001good evening there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education march 18th 2021 notice of the co-star setting forth the date time and place for this meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the real school website and the borough clerk has been notified can you please call the role here i indivisible [Music] can i have a motion to approve the board of education minutes from the november 17 2021 regular public meeting make a motion to approve the minutes dally can i have a second can you please call the roll uh okay yeah yes [Music] yes well good evening everyone [Laughter] well uh tonight is a very uh special night for us and special because i've had two uh wonderful board members who have been serving the children
002and the teachers in our community on the board of ed and i'd first like to talk about dennis ngoglia a former board president vice president and a member of the board for uh nine years nine and so uh dennis would you please stand up i'd like to tell the story about dennis we met a long time ago uh and it was a time when when we had school budgets and we had to have meetings and go to different places like the firehouse and pto meetings and people's homes and the community center uh the library and i met dennis at his community center many many years ago when things were a little tough we would call it it was a little tough and dennis spent some time talking to me and uh talking about our school
003he came in and met with me and um you know as you can see dennis uh represents his community uh and our community in many fashions he serves on many courts mom vocational he's on the mastermind board of education and very involved in his own community as a board member and i would say that he represents many seniors in our community and we haven't had that on our board because often we saw on our board it was mostly parent representation and so dennis looked at things very differently than some other board members but he looked at it in a way that he knew he said to me i moved to brielle for a reason the community i came from new jersey this community had a great reputation i wanted to continue and i care even
004now about the education of children and how important it is to have great schools and so dennis was a really great advocate for our school and uh served on many committees when he was a negotiations chair i remember sometimes in this building at 11 and 12 o'clock at night worrying about his wife saying i hope she's okay that you're coming in this late but to do good work sometimes it takes many hours and so dennis has served on many committees always always with the focus of we have to do the right thing for our kids for our teachers and for this community and every decision he has made has been because of that he always asked great questions he always collaborated with board members he was a great communicator still is but a great communicator
005and i think great communication is what's key to great board members having that great communication and so dennis on behalf of the board in our community we have a special gift for you and some of you have heard me say this before but on the front it has his name his nine years of service to the school but um we have a clock because you know he had to look at the clock a lot because he attends a lot of meetings so we're giving you a special clock but it also says and it's same with you karen that 100 years from now it will not matter what my bank account was or what um sort of house i lived in the kind of car i drive but the world may be very different because he
006was important in the life of the child and that's very true of dennis and karen and so that's why we won't have him to have this gift from brielle school and nine years is a long time to serve as a board member i sometimes think one term in three years for some board members is a long time but to have that much time devoted to your community and he's not just here like i said he serves on many boards and to do it the way dennis did it uh you're telling you're gonna be terrible in this room so dennis thank you for your friendship your trust and we're certainly going to miss you [Applause] and now uh believe it or not our president karen detlinger who has served six years on this board and uh
007karen detlinger was no stranger to our schools you should say yes uh prior to getting on our board six years ago karen was a very involved very involved pto member and you know so she did a lot for our kids volunteered in the classrooms remember those days when we were in the classrooms don't we miss that but in the classrooms uh doing whatever we needed and she was one of the founders of our enrichment program our summer our spring and our fall and our winter enrichment program and you know karen reminded me that well you know now everything is done online she was collecting checks and checked her in her on her dining room table so i guess she didn't feed her kids and the applications of the programs kids wanted to be in so
008and at that time we had well over a hundred children every season doing our enrichment program and uh she really changed um our program and got many teachers involved so that kids would stay after school and be involved in those richmond activities she is also an officer on brielle wreck so she serves our community here and she is an educator she's a teacher in a local school district mound school and she was an educator prior to that at biotech i mean allied health and so um so having spent many years as a teacher she brought that to our school as a board member and shared ideas and was always very creative and suggesting things that could help improve our school karen again as president but as vice president as a board member was a great
009communicator a team builder a great listener a great a great person to you could give advice and she could take advice and she was always very fair and i like to use the word kind and trustworthy and those are great qualities for a person to have especially on the board our board our entire board but dennis and karen have seen some tough times and we've been through and we still are going through cobin and i would think i've seen teachers retire i've seen board members in other places want to leave because it got hard and a lot of sometimes negativity was given to the board members and we stayed strong and dennis and karen and she had to do it as president stayed very strong on she served on our we restarted school and we
010had many many meetings that people don't even know about hour-long meetings um and they were often and karen was always here guiding us as our president through those difficult decisions that we had to make to keep our kids safe and so karen everything that you have done and you continue to do she'll be serving our community still on wreck uh she'll still be an active parent in our school because uh he's in the audience i don't want to say little will but little will is still here and still wants his mom involved in our school so she's not going anywhere but she she will definitely be someone that we can you know ask for advice go to because she's not going anywhere but you won't be at least you won't be at this table but
011karen again we have this special gift for you i thank you for your service to our school to me to my teachers to our children you've been invaluable and we're going to miss you at our meetings [Applause] [Music] and thank you chris for those coming words i hardly recognize myself but as you say nine years ago i ran for a receipt on this board i had never run for any public office before and i didn't think i would be elected but i was and then twice more and over that time i've had the pleasure of working with some of the finest people i've ever met my colleagues sitting here tonight and those that came before them labor long and hard to make our school one of the finest in the country board president karen edmondson
012and vice president becker have done an outstanding job this year in leading the district likewise the talented professionals who they keep our children first ms carlson mr sabia miss cherry and some of the best teachers and staff in america have made our school real's crown jewel shakespeare said troubles come in battalions and so it has seemed over the last years but at the age of 72 i suppose i am entitled to the lord yes it still affects us but we have come a long way since the days of the quarantine and though there will always be legitimate differences of opinion all of us are united and working toward when we fully return our school our kids our lives back to what they were i see you all the voters that trusted me the wonderful people
013i've worked with the parents that care so much the taxpayers who flip the bill and the kids themselves who every day accomplish names that amaze us and make us also very proud it's been a great nine years and i thank you all for letting me be a part of it [Applause] thank you very well um oh what a ride it has been um thank you chris for your nice comments and thank you to my family who's here some who are here tonight um for helping me during this adventure other ones are so busy um for those of you that know me know i'm a firm believer in giving back to your community as much as you can it is ingrained in who i am um which might be a negative thing for my family because
014like i'm always out doing other things um i never realized how or why i'm like this but after reflecting recently i realize it's because of my father he lived his life to help better his community he taught me that you don't volunteer to directly help yourself or your individual family unit but rather to help the whole to make the whole better to help the whole grow to look out for everyone and to focus your mindset on others it is really necessary to do this to keep small towns small and of course when you do this in the end it will be so rewarding for you and your family this position over the last six years has been so rewarding extremely difficult at times but rewarding to see students come to these board meetings and to
015honor their accomplishments makes it all worthwhile to see the programs we implement and flourish makes it all worthwhile but none of this could happen if it wasn't for trust trust in my fellow board members trust in this administration trust in the faculty but most importantly trust in the process it'll help us all in the end thank you my friends it's been a pleasure [Applause] agenda items only at this time do i have any answers is that uh correspondence ms chair joining the correspondent this evening committee reports uh finance ted [Music] thank you ted no need to apologize thank you glad you're feeling better um dennis uh representative to mana spawn by statute any sending district to madison high school depending on the size of their enrollment may occupy a stream of their board and vote
016on issues affecting the high school and dissenting districts there are almost as many real kids at manuscript high school as there are kids from nascar which entitles our district to a permanent seat on their board this is critically important not only to the policies and the everyday operation of the high school but to the financial obligations of tuition which is a large part of our budget throughout my three years as badass swan's representative i found minus one to be a dynamic district well-led and forward-looking the field house is going to be an incredibly important asset to the entire shore area student athletics um as braille's representative i have asked a baby and was made a part of their budget process i have received assurances from both court president gene kitany and also their superintendent on
017occasion that brielle's representative will continue to be part of that process again i'd like to say that my experience in mansfield was very positive they're great folks they do their job very well um and uh i'm sure that they will be as collegial and as helpful to the next representative for the last three years thank you dennis has anybody buying board members any questions for danny okay uh current curriculum thank you karen um the crucial committee did meet uh this month open engagement we met for about an hour it was attended by ms carlson mr shady of his love miss jones and myself and uh you know as always my reports try to give a good idea of what the meeting was like but uh i encourage any other committee members to come in if
018i'm done if there's anything i've missed or haven't represented properly but during that meeting the big focus was uh obviously on diversity equity inclusion as we've always done and policy 2422 as it relates to comprehensive health and physical education we determined that there's always consistent and continuous discussions amongst the administration of driverless surrounding all of 3l elementary school curriculum this includes policy 242. moreover mrs love has confirmed that the incorporation of any new policies takes time and beginning in january and what may go well into the summer there will be an ongoing process of meetings committee and committees of faculty focusing not only on pd but also all the other curriculums like social studies math ela and science des has partnered with 100 of the other sending districts to impact digest and create a similar
019approach to the curriculum related specifically policy 2.22 and this includes their administration supervisors and faculty alike a fair portion of the curriculum as related to policy 242 is being addressed by the high school levels nine to 12 grades spotlighting our continuing partnership with descending districts and the numbers as standard operating procedures and as molds parents will be notified of any sensitive related subject sensitive subject materials in advance underlying the administration's commitment to communication and consistency in working with students in similar sensitive curriculum for example in the past the cap program which has been cooked ongoing for at least 20 years similarly emails and letters are sent home regarding the access of certain folks within our library which contains certain sensitive subjects the administration and faculty are keen to the understanding of age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate
020teaching because of this and combined with the high degree of professionalism and quality of the brielle elementary school faculty as a whole a fair level of trust should be afforded to them by the school community as a community as a committee we discuss portions of the policies that may be construed by parents as sensitive there are about 12 lessons as they relate to pe and health and parents will be made aware of them in advance per chance of family belief would necessitate any individual student being removed from any individual lesson overall the administration and faculty knows that the school community is supportive of the work they do this support allows them the right environment and the tools to do their jobs to the high standards we expect including and addressing policy like 242. the committee
021continued to discuss diversity equity and inclusion it asked the administration and challenged them in the areas of professional development consistent and continued use of the resources provided by this love in the administration and the review of lesson plans to ensure each eye is abundant and infused into all curriculum mrs jones added to the conversation that the importance of sensitivity training and any extra training or tv that can be provided would be welcome mrs love reinferred to pursue [Music] including things like breaking bias and lessons from homicide emails pushing out our resources to the faculty to create an access for lessons was also confirmed by islam she has standards she is looking for with regard to ddi to ensure resources are being utilized and infused like all curriculum this is an ongoing process that we are
022committed to and mrs love is on it the exposure to multicultural lessons and adapting dei into subjects like social studies or literacy is happening i noted separately because aaron brought it up earlier it is the huge importance of trust trust in the administration trust in the faculty is huge and should not be wavering at this time on any subject but of course at any time if any parent or community had any question regarding the curriculum they're welcome to discuss it with their teacher or the administration or if need be board members for proper response but trust is what goes to purpose there were no additional items from anybody at the meeting [Music] that was my request thank you mr bester does any board members have any questions i just have a comment that thank you
023for the report um that i was looking at the pt that we're being asked to approve tonight on tonight's agenda and i saw that um we have three um staff members three teachers that will be attending the new jersey state bar association breaking bias lessons from ronnie scott and um you know i just want to say you know this is an example of um a couple of months ago i expressed a need on for us to be more inclusive with african-american mandated studies um administration heard and um they listen and they take action so thank you to the administration um uh for being uh just taking action and um and seeing the importance of our teachers being trained on all right thank you kurt again for such a thorough report appreciate it um cool things
024do you think i would just like to reference one on the agenda the specifics uh and the enhancements that uh terry provided us uh for the weekend regarding that uh i like attacking charities charleston for their work to get this project to where it's at currently it's scheduled for summer of 2022. thank you i'll be yes tonight we're going to keep everybody in our hours [Music] so he did he met on december 8th and um you know at the meeting we had dennis sean mrs carlson we had dawn and also board attorney um sherry adams and so we discussed at length on policy 24-22 um and the concerns um especially with the two two statutes which were of the sexual abuse and assault awareness and prevention education and the other one was corporation of age
025appropriate instruction relative to consent for physical contact and sexual activity um and with um so of course there were many concerns about that we spoke about it on for a long time and um and we and i'll go into detail about that but we also talked about um uh policy regulation guide 5751 which is sexual harassment of students um unfortunately we did not get to cover all of that so um we are going to i'll schedule another meeting um with board attorney so that we could um be able to discuss this policy and so it's on the agenda for birth reading it's on the agenda for a first reading so i i will ask if we could remove it because it's not prepared on her first reading okay so as far as um 24-22 as
026you may be aware there is some discussion and commentary regarding the first reading of policy 24-22 this policy reflects legal requirements imposed upon public boards of education in public school districts although the policy was approved for a first reading due to the nature of the concerns raised the committee met with the board attorney to review its rights and obligations in this area with an eye towards clarifying the issue for the board and school community as explained by our attorney the proposed policies are mandated by law members of boards of education take an oath and are required to comply with the laws governing them and the school districts they represent in addition boards of education when audited are reviewed to assure all mandated policies and procedures are in place while there are some issues which are
027sensitive or upon which members of the border community may have different opinions this does not alleviate the lord's responsibility to follow the law or implement such policies in addition failure to failure to comply with legal requirements puts the district funding in jeopardy and places the districts and members of the board at risk and potential litigation matters if required policies have been voted down with that background we also discussed that the policy in question simply outlines the legal parameters it does not approve or adopt any particular curriculum on these topics the district administration and the board curriculum committee are in the process of reviewing and developing appropriate age and grade level curriculum modifications to address the legal requirements and that curriculum will be reviewed by the board and voted upon before any curricular changes are implemented
028the community will also have access to that curriculum and may provide public comment on the policy hopefully this clarification will respond to some of the prior concerns raised and provide an explanation of the board's actions in recommending and adopting this policy thank you [Music] as part of our uh your report last week could we clean that up whereas it's items number 11 and 23 specifically state that it's for grades nine to twelve and then number fifteen specifically states headed for public high schools and charter schools i'm not challenging them all out my challenge in the curriculum just it does not work you know pre-k in school okay um you said i'm starting to say which one is so that it accurately depicts the grades that we follow okay so 11 says um in grades 9
029through 12. sherry does that matter is it wait is it said 9-12 or not am i policy no it doesn't because we still have students that we send to high schools just representing the board's funds right but it can still say in there and it should say if it's nine to twelve but it would still be part of even though we're at pre-k to eight building and technically our budget is prepaid and twelve so that's right and you and the students don't go to another district who's responsible for your responsibility they just attend school mandated whether it's policies county school or any other schools i'm sorry so if a high school student that we pay their tuition segregation school you know outside you know it's a unique circumstance that we have board members sitting on
030the county schools well they're all obligated all of the boards are operating with the same laws and policy so any high school that's a public high school that we would send students to would have to say our curriculum that we're going to write and approve will only be updated but our policy still has to cover tell me if i'm wrong cover up to grade 12 because that's what our budget does and what our students are responsible for but the curriculum that we write obviously when we've written up to grade 8 because that's what building what we educate in this building [Laughter] responsible for those children so but the correctness of the policy the umbrella policy will cover that but the curriculum that we write will only go up to grade 8 because that's that's who
031we're educating but we're still responsible for the children up to grade 12. yes that school would also have the same policy if you as a sending district had a concern about whether they were properly implementing it you would raise it with them but it doesn't change the legal mandates i thought i think we clarified two straw sesame said you can remove whatever you want but it doesn't make it right and we've done that before especially on policies that are not mandated policy right where there's just revisions what we'll do is we'll modify them so that it applies to our district so i asked strauss estimated um just like sheriff said on and i'll quote this is what he sent me he said should a board not adopt this policy or remove certain provisions required by
032law the school district is still required to comply with the requirements so even if we remove the um you know the 9 to 12 or whatever grace don't apply to us we still have to comply with the law another thing too that i was reading about was that so on some of these um statutes it will say grades uh it may say grade five to seven right or it may say you know okay let's say um fifth grade to twelfth okay let's see just giving an example we may decide here the curriculum team may decide you know this this topic right here it may be better taught at an older age so we're all working together the curriculum team is now going to be working with others you know with the districts and so on
033and so they may say they may say you know we don't want the fifth graders to be taught back here it would be better taught at the high school than they're in my degree so right there we're complying you know with um the uh with the law if that makes sense yeah yeah let's just try to clean something up that doesn't particularly yeah right but it does yeah thank you any other questions from madonna thank you um mr wrecker community thanks again erin the community relations committee did meet on the 14th uh we met for about 45 minutes it was attended by ms carlson dr dean perezio mr walton uh i did not type up a formal report uh but i do have my notes uh i will type up and submit a formal report
034within the week the notes focused on three basic things uh one of the three was the ability for parents if so concerned or their beliefs led them into this in the direction but you can opt out of a curriculum or a physical health if you so desire it's a very easy process and it begins with the teachers and the administration so if by any means i don't believe the school board recommends anybody opting out of your curriculum because we have a great breakdown here but it is possible the other point we focused on was that ms carlson has implemented what's called rubicon atlas where all the curriculum will be ultimately placed on our website and available for review it's a process that will take time it's something that was on our wish list for many
035years and we're there now we're happy to have it and the the training of the teachers for rubicon including possible website upgrades to our own site are forthcoming uh it'll get it all out there and uh you know i hope the word transparent to that because it's something that we've always been but now it just adds to it uh and then finally we discussed the uh fact that miss shaw cheryl one of our own a faculty member is uh the uh kind of real this year something that we're so proud of because uh again it underlines and it speaks directly towards the uh the professionalism the high degree of of uh nature of our teachers not only within this school but outside in our community so it's something that we felt should be uh mentioned
036we're proud of and we're happy that she got the private realm uh again i will submit a formal report in more detail and if you do have any questions or dr dan brozier would like to add anything please feel free i would just comment um we had a really good discussion i think from i think a lot of the stuff from the last meeting which seems we're kind of dancing around these these seem to be trigger words of trust and transparency these nefarious things which i can only speak from my own point of view but i i that this whole the whole issue that came up last month when we voted on 24-22 from my point of view was not about anyone here in particular trying to sneak something by the goalie what i what
037i wanted my objection last month and the discussion yesterday was that i just want to make sure that parents know what's what's going into the curriculum where normally it might be something they wouldn't even look at and i think these this new program that mrs carlson was talking about where parents can look at it online i think would be helpful um to this whole concept of approving policies as a board that even if we don't approve them we are still obligated by law to follow it to be honest with you i don't really understand the purpose of approving a policy if our objections have no bearing right uh having said that if that is indeed the truth which i trust that it is based on what you said i don't see any other way that
038we can notate our our objection to a policy that we don't agree with other than than voting against it even if we're all of you to follow it so that that's at least documented in a public forum um but my concerns were all addressed and i think i'm happy with what we talked about and i i think i don't i no longer object based on this thank you dave thank you thanks for the conversation is obligated to comply with the law and and the board asks your policies and the purpose of the policies is in one sense to notify the members of your school community of what the requirements are relative to education just like you have your anti-bullying policy you have all these policies that set forth what the legal requirements are board members
039are taking a host to support the legal requirements and that's why they've got the policies as well as to provide that information out to the community say you had a policy just for by example you have your policy on anti-bullying and you disagree with it but it was required by law if you vote no to it and it is voted down or doesn't go into your policy manual and then someone something happens to a student and they sue the school district one of the first things that would happen is they would say you don't even have a policy that's made known to your public that supports the legal requirements that's what i'm talking about so you're not going to be excused from the legal requirements and the purpose of having a policy to set them
040forth is to show that the board is complying with these rules even if some people disagree with it that's really a legislative type of argument for us to address but from my standpoint as a board attorney my recommendation for minimizing legal risk to the school district is that mandated policies being done and if you disagree with the content that would maybe make a statement but i don't even think voting now is it's something that it could undermine in certain circumstances like the one i just gave this example so let's so let me give you an observative example let's say that they decide to pass a law saying that no one's allowed to be candid right i mean so because that's law we should just say yes to it nine zero it doesn't say you agree
041or disagree with it it just says this is what the law says who knows what the purpose of that that's exactly what i'm talking about is that the first thing hey look in an employment case say for example the first thing if somebody suits you for discrimination does the lawyer have the policies that prohibit discrimination because if they don't you're already behind them thank you sherry okay um moving on administration report chris has stuck for us this evening um i'd like to begin i'll just follow up with uh kurt's you know cheryl shaw being our pride of brielle is just a wonderful thing his first time a teacher has ever been selected for that so i will be inviting her to our january 26th meeting so that the board could recognize her uh then the
042dinner for her is uh january 19th of the wednesday before she totally deserves it often she comes to work and says i got home from a call last night at 4 30. you know and she's bubbly and happy she know and if you don't she teaches kindergarten she's just an amazing amazing uh educator but her service to this community has been you know for over 20 years has been incredible and she even went to school here so she uh totally represents this award uh the good news you know i know for many children santa claus is coming um well santa claus is the board of education and our uh student government working together uh today the rubber mulch arrived to our playground because the children always felt that you know keep our playground safer and
043in the long run uh it's gonna save us money because we revolt our playground every year it's very costly the rubber mulch should last as we've been told 10 plus years so they did it today the kids couldn't plan today but uh they're going to and so i have to give credit to the student government first because it was their idea and we said you know we'd help out and they raised over three thousand five hundred dollars to make that happen great student government uh annie is the name of our play this year we're so happy to have a playback we have over 60 children that will be involved in the play uh that play will happen uh march 24th uh the children are so excited that the play is back they're just so excited
044about the back and aren't we all glad that we could have something like that back uh on the flip side i sent to you our boys basketball program has been shut down from costa coven um we're doing everything to keep our building open you might have heard uh just up the street spring lake heights how to go total virtual until january we're staying healthy in this building it's the activities that are happening outside the building that have us concerned and so our numbers are ticking up i know many people thought this was going to go away we got to stay healthy we got to keep our building open um yet we do see the numbers rising especially in uh basketball we were one of the last schools uh anthro wall a few schools around here
045they were all shutting their vessel further down what are we doing right what are we doing right and yesterday the mass swamp basketball boys and our boys in the same hour shut down yeah and so um you know i just hope we're playing basketball you know january boys and girls we have a new honeywell alert system it's called in toronto uh so in case of inclement weather or any messages that we have to send that to the parents it's already been sent to the parents to sign up um food service uh our new food service uh company uh simplified we'll start january 3rd when the kids come back we're very excited about that since september except for i think maybe four days our kids have been eating outside every single day and playing outside every
046single day i know come january it won't happen as often but when the weather's nice you know we're getting our kids outside and they absolutely love that uh the pan portal is open because we went to tri-semester so that first tri-semester i can't believe it is over and also our winter enrichment we were not able to run a fall enrichment we just didn't get the enthusiasm for the program now we have it so as i talked about cam running it that program i hope gets bigger and bigger because the kids the teachers really love our winter or all of our enrichment after school programs and we like keeping the kids after school in great activities uh the final thing is uh i can't believe almost a week from now next thursday the children will be
047excused from school about 12 50 one o'clock for winter break i hope everyone here on the board and here whether you're virtually in or here in our audience everybody deserves a nice restful winter great make sure you're with your family and your friends and you're doing all the things that you you don't have the time to do because how busy we are on a day-to-day so i want you to enjoy your family and your friends i want our kids to have a restful winter break and have fun with degree uh same with my staff but most importantly um and then i just wanted to say i'm very happy food services coming back in january but i also wanted to say thank you for jimmy for helping us out um in the interim with uh providing
048some keep that hot lunch delivery for our students um it made the transition very smooth and uh again we couldn't do it without members our community like jimmy said to help with that so i wanted to share anybody have any questions yeah um just actually coming to dinner is looking i realized our uh menu is up on the website so that just led me to realize it appeared that the cost is very high where our cost is uh five dollars and twenty five cents for a student lunch and whereas manchester one using the same company is three dollars spring lake heights using the same company as three dollars and fifty cents and belmar elementary using the same company's four dollars just not consistent the pricing with using the same company with three other just you
049know three other schools in our center district and we're 525. so i think that's something great thank you great anything else chris real quick the director is marissa north the musical director is sydney rosen our music teacher moving on action items curriculum program uh kurt uh thank you karen i'd like to put forth a motion to remove action items a1 through a3 foreign yes find any questions [Music] um so this is a good number um the federal grant that we're getting and that's the amount that is given to us the amounts are given to us by the state so those are um specifically the 58 000 to use the growth of accelerated learning coaching and then the other way so their specific uses allow the uses and those announced in those categories um multiple purposes
050yeah well for the um okay that's what i was thinking okay that's right [Music] yes [Music] um nothing else okay yeah yeah okay uh policy uh medallion we're only doing d2 correct correct okay so i'd like to make a motion before removing d1 and uh i'm going to make a motion that the board approves the following policies on the second reading any other questions okay can you please call the roll okay yes yes definitely yeah yeah don't yeah hey thank you dave first canal that's the substitute for e18 thank you [Applause] i'll second that yes great uh visitors business uh visitors are committed to comment on agenda and non-agenda items at this time okay uh discussion i do not have any uh discussion except that everyone has a happy holidays and a healthy holiday season
051well i would just like to thank both of you i didn't say in my speech earlier that uh i've made friends being on the florida that's for people i never probably would have crossed campus in my life and i i'm gonna cherish that and that is something that i'm gonna take away from from them it's been a pleasure [Music] in that rotation not share your respect for them thank you oh you're not getting rid of me i'll just be sitting over there [Laughter] but i did you know i also wanted to say before you know the end of the night is that um yeah i've been with dennis here for his nine years and counting six years and um the two of you will be missed um we've been here together many of us for
052years and um it becomes like a board family you know so to speak because we do we spent a lot of hours that the public doesn't realize but we spent a lot of hours in our committee needs and um and so uh you know there's a lot of communication and like karen said you know you make friends from being the two of you brought so much um to this board and really in the years that you've served um have moved this district forward so i just want to thank you and you'll really be missed thank you i want to say something too i've been on the board nine years and as we've observed there wasn't very much change on this board the folks that i came in with or whoever hearing it i could not
053even understand here um but we have in the last couple of elections we've had new board members mr walton dave um these guys bring a lot of new energy new blood new ideas and some of them i don't agree with but nonetheless i think maybe as i say a little bit of a fresh face a little bit of a new kind of energy to the board and i think that's important too so i look forward to seeing how the board changes and moves with new okay ted you pay the bills for me please yes okay there is no executive session planned for this evening all um favor hi merry christmas everybody [Music]