Board Meeting 6-21-21

001uh the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the book to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies each time any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and the board of education policy 0-162 the board of education and the of the borough bound book has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office and at the bound brook high school and mailed her fast to the courier [Music] board of news and any person who has requested individual notice and paid the required fee i pledge your commitment to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty

002and justice all right i just wanted to start to uh this meaning addressing a couple of concerns um just give me a second we're going to move the executive session um to the beginning of the meeting right after president's comments because there's things that we need to discuss prior to the meeting and then we will go into uh public comments a couple of things uh let's see where do i begin all right i know that uh over the last couple of months we have been asked many questions in board meetings and i just wanted to uh read to you what is proper protocol for public participation because i think even within the board sometimes we have a disagreement on what our role is sitting here so i'm just going to read from you the new

003jersey uh school boards association has concerned public participation comments from citizens generally go through the chair at the board meetings usually the board president boards use the public comment period as an opportunity to listen to citizens concerns but not to debate issues or enter into a question and answer session or cross-examination between the public and individual members be aware that not all issues brought before the board meeting will be resolved boards may respond to public comment by seeking additional information or by delegating the authority to investigate the issue to the superintendent or his or her designation while public education could be an emotional issue and understandably so the board will strive to maintain a certain level of decorum after meetings many meetings are reported to tell by which is what we are doing there so

004um i think it's fair to say that you know when there are questions that are simple enough to answer um we certainly don't mind answering those types of questions but when there are questions that concern you know real legitimate thought we need that time to have that thought and we are not going to just respond off the top of our heads um i think it's something that we need to discuss and it's it's that's that's our right to do so and i wouldn't want to give an answer that is incorrect because we didn't have time to talk about it um there are times when we are asked questions uh concerning personnel or student issues or things that where any discussion of those issues would identify either a particular employee and that doesn't include dr gallagher

005as well or a particular student the answer to that is we can't talk about it it is it is in our ethics to not discuss any student issues or personnel issues um i know someone was asking about uh someone had contacted the board members via email that's fine uh as long as you expect that you're gonna follow the same rules that we would adding which is we will take in the information the only way you're gonna get an answer is through me uh and the only answer i can give you really is design one of the board of ten is that if there's anything that the board has currently acted upon i can direct you to that information of what was acted upon but i cannot give you information about things that have not either

006been discussed as a board or acted upon because i am i don't have the right to give my opinion i am one of ten so uh it's not because we don't and then giving us a chance to talk as a board and discuss it and act upon it appropriately um as far as a couple of questions that were i am going to address them ahead of time someone had asked about the hangover research for faculty and staff though most of it is completed not every faculty member that was supposed to be part of that research has and that is what we are waiting for um someone uh you know they asked about the step and i didn't want to ask the board um as far as trying to move for uh the process of getting

007the next superintendent i mean i'm going to recommend that we just use new jersey school boards because that's the most economical right um things just happen and we can do that by if if we agree on that tonight we can start that process immediately in which case then we can have donald trump to let them know that we're in in search of a superintendent and then they will contact us as far as what we you know what the time frame is and what what we need to go for is everyone okay with using new school boards yes okay so dr gallagher if you could reach out to them uh concerning that search um another thing that has been coming up uh someone asked about uh the superintendent doing work while on a leave and we

008did reach out to the lawyer at that point to just clarify questions so i will uh let you know that doc that mr merriman did get back to us uh concerning that and basically uh when you're out on a medical leave that probably there is to protect the employee from retaliation or expectations of administrators or someone expecting you to do work while you're on your lead um it is there also so that if you are on leave that you can't come to the district so that there's something to happen while you're here that you know that you're here and that you shouldn't that doesn't apply to the superintendent he is the employer he's the one at the top right and there are certain things that dr gallagher i am only dr gallagher could do he

009has to come in to sign uh as far as tenure we said that before uh dr gallagher at the end of his year he is writing to tenure we're going to talk about that but as far as there is a difference between saying something on social media and putting it into writing with the human resources department actual you know identifiable you know charges and this board's not coming back to emails in that capacity unsigned undocumented [Music] those things are concerned all right we are going to go into executive at the beginnings like i said there are things that we need to discuss that need to be acted upon prior to uh continuing the meeting and we are going into executive under the following one two four seven eight do i have to read them all

010no say one question okay so we're going under um all right your president's talent yep okay first of all um first off of service to the um um i wish him well in the future um it's a great job for us i'd like to thank all the retirees that are retiring this year for their service to the district and all their footage so they can get their speaker moms for hugs to come in and talk about an inclusive environment so i'd like to thank stacy and at this point in time i had a presentation for the c2 uh in person construction continuity plan of service so i'm going to go right through this um before i do understand that this is uh required by the state and each uh area was limited to about a

011thousand characters um [Music] um as well as filtration and things like that um we did buy um electric static sprayers um too but i think we have about six now um [Music] um [Music] will do this year is investigate hiring consult counseling group or environmental issues for the district just have an outside agency make sure that we're following all the best practices for environmental issues containing we went through that all this year again we had our kiosks at the beginning of the building we had our foreign [Music] um so i'm pretty sure that probably it happened sometime while i was out hopefully we have our students that are also same thing each year is moving forward um there's some plans to continue to do what we did this past year for a couple of environmental

012issues obviously with the lifting of the pandemic and some of the in-person requirements coming up um we're gonna do our best to make sure everybody is comfortable coming back into the building with their iep's and making sure everybody's healthy safe at this point in time we are home to public comment on this uh [Music] and obviously any heavily um [Music] um what how are we going to handle uh you know because you're talking about accommodations uh what if there are combinations that are not because we don't we're assuming that we're not going to have a virtual component to that how do we handle uh accommodating different you know students that may require not coming back and how does that well again i think the government has been clear that he expects everybody to be coming

013back so really um however if we have students that need certain kind of leads and then there's quarantining hats since if there's not a virtual component once again how do you deal with a two week hiatus to quantity both for faculty as well as students well again i think those are questions i think it's what uh eight to ten days now there's different um [Music] uh [Music] current teachers like we have the technology that teaches to record what they're doing right like the smart look like they have so couldn't we just record in case there's a student out we could record yeah but if the student's out it would be the teachers out as well [Music] um does anyone else on the board have any questions yeah really quick um just i i i don't

014really know how well this works um how set in stone is this from now i mean things have been changing so quickly just i'm more specifically thinking about wearing a mask because i know some districts in our area are saying they're kind of optional they're not going to require them so how they begin how rapidly can that change [Applause] well i guess i'm saying if another district in our area is saying they're not going to wear masks where's the governor on this is he saying he can be it's optional at this point however again as we've gone through this pandemic and i don't blame anybody and i don't blame anybody for everybody and it's been a very um you know pandemic and a lot of different things that popped up that nobody really anticipated [Music]

015you know there was one thing that i said that you know i think the state could have done a little bit better for job is a little bit more coordinated the governor's health department and you know the department of education so we can get more timely information so we can act a little bit sooner than we did as you all know we got information about the last second it's like hey tomorrow you're doing x it's like really you're telling us today it really doesn't lend us any real time to you know get notifications out and do things like that and get people aware of where this is coming from and what's going on is there anyone else on the board that has any questions okay just a sticky name victoria giada what is this um

016so just continuing on that point i don't think there's a silence um just continuing on that point so you say that the currently it's optional so what is the plan for september if it continues as optional again from our standpoint i would come back to the board and over the summer and i would ask them what would their preference be we require everybody to wear masks or should be allowed to be people who are un who are vaccinated do not need to wear masks unvaccinated people would have to wear masks i think the bigger concern really is the lower grades you know i think there's a lot there that we need to discuss and probably at some point we'll probably reconvene our road back committee at some point over the summer to discuss some of

017the intricacies of the mass and a few other items and that was what we feel is best for our particular population okay and my other question is about lunch i don't see anything on the plan about how you're going to accommodate the lunches right now we can accommodate lunch with everybody except for high school um so we've already put plans in place to make sure that we can feed all of our kids with social distance requirements that we have with divisors so we have enough tables with the exception of the high school um high school is a little bit of a different outline to talk to mr smith about this we have a couple different options on the table um some of which i didn't talk to the board and unfortunately i have been able

018to do that but we're going to talk to the board pretty quickly through committees make some decisions on that for the high school and then come up with whether we're going to have a second every one site of some kind or some other alternatives for lunches here at the high school but the requirement working out full day so we have to figure it out so what are the plans for the other schools right now they can accommodate as is so so like lunch in the lunchroom or lunch in their classrooms we have enough space to do physical distancing with providers our normal lunch schedule at every building except for the high schools next year okay thank you okay all right at this point we are now yeah we're so happy with that all right so

019there's no committee reports i need a motion all right so uh can i get a motion for the approval of minutes from six seven uh can i get a motion question can i get a second yes can i get a motion mr to 6 30 21 that needs to be changed to 22. all right i did want to say i'm sorry uh any other questions or concerns yes yes actually now i have a um i can't talk about personnel resolved superintendent recommended for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary school seven point two to seven point four can i get a motion yeah i have a question about uh 7.3 okay and first of all [Applause] so now this particular person is this her first employment as a school nurse

020yes and is she coming in at the entrance yes doing something with the nurses um whether it's a separate um pay scale or salary guys and they're just nursing right now it's getting to be a very very difficult position to fill for a number of school districts approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district in high school 8.2 through 8.5 can i get a motion motion any questions or comments i'm glad to see the donut senior trip tomorrow [Music] um [Applause] the resolutions is outlined in special services resolutions 9.2 i get a motion motion mr tom selling can i get a second second yes as outlined in financial resolutions 10.2 to 10.10 mr thomas ellie any questions or comments um i guess my question was um you know with all these how has

021uh financially as far as insurance and stuff has it gone up has like what's what's going on all right so it's a little it's a little hard i'll do the best i can again [Music] however our cyber insurance has gone through the roof obviously so that's going to be a little bit of an issue and our property insurance and liability is up a little bit as well healthcare i believe is also not as bad as the uh initiative yeah um and then obviously auto and things like that that's pretty relatively pretty much the same for the bosses vehicles like that any other questions yes with an extension of 10.17 to 10. yes so with that discussion of having a facebook post for the board we can't do that because of what uh you mean you

022mean the board putting a facebook page yeah no they recommend that everything is done through the district because once again we are a board so we are not we we are not to respond as individuals we're supposed to respond as as a unified thing in we can have discussions and obviously when we're sitting here on the day we can have a discussion it needs to be done in public um and then uh if something were voted on then it would just be it would winds up on the district website anyway so that's really the only information we're allowed to give up is anything that has been moved in public we're not allowed to like discuss things that are you know put out agendas these are the things we are discussing but those discussions are are

023private until we move something in the form of a motion and then isn't it also an issue if there's too many people commenting on a situation yeah as board members we can't like if we were on a site together and we were all there and people started we were all part um just wanted to say that uh attended the senior awards messi and um very nice job uh mr smith and um i was just it was so nice to see mr cruzel had a my daughter won it which i was very excited but but i was so excited for him to be honored in that way and and for my daughter to be the first recipient because dave and i both had him in high school and we are so it was very nice and

024his daughter was very kind and all the seniors did a great job yeah i had a question it was a couple months ago i think we had um it was brought up about the stipend changing for the the robotics yeah that makes sense [Applause] um um 569 marion street i'm gonna i i'm gonna say i want to she said i won't start but i want to start by saying thank you to the board of education teachers and staff for making it possible for my children to attend school in person this past year i can't tell you how important it was my family appreciates your sacrifice question number one will the kids be wearing masks in september i realize it may be too soon but i have the faith that you will make the right decision

025for the kids question number two is bound brook school district does thembrook school district have any intention of implementing the theory of critical rate and if so will there be an option to opt out um sitter and we have since since we have lost so much time in the past 15 months i find it imperative to focus on our children's education i believe there should be an option and i support all of those who would like to take advantage of it i also support those who do not i appreciate in advance the time it will take considering this matter best regards christine vader well again i think we've discussed the mastermind so i think that we've advanced that uh when it comes to the critical race theory um right now unless there's some mandate from

026the state of new jersey for us to teach any of that that is not part of our curriculum the second comment is from amanda rosario cologne i was a previous student of bound brook and i wanted to briefly say that although i was a difficult student dr gallagher has always been nice to me he was always fair and i never felt like he looked down on me for getting into trouble that i was in at the time i will always be thankful for his kindness and i'm sorry mike that was a 3 24 evergreen address [Music] hi my name is emory gianatta with a 151 west high street um at the beginning of the middle the meeting mr faria you said about using school boards to find a replacement are there any other options you

027are the boarders considering or looking into or is that the only one like i said uh we had talked about other options and we felt that going with the school board which was the uh most fiscally responsible and how do you check like yes we've talked to other places okay and also do you think that dr gallagher making the phone call is the best option keyboard well yeah because he's all he's going to do is just inform them that we need to start the process and then the rest of it will go from it okay thank you just one question it also requires okay thank you [Music] so good evening just evening josephine leyte 121 cherry up i would like to start by reading two statements made by former staff members regarding our ongoing problem

028with the superintendent since the attorney made a clear last meeting that we need to have these documented we're putting these statements together and i will be emailing them directly to you as well these meetings are also recorded therefore that alone is a way of these allegations being documented first statement dear board of education members some of you may know me and some of you may not my name is lauren atlas i am a former bound brook high school physical education and driver education teacher i taught in the district for five years at the end of last school year i moved across the country i can honestly honestly say that even if i had not moved i would have left the district even if i was unable to find a different district after my last year

029teaching in boundbroke i decided to leave teaching after 14 years foundbrook specifically the board and upper administration has ruined and broken me last year i had a student possibly more than one make memes about me the student took my professional coaching picture and put it on a knee that attacked my sexuality not only was my sexuality attacked but i was slandered and liable as well the principal and superintendent were notified about the needs the student admitted to it and was suspended after finding out that the student would be suspended from wrestling in states the parents of that student went to the board members to fight it while i was told by the superintendent that he believed another student made it there was no investigation while this student was suspended students would harass me by chanting

030at me every time they saw me this came without any penalties they were athletes without holding a board meet and work for him the board overturned the suspension just in time for the students to be allowed to wrestle in states at the time i was coaching a division one catholic school and was made and was unable to fight what was happening for fear of the getting to the press and being let go just because of the slander i ended up in therapy due to the anxiety that i felt walking into that building every single day i spoke to the superintendent about a medical leave of absence due to this and was told that if i did that it would be unpaid i couldn't afford to not work so i continued to go to work and

031then cry in my office where the counselor's office found in guidance i even hired a lawyer but couldn't do anything because of my coaching position i went to the board meeting and sat and listened i listened to the board president state that they overturned the suspension because they were told to do so by the superintendent the superintendent and the board let me down they allowed me to be attacked they never protected me i was nervous about even writing this letter because i was scared that i be retaliated against i live across the country and i'm still scared my fiance was worried about me writing this letter because she has seen me break down numerous times i tried to apply for a teaching job and had an anxiety attack due to this district something needs to

032change i shouldn't be scared of retaliation i shouldn't get anxiety attacks for a job that i love and wanted to do for the rest of my life i substituted a couple of times this year and cried before going in this is not healthy i wrote this letter because i do not want others to go through what i went through this is a culture problem that starts at the top and feeds it to the board the classrooms and some of the athletic teams i hope you listen and really take a good hard look at yourselves and everything that is going on you might not care that you allow my career and passion to be taken away from me but maybe you will stop someone else's passion and career from being taken away from them alice [Music]

033the next statement was read by marilyn orwella back in 2019 it references the climate created by dr gallagher and at the time the board also chose to ignore her concerns good evening my name is marilyn orwella and i'm a first year school social worker i am placed in community middle school as the case manager for all students under special education in addition to some sixth grade students at somali elementary school i am also a member of the child study team at the high school as a bilingual social worker in addition i conduct risk assessments with guidance department throughout district provide counseling and assistant translation i would like to express my concerns from this district i officially resigned on april 24th and received a letter of non-renewal on april 26th when reviewing my observations and administrative

034feedback i was surprised i was placed on a non-renewal list i have never been reprimanded except for the verbal statement i received from dr gallagher on january 28 2019 where he instructed me to not abide by individualized educational programs by refusing to see students for counseling given that this is a violation of the state document and violations of my code of ethics as a licensed social worker i do not consider this a reprimand but rather a disagreement between administration and the duties i was hired to fulfill dr gallagher will call this meeting with a special education teacher building administrators behavior specialist school social worker and the director of special services i would like to add that in this meeting i was not only yelled back but i was also told to leave the meeting without

035explaining my side of the story today i would like to clarify that i told this special education teacher to release an illegal hold he had on a student with medical and learning disability who was placed in prone position this is an example of what i have done to avoid legal implications that could affect i am concerned for the students i am leaving behind but i was also concerned about losing my license i am certified and licensed by the state of new jersey i have worked diligently and demonstrated professional law knowledge in this field the reason i stand here today is so that the board of education is made aware of their turnover rate and special services i cannot speak for those before me but i was instructed to not follow individualized educational programs for students

036in behavioral disabilities classroom i am leaving because i refused to follow a directory that would put me out of compliance with these ieds this district like any should follow these programs to ensure that students are educated appropriately there are other statements that we will be sharing from this point forward as well now for the two emails i sent you all to which the response was the proper place for all discussions must be in a public forum and not through emails and or social media first i'd like to remind you that social media is a public forum and the community is entitled to share their concerns opinions and stories as they seem fit there's nothing wrong with informing others of what is happening in our schools especially if it's concerning our children and community my first

037email given that the common procedure regarding medical needs for any boundary district employees to remain on leave without working or coming into their place of work i would like to ask you in particular the board president how is it that dr gallagher is permitted to continue working while on his medical leave is this medical leave paid there have been teachers on leave without pay so i was wondering if it's a case to face faces how is that defined how is it decided for him to be on this lead the board had to approve it correct yet he has not only been physically present at his workplace but also putting together an extensive list of accomplishments in form of a six-page pdf that was sent out to parents i'm curious how these double standards are followed

038are allowed do as i say but not as i do hopefully this email is received since i had to guess everyone's email they're not on the website organization and transparency come from the top my second email was at the last board of education meeting the attorney president said needed to have dr gallagher's wrongdoings documented the meetings are recorded in broadcast on youtube does this not count as being documented teachers staff students and parents have been a board of education meetings in different instances speaking up about concerns related to the superintendent's behavior outburst bullying and overall for a workplace environment how many documented events need to come forward until there is an investigation in place why hasn't the board placed dr gallagher on leave until these allegations are looked into is there a magic number we're

039waiting on or are we waiting for an uproar from the community the clock is ticking lastly at one of the previous board of education meetings the community was told that the new superintendent is the one that plays with dr gallagher in a different position within the district is the new superintendent obligated to ask the board for advice on this issue if so what card is the board playing against the community or making dr gallagher excommunicado these are serious questions and concerns and hopefully the board sees the urgency in the matter the community is watching and waiting for a timely reply silence in the face of the injustice is complicity with the oppressor thank you would you like to address the questions the legal questions so with respect to uh personnel matters involving needs of access

040dr gallagher is a personnel person as well so we can't go into details i can tell you generally there are different types of needs of that that exist every small staff member under title 18a education statutes has sickening which they're entitled to use for personal illness and there's a third one i believe related to foreign leave of absence that a staff member would be able to use and it essentially protects them if that's what they're using uh to from retaliation and to protect their salary while they're absent as a result of death nothing nothing in the law would prohibit them from working while sick they wouldn't be getting compensated twice for that they'd be using their sick time but if for example you know a staff member has a broken leg and is physically unable

041to come to work for whatever reason um they still might be able to do some work remotely whether a teacher or whatnot there's other types of medical needs that are available under federal and state laws things like the family medical feedback you may be familiar with again addressing you know illnesses of an individual there's family need for situations involving pregnancy and whatnot that also are generally unpaid um same thing applies though you know just because your models need with no strict prohibition that will prohibit you from uh you know being able to possibly do some work here and there can i ask you a question regarding that sorry to interrupt you um but since you did bring up the pregnancy so if the teacher had a child and would like to come in to their

042workplace and you know kind of share the good news if they have their child and show their child to their colleagues can they do that it would be a case-by-case basis and then there's other concerns in terms of liability you know coming under the president you're currently considered to be disabled so uh like what do you mean on the circumstances because typically if i had a child i want to come into school and show my child to my friend colleagues what kind of circumstances again hypothetically i can't have their oh i'm just asking because this has happened in this district and they couldn't come in i don't know if there's anything that would entitle them to come in again if it's something a policy decision that might be made okay the statements that you've read

043from other staff members from the perspective of me and i haven't been before previously so i don't know i guess there's always different i'm assuming you're the lawyer all these different lawyers here so i guess i do have to keep [Music] to address interest there's a pure out of state excuse me they're out of state well that's exactly right these are things that you're talking about that happened a year plus ago the recourse for that individual would have been to file the commission of education i believe you referenced that there was some reference to them retaining counsel and obviously nothing came from that but uh certainly my advice to the board would be not to respond to anything along those lines where there's the threat but again if there's a specific issue that you think

044your child is bullying if you think that you've been bullied or anyone who's president thinks that they've been bullied the proper recourse would be to bring that to attention as it occurs so that it can be addressed but it has in the past there have been people that have suffered and have come up and i'm talking about this again i'm not sure why but there's been no there's been nothing in writing in formal complaints that's what about people standing up here the actual victims they've been here they would have to do it in writing okay so we have them in writing affidavits signed right okay no i'm not saying that this is i'm not saying that this is what i'm just saying that that's that's we can't act until those things are in place okay

045so once you have received those affidavits are you going to investigate how many do you need everyone that would come in is long enough would happen you can't just we're getting that into the mud where this is not a we've heard you we've given the answer and so now it's happening nothing is happening we're not getting answers from you guys i'm sorry we cannot speak about personnel i understand [Music] yes we have a human resources person so anyone if someone wants to go and it can't be you because you're not a teacher and you don't work in this district but if anyone in this district wants to uh lodge a complaint they would have to bring it to human resources and then through the human resources they would have to then you know uh substantially

046investigate okay before that it can't come to the board before that we can't that's fine but not so now today it's hr right so today it's we're we have to get them through hr they have to submit it through hr so is that the final yep yes okay the board president okay so i can send it i can email you the person can email it to you and then it goes through hr that is correct okay and are they going to have some type of confirmation that is received by hr i don't have it because how do we know that these things are actually getting there sorry taran you can then just email them that it's been received [Music] just that they've received i will inform her to just let you know whoever the person

047is that i'm not sure if this is your first time listening about this but um these teachers are scared of retaliation that's why they've reached out to the community because the superintendent has been famous for calling their jobs where they are right now and making certain you know comments about them so this is why the community is involved and i think we can do that last time okay there we go that's why between the staff member and the district uh again you know hearsay statements from from from staff members from long ago the board is in no position to respond to those so i i understand you've said your piece i don't know what you're looking for [Music] okay well this is the first time we're hearing that they have supposed to through hr that

048is not true not a problem though heard we've heard you loud and clear because last time we heard it it had to be documented it's documented it's going to go through hr hopefully then we can have an investigation in place because i'm not going to allow my children to be in a school district where there's minimum respect and where there's bullying in place coming from leaders all right thank you no no no is there anyone else that just make sure you sign the book as well okay is this in the right spot yep yeah you're good just saying statement my name is anne-marie wilford i first want to say i'm very sorry about the experience that was just stated um however uh i don't know the specifics of that and i can totally say that

049my experience and that of many others has been completely different because i feel compelled to share my thoughts disappointment and concern regarding the current situation over the years groundwork has become my home my colleagues have become my family it's sadness in english meaning that those family members have come under attack by a very small very local group listening to social concerns of this very small book not once have i heard a dispute to dr gallagher's accomplishments as well as the administrative team he has put together the reason it's pretty hard to dispute increasing success professional development opportunities that were non-existent prior to his leadership facilities that give students and staff the space and tools he needed and provided by students that again didn't exist prior to his leadership most of all and i have to

050wonder if this may be a problem there is accountability now among the administration and staff i will tell you again prior to dr gallagher's leadership there are many administrators as well as staff in the members company days until their retirement and boosting their salaries so that their retirement pays out smacks that's it and we're concerned for students with concern for success and no concern for achievement dr gallagher would change that and while he may have held his staff more accountable than they had ever been before he offered them the tools and professional development they needed to succeed they had more support now than they ever would have under the previous administration i could go online regarding positive impact that has happened on all of the students in this district but you already know that because

051dr gallagher has met and exceeded all of the goals you have set for him so since the very small angry birds can't dispute success they resort to personal interest my personal opinion which state my opinion is that this group has an agenda and a personal vendetta against dr gallagher i've watched this group over the past several board meetings the request that you keep saying the board to post updates on social media which is illegal such as wanting the board to post updates uh removing dr gallagher on their baseless allegations of hearsay from other former teachers suggesting this all shows me that this group is ill-informed and ignorant of school governments and law they by no way shape or form represent the majority of parents and students in this district 10 people with signs outside of

052the board meeting do not represent the constituents you no one was bickering when the person before was so let's let her speak and let her ever say you can laugh wherever thank you i'm sorry my hope is that you can somehow work something out with dr gallagher's contract my fear is that you can't it will be extremely difficult to bring his district back any candidate for replacement will undoubtedly see this group in his antics who in their right mind would pursue a position where they could not make decisions that might go against this group without having any reputations destroyed will i applaud your desire to include the community in your decision i implore you to revisit the extent of the inclusion it is imperative to have community input into the direction they would like to

053see but to have the community involved in the selection and interview process is a disaster waiting to happen how many of you and how many people in this room have gotten to take the wrong boss as i accept you before i know what it's like to be sitting in the stairs it's not easy and it's even harder i urge you to stand up for the districts for this students and i urge you to work with us thank you so much [Music] is outlined yes abstain yesterday