001all right we're gonna bring this meeting to order the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advance notice of and to attend the meetings have pub the bodies at which time any business affecting their interest is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the board of education policy 0 1 6 2 the Board of Education of the borough of Bound Brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the boundary in the board office at the Bound Brook high school mailed and fax through the Korean news bound brook borough clerk southbound report of Education and any person who has requested individual notice in this pay the required date please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance
002to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all mr. Steinman scan ever old fall please [Music] my commuted Mike mr. Autry here mr. bone yeah mr. ball yeah okay there's Morris yes miss Rosamond oh yeah Stephens here mr. battle air yeah Eze Muhsin yeah miss DeFazio yeah everybody hear that cool right you were good to go yes miss Martinez is absent yeah she Contin contacted me to let me know that she had more complex problem okay so at this time it is open to the public for discussions items for any discussion items at this time I see none or no items in the forum oh I'm sorry I will go back president's comments okay at this
003time I just wanted to address the incident that happened last Thursday the incident is completely unacceptable and the entire school board is horrified that a bird racism and racist slurs have no place in the school system hate has no home here we would like to thank dr. Gallagher and the Bound Brook Police Department for resolving the investigation in a timely manner to Miss Celine this board recognizes your wonderful achievements and would love press our deep regret that this incident occurred and ruined what should have been a joyous occasion the school teachers administration and members of this board are proud of your accomplishments and we wish you all the best going forward we cannot go back in time and undo the damage done moving forward we will redouble our efforts to make sure live streams are
004properly monitored and more importantly this Board of Education will initiate policies to clearly convey our shared values to all students discrimination based on anyone's ethnicity gender or religious preference is unacceptable every student in Bound Brook must understand that racist slurs are never appropriate whether in speech or on social media thank you you the Board of Education is going to go into executive session they are not taking any action this evening they will adjourn from executive session they are going into executive executive session under number three and number eight so we need a motion to go into executive session motion mister that'll air second second mrs. moose on all in favor we are going into executive session which and the public part part of this meaning have a good