001okay [Music] you're good all right let me get to the open public meetings law the new jersey open public's meeting law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interests is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0162 the board of education and the borough of bound rook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office and at fountainbrook high school and mailed or fast to the courier news foundry borough clerk south bound brook board of education and any person who has requested individual notice and paid the required fee please stand for the first i pledge allegiance to the flag
002of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with justice [Music] mr here um i just want to thank all the teachers faculty staff parents for making the beginning of the school year run as i guess as best as we can under the circumstances um i know tonight you're gonna we have talked about um speaking about going forward uh whether or not we want to keep what we have in place as is or whether or not we wanted to amend it so i guess we will look forward to that and i would like to thank mrs alloy is retiring this year so i want to thank her 22 years of service to this district um i'm sad to see her go um so i hope
003that uh wherever she is going or what she whatever plan she has for the future will be you know uh a new chapter in her life so thank you for your service to us so i guess that's basically it it's all yours um i just have a couple things um first one is we have to open up the pse free room um so we have a teacher for that room so [Music] on monday um the other thing is we got a letter from the state as i told you back in the summertime they were giving us a lot of leeway for grants and moving teachers around unfortunately um last week we were notified that we must keep all of our pre-school teachers um in pre-k positions or we'll use that funding so we have to
004make some some changes in uh where we have some of our pre-school teachers notifications went out today about some changes that are going to happen there and then the one thing that we are starting to notice that i want to make mention of and hopefully we can get some support for this is we are starting to see particularly so we really need some parents to uh kind of help us out make sure that the students are logging on and eating the tasks that they are uh supposed to be completing because we are getting a lot of students that are you know um turning off their cameras or walking away and coming up with excuses for not completing their assignments and doing the work that they have so we are trying to uh work with families
005and trying to get some of those things done but i wanted to make mention of that as for the other topic um on the schedules the district has opened a in a hybrid manner for the month of september using a half-day schedule with 50 of our students in person and 50 of the students virtually today we have had no pieces of transmission of cobia 19 in our schools however we have had a few features at 19 outside of school which has impact classrooms to a limited degree currently i know we have one student that may have kovit but this is this has not affected our classroom students or teachers as this again was outside of school the current covenant data from the state has 16 school of outbreaks with 58 linked cases to school the
006central west region if everybody recalls in the summer time we went through those maps from the health department about regions we are in the central west region currently we are in the green zone we are no longer in yellow we are on the green however in the central east zone which is middle section town mexico state or in the yellowism as we discussed moving forward with the potential of extending the school day to a full day i would like to board to keep in mind we have been in school for only four full weeks and the start of the normal flu season is just beginning i would also question the borders please remember that flute and coconut systems are almost identical as we discussed this issue as we discussed this issue i do believe that
007it's in our best interest to have more time pass before we meet [Music] however if the board would like to have a discussion um moving forward with uh some ideas for a full day school um one of the first things i would suggest is we establish the number of open seats that we have in our pre-k classrooms to see how many students we can accommodate would be step one step two would be send out a request to our virtual only parents for an indication of how many would like to change from virtual to in person if the requests are more than the open seats that we have we will need to take a look at our schedule from a five day week schedule to a possible av schedule to accommodate those requests which then would
008be a complete schedule change what we currently have which again i think would not be a welcome situation we could try a full day scheduled trial we can either start a full day trial schedule starting november 9th through december 22nd or start november 30th through december 22nd again that's really regular flu season or we could wait until january 4th to try out full days of tribe schedule from january 4th um again i'm still late to have more school data than just four weeks i really do think you know we have about eight weeks of doubt to make it well but obviously you know i know you guys want to talk about that today so i'm just giving you that information that i have and if you like have that discussion now i guess we can
009do you want to have it at the beginning um do you want to do you want to have it at the beginning of the meeting or do you want to just wait to get through the meeting and talk about it because i mean we're not voting on on that tonight anyway correct correct you can do it on your uh um all right so at this point we had no uh committee meetings between between correct oh no we have cancer um tonight okay uh is there anyone in the public that would like to come hearing none all right and we have no comments online all right minutes of 9 28 can i get a motion to approve the minutes from 9 28 20 20. motion miss stevens second second mr palm any questions does anyone need
010to abstain is everyone here this uh miss mussen has to stain anyone else all right yes yes [Music] any questions yes also yes stevens yes yes yes number seven personal resolutions middle and elementary approval of can i get a motion motion [Music] let me just i guess all of these um even in the last one um all these like leaves of absences resignation or those holy related because they're not like our people taking these leaves because [Music] you know between the two um because you got you got your your childcare leaves you got your coated leaves you got your temporary then you have your leaves for um medical and then you have your leaves for maternity so there's five or six different types of leaves that are here and then you have your own knees
011now as far as as far as people uh if someone needed to call in sick for a day or they're on leaves do we have enough personnel or substitutes to cover for any of these people have been people coming in yeah what we did at the start of this is we hired 14 14 building-based subs so we have 14 subs every day that are unassigned for the sole purpose of anticipating not either not having stuff or us sending people home so we started that from day one so we've been able to cover everything so far um and we really haven't had too many issues i mean we've had an issue a spot issue here or there but we really haven't had you know um a huge issue with with covering classes we also have two
012teachers in our classroom so you know we've you know been able to even in the high school i mean the high school is the only place where we don't have that account right but they've also they have the most building based subs i think i need to give them a total of five okay can i get a roll call any other questions can i get a roll call is the offering yes approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school 8.2 and 8.3 can i get a motion promotion is stephen's second any questions or comments i think that's nice that the uh the community outreach with the with the art program i think i think it really does look uh make the town really nice on them i'm glad they're still
013continuing that hearing no other questions or comments can i get a vocal yeah yes yes [Music] i won in policy resolutions under district in high school 9.2 and 9.3 i get it mr bong can you sign up any questions um other questions is our memorandum of understanding is that has anything changed other than the year the big change for last year was relatively the same okay the big changes last year were about access [Music] yes bob yes yes yes stevens yes mrs yes yes on [Music] uh i had a question about the [Music] on special services because we weren't able to finish the work last year and so we revised some of the things that weren't able to be done any other questions can i get a vocal poetry yes mr bob yes yes yes
014mr stevens yes mr zamora yes yes number 11 uh resolve the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolution 11.2 through 11.6 can i get a motion motion can i get a second second mr bell any questions um what is this is sending the resolution what's going on with that oh yeah um and i want to thank america's best contact in my glasses for donating eye exams and a pair of glasses that's awesome question about that it says for high school is that the eyeglasses that particular program is for the high school however through the um food bank where they have to secure glasses for students at the elementary level hearing no other questions or comments can i get a vocal trait yes yes yes yes yes all right i guess
015at this time it's to discuss what dr gallagher had brought up what are your thoughts feelings about changing what we have in place currently time frame wise considerations i don't think it makes sense to change anything in that present because it took a lot of work to get well for our staff to our children families to adjust to this new schedule and to throw that out the door and restart this year i think will create a lot of havoc with families i mean i think we should continue to continue to consider it but i think it's a little soon i i think i think my biggest fear is that when i look at all these different leaves that if we were to go to a full day um that we would get more people i
016mean i don't know how that would affect bringing your kid to school here or other daycare issues or so i mean that's my biggest fear is that if we go to the full day at this point that we may run into not having enough staff to fully staff i mean i'm also concerned about the news that a lot of kids are logging in and staying in online and it's incredibly difficult to be in front of the computer for how many hours as it is already so the half day seems really intense um to lengthen it i don't know it's gonna make the education for our kids better if they're not hanging in with with the amount of hours that we're doing right now what has the feedback been from an administration has there been any
017feedback as far as that their thoughts on well i mean quite frankly you know from administrative standpoint you know none of us we have so many renditions of schedules you know we had you know probably three or four different um schedules laid out just as possibilities before we even started all this um i think right now four weeks in we're probably just getting our feed on drugs from an administrative standpoint from a teacher's standpoint standpoint from a family standpoint to get into a um um i think changing that right now would probably not be the the smartest thing in the world to do um but what i would say at this point in time is exactly what i said in my own is we need more time we need we need another four weeks of
018data because again like i said in the opening you know four weeks in you've got 16 schools and 50 cases throughout the state you know that's only four weeks and for some school districts it may be a little longer some others shorter um you know we've all read a bunch of schools closing starting to kind of you don't really hear about it is opening so you know i think we've been we've been in a good spot um we've opened we've stayed home we've had no no spread or cases caused by us being woman we've had some cases due to things outside of our control over outside of our buildings um that continues in the moment we all know that so um again our flu season's coming upon us we all know they're very similar um
019it's going to be very hard to decipher who has the flu versus who has coded um i really like to get into you know a little bit more into the flu season and four weeks looks like and be able to give you a better prediction of what i think is the best move or the health of everybody um i don't feel confident that i can do that right now i really think that the smart smart decision right now is to wait um i can tell you this if you tell me that you want to go to a full day of schedule it's done if you tell me to go full it's right so that's problem number one problem number two is if you don't have enough stats to open you're back to full version so
020and i think right now i think our community is is happy with what we have um not hearing complaints we just did our first survey and the you know looking back at our communication has been great it's been well received um all of the data back from appearances has been great um [Music] um in regards to what we're doing um you know there's always things to improve on obviously i mean there's some things in there that are legitimate concerns that the parents are bringing that we should be looking after approved um but overall i think you know we're doing a good job so that would be that would be my my thoughts on them are we aiming what's what's the end of the march november so your elementary schedule from pre-k to six doesn't end
021until after thanksgiving where your middle aged i think the first survey was talking about the first marking period i might know what i plan on doing but for my kids i knew i couldn't do anything until the next marching period so all right versus staying virtual and see if we can accommodate that at the end of the first period we can't accommodate that that becomes a different discussion because again i think they think if and clips out right [Music] right we can't accommodate that right the problem is you know one of the things we talked about internally is well why don't we just do a lot well you can't eat that state's never gonna let us do a lot right so you're gonna have to take them all so if we go and say okay
022this is the slippery slope so once we do it once you have that and now your relying on kids to be in monday through friday who are now going over in monday through friday whether it's [Music] however you want to play that you can do that but you have to understand you're about to upset the current schedule you have to some degree to accommodate the requests that you have so again i think i think you have to increase those who gather the data because david drives your decisions you have to have that in front of you again these are hypotheticals there may be an enormous amount of parents who are very happy with your children and you don't find a person as long as you're staying at that right because it's just it just may
023not be something that you know they've already made accommodations to whatever they needed to do or what they've done can't they they have the accommodations for the other half so [Music] in the middle of november we can't really forecast a month now what cody's going to be doing you may have less parents wanting to be in person and flipping the other way because of flu season and fear or whatever something but yes at some point if it gets to the point where we have you know more people wanting to opt back in then that definitely changes it all around well and also think you have to you have to hope right you gotta hope at some point somebody's gonna say okay time to get back if that's january if it's february at some point in
024time the hope has to be let's get back tomorrow well again i i don't know i don't have a crystal ball so again i just don't know when that's going to be or what that's going to look like but the hope has to be at some point in time somebody says we have to get back to normal right so yeah that's the hope but in the meantime you have to wait and look at the data and say what's in the best interest of everybody's health and safety and move slowly through that listen i don't want to rush into anything and then backtrack right right you guys think any of this is is really up to us as a board i think we have to survey the parents i survey the teachers we have to see
025we can't do anything as a as an opinion this has to be fact data driven 100 we have to know if we go full day who's pulling their kid out who's putting their kid in what those numbers it has to be done by the numbers how who's comfortable and who's not and especially like you said with the teachers the teachers say that they're not coming in we're then we're stuck then there's there's no decision at all yeah and we have to know what every side thinks and again i think you know going through what we went through the summer and the discussions that we've had you know um you know i think and then the number of requests we received over the summer you know that would be a concern for me you know that
026would definitely be a genuine return when do we start um when would you want to start sending out surveys to get an idea of what person is possibly thinking yeah i would do it probably i may not do it this week but i would definitely do it next week um you know i would i would like to purchase that data probably sometime this month probably before our next board meeting get you get you some facts and figures in terms of at least knowing how many movements you've had by grade and then knowing how many how many parents would like to change to [Music] um i think you know we have to put out what it's going to be and i think right now for me my suggestion to you is [Music] [Applause] um well um
027i haven't had a chance to dive into um some reports on that and get back to you on that i know i know as [Music] teacher and is children virtually it's it's miserable well we we made the decisions that we did what kind of is it [Music] want to sum everything up so we're all on the same page um you're going to find out how many movement seats we have for a grade level and then we're going to send out a survey this week to virtual parents um asking them again an option our ethnic schedule if they would like to go from virtual to first correct are you also going to send it to the in-person parents to see if they want to go to virtual just in case there may be a few i
028mean i don't know yeah so i mean we can always do that i don't i'm just thinking if we need the seats you might catch one or two that could help i don't know i'm just leaving from an administrative standpoint we already know who's in um to try and rebuild rosters would [Music] and we're trying to do something a little bit smoother [Music] you're not going to see much i think if we went to full day it would be more there might be people going the other direction listen i agree with you i think we went both right right i think yeah yeah yeah um but again i think the problem with that you know we stayed a half day that's really the question is how many want to come in for the head that
029i don't think anybody's going to go out for the hand yeah so you know it's just a question how many want to come in and how many seats do we have and does it does it throw the app park so far off that we have to you know come up creatively with an ap week schedule schedule or yeah all right i just had something about the report you sent you know with the uh you know the feedback that we had gotten um there were two things that seemed to be repeating i guess uh the drop off um there were people saying that there were some issues of people outside you know kind of clumping together without masses and stuff like that is that pervasive or is that just like is that just at the very
030beginning i mean has it improved as time has gone answer that i by know i honestly don't know i don't yeah i'm not sure one building several buildings i mean i haven't witnessed it um i know that we've marked it out pretty well um i think i've been pretty clear with the principles that if people are doing that and it's not on our property we can't do anything about it if it's not a property we can but if it's not on our property now is there someone outside of each building yes um the other thing that seemed to come up a bunch was the dojo issue numerous i guess comments about dojo so what's what's going on with dojo yeah we're not using we're using google classroom yes but there's there's a way for you
031to set it up that you're sending money yeah yeah no no i use google classroom i'm just saying if you sent that to my husband he would never read it because he doesn't know but i looked at the survey with communication and actually i was surprised at how many people said they wanted the high school emails have said a lot of really nice and informative emails like detailing what they're doing in the class what's coming up and that's been really nice yeah those are not the emails audiences [Music] i must say the when you get down to the bottom i was pleasantly surprised with the positivity of the communication from the different parents yeah it just says how would you prefer to receive communications and 84 actually said email which kind of goes in line
032with google classroom anyway correct i was surprised by that because but it's right there well but i think part of that is with um i do it twice but that's me so there's a there's a functioning google classroom that is not email like no it's even but yeah there's a translation function translation it's definitely a transition you know well and again you know we have to concentrate on what platforms we're using and our expectation is that we're using google classroom we have to get proficient at google classroom okay any other questions or comments i i have a comment for google classroom i have a fine from the library from last year they sent notices to my son's [Music] it [Music] is like they tried numerous times to contact him and i don't i didn't check
033his geniuses too though [Music] coming to google to my my kids account and i didn't know and i'm missing a lot of things because my own my concern with the google because i i never had to use it i never used studio i now i actually both um i use my google classroom to communicate with my students and i use dojo to communicate with conflict because i don't have any email addresses for parents unless they get in touch with me and ask me to link them so i mean i i can't say is that the same here no it is it's relatively easy that's why i said that i sent that message to call because i think maybe that's you know the other great people aren't always using the google classroom so i guess it's
034just a matter of switching over to they all had um training today okay so so maybe after the training and that they invite parents you know that'll that'll help because like 84 percent of people actually [Music] like my personal email as opposed to checking logging into their kids gmail account yeah you can tell them how you want it whatever you put into genesis [Music] i don't even remember doing anything to get onto the gmail and i'm getting like every message and every grade change you can go onto gmail and change your notification messages again however you set up parent portals [Music] okay is there is there a way to to import the information from the parent portal into our google classroom or into the google classrooms yes so once they do they should be able
035to do that list all the email addresses in genesis for that particular kid with that parent because some parents have multiple email addresses and then you pick the one you want all right but so that but they would have to go and then go populate their own yeah and so like i type in she starts typing in michael defazio they don't even do that michael defazio is already in the class and next to michael fazio's name is invite parents to the class you click on invite parents [Music] he will get none of them he's got like thousand unknown um all right all right any other do we need uh we we don't need executive right yes all right hi kelly hellman can you guys hear me um i teach at somali um with the dojo
036and google classroom we've been finding that the parents either a don't understand that the emails are coming from google classroom um or we can't share the information like we were in dojo like how would like the spirit weeks and everything um the parents don't see like the actual document if we're pushing something out you get in um you can clearly do it through google classroom without a problem okay um and i know a couple teachers have set up like classrooms for the two parents but if they don't they shouldn't they shouldn't do that either they should be inviting them to the individual question okay and this is from mr paxton's np if you're starting to consider changing the school day to a full day with students removing their masks to eat breakfast and lunch i
037would like to share my story last week i could not attend school as i had to complete a 14-day quarantine because i had dying in an outdoor setting with someone who was at their most contingent stage of copenhagen even though they felt fine our dinner was on a saturday he started feeling sickly on monday worse on tuesday tested positive on wednesday long story short four to eight people at the table eventually tested positive i here figured our potential for copenhagen exposure will increase we start to allow students to remove them as eat as they are the ones that usually asymptomatic and can spread it without even knowing they are sick please consider the fact many of our teachers are older and have pre-existing conditions that may make them more vulnerable to complications uh to cope
038and 19. that was from mr pax julie noted okay all right so see where yes this guys back obsession i guess we have oh i got i took it can you just read this thing because i put my computer away from the boundary board of education the approval of the resolutions is outlined in approval of hiv cases under high school and we have 6.2 can i get a motion motion motion bone second second second russell 16.2 point two can i get a roll call this dollar tree yes yes um yes i have to abstain from one point one seven quarter three okay yes okay we're on to 17. resolution of the boundary court of education the approval of resolutions is outlined in approval of hiv cases under middle and elementary schools that's 17.2 and i
039get a motion motion motion mr fazio second second second this is stevens can i get a roll call mr yes yes [Applause] see everybody