001foreign [Applause] good evening everyone and welcome Board of Education meeting there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the Board of Education in the January 9 2023 and January 12th 2020 noticed in the Asbury Park Press and the co-star setting forth a date time and location of this meeting similar notice has been posted in the Borough Hall the Brielle School website and the borough clerk has been notified roll call please Mr Becker president Dr d'ambrosia president Mrs Jones yes McDevitt here Mr melanciewicz Mrs Reed here Mr Vitale Mrs Walsh to walk please make a motion to approve the minutes motion Improvement second and at this time before we move on to the presence [Music] yes let's make debit yes yes this is Reed yes goodbye challenge yes before we move on to presentations
002I'd like to um make a motion to have deemed one to be approved after approval events second and before we and D1 is motion that the Board of Education approves the appointment and contract for Mrs Stacy polstrup as superintendent principal of Brielle Elementary School effective July 1st 2023 but before we take a vote I just would like to sailing some and I wrote it down so I'll be brief okay at the start of this superintendent search it was important for me to involve law stakeholders parents faculty staff Administration residents of Brielle uh that do not have children in the school and of course most importantly our students as board members we wanted to know what was important to you in the next superintendent superintendent principle we listened and based on your responses we created the
003criteria that we used to guide us throughout this entire process I thank you for your commitment to the children of Brielle and your participation in this search I have a few thank yous I would like to thank um she's not here tonight but I'd like to thank Miss Marianne Friedman our Fields representative from New Jersey school boards Association who we hired as our she is the consummate professional and she kept us on target with our timeline and I am grateful for all of her help I would like to also thank MS for his leadership and for providing our students with a safe learning environment those of us who are the those of us who are in education understand that a mid-year change is not an easy one however Mr Russo's transition was seamless I would
004also like to add that our current Administration Mr saviam is love and miss Quigley stepped up and contributed to making this a smooth transition and I you know a special thank you to Diane because during this whole process I was in constant communication with her and whatever I needed whether it was computers copies a policy anything that I needed a room so that we can have interviews um bottles of water and I could go on and on and on um I could count and on diet and I know that I call call and email you a lot a lot so thank you so and I think Diane belonged to my number because that's the funny message is coming up so something happened and I would like to thank the Brian Board of Education members for
005their diligence during this search as Volunteers in this community they've dedicated late long hours of their time to ensure that we have the right individual to fill this very important position while at the same time continuing to work on their respective committees I cannot thank you enough all of you I can't thank you enough and I applaud your efforts [Applause] and by the way this was one of our board's goals so we met the school board goals so congratulations all right and uh selecting a superintendent principal is the board of Ed's most important responsibility and we are confident that Mrs folstrup will Foster educational excellence in the L uh just a little bit about this wholestra she's been in education for the past 35 years she has served as a teacher supervised certain principal for
006the past seven years she has been the assistant superintendent of curriculum instruction and assessment in Bergen County Mrs folser will you please join okay and I also say thank you to Medallion this was a lot of hard work for all of us as part of us for options I know they're going to say a few words yet but before you speak I just want to present you with a little something thank you so um we're gifting you with a finance for your brand new office thank you very much um and just if you wait um use this as a gentle reminder that on this plant just like the students of Korea um they require your your attention your nurturing and your love and just like the plan you'll see the Blossom and you'll see okay
007so welcome to great thank you so much and of course you are now a oh [Applause] um you know to Echo the sentiments I know but already then stated very clear to me that the level of time attention um that they gave to this process um just had me feel like this was such a great place to be and you know I'm very honored to have been selected and so grateful um you know I have had all of my experience in Bergen County I was a middle school social studies teacher went on to become a supervisor and served as a middle school principal for a little while uh Ridgewood where I currently am is a very large district with nine schools and over 5 000 students and while I work with a fantastic team there
008and have learned so much from my colleagues and staff I'm very excited about coming back to the buzz as I like to call it of the school building and interacting daily with students and your teacher no I I'm so appreciative of this opportunity I look forward to being a part of this community and I'm I'm so sure that working together we're going to be able to continue to enhance the educational experiences of students here in Brielle and for me you know along with taking all the knowledge and the skills that they need to be prepared for the future you know it's also my biggest hope that they will leave us with continued nurse for Learning and really be have that Curiosity always present so that they could be lifelong Learners so I look forward to
009getting to know everybody I'm so happy to be here and again thank you so much [Applause] [Music] nervous now I'm nervous I'm good with snake plants this will be a new time yes Rebecca I have seen that's here yes this is Joe yes this is Nick David yes Mr Miller yes this is read yes Mr Vitality this is Wolf [Applause] now for a new presentation yes hi everyone this is not my presentation today my presentation is not out there but I did that first time that was very briefing your practice um the New Jersey Department of Ed had issued a waiver part of our q-tac process that we're going to be going through in a couple weeks so I explained everything to the Christian movie last week when we met until we are passing so
010I'm just going to go over a little bit about what the labor is and why we chose to take it so two indicators that are being used under Q staff or under instruction and programs uh indicators four and five which are calculating academic progress so the indicators right now according to Cusack are looking at data from 2018-19 which was before the pandemic and comparing it to 2021-22 so due to the pandemic the state is not reflective at all of our current population and our growth and utilization of student data from three years ago this represents the current state of the academic progress that we've made here in Brielle from 2018 until now additionally as we have navigated through a global pandemic we have been given a great deal of professional development for our teachers an
011enormous amount of time has been done with this on the staff to be able to analyze data and develop plans to expedite growth along with our interventionists as well I'm so proud of our teachers and our interventionists for everything that they have been doing since the pandemic started and minimizing the amount of learning loss in all of our students here in Brielle and despite the learning loss and comparing that data from 2018-19 to 2021-22 the maximum amount of points that you can receive on indicator 4 is 10 points for ELA and then 10 points for Math and despite everything we still scored a 9.2 for ELA and an 8.0 or Max so 17.2 points total we received only 20 is the max but my thought is we all worked really hard and if the state
012is offering this believer to get a full 20 points why not I feel that we deserve it so I completed the waiver it's all ready to be sent to the state tomorrow and then we will get um the full 20 points we just had to also show that we're using data from our current benchmark assessments which are more reflective of our current practices instead of comparing the 2018-19 njsla results to the results um from now so if you approve this I will send it to the executive superintendent tomorrow and on those two indicators for q-saf we will get a perfect and again I just want to thank the teachers and the interventionists for all their hard work there's no reason why oh no we just had um I was given a waiver that I had
013to complete um to the staff to the board and then once you send it in there should be no reason at all that we're not granted thank you for working any other questions thank you that's good now we have the uh 20 23 24 school budget okay this is the 23 24 budget start with our activities [Music] have disappeared and have been discontinued to what you've said the unassigned Surplus we need to make up for the federal aid so we were able to keep several positions that were prior paid for with these federal grants and they are now on our table t and then it was state aid comes from our our statement comes from our special ed transportation security a extraordinary aid for those who are all part of our revenues now the local
014tax Leverage is taxed at two percent and that is what our tax increase letting increase will be for a total of 286 thousand six hundred two dollars the local tax levy will be this is 14 million 616 690 which is the two said the increase of the 286.72 or state aid again this is security Transportation special entity and extraordinary the appropriation of our unassigned Surplus made up of the difference so tuition and interest or tuition is from our parent paid preschool the majority of our students in preschool are especially expressed by but we do have positions parents that want to bring their children in for the am 4 pm program based on their age that's one of our total operating budget we do not have a good service since that has been completed for the
015last two years and then instead of grants that you can see the majority of our Appropriations as you can see is within the regular education instructions salaries tuition takes up the majority that's including tuition to the high school Madison High School as well as in special education placements and vocational schools vocational including any specialist as well as Janet going to be the whole day program and share time the employee benefits Transportation employee benefits for Market Transportation went up mostly for the high school the high school tuition went up that's under our regular education tuition the regular edit instruction it's our salaries employee benefits special ed instruction includes local Replacements in-house in districts the building maintenance includes our salaries utilities or supplies and of course that has so much it shows a decrease there only because
016we had a retirement in our salad and that's the only change everything else in that category has done transportation is expected to go up thank you and then the last as any other check expenses so the special ed students are tuition and related Services increase here's the momentc is our model coaching Education Services Commission that we commit our transportation through and that cost went up 5.85 Health Care increased 7.5 against over three see online program went up a smaller industry Center for Learning and Independence and we also have an increase in the adjustment of tuition to be added to the 23-24 questions so this is the mass punctuation that we have here 19540. that that's that may be adjusted in the future years correct it was under represented and that's why there's this additional 106
017on the Block when the state comes in they evaluate a tuition whether it's a private school or a public school and they determine if in fact what the school district was charging was appropriate whether it was too little or too much and that's where the new Justice comes in last year we had a credit is it the following year that the name of that adjustment yes yes so they basically said a lot of those adjustments and increases for Africa is incoming 8th graders special services you really don't know what those special services are yet at the time so their freshman here they invaluating those so if they needed an extra age or whatever Services they needed then they build that the following year so they fill it so that today they basically add up the
018expenditures and divide among all the signing districts or that is that specific hours yes so that freshman year those services and basically talented at the end of the year that next summer Community freshman and sophomore that's where they come up with I think uh number seven but the tuition is the same right the tuition is the same I'm wondering if that adjustment is the same for everybody or if it's yeah like let's say let's say Secrets got a lot bigger because it's specific to development cost for people increase what's driving that the most is we're sending 15 more states of percentage which are also sending us as well it's divided it's less kids but they're watching the enrollment foreign [Music] foreign okay uh thank you Diane so um obviously I'm very pleased to say that
019the budget does a lot of things our goals as a board of education and as a school system it maintains our current educational programs uh which we are very proud of and or outstanding so we're going to continue to provide the educational resources to our staff and to our students through this budget it continues to support our extracurricular and athletic programs outside of our classrooms so that our students either have connections with our school beyond the classroom which is critically important for the environment and our school culture um it continues to provide a safe and secure environment I won't go into the details of security for obvious reasons um but the things that you do around the school to make sure that we are as safe as possible we'll continue to be supported by this
020budget and we're very pleased that we can continue our cooperation with the real police and have an in-school resource officer on a full-time basis daily here at the school and academics budget supports that um of course we are meeting all of our state mandates and there are many in doing that within the parameters of the two percent path um additionally I'm very happy that we're continuing all of the incredible and outstanding professional development initiatives throughout the district including creating a schedule within the building that supports professional learning communities so our teachers have time built into their day to talk about student learning and progression and compare data points and talk about how our students are doing where we can support them and how we can continue to make sure that they're learning at an adequate
021pace and that we're providing those supports and that's true as well with the schedule that continues to provide a great level of team meeting so that articulation can continue within the building uh our staff development pork chops will continue through this budget our technology workshops and training will continue in this budget we continue to provide through this GCA web-based platform our state mandatory training for all of our staff on an annual basis and really important The Limited software that the district has been done using and gives our teachers really powerful tool to Benchmark assess our students and then continuously see where our individual students are meeting particular advantage of those benchmarks linked directly to New York state standards and understand where our students are so that we can remediate and enhance learning both on both
022ends again on Safety and Security as I mentioned we will continue to support the cost sharing in the real police department in terms of having a resource officer in the building each day our cameras will continue to operate at a high level we have an outstanding system and that is continued to be enhanced Mr Sabia does an excellent job identifying areas where we will continue to grow that ability to make sure to understand what's going on in and around our building on a daily basis and our security measures of course a few steps as you continue to enhanced by this budget thank you any questions do you know where do you have a sense for how this pie chart breakdown compares to the past years is there anything that's changed dramatically in terms of the
023written are they've asked the Appropriations yeah drastically no but I was going to say incrementally we do have a few that I'm waiting for that I'm waiting for final positions but but hopefully this is not like like the blue one year isn't a quarter and now it's forty percent it's all generally more fits the same pattern since there's nothing glaring and this is the following page on the Appropriations yeah uh first from the bottom Transportation yes so we're showing a decrease of 31.77 but on the following page number two which on Transportation is an increase of 5.5 percent the crust is going up that particular line item for transportation there was the dollar amount budgeted last year that was never used it wasn't necessary so I use that money for something else but the actual
024cost per diem what their rats are going to be we're preparing 5.85 we were told by mosc as we expected because the transportation line on the appropriation page showing the decrease is that where we have some contracts with families to for specialize where they transport themselves such as that money in that Transportation yes so it's not just that mlbsc yeah we have but there are only four are there other areas that's covering in this Transportation that's not MLB everything except we have like I said there's several families and it's minimum [Music] yes [Music] is necessary so um [Music] large part of life is necessary the increase it's a question question obviously yeah [Music] can't happen it can't happen between regardless so there is also poor individuals that were placed on our payroll that were prior
025okay so so uh the question with respecting special in the places a question extremely important to educate everybody [Music] foreign [Music] so we could be in this position yes to 900 of the Surplus don't have that number again thank you remember the purpose of surplus we sell when 2026 when the solar panels are up here [Music] number that I was given by the auditor 357 was mandatory we had to use it was already prior and put into 23.4 budget then there is another amount that exclusive of your capital reserve and the money was used for this week we have such a capitalists I mean the last few years in my Surplus right and this is basically it might be about three or four hundred thousand a month so that's true but it's a potential problem
026moving forward we have a preserve account is intact in terms of the purpose of saving profession is to avoided what what professional s [Applause] okay thank you thank you any other questions make sure you want to change your mind [Music] presentation and so we're moving on to visit this business visitors are committed to comment on agenda eyes only at this time please save your name any correspondence yeah and so we'll move on to committee reports starting with District Operations okay thank you so any questions and we'll move on to representative mattress students [Music] from French hockey track and Fields um so basically the winter sports recognized foreign [Music] believe they even mentioned their jealousy over our pickles thank you Joe any questions and uh Mr Becker curriculum and Brokers but we did have the meeting
027it was on the 19th the class is a little over an hour and a few minutes it was intended by all the uh board members on the committee which included uh the president Miss Jones Dr B Ambrosio let me read them myself and it's also identified the full Administration related topics uh the most notable worth of laser caffeine that the administration is moving forward with the preparations for uh open positions staff and or VA and extended school year for parking generated the identification of students would benefit his occurring in advance of the implementation into the programs of those families in time periods related to the way sort of admination are being finalized including one programs named we talked about numerous other summer programs and activities including program which is up and running spring enrichment uh
028school dance which recently passed we had a brief discussion regarding dances in general being open to Second districts we are on schedule for our graduation in the eighth grade trip and things like PTO sponsored Arrangement programs such as the local Lego programs are being created that specific program filled up so fast peer leaders and student government trips to paint consensus we spoke about special education and preschool updates uh betrayed numbers of the students are comparable standing and we will have an esy perspective uh We've mentioned about the inquiry which is the priest prayer Grant and getting compared for that and so far surveys being sent out of multiple data points new surveys are not yet created we spoke about Equity diversity and where we made contact with community members to coordinated date and gather an
029idea of what community participation would look like and hope to confirm and scheduled for the year and Miss Jones shouldn't speaking word for that we also spoke of autism acceptance per month which was acknowledged the previous week with things like bullets and board displaying and created for the kids of view and access we spoke about the update to the director of curriculum which uh in the library dorm labor as well as back to autism accepted months it's being um uh we spoke about the current Town sentiment uh surrounding the school and uh what it may be and from my perspective I'd like to say that it is very good uh through the interim superintendent of as well as uh the outgoing human first curriculum let alone the other Administration and in the faculty and we
030are in a really good place as a school to go through the transition of welcome welcome there's been a lot of hard work put into it particularly with the existing Administration let alone the job of the curriculum committee is to manage the matching programs with standards curriculum cycle spoken sequence technology and balance between school programs code and extracurricular in our job our school does report any questions it was canceled as well yeah postponed and we'll see rescheduled and I'll just just very quickly talk about what Kirk was talking about the um the one program um and with the community so um what I contacted the real historical society and so um they have so much information and I thought that um program where they would discuss on the history of the African-American people living in
031Brielle um and it's a long Rich history and I know that when we look at Brielle there's very little little diverse um but at one time there was more so um I reached out to the historical society and um Mr Hamm he actually retired so we made contact UM with Ms Morgan's backpacks and so um she will be working on this um a presentation for our students and it's supposed to happen either I'm not sure when that's up to Administration um but it will be and I'm not sure if it's for the inside school or just for certain grades but um they're working on that now um Jen loves is working on that on witness Morgan Stackhouse and so they're they're going to put together a nice presentation um because it's so important um for
032us to know all of our all of the members of our community and the contributions that they've made to Brielle so that's that's an importance okay um and we'll move on to uh policy [Music] human resources Monday afternoon where we just pretty much went over the agenda items that are on for tonight any questions policy here so on behalf of Sean um we met on April 20th Mr Russo just quickly myself Sean uh Kristen um there are several items up for first reading tonight but before I go through that there were three topics that were brought up that we're going to review and discuss our future policy meetings that are not on the agenda for review um those three those three issues where one there is an existing policy which discusses the storage and administration
033of emergency drugs used to treat opioids orbiosis such as naloxone which we don't currently participate in that policy because it was typically only for high schoolers but we're going to readdress that to consider doing that here as well to evaluate an establishment of the policy that would restrict homework on specific religious or cultural holidays and also to review establishing an old islands for vehicles waiting to drop off or pick up students at the request of the eagle club the policies that are up for first reading tonight um the first one uh deals with first year Board of Education members taking their State Management training within three months of being sworn in previously it had to be done within the first year so that's shortening that times that time period the next one is establishing certain
034scenarios in which it is acceptable for staff to use bodily force with student students these are very specific situations and very specific rules where the intervention is required to either protect other students or staff from bottom harm the next policy P3 p5305 just added additional requirements for the school Physician's qualifications which she already has met the next policy required the states requiring the board of estimate to maintain student records including home records for 100 years we talked about making sure that through the the sense of nature of health records having them ensure that these files are locked and unaccessible so we're looking into obtaining a lot of file cabinets policies six one one two six one one five point zero one zero four and six three one one uh oral are dealing with best practices
035and requirements when Federal grant funding and then finally p7400 is updating the requirements pertaining to sharing blueprint schematics and images of the school with law enforcement and First Responders the new requirements aim for this would be digital format instead of just paper and allow access to the police department and First Responders to see changes that happen in the schools of time we also discussed an update regarding our transformation from board box of the digital digitization of our policy documents on the board.platform we haven't really made a lot of progress since the last time we've talked about this um but we're still pushing them as much as we can push any questions thank you we'll move on to community relations around you um so for this month we've got some feedback or some info from some
036of them so they are they are on looking to fill uh board positions for the 2023-2024 full year um there has been uh they've been advertising and sending out emails about it so anyone who said they be two co-presidents a vice president anyone interested can send their email which is available on website from our vpag group uh they appreciate the celebration of autism speak um which I believe was during this week um they also similar to Hart discussed in the curriculum we're asking about the Blazer academy uh which sounds like we're moving forward with um as well as the preschool um full full day of preschool um and then oh and also this is a bit of a repeat as well uh from policy but a reminder to have the no homework night directly before
037or after the major holidays that might not be observed by realities this past year ran into it or just recently with Passover Arena too um their next meeting will be scheduled in May that will be published on the website when they do stuff you schedule it I think yeah that's all from the feedback group and then for administration updates uh there was an inclusion assembly for all all grades um on the 24th of April the 28th of April is welcome to school day also the 28th is Arbor Day and the fourth grader creative cherry tree and the pickleball tournament the booster club fundraiser will be on May 11. um there's more information I believe on the website is there any questions that sounds like I'm looking forward to them stretching out okay so um other
038or not and his reports we have one head report that took place as our last board meeting that was investigated in the appropriate timelines there were four students involved the behaviors of three were determined not to be HIV part of New Jersey law definition and one was and our removal actions included appropriate consequences in counseling and all of that move on to move on to action items all items below are upon the recommendation of the superintendent uh curriculum Focus I'd like to put forth emotions into action page one through age 11 on receipt s Mr Becker yes Dr d'ambrosia yes yes Mr milance question on 82 for ravage calendar this is kind of what was revised since last week so the only change there to show is that the last few days on the initial
039calendar were not half days and traditionally they have been so there's Miss on my part so we're bringing it back up for a few days okay thank you yes Mrs B yes goodbye Sally this is Wolf yes District Operations today operations foreign yes Mrs Jones yes Mrs McDevitt yes Mr milanowicz another question sorry uh P3 I just want to recognize the donation of the infield baseball softball fields by Mr Clayton and we had another letter in our packet of yes Mr guy Sally Mrs Walsh policy like a quick fourth uh item C1 approval of the first reading of these political policies stuff like that Mr Becker yes yes this is me yes Mr by Sally yes Mrs Walsh yes and Human Resources Jones I would like to we want to feel good like who's D1
04053 through d11 later he too through the 11th and I'd like to recognize D5 Mr fercano's 24 years of service [Music] let's teach you if I made Joe also would like to recognize Mr Connor's 24 years here and I believe he had additional years before absolutely yes Dr pambrosia yes this is Joe um this is McDevitt yes Mr balance yes this is me yes goodbye Sally okay this is Walsh and I'm thinking about this yeah all right uh visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and common agenda items at this time please thank you so we'll move on to payment of bills results okay Mr Becker yes Dr Tim brochure yes Mrs Jones yes Mrs McDevitt yes Mr philanthowicz yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Vitale Mrs Ross yes and at this time um
041any discussion over business [Music] people like this for tonight these are people that aren't even in our community in this location as well with some seen those kids go through this school the participation um as a matter of fact the the real baseball team they had a game the other day and people noticed um that they were they were talking about it so um thank you and uh so this evening we will go into executive session for the purpose of personnel and student privacy no action okay so um so we'll take a five minute so we'll make motions for fun possession executive second thank you [Applause]