the technology in place why aren't we just letting them ask a question how is it [Applause] that's right that's why we're one of the few
011districts that's giving me hours after school okay but to do it in real time in the classroom would be to lead to taxing on the teacher itself to try and monitor a screen and what's going on as well as little kids in the classroom that's [Music] and we've overlapped we didn't have to do the extra hour that was something that most pictures are not doing i i did the extra hour just to compensate for what you're talking about [Music] but it's it's an additional cost correct yes [Music] aids and things like that so again i'm trying to leave as much pressure on the teachers as i can at this point in time to make sure that they expect to come to work [Music] yes ms martinez yes this is morris yes miss wishing yes mr
012salad mr thomas ellie yes mr vavavalaire yes with an extension of 9.3 thank you for all the donations that's awesome what can i ask about oh um oh i'm sorry that's okay especially i'm looking ahead sorry [Laughter] sorry i'll save that for next time yes the battle there that's stain mr zupko yes mr posio yes and mr januzzi yes osha passes yeah how did we come about that that was the musical yeah the first one in the montgomery township part of it for 420 yeah it's awesome we'll get there eventually it's 11.7 mr smith yes dr stewart is friendly with the director at montgomery high school they did this massive fundraiser and he had offered to donate oh wow that's awesome tell them both thank you so much [Music] that's awesome yeah that's a nice
013problem to have that you would raise someone's name [Applause] the original contract wasn't can you just control what's being changed i'm assuming it's a great adjustment for the full day and half day building based substitute teachers yeah that's that's actually an adjustment on our part we actually raised the um rate for um per day and subs per day um that's the school's base sub not the daily subs we actually raise the rate for those again um we're trying to get we're trying to get people to come to work right now we're having a very difficult time what is that what is the increase that we it's it's now 120 a day 110 maybe seven dollars a day maybe 20 might have been 100 120. now we're at 153 okay right so we're at 120. so
014okay from a budgetary perspective yeah and then my only other comment was the last meeting i asked about financial reports i don't see them attached here are we going to get july and august sometime soon they're not attacked okay any other questions yes abstain from 11.1 yes with abstention from check three eight four eight two and then abstaining from eleven point nine and eleven point ten mr zipko yes mr fazio yes and mr dunuzi yes motion passes section at 12 and 13 on the match to come before the board and the business all right i just wanted to consent to everyone's email uh miss thornton had got in touch with me concerning uh going forward for the superintendent search so i sent you some documents um those aren't just as kind of to guide our
015thinking as to what it is that we're looking for in our next superintendent that's not something that's necessarily going to look exactly like that so please go through those documents she will be here uh on the 11th for our meeting on the 11th and you will need an executive session so have any of all questions or comments [Music] doesn't mean i won't stop by because it just means a lot to me and so um you know hope to be here and contribute to the conversation um as soon as it's legally possible for me to be on board again i'll definitely try to jump that down well thank you so much for the service that you have your input has been greatly appreciated okay scene we are open to the public for discussion at this time
016hello my name is annemarie gionato 151 west high street um i just have a few questions uh what's happening with lunch at smalling why don't they have dividers and these are the youngest kids with no vaccination eight to a table right now we have to get those whatever that they're supposed to be try to be six feet apart i know that's not possible but when we were going through this and planning it you said you had all the dividers for all the schools and it wouldn't be a problem correct and [Music] so you didn't have dividers at all we have the dividers for small but we just can't use them because um because they're round tables uh i don't think it's round tables once you put the dividers out you use a couple seats for
017table right i mean i know at the middle school because we're sitting like but i'm more worried about these kids that are not vaccinated and again capacity issue so unfortunately we have to feed them so yeah i i just wanted to know because it seems to be you know the most nervous part of the day is now life and and you know i got my middle schoolers like sitting like this those are the times but my nine-year-old is like free fall and it's super sneezing well again from what i understand i believe this is kids and i believe we have enough staff in there um also can you explain to me what happens if the child has to isolate and then quarantine are they allowed to virtually on the classroom they're not allowed at all
018i mean 15 days of a lot of school yeah i just went over that i i don't but i i just want to carve right because i couldn't go here they get a google link to the class so they can attend class virtually uh if they have any questions they email their email the teachers the questions the rest of the class so they are part of the classroom for the day yes but they can't ask questions until school is over right to the extent is their teacher that they would meet with or is it just again that do you prefer them to the future that they have right it just means more cost effective if they were to use to raise the hand button and hey i have a question and pay extra hours of
019time i think that as someone who hosts an event all the time like i'm not i'm not in the classroom so i can only imagine what that's like but i for my job i host some events all the time and literally having to manage just the zoom event it requires four of us on our staff to make sure that we have someone on the chat someone checking back and someone meeting and unmuting someone else i just i'm just trying to understand what the day is right for them and all the emails come down there's always something different so i understand it always changing nobody knows but just trying to fire apart and the other thing is the district going to come together on the web page we go to find information and things are very
020hard to find we're in the process they're in the process okay when you're going to find out it says back to school night for the calendar but you don't know what school unless you're going to each individual school and you have a company phone numbers and everything it's like yeah super hard we would agree we have a company that has come in that's one of their one of their goals is to streamline that okay thank you see no other questions from the public we are moving to executive session we're going into executive session under item number seven we will be in the second assessment for probably an hour or so um at this moment in time you need a motions all right you're unmuted you're good to go good end to do whatever else you
021need to do okay um