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Board Meeting 8-10-20

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YouTube / Board Meeting
Date
2020-08-11
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Somerset County, NJ
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5,565 words · about 31 min
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2026-06-05

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001yep you are live i just want to do a mic chest beforehand it's okay i got my head slammed in the face on live tv what could be worse than this [Applause] this meeting to border at this time i'm going to read the open public meeting statement the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend public meetings of of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0162 the board of education of the borough of down brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board office at bamberg high school and mailed or faxed to the courier

002news bound brook borough clerk southbound report of education any person who has requested individual notice and paid the required fate for everyone who please rise but pledge believers i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for it to stand one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all right can i get a roll call please here it's the bow here here just lost it there's more feet more here we need to have a nomination for an acting president can i get a nomination for acting president i nominate charity second we have a nomination from mr vadalair seconded by mr bone is there any other nominations all in favor for the record mrs morris was unanimously voted in as acting president for this evening at this

003time i will turn it over to her for president's comments welcome hopefully um you've got a chance to look at our restart program and you can ask questions tonight uh i think we came up with what is best for right now what we can do and uh just to let you know and i asked that on the home page of our school website that the restart plan we put the link right there so you don't have to search for it and also to include our board of ed meetings on the calendar with the links for the board documents and if it's going to be to the website we developed a user-friendly website for all the information for our reopening she asked that it be placed on the main page of the website right now it's

004currently under the code tab she asked for it to be placed on the main page which will be done tomorrow morning she also asked that our for some reason our board meeting days are not populated to the calendar on the main page of the website she asks that that be taken care of which will be taken care of tomorrow morning i believe that's it that's it okay so for my part of the report mr moore mile is not here he is um unfortunately he is in uh self quarantine himself um so i will be doing his report a few minutes um but i do have a few things to go over this for this evening um right now we are in the process of making 17 parent videos which we'll put up on our youtube

005channel uh currently we have seven of those videos complete we have ten more to go so once they are done we are going to put those on our youtube channel um we will also have a spanish subtitle underneath each of those videos for our spanish-speaking parents um as i said before we developed a user-friendly website for our reopening which has all of our information that we've been putting out to our parents both in english and spanish um in our last um email that went out last week we started a group for questions and answers and for our restart um currently there were about 30 parents that that have signed up for the group and have answered about four or five questions from that we've created some infographics for both teachers and parents which have gone

006out we have our informational summaries most of those are out there's a few more going up this week our next week of communication for our re-entry plans are going to be building specific information uh pieces that will be coming out from buildings that are specific to each building that would go into those to those parents for the kids attending each specific building the unknowns that we have left which are some of my biggest concerns really is staffing um you know knowing from our surveys we have um you know some obviously staff that are concerned about coming back to work and you know there we did we did a survey of our staff and obviously with every school district coming up with different plans i think out of um out of the staff that we surveyed

007i think it was probably somewhere in the vicinity of about 100 people who filled out the survey i believe out of the 100 people who filled out the survey i think there was only four people who had similar or identical schedules everybody else has completely different schedules for their school district so you're talking about 96 different schedules for our teachers for their kids so that's going to be very difficult to manage so obviously staffing for us is going to be a little bit of a concern um so one of the things that we did do we did put out a child care survey to our staff asking if there was some accommodation we could make in-house um to help our staff with concerns about when their kids are at home when they don't have the

008ability to you know when we need them to be here obviously their kids aren't in school they're gonna be home maybe there was something we can do in district we're currently seeing we can work something out in district to help our staff out with their kids um with some some learning in our district if they can bring them here and we can facilitate something here so we're working on that help our staff out the other unknowns right now is athletics i know that delaware and pennsylvania have moved all fall athletics to the spring i know that there's three districts currently in the state of new jersey that have already canceled all fall athletics so that is still a concern for us that's still on our radar the other concern obviously is our plan is to

009open um obviously we don't know how long we're going to open or if we're going to open at this moment in time because i know there's a lot of pressure on the governor about that as well so that is my report to you guys um i am going to move on to mr moore miles report which is going to be the report of the student safety data systems this is report two so this is the second half of the year from last year the total number of incidents for the district was a total of 45. there was 19 at the high school there was zero at lamont lawrence there were six at lafayette there were nine at community and there were 11 at small of that there were three violence at the high school there

010was zero at the moment addicts there were six at lafayette there were three at community five at smalling vandalism four at the high school zero at the moment zero at lafayette two at community zero at smalling substance abuse there were five at the high school zero at the moment zero at lafayette one at community zero at smalling weapons there was only one during that period that was at community middle school confirmed hivs there were seven at the high school zero athletic zero at lafayette three at community and six at smalley and then other incidents needing to remove to removals was two at bamboo high school zero at my attic zero at lafayette four at community and seven at alleged hivs for this period were five at the high school zero at the monadics one at

011lafayette seven at community 13 at smalley so our year totals was 92 incidents for the district 32 at the high school seven at i mean two at magnetic seven at lafayette twenty eight at community middle school and twenty three at smalling elementary school that is it for our school safety data system report any questions okay see none um we had our operations meeting last week um we just went over obviously um we finalized the um 1.9 million dollars in cups that we received from the state of new jersey which were on the agenda for this evening um i i'm happy to report that we did not cut any staff um we made those cuts um in a variety of ways so that we maintained our staffing levels to where they are which helped us develop

012a what i think is a very well thought out and excellent hybrid learning environment for our kids coming up our k through um or our pre-k through grade six um we'll have two teachers in every classroom um in our middle and high school um again they're still working it out um is going to be a combination of online and uh in person but they're going to have one teacher kind of doing both um but again i don't have all the details uh still working it out with them but very happy with it with the elementary piece that we put together having two teachers in the classroom i wish we had enough to do that all the way through through uh through the high school but when it came down to getting into middle school high

013school really came down to certifications um not having enough people with the proper certifications to double up everybody in those classes which made it very very difficult to make that happen um and obviously we could put other states we're going to be putting other staff members in those classrooms but they're they're going to be certified people but they won't be content specific certified people so um that's pretty much the fully maneuvering um i don't remember going over too much of anything else in operations there was no egg committee this evening and that was the only meetings that we had so far so at this point in time we are open to the public for board agenda items only so if you have a question about an item on the agenda please come on up hello

014are any of foreign new employees related or friends of any current employees not to my knowledge schoolhouse name um so i have some questions for agenda and then some restart recovery questions should i ask them all or just ask them currently there's an opening uh well will there be any new construction since supervision of construction policy has been revised um the long-term plan for the district is to have further construction at lafayette school the construction of a cafeteria as well as another addition onto lafayette okay can i be starting recovery questions will students be instructed on proper hand washing and who will instruct the students yes and teachers um and what kind of temperature screens will be at all entrances we have kiosks that have already been purchased to do that one ppe will be

015provided to staff they will be getting cloth masks and facials will ppe for students just need to floss face masks for the students yes the students are going to be required to bring their own cloth mask and have a secondary one will students be required to bring two face coverings in case one face covering breaks that's what i just said yes oh sorry um will each school have a school safety specialist certified by the nj eob no because the districts are only required to have one but they're not required they're only required to have when the district is only required to have one um have the athletic fields been marked for social distancing yet no because i don't know if i'm having athletics will locker rooms be used no [Music] uh what happens to the

016cafeterias since kids will be eating in their classrooms they will stay empty can kids bring in their own packed lunch yes and last one will there be an update yeah we actually talked about that this summer tom i think we said we were phasing out the app correct oh yes we're phasing out the app [Music] okay good evening house ladies and gentlemen charlie uh my questions are specifically for the high school um one might want to know what the results of your survey were for the in-person versus um circle can you have a hard time understanding questions i'm sorry um so what were your results of the in-person versus virtual for your survey for the high school 55 in person 45 so can you walk me through a typical day of high school what does

017that look like well there's gonna be three three entrances um and they're gonna be divided up by alphabet um depending on you know where you fall in the alphabet you're gonna come in there's gonna be a kiosk there you get within maybe 24 inches of the actual kiosk um it actually takes your temperature um as long as you you're okay at that point in time you go into the building you're just going to follow the one-way signs so we have signage that's going to be going up all over the place to tell you which way to go what stairwells are up what sale rolls down things like that um you're going to go to your specific class um no lockers so we're not letting anybody go to a locker so whatever you bring with you

018that you're going to keep with you yeah i think we'll probably make a comment if their sports will probably make some some accommodation depending on gear obviously um but yeah i mean you're gonna bring all your stuff with you um and we're gonna follow your normal your normal schedule for in in school we're gonna do our best to keep the social distancing in the hallways at six feet um we we have an app that we're going to be using for um lunches we're going to ask parents to um order lunches a week in advance so you're going to go on the app here and order your lunches if you're going to order lunches pay for that um there's no fees we weigh adult fees and everything else you're just gonna pay what you normally pay

019for lunch and then they're gonna um we have the assigned classes of where they're gonna be for lunch and the lunch is gonna get delivered to them um in those classrooms um our daytime custodians will be here i'm asking the board tonight to approve sanitizers so i'm hoping to actually add part-time employees to the district this year just to help sanitize the building as we move along i'm also shifting our nighttime custodians to an afternoon shift so they're going to come in around noon time to help clean up with the lunches so we have more bodies on hand to clean up lunches clean up classrooms and things like that um once we have that done we finish out the day and the kids are going to progress out of the building that's a huge undertaking

020i can appreciate what went into this plan i guess the only other thing that i had to ask was will the bathrooms all be open on all of the different floors or will we be only utilizing once after like last year all the bathrooms will be open as far as i know from that from i have not spoken directly to ed about his particular what he envisioned but i always think that all the bathrooms are going to be opened i would also think that um using the bathrooms during the period will probably be limited um i think kids are gonna gonna have a hard time with that you can't go to the bathroom during the period probably gonna have to happen during the during the interchangeable periods just because um we have to somehow try

021and keep keep track of the flow of who's going into what bathroom at what time and who's in and who's out just in case some way somehow somebody comes in with like again during the course of the day this is the really hard part for us john smith decide you know he's not feeling well he goes to nurse turns out he has fever we then have to backtrack his entire day in every room he's been in including the bathroom so we then need to know what bathroom he's been in if he went to a bathroom and then we have to figure out every single kid who's been in that bathroom and have they been in there more than 10 minutes with that kid in the bathroom and so on and so forth that's all the

022contact tracing part that you have to do along the way so there is a lot of communicating we have to do with our staff number one and number two we have to do with our parents and then also with our kids when it comes down to contact tracing and go over all those protocols and things like that which we haven't done quite yet again it's been a large under it's been a large undertaking just to get this plan done but the other parts that we still have to talk about you know are still coming and still have to be flushed out because again trying to get people to understand the contact tracing part of this god forbid we have to do it there's a lot to it um and again the other part of it

023is and we all know this is going to happen we heard today my child came home and so and so had tested positive for covid why are you not shutting down the building again it all goes back to the contact tracing and again the cdc and our health department's been very clear and by the way i just got like five pages of forms from the health department today alone um which come come down to have they've been in contact with the kid whoever tests the positive for 10 minutes or more um you know all that stuff so so there's a number of things that you have to go through and kind of have to justify back before you could say okay you now have to go home for 10 days or 14 days to self

024quarantine to make sure you don't have it number one and number two how wide spread is that going to be and do you have to shut down an entire building and i guess passing these classes how long is that we're gonna we're gonna stick to our three or four minutes of the high school people with one way always yeah um i'm thinking so because we have half the population you have to remember we're we're going from 600 to 300. right i mean i guess i'm thinking like if i'm in room 212 and i have to go to room 104 right i got to go to the bathroom off the second floor right go down down the hallway downstairs and then back down to go to you know to that classroom so it's going to take

025me a little longer than three minutes to be there and that very well may be the case and again that's something i'll i'll discuss with that um when the time comes for specific questions but i was just trying to get an idea of what that day looks like yeah and again we're gonna child we're going to run into all sorts of individual questions that we probably haven't even gotten to i've met with the principals today and they told them start start developing you know your your question and answer sheet every time you get a question here's the the fact question and answer sheet start developing them have them and this way we start posting those building by building so when the questions come up we can get them out to everybody so everybody can see

026what the question that was asked and what the answer is so we don't get the same question 100 times and give out the same answer 100 times let's try and be smart about this as we get the questions put it on it on a sheet and publicize that sheet so every time we add it we have it we're putting it out to people one last question yep what are you doing as far as academics and identifying where they fall are they falling on grade level after the beginning of that grade have opportunity to spiral back the curriculum are we doing that are we getting last year's post assessment versus this year's pre-assessment we are giving last year's post assessment we are starting with last year's post assessment to see what the losses if there is

027a loss um but yeah we've already made that decision we're going to get form c of lincoln from last year to start the year just to give us an idea of where we're at um and now obviously from there we have to be completely flexible in terms of you know we gotta gauge where the kids are and then where we're gonna start the curriculum obviously um you know if we have we have a big gap or learning loss there in multiple areas where we're shifting down i mean there's there's no there's no answer and so we gotta we're gonna have to shift correctly down and then figure out how we're gonna scaffold the back up and see see how we can make some gains but i mean again i think think from from our perspective

028from a curriculum perspective you know talking to beth i think one of my biggest concerns really is we started this year virtual or we have to go back to virtual and we see a big loss coming in from last this last virtual coming in now now we've made some some major i think some major adjustments going into this virtual versus last year's virtual so you know like we had no time to prepare it like that yeah i mean we were on the fly last year at least this year we were saying listen we're going to run a schedule even if we're going forward we're running our regular schedule there's going to be face to face we're going to do this we're going so we we kind of structured it a lot differently if we had

029to go full virtual this year than we did last year obviously because we had time to think it through a planet so i think we're a little bit better off if we had to go full virtual going this year compared to last year i still think my biggest concern really is um a couple things it's it's the individual connection with kids number one it's still the social emotional part with the kids um and i will say this and this isn't commonly known but i have to tell you our two licensed clinical social workers continued throughout the whole virtual and part of the summer doing counseling sessions one-on-one with with kids and families all summer long and intense counseling that was needed um you know we saw some really big-time needs that we didn't see before

030and that concerns me so you know those two particular areas i really want to see what what we see when we come back um and then again obviously if we go full virtual is there going to be another slide and then you know how do we how do we eventually make all that up for kids now obviously when you get to high schoolers i think you know being a high school principal knowing how the high school kind of operates the teachers and the way you can do it i think high school kids can make things up a lot quicker i really do elementary kids once they fall behind it's it's a different animal trying to get them caught up yeah so you know that's i think my focus really has been less for the first

031time in a long time less worrying about high school more worrying about you know elementary like so we've we've talked about intervention skills at elementary level like how how are we going to intervene at the elementary level how are we going to make sure we do this one-on-one we even got to to the point of talking about listen if we go full virtual can we do individual appointments with kids can we drag kids in individually to do one-on-one work with kids that are that are really falling behind can we bring all of our special ed kids in to do one-on-one with our special ed kids like we're we're thinking so far out of the box of individualized appointments and things like that to try and bring our our kids that we see the biggest slides

032with bringing them in one-on-one even if we go full virtual and that's still on the table for us because to me that's that's a big need and we would do that at the high school level as well well thank you thank you for all the work that you all put into this i know i appreciate all of your hard work thank you dan i have a quick question about the contract tracing for going to the bathroom would it be easier to keep track of the kids and let them go during the period then you know who leaves the room and when yeah assign bathrooms instead of being queen i would say at the elementary that would work fine for high schoolers you have no idea where they're going i have to track them on camera

033because they'll tell me they're going to second floor bathroom but but you know you know they're going as opposed to in between periods who knows any kid could be every kid could jump in the bathroom and you'd have no record at all at least you know they're out of the room and they're in a bathroom and you know who's out of the room at that time i will bring it to ed and i will let him figure it out just a thought yeah um how is that working same way the same way they're gonna pick up and pick them up two locations two locations uh the question i was just asking you in here was the virtual kids um picking up lunch we're gonna have two locations the high school for the north side of

034town the annex for the south side of town so anybody who's virtual and wants to get lunch they they are more than than happy even the ones who just want to order lunch we're allowing them to order and pay for lunch and pick up lunch as well so and everybody can get breakfast though everybody's still getting your breakfast okay any other questions all right moving on minutes result the bamboo board of education approves the minutes for the following meetings regular and executive minutes of july 13th can i get emotion motion motion miss morris second second second mr bale does anybody have to abstain has to abstain i think you're the only one bill comments seeing none can i get a roll call book mike yes just about yes yes personal resolutions district and high school

035resolve the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school 6.2 through 6.9 can i get a motion motion mr vadalair second second second miss morris discussion i accept this thing from 6'4 yes sir okay so you're not going to get a roll call vote personal resolutions middle and elementary resolved superintendent recommends for approval the resolution says outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools 7.2 through 7.7 can i get a motion motion mrs russomano second second second mr bone discussion i see that um mrs zionello is now going to be a guidance counselor yes that's following in her mother's footsteps i actually had a question about the the reassignments as well i know we had discussed reassigning some pre-k or kindergarten because we aren't going to

036have any kids i guess that'll be on the next one but that's kind of made official numbers yeah so those those letters aren't even out yet uh i don't know if they put them out yet but yeah abstain educational resolutions district and high school resolve the bamboo board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in educational resolutions under district and high school 8.2 through point five can i get a motion motion motion miss morris second second second mr vandalia discussion uh for people who can't wear masks of ieps and stuff like that are they gonna get barriers on their desks or is there any what are we going to do with that because there's going to be certain students who can't yeah um i have received zero doctor's notes for any students in that regard

037to date um i would say we probably use face shield at that point in time but we are we are also um every classroom is going to be at six foot social distancing as well so i think we should be pretty good on the revised calendar it's just the balance um no it's actually an added pd day i think it's um president's day or martin luther king's day yeah president's president's day okay and then with like in case there's x amount of people getting coded what would be like the possibility that we as ourselves have how would you decide if we had to close out a school building like how many people would it be or how many people have this social assistance like what would be i i'd have to rely on the health

038department to make a decision okay i i don't think i can make that decision in the vacuum by myself i really would have to probably i'd probably have to tell you the truth i'd probably talk to dr frank our chief school medical inspector as well as the somerset county health department and make that decision okay but yeah it'll be by building my building basis i'm assuming yeah i i would have to i i would also think that the health department it may not even come down to us what happens is if the town itself becomes a hot spot like it was for a little while there they may come they may come to us and ask us to shut down just being that the town might be a hot spot again i don't know like

039i can't yeah i can't tell you i can't give you all the what-if scenarios i can just tell you that i'm going to rely on the health professionals i'm not a health professional when it comes to this i'm going to rely on health professionals and if they tell me to do something i'm gonna do it or i'm gonna i'm gonna advise you to do it and then how many sanitizer people are hiring again and that's throughout the whole district yeah okay and again we're closing down the mop so bringing all those people from lamont over into the attics and we'll bring all our night people into an afternoon shift and shift them back into their buildings at noon time so we're bringing a lot of people into building yeah i i your schedule is i

040just because of how like specific your schedule i wasn't sure how many people are daytime people can't do it alone and just know with with the expansion of a small app i hired a second daytime custodian for small so there's a second person for smalling maybe i missed it what's going on yeah because because of the amount of um students we're gonna house them in one building we're gonna bring the custodians and the uh food service people and everybody we're just gonna shut down one building how's everybody in one building so we're gonna close one plan do you know how much that's gonna stay financially or is that because it's gonna save us money if we don't have to run electricity i'm gonna again i'm not worried about the financial impact or savings or anything

041like that just it's a sound it's a sound move because it doubles up our custodians yeah i only have one nurse down there okay one nurse covers one building in everybody's house we're staying um just the one i know if it's not tonight um and we know we know something left like they they they didn't have jobs they moved to other places to get jobs and things like that so we're in across attracting people down road the bamboo board of education approves the resolutions has outlined the policy resolutions under district in high school that is 9.2 through 9.6 can i get any motion motion mr bone second second mrs russomano question i just have this thing from 9 49. [Music] yes special services resolutions result the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined

042as special services resolutions 10.2 and 10.3 can i get a motion motion motion miss moore a second second mr bone discussion mike can i get a roll call yes yes yes yes yes abstain finance resolutions approve the bamboo board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions eleven point two through eleven point twelve can i get a motion commercial motion mr vadillar second second mrs russomano discussion i have to abstain from check 365 911 mike can i get a roll call though audrey yes mr ball yes oh yes yes yes other match to come before the border new business um do you want to do public comment now or do you want to do hiv stuff all right just a fast change here we're going to do our hivs right now there'll be

043no executive session tonight so we are at 16.1 or two rather sixteen point one um approval of hiv uh cases high school rizal the bamboo board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in approval of hiv cases under high school and that is 16.2 can i get a motion motion mrs rosamano second seven second mr bale can i get a roll call though yes yes um yes okay we are to the point in time where uh we are open for discussion for any matters to come before the board the first one was 9.4 approved toilet room facilities um my classroom is listed in here what does that mean um every year we have to get a waiver um for rooms that don't have toilets [Music] my second question was um one of the board members

044mentioned something about asking about pre-k integrated teachers and then they moved up the grades and you mentioned about letters being sent out did you speak more to that because i wasn't aware again we're team co-teaching team teaching right so i only right now i believe i only have four sections pre-gay so i i think we hired nine teachers for pregame so i have five teachers without classrooms so those teachers are going to be reassigned okay so we pre-k through six sure or actually pre-k through yes pre-paid for six should get emails okay will we get an email if we're not being moved or only every teacher pre-k through six should get an email okay the second question was um was there was anyone given the option whether to move or stay or he decided who

045moves i wasn't involved in that i would talk to your building principal okay very well thank you so much [Music] thank you for the hard work i'm sitting on my own so i know the work that we're looking for um it was just it was appropriately here for a whole day um by the county and this week or are we going back with um from what i understand as of late um the county's not approving anything neither is the state that was the last thing i heard okay if the um are six feet away and they're treated at their desk they don't have to wear their mask no they're wearing their masks we revise that to say they have to wear their masks if you saw that yeah unless i missed it or i posted

046the wrong version if you can just send that to me because that has to be fixed because everybody's wearing their masks the whole time that was a change that was not only a change from the committee but that was also a change from the governor there was something in there about mass brakes because we talked about the little ones yeah needing a mass break and that's gonna be able to write yeah yeah was that on the user-friendly website um so that was going on okay thank you and it's hard for me to hear some people with the mask on um so i wasn't sure did you say that you're going to close that on the line yeah so it will be golden yes oh okay so what is are you going to be using vermont

047for nothing okay um and now and then you said that 150 students you don't know where they are correct so they may or may not come back virtually yeah all right uh christian six or nine engine quarters uh i apologize evidence the first finance so the district has a plan and it's not submitted yet i missed it this is the district i'm finally playing it because i see little snippets and tidbits get released on the website email the district has a plan it was just approved this evening and it's out on our website okay um what considerations we're given towards the performing arts in this plan the plan was developed in committee specifically for reopening school there was no specifics given to any one particular area okay uh i just wanted to let you guys

048know that new jersey does have a pretty comprehensive plan i think that's 130 uh covers visual art covers general music the little kids covers instrumental music for choir and band uh covers theater as most of you know um you know as important as everything else that's happening in the building we cannot let our specials kind of fall to the wayside had like 14 faqs about school reopening one of the faqs was about clubs and athletics and things and i believe it said on a case-by-case basis clubs will be approved to continue what is that process of making a case for a club or an activity or performance continuum we will take that on a case-by-case basis building principles board of ed superintendents the district will take it on case making spaces okay is there going

049to be like a form to fill out an application process i don't think we're just there we're just not there yet we're out there yet but there will be information i mean my hope is that all these clubs can somehow keep going and in in some kind of new iteration but whatever we have to do we're not looking to not have these things okay thank you real on the restart and recovery plan on page 10 number three is where it says uh setting where social distancing can take place or physical barriers are in place base coverage can be removed while the students are seated at the desks but should be worn while moving around the classroom yeah i think that i think that's that was today's agenda yeah what i know number one uh page

05010 number three but what i do number one 8.5 yeah yeah that's the policy yeah yeah that's that's the policy so that that comes from strauss that's what's coming from dobby okay so we have to change that i don't know if we can i'll have to reach out to estimate straps again we're not again our functional document is everybody's wearing masks that template is following what doe wants us to do so again so so if you don't have the physical barrier and stuff you're wearing a mask that's policy got it okay i think this is my last question um to mr shaffner's point um a recent graduate is going to rbcc raritan valley community college and all of her classes are online except for acting class she has an acting class in the theater so

051i was wondering if there's any way you guys somehow can interface with a local college that might get pointers on how to have the arts okay hello from the castro my question is regarding mass mass sprays did you guys like is that a solid thing that you're doing is it still up in the air do you have any is it like the grade level that we might do it at the match freeze yeah um the teachers on the committee committee really wanted the flexibility of making that determination so we're leaving it up to the teachers to decide when and how all those mass breaks would be okay um is there a great range for that like are we just talking elementary i would think just elementary so that would be so precipe i would think

052so okay will the teachers be given will they be giving any sort of guidelines or suggestions as to like mass breaks will be implemented you know twice a day or they can be implemented up to three times a day if you if you want to if it seems like the kids are from the rules they're staying apart um you know nobody has the sniffles um we haven't had the district nurses and to talk to them okay um again i'm not a medical professional um again i think some of these things really have to be vetted through our school physician and get some okay use through him um as to what's going to be acceptable what's not going to be acceptable so i really don't want to give a hard answer with that without getting some

053qualified opinion on it okay i do agree that a teacher that is in the room would know best because that's the person who's going to move into the kids and be able to tell like this is the book of kicker we don't want this one taken off the mask like the teachers that are there with the kids i think they should be the ones making that decision um [Music] thank you everybody yeah grace

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