001august forward meeting there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education june 23 2022 notice the co-star setting forth the date time or place for this meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the brielle school website and the girl clerk was you know pro conference mr becker dr d'ambrosia here mrs jones here dr lavalla [Music] under god [Music] um yes and do we have any presentations or presentations okay [Laughter] and visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items only at this any time yes we had three letters from recipients of our scholarship one from kate campbell dear board of education thank you so much for the blazer beyond award and scholarship money i really enjoyed my years at brielle school and can't wait to start
002high school from carly dear the board of rio board of education i would like to thank you for the 50 scholarship for the robert farmer instrumental music award i'm honored to have received this award and i hope that i can use this money towards college thank you again for even considering me and for giving me this award and the third from erin marsh dear board of education thank you so much for awarding me the most diligent student and academic excellence award i look forward to using the money to further my education and i appreciate your generosity thank you kate follow me and we love getting uh correspondence from students so thank you for that um and so we're going to move on to committee reports district operations ted sure um we had a very good
003meeting on monday i've been working very diligently to close 2020 too and we were able to get a very very superficial sense as to how we thought 2022 was going to end up um reels into the very superficial look at what some of the surpluses look like you know to you know to be able to to you know do some planning going forward because time is you know more time to get away from us in terms of some of the significant projects that we're going to have to do over the next five years we want to make sure we have the appropriate funding in place so that that would be that would be that would give us short-term objectives um but it looks uh it looks to us as a committee uh and and and
004and and and i think the administration concurs that you know that the district that the district is on very you know sound financial freedom at this point and we receive the status as the project media center um it's it's singing the singers who's coming along and is that that fair you know distinguished when you work with school opens neither the work is but the work is not going to be impeded by the children more of the children can be repeated by the work there when do we because next how week it will take to repair so hopefully next week is three um on the agenda that are for previous years so for instance a2 so last line of a5 and b1 my question is would they be able to be applied to the 2122 budget
005and it's almost 121 000 and it would just be reducing the surplus that's there well it's not really a choice the yet high school always fills us with resource instruction after the year this year we paid for two years ago the [Music] this year we paid for the 2021 school year now we're going to be paying for the 21-22 school year in the 22-23 school year it always moves ahead one year from when they're building us from when they're reevaluating how many students were in the resource instruction what the actual number was by the end of the school year then it's always built to us in the following school year because we never receive those invoices we have no record of therefore receiving those invoices those are two students that attended an rftc program at
006wall to look for yellow resident students i have no record of ever receiving those invoices we know they attended because we paid other months this particular charge was one month for those two students [Music] b1 is the cafeteria balances from a minimum of two plus years ago we should talk about that a little more detail because we talked about that okay so they found a bunch of payables that were never so we had talked about how to approach that people saying that to try to reach out to them at least reach out to parents going back to certain world but i don't know the business office and so now it simplifies um greg has put it in the contract how we're going to be able to maintain that we have an assistant which is regarding
007the stuff and it wasn't impossible i would have to say well i would have to i would like to look at the policy because i don't recall it says um that it's turned over to a collection until [Music] i think what we had talked about though was not just just writing it off i thought we were going he had said we were going to reach out well i don't remember purchasing that from two years ago i said the magic date was march 13th 2020. and then since then people were not purchasing or they had long graduated were out of school men going back prior to that were in high school that have since graduated went to college so to collect from these people and try and prove to them what they purchased two or three
008years ago was going to be people well they're not in the cafeterias this is from a different company that's why we moved to central are they being returned yes they are why would that be done those who are in the bills we had also talked about moving forward setting up the system where this kind of big number didn't happen where it may be monthly or at a certain threshold if the student's account below let's say five dollars that they would automatically the parents would get an email that you need to read you know free up your degree of your account balance uh otherwise the student's account will be closed to get anything other than just election year but i don't think it says all the information but it does say that it's below like ten
009dollars so we'll take a look at the policy and see what's the best one to take thanks john any other questions okay no more questions for on representative to mana swan said again we have been meeting last night it was just short of three hours um presentations uh very very interesting presentations um i i have about four pages of notes i'm not going to leave them all to you but a couple of a couple of um a couple of new course offerings in 2223. uh there's an elective civil action in uh democracy um historical perspective and research science in the kitchen civil engineering principles of biomedical science and human body systems and also conversational spanish um some are available at the ninth grade level but most are available from from you know from sophomore south
010southwestern one other significant thing um i personally thought it was significant these students the students are equipped with and currently currently currently the admin a lot of times have software to detect that there's if you know the student is is using a lot of calculator right either appropriately or a lot of likelihood that can only be assessed on a retrospective basis um these are the districts purchase software that's that's gonna that's gonna enable that's gonna enable um um you know you know the third party um to instantaneously the student does something on the laptop that that can be perceived as a risk to either himself or somebody else um um there's there's an alert that goes to the third party and and and and depending upon the risk assessment um you know somebody tagged in
011the administration not questioning that issue somebody packed in the administration what would we know writing an email immediately depending upon the risk that person will actually watch their phone call and then hopefully double very quickly sometimes that that students have is it's it it's becoming more and more like with a device as i as with other students through a device to be able to let somebody know that something could potentially happen you know could ultimately find out something tell us that was something so this is a software dr k dr occasion had asked the principals what about the elementary school uh and at the high school for a three year look forward what do they what what do they what do they see happening various kinds of course offerings just to be just just kidding
012just leave yourself just give you a sense uh sports entertainment and marketing um principles of engineering construction technology right um thinking types of things masterminds are also also also thinking about putting together uh i don't think decisions has been made yet yeah but i think that you know i think that they're thinking about putting together online classes that students can take over the summer to you know to get uh to get the credit towards them credit congratulations um democracy introduction to law and and one of my questions is introduction constitutional law a lot of a lot of variety a lot of it seems to be very interesting offerings and it's it's kind of exciting to see so so stay tuned stay tuned stay tuned interesting very interesting to see what decisions what decisions what decisions
013are locally going to be made we'll see we'll see i believe they offered uh class drone for summer this year already some right now and i don't know if there's any person online but they did offer it uh that's it any questions so we'll move on to curriculum and programs kirk is not here so we'll move on to human resources joe no report the items on the agenda we received in an email a few hours ago i'll speak a little bit about that under um committee could possibly answer um just the one policy i was wondering um the dress improvement was that in relation to staff or students and this was just it was an update or it was a continuation of current names okay thank you any other questions um [Applause] so we'll move
014on to action items meeting for that scheduling meetings at the time and it has been uh very busy working in the library the hvac painting of rooms and classrooms uh getting things done we've actually spent most of our time and energy uh interview we've interviewed we've had over 60 interviews in the last month uh hiring three special education teachers a child study team secretary carlos secretary assistant to the va math interventionist reading interventionist ot substitute teachers luxury monitors and it's been taking us a lot of time you'll see of your human resources personnel that we've rescinded some because some people are using the interference process to get a raise in their own district and i've never seen that before our past history has been when people come here they interview one senior some of those
015cabinets we interviewed three times giving them a significant amount of time and uh some are i never say in the interview that i'm retiring in december and they find out and they don't want to come because they think that's risky to do something like that um the other thing that we've talked about in human resources the other area the board needs to look at is we've lost some excellent candidates because in our hiring process we don't give full family benefits i said this month i just want we only give single and the number is high in the number of candidates that we've lost just just for health benefits and so it's something that you know we've talked about in uh personnel that we just have to take a look at it um diane sent a
016spreadsheet sharing those numbers with you want to call an individual what they pay for health benefits and what it costs for um single plus child or family benefits and so i think it's just something that we have to look at because i never want to say no to a quality candidate and we have done that but on the other hand we're hiring many quality candidates here and the process takes a long time of we have a lot of candidates genuine mentor is here tonight she has been employed here for many years as a teacher assistant and some as a part-time special ed teacher will be hiring her tonight as a special education teacher and to ted's point you'll be happy to know as this was mentioned years ago because i see jessica's smiling the software
017to monitor what children are doing and we'll learn to third-party administration we've been doing that for four years so um glad to say we're ahead of the game so uh i'm glad they're doing it we've had that improv and it's very very helpful extremely it's a great investment but this board made that investment i believe it was four years ago and the hit report for the year is on page okay thanks any questions mr carson brought up over the years in the past that insurance for the chromebooks uh manchester united in charge program at you can work with sixth graders are getting into computers this year and we've just always picked up the cost in the past um insurance came from them so the passport replacement send it out is insured but you're you're suggesting
018each individual family pay for that or check it out um here we any other questions so we'll move on to our action items start with curriculum and programs okay any questions yes mrs jones yes dr lavalla and district operations ted uh yeah some egyptian corporations like to move uh um yes this is jones yes this is me yesterday [Music] and policy like put forth for approval item c1 which is second reading on the list of policies on the agenda second that's the new merger yes this is and human resources joe uh yes like mrs also referenced about the healthcare that was spoken about three weeks ago the information committee requested wasn't provided as well with that of employees what we take but it was an average based on an average teacher salary and an average
019secretary salary what the employee cost for me and what the cost of the board would be per i'd like to move d1 through d20 so anyone has any questions um ray erickson who as everyone else has been here for 25 years um has centered in his reservation his weather is here after 45 years of service to our school has done an incredible job we talked about him on gray day we talk about him year after year about the amount of work and dedication that he puts into this place and it's with regret i'm sure you're all going to accept that right move on to his chapter 2 in islam but he's done a commendable commendable job keeping this building working the way it does because we always talk about how great looks he gets a
020lot of that credit because he really cares about the children the teachers the staff our community and it shows without the building so with regret we're going to accept his resignation and chris do you think you can get him to attend one of our meetings before he leaves well i'm glad that you celebrated him with great day years yeah yes this is mcdevitt yes this is me yes and now to visitors business uh visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-agenda items at this time and my apologies because last um last month's meeting i forgot that so so um um we just want to thanks carlson uh kelly and i met with her and mr media this past week to discuss the progress of the cpa group that we've created this past year and
021we wanted to say thank you she was very accommodating she was willing to listen to us listen to parents concerns and things that might you know have changed over this last year or whatever we also had suggested that we wanted um our flyer to kind of get out to parents coming here and we were kind of trying to figure out how to do it she [Music] there's actually a tab in genesis that you can use that would record those feeds like you know the student doesn't turn into a textbook we all know they're expensive it gets put in there and then they don't pay it you know for us in high school they don't get their high school diploma they don't get that piece of paper until all those fees have been done so it
022might just be another way of looking into fees that take place over we do the same thing for lunches it's also incorporated in there so just a suggestion and this is yeah just uh two things one um i want to thank joe he set up a walkthrough for the fire department we had more than 20 of us came and we got a complete walk through the building about a week or so ago which is really helpful refreshing where the boiler room is based on all of those things so thank you for that um secondly i'm sorry i wasn't able to make the meeting last month but two or three meetings ago i raised a question about the curriculum mandate from the state about sexuality gender et cetera and how that was going to be put
023in the curriculum for the coming year um i see kirk's not here i don't i don't know if that's what last i remember it was going to be presented how it was going to happen and how parents were going to be given the option for opt-in rocked out and i read in the paper something about middletown school district is using uh you have to opt in rather than knocked out which is interesting but i would just like to know what the status of that is because obviously if we discuss ad nauseam it's a it's a sensitive set of topics and a controversial set of requirements and i'd like to know where we're at with that for sharing uh we have been working our health teachers have been working on our curriculum all summer uh we
024will not get any health construction until semester two which doesn't um start until the end of november and so we have a partnership with rutgers we've attended some workshops through psa and we will be doing um a presentation for the board we're going to do a webinar for parents that will stay on our website so they could watch it uh the professor i'm losing her name that's helen has come here she's done presentation for many boards and this fall will be doing presentations to assure parents it's not the big deal that they've all been thinking it's going to be so i think you'll see it will be about a 45 minute presentation and we've used the guidance from the state department but through the workshops that our teachers have attended and we have attended i
025think the parents will be very happy with what we're going to be presenting to kids it only impacts grade two five six seven eight and so so we have the workshops one workshop schedule two different workshops both in october we're gonna do and knock down but we can't stop that thing so it gives them plenty of time before we can start any kind of construction in that area okay um we are working on it i think one of the dates don't quote me but is i think is october 25th is one of those dates but we'll get that out there so parents now and like i said the webinar if you can't make it that night you know we're going to keep it on our website so parents can watch it at their convenience because
026as we talk sometimes getting people to the board meeting is difficult everybody's very busy so we want it on our website and and the woman is highly recommended out of workers throughout the state of new jersey and the partnership it's not just one woman it's not one department it's a consortium of professional all around the state from the principals and supervisors association rutgers university a state department there's a lot of stakeholders just what we discussed and just to reiterate what charleston stated the initial step is really the creation of the curriculum by the