001yes ain't prepare livestream all right I don't need to keep you too Bob right I can I can kill that on my screen ring thanks hey Michelle where's your tech support daughter that could make me a lot these two screens together great drag one from the middle bar over to one side until you see late and then drag the other bar over to the other side and it should pop to that side drag it try dragging it to the bottom one to the bottom right-hand side of your screen like oh yay yeah did it do that done yeah I think so all right if not I'll send her down the block Yeah right tech support she laughed at me and I was like Elizabeth I went it when I went to college there were no
002such thing as Computers everything I know about computers is self-taught I didn't take a class on computers I had a word processor that was the size of my coffee table well that was more than I had I'm showing my age I went with a typewriter to college it's it's 6:30 we're gonna get started here so we will do the malt order now and then the open public meeting statement the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have a dance notice up in 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 the board of education policy zero one six two the Board of Education of the borough
003of Bound Brook has caused notice of this meeting to be posted in the board offices and at Tampa high school and mailed or faxed and occurring news number clerk southbounder fermentation and any person who's requested individual notice and paid the required fee at this time if we can have the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all can I have a roll call vote please mr. Autry here mr. ball yeah it's a bone is Muhsin here MS Martinez she is he Horace yeah okay is Morris here miss Stevens here Miss Rosamond oh here mr. Volare yeah he's here miss DeFazio here hey president's comments oh I I just got to say as a teacher
004myself it is this is not the way we came into wanting to teach but the fact that we're still pulling it out and that they're still you know doing what they have to do in educating our children I greatly appreciate it I appreciate the people that come and give the food twice a week three times a week all the volunteers it's it's just wonderful you know it really came together I'm very proud of everyone so I'm happy to live in this town of Bound Brook and be part of it so congratulations to all of you we will start with students of the month for pre-k Christian Hernandez or aunt Arina kindergarten is Jeanette Betancourt first grade is Jayden para second grade is why dilute Rivera D Calderon third grade is Juan Pablo Mendez fourth grade
005Benny Velasco Dominguez fifth grade is Christian see Cedeno Perez sixth grade Amina Ahmad seventh grade ami Navarro eighth grade is Gabriela Silva ninth grade who's a new boys alright somebody somebody has to shut off their youtube because we're getting back to eat again can hear now okay tenth grade Kenneth meridia Rojas 11th grade Anna Toro Paso and twelfth grade is geez Anna Walsh gem Awards for the month for Lamont LeMond annex G tom bridge for Lafayette Vivian Cologne burrito for small e chef Jeffrey J bow for community in middle school giovanna l'm era for bambor high school Abigail Pendleton and for bambor high school Amory well for bamberg School District Amory Wolford on that note we'll go straight into committees we had to committee meetings this we have the egg committee we went over getting
006in the homework Policy Committee started we talked about our virtual learning surveys that we've been getting back we talked about virtual grading we talked about our plan warp so graduation we talked about the RFP that will be approving thankful for the substitutes okay we talked about our community engagement plan camera protocols re-entry planning programs we also had our governance meeting tonight we talked about Chromebooks for seniors the homra policy and coming budget does anybody have any questions about those items okay so we're down to public content for agenda items only we have our Google Form which people can fill in as we're going through the course of the meeting so we're at this point where if you have a question you can ask it for agenda items so the first one is from Michelle Conover
007fifth grade teacher smally 8.2 kovat pandemic plan can you share what it is in the code emic Ovid pandemic plan with the public our plan the old plan is on the website it has been there and as soon as this one's approved it will also be up on the website Patricia O'Reilly 7:45 schoolhouse lean how many how made the public view the pandemic disease plan that was mentioned in the agenda I already answered that question can the public meet recommendations on the planet they desire you could always make a comment about it but we're following the guidelines of the state of New Jersey I know that many districts have had troubles getting substitutes how is the need for substitutes advertised we're doing an RFP right now that's a request for proposals and how do we
008pay substitutes compared with neighboring districts we're right in the middle with our neighboring districts let's see if any other comments on the agenda have come through no other items have come through at this point in time I'll wait another couple minutes another minute or so to see if anybody has any other comments who's playing YouTube seeing none you're gonna move to the approval of minutes we have the minutes from for 20 20 20 and the minutes for for 27 20 20 can I get a motion motion second a motion by Miss Moore seconded by mr. Fazio questions concerns discussion does anybody have to abstain I have to abstain from the 20th I was not there okay I have to abstain from the 27th looks like okay any other discussion my camera roll call please sure
009mr. Autry yes on the 20th abstain from the 27th mr. ball yes is more sin yes for five point to abstain from five one okay miss Martinez yes is Morris yes the Stevens yes miss Rosamond oh yes mr. Volare yeah is DeFazio yes carries we're up to Section six personnel resolutions resolved the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school that is six point two through six point thirteen can I get a motion motion motion mr. Fazio second second mr. van alaire discussion um Dan with the transfer and changes of assignments is that I know we have put in place requests for teachers for assigns is that the same for staff or how are those changes and transfers decided upon teachers and in secretaries I with the
010secretaries I sent out a request unfortunately we had we had one particular secretary asked for a transfer and then with with have to make some moves and and deleting a secretary position it caused us to have to move a second secretary so that's kind of where we were where we were at to fill what we needed to fill especially with deleting a secretary again to meet those requirements for their their diplomas and their certification stuff we would include them virtually on time any other comments oh yeah I had a question with the summer employment when do we get the thumbs-up thumbs-down about summer appointment those are the people that applied for the position and how we handling that are we definitely doing those programs over the summer the only ones that we're definitely doing right
011now is esy we will probably do summer school as well on a virtual platform but again it's not going to happen right at this meeting it will probably be the next meeting we're hoping for a little bit more guidance from the Department of Education because obviously it could affect our staffing one way or another for in in district versus at a district okay any other questions all right mr. Steinmetz roll call mr. Autry yes mr. ball yes is Muhsin yes miss Martinez yes is Morris yes miss Stevens yes mr. somato yes mr. battle err yes who's the Fazio yes or she carries we're up to Section seven personnel resolutions middle and elementary resolved superintendent recommends for approval resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools we have seven point two through seven
012point sixteen can I get a motion motion motion mr. Fazio a second second second miss Martinez discussion mr. russamano for the secretary position first special services I believe there's two are either one of them yes any other questions all right mr. Simons roll call vote please mr. Autry yes mr. ball yes is Muhsin yes miss Martinez yes is Morris yes miss Stevens mr. Amato yes mr. Volare okay noted and mr. Fazio yes all right education resolutions district in high school resolved the bamberg Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined and educational resolutions under district and thankfully of eight point two and eight point three can I get a motion motion mouki mr. Fazio second second second mr. Bell discussion I know we've always gone back and forth with the with the calendar has that
013been approved through the Union have you yeah that that's we're in this year's calendar so that's the one you're approving that's the gift that's just okay that's the kickback days any other questions I do have a question about the 8.2 okay and high school graduation mm-hmm how how is that going to happen I saw it I see it outlined but how the past 10 weeks I've been dealing with ceremonies and rituals and this is a ceremony and ritual how can you ensure safety well again we're gonna follow the executive order that the governor put out acting executive order 107 and what we're going to do is we can control our facility so we controlling our facility to only have the required amount of people that we need to safely do will be to keeping the
014six-foot social distancing the masks and and movement through the facility the facility being the football field correct okay and it's one student and four members of their household of their household people who are living with them yes okay how how will that be controlled how will you ensure that none of them are under quarantine then what what happens off of the property because I've been this has been my daily dilemma for almost ten weeks it's not what happens on our property it's what happens afterwards who will ensure that one car leaves and one car comes in who is going to be there to ensure that the students and the families that have not seen each other for three months or longer aren't gathering aren't maintaining social distancing who will be responsible for that we will
015have staff we will have a staff member on the street to ensure that people stay in their cars until the till their appointment time and then they can enter the facility okay does that staff member count as the under tent he does not because he's not in the facilities outside the facility but it's part of our gathering no it's party yes this has been my day in and day out every funeral directors and it's I'm sorry it's been part of what we've been dealing with day in and day out who will ensure it's it's 10 or under inside the facility 10 or under yes you don't feel that there's an obligation outside on crusader way I just said I would have a staff member outside I appreciate a way to make sure people don't leave
016their car until the appointed time all right while it is observing executive order 107 social distancing and under tend guidance I feel that it is violating the administrative order 20 24 and 12 which specifically talks about ceremonies and gatherings I again our plan has gone through the county we're not the only school district that that is planning to do something along the lines that we're doing the guidance that we've been given has been pretty clear to make sure that that we adhere to executive order 107 and we also have the blessing of the Bamber police department for this particular idea that we have graduation and well that well the police department will they will they send people to also help direct traffic if there's an issue with cars building up by this I'm hoping to
017have the SRO out I proceed away to ensure the social distancing with the with the appointment times I figure having our SRO up there it gives us both not only one of our staff members what a police officer that will be there inside the facility will have will be able to manage what we do inside the facility how many district representatives will there be and inside the facility in Crusader within the gates of the football field you will have the videographer and you will have three District three at least three district members at that point in time at least or at maximum at least the maximum I could have this for wear what about custodial staff I don't think I'm gonna need it the plan says there'll be custodial there will be sanitation in between
018who's good again I don't think I need sanitation in between that's that's my point they're walking across the stage and they're picking up a a jacket so they're only touching the Diploma jacket and taking it with them so what is there to sanitize the area will be sanitized by the custodial staff prior to the next family entering the area that's G yes I understand that and that was a key so we need to do any sanitizing but at this moment I'm I don't think we need to do any sanitizing if do that we'll be the fourth person for the district I had a question about the timing and the flow it says that there's gonna be appointments for each student throughout the whole week so that gives me an impression that it's not as though
019we're gonna have the stream of a hundred people trying to do this in one day we're spreading it out over the course of a week or so is that correct so there's people on crusader way it should just be just a handful you yeah you would think I mean we're spreading it out so we don't so we don't get a congestion of people or a line of people waiting to do this we're giving out specific appointment times so this way we can control and monitor the number of people who are getting there what are the total number of graduates that were we're talking about hundred thirty hundred thirty and you think one week is sufficient I thought we I thought we had like a week and a half was um and put together a schedule
020so I think he has it down to a week mm-hmm actually I think he has it down to four days everybody is comfortable with the potential exposure of a hundred and thirty times four well it's voluntary for the student and their parents whether or not they want want to do this that's optional on their part I'm completely comfortable being there I told that I'm completely comfortable and if that doesn't want to be there who doesn't have to be but I will be there how will appointments get me do the students get to pick the time is it alphabetical it's gonna be I believe how will we then if it's alphabetical how do we make sure that the I mean I presumably we're doing this so that the students and their families you know there are
021four people that come with them get to do it but if they have to go to work at their allotted time is there a way that we'll be able to you know that they'll be able to say hey can i reschedule for a different time where am i you know parents aren't working or anything like that I'm not exactly sure we'll be able to accommodate that at this point in time we have to do it outside we can't do it inside so we're really limited to a certain amount of time to do it so we can give the video people enough time to put the video together so we're gonna do the do our best to accommodate where we ten but I can't meet guarantees at this moment in time my only question when that
022is is how do we like that people who like how do we know for a fact that someone there who has cocoa and we can't and so you can't really say much to them because violation again if you if you have kovat and you've been identified by the health department you were basically stuck at home they're they're not to leave homes again I'm not even sure if they would be well enough to leave home if they had code that in terms of people who've had Cove it doesn't really matter if they had it and they've recovered I don't think that really matters you're inviting the potential for community spread I recognize the importance of rituals and ceremonies it's been something I've been dealing with but can it be delayed there was talk about liability later
023in in the year in the fall to bring the graduating class back what's what's the level of liability versus September October November versus now where we're still under an executive order that is prohibiting this there have been outdoor funerals that have been shut down outside does not make you immune I'm sorry I don't like this I understand and I understand what you're saying but at this point in time we've done our best due diligence we've sent our stuff to the Department of Education which is said as long as we're in line with executive order 107 that we can do this so we're trying to put something together for our seniors that make sense that's safe that we have the opportunity to afford them to walk across the stage videotape that and put together a complete
024video of an entire graduation so they would have something so they don't feel like they completely missed out on everything in the end of their senior year so that was our goal that's what we've proposed that's what we've advocated for that's what we seemed to have been okayed to do from the department we're not the only school districts that's doing it and you have a governor who keeps going on TV and says he's not rolling out in-person graduations at this point in time either so all the mixed messages are out there and I think that right now the sensible thing to do is to prepare something like this that adheres to the social distancing the masks and do something that that we can do that safe and affords our kids the opportunity to walk across
025the stage there's a letter dated May 9th that says it's prohibited except if it's strictly virtual now there is no definition for strictly virtual but this to me falls under in person and and I appreciate and recognize the lengths that you've gone through for social distancing and keeping the the touch apart but it doesn't seem like it's adhering to the letter from Callahan that's dated May night no more nor the memo from the Department of edy dated the eighth I can only give you the information that I have if you feel as though that we should not do this then I would say vote no on 28.2 okay do you have something that says this is okay you it imply you implied you did but I have two things that say no again I can
026only tell you the conversation I've had with the Executive Sous Pretender any other discussion are we planning on doing anything for eighth graders or is that just our plan was what we do with high school the following week we would do with eighth grade up at the football field but again if 8.2 goes down then we're probably going to do nothing but virtual which is the guidance from Callahan and the Department of it 8.2 is our new pandemic communicable disease plan with us from the Department of Education which includes all the stuff that's in there so again I've had conversations with the executive county superintendent I have spoken to him on numerous occasions about this as you've seen in the newspapers there are a number of districts that are already rolling this out and it's
027been in the paper okay it s been on nj.com and it's been in the newspapers again this is this is what we were told we were allowed to do as long as we stay within the intent of the executive order 107 which is also in the plan and it's clearly stated in the plan because that's what Roger Jenks the executive county superintendent wanted in our plan so we can be crystal clear that we're following executive aside which I believe his last statement was they're recommending virtual a-again the department's not recommending anything departments I'm going back to executive or 107 which was in the plan that we reviewed just going back to the sanitizing aspect I I understand that you feel like you know they're picking up their diploma jacket and walking away but the sanitizing
028seems incredibly critical you know what do they sneeze you know they're picking it up from some sort of service what if they use these on that surface or you know just anything with with germs just seems very unsafe to not sanitized at all I mean it just I mean we're allowed to go to the grocery store but you know there's supposed to be a continual cleaning of you know how to surface this and things like that so I just want to know what the rationale is behind you know thinking that sanitizing would be optional between what what are we cleaning well I think what is I think what you say is like the table whatever table it is that you're putting the the the diploma on have the potential I'll wipe it down in between
029not all right yeah so that's so whatever surface is that where between your touch and what they're picking it up as long as it's cleaned in between I think you know just to be abundantly cautious I think that would be that idea handrails and that as well will be wearing a mask yeah that's the requirement they're gonna have to wear a mask what do we do if they show up without a mask we just try they don't enter the facility they go home what if they relate to their appointment if they miss their appointment they missed their appointment any other question I appreciate what what's trying to be done and I think it would be amazing I just don't feel that it's it's safe community spread still being an issue right now it's slowing down
030but it's still very real I'm seeing it every day then my suggestion is that the board vote no on eight-point-two Mike can we get a roll call mr. Autry yes mr. ball yes is Muslim Oh miss Martinez no 28.2 I'm sorry can i men no 28.2 8.3 yes I'm sorry Mike you can do that thank you sorry taking advantage of my slowness that's fine Ms Morris yes Stephens yes visitors Amano yes your serve a Dallaire abstain from the pointyness in point me staying from 8.2 mm-hmm and miss DeFazio yes thank you we're up to section nine approval of special service resolutions resolve Bamford Board of Education approves the resolution says outlined in special services resolutions and we only have one nine point two and I get a roll call I'm sorry can I get a
031motion motion was Morris seconded by mr. Fazio discussion seeing none mr. Steinman roll call mr. Autry yes mr. ball yes is Marcin yes it's Martinez yes mr. Morris yes miss Stevens yes miss Rosamond oh yes mr. Vidal air I stayed and miss DeFazio yes thank you we're up to section 10 finance resolutions resolve the Bamber Board of Education approves resolutions as outlined in financial resolutions 10.2 through 10.13 can I get a motion motion motion mr. Fazio second second mr. data lair discussion sorry could you speak a little more about the Summer Food Service Program I saw the packet in there but just a little bit more about it we did the Summer Food Program every year it's more in the course of the summer that anybody under the age of 18 who wants breakfast or
032lunch come to the district than have a breakfast lunch and will that be set up kind of the same way that it's being done right now until further notice I do not know we haven't gotten guidance on summer food for the summer of money my guess would be that it's gonna be the same exact setup as we're currently doing which is probably Monday pick up for two days Wednesday pick up for three any other discussion mr. Steinmetz roll call mr. Autry yes mr. ball yes is Muslim yes miss Martinez mr. Martinez sorry yes miss Morris yes Stevens yes miss Rosamond oh yes mr. Vidal here yes miss de Fazio fun yes thank you any other matters to come before the board or new business I just want to say to the board I sent out
033an email for the evaluation I have I think only four people at this time I've been checked over the weekend but we really in order to make sure that we're in on time for that I'd really like that by the end of May at latest so that'll give me there's after after you guys are done we have to do an executive together and then we have to do an executive with dr. Gallagher so we're really under the crunch so I would really appreciate if you could get that in you any other new business okay we are open to the public for anything we have one one in right now and that's where mrs. O'Reilly 7:45 schoolhouse lane when the board of education meetings are are held in the cafeteria high school auditorium members of the
034public commonly come up with questions that are triggered from remarks made by BOE members and/or superintendent during the course of the meeting in other word where it's one member of the public make it up ask the question and response from the board member or superintendent trio's another question from the member of the public how many how many the public asked questions on the fly when you think of them during the course of the Biot meeting during YouTube broadcast members of the public have been posting questions as the meeting proceeds why can't it be a moderator to look at this fee so the questions posed during the fee can be answered again board meetings are set up in such a manner that there's two points in time where you have one point of time where you
035can ask questions about the agenda and there's another point in time where you can ask questions any questions for the board we're not moderating a chat feed nor nor should we be moderating a chat fee but I think that would be against our meeting protocols and policies but most importantly how may the public ask questions that come about from the comment board board meeting we have the school to form you can fill it in any point in time that includes right now during the course of the meeting and I will leave another minute just to see if anybody has any other responses yeah I think then we talked about giving you know like three or four minutes you know like a good chunk of time so that anyone that's listening to this because I don't
036know they it could be delayed on youtube if you delay yeah to give them you know sufficient time to pose those you know questions after hearing you know remarks that have been made right I don't know that there is a workaround for that on the fly title thing I think we had talked Johanna about like leaving a five-minute window you know just to give them people five minutes to to go on and and you know and ask those right follow-ups right yeah but I'm saying like I don't know that other than that delay that we're doing I don't know of another like we just got another one from Lauren packs in Tempe Street did you get this trying to see how quick you get questions based off of Patricia's question so I would think that's
037pretty quick right so I think if we leave like a five minute okay five minutes from now till we close the meeting I think that should give people a sufficient amount of time to you know follow up with any questions that they might have or concerns you we have another question Patricia O'Reilly address we know did you see this question mark guess another question Nikki an old bridge why our pre-k Tisch teachers of assistance listed as underrepresented staff members they are listed as staff members it doesn't say whether they're represented or unrepresented are they aren't they represented any they are represented but in our agenda it just says staff members doesn't say whether or not they're represented all right to be clear they are represented oh yeah you we have another question John Campbell 22:30
038Wesley John Campbell 230 Wesley Lane giving that schools close mid-march and leadership will have had six months by September to plan prepare plan a and B please describe what plan a looks like assuming plan a is to open schools with students in there currently close classrooms we are in the midst of developing our re-entry plan I do not have specifics on that at this point in time a lot will have to do with social distancing and whether or not we have to provide appease for students and staff there's a number of things that go into this obviously if we're gonna be in for school for a full day on there's no way we can social distance and keep masks on kids while they're eating and we can't have 200 kids in our cafeteria there's also
039a whole host of questions about you know movement in the hallways and trying to keep kids socially distance in the hallways as well as in classrooms our buildings are extremely old most of which are over a hundred years old the classroom sizes are not conducive to keeping six-foot distances between all students so we will have to wait for some direct guidance that comes out of the the State Department to give us some idea of what they're expecting from us whether it's a split day schedule you know some sort of blended learning situation and and how we can house kids another question Pat 7:45 did you answer my first question about pandemic plan and subs yes I did at the beginning of the meeting the pandemic plan will be posted on the board website after it's
040approved the old one is currently there the new one will be updated tomorrow and substitutes we're sending out a RFP which is a request for proposal on substitutes and our current substitute great is is rate in average with the county another question lauren packs at FHP our security aides now in the BB EA as the agenda shows i do not believe the agenda shows security aids as represented or unrepresented they are underrepresented they will continue to be underrepresented you learning you would mention going back to the question some sort of like blended learning is that like a hybrid of people kids whose home and kids who are in class yes okay yeah again it's so hard it's so hard to figure out what we're gonna do in September and we're developing multitude of plans again
041a lot a lot of discussion is you know with if but in this executive order or if this executive order timed out doesn't get reissued or anything like that as a school district without an executive order we must open the doors to bring all the kids back so obviously that's that's a concern for us especially if we're going into the fall without any direct guidance from the Department of Education on you know are we are we required to keep the social distance the masks the gloves the all the stuff that's going on now with that obviously is is funding we all know where funding is delayed and it's going to be delayed for quite some time so have again I don't know how we fund a lot of things that that people are talking about
042with schools nor do we have the space to pull it off sorry I really do think we we have to we have to wait and see what the guidance is going to be but a blended learning would give us the option of reducing the amount of kids coming in keeping some online and and you know shifting back and forth we have another question Jackie beer is Flemington New Jersey will Lamont / annex have a security eat in either building No is that out of necessity for staffing what the security yeah yeah I mean right now we we've cut where we where we needed to cut to to get us to the 20% if funding changes that we talked about this at governance is the funding changes and we get we don't get cut to 20%
043then that we're basically predicting or there's a another stimulus bill that comes out of the federal government that puts money back in it's easy for us add things back in it's not so easy to take away so no we planned for the worst we plan for what we think is the worst case scenario hopefully more money comes in and we restore things going back going back to the blended learning sure an executive order saying otherwise would that be something that would be left up to the parents no no no that that would have to come out as a directive to school districts our mandate in the way but again everything always comes back and tied to funding unfortunately we have to be in school for 180 days they count attendance based on each day and
044the way attendance is counted as the physical kids in the building so again they would have to come out with some sort of legislative new legislative law to allow blended learning or an executive order or some sort of health praxis I don't see any more questions do you want me to wait a little longer or do you want to move on that's a question for you Michelle what time did the last question come in last question came in probably a minute we had another question just gonna say a couple minutes from whenever the last one came in okay Jackie beers Flemington New Jersey will there will be an Ursula mountain mine annex you will be crossing back and forth between both buildings to see so sick children or will be will we be crossing the
045crossing her students to see her the nurse you have one nurse at Lamont Lamott annex there's only two grades there and she will be going back and forth next question Campbell wheely who is Jay Merryman it's our Merryman and he happens to be the board attorney you Patricia Patricia O'Reilly 7:45 schoolhouse I have no other questions thanks for letting me pose those questions during the meeting you [Music] you alright this everyone okay at this time raise your hand if you think we have waited sufficiently for any further questions I think I think waiting really did a good job but I think we may be a tower we're good all right well then I'm gonna make a motion to adjourn no ah what do we have - oh I'm sorry we can't even adjourn yet sorry
046guys I'm a motion for the UH yeah yeah what we're up to his hymns is middle of high school resolved that the Board of Education approves the of the resolutions is outlined an approval of HIV cases more painful and it is only one item in its 15.2 can I get a motion motion motion Azio second second second miss Morris discussion none um roll call vote Mike Stoller Sheree yes mr. ball mr. ball mr. ball yes miss mustn't miss Martinez yes miss Morris yes miss Stevens yes miss Rosamond oh yes mr. Waddell air I'm seeing hey there's the fazio yes thank you now can I make that a motion now you may motion to adjourn second second by mrs. Morris all in favor aye all right see everybody in a few in a week yourself all
047right stay safe all right everybody