001all right good evening everyone I'd like to call the meeting to order if you would please rise from the pledge and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all like to welcome everybody to the September work session mister sugars would you take roll boys mr. Goodwin here mrs. judge here mrs. Matlack here mr. Seidel here mrs. scar Foligno here mrs. Schultz here mr. Tomlinson here dr. Wong yeah dr. Dickinson here at this time we'll have our first public discussion your comments must be regarding items on the spec on the work session agenda when you come to the mic please state your name and address you will have three minutes for your remarks please note the green light will turn yellow when you have 30 seconds
002remaining the light will turn red when your three minutes are up no takers okay turn mic over dr. melash for our presentation for this evening Thank You dr. Dickinson we're very pleased this evening to welcome miss Christy Marella who is a social studies humanities teacher at Rosa middle school with some of the team members from the National History Day competition from this past spring it's going to smell to come up to the microphone and to introduce the students and they're going to introduce the project that they did and then we will honor the kids in mrs. Morel afterwards all right you can't see it any tear and not give them a hug thank you so much this is such a I'm a little overwhelmed and my parents are watching via Cass so I'm a little
003nervous too but thank you so much for honoring us this evening it is all inspiring to stand in front of you but what's more awe-inspiring is to stand in front of my historians they did something that not many people do in their historical career which has not only put a documentary together but discover information that was not known about our local hero Josiah Dubois if I'm familiar with him and I won't give away too much of the documentary he deserves to be placed into the annals of history and because of the four young historians that did their project on them I think we are well on our way to put his name back into the history books but as I know I'm supposed to keep it brief I do want to say one thing when
004you say the word yes you never know what will come from it a couple years ago my husband and I got a chance to see Tim Cook speaka George Washington University's graduation commencement speech came and he said you know the big thing about Apple is we always say yes yeah you want to try that sure go for it so when these four young historians asked me if they could do a project on Josiah Dubois of course I was like yes of course and every time that they came up with a theory or some sort of question I never said anything but yes and here's where it took us after about 2000 hours of work almost 1,000 views on YouTube a silver medal and they will be presenting all over the country this next four months
005about their documentary we have a documentary that honors our local heroes such an important thing because Cherry Hill has so many individuals that have contributed not only to history but to our community as well and for that I want to thank Sam Bittman and Sheena Hertzfeld their two partners are on their way Gavi O'Brien and Asha mohapatra forward they're not only hard work but their commitment to doing exactly what we call him Joe Josiah Dubois did and telling the truth so ladies and gentlemen without further ado you're going to watch our 10 minute documentary the statement that revealed the truth Josiah Dubois an American Holocaust hero [Applause] for all its villains and victims the history of the Holocaust also has its share of fuels there is no question that heroes come in different varieties soldiers
006who distinguish themselves on the battlefield or political leaders who rise up an inspired nation there were some Americans that stood up against the despotism of the Nazi regime by organizing the escape of Jewish refugees in Europe yet this is the story of a different type of hero when I was not a rescuer or shelter rather this is the story of a whistle blown and then who took a stand against the isolationist policy with the American government and in doing so secured the rescue of hundreds of thousands of lives a Treasury agent that risked his life and career to not only take a stand but to humanize the world thought was darkened by repression one race watch it Josiah Dubois and the instability created in Europe by the first world war set the stage for another
007intercontinental stand rising to power in an economically unstable Germany Adolf Hitler did the Nazi Party sign strategic trees with Italy and Japan to further Hitler's ambitions of world honor Asian of Poland in September of 1939 Hitler revealed more than justice defensive work MP chairman authorities began explaining case informed by forcing them to walk excuse me greater and more the city's plan the final solution Nazis design very high priority to the annihilation of beer and executing this stand against Mandy the Nazis were willing to weaken the capacity to fight for the United States and its allies however did nothing to save the Jews pillars advancement did not stimulate an aggressive American state with the United States leaving the national security is at stake Assistant Secretary of State Park in Richland ordered the government to put every
008obstacle in the way and postpone and postpone and postpone the granting of visas this bureaucratic maze of paper walls not only shut America's doors but is what Josiah Dubois walked into when he joined the truckers Berman President Franklin D Roosevelt had no desire to challenge Long's policies or to question the security argument President Roosevelt made no promises to take a stand and see if the Jews over what he warned as he was acutely aware of the native his sentiments that are entrenched within the seeds Berman his lack of actions spoke louder than the public in August of 1942 State Department first learned that the anti-semitic atrocities were not random acts of violence rather part of a systematic Nazi plan to eradicate all the European Jews even wise an American rabbi was educated by the British
009of Hitler's plans of annihilation standing for the Jewish community Weiss confronted President Roosevelt stating we appeal to you as head of our government to do all in their power to make an effort to stop it as American and British immigration restrictions increased the British government proposed to the US State Department that the Allied countries will a conference in Berlin to discuss whether some of the refugees had reached neutral countries could be evacuated to safety if the foreign office had one fear their plan to rescue cheese might be too successful in a memo the Foreign Office pointed out there was a possibility that the Germans may change over from the policy of extermination to one of the extrusion and in the war at embarrassing other countries by flooding them with alien immigrants reluctant to take a
010stand after the Bermuda conference America was met with mass demonstrations and the Jewish community the bursting group to force the United States to rescue Jews from the Nazis by sending money to European Jews however sending money to awards and required a license from the government surgery quickly proved the license insensitive the state's indolence Proctor Dubois is curiosity soon entrenched in investigating society voice was approached by Bernard Beltre a State Department official of qualifies Department's handling of the refugee issue malsu provided Dubois with details on state's efforts to block our ski initiative and so we asked is this evening could secretly fine documents could he ask around while searching this uncovered the key set of telegrams that he quickly delivered to the boys and warned him that if he has sort of be caught it would
011destroy their careers not fazed by the risk of losing their jobs Josiah Dubois where the first telegram sent from the World Jewish Congress on January 21st 1943 telegram for e 2 the telegram sent the State Department reports of the mass executions in Europe and at 6000 that are filled daily the telegram acted as a cry for help in Europe one that President Roosevelt heard a blind guy too this telegram was suppressed by the State Department as a feared public pressure the department finally responded On February 10 1943 sitting telegram 354 returned this telegram informed the diplomats to discontinue sending any information on the house or the refugees unless under extraordinary circumstances besides you boys decided to go to the secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau jr. for support however Dubois knew that it would be
012difficult to persuade secretary Morgenthau because of his close relationship with President Roosevelt using his strategic thinking it was Dubois a suggestion the secretary murdered them asking for copies of the relevant totems and in return was given a false version secretary Morgenthau's telegrams did not show that it was a response and it seemed like a neutral dialog between countries however Josiah Dubois presented secretary Morgenthau the original tolerance and laid out the road for confrontation with the president on Christmas Day 1943 Josiah Dubois composed an 18 page report titled reports in the secretary on the acquiescence of this government in the murder of the Jews Dubois would confront President Roosevelt and adjust of the State Department which is charged with carrying out this policy has been guilty not only gross procrastination a vocal failure to act but
013even a willful attempt to prevent action from being taken to refugees from Hitler Josiah Dubois has efforts to expose the State Department's malfeasance culminated in a meeting with President Roosevelt on January 16th secretary Morgenthau and fellow Treasury officials presented the president with Josiah Dubois is reported urging him to create a new board to help refugees this meeting was vital to Josiah Dubois if he was not present in time you boys threatened that if President Roosevelt did not take action he would resign and release the report to the press president roosevelt's fear of this report reaching the public up to convince him to take action On January 22nd 1944 he voiced his fanciful effect President Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the war refugee board the war refugee board primary goal was to rescue transport and
014house immigrants in need of saving to America despite receiving little government funding Dubois advances cause of rescue through unorthodox methods his pressures to the board in sending money food diplomat Raoul Wofford helped end the Hungarian deportations and Lombard was able to save 120,000 he boy even members of the board to persuade President Roosevelt to establish refugee shelters but President Roosevelt agreed to just one shelter or 982 refugees Ostreicher New York due to new voices dynamic stand in 1946 the Truman administration asked Dubois had the prosecution the case of IG Farben the german chemical manufacturing company the main supplier of poisonous gas in death camps the boy was able to prosecute 13 criminals at the trials [Music] the term whistleblower has assumed a negative connotation in recent years associated ablated with those who put others lives
015at risk by exposing the secrets Josiah Dubois did just the opposite he risked everything for these people you have a moral obligation to help other human being because decide to voice book to tell their stories it's time we know the story of this ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing [Applause] beautiful piece of work was presented by Sam bitman come on [Applause] good work everybody Thank You mr. guy all right so we'll move on to our special action agenda and mrs. Seidel would you move the cni agenda please a short well although that's a hard act to follow 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 resolution approving professional service agreement for the 2017-2018 school year number three approval
016of out of district student placements for 2017 2018 number four approval of services contract with New Jersey Commission for the blind and visually impaired 2017 2018 number five approval of special education tuition student may I have a second mr. Goodwin any questions seeing none mrs. sugars mrs. Seidel yes - all yes mrs. judge yes - all mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Karpel Ino yes 12 mrs. Schultz yes tell mr. Tomlinson yes - all dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes - aw mr. Goodwin would you move the BNF agenda please I said well the superintendent recommends and I move the following approval of bill list to a have a second mrs. mrs. Madeline sorry any questions if not miss sugars mr. Goodwin yes mrs. judge I need to abstain um regarding the Cooper health system on the
017bill list yes to the rest mrs. Matlock yes mr. Seidel Epstein with respect to CDW on the bill list yes to the rest mrs. Karpel Ino yes mrs. Schultz abstained from Beata home health yes to the rest mr. Tomlinson abstained from bankrupt neuro health yes the remainder dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes mrs. judge would you move the HR agenda please yes 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 assignment excuse me assignment salary change certificated number six assignment salary changed non-certificated number seven other compensations certificated number eight other compensation not certificated number nine other motions and number ten other motions and I do want to point out we have a pink sheet
018addition addendum twos and up two numbers three four and six do I have a second mrs. Scarpelli no any questions seeing none mrs. sugars mrs. judge yes to all mr. Goodwin yes mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Seidel yes mrs. Karpel inna yes to all mr. Schultz yes mr. Tomlinson yes to all dr. Wong and I need two upstanding two opponents as certificated F&G yes - oh yeah just - the rest dr. Dickinson yes though before we move in the piano I want to turn the mic over to dr. Milosh thank you dr. Dickinson it gives me great pleasure to introduce to or to reintroduce to somebody but introduce to everybody mr. Bernie O'Connor Bernie if you would walk up to the podium you all just approved Mr O'Connor to become the interim principal at Beck middle
019school beginning on Monday October the 2nd it's my great pleasure to bring mr. Connor forward to the board and I'm thrilled at the board just approved his appointment as you're all aware mr. Dawson and who joined us during the district last year as the principal Beck hasn't accepted at a position back in his former district North Brunswick so I'm thrilled that mr. O'Connor will go over and take over the helm of Beck middle school Bernie joined the district in September of 1996 and and came to us following a stint in a career as a police officer and the in Philadelphia before him back into education he has spent the last nine years he just began his tenth year as an assistant principal at high school east Bernie and I originally met when we worked together
020at high school West when he was teaching history all kinds of history classes including the AP economics class and he did his administrative internship with me during some some interesting times that we still still talk about so I'm absolutely thrilled that Bernie was a was appointed my pleasure to introduce him to all of you and I look forward to hearing and seeing what goes on over the course of the next year thank you dr. Milosh members the Board of Education thank you very much for your you know trust in me and appointing me there thank dr. Campisi MS Adrienne for their support and all of this dr. Milosh just took everything that I was going to say give it a little bit so but I'm really looking forward to it like dr. mosh said it
021the last nine years I've been at high school least 12 years before that I was at high school West and I'm really looking forward to this opportunity to serve the students of the Cherry Hill Public Schools another capacity so thank you very much [Applause] okay we'll move on to P&L mrs. scarpetti Lina would you please move the agenda certainly the superintendent recommends and I move the following number one approval of Cherry Hill Public Schools HIV self assessments and statements of assurances may I have a second mrs. Seidel are there any questions seeing none mrs. sugars mrs. Scarpelli no yes mr. Goodwin yes mrs. judge yes mrs. Matlock yes mrs. Seidel yes mrs. Schultz yes mr. Tomlinson yes dr. Wong yes dr. Dickinson yes okay we have no strategic planning items this evening we'll get you
022soon coming your way all right so that concludes our special action agenda we'll now move to our work session agenda and mrs. Seidel would you start with CNI please I sure will our last curriculum and instruction meeting was held on September 5th at 7:00 p.m. and as usual we had a packed agenda first up on the agenda was an update on the world language discussion and dr. mayhem provided us with a brief update she shared questions that will be used in an upcoming world language survey the questions have been vetted across several stakeholder groups to ensure that the response that we're eliciting the the response elicited provides the data that's needed to make a determination regarding next steps we can expect a full presentation at the next CNI committee meeting on October 5th and there
023was a question from the board to see if computers could be available during back-to-school night which would allow an additional Avenue for parents to take the survey next on the agenda we talked about theatrical productions and receive the packets and scripts for those theatrical production approvals there were two from West and one from East West had a crystal a Christmas caracal excuse me a Christmas Carol the musical West also had The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and East had The Music Man presented at our meeting we talked briefly about the PSAT schedule the date will be October 11th and will follow the same schedule as last year we can expect a letter from the high school principals in the near future am I am i doing that kindergarten update or are we gonna say that for
024the end okay so I will skip over that for a minute we talked briefly about updated graduation requirements particularly the high school graduation assessment requirements for park for classes 2018 2019 2020 2021 and Beyond and those updated assessment requirements have been posted on our website and I believe have also been discussed at freshmen orientation and and will be discussed with all impacted classes we ended with some public comment the comments were primarily around the world language survey coming up some of the speakers thought that we should present a list of world languages not open-ended questions and we did have one speaker that commented and hoped that we were thinking about as as world language is looked at in more detail opening hoping that we were looking at strengthening the program so that kids coming out
025of fifth grade are more prepared and have a better foundation for a language and possibly thinking about having consistency among the high schools with the languages that are offered and the bulk of our conversation was around the full-day kindergarten update so I'm going to turn that over to dr. Mahan who is going to share the presentation that we saw at CNI okay I'm just checking to make sure my clicker works so this information or similar information in regards to the educational rationale was was presented at the July 11th Committee of the Whole meeting and then at the September 5th curriculum and instruction committee I presented similar information that you're going to see tonight however after comments made at the CNI committee and discussion at that committee meeting we changed the format in which the information
026is going to be shared this evening so tonight is the next presentation so I just remind you of our rationale why are we looking to move forward with implementing full-day kindergarten here in Cherry Hill these bullets really highlight our students being able to meet the new jersey-- student learning standards the goal of kindergarten propelling Cherry Hill to the forefront because we already believe that we are a district that displays academic excellence and to bolster our current program so an overview you asked for what are our full-day kindergarten options things to consider for full-day kindergarten and then our program time allocations how much time do we currently have allocated for each of the academic areas so this is just a recap of what I said that we've met on the 11th we met again on the
0275th after that meeting on the 5th we decided to change the bulleted items that we shared with the CNI committee so that they were clustered under specific categories including facilities staffing transportation curriculum and general concerns so the kindergarten options that we have decided to move forward on our one full-day kindergarten Center full-day kindergarten housed in neighborhood schools and then full-day kindergarten housed in neighborhood schools with modulars so for if we were to consider implementation of a full-day kindergarten Center some of the things that we would need to consider under the facilities area are making sure that we have outfitted all of the classrooms with proper restrooms this configuration would need for us to change how we currently serve our students so that we would need two of our current buildings in order to have kindergarten
028centers which would leave ten remaining first through fifth grade buildings in staffing we would need approximately 15 additional regular education kindergarten teachers additional special education teachers on core staff and Child Study team members under transportation and curriculum the elimination of kindergarten specific early dismissal days and at the CNI meeting I was asked to provide specific information if I use the term elimination so you will see the note at the bottom of the slide and this will be consistent across all of the slides when you see the term elimination so just for further clarification we currently have on early dismissal days for kindergarten students we have a split kindergarten dismissal day so our a.m. students come in from 9:00 to 10:30 p.m. students come in from 11:00 to 1:00 10:30 to 1 and it means that
029we have an additional bus route in the morning for kindergarten students and then we still have a bus route at 1 o'clock so that is what that note at the bottom is explaining to you and then you see information about establishing kindergarten specific bus routes but we would eliminate again the midday bus routes curriculum we would need to consider the possibility of adding an ESL bilingual class enrichment and intervention offerings for kindergarten students which we currently offer in Greed's 1st through 5th equipment and supplies and then time allocated for each subject area and then general concerns loss of neighborhood schools this would add an additional transition for students we would not need EDC C to be required and then the impact on the school-aged child care program and then food services so if we were
030to offer full-day kindergarten housed in our neighborhood schools again we clustered everything under the same headings so facilities again making sure that our buildings are outfitted with proper restrooms in all of the kindergarten rooms we would need equity across all 12 of our elementary schools for the areas listed these are encore areas and then specialists that come into the buildings to support our students salary and benefits which you saw on the last proposal for a kindergarten Center approximately 15 additional regular education teachers additional special education staff and then additional encore staff for transportation again the elimination of the case specific scheduled busing and then the possible increase of bus routes and then at the bottom and I did not forget I'll just tell you this the note is on the next slide because it was
031too long so I'll go through it and then I'll highlight so the elimination of kindergarten specific early dismissal days as we've already discussed the possible increase of bus routes and then under the curriculum which encore classes would be offered at the home school if we were to have full-day kindergarten the elimination of kindergarten enrichment the elimination of ESL kindergarten and our magnet schools equipment and supplies intervention and enrichment for our kindergarten students which I've already mentioned is currently offered to students in grades 1st through 5th and then time allocated for each subject area so again the term elimination was used I've already gone over the first bullet which eliminates the half-day busing on half days or early dismissal days for kindergarten students or in all students and the second bullet speaks to elimination of kindergarten
032enrichment and ESL kindergarten so we currently offer at our title 1 schools a full-day kindergarten program for accidentally 15 students in the building so the students who are the most academically needy currently do receive a full day program if we were to offer full day kindergarten this program will be eliminated because all students would be afforded the opportunity for a full day program and the second is for ESL kindergarten we currently offer our students who receive English as a second language services a full-day kindergarten program if they are eligible so they attend a regular kindergarten class in the morning and then they receive a specific and ESL specific kindergarten class in the p.m. and/or a.m. opposite of their regular a.m. kindergarten a regular kindergarten class so both of those would be eliminated because ESL services
033at the elementary school for kindergarten would be embedded in the academic day they would be either push in or pull out which is in line with our current model so general things to consider this there would be connection to the neighborhood schools fewer transitions for students it would be aligned with our current transitions at fifth grade five and grade eight no extended day childcare would be required we would need to consider the impact on enrollment in school-age child care which offers our before and after school programs our enrollment numbers we would need to look historically at students who are not enrolling in our current kindergarten because it's half-day and who do enroll in Cherry Hill public schools when they are in first grade so we would need to think about those numbers food services if
034we're able to accommodate and then the master schedule to accommodate lunch and recess for entire school population so the final option is full-day kindergarten how's the neighborhood schools with modulars I was asked to make sure that we highlighted that this is definitely a temporary solution this is not something that we are looking to have long term if we were to have modulars so in addition to what you've already seen for this option under facilities the cost of the modulars the safety and security for modular locations and then how our current classroom space is utilized who would actually be placed in the modulars we would need to consider the salary and staff and encor staff is again the same as you've seen across the other options the elimination of kindergarten specific early dismissal days and again
035at the bottom the curriculum these are same the same as you just saw on the previous option again the same considerations also the same as the students would still be at their home school we would just be having modulars to account for space issues so one of the things that we talked about at the CNI meeting on the fifth was program time allocation so how much time do we currently have allocated to each subject area so this is a comparison chart just for you to see now how we currently allocate time across the academic areas our luncheon recess our intervention and enrichment period and our encores which are specials art music PE so this shows you grades K through 5 and the breakdown for each area on this slide you see how we currently break
036down our half-day program for a total of 150 minutes for our kindergarten students if we were to move to a full-day program this is how the times would be allocated to be more in line with what we currently offer for our 1st through 5th grade students and that's it any questions ahead mr. Goodwin in the in the first option for the center was that just an oversight or would you we still have the ESL and title one yeah the it was not an oversight if you look under the curriculum tab for the kindergarten Center at the kindergarten Center we would have we would most likely have to offer and the bullet says possible addition of ESL bilingual classes because when we have over 20 students in a building who speak the same language we have
037to offer our services in a different way so ESL services would be offered but there is like a high possibility that we would have to offer a bilingual class so that's how that's captured there and then you asked about time one title one with the kindergarten Center the title one program would be eliminated so I will make a note of that go ahead doctor you have presented three options so I think my question is how shall we move forward with that I mean are we going to survey the community to get their feedback or once the feedback is collected then what we're gonna decide on I mean we can only do one option right so so that's mainly my curiosity thank you I was just gonna say we are looking to have a recommendation or
038a decision I guess from the board to decide which option we are going to explore further and move forward with so that we are targeting our efforts to a specific area so there's there three different options and we're looking for I guess some direction the the two options of the neighborhood schools I'm assuming that that's dependent upon whether there's enough room in the elementary schools yes or in all of our elementary schools so I guess my question would be is there enough room in each of our elementary schools to do this and if there's not which schools do not have enough room and would require the temporary modules and if there is if that is is it's positive then subsequent question would be then what's a long-term plan for the modulars how long would they
039be in place and what what's needed in order to make a permanent addition to the building's so it is our expectation that we are not going to have modulars for an extended period of time as you've already said but we are just waiting to explore all of our options we did start to look at the designated classrooms in the building so the art room the music room the speech from the literacy teacher coach room if every building has a stage to make sure that there's equity across all of the buildings and we are almost done compiling that data to just confirm our thoughts and that we do have a red space in all of our buildings and if we do not what are going to be the changes that we need to make to be
040compliant based on cusack with all of the restrooms and or to need to add modulars at buildings which is a temporary solution but there's definitely work that we will need to do in some locations good and another question I know these are the three choices so if I can't get a fourth choice that's fine but but I I guess I was just wondering if there was a way we could work with you know the township and look at a third option of finding a different space like space that we could renovate to make it a kindergarten center or the possibility of you know maybe building that kindergarten Center I don't know if that's a possibility out there but it seems like that would kind of eliminate the the issue around the neighborhood schools issue as
041well as be able to address being able to provide that full-day kindergarten so some of that mr. Groban honesty would fit in underneath the the kindergarten center option right that's the way that as dr. Mann put it up there was Kindergarten centers or centers you know could be one facility or multiple facilities you know the way that we had talked about it in district was using two of our existing schools you know to pursue that to build a site to you know that that certainly could be part of it if that's what if the board said listen we think that all the kindergartens in the district should go to the same school at the same time then that certainly we can pursue that option because dr. Mann talked about all the different spaces that we
042look at so it also is tied in with the finalization a long-range facilities plan you know and that kind of piece to go forward you know looking at those three pieces and dr. Mian did a very nice job I thought of explaining you know the modular piece is if we were going to implement and ready to go and that was the direction modular is a temporary piece right either a short-term temporary until we build or until we add something on or toward temporary because there's a spike in enrollment at our CNI meeting I had asked for I had suggested pretty much the same thing back in August I guess it was when we went to this and I said you know what about I'm using the Berkeley School which is our Early Childhood Center right
043now making that one kindergarten Center and dr. Mahan came back and followed up on that and explained how cost-prohibitive that would be along with all of our needs that we're looking at improving for the rest of the district so as much as I was excited about that idea for new construction you know and housing all of our preschool and kindergarten students all together you know after speaking with her I I realized that that is probably out of our realm right now but if the rest of the board feels that that is something that we should look at we can certainly proceed with looking at that but given what she said to me I was willing to give up that idea for now so I just thought I'd share that share that with you and maybe
044dr. Mahan can add anything to it if you have any more questions I guess the I don't know if what the expectations are for tonight but it's kind of hard to say which direction we want to go in or or say which choice we want to go down we don't have even a ballpark figure for for what these would cost I mean you know are there some kind of ballpark figures that are assigned in terms of costs along with I I see the pros and the cons but I don't see dollars and cents there really aren't at this point you know and to give you numbers well we sit here tonight would just be hypotheticals that I don't know that would serve any of us in a beneficial manner you know as we've gone through
045it the discussion it's you know the from the board perspective about ideally was what is it that we believe about kindergarten and full-day kindergarten and what is it we think is going to be best right so then the money is going to be the next piece that comes through you know and not to put the cart before the horse you know is again the ideal that we talk about is educating the kids there's going to be a cost associated with anything that we do transitioning from a half-day kindergarten for a full-day kindergarten there's gonna be physical work that's going to need to occur in buildings or building a new bit whatever it is right there are pieces that are gonna go along with that and then there are staffing implications there's relatively relatively relative consistency
046with staffing implications just based on the numbers with where we are and again we benefit from the fact dr. may hand mr. Bart and the folks in registration was sad when and those people looking at the trends with where we've been historically with our enrollment year in and year out at each of the elementary schools transition between kindergarten enrollment to first grade enrollment where we see spikes and we know there are spikes in certain communities or certain neighborhoods but that's a piece of it to go through we can look at some hypothetical numbers to start to get down into the the real deep into the weeds of it is gonna be a significant investment of time you know that bless you you know to have our facilities folks and then the folks we work with
047Rebecca and anthros Sugar's office to do that we can start to move that forward and just we have not done that at this point with where we are again with the idea coming with the board and talking and what is it what direction we want to go in you know to to decide gee I guess I'm not really understanding the distinction between option two and three I mean three just seems to be option two delayed or while we're waiting to do option two so I don't really see this as three options unless I'm missing something I see it as two and I'm assuming we see modulus we're talking about trailers yes okay and do we know are we buying these trailers are we renting these trailers like you know how is this all gonna work
048if we're only gonna be using them temporarily in it it doesn't sound like we even have a sense of how temporary temporary is going to be so I'd like a little clarification that's how these are actually two different options I might be able to add a little clarification on the difference between two and three because we talked a little bit about this at CNI and tell me if I have this correct talk to my hands so with the modular option I believe that Elementary School's would stay pretty much intact as they are today if there's route if there's room in the building for kindergarten great there wouldn't be a modular there's not room in the building as it exists today there would be a modular in option two we have an opportunity to put full-day
049kindergarten in each elementary building but also to create some consistency across the schools so if elementary school a has a music school music room today a dedicated music room but elementary school B does not have a dedicated music room we will reallocate the spaces to make room for kindergarten and create equity across the remaining schools so just an example perhaps the schools would no longer have a dedicated music room across all of the elementary schools and they'd all have cart service or they wouldn't have a computer lab and they would have cart service so I I think that's the difference between the two options that we discussed so what if I'm understanding this and equity would almost could result in taking away some options from schools as opposed to one option you know when school
050has a music around the other school has a kindergarten room for kindergarten already so and we're gonna build the kindergarten room here and a music room here it's we're gonna take away a music room from everybody is that what we're talking I think that's I wouldn't necessarily say it that way but IIIi yeah I guess the short answer to your question is yes there isn't there isn't room to do both in every school so this would give us an opportunity to sort of standardize what we're how we're offering things at each school it doesn't mean that we won't offer for example music but right now for example and I don't think we know this we don't have the little grid yet because I know you're still in the process of doing it you know like
051elementary school has this this and this elementary B has this this and this but it does allow us to sort of create the same experience at all of the elementary schools and so I mean I'll just sort of throw it out there for me that's my top option if I had to rank the three that's the housing it within the schools and sort of balancing out how we how our elementary schools look to me that's a win-win thank you miss Idell mr. Joe so I have a couple questions so one of my questions was is the second example realistic but now I kind of have a clear so it wouldn't be modulars at every building if not needed in the head we thought of using the modules for an older grade or are we just
052assuming that all modulars are going to house kindergarten no we we actually did consider for delivery so we so appropriate okay and are we certain that this is a moot point when we go to full day but is am kindergarten on a early dismissal really 9:00 to 10:30 and p.m. kindergarten from 10:30 to 1 because that's one and a half hours 4 a.m. and 200 hours yeah there's a moot point when we go to full day so but it just struck me and I'm not usually very good with math and so it's ok it's it's 9:00 to 11:00 so two other questions is is 75 minutes a day for full-day kindergarten normal because that seems like an awful lot of math and I know you can make it fun but that does seem long for
053a kindergartner is that normal for is that we go back to the chart you'll see that is really in line yeah with what we have if you look at the first grade numbers what we're proposing is really in line with the expectations for first grade and I can tell you as the mom of a current full-day kindergarten student his day looks very similar to it okay okay one of the other pieces mrs. judge with the two is 75 minutes of math and kindergarten or first grade as it goes through does not look like 75 minutes of math that gay and Joshua experiencing you know they are blocks of time what's going on in the activities of fact I would tell you I wish that what they're experiencing looked more like what these kids are experienced
054at that level in terms of the interaction and what goes on in the classroom but they are parameters timelines yeah it's much more exploratory and hands-on yeah a lot of games yeah and then my last question is and this is the cart before the horse but have we thought of if we do full-day kindergarten and we delete the title one need what will we do with that money have we thought of that so I was gonna say that the kindergarten title one program is not funded through Title one it's not it's funded out of our general fund it was Mamu it was removed from the total on budget many years ago and has been funded through the general budget for at least ten years immediately yeah I've made a huge assumption okay we refer to
055it because it occurs in the the title one of Richmond it occurs in the title on schools we do not use the funding as fire talked about from the federal grant its district funded this might be a little bit of a loaded question so I'm sorry for that option an option to how confident are we that we aren't gonna outgrow option two from a space perspective and are we just gonna be revisiting kindergarten centers anyway in a couple years so yes we we are not yes we are not we don't know so we look at the numbers across from the curriculum office with the registration office in regards to how many students are we seeing enrolling in first grade across the district because those are numbers that we have to consider we also have to
056consider if we do start to provide full-day K are more families going to now come to Cherry Hill and what will that look like on average we see about a hundred students who enter the district in first grade who were not students here in kindergarten so that is dispersed across all 12 schools so we may not see a bulge in one building but if we see a bulge in other buildings that is one of the things that we are looking at now because we have some schools that will be able to house you know full-day K possibly for the 17 or the 1819 school year however if they see an increase in enrollment we could be looking at an issue and not having enough classroom space and just to add we there has been conversations
057about full-day kindergarten for quite a few years in the district and some of the trends that we are seeing are trends that we actually saw what was that report it was a report done about 15 years ago to 2001 and it's yeah so and it's almost identical to the data that we are currently gathering in regards to enrollment in trends and space Josh if the board ultimately moves forward with the kindergarten Center option what factors would be used to determine which neighborhood schools would be converted into kindergarten centers and how would these factors be judged I'm gonna pass that one to dr. Milosh that's a good question Josh there are a couple of them if we were to use existing schools right we would do two of them one on the east side of town
058and one on the west side of town so some will be based upon where their location is ease of accessibility by for transportation for buses to get on campus and to get off of the campus another factor that will go in would be the current infrastructure of the building how is it currently set up what's the piping look like where the bathrooms are the in the classroom where in the hallways you know those types of things what are the large group spaces look like what's the field look like what type of playground all those different pieces to go through the biggest things would be the infrastructure in the building and accessibility location in town dr. Dickinson to mrs. Karpel Eno's point I'm sitting here thinking that two years ago in my real job I was
059actually in a modular building and before I left at about two years ago I noticed on the wall that it was actually stationed in 1992 as a temporary modular building interestingly enough the certificate of occupancy expired about three years thereafter so and it remains there today and also growing up in Willingboro the Willingboro school district they made extensive use of modular buildings in my time there and I think some of them are still there some 30 years later so I personally don't think we should even consider that because once something is in place it kind of becomes permanent and then I guess I'll be the first one to kind of throw my hat in the ring to say I certainly support neighborhood schools but it depends depends on how much it cost Scarpa lina not
060to keep jumping up an option that might not even be considered but going back to mr. Goodwin's point and miss Madison I like when you mentioned about whether to make Berkeley the kindergarten Center and how cost-prohibitive that would be I'm assuming that's because it's an existing building that you're trying to now make into a different type of space maybe I'm wrong about that but me is was anything looked at about either acquiring land or using lien I don't know school board even owns you know the district owns land or other land that the township may had to then build something fresh sometimes that's a lot cheaper in the long run than it is to try to retrofit existing buildings and I don't remember exactly when that was but we had seen this amazing video of
061the Japanese kindergarten Center which was designed with kindergartens and mine as opposed to kind of shoehorning it to make it fit so I'm just wondering if that's been explored at all we have not explored acquiring lands at this point well we have land right I'm we have we have 19 schools you know and and and some of our elementary schools are sit on large pieces of property you know to go through so if the will of the board was to pursue that option to construct us there are places that that could be constructed within the district but most likely on an existing piece of property you know to go it's you know not so much even the conversion of Berkeley so Berkeley is a running school as it is with with preschool handicapped right so
062you know and there are typically developing children that that are included as well that program you know south of 300 children the there there's not space with nothing that we can do in that building as it stands proper right now is going to take on 780 more kids you know to go in nothing that we do in that building you know so that would involve a huge construction project you know where you would basically constructing a new building you know on that site if that's what it was going to be but again it that goes back to you know that if that's the identification and the pursuit to go through that it is a kindergarten center you know and to do one then certainly we can go in to start looking so they started getting
063the weeds a little bit about you know what's the cost and what's the impact you know to to go through No well I'll just jump in and follow dr. Dickinson's lead although I really the idea of a kindergarten Center especially one for the entire district and especially the vision I had of including the preschoolers with it really appeals to me I feel they are in my opinion our best option is the full-day kindergarten house in our neighborhood schools I would not be in favor of the modulars because like dr. Dickinson said too many times they're put in schools as a temporary option and five 10 15 years later they're still there they may not be used in the same capacity as when they originally put it but they're still there so I would you know
064if if everybody else is you know wants to pursue the kindergarten option I'll let you know I still do like that but my first choice would be to preserve our neighborhood schools and put full-day kindergarten in our schools and especially as mrs. Seidel pointed out the equity between our neighborhood schools as well you know so that we don't have some of the inequities that we have now is very appealing as well follow-up so if we are going to take the second option then and we're talking about adding like a building in the room to almost all denying elementary school so we are gonna steal some what to concentrate on say five of them or six of them so that means you still keep this flavor of a neighborhood of schools but on the hands because
065saving some money on the cost of remodeling or adding additions to all the schools so that's of course it's maybe it's too early but correct my view concern yes so we would be looking to make sure that there's consistency across all 12 of the elementary schools and some of the buildings may need worked on additional classrooms some of the buildings may already be able to house the current program or the intended program of full-day kindergarten so we would have to see as we get deeper into the process you just remind me again what the bathroom requirements are it doesn't necessarily have to be in the classroom right we can get a waiver if it's a certain number of sheets adjacent right insurance I don't want to speak out of turn it's typically it's in the
066classroom that they want it and you can receive a waiver if it is adjacent yes thank you just just for clarification because again as a board you guys do with policy and Weaver of policy right so there are guidelines the word we're held to to a standard to uphold you know if if we're gonna go through and and reconfigure space and do things my recommendation is always going to be to follow the guidelines that are there not that we couldn't if there was an emergency or there's issues because we currently have in some of the buildings request a waiver I don't believe that the if we're going to implement full-day kindergarten we're gonna make that announcement do all that stuff and say and we're gonna hope that the state approves a waiver that we don't
067have to do certain work so again just as a perspective piece right you guys do with policy all the time you know and I don't know I don't believe that any of this tactic and peace it goes through P&L we don't typically adopt policies with the idea that we'll just say you know that when everybody comes to waive it that we'll go through and do that I'm also in favor of the number two I then the second option but I don't think it's realistic to not have modulus modulars at a couple that doesn't scare me to have to have a couple of modulars in the district it I just don't see how if we're going to say community to stay in each elementary community how it's gonna come off in nineteen and 2018 I just
068don't see it so I'm in favor of a two three okay broad stroke but it also you're right I mean we'd have to follow the requirements and whatever and cost but modulars don't scare me I came to County Education Service Commission had modulars and they've taken away actually they've had mobile schools where they drive them there and they've done away with that when they needed to so yeah yeah so that so I don't see how we could do the second option without having unless you guys I don't know I just don't see how realistic it is there are some buildings we don't have any room so going into number three a little bit doesn't scare me so thank you for your feedback I guess we will dr. Milosh and I will craft something to give
069further direction to me as to what direction you want me to go in and then I will come back to present again thank you was there an administration straight of recommendation at this time leaning towards there is dr. Dickinson yes the the for the kindergarten the neighborhood schools and making the arrangements in the accommodations and working out what it is that needs to be done in that manner and talking about the time frame is and and no it's definitely not doable for September of 2018 it's just not probably any stretch you know to go through but that would be as we look at everything and we go through and talk about what the options are you know I love the the concept of new construction as well just I don't believe that that's a feasible
070option for us as a school district right now in terms of what's going on but that would be the recommendation that we would provide bless you bless you thank you okay sorry I was gonna say just two we I didn't ask if there were questions on any other topic on the CNI agenda because mrs. Scarpelli no actually whispered a question to me she asked what the time line was for the world language survey so I just wanted to make sure that we addressed that I think that we were shooting to have the readout at the next CNI meeting and you wanted to keep it open for two weeks so I would imagine that it's yeah so the world language survey because we at the CNI meeting it was asked that parents have the opportunity to
071complete the survey at back-to-school night we had two schools that have already had back-to-school night however mr. Cole Thorpe and I reached out to those building principals that was Clara Barton and kuru see so both of those parent groups have been notified of the survey the survey has been shared with those communities sixth grade only at kuru see because they haven't had their seventh and eighth grade yet all of the principals are going to receive the link to the world language survey Wednesday at our district leadership team meeting the survey will be open until September 29th or excuse me until September 26th that will give mr. gold Thorpe the 27th 28th and 29th to analyze the data and we will be prepared to present the survey results at the October 2nd CNI meeting slow down
072another question other than back-to-school night are there other ways we are getting that information out to the community that those surveys are available the information is also going to be coming out in our weekly communication blasts from public information mrs. Wilson we've already been in contact with her the information is also going to be tweeted out and posted on our website mr. Gribbon along those lines as well so we're putting out the survey is it because we've gotten a lot of different requests for world languages and a lot of different people are asking for different world languages or why are we having the survey so I'm gonna give you my answer and then turn it over to dr. Milosh so I I think we have had over the years requests for specific languages from variety
073of stakeholders but I and the look at the world language programme is really holistic looking at the whole program not just what classes or what languages are being offered so that's one piece of this look at the world language program but but to answer your original question yes we have over the years at least since I've been on the board received a variety of different requests for things like American Sign Language or Chinese for example and the other piece mr. Goodwin is as part of the overall review of the program when dr. may handed a presentation back in the spring she talked about surveying the community as another way to gain information and garner information just about what people help people feel you know and it's it's geared the way the survey is broken down
074to students to family members and the teachers or community members to go through but it's just it's another piece of the information that I'm just remind folks it's not a vote like the the sir it's not going to come back to survey results and if you know serve its you know survey says that that's not the way that it goes through it's it's one piece of the information that will be included in the overall look at the program and there have been different languages so we've had a lot of discussion there's a great group of folks in the community that the China use language group you know that has met with a variety of us throughout the district over the last six years or so we've also have requests for American sign language for Hindi
075for Arabic for jarate you know it being the big ones that and Russian that have come through so I guess just further so is the idea that we're gonna restructure the program so you know right now we offer certain languages maybe we won't might wait throughout a couple of those languages that we currently offer and add some others in or we're just looking to add on so the simple answer is yes to both parts of it honestly you know and looking at the program that we offer first grade you know through 12th grade one of the things that we desire you know and dr. Mann will go back and forth with it you know as curricular as educators we believe that more kids should take four years of world language while they're in high school
076regardless of the language that they're that they're taking yeah the the great opportunity to meet with two teachers and and I think nineteen students from Germany last night you know we're here visiting and staying with families from a high school at least you know and and even as the teachers go through and contend the school system is dramatically different in terms of how they're organized but you have kids that are that are taking two three four languages and by the time they're graduating from high school and looking at the overall word language program that we offer right now you know at each of those levels and and looking at high school about what is it that we offer you know what are the opportunities that the kids have you know and can we do better
077with where we are because again we always believe that we can do better in terms of the structure what we do for the kids so this is that big picture look there was a time in the mid 2000s and early 2010's you know when all of because of the this federal standards and state standards changing you know that all the attention focused specifically on English language arts and mathematics and every time we revise something was time to revise there's again you know so dr. Mahan over the last 18 months or so really has picked this up she and mr. gold Thorpe have really led this this work and I'm really pleased I'm looking forward to see what all of the work produces you know in the final presentation anyone else okay dr. Dickinson back to
078you Shorter's no more questions about them last chance all right mr. Goodwin would you discuss B&F please sure for the BNF we went through a few items first of all our new auditors are in place and they've done an initial review of the books it looks like we're doing really well as far as budget wise and it looks like we're looking to have an additional 1.5 million over and above our X and XS fund so we're looking to let that roll over to our excess surplus that's it right so we're gonna excess surplus for so they will be able to use it for for next year's budget we were going down the path of having online meetings but due to some personnel issues and things like that in terms of people out sick and those
079kind of things we're probably going to roll that back and look at start looking again in in early 2018 to have our official online board meeting and then also we talked about some of the projects that are going on we had updates on what's going on in the east wall project the Barclay security project which is underway as well as the Kingston soffit project and we also updated on the Barton crawlspace that's something that wish to went put out for a couple of bids we didn't have any takers now we're gonna go out and search for a contractor to be able to do that work and we're still hoping to have that started this year and that was our major updates any questions sorry online board meeting I'm not sure what that is well technically
080what the online board meeting will actually have the agenda and be able to take the vote and it'll all be on this screen right up here where you'll yeah it'll be not only will we have our you know agendas on our screens here oh to be up there and in the public of you will see it online so we're not gonna have a virtual meeting right you'll still be here I guess we could we can all be home and have our little video screens I know is that that is mad like there's also an an online component for the staff to use that they don't currently use that would they would come into play that is also a lot of preparation for us and and not not just our part that we see here any
081other questions that I'd give it back to dr. Dickinson Thank You mr. Goodwin mrs. judge would you discuss HR so we had we had our monthly HR meeting on Wednesday September 6 due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday and most of our discussion is confidential just due to personal matters but I can report a couple of things and of course a couple of things that we discussed at our meeting we voted on tonight so we discussed the interim administrator at Beck due to the resignation of mr. Dawson and we just voted to approve Burnie O'Connor as the interim principal for the upcoming year at back we also discussed the extended school year program and recertification of funds due to additional cost for the teacher setup date and that was on our agenda this evening
082under HR and then going forward we will not see that not to exceed listed in the agenda to avoid having this come forward for $19,000 or whatever the amount is in the future so we will not see that not to exceed and then we also received a extremely brief update on the upcoming negotiations any questions thank you dr. Dickens head back to you thank you mr. judge mr. scarpella no would you discuss piano please we had our meeting on Tuesday September 5th at 6 p.m. normally would be Monday but because of the holiday it was on Tuesday our old business was the second reading of the draft policy and we just in regulation 53:30 point zero one administration of medical marijuana the changes that we had discussed before in the first meeting were added to
083the policy specifically that the superintendent her his designee in consultation with the school nurse and physician would make the determination of whether or not approval for the administration of the medical marijuana ground so we wanted to clarify that language we also there had been questions about what if the students going on a field trip out of state to a state that does not allow medical marijuana would we transport the primary caregiver who would be in possession of the medical marijuana and in consultation with our solicitor it was determined that we would not do that but it's not something we would do as a district the second item was the waiver of policy 23:44 field trips which Rosa is eighth grade class is taking a trip to Washington DC on June 6th and 7th 2018 and
084they'll miss two days of school so we the community agreed to move forward with to go forward with the waiver so that they would miss those two days the third item was the HIV grades which was on the special action tonight which we voted on mrs. Weddington reviewed the anti-bullying self assessment summaries for each school she did present a scores for both the 1516 school year and the 1617 school year and she communicated that all the schools had met the requirements and met the required scores so they met the necessary criteria and basically scores had to get a get 52 points to be considered meeting the criteria and as you can see it's even in the agenda all of our schools were above the 52 points and the scores will be posted on the school's
085website and on the district website also next we had resolution for the week of respect which will be October 2nd through 6 of 2017 and resolution for the school violence Awareness Week which is October 16th through the 20th 2017 and the resolutions for these weeks which which are mandated under the anti-bullying bill of rights in an Administrative Code would be put forth for the board action on September 26 so we'll be on our action agenda to show that's for us to formally show compliance the new business was first reading of a revised policy which is transgender students it's a new legislation that we discussed a few months back but this new legislation requires that school districts transgender student policies ensure that there's language present that states that transgender students will be addressed in school by
086the name and pronoun preferred by the student that corresponds to the students gender identity regardless of whether there's a legal name change or a change in official school records has a courage so the student identifies what gender and pronouns they would like used and the schools will comply with that transgender students shall not be required to use restrooms or locker rooms that conflicts with their gender identity this was already part of our policy but we just sort of clarified information basically saying that if a building would provide alternative bathrooms if they're gender-neutral bathroom was not available in that building and that would be in consultation for that individual school which bathroom would be the best one to offer to a student additionally we had a discussion an item for discussion on the open enrollment policy
087during this summer a parent had asked dr. Kemp EC if we could do a lottery could be used for situations when open enrollment students must be returned to their home schools due to lack of space the open enrollment policy was discussed and we went through the hypothetical scenarios but we agreed that the use of a lottery would just not be in the best interests of students of the district it creates more uncertainty it delays their placement in their assignment it can cause problems if we have later enrolled students who maybe come to the district halfway through the school year it may inhibit their ability to go to their own home school if we've done this lottery before so we just determined that for any for all I students who would just not be the best
088policy and we decided not to to go any further with that and also we saw the document PCC presented the sports emergency management plan this was distributed to the committee for review it's basically it's a comprehensive and consistent plan developed by the director of athletics and the director of security so that you know all the schools all the coaches are on the same page this information this is an informational item so it's not something that will require board action but when it is finalized it will be given to the board members for further information there was no public so there was no public comment that's it any questions dr. Dickinson back to you thank you mrs. Scarpa Lina and last but not least mrs. Matlock would you discuss strategic planning thank you very much our
089first item we had a construction and housing update from the township and president president our meeting was Larissa luciani who was the director of planning for the Cherry Hill township Department of Community Development and she provided the committee with a comprehensive update of forecasted residential and commercial construction activity potentially she estimates the district could gain 338 additional students from new housing in the township however there's a caveat to that that many of these projects are in various stages of completion some are awaiting funding and some have been in the making for almost 20 years and haven't come to fruition yet so that 338 number is is rather inflated she did give us a sheet that we went through and it was it was definitely less than 150 I think even less than a hundred students
090projected from the ones that are finishing up now so it's much less than that number she gave us the committee asked her about the impact of additional commercial sites that could have on our already busy roadways and how it would affect our district bussing she stated that transportation studies are included in the application packets for these projects and that generally it has felt the traffic would mostly be affected during the weekends and not during the typical school transportation times she was alluding to the fact that recent construction is commercial that has been recently brought to light has been commercial and that she she feels that that would add additional transportation on the weekends and after school hours is her opinion we had an update on the full-day kindergarten which we have just thoroughly seen and
091discussed and then dr. melash reviewed his first coffee and conversation meeting which was at the Barton school held on August August 26 and he held his second meeting at Cooper this past Saturday and he has six additional community meetings that have been added to the schedule some are including Sunday afternoon dates and these will be at the middle schools and the input and questions from these meetings will be collected and it's anticipated that the board will vote on the strategic plan the Cherry Hill Public Schools 2020 strategic plan and the referendum projects at the January 2018 board meeting and although we had some members of the community in the audience they had no questions for us they asked clarifying question about to the township about a construction project any questions or misses judge to can
092because I'm on strategic planning and I was an aunt strategic planning can I take a picture of the handout there yes yeah I can and the second thing is regarding your coffee at Cooper was there a former board member present at your coffee at Cooper there was a former board and a current board member in the picture that was tweeted out okay thank you any other questions okay thank you dr. Dickinson back to you thank you mrs. Matlock I will say that because dr. Milosh does not like me he sent me some reading materials including two studies cited by the young lady from the township and who lives in New Jersey and it did clearly state that in order for those numbers to apply that the numbers have to be modified for local conditions and
093they have to be updated I believe the study was from 2006 yeah so those numbers are not as accurate as I think she portrayed them living yeah okay so we'll move into our second public comment 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 please note the green light will turn yellow when you have 30 seconds remaining and a light will turn red when your three minutes are up so anybody have anything to share with us this evening hi everyone Elinor Stockman 4401 sage word drive of a couple questions so sad to see Bernie O'Connell leave East but so happy for Beck my I have one grandson who's graduating East and mr. O'Connell would have been the senior
094advisor so we're sad that that combination is not going to be there but I have an eighth grader back so she'll be happy to have them there what is the plan for to replace the senior advisor at East do you have a person in mind already or has it been filled you know how do you know the the position will be posted now that the the position is being vacated will be posted as another interim there there's lots of plans about what it'll look like and as soon as that's finalized it'll be announced okay and then for full-day kindergarten of course it's a passion of mine for more years than I can imagine that I can even know how long I've been looking forward to something like that for our school district so just for
095clarification it seems to me that there really aren't options because if we don't have an open building a vacant open building to make a kindergarten Center and it doesn't seem feasible or possible to build a Center then that option obviously doesn't exist in the real world even though it could be ideal so then the other option talking about having a kindergarten full-day kindergarten in every school which is always the ideal because it remains the neighborhood school for that child and siblings then I don't see what your options really hat are because if there is enough room in that school then you have it if there's not enough room you either have to build the extra classrooms needed or use the modular so I guess cost is the factor if building is out of the question
096then it only leaves modulars or is building an extra room still a possibility it's just not building a school the possibility was when you talked about construction not really being feasible so would it be feasible to just build one or two classrooms on to a school would that be feasible if there's land connected to the school yes so so right now honestly miss stoppin everything is an option right time space and money you know that are the big factors that go through you heard me say earlier my recommendation would be do the full day kindergarten in the neighborhood schools and make the accommodations that need to be made you know in either within those buildings or to add-on or whatever would be but to make each of the school is suitable to go through you
097know building a center could be an option if somebody came in and you know if the ED foundation decided they had twenty million dollars they wanted to donate and you know name name this name the kindergarten center like so right time space and money are the things to go through well I have a red light okay thank you everybody else okay all right well good night everybody thank you for coming out and preciate it you have a motion to adjourn mrs. Judd Shea mr. Goodwin thank you thank you