001the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation all right good evening welcome to the April 2018 action meeting mr. sugars would you take role please mr. Goodwin here here here mr. Seidel here mrs. Karpel Ino here mrs. Schultz here mr. Tomlinson here dr. Wong yeah dr. Dickinson yeah I first up I think I'll turn it over to dr. Milosh to do a presentation this evening we have joining us tonight is Assemblywoman Pam lamp it and Assemblywoman if you would approach the microphone we will start with you good evening everybody it's been a day so I'm very pleased to be here tonight for a my for our superintendent dr. Joe Melosh it's an honor and a privilege because I've known Joe for a very long time
002and I for many of you you know I'm at Cherry Hill parent how are you I'm at Cherry Hill parent both my kids went through the Cherry Hill school system and when my son got to Cherry Hill West it was doctor melosh as a principal who really helped him get through he took a special interest Andrew you know no surprise and ur was an ADHD child and made it through all the way through the Trejo school system with an eye out an IEP and it wasn't until his junior year that we sort of struggled about what to do and Joe actually took me aside and said look it'sit's a 504 Pam this is what we're gonna do he's going to get a 504 and he had to explain to me what it meant and had
003to go through my first you know IEP meeting oh boy and he walked us through it but it really was Joe taking my son aside and explaining to him who was a really proud young man very proud young man the that this was okay this was not a crutch because my son never wanted a crutch and Joe took him aside and explained to him it wasn't it was just an opportunity for him to take the exam and do as well as he could do and I thank you for that and and it's to no surprise that Joe has been honored by many others and so it was with pride that we wanted to present you with this resolution a joint resolution tonight so it's a joint resolution by Senator Beach Assemblyman Greenwald and myself and
004there's many where as is so and he's earned them so whereas the Senate and General Assembly of the state of New Jersey are pleased to salute and commend Joe Milosh a highly esteemed member of the Garden State community and recognition of his inclusion in the upcoming Education Week 2018 edition of the leaders and to learn from and whereas leaders to learn from is a special report published annually by the prestigious magazine Education Week that highlights innovative school district leaders around the nation exemplified by dr. Joe Melosh and whereas dr. Joe Melosh has served with distinction as superintendent of the Cherry Hill Public Schools a position he has aptly upheld since his fitting appointment on August 25th 2015 and the depth of his knowledge and the breadth of his experience have immeasurably enhance the academic success
005and emotional growth of a countless students and whereas admitted graduate of DeSales University and Holy Family University and widening university dr. Joe Melosh a past principal of Kingston elementary school carousing Middle School Cherry Hill High School West enjoyed a suburb superb career as cherry hos director of curriculum and leader as the assistant superintendent for pre-k through 12th grade and whereas dr. Joe Melosh lent his wisdom and expertise an exceptional educator sharing his considerable insight as a middle school humanities and English teacher in the Willingboro and maple shade school districts where where he has made significant contribution as a director of curriculum and the principal of the Stine power school and whereas he has upheld in his life's efforts by his wife and there's always a woman behind a man st. and he takes great pride
006and his four daughters and whereas within all of the spheres of his life and work dr. Jo Milosh has established a model to emulate and set a standard of excellence towards which others might strive and whereas and both right and proper for the legislature to pause and its deliberations there to recognize dr. Jo Melosh and to praise Him as his individual outstanding character and determination now therefore be it resolved by the Senate and General Assembly of the state of New Jersey that the legislature hereby honors dr. Jo Melosh and pays tribute to his meritorious record of service leadership and commitment and extends sincere and best wishes for his continued success in all the future endeavors am via further resolved that the do that the duly authenticated copy of this resolution signed by the Senate President
007and the Assembly Speaker and attested by the Senate secretary and assembly clerk clerk be transmitted to dr. Jo Melosh [Applause] for his fort and for his four daughters today I just have to share that today the governor signed the Equal Pay Act [Applause] when they go off to work you know hopefully they will not be discriminated against but when they are and that happens and it will happen New Jersey the progressive state has a look back to six years the most progressive state in this nation so very proud to be able to share that with all we're very lucky no speech speechless so I guess we'll move on to the other presentation for the evening yes thank you dr. Dickinson so I'm very excited mrs. Sugar's is going to be doing a brief presentation just
008to follow up because we will ask the board to adopt our 2018-2019 annual budget she did a full presentation earlier this month and we're excited to get the update so I'm not quite sure how to top that so this evening we will have the public hearing on our budget this budget is the same budget that you saw a couple weeks ago when we approved it for initial submission to the county office the process is that we approve that initial submission budget it gets submitted to the county office the county office reviews it comes back to us with any kind of questions or concerns that they may have fortunately they came back to us with relatively few questions and thank you to mrs. Ridgeway for taking the lead on that and answering all those questions so
009basically this is the same budget that you have seen so I thought I would just highlight a few things so what are we including in this budget that's new we talked about this last time additional an additional world language teacher at the middle school level a Chinese language program at the high schools and B teams at the middle schools and five additional full-time campus police officers so those are the new things that we're including this year what kind of capital projects are we doing this year's you know we do try to do a couple projects each year through our capital reserve security upgrades that would crest in pain as you know we're having a roofing issue at East over the auditorium so we will address that issue and then we're going to continue wall repairs
010at East High School which is just seems to be kind of an ongoing project for us each year so if you take a look here we have our general fund expenditures and our general fund revenues we're actually voting tonight on the general fund the special revenue fund and the debt service fund but really the general fund is kind of kind of the meat and potatoes of our budget it's the biggest part it's where we do our day-to-day activities and so you can see kind of a breakdown there of how we are spending our money and then and this is the breakdown that the state uses these are the categories that the state uses for our budget and you can see that our general fund budget this year is just over two hundred million dollars look
011on the other side and you look at the revenue side we can see that our local tax levy if you take our local tax levy our fund balance of it just over 8 million and our capital reserve account you can see that you know Cherry Hill itself is funding about 91 percent of its budget we have some other smaller tuition tuition revenues miscellaneous revenues in there some fund balance our federal aid in there the next biggest part of our budget is state aid and we received about five hundred and ninety six thousand dollars additional in general fund state aid this year over last year so not where we'd like to be but definitely moving in the right direction so you can see they're kind of how our revenue side looks in terms of who's supporting
012the budget and what that looks like we talked about tax impact our taxes for the general fund or increasing adjust to the two percent cap then we have a slight increase in our debt service fund it's about 2.5 percent the overall amount is up two point zero one percent for the average assessed home in Cherry Hill of two hundred twenty-four thousand dollars it's about eighty two dollars and twelve cents annually for this budget some of the financial highlights as I mentioned we received some additional state aid of five hundred ninety six thousand dollars we've received some additional debt service aid which actually goes towards the payment of our debt of $25,000 this is the last year for our bond and principal payment which is why I have been talking it is a very good year
013for a bond referendum and also through this budget we will be generating some banked cap which I think is a good thing as we look to full-day kindergarten and some other things that we know we will have coming up in future years we will have some banks cap there to use if we should need it so that's pretty much it in a nutshell as I said the resolution is exactly the same we will also vote on the special revenue fund the special revenue fund is where we account for all of our grants and the debt service fund is where we account for our bond and principal interest payments so overall when you add those three budgets together it's just over two hundred million dollars two hundred and eight two hundred and forty five thousand four
014hundred and sixty seven dollars for our total budget with one hundred and seventy five million seven hundred and fifty two thousand nine hundred and twenty eight dollars supporting that at a local tax levy there any questions yes mrs. judge I don't really have a question I just have a statement that I appreciate hiring rather than laying off because I know through my buddies at Garden State coalition of schools there are layoffs in the state including Kingsway but that I've heard at the fair funding testimony that we've we've heard and Hillsborough he has was laying off some people so I appreciate the hiring rather than laying off of people so it's um well done and if there's no other comments I just wanted again public to thank mrs. Sugar's mrs. Ridgeway and their team for the
015work again as we talked about before this process begins around September each year you know so by the time this budget gets adopted tonight and then we'll finally get approved by the state the the ladies and their team will start to build the budget for next year because we begin the formal process in September so I'm kind of a grateful to the work that they've done and where we were able to stretch money and how we use it so thank you for what you've done and please carry that on back into the office Thank You mr. sugars all right we'll move into our hmm excuse me correspondence and I know mrs. judge has something for us this evening I do it's rather lengthy so I'll try to speed it up or gloss over so last
016month's Garden State coalition of schools meeting it's always the day after a meeting so I'll report on last month's and then mention a little bit about tomorrow's so on March 28th the Garden State meeting the guest speaker was Cynthia rice she's a senior policy analyst for an organization called advocates for children of New Jersey she had her presentation always like 20-30 minutes on how a Trenton public schools are improving their chronic absenteeism they you know they get more money than we do for starters but they have a lot of other issues for absenteeism such as unreliable transportation parent and student work schedules impact their going to school housing instability etc so I don't mean to make light light of it at all Trenton has offered incentives for attending school they have many school after school
017activities they held a father-daughter dance just as a couple of examples and they try very hard to make staff student connections and they've had a great turn around with their absenteeism from 2015 to to now I have the PowerPoint presentation with me I did not you know grab the statistics or whatever I could have but I didn't so tomorrow's meeting on April 25th the guest speaker was Dale Russakoff she is the author of the prize and it's regarding Newark and public education in general and she meant you know in the review review that I wrote I read that was forwarded to us at Garden State Mark Zuckerberg is in the book for the 100 million dollar pledge that he made years ago so that'll be interesting to hear her tomorrow and then the annual Garden
018State meeting is the morning of Wednesday May 30th it's in the morning I know that acted Commissioner Rapala has been invited and unfortunately Pam lamp ed she is the Assembly Education Committee Chair she is unable to attend that day I mentioned last month that we were Garden State Board was meeting with Lou Greenwald regarding Hib and potential ideas regarding consequences and unintended consequences we actually met with Lou's legislative director Jennifer layman she was actually at our fair funding meeting in February with Lou we've recommended a few things as executive board at Garden State such as it's just as thoughts out there to take away the HIV process at the elemér elementary level up to the 4th grade because a lot of the HIV s that are that are handled as HIV czar age-appropriate type behaviors
019that kids do and it was just a suggestion I don't have have no idea they're gonna be able to do make changes at the legislation's and one of the suggestions was take away the appeal process that the board sits when they when when appeals come to the Board of Education appeals would go to the superintendent and then if parents are not happy with that it would go directly to the Commissioner of Education if it's changed just a comment that was discussed another idea was to allow for mental health improvements in hiring in professional development etc above the 2% cap for districts there were a few other suggestions it'll be interesting to see what happens with these recommendations and because we had the opportunity and Jennifer LeMans ear dr. Jordan chef who's the president of Garden
020State and superintendent of Hillsborough spoke about the budget he explained this school districts difficulty with a 2% cap and they did not get any increase Hillsborough that's one reason why they're laying off they did not get anything this year compared to last year he ended up talking about the sfra aid adjustment 8 etc and Jennifer layman's response to dr. SHIVs explanation was she said it was the best explanation she's ever received so we kidded with him in the parking lot in Trenton afterward and he was not very amused at that comment because which means that all the meetings that she sits and he's not convinced that they're explaining very well or understanding the SSF are a very well so he he didn't take it as the compliment that it was meant he was more frustrated
021than anything but we we probably talked about talked about the budget as long as we talked about HIV and I think she gave us a little bit more than an hour so it was it was unexpected that we wasn't there but but beneficial at the end well and we'll see what happens with it with that with those recommendations and suggestions several of us went to the budget testimony hearings on Tuesday April 3rd mrs. mate like mrs. Seidel and I went to Rowan University to testify before the budget Senate Budget Committee dr. Milosh was there mrs. Karpel II know mrs. Schultz and I also went to the assembly hearing on the budget in Trenton on April 9th at that hearing I read dr. malaysia's testimony I did the best I could that three minutes goes fast
022it was very frustrating but they got the whole they got all our copies mrs. Karpel II know right our testimony that we worked on as a group at that meeting it was very frustrating because we when we registered I I don't know if you're gonna talk about this at all but yeah what was very frustrating because when we all signed up as board members we were called at our homes or our cell phones whatever number we gave and said you're only allowed five minutes a group and then when we got there other people were allowed to speak they didn't have they didn't sign up they didn't have testimony to hand in but they were given time to speak so we were just sitting there going well we wouldn't all of us would have had we
023known so it was it was interesting if the whole bit every year it's interesting it's just very interesting glad we went we we will do our best and we'll see if it makes a difference to other things I'll try to make it quick I went last on Friday April 13th I attended the School Board's opioid epidemic conference at Mercer County Community College it was a day like 9:00 to 3:00 conference these meetings are always very interesting and I always a walk away learning something I'm the youngest board member and chair in New Jersey the youngest board member in New Jersey his name is Noah Horowitz and he is from I gonna look it up Brock burg New Jersey because on his nametag he had Noah it was so funny it was just Noah so a
024few things I learned from this conference takeaways that were highlights to me was talking about life stressors that our brains can't tell the difference between life stressors and being chased by a lion I just I remember that from preview but I just I have a son who's in college and I told him that I said you know you're you know he next two weeks are gonna be hard for him because he's a final so I told him about that and another tidbit is in the state of New Jersey we could film link in the financial field with the people we lost to the opioid addiction epidemic last year in 2017 craziness the DEA represented that spoke in the early afternoon said that they're seeing more and more I'm not going to pronounce that correctly car
025fentanyl which is a hundred times more potent as the same amount of fentanyl and five thousand times more potent than a unit of heroin in a ten thousand times more potent than a unit of morphine and he said I could not verify this online he said that it was meant for elephants but it's I don't know if that's true or not but that's what he said I can't imagine that he'd lie he's a DEA representative for god sakes but it just was I couldn't find an online that that's true so they and other little tivat is they collected almost 15,000 pounds of medications at the safe drug take-back locations throughout the state last year and he kept on referencing many times the DEA gov regarding information for schools parents and kids including YouTube he mentioned
026there's a 45 minute and there's an hour YouTube interesting YouTube videos thank you my goodness that I have not watched it but I plan to and I can forward you the names of them if you want so the last thing I wanted to mention was last Tuesday April 17th I attended the Cherry Hill this life counts meeting that was held by the Jewish family and Jewish family and services in the Cherry Hill Police Department it was at Mercer Street more than anything that evening was I was so impressed with a young lady named Kristen Haru tynin from Glen Mills Pennsylvania she had quite the life story and spoke to me because I have a brother who's in alcoholic recovering for 28 years doing very well but she I went up and talked to her afterward
027because she is three years sober and she her life story is just sad but she's gonna be okay I really do think she's gonna be okay so here's the packet that I got for you there's something foreign in from and from interesting information regarding apps for your phone and then I gave everybody one of these just to tuck in your wallets and purses whatever and it's regarding if you know someone that's thinking about suicide call 9-1-1 there's a text start to get messages there's 800 numbers and there's a New Jersey Hope line number on this so I got one for all the board members and there's one in your folder yeah so busy busy time so thank you very much any questions talk to me too long yes I just wanted to add that even
028though it was frustrating that we could not each individually testify and that we they did allow us to do a group testimony but each of us who had signed up did get the opportunity to submit our own individual written testimony so so there was that but it was frustrating yeah thank you thank you mrs. judge obviously a busy month may I ask the age of the youngest board member in New Jersey he's a freshman in college he is gonna be a man he want to be a math teacher and it was just so intriguing to talk to him I I say it at the right table that day it was a very enticing with a gentleman from West Orange he's in his first term also but this young man we were talking about something or
029no there and we were talking about social media and the toughness of being a board member being a volunteer and social media and one of the things he said was I don't think you can respond to that because you're a board member and I said he gets it you know so it was it was very interesting it was very very interesting so but he but he does have a it was fun to sit with them it was really fun to share with us thank you I do I have two items that I attended along with mrs. judge first one we attended was on Wednesday April 18th it was the Camden County School Boards Association 8th grade dialogue night it was a lot of fun if you get a chance to go next year you should
030this is a program that recognizes students whose character determination school spirit and leadership have inspired their classmates teachers in their community representing Rosa this year was Kyler Petry representing cruci it was Caleb Williams and representing Beckwith Haley Connors each year the students who represent our middle schools are more and more impressive the format for the evening is a Q&A with all the students sitting on a stage facing the audience talk about intimidating but our students in fact are all the students were poised and thoughtful and articulate in their responses one of the questions was if you were an administrator in your school what would you change Haley from back said there are a lot of different cultures in my school and we should learn and celebrate all of them Kyler's from Rosa said bring back
031recess we need a break during the day and Caleb from kuru see he declined to answer at first but then when the other kids had responded he asked for the microphone back because he had given it some thought and he said teachers should have one-to-one interviews with their students to get to know them and to help them so and as we sat listening to these young students so thoughtfully consider the questions that were given to them and respond with suggestions for improvement from their perspective I think our future is in pretty good hands so if you have a chance to go next year you should and the other event that mrs. judge and I attended and dr. Milosh was at both of these as well was the Chaco scholarship luncheon that's the Cherry Hill african-american
032Civic Association and this is the 37th year for their scholarships for qualifying East and West students and students are chosen not only based on academic achievements but on their character work ethic and community involvement this year chocka chocka proudly awarded twelve seniors from east and west with scholarships from west we had Kayla Washington Jessie Randolph Melanie Stokes our own gay brown just Chisum Achin Evo and Erin Foust and from east we had Juliet Oguri Devin Holmes dan Danielle Allen Joshua Hall Maya Williams and Jonathan Andrade Cherry Hill african-american Civic Association also recognized three members of our faculty and administration with their flame award for their contribution and dedication to our students and to the Civic Association the flame awardees for our Michelle Pryor who is a guidance counselor at West doctor lawyer Chapman who is
033you're tonight principle of our alternative high school and dr. Joseph Milosh our superintendent and another great event sponsored by the Chaco members who are very dedicated to our students in many respects so have a chance to go to that one next year I encourage you to do so it's a lot of fun and it's great to meet those kids they are incredible thank you any questions for mrs. maddack any other correspondence okay seeing none we'll move on to our high school board reps and I guess this evening we'll start with West good evening dr. Milosh dr. Dickinson mr. Goodwin members of the Board of Education and stakeholders I hope everyone enjoyed their Spring Break as a senior this is an exciting time with mark marking period is here and it is officially time to countdown
034to graduation it is an exciting time because graduation marks the beginning of a new life with endless possibilities despite the fact that the school year is coming to an end there are still several events this month on April 13th the african-american culture club had their Washington DC field trip the trip encompassed visiting the National Museum of african-american history and culture the MLK monument and Howard University the cherry blossoms were in bloom and it was a beautiful day for a field trip students that have demonstrated academic excellence through their GPA were inducted into the National Honor Society inductions were held in the auditorium on April 16th at 7 p.m. the class of 2018 s senior trip was from April 17th to a preferred I was in attendance of the trip even though I am still recovering
035from the late nights and hot weather I would do it all again students that participate in the choir and various West singing groups we will be performing at Myrtle Beach from April twenty six to eight or 29th from April 23rd to April 27th tickets for senior prom will be available for sale and f30 during luck during the lunch periods the problem beyond May 31st at the Adventure Aquarium from 7:00 to 11:00 p.m. on May 1st and May 3rd the senior parent meeting will be held in the auditorium at 6 p.m. during the meeting the graduation ceremony rehearsals final obligations and exams will be discussed juniors what will be juniors will have their senior portraits taken on May 1st 2nd and 3rd Cherry Hill West 2018 rapid yearbook are now on sale for $85 this concludes
036my April report and I hope everyone has a productive week thank you thank you gay and now I hear from East hello esteemed members of the board it's good to see you again although it has only been one month since my last report I've quite a bit to talk about so I'll try to keep this brief at the last meeting I noted the upcoming event mr. East I'm pleased to report that I went very smoothly raised a lot of money for this year's charity tools for schools and our very own Josh Sadiq off came in second place the Thursday before spring break we held our annual multicultural day members of our wide variety of cultural organizations demonstrated the most interesting aspects of their heritage through booths activities and an organized dance members of these clubs
037were worked for months to get everything together and their hard work really paid off as it was a memorable day for all stay tuned the acapella group advanced the high school national championships the finals were held on Friday April 20th they had a phenomenal season and making it to the national championships was a great way to end it on Wednesday April 18th during PARCC testing the senior class Student Government hosted a field day for the seniors there are bouncy castles food trucks and games such as kickball can jam and cornhole it was a nice way to spend a sunny day and there was even a dunk tank on Saturday April 21st East hosted Simon's heart organization and offered offered free heart screenings a hundred and seventy people were screened and five referrals were made from
038that East currently has 20 students in Atlanta for deca nationals they've been working hard all year and we're excited to see what they accomplished spring sports are in full swing with sports such as the track and field teams lacrosse and baseball having some big wins under their belts already we look forward to seeing how the rest of the season plays out the junior prom will be this Friday the class of 2019 is looking forward to a memorable night of dinner and dancing on May 1st there will be a band concert there's always so much talent to split at the spring concert and I encourage you all to come out and see it on May 11th the theater department will be hosting one-act plays students come together to write cast and direct their own plays as
039part of the final major theater activity of the year East has a couple awards ceremonies coming up with People's Choice Awards on May 15th and kumoi inductions on May 16th and last but not least the Robotics Club has three teams leaving tomorrow for worlds in Louisville Kentucky we're very proud of them and can't wait to hear how they do thank you for giving me the time to update you any questions Thank You Lauren thank you both very good reports sure it's a very busy time as he closed down to the end of the school year okay so we'll have our first public discussion period your comments must be regarding items on tonight's action agenda when you come to the mic please state your name and address and the item to which you will be speaking
040on the agenda you'll have three minutes for your remarks please note the green light will turn yellow when you have 30 seconds remaining the light will turn red when your three minutes are up I jennifer nati o22 for North Madison Avenue Cherry Hill and I'm talking on five five six one use of physical restraints seclusion techniques for students with disabilities dr. Milosh and mrs. Weddington and mr. skur Pollino explained that at the last PNL meeting that the BOE is the parent voice and that we the parents and advocates have elected you to speak for us and that you septa has to come to every meeting to express our concerns I saw that within the physical restraints and seclusion some of our suggestions have arrived in there and we're very happy to see that but we're
041praying that you'll also help us with a couple other things that we have two days after I attended the meeting on April 10th to discuss seclusion and physical restraint techniques for students with disabilities I received phone calls and emails from parents alleging excessive restraint in a few special needs classrooms in district just up to sent a letter to dr. melash mrs. Weddington dr. Campisi and dr. Dickinson and dr. Milosh has confirmed in in person that an investigation is in progress so thank you for that as a parent of a student who has received physical restraint seclusion both in and out of Cherry Hill School District I'm very familiar with physical restraint and seclusion techniques I am happy and thankful that those two pieces the seclusion and the prone restraint have been added back in and
042I believe that because I believe that everything should be covered in a policy to protect the teachers the students and the administration I would also like to note that nowhere in this policy does it discuss counseling for PTSD stress and trauma due to these techniques it also does not comment on having students receive a functional behavior analysis when more than one restraint is completed parents and school district employees should be recommending a functional behavior assessment in their IEP s or 504s to get to the bottom of the behaviors I also believe a functional communication assessment should also be conducted because we all know aggression can be a form of communication and could be why the child is being aggressive being restrained giving a timeout or seclusion won't get to the bottom of what is bothering
043the person I believe we also need to start noting how many restraints are recurring in and out of district we also truly believe that the district needs a new safety training program and it stated in number three that the Board of Ed is supposed to determine who is to be qualified to provide such training and that the training is updated at least annually I have heard from several BC bas and they're recommending safety care behavioral safety training program which provides the skills and competencies necessary to effectively prevent minimalize and manage behavioral challenges with dignity safety and the possibility of change thank you very much mrs. nanny Oh can you send me that we store it shared with me what you just read that please thank you I'm Eileen Doran 47 Bryn Mawr Avenue Cherry Hill
044New Jersey and I'm also speaking on 5561 originally I was going to speak about having the prone restraint and seclusion language put back in to protect her out of District students which miss Nadia I know spoke about us on the livestream at the last meeting and I'm very happy to see that the board and the policy committee took to SEPTA's and miss Nadia's recommendations and applied them that's really heartening to say thank you so much for doing that likewise to what miss Nadia said I'm concerned about the number of times children are being restrained in the district's in certain classrooms and to follow up for that or you know that someone should be reviewing that the parents are being notified every time in a timely matter and that if as it says in the policy
045it says if there's repeated use of these methods for an one individual child or within the same classroom or by the same person that there should be some kind of a follow-up a review to see what needs to happen does the child need an FBA does the teacher need more training is there something inadvertent that's happening in the classroom climate that's setting the child off not intentionally by anyone but we know what's happening let's take a look and see how we can prevent it so that this B you know stays what I think we all intended to be which is a measure of last resort that we be used also to other positive methods first and then as most audios said if as a last resort this is what needs to happen to keep everyone
046safe the student and the staff and the other students in the class that there be some kind of debriefing afterwards some counseling whether it's a guidance counselor's we have we have amazing this is something we do really well in our district I'm very proud of its the mental health services we have so maybe there's ways to tap those folks in afterwards to help our students who have had to go through this process so thank you for listening and I hope you take some of those things into consideration good evening David Rossi 102 Roanoke Road the commenting on item number for project 81 30 security upgrades Murray statement from gen brumbaugh she's unable to be here this evening so I would do this for her I want to talk to you about security as it relates
047to the budget being approved tonight during the many recent meetings and presentations touching on security dr. Milosh and others have referenced a security consultant that has advised on a wide range of plans from small security upgrades all the way up to 14 million in vestibule construction included in upcoming bond and we could to ago I asked to see a copy of the recommendations made by the unnamed security consultant I was surprised when dr. merliss explained that to date Cherry Hill has not had a comprehensive audit done by a professional security firm five years after Sandy Hook 19 years after Columbine before current Cherry Hill students were even born in 2018 Cherry Hill has never had a security audit done this begs many difficult questions why did we move forward with two hundred thousand dollar security
048upgrades to Berkeley school with no security audit why is the board passing a budget spent over 1 million in capital reserves to fund security upgrades at only Woodcrest and pain elementary schools with no security audit why are you asking taxpayers to approve 14 million in bonds to construct security vestibules with no security audit I appreciate all of the contributions of mrs. sugars Mississippi DOE and Board of Education members the Cherry Hill Police Department architects and others in developing coordinating security upgrades as dr. Milosh explained mr. Sugar's worked on the project with Ronen security when she worked in Morristown School District she took what she learned there during that project and applied it to Cherry Hill schools but she is not a security specialist nor are the Cherry Hill Police Department they are law enforcement and
049first responders with their own perspective just last week an 11th hour Cherry Hill contracted with Rowan and security to finally perform security audit Cherry Hill students deserve better than hand-me-down security plans they deserve a professor we planned and executed security plan like Morristown they deserve fiscal responsibility and evidence-based decision-making and further execution of security upgrades should be put on hold pending completion of a security audit by Ronin security the formation of a district-wide committee with community representation in public review of Ronin security and recommendations I also wanted to echo the statements that the other two community members spoke about the policies dealing with children with special needs and how it relates to the the discussions that they had and the concerns that they have it is one of mine as well and I will discuss
050that at the end of the meeting thank you good evening board my name is Rick short my address is 1002 Shelton Parkway tonight I'm just gonna focus on three numbers folks and these are the numbers that all are eleven thousand three hundred students rely on the three numbers are this we have 47 percent coverage of police police which is good the problem is is we only have 16 percent coverage of physical security this concerns me dearly this affects over ten thousand two hundred and forty two students who fall under the realm of what I consider no physical security I want to read you tonight some principal letters after events the second one I will read is the second back incident probably the most for me the most emotional one because it had to do with
051a helicopter and everything else so I read you some of the quotes exactly from the principal letter the first one was the first back incident in October 2016 when they when the principal said clown-like appearance therefore suspicious scene what was the result I know what the result was it was one camera in the entire school which is completely to me absurd what was the result the real result the Philadelphia Police Department and not to Philadelphia the Cherry Hill Police Department investigated the matter and found no credible threat how can you find any credible threat when you have one camera in the entire school this is completely absurd the second letter coming from the Beck this time the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office gets involved the Cherry Hill Police gets involved they investigated a threat this is
052really the most concerning because in the state of New Jersey there's over three thousand schools of the 3,000 schools somehow or another we were picked out of the blue to be the one with a bomb threat now if this were a real bomb threat how would we know where the person is or where the devices wouldn't you think that during the first moments of any major event that if we had live feed cameras in all 19 schools starting of em starting September 1st are 10 that are eleven thousand three hundred students would be safer let's move on to the next one that just happened Bret Hart April 11th same scenario how can the police investigate anything if they don't have any physical security I end with this the cost welfare so I'm asking not to
053approve the budget because you need to add 0.0 0.8 een schools that's all it's gonna cost thank you oh I like steak I'm ed Mac house I'm 2144 at Lincolnshire road for a long PA I attended a couple meetings prior at Cherry Hill attend mr. Mac house can I ask which agenda item yours I'm going to talk about security security I wait comments here I need to know we need a specific agenda item you can you can speak in the second public comment period if you would like oh I was referring to like other people said how you implement the restraints the judgments that's involved I've experienced 10 years as a teacher and I've gone to other school board meetings I've seen like it Cheltenham where there was 10 people injured trying to restrain and
054stop some fights I would have experienced stopping fights and I think a lot of teachers are intimidated they're told they're afraid to get involved and and a lot of things get out of hand because of that I think I'm going to ask you to speak during a second public comment period because this is a little bit beyond the specific agenda items you may speak but you have to wait for the second period okay thank you anyone else okay thank you or I turn it over to dr. Milosh I have some remarks that I'd like to share with everybody these are kind of meandering but you'll see where I'm going towards the end so bear with me I think sometimes we we missed the forest for the trees you know we constantly talk about pothole ISM
055broken windows and things but there's you know a pretty elaborate organization that that we're all in charge of and I'll share some some facts with you we're in charge of 19 buildings the youngest of our building was built in 1970 and I was a little Ted the lad back then we're responsible for 1.7 million square feet of building space 354 acres of grounds there are sixteen hundred and fifty total employees including over 1,000 teachers and other certificated staff one of the largest employers in this region we're responsible for the success of over 11,000 students the very complex organization and it's very successful just some success indicators 94% of our grad graduates continue their education we are a state district of character and eight individual schools have been recognized as national schools of character we're the
05612th or 13th largest school district in the state of New Jersey 12th largest district out of 590 total districts all these moving parts continue to operate even though we are severely underfunded by the state of New Jersey our district receives less than half of the annual state aid that the state itself says we deserve and then the next part doesn't have a lot of we're asses and ands and therefore so a little bit easier to read even with inadequate resources our district thrives it will be impossible to manage this organization without strong leadership leadership starts at the top and we are extremely fortunate to have superintendent dr. Joseph Milosh epitomize leadership dr. Milosh was recently recognized as one of Education weeks 2018 leaders to learn from not proper grammar but nonetheless and an important recognition
057he was selected from hundreds of nominations from across the nation dude his innovative leadership practices this culminated in special recognition a special recognition event in early April in Washington DC dr. Milosh was also recognized as the New Jersey PTA superintendent of the year this month I in the Cherry Hill Board of Education would like to congratulate dr. milosh on his achievements and share our appreciation for all the card work he contributes to the success the success of the district we are fortunate to have him leading our school district congratulations [Applause] now you now you may have your speech again I typically I'm not at a loss for words but thank you Barry thank you very much and thank you to the board I do consider myself one of the luckiest people in the world you
058know to have the position that I have and to live and to work in the community in which I live and work and the opportunity to raise my children and have them attend this school district you know I'm a very proud graduate of the cheerio public schools I'm thrilled the two of my girls have graduated I one that will graduate you know with the with young ladies you know just two months from now you know and then the fourth who and a couple of years hopefully you know continued on track to graduate as well I just I'm very fortunate to do what I do and to work with the people you know it's there's a lot of you know the as a school district and as a community there are a lot of external validators
059and accolades that come through you know typically I get to be the the big shiny head in the front but it's based on the work of you know all of those people the 1,650 people that you talked about and really built on the success of the 11,000 plus kids that are here I will always contend in the meetings I do the community meetings go around and talk with the folks the greatest resource that we have in Cherry L truly is the human resource you know it's it's the folks that are here in our buildings that are in our district it's the you know it's it's the buildings and grounds guys that are in the back of the building doing work right now that have been here all day you know it's the it's the cleaners
060it's the nurses the counselors so folks sitting at the side table you as board members you know and that's just half of the story the other half is we get some really good kids they come from some incredible families Cherry Hill is not always for a lot of people the easiest place to work you know there are challenges that are inherent in our community because folks have high expectations and unfortunately not everybody wants to live up to high expectations you know I'm about continuing to raise that bar you know and push the expectations and to talk about it you know one of the things that we see and we've talked a lot over the last couple of years about civil discourse you know is folks unfortunately right now don't all know how to disagree and
061it's okay to disagree if we all got along and agreed on everything all the time would be a pretty boring world and we would never we would ever ever improve but there's a way to disagree and there's way to have a difference of opinions you know and how we share those things so I do you know consider myself incredibly fortunate now the opportunity was I was in Washington a couple of weeks ago you know dr. Mahan was there and dr. Chapman who's here tonight you know and some other folks but to have the opportunity to sit on a stage and to talk about the good works that are going on in Cherry Hill you know between people from around the country there's a gentleman from Egypt that came up and and was there and wanted
062to talk that we've been in communication about the work that we are doing you know it's it's it's incredible beyond the fact that we were in the Mayflower Hotel where they've had the inaugural balls and literally sat on the stage where you know President Kennedy stood with with his wife when when he was inaugurated I mean it's it's just an incredible experience and I'll tie in to the fact that April's gone by here's going by incredibly quickly and you figure the first week of April we were on spring break this is literally just the third week of the month you know in terms of what's going on that we've been in school and it's this is an exciting time of year I do believe that the academic year picks up pace you know after we
063hit January first and certainly when we return from Spring Break it goes lightning-fast you know I'm grateful to Lauren and today you know for them continuing to share you know about the good works that are going on in the high schools you know I've had the opportunity over the last couple weeks to visit of the schools I was at both East and West today you know the opportunity to talk to some kids and talk to some staff members and it just as exciting times there's a lot to celebrate about the successes that go on and we see those celebrations I was thrilled to be at the African American Civic Association lunch and you know and in sharing a couple of words at the at the lunch and the other day you know the cherry all
064african-american civic association is a model for so many other civic groups you know 37 years the dave awarded scholarships to children from Cherry Hill that's an incredible legacy as I said that they've presented to the future you know I've started to me with the Cherry Hill Hispanic civic association that it's just forming the opportunity with the Cheerios specially the PTA we have advocacy groups that continue to grow and continue to come out to speak on behalf of the children and the families that are here they are truly the greatest resource and we as administrators and his board members you know always have to have that in our minds of what we're doing you know and and who we are you know I appreciate the ladies you know and then there's members of the community that
065also testified you know at the at the Senate and Assembly hearings you know about the budget you know in dr. Dickinson you shared your words about the challenges that we have school funding in New Jersey is an incredibly challenging thing we continue to advocate and continue to fight Missy Lange from the the Cherry Hill fair funding group was in trend on Monday and as part of a press conference that was held we will continue to advocate you know with some of us met with members of Town Council and the mayor to talk about the issue last evening it's an ongoing discussion and one that will continue to push forward I always believe that in pushing forward especially as a community we are better doing that together you know then divided so again I appreciate the
066the works of the work of the board members the works of the you know the work of the folks in the community and students even that have been involved in terms of what's going on a couple of other other highlights and there's been some pressed in the last 24 hours which you know is intriguing to me our campus police officers the for campus police officers that we have 282 the high schools you know we're armed for the first time yesterday you know in the nearly 35 years the campus police have existed here in Cherry Hill the four gentlemen that are currently our campus police officers the same guys that were there a week ago you know and being in both of the high schools there there has been some notice but again the folks know
067them the kids knows and the staff know these guys you know and who we are as part of the budget that will ask you to approve tonight you know it's also the the approval of five additional campus police officers for the 2018-2019 academic year and again I'm grateful to the work that mr. green you know mister sugars and Miss Adrienne that they've done to move this forward you know and our director security mr. Saporito who is sitting in the back you know the the transcendent work that's been done over the course of the last two months you know really has made an impact on our district as we talk about our budgets we talk about referendum items as we talk about the transition during the month of March as the board adopted revised policy arming
068campus police officers is a tremendous change you know so when we get back in September we expect to have ten employees will be armed at our district including mr. Saporito as our district director of security you know that's a that's a significant change and as we've gone through and we've talked to folks about doing it the campus police officers will work for us we believe it's incredibly important that they are part of the school district that they work for us you know so the work that the dr. Chapman and mr. guy and the members of the character head culture efficiency and equity committee have been doing you know the the that work continues with campus police officers working with our children is a very important thing and it's different than riding in a car and
069being on the street and what the work goes through these campus police officers or folks who are all qualified they've all been through the training they all are appropriately licensed they all qualify in terms of what they have to do but it's a significant change for our district and it's one through discussion that we have had moving forward will do in a positive manner looking forward to the interview process as well as we have posted those jobs you know and where we're going to be mrs. judge you pointed out that in our budget we have continued to add positions you know and again to the to the work and the thanks to mrs. sugars and mrs. Ridgeway and their folks as we look at our monies and and really manage who we are and what
070we're doing the most important resource that we have or the staff that work for us we know that the most significant impact that we can provide for a child in terms of their experience and their learning opportunities is the relationship that exists between the staff member and the child between that teacher and the child sitting in the classroom we continue to focus on that and we'll continue to focus on that that's a choice that the Cherry Hill School District historically is made and one that will continue to make moving forward I will encourage folks to continue to come out we're ongoing with our community conversations with the opportunity typically in small groups to talk about you know the the referendum items you know and we eagerly an eager Lea are anticipating receiving response from the
071state in June you know so we can come forward and talk more specifically about the questions you know about what it is that we intend to do again there are going to be differences of opinion about how we spend money and what we choose to do one of the things as we continue to talk with folks in the community as we can agree we all want kids to be safe and we all want kids to learn how we're going to do that and what that looks like is something we'll continue to discuss so so thanks and ladies thank you enjoy the next two months right so you'll all be back in May for the meetings and you finish up in May we transition right so enjoy the next two months in terms of what's going
072on thank you dr. Milosh all right we'll move into our action agenda get some business done mr. Seidel would you move the cni agenda please sure well thank you dr. Dickinson the superintendent recommends and I move the following number one approval of attendance at conferences and workshops for the 2017-2018 school year number two approval of out of district placements for the 2017-2018 school year number three approval of middle school supplemental literature books for the 2018-2019 school year number four approval of middle school summer reading books for the 2018-2019 school year number five approval of high school summer PSAT SAT a CT college essay summer program and number six you have a yellow sheet in front of you approval of special education settlement agreement do I have a second mrs. judge any questions or discussion seeing
073none mrs. sugars mr. Seidel yes to all mr. Goodwin yes mrs. judge yes tool mrs. Matlock yes mrs. scar Polly no yes - well mrs. Schultz yes mr. Tomlinson yes to all dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes all mr. Goodwin would you move B&F please I said well dr. Dickinson the superintendent recommend and recommends and I move the following one financial reports to adoption of the 2018-2019 budget three maximum travel expenditure for motion to approve use of capital reserve to fund approved projects for the 2018 2019 school year five resolution for approval of contract for the Bennett Card Services LLC six resolution for approval of contract with horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield and seven resolution for the award of change orders do I have a second mrs. Matlack are there any questions mrs. Scavo I
074have a question an item for project 81 30 on the vestibules 4 for pain in Woodcrest I was curious I know bulletproof glass is just ridiculously expensive and cost prohibitive but I was wondering I learned of material or something some kind of product that can be applied to glass that makes it more difficult to shatter it will ultimately shatter but it would slow slow things down and I don't know if that's gonna be part of the project or so that we considered or priced out so I just wanted some information on that it's something you know we talked about when we did the Berkeley project and it's something that we'll talk about again as we as we look at this project I think there is a product it's a 3m product that can go on
075the windows currently right now we have to use safety glass and safety glass shatters so that people don't get hurt from it obviously if you know if it were to be shot at it would shatter unless this film does not prevent the bullets from going through but it but it can slow the process down so you know my my intent was to talk about that again bring that subject up again I think the concern is do you stop at the vestibule do you extend it to other windows you know those are things that you have to think about and talk about but I know that will go into the planning phase for the vestibules now that we you know if well in a few minutes hopefully if we approve the budget and you know those
076discussions will be ongoing probably in upcoming committee meetings about what that looks like and if we should consider that or not when you say we're required to use the glass that chatters we are required to use safety glass safety glass yes so so would we be able to even use them like here's here a question of whether we can even use a material like that if it's we could we could not use bulletproof glass though because that is not shatterproof so yeah Ellie couldn't use that for a lot of reasons and it's cost prohibitive as you said but yes we could certainly take a look you know at this alternate product okay thank you any other questions if not these are sugars mr. Goodwin yes mrs. judge I need two obscene on the Billis regarding
077the Cooper health system yes to the remainder mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Seidel yes mrs. Karpel Ino yes mrs. Schultz I need to abstain to Beata home health on the bill list yes to the rest mr. Tomlinson abstaining from Bancroft neuro health on the bill list yes to the remainder dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes this is judge would you move the a charge in the police yes I will wake up over here and read Human Resources thank you very much so the superintendent recommends and I move the following number one termination of employment certificated number two termination of employment non-certificated number three appointments certificated number four appointments non-certificated number five contract renewals certificated number six contract renewals non-certificated number seven leaves of absence certificated number eight leaves of absence non-certificated number nine assignment salary change
078certificated and number ten other compensation certificated do I have a second mrs. Seidel any questions seeing none mrs. sugars mrs. judge yes - all mr. Goodwin yes mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Seidel yes mrs. Karpel Ino yes - well mrs. Schultz yes mr. Tomlinson yes - all dr. Wong I need to abstain from the number-3 NY Monroe University yes to the rest dr. Dickinson yes no mrs. Karpel Ino would you move PL please certainly the superintendent recommends and I move the following number one first reading of policy number two second reading of policies number three waiver of regulation 2340 field trips number four approval of harassment intimidation bullying investigation decisions do I have a second mrs. judge are there any questions being none mrs. sugars mrs. Scarpelli no yes mr. Goodwin yes mrs. judge yes tois
079mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Seidel yes to all mrs. Schultz yes mr. Tomlinson I need to abstain from number four for investigation four or five seven five but yes to the remainder dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes all right we have no strategic planning items this evening so we'll move into our second public discussion you may now comment on any issue when you come to the mic please state your name and address you'll have three minutes for your remarks my name's Ted Mac house again 21:44 a Lincolnshire Road fair along pa-18 nine to five I taught for ten years I was in New York City and I taught in Camden New Jersey and I have a lot of experience with difficulties and students with a lot of difficulties and I taught in the 70s and I've
080seen how the SIS system has deteriorated and the teachers are intimidated and afraid to do necessary restraints on students and and there for example in Cheltenham Wars ten breaking up a fight of two girls for girls actually ten teachers and administrators were injured and I come in that that you were arming some security people say you've significantly increase your effectiveness of your security in the school because thousands of people had cell phones in parkland and that then do him any good and then as far as security procedures someone come in and - well there's how many times that people complain there was a hundred complaints thirty-five documented on crews in parkland and the school board was director there was commended and invited to the White House and congratulated on how we cut down the statistics
081and they did so they were discriminate against minorities and so they didn't incarcerate crews or commit him so they could take his guns away so the solution were the NRA arming people with people with guns have saved a million lives every year they're people that decimated or threatened and intact so to get respect you can't fool the students they see the gun has put that ahead of his girls a lot of girls were intimidated likely certified document it and they didn't do anything about it then they're saying well you should report all these things if you report things like in a I'm from Pennsylvania we're not a gun control state like I was born in here New Jersey and like in Chicago where witnesses are killed and intimidated because you can't legally defend yourself on
082the streets so 150 people shot in Chicago and people are afraid to speak up so I think arming teachers and Allen teachers to be on is a necessary procedure and you should go to that and we rehire mr. Locke you--is wanted that very few teachers are willing to take the responsible even my daughter whose counselors she says well we need special training and all but someone who has military training and all secretin wiow why concealed carry is so good is because as the voice of America we had armed guards who were killed but it wouldn't have any backup so all the people in the church in Pakistan were killed thank you bye-bye good evening again David Rossi 102 Roanoke road on the vestibule glass I find if we're unable to use either bulletproof glass or
083use some 3m product to make them bullet resistant not really sure other than managing the flow of people who come in general traffic what really the effectiveness is an overall security plan pleased to see that the app stopped it is on the way being rolled out I think that could be a useful tool to for students to anonymously report I appreciate everyone's work on getting that moving I know there was some delays but wanted to acknowledge that I am NOT for arming teachers in the classroom so prior to the Florida incident there were Cherry Hill Police Department in and out of the schools on a regular basis like they had been for years and during the BOE meeting you may remember it was loud and ruckus the very large one after that incident I remember
084that the mayor came in and I guess his duties to quell the angry mob he what she did effectively I think people felt very assured that there was going to be some cohesive effort and he had stated that if it's a matter of cost we'll put police in the in there in the schools more frequently I believe it was dr. Moss who had stated we will have increased presence in the schools and we saw that and I believe that dr. milosh had mentioned that they would be increased presence throughout the rest of the year and now we're looking at arming the resource officers albeit the ones that have been there and have relationships with the students the faculty and the staff I think we really need to take against consideration two segments of our community
085one the special needs community the parents and the children how are we going to know that the security resource officers are going to be trained specifically on how to engage if there is a threat how are they going to deal differently with the special needs community because they do have different needs and they react differently to things that we have some students that are sensory impaired and so on so I think we really need to talk openly and discuss a plan for that also we have the minority community the Cherry Hill Police Department are built into the fabric of our community and they have extensive training on on cultural sensitivity and I think that we really need to look at those concerns from the community and how are we going to be assured that we're
086addressing their concerns with with all the others that have been mentioned personally I'm not really sure about guns in the school at this point from a security officer standpoint I'm really not even sure if four armed police officers are a great answer for our school but the fact that we're having this conversation and you know hopefully these things will be addressed and as we continue to move forward into next year and thank you good evening my name is my name is Rick short remember I'm standing in Cherry Hill New Jersey I could not be standing in front of right now the Mount Laurel school board because I can't find any problems with the entire security and I've looked hard it's pretty pathetic that it's been 14 days I stood here 14 days ago talking to
087you all about cameras broken in Cherry Hill East has anything being fixed no so let me go into more detail the one camera I'm talking about doesn't even have an interior how could a principal not even know that cameras aren't working and then the other camera is facing downward towards the tennis courts that one is broken too obviously it just be hooves me that this can continue this is not a pothole in front of Cherry Hill East like I talked about last year this is a security camera protecting over close to 2,000 students and it's broken and we have I heard of broken cameras in the front because one of my friends try to get copies of a car accident and that didn't occur let alone that we don't even have enough cameras at Cherry
088Hill East we have about a dozen cameras and the average school should have the average high school should have thirty to forty two sometimes 50 cameras how many does Union City have they have a hundred and sixty-seven at their high school yes it's a new high school it is not acceptable I don't know what's going on inside the school but I can speak to half that so what is the answer well you still have a chance to save your school security yes you're sixteen percent school security physical security that I will keep saying day after day after day you have till May 14th I checked with the school administration in any state you have till May 14th to possibly invest 0:01 percent of your two hundred million dollar budget and do what's called a lease
089purchase yes you could do a lease purchase for the cost of what a principal gets paid and what dr. milosh gets paid in an entire year which would mean that you would have a hundred percent physical security I cannot believe that I have to come up here week after every two weeks and talk about the same silly thing that right now you only have 16 percent of your school covered with physical security it is a joke yet again I say good evening my name is Naomi love ken my address is 404 long stone drive in Cherry Hill I've been a resident of Cherry Hill for 31 years I had three children go through the schools there now 30 29 and soon be 28 13 years ago I was donating gallons of paint for Cherry Hill
090East for their theater I five years ago I offered to donate construction paper to Sharpe they said well we don't need it I don't understand this my daughter and I have a special feeling about special needs my son actually worked with the castle program and although I didn't know any specifics I knew they had a special protocol for handling students and whatnot and then a debriefing this kind of thing which was recommended which was asked for I my daughter needed aids a an evaluation she had been sick and since you only do at that time you only did one time of year she couldn't have it so they kind of piecemeal things together I hope that's not a process now so if someone becomes ill in october/november something like their January it you can't do
091it what is it ie P you can't do it on I hope that that's responsive to every student no matter when they get sick now so that's a special needs thing I think we really really have to look at it I don't know why we're seeing more of this the need but we have to address it now security I cannot believe what I am seeing here you are educators would you go forth with a program to teach students without researching it gathering the data I mean I look at the educators is doing this gather the data interpret it see what should be implemented and that's not being done with security I'm a taxpayer and I vote and I don't like this I want security to be for these children they're not they're my children in
092a way but this this has to be improved this is very dangerous what you're doing here and you're showing us as educators you're implementing programs and then you're gonna study it and I'll be taxed more I don't mind being taxed more to save the kids to protect the kids I would like to know also if it seems to me that miss sugars because of that the past experience with her maybe she has been the person advising on security matters however well-intentioned you need to have the proper people and if I don't think the bill should or the budget should be passed if you're going to do this backwards in my opinion so anyway thank you it's not going to you give mrs. Wilson your contact information I can certainly follow up with you mrs. Wilson's
093over at the side table anavar do 100 Roanoke Road yesterday was my neighbor Cherry Hill New Jersey nothing nothing too outlandish today 5561 obviously that's been I don't know first reading second reading somewhere in the process maybe it's a policy I don't know but what I hear Cherry Hill or chess septa saying essentially is are we really sure that all of the restraints are being reported as it's per the policy and second if there's a pattern for some students of repeated restraint or deeper issues being looked at I think those are both valid interesting I heard dr. Hodge say he's gonna look at those comments so that sounds good is it Milan travel oh Sh Milosh Milosh everyone Milosh Milosh my grandfather was a french-canadian I didn't want me to be at a BOE where
094it wasn't mentioned at least the teacher contract is obviously up this year I think it's an important issue I know no one here wants it to be a controversial issue as that's probably no one on this side whether we armed them or not but I mean definitely getting the contract kind of settle in it's kind of a it's been a crazy year and a lot of media and a lot I mean just it's been a crazy year and then the third thing I would say is I mean for the last speaker I think there is something somewhat troubling about the timeline I don't think it necessarily means everything has to stop but I think certainly getting a detailed report from security you know this community thinks about security differently than it did six months ago
095there's no doubt about that the issue of physical security and really like preventing people from coming in that's really not I remember when PTA kind of got thrown out of the schools post post maybe Sandy Hook but it's just like from that from then on you had to kind of ring the doorbell and announce who you were before that that was unheard of it's clearly changed so the community perception of like what you should do is clearly different but I think a full assessment which i think is that being done now is a good idea and then somehow that has to be shaped into something that's implemented and it's a moving target which is complicated when you have a complicated job but in one sense I mean there is something kind of troubling about you
096know tens of millions of dollars on an assessment we're sort of going to get now but anyway I mean you all do very important big complex stuff but that's something I would I would kind of tuck away one of the things that will be interesting to see is what people really want going for I think that's something that deserves some careful study because as public opinion changes I mean there is no like this is what you do for security all depends I was telling kind of a story to my family about how you could ensure security I mean it's not pretty right you could let you could just you know handcuff everyone coming into the school and you know triple check them and once they were you know sort of clear that I mean there
097is a point at which we don't want to go so I just think it's a conversation not to end but to really keep going and that's it thank you anybody else okay seeing none I'll turn it over to dr. Malone I do just want to follow up a little bit about security and this the ongoing security discussions safety and security and you've heard me say it those you at the table and the folks in the audience you know and and our staff safety and security is our primary responsibility right learning is secondary and our kids do really well learning in terms of what goes on the discussion about safety and security in schools is an evolutionary discussion what we discussed today is different than we discussed you know as somebody talked about five years ago
098or 10 years ago or 20 years ago right there's there's an evolution of what those needs are and there's also a shift in what the perception of needs are you know when when we did the ribbon-cutting at Berkeley in November and go back eight months prior to that when we talked about doing the job and the job approved and bid the job out that went through that was literally the culmination of five years worth of work or so that took place in Cherry Hill right so there's a piece about you know what do we look like what do we look at in terms of security who weighs in on where that is I'll tell you security vestibules are something that the that the department that the state recommends right just the latest legislative update that
099came through from NJ a sa that goes through and from their part of education one of the recommendations from the Department of Ed is a security vestibule on schools right we know that the the primary area of focus that we have in building security is limiting access and making sure that the children who are in the school and the staff who are in the school are safe what the safe mean what does safe look like that's an ongoing discussion in terms of what's there again the Berkeley design came through well you know mr. Sugar's will tell you when she started with us in July of 2016 we were talking about security vestibules she certainly brought an area of expertise because of work that had been done we we have Cherry Hill Police who has been
100involved with us when the security walkthroughs and and and their input we have the engineers and the architects again it's about access to a school and what does that mean in terms of limiting access the security vestibules we find have been best practice it's what's recommended to us not just here in South Jersey but in New Jersey and throughout the country about access to schools who do we allow to come in are there lots of things that we can do to limit access there are incredible things that we can do to limit access and there's all kinds of buildings you know from ones that are wide open to prisons limiting access and what does that look like for people that come through that door we are a school right we are here our learning institution
101and again safety and security is our primary responsibility cameras and camera systems are important lots of things are important in terms of what's there there's a discussion that we have as we build based on who we are what we have and what we were doing to provide for the children again an ongoing discussion one of the things you'll continue to hear us say you know it's especially go through the next five months if we want to make these continued enhancements in security there are things to do one of the most important things is the adoption of the referendum in October right there one you know dr. Dickinson went through 1.7 million square feet there are 19 schools in our district are there priorities that we will include in that referendum there absolutely are the foundation
102of the referendum was we look at questions will be on safety and security numbers to go through and people the other thing that I will tell you right is people throw numbers out there about what it would cost to do something you know and what's enough are five cameras enough are 10 cameras enough are 100 cameras enough depends upon what you want to film and what that looks like in terms of passivity and what you can look like after and what you can look at afterwards we use those people and yes we're contracting with rodents security that company will be coming through you know there will be a formal process people have asked when we release the report we will not release that report to the public there's information that will come through and recommendations
103that we make about security that will not be able to be made public again our responsibility is the safety and security of the kids in the district we will talk about recommendations we'll go through and discuss what it is but the report will not be released to the community it's just not safe it's much in the same thing as some of you all have heard me talking in before we've talked about safety and security about evacuation sites for children we have multiple evacuation sites for all of our schools I won't tell you where they are I won't that's my responsibility to know that there are folks that know where they are for each one of the schools they have a little area of responsibility there are things that we go through at the administrators we
104don't necessarily talk with all the teachers about there are things that we go through with the teachers we don't necessarily talk with all the kids about again our area of responsibility in terms of what we are doing and who we are I applaud the people that want to continue to be involved in security discussions it is a huge piece of what we're doing and where we are the discussion about what does it mean to feel safe what is it mean to be safe is part of that ongoing discussion right there's statistics that have come out schools statistically are safer today than they ever have been statistically schools schools are safe during safer in 2018 than they ever have been in terms of things that go on in the schools fights violence all that kind of
105stuff to go through right and we will continue to enhance that our children the most important part of our community are our children they are we take that responsibility incredibly seriously and will continue to do so so again folks that are involved in it we applaud your involvement please continue to be involved but please this is not an us-versus-them this is the answer and if you don't want this answer you want kids to be hurt there is an in-between when we have this discussion there's an in-between about where we are going and what we are doing thank you dr. mosh milosh so we're going to go into closed session and somebody will make a motion I make a motion to go into closed session to to discuss attorney-client privileges we will not be voting on
106anything so we won't we will come back into public but we will not be voting on anything after that so we need a second mr. Goodwin Thank You mrs. Mann like thank you