Board of Education Meeting - March 17, 2026

001Good evening. I like to call the meeting to order at 7:02. Can I have a moment of silence, please? Please stand for the flag salute. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Roll call, Mr. Kenny. >> Here. Mr. Bramhall. >> Here. Ms. Falconiero. Here. Ms. Ayekoo. Here. Mr. McGough. Here. Mr. Meeker. Here. Ms. Tadley. Here. Ms. Trombetta. Here. Ms. Fitzwater. >> Here. Statement is hereby made that adequate notice of this meeting was given by the submission of said notice to the Burlington County Times, the Courier Post, the Cinnaminson Township Clerk, and the district website on the following dates: January 8th, 2025, January 7th, 2026. Moving on to section four, routine

002business. Uh we have A, the board secretary's report for January of '26. B, the receipts and appropriations for January of '26. C, the treasurer's report for January. D, the monthly chan- transfer report for January. E, the high school activities report for February. F, the food service management cost performance statement for February. G, the certified bill list as of 3/17. Uh the approval of minutes, the executive session on February 17th, and the regular meeting on February uh 17th. Mr. Kenny, can I have a motion to approve section four, routine business, items A through H? >> So moved. Second? >> Second. Thank you, Ms. Trombetta. comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Ms. Tedley? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Moving beyond the section five routine matters.

003We have the enrollment report as of March 13th of 2026, the health report for February of 26, the fire alarm report for February, the crisis drill report for February, and the superintendent's monthly report, Mr. Capello. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Ladies and gentlemen, uh here with us this evening, those of you watching at home, we appreciate your attendance. I promise I will keep my report rather short this evening because this is an exciting meeting as obviously we have a lot to get to with student recognition. Uh a little bit earlier this evening, this also happens to be a great time for a board meeting tonight because at our March meeting, uh we have a fun competition ahead of the meeting uh co-sponsored by our friends from Sodexo who handle the food service for the district called

004Future Chefs. I think we might hear a little bit about our or hear from our winner uh a little bit later on this evening. So, that was an exciting competition and our six student chefs did an excellent job. Thank you to my judges from the panel. Uh this is school performance production season. I had the opportunity to take in Little Shop of Horrors at High School. What an excellent production. Congratulations to Ms. Weitzer and Mr. Kesten on a fantastic performance and all of the student performers as well. We find ourselves in between weekends. So, not only is serving as a Board of Education meeting room, but this is the room where it happens for Bye Bye Birdie, which will be taking place also uh Friday night and Saturday night and Saturday afternoon as well. I

005got an opportunity to see the show on Saturday night and I can tell you it is a lot of fun and our middle schoolers really outdid themselves. I want to say thank you to all of our counselors, teachers, and educators who are helping us administer the NJGPA assessment uh this week. Also, thank you to all of our students, some of them who have been testing this week. It is a part of their graduation requirement. They've been doing an excellent job and we appreciate all the efforts that go in and we look forward to hearing from Dr. Woolbert later this year on how our students performed on this assessment. Uh our seniors on Saturday got back from the happiest place on earth after celebrating their senior class trip. Thank you to Mr. Gorman and uh advisors

006who were part of that trip. I'm sure if some of our folks here had a lovely time on the trip. Um it was an excellent trip. Uh for folks in the community who may be monitoring or have seen the signs around town or gotten the Nixels, our preschool lottery uh just closed late last week and we'll be announcing the folks and um who have cleared the lottery and who will be on the waiting list to join our 33 matriculating three-year-olds as the board works towards bringing full free day kindergarten to all three and four-year-olds in town. Uh we are hoping to address that waiting list with vigor this year as we are exploring additional opportunities uh with some public-private partnerships and also looking to expand our already tight footprint to be able to offer more

007pre-K experiences to our families in town. Uh last year at this March meeting, uh I introduced to the public for the first time the fact that there was an ad hoc committee of the board that was looking at school improvements. I'm very excited that in the second portion of the presentation this evening, we are going to hear from school district architect Bob Garrison uh to learn a little bit more details about what the board is looking to bring to the public by way of school improvements. So, while we will do student recognition first, everyone is invited to stick around uh to hear more about um addressing some of the issues and expansion here in Cinnaminson and we have a very captive audience so you are invited to be a part of that conversation as well.

008Also very excited at the end of the table to welcome Elizabeth McCoy who will be our Rush reporter this evening and we'll look forward to her sharing some of the updates and the wonderful things that are happening at the Rush school. And for those of you who are here this evening, we will be back in this room once again next week as we'll be taking the first public facing steps in advancing the proposed fiscal year 2026-2027 school budget. Um with approval from the board next week, Mrs. Wilkie, our business administrator, can submit the preliminary budget to our Burlington County Office of Education for review, and there will be a public hearing on that budget later in April. Details can be found on our website. I'd like to thank the members of the Cinnaminson Township Committee

009who welcomed the very first student liaison uh to serve in a role as a intermediary between the schools and the township. One of the things that makes us very proud here is the line between the township and the schools has always been a a very thin one as the schools are very much embedded into the community, and thanks to Mayor Ryan Horner, uh they invited a representative from our senior class to come and report on all of the wonderful things that are happening in our schools. And also, thank you to the Township Committee for recognizing some of the folks who will be recognized here this evening as well, as they honored our girls basketball team and some of our wrestlers at the meeting last night. Um finally, I'd also like to congratulate Cinnaminson High School

010teacher Jeb Howley, uh who coached So, it wasn't here, but is it now a state championship uh girls basketball Group 3 coach. Uh congratulations to Jeb, and finally, just want to wish Ethan a very get well soon. So, with that, Mrs. Fitzwater, that is the Superintendent's report. Thank you, Mr. Capello. Um Mrs. Trumpet, can I have a motion to approve Section 5, routine matters, items A through E? So moved. >> Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Meeker. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGough? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Uh moving on to Section 6, student representative reports. We will hear first from our high school student representative, Carly Trumpet. Good evening. The Golden Apple Award for February was presented to Mr. Jared Hiller,

011who was nominated by Natalie Melchiorre. The students of the month for February, um for class of 2026 is Jack Warner, class of 2027 Grace Otto, class of 2028 Jacinda Barker, and class of 2029 Rylan Brown. The winter sports have concluded their seasons and spring sports teams are practicing. The boys basketball team finished strong with a 7-9 record. Henry Stewart was named second team all Liberty Conference. History has been made on the court for the girls high school basketball team. They've secured the South Jersey Group 2 sectional championship, a monumental first in program history. The winter track team has achieved some nice outcomes for itself over the last month. The distance medley relay team posted the fifth fastest time in school history at the LaSalle Relay Night. At the Group 2 sectional championships on February 15th,

012the boys team placed fifth and the girls team posted numerous PRs and season best taking seventh in three events. The boys bowling team finished the season with a record of 17-4. Ian Jungblut also landed on the record board taking over third place for boys season average with 198. The girls bowling team finished the season with a record of 18-3. That secured first place in the BCSL Patriot Division and the girls division title in school history. The girls had a great showing in the post season finishing in second place at the BCSL Open. Abby Gorman and Elena Alana Miller both qualified to compete in the girls individual state championship. The boys wrestling team kicked off the individual post season run. Individually, senior Dominic Marino currently has a 34-1 record and broke the Cinnaminson wrestling all-time wins

013record. The program hosted the District 27 tournament again, which was met with positive feedback from all involved. Um Dom Marino and Davi Gomez advanced to regionals and then advanced to regions and then to the NJSIAA boys tournament wrestling tournament on March 14th. The girls wrestling program concluded its dual meet season with a 9-10 record. The program's prog- prog- progress culminated in a historic performance at the inaugural district tournament where four athletes achieved podium finishes. Riley Evans became the first district champion in program history with a first place finish. Emily De Silva and Riley Evans also competed in Atlantic City for the NJ SIAA Girls Wrestling Tournament. The Play Unified Basketball Team completed another successful season with five wins tied for the most in program history. This group has demonstrated tremendous growth and heart from start

014to finish. Indoor Drumline and Indoor Colorguard competed in their first competition at Millville High School. The Drumline came in second place and the Colorguard finished in sixth place. Their competition is our home show on Saturday, March 21st. We hope to see everyone there to support these amazing students. The senior class returned home from their senior class trip at Disney World and one day at Universal. They had a wonderful time making many memories at the happiest place on Earth. The Little Shop of Horrors delighted audiences over two weekends. The Cinnaminson Drama Club extends a warm thank you to the Cinnaminson community for their support and appreciation of a wonderful show. They'd like to give a special thanks to their parent volunteers and wish the best for the graduating class of 2026 and the incredible contributions they

015have made to our school. On Friday, the Cinnaminson Student Council had the privilege of participating in a private store private tour of the US Capitol in Washington, D.C. During our visit, we met with Mrs. Amy Pfeiffer, Cinnaminson Class of 2020 2002, who currently serves as Chief of Staff to Senator Andy Kim. She shared insights into her journey from Cinnaminson to Capitol Hill, thoughtfully answered students' questions and inspired many to consider careers in public service. Our tour also included visits to the original Supreme Court Chamber and the inaugural stairs at and the current Senate Gallery providing students with a meaningful and memorable memorable educational experience. Um on February 9th, the Interact Club volunteers made over 130 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to donate to Cathedral Kitchen in Camden. On February 20th, Interact hosted its annual casino

016night. Residents of from the Arc of Burlington County came to the high school to play games and prizes. In our club, we hope to make more sandwiches after school one day in March. In February, the affinity groups got together to help celebrate Black History Month. The affinity leaders took a trip to the third grade classrooms to read a book on February 20th. We also hosted a Black History Month Fair for all affinity group members on February 27th. The fair featured African-American alumni and community speakers, a black culture and the arts presentation, a DJ and line dancing, a catered meal, and collaborative murals and meaningful conversations amongst all. Our Consumable team has clinched its third consecutive Burlington County championship. Dylan Burke, Amina Zefiq, and Keyport's Amara Waster, Amisha Sharma, and James Kohler showcased exceptional knowledge and

017teamwork earning a well-deserved victory. They now advance to the regional competition in April. Lastly, Ms. Alvarado led our Future Healthcare Professionals Club on an insightful trip to the Mutter Museum. Students explored the fascinating evolution of medicine there. Thank you. Thank you, Carly. And now we'll hear Excuse me. Now we'll hear from our middle school student representative, Matthew Kenny. Good evening. Happy St. Patrick's Day. The February student of the month are sixth grader Giana Ferrioni, seventh grader Jacob New, and eighth grader Caio Gomes. The February teacher of the month was Bethany Creel, who teaches computers. Congrats to all. Spring sports tryouts started last week. We We are excited for some good weather and sunshine after a long, cold winter. The middle school sports available to our students are softball, baseball, girls lacrosse, and coed track and

018field. In addition, we will begin spring sports in at CMS this week and look forward to getting as many students involved as possible. The CMS Pirate Players are proud to present Bye Bye Birdie Youth Edition. They opened the show this past week this past weekend. I give it two thumbs up. You can still see it next weekend on Friday and Saturday. On March 20th, the the show starts at 7:30 p.m. And March 21st, there are two shows, 2:00 and 7:30. Regular admission is $5 for students, $10 for adults, and free for senior citizens. Join us for this fun musical performance by our talented CMS students. We hope to see you all there. Our Read Across America week was a success from March 2nd to March 6th. The themes of this week are as followed. Monday,

019I'm crazy about books, wear crazy socks. Tuesday, hats off for reading, wear a Dr. Seuss hat or a special hat. Wednesday, we positively love books, wear a shirt with a positive message. Thursday, readers are bright, wear a neon, bright, or rainbow color shirt. Friday, our school loves to read, wear Summerville spirit and gear or red and black. Read for 2026 was held on Friday at the end of the day. We had special readers in our classrooms. We were lucky enough to have Mr. Capello and Dr. Golbourn to attend this annual fun event. On Monday, March 2nd, CMS 7th and 8th grade girls participated in women's retreat titled Lifting Your Voice with special guest Tracy Davidson. This workshop covered topics including stress, time management, relationship, the negative voice, gratitude, goals, vulnerability, and empathy. On Thursday, March

0205th, we had some of our 8th grade student athletes visit Book Smile during the school day. They were able to learn about organization and its mission. Our student athletes were then given the opportunity to help organize and sort various books for local schools, families, and libraries. Also, on Thursday, March 5th, after school, we have some of our 8th graders go to Pinsetters to bowl and eat. It was a strikeout day, and we did not spare any expenses. Thank you, and have a great day. Thank you, Matthew. And we have a special guest tonight we would like to um welcome Elizabeth McCoy, our student representative from the Rush School. Good evening. My name is Elizabeth McCoy, and I'm a fifth grader in Miss A. Kelly's class. The February students of the month are as follows: third

021grade, Ella Nowicki; fourth grade, Eli Bencherou Larea; fifth grade, Abigail Klein and Gerald and Gerard Dawson, who has been chosen to receive the specialist nomination by Miss Shields. Great job to all. The Kids Heart Challenge ended on February 28th, and the Rush School community raised $28,683 for the American Heart Association. Mr. Baldosaro worked so hard to encourage everyone to participate in this worthy cause. Rush School is number five in the state and number one in Burlington County for the most donations, thanks to everyone's efforts. Penelope Boshell was the top earning student, raising $2,253. Rush School celebrated Read Across America Week from March 2nd until March 6th. Students and staff enjoyed theme days and got to wear cozy pajamas, mismatch outfits, and of course Cinnaminson spirit wear. On Thursday, March 5th, visiting author Donna Donna Galantai

022presented two assemblies. A special thanks to the Cinnaminson Home and School Association for the author visit. There are many exciting events and field trips coming up. On March 18th and 19th, Rush School will follow a single session schedule due to report card conferences. On March 25th, students in all grades will work will walk over to CHS to enjoy a math carnival. On March 27th, Rush will hold its annual Unity Day Assembly organized by Miss Callet, Miss McNeal, and members of the Unity Club. ERS is hosting its spring concert on Wednesday, April 1st at Cinnaminson High School. Fourth graders and advanced choir students will in all grades will perform Broadway favorites. On April 2nd, fifth grade students will enjoy career day with many guest speakers. On April 13th, fifth grade teams will participate in the Battle

023of the Books competition in the Rush School APR, and the winning team will go to compete in the county battle. Last but not least, the ERS Drama Club is excited to present Annie Kids on April 29th and 30th with evening performances on both days. Thank you, and have a wonderful evening. Thank you, Elizabeth. We're going to move on to section seven, presentations, student recognition. Mr. Capello. Elizabeth, great job. Uh as she was presenting, I had an opportunity to kind of look out and catch mom's eye as she was reading, and the amount of pride that I saw. Um hopefully everyone in this room if you're here being recognized tonight, I'm sure there is a similar amount of pride. Um and I have to say, I'd be remiss if I didn't. Um last month, uh we

024recognized the school counselors in the district uh during school counselor week. And about 20 minutes ago, uh for the first time in 30-some years, I got to reconnect with my middle school counselor. And number one, I don't know if as a 12-year-old she pictured that maybe I would be standing here one day, but you never realize the connections that your educators make in your lives. And I know so many teachers and coaches are out here in the audience and I know 30 years from now to our students here you will remember the folks that brought you along the way and inspired you to do whatever it is that you do in your lives. So there is someone special here who brought you here tonight. Please make sure you take a little bit of time to

025show them some gratitude and a thank you. So with that we will start our student recognition program. Oh and thank you Mrs. Jones it's so great to reconnect. Uh I would like to welcome some of our friends uh from our administrative team to come up and help and share in student recognition. First I'd like to introduce Mrs. Jones from the New Albany Elementary School. Good evening everyone. It's my honor to um honor our New Albany students. So first up we have several students that were the top three fundraisers for the Kids Heart Challenge. Although New Albany School raised $4,770 in uh these three students contributed $811.95 the three of them. So I'd like to welcome Weston Narducci. We also have Remington Angle and Remington raised $255.95. >> Congratulations, Remy. I'd also like to honor Nico

026Mangioli, who raised $255.52. Congratulations to these three students. Now, I'd like to move on to some of our uh place uh students who placed in the Invention Convention. First up, I'd like to invite Aliya Golbeg up. Aliya's invention was the marker collar. She was in the kindergarten division, so congratulations, Aliya. Congratulations to Aliya. I'd like to invite Parker Jones up. Parker took second place for the kindergarten division with his invention entitled the Spinner Winner Takes Apart Bricks. >> Congratulations, Parker. Brin Neligan took first place in the kindergarten division with her invention called the potato potato. Moving on to the first and second grade division, Julia Scroll took third place with her invention, the epic book stand. Congratulations to Julia. Also in third place, there was a tie. I'd like to invite Teagan McDermott up. She

027had an invention called the wraptastic. Congratulations, Teagan. Taking second place with Christina Monroy with her invention, peek-a-week. Congratulations, Christina. And in first place, we have Enzo Capasecco. This is his second year winning first place in the grade 1-2 division with his Scrubster 4000. CONGRATULATIONS TO ENZO. I'd like to invite a special person up to the podium. CJ Mannon did an Eagle Scout project for New Albany Schools Pete Speech and Pathology Department, and he's going to tell you a little bit about his what he created. Oh, thank you. Uh hi, my name is CJ Mannon. And I'm a member of Troop 26. And when I attended New Albany Elementary years ago, I received speech therapy from Miss Jenkins. And she helped me greatly with my articulation. And um I'm very thankful for her time and support

028that she gave me those years ago. And she gave me a lasting impact on my confidence and communication skills. So, when it came to think about my Eagle Scout project that I would give back to my community, I immediately thought about my experiences growing up with Miss Jenkins. And the two things that helped me a lot when I was younger was speech therapy and building with LEGOs. So, I thought how to combine that. And I came up with my cart right here, my SLP LEGO cart. And um I developed four activities in each of these carts, and there's two of them that I'm going to donate. And I would also like to thank my scout master, Mr. Finley, who helped me a lot. And his encouragement, too. And I think the Cinnaminson Board of Education,

029too, for providing speech therapy to help kids like me. And I hope this project is a helpful tool for the speech pathology teachers at uh New Albany. Uh that's all. Thank you, CJ, for that special gift to our speech department. I'd like to invite Mrs. Kate Mealy to the podium to honor the Rush students. If I could please have the three Spelling Bee finalists who are here this evening just come up and join Mrs. DeSimone over to the side. That would be wonderful. Push this up a little bit. So, on Thursday, February 5th, Rush School held a Spelling Bee at the high school. Thank you very much to the high school administration for opening your auditorium to us. And after many, many competitive rounds, I am pleased to announce that our winners are on the

030screen as follows. Gerard Dawson earned first place in our Rush School Spelling Bee and went on to the regional bee in Philadelphia the first weekend of March. CONGRATULATIONS. >> MISS NORA COLLINS IS not here this evening, but still very much deserves to be recognized. She received second place in the school wide bee. Congratulations Nora. And Miss Chloe Sawyer earned third place in our school spelling bee and this is her second time placing at this level for the school bee. So congratulations. All right, if I could now please have the three friends up on the slide join us over at the side. As Elizabeth mentioned in our student board report, our physical education teacher Mr. Baldassari takes the Kids Heart Challenge very seriously and really energizes our student population when it comes to this worthwhile cause.

031So the three students who are here this evening were our top three fundraisers for Rush School and fundraised a combined total between the three of them of $5,709. So Penelope was our top fundraiser this year. She is our fourth grade student. Mr. Leo Askleece was our second highest fundraiser in fifth grade. >> And Mr. Luke Schauws, and also in fifth grade was our third highest fundraiser. ALL RIGHT. IF I COULD NOW have all of my Invention Convention friends who are here come over and join us at the side. So, the Invention Convention is open to students in grades K through 8. So, the following students competed in our 3 to 5 division. And earning third place in this division was Miss Rose Staudenmeyer for her pirate parrot and planks invention. Students are able to enter

032the competition as a team or pair or by themselves. So, our second place winners entered as a team, and they are Angelo Carvalho and Olivia Valentin who submitted a grip and keep. AND IN FIRST PLACE FOR THE grades 3 to 5 division, we have Miss Peyton Dewey who submitted a Captain Cleanbot, which I will be purchasing as soon as they are available ON THE MARKET. ALL RIGHT. OUR LAST ACKNOWLEDGEMENT for Rush School is hot off the press as of this evening. As Mr. Capello shared with all of you, we have our Future Chefs National Challenge every year right before the March Board Meeting, and I would like to acknowledge these six students who were this year's chefs. In fourth grade, Quinn Dribee and Nolan Loranger. And then our fifth grade competitors include Ryder Massett, Elizabeth

033McCoy, Mary Anna Minix, and Abigail Stackton. And the best news of all for Miss Elizabeth is that coincidentally she was our national champion this evening at Cinnaminson. So, she will advance to now the national round of competition. COME ON OVER. IT'S SO HOT OFF THE PRINTER. IT'S LITERALLY IT'S LITERALLY HOT. off the printer. This is for you. You know what? Congratulations. That's you. All right. I'd like to welcome Mrs. Kerry DeSimone, principal of Cinnaminson Middle School. Okay. Good evening. So, our All South Jersey Band and West Burlington Honors Band are audition based, and this year we have three students who auditioned and made these honors bands. We wanted to honor them last month, but they actually had their practices and concert then. So, congratulations to Benjamin Dos Reis, who is in grade eight. He plays

034the baritone, and he made both All South Jersey and Western Burlington Honors Band. Playing the trumpet also in grade eight and making the Western Burlington Honors Band Enes Jabook. And finally, last but not least, in grade seven playing the saxophone also made it to the Western Burlington Honors Band. Oh, there's Enes. Come on up, Enes. We'll take a pause. And as I was saying, um playing saxophone in grade seven Miss Hannah Farmer. We also had our our Invention Convention winners. In first place, Mokshanya Yadlapati and Lilia Marshall in grade seven with their Atmos Pack. COME ON UP. >> THEY'RE RIGHT HERE. I KNEW I HAD THEM. HOLD ON, GIRLS. LIKE, wait a minute. Where did they go? Can you come up for one more picture? Thank you. This is the real one. Yes. THANKS, GIRLS.

035IN SECOND PLACE, PARTNERS COLIN Feeley and Mason Sawyer, also in grade seven, with their STP trash can. COME ON UP. AND IN THIRD PLACE, PARTNERS Cyrus Wagner and Tommy Wishart, grade seven, with their automatic water cooler. Okay, so we also have our first place winner. Dwayne, come on up. Dwayne uh Formson, who is OUR SIXTH-GRADE STUDENT. WE WENT UH 29 rounds here at CMS in order for Dwayne to take first place. He was uh he beat out one other student at the end at the very end, both sixth grade students. Dwayne went on to the regional bee at WHYY and placed eight out of 50 and now knows how to spell the word forever. That will be in in his brain, commiserative. Commiserative. He spelled it for me right before he CAME UP. COMMISERATIVE. COMMISERATIVE.

036C O M M I S E R A T I V E commiserative. VERY GOOD. AND I'D LIKE TO BRING UP MR. RYAN GORMAN, principal of Cinnaminson High School. So for the high school, we're going to start this year with our consumable winners who we mentioned earlier, won first place for three consecutive years. Dylan Burke, Amina Zaseck, Emmy Keeports, Amara Rossiter, um Amisha Sharma, and James Kohler. SIR, DO YOU WANT TO COME UP FRONT SO YOU CAN GET UP HERE AND GET A PICTURE? I'LL find it. AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS, LADIES. SO, ABIGAIL GROGAN WAS OUR POETRY OUT Loud winner this year. She won not only the local competition at our high school, she also won our regional competition at Rutgers uh and represented Cinnaminson High School at the state competition this year. Congratulations, ABIGAIL. YOU WANT

037ME TO TAKE A PICTURE FOR YEAH, LET'S TAKE A PICTURE. LET'S DO IT. If you're up for it, it was awesome. So, I love you again. If you're up for it. Yeah. Please. Okay. One of them. Hi. Um Um I'll be reciting If I Had Known by Alice Moore Dunbar Nelson. If I had known two years ago how drear this life should be and crowd upon itself all strangely sad, it may hap another song would burst from out my lips, overflowing with the happiness of future hopes. It may hap another throb than that of joy have stirred my soul into its inmost depths. If I had known, if I had known two years ago the impotence of love, the vainness of a kiss, how barren a caress, and may have my soul to higher things

038have sworn, nor clung to earthly loves and tender dreams, but ever up aloft into the blue empyrean, and there to master all the world of mind, if I had known. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, ABIGAIL. OUR HIGH SCHOOL competitors in the Invention Convention this year, in third place, we have Dakota Malberger. In second place, we had Fatih Era Erin and Minh Nguyen. And finally, taking first place in the high school division, Chase Gallon. I have a new invention. It's a certificate opener and a nerfer. Thank you very >> Oh, I'm sorry. Congratulations, Jason. Please welcome our high school athletic director, Mr. Brian Wilkinson, who will be recognizing our winter athletes. To begin, it's been an extraordinary season for our Oops, sorry. To begin, it's been extraordinary season for our bowling teams at Centennials High School. With

039only nine individual records and six team records up for grabs, landing among the top three in school history is a remarkable achievement worthy of our recognition. Let's begin with the boys. They secured the third highest single game score in school history with a stellar 1040. This record is particularly significant as it came during a high-pressure playoff semi-final where they faced elimination. With resilience, the team rallied together declaring we are still here and bold their hearts out forcing a sudden-death game against their opponents. Although they ultimately fell short, their performance under pressure etched their names in the top three of school history. If Logan Wickheiser, Chase Gallant, Matthias Corona, Jonathan Di Filippo, and Ian Jungblut could come up, please. >> Congratulations. I want to put my friend right there. Brian Poe. So, still going? Congratulations. Ian,

040IF YOU COULD STAY. ON AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL, Ian Youngblood made waves by achieving a third-place average of 198, breaking a record that had stood since the 1999-2000 season. A record that we refer to as back in the 1900s. Ian's phenomenal playoff performance, averaging 228, allowed him to elevate his average by two pins and secure his place in history. Congratulations, Ian. To the girls team who've made an indelible mark this season, they rolled an incredible 2289, setting the record for the highest series in school history. Remarkably, I can operate that. Remarkably, they accomplished this feat without breaking any of the single high game marks during the match, showcasing their consistency. The previous record had stood for an impressive 24 years. In a separate game, they achieved the third highest single game score with an 817, and

041to top it all off, this talented group also brought home the first ever division championship for Cinnaminson High School girls bowling. Celeste Zammit, Michaela Zammit, Alana Malave, Aliana Miller, and Abigail Gordon, please come up with COACH AL MILLER. COACH MILLER, IF YOU COULD COME UP AS WELL, PLEASE. ALIANA, don't go anywhere. Individually, Aliana Miller exhibited sheer dominance this season. A junior who captured not one, but five individual records. Aliana shattered more than half the individual records this year. She achieved first place high series, 637, breaking a record that stood for 38 years. Third place high series, 617, a record that stood for 25 years. Second and third place for high game, she bowled both at 258, which not had which had not been touched for 38 years. Second place high average, a 167, also a

04238-year-old record. Aliana's achievements don't stop there. This season marked a significant return for Cinnaminson, as she and Abby Gordon both qualified for the individual state tournament, an accomplishment that hadn't happened since 2000-2001. Both girls ranked among the top 100 averages statewide with Aliana finishing 42nd and returning as a senior ranked in the top 20, while Abby improved to 70th and will return ranked in the top 50. The season has been a testament to hard work, determination, and the spirit of Cinnaminson High School. Let us celebrate these achievements and look forward to even more success in the future from our bowlers. And if I could get Nina Jacquet, Michaela Zambito, Aliana Malave, Alana Miller, and Abigail Gordon up for a picture. Is that it? Just one? Okay. There we go. For the last week, we've been

043able to celebrate a historic achievement for Cinnaminson High School's girls basketball team. This season marked a monumental moment as they clinched the first-ever sectional championship in our school's 60-plus years of athletic history. This is not just a win, it's a legacy that will inspire future teams for generations to come. This incredible group of young women didn't just make history, they redefined it. They set a new school record with an astonishing 30 wins, showcasing their talent and determination. Their longest winning streak of 20 consecutive games is a testament to their hard work, teamwork, and unwavering spirit. If you all could come up, please. Nora Quinn, Shiloh Moore, Gabby Harvey, Mia Passetti, Tyler Davis, Mia Sternlevitch, Jackie Sachanski, Julia Lavin, Chloe Vodala, Ella Repsher, Stevie Ormsby, Emily Reynolds, and Coach Jenkins. Yeah, come on over here. >>

044All right. Stay here for a minute, girls. I want to take a moment to recognize some standout performances from this exceptional team. First, let's acknowledge Shiloh Moore and Nora Quinn, both of whom will proudly join the 1,000 point banner in our gym. An incredible accomplishment that speaks volumes about their skill and dedication. Shiloh finished her career with 1,060 points and holds the record for single season scoring with 522 points. She also set records for steals with 128 in a single season and an impressive 357 career steals. Nora Quinn is equally remarkable, finishing her career with 1,054 points and establishing the career record for rebounds with 829. Their contributions have been invaluable and their names will forever be etched in the history of our school. Let's also shine a spotlight on Gabby Harvey, a junior who

045made her mark by setting the single season record for three-pointers with 70. She even tied the single game record making five three-point field goals in a single game. Her performance has electrified our fans and contributed greatly to the team's success. This season has been nothing short of inspirational. The hard work, the resilience, and the passion displayed by these young women have united our community and created a legacy that will be remembered. Thank you and congratulations to our remarkable girls basketball team. We get to get a picture with Nora, Shiloh, and Gabby, please. And Coach Jenkins, if you can stay there and take my place. Special one? Thank you. There you go. There you go. I'm sorry. THANK YOU. CINNAMINSON HAS HAD SOME SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE world of wrestling, a sport that demands strength, resilience,

046and dedication. I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the outstanding accomplishments of our athletes from District 27. First, a huge round of applause to Jake Barbitch and Max Fry, who each claimed second place in their respective weight classes. Their hard work, determination, and skill have brought them to the podium. We're all incredibly proud of them. Finishing the top tier at this level is no small feat, especially as the season reaches its culmination. Additionally, let's recognize Levi Jander and Aaron Jones, who earned impressive third place finishes. Their commitment and tenacity throughout the season have been truly inspiring, showcasing the competition and the heart of true wrestlers. Are they here? Okay. I'd like also to celebrate the remarkable achievements of two more standout wrestlers from Cinnaminson High School, Dom Marino and Davi Gamares. Their dedication, skill,

047and passion for the sport have not only elevated their own careers, but have also made a lasting impact on our wrestling program. Let's start with Dom Marino. Dom took first place in District 27 and finished fourth in the region, demonstrating his competitive spirit and resilience. His journey continued as he advanced to the second day of the prestigious NJSIAA tournament at Boardwalk Hall, a significant accomplishment that speaks to his talent and hard work. Dom has set numerous school records including 44 wins in a season, the most ever in Cinnaminson history. 28 pins in a season, showcasing his ability to dominate on the mat. 92 career pins, a testament to his relentless pursuit of victory, and impressively 141 career wins, making him the single winningest wrestler in Cinnaminson history. Dom embodies what it means to be a

048champion and has been incredible an incredible representative for pirate wrestling. His leadership and determination inspire not just his teammates, but all of us in the Cinnaminson community. If Dom and Coach Murray could COME UP, PLEASE. NOW, LET'S DARBY. DARBY also had a tremendous season taking first place in District 27 and finishing third in the region. His dominance on the mat this year is evidenced by the school records he now holds, including 24 tech falls in a season, the most for any wrestler at Cinnaminson, and 32 tech falls in his career, further solidifying his prowess in the sport. Darby's athleticism combined with his unique wrestling style made him not only an exciting wrestler to watch, but a dominant force for the Pirates. COME ON UP, DARBY. THE CINNAMINSON GIRLS WRESTLING team has been nothing short of

049historic, and it's a pleasure to share these accomplishments with you. First and foremost, our girls shattered records by securing the most dual meet wins in Cinnaminson history Cinnaminson history, nine victories. They also scored a remarkable 48 points in a single dual meet, setting a new school record. Their grit and determination were evident in every match as they wrestled fiercely against every opponent. As we continue to nurture and grow this program, I'm confident that even more victories are on the horizon. If girls wrestlers, come on up, please. >> So, among our standout athletes this season, Emerson Matthews and Emanuelle Sousa, who are not here tonight, made their mark by finishing third and fourth in District 10, respectively. Their hard work and dedication have laid a strong foundation for the future of our team and the great

050accomplishments they deserve. Let's talk about Riley Evans, who's made history as Cinnaminson's first ever district champion. Riley didn't stop there. She went on to secure second place in the region and proudly represented us at Boardwalk Hall. Along the way, she set school records for the most pins in a season, 26, and the most pins in a career totaling 50. With 31 wins this season, she ranks second for the most in a single season for our girls wrestlers and holds the title of all-time wins leader for Cinnaminson. Riley, you have so much to be proud of and your achievements inspire us all. Equally impressive is Emily DeSalvo, who took second place in districts followed by a third place finish in the regions. Emily is the first Cinnaminson girls wrestler to stand on the podium in Atlantic

051City as an NJSIAA a medal winner, placing sixth in her weight class at 138. What an incredible accomplishment. Emily's 36 wins are the most ever for a pirate girl wrestler in a single season. She also set records for the fastest pin in just 11 seconds. The most tech falls in a season with six and the most tech falls in a career totaling eight. With another year ahead of her, she's currently ranked number two all time in wins at Cinnaminson. The future is bright for Emily. Congratulations to coach Lynch and all our girls wrestlers. The hard work, dedication, and determination have paved the way for a bright future in Cinnaminson wrestling. Let's continue to support each other as we grow this program and celebrate our achievements together. Thank you. I will say that did run a

052little bit longer than they usually do, but we have too much to celebrate here. So, congratulations to all of the award recipients, to all of our young folks who stuck around. Hopefully had an opportunity to see what could lie ahead for you in the future of Cinnaminson. So, with that, speaking of the future of Cinnaminson, I do understand if there's bedtimes and homeworks, but I'm going to invite up our district architect in just a moment to come talk about some of the improvements that lie ahead for Cinnaminson. So, if you'll give us just a second to switch our presentation, we'll roll into the next portion. Um Hopefully everyone can stick around. Some of you, possibly. >> All right, moving right along to our second presentation. As we mentioned, the future of Cinema Madison is very

053bright. But it is not without challenges, and these challenges come by way of space, and they come by way of program expansion. We've had a great relationship with Garrison Architects over the years, and for anyone who's been in the high school in the last 10 years, they are responsible for that wonderful design and for bringing that project to life alongside all of the community support. So, with that, we've invited Bob Garrison from Garrison Architects to come this evening to to present to the Board of Education a year's worth of research working together. I don't know how many iterations of projects to bring a proposed solution to some of the challenges that we are facing as a district. So, with that, I'll yield any more of my time to Bob Garrison who will make this presentation

054to the members of the board and anyone that is watching at home. So, Bob, thank you. Thank you so much, Steve, and what a what a tough act to follow. Um it is it is tremendous accomplishment. And what it says about those students and their achievement is a sense of community. And community is one of the most important things that we have. And so I can only hope that our presentation tonight lives up to those expectations. Because isn't that what it's all about? It's providing the best opportunities, whether it's curriculum or what I'm going to talk about tonight with regard to the physical plan. To give our students and our community the the best that we can possibly hope for. So while I was preparing for tonight's presentation, I did a little bit of digging

055into the history. Because when I arrived in in district in 2000, that was really the first many improvement projects and initiatives that the district had launched. In 2000, the elementary schools received some construction work as well as the middle school. Then we went on to 2014. Steve just referred to that project where we had most of the work at the high school. We had a second question actually for the gymnasium. We had a third question for the tennis courts. So looking back on that, I did a presentation in this room in March of 2014. So how fast does 12 years go? Here I am in March of 2026 and we're talking about facility improvements. Facility improvements that are really focused on the other buildings here in the community. So the March 2026 bond referendum program,

056I'll go through it with you. This document will be available online because I know that these exhibits are hard to see with the lighting and the small nature of the text. Uh so all this information will be on the district's website. We'll have a special tab uh that denotes that. So the agenda for tonight's presentation is a school district profile. Again, we take it for granted and we can't take it for granted that members of our community uh know about our facilities. They know the great alignments, they know the sizes, and so we'll cover that really quickly. The Department of Education is a partner in school facility improvement in our communities in New Jersey. The Department of Education will pledge a tremendous amount of aid towards this project just like they did back in 2014

057with that successional successful initiative. We have the Memorial School renovations. Uh we'll move to Eleanor Roosevelt with the addition and renovations. New Albany has additions and renovations. Uh the middle school, this building, uh scheduled for for major major work. And then yes, we want to make sure that everybody and every facility gets something in the referendum, so there will be some work in the high school. The Board of Education and all the stakeholders in formulating the referendum were very much concerned about the tax impact. So while all of the projects this evening are are paramount and of equal importance, uh the board felt that we would go with two questions. Last time there was three questions I mentioned previously. So in the second questions, the Memorial School will have a pre-K addition and some parking.

058Eleanor Roosevelt have a new gymnasium, and at the high school, significant athletic facility upgrades, which I guess is very appropriate considering the amount of awards that your students have have won this this evening and we talked about uh previously. The school district profile, as you know, there are five buildings in district. The Memorial School houses grades pre-K along with administration, and the original building is 1959. And that's the important aspect to look at, not so much the grade configuration. We move on to New Albany, 1966 with additions in 2000 and 2017. Eleanor Rush, grades 3 to 5, original building 1962 with an addition in 17. Middle School, this building, 1968, 2017. High School, 61-64, and then the addition that we finished in the last referendum in 17. So, you can see here, yes, there are

059some new parts to our building, but you're talking about buildings that were built largely in the '50s and '60s. And these systems that comprise these buildings certainly need attention, like your home or any investment that we have. As I mentioned, the state of New Jersey is a partner. And cutting to the chase, a school district must borrow money in order to get state aid. There's no other way. Uh in November, the red bullet that you see there, there may be a program where we have special grants, but those are for limited uh projects and focuses. The special needs districts, if that passes the voters in November, will get the bulk of the money. These are the Abbott districts uh or those districts that have a high amount of of aid. So, the regular operating districts

060are reduced to compete for $3.5 billion. Not trying to minimize that, uh and it's something that we certainly look at even if the referendum passes. So, again, the only way to get significant state aid is to borrow money and get debt service aid over the period of the loan. New construction, state government really doesn't help us a lot with new construction. We have some new construction that we're going to talk about in a minute, but they're stuck in the in the dark ages with $143 a square foot. We can't build anything today at $143 a square foot. You will see in the presentation most of our work is between 5 and $600. Renovations on the other hand, reconfiguring spaces, repurposing spaces are fully funded. And so that's where we try to do, especially at this

061building at the high school, you'll see us do that to garnish the the most state aid that we possibly can. But again, in summary, borrowing enables us to capture state aid. And state aid, as you know, has been given to neighboring districts. You saw what happened a year ago in neighboring communities like Moorestown, previously in Riverside, and in Camden County, and Haddonfield, Haddon Township, and WestDeptford. Lots and lots of communities go up and and get their fair share from state government. And that's what we we hope you will enable this board to do is to go get your tax dollars up in Trenton. Because if not, they'll go to somebody else. So we'll start on the outside of each of the buildings and I'll give you a little bit of history there and and summary.

062So the Memorial School is a 29,482 square foot building was built, as I mentioned before, in 1959. Anybody that visits the the administrative offices and the early childhood there knows that that small area, and I'll show you the the diagram in a minute, in front of the school where the drop-off area is terrible. So we're going to repave that area. The playground in the back, days of mulch and days of other surfaces are really a thing of the past. The new technologies to do port surfaces, this enables us to have a maintenance-free environment, also ADA compliance. And you'll see the numbers to the right-hand side. So it's usually a quantity, a unit cost, and then a total cost. Sanitary sewer line, not a glamorous item, but something that the maintenance staff is struggling with. It

063goes out the back of the building. Show you where that is in a minute. Again, taking things that are maintenance issues that cost money out of our operating budget and be able to replace them and eliminate them from the budget where the taxpayer has to pay 100% is the goal of many of these items. So with each of the categories, you'll see a soft cost item. This is for architect and engineering fees, construction contingency. And gosh knows we need construction contingency, not because we open a wall and we see a column or an unforeseen condition, but we have tariffs, we have price increases, we have petroleum issues. We have to have contingencies in our projects and that's built in and funded as part of our formula. Construction management, full-time supervision, full-time representation, making sure that

064the contractor puts it in correctly and making sure that the taxpayers get what they paid for. Also in each of the items, there'll be legal, cost of election day, etc. So the investment on the outside of the building, as you see there, it's 585. Then moving to a building system inside the building will be the PA system. PA, security, it's a theme that you're going to hear a lot tonight in all the buildings as well as security camera expansion. There's nothing more important than the security and safety in our buildings and you'll see that we're investing in that in in all the facilities. So that is to So when you title it uh total it up from a site work standpoint and also those security safety initiatives, you get $767,000. State government's our partner. State

065government will pledge 40% of the cost or 306,000. So, in this example, you see that we get 767,000 for a taxpayer share of 460. On the site plan diagram, uh you see the repave area in gold. That's in the front with the drop-off area that needs attention and also ADA compliance. The red line denotes the sanitary line that'll go out the back. And the gray area uh behind the school there is where the new port surface, which will be maintenance-free and ADA compliant. On the Eleanor Rush 1962-2017 building, 57,000 square feet. Parking lot, uh expand the lot at the front of the school to 73 spaces uh and the loop road to 48 spaces. Again, a common theme that we have here this evening that we'll talk about. Each of the schools, we're talking about

066circulation, safety, and expanding the parking. These buildings are used not only during the day, but on weekends and after hours, and we have to provide parking to support our educational programs. So, a large investment there for parking expansion and repaving in the front of Rush to the tune of 562,250. Exterior renovations. Critical critical essential building system, right? It's just like the the home your home that you have. It starts with the roof. Keeping the water out, making sure that we have insulation, making sure that we have energy efficiency with the additional insulation, making sure that that our investment is preserved. The schools in our community were here before many of us arrived. And I believe it's part of our responsibility to leave them in as good as or better shape um when we depart and

067sell our homes and move on to the next part of our life. So, an asset starts with uh preservation and that starts with the roofs in our building and you'll see that in in most of the buildings that are in the referendum. Large investment, but again, it it's worthwhile at $2.7 million. On to the inside of our building, ceilings. Uh not necessarily just replace the ceilings because we don't like the stained ceiling tiles. A lot of times, yes, that's part of it, but part of it is constructability. Because we're running IT, security, and infrastructure in our buildings as well as HVAC, which you'll see in a second, we need to take these ceilings down. And while we take the ceilings down, we're going to put new lighting uh in there, LED efficient lighting, um and

068then have the access that we need for our systems. So, we've got ceilings uh in two different categories, almost 40,000 square feet. Then we turn to another uh maintenance issue, an ADA issue. Toilet rooms. In our classrooms, these are reconfigure, new fixtures, which are energy conservation, um and finishes throughout so they can be maintained. So, we'll do the toilet rooms in the classrooms, as well as the toilet rooms for the hallways, the gang toilets. The all-purpose room at Eleanor Rush, replace the finish finish is and add sound boards. Uh again, sound attenuation, trying to make those spaces uh more comfortable. When we talk about essential buildings and we get into invasive demolition and construction in our buildings, we have to be mindful or of asbestos containing materials. So, VAT stands for vinyl asbestos tile. We

069all know that it's in the dormant state, but when we go and remove it because we need to put a unit ventilator in or we do need to do something, it has to be budgeted for and we're taking it out of our building. When we remove the pipes and they have insulation, we've also budgeted for that. So, the investment is $2.2 million for interior renovations. Another essential building system, something again that we're focusing on in the referendum in all three two elementary and the middle school and some at the high school, is a unit ventilator replacement. Remember the unit ventilators are those boxes that are underneath our windows. Here we here at Rush School, we've got 37. We've got some cabinet unit unit heaters, which are in the hallway. We'll take the unit ventilators out

070and when we do that, we expose the piping. It's an opportunity to clean up that outside wall. So, what we'll be able to do is come back with brand new casework, new piping, and give a nice clean look on the outside of that classroom. In the APR, some HVAC systems were put in some years ago. These were exposed ductwork. We're going back and replacing that system. The units will stay and we'll just modify the existing ductwork. Rooftop exhaust fans complement what we're doing with the HVAC. And then the HVAC in each of our buildings is going to be digitally controlled. This is a new building automation system for all the equipment, new and existing in our buildings. It's a big investment, but it's an investment that'll pay dividends because these systems can be controlled, they

071can be programmed. They also have maintenance capability, so we know exactly when filters need to be changed and systems are not running efficiently. So, a big investment there at Rush, $4.9 million. On the electrical side, same theme as Memorial, PA security. Here we're going to change the fire alarm system because it's part and parcel of the HVAC system, adding ADA devices as well for sound and and horn strobes. Electrical service upgrades, panels, and feeders to support some of the new systems that we have, $1.7 million investment. And then something that's a little bit more sexy and needed for the space crunch that we have in in district, which is an eight-classroom addition, which I'll show you in the second. So, the total package at at Rush School is $18.3 million. The state's contributing 28%. Again,

072that the reason for that is that number of $143 for the new construction, which uh drags the overall amount down. So, on the site plan you'll notice you you come into the school on the right-hand side. We're going to expand that parking lot, which is the dark gray area. Continue on into the front of the school and the green canopy that we did with the last referendum. All that area gets widened to try to solve a lot of the traffic woes that are there, clean up the circle, add some additional parking on that side uh towards the the purpose field that you see. The blue area denoted, that's our classroom addition. That's our building addition to the right-hand side and it just extends that existing wing. In the back, we're going to relocate uh those

073two playgrounds, which are the orange uh in the back left corner. Going to the the floor plan of the school um the area that you see there in gray that outlines, that's the roof replacement. The little red boxes underneath the windows, those are all the the unit ventilators. The pink area is the bathroom spaces, uh the hallway bathrooms, as well as the small bathrooms up front in the main entrance that we're going to be renovating and reconfiguring. And we've got flooring, ceiling. And you can see I denoted the corridor where all of that ceiling comes out to run our HVAC equipment. The multi-purpose room is uh the gray area, green area there, um which will get renovated with the sound and the HVAC. To the right is the classroom addition. It's just an extension of

074that classroom wing out on the right-hand side, so we'll build a firewall. We'll be able to create a temporary exit, and we'll be able to start construction on that wing, um as soon as possible after successful referendum. New Albany School, 66,217 53,000 sq ft. Parking lot, new parent drop-off loop and lot at the front of the school, 68 new spaces, which are desperately needed here. Uh something that I think is really, really uh needed and and earth-shattering and a game-changer here at New Albany is a new loop road and parking lot uh drop-off area for the parents and parking that parallels New Albany Road. Really, really important to get those cars off of that street. I'm sure that the Township Public Safety will be thrilled at that uh suggested improvement. Playground relocation, uh we have

075to do that because of the addition, so the investment here, again, at $1.6 million. Same theme with the roof. Uh preserving the envelope, creating insulation, energy efficiency, uh $2.6 million investment at New Albany for the roof replacement all purpose room similar as the other school replacing the finishing finishes and then hazard and miss materials same thing I talked about before. Building systems again a mirror image 34 unit ventilators uh cabinet unit heaters here also the main office cafeteria and the new wing rooftop units will be uh changed out. We've got the exhaust fans on the roof the DDC controls building automation system and the investment uh 5.9 million for HVAC at New Albany. On the electrical side and security same theme PA system security cameras fire alarm and then electric service upgrade for another million

076six investment. Here at New Albany school it's a little bit different. We are going to build some classrooms. Here we're going to do classrooms with bathrooms so that we can use them for pre-K and K. We're also going to mix in an art and music uh room. Art and music are on a cart over there they really don't have a home so we made those classrooms a little bit bigger in the addition. I think it'll really give uh a program boost curriculum boost over there to the school. And then uh a gymnasium. Uh gymnasium that I'll show you in a second it has a a separate entrance separate use uh separate HVAC system something that can be used after hours the community um etc. etc. etc. So the investment at New Albany is 25 million

077dollars. Again the state share is about the same it's just shy of 24% because of the new construction uh which means uh the taxpayers would be about 19 million. So when we look at uh New Albany uh front door as you know is the red canopy we did in the last project. The whole front gets reconfigured. Uh there's new traffic circulation patterns. There's new parking. There's a new loop road area. Again, trying to organize uh that at the front of the school. The big improvement is down to the right-hand lower part of the slide where it says new parking. You can see that we can come in off of New Albany Road. There's a loop road to the top towards the school. And then there's parent parking um and then it marries into the existing

078exit and entrance that we have. But again, getting those cars off of New Albany, structuring that uh down in that area. And I guess what would come to mind is well, why can't you just uh demolish those trees and move that loop road and parking lot up to the 120 112 parking spaces that you denote. There's a lot of wetlands and and stream area there. And if you're familiar with the school, you know that that area is is really off-limits. So, we tried to move the loop road uh as far up as we can off of New Albany, but that's about the area that'll probably land. The addition here uh at New Albany is going out the back. That's the blue areas that you see. The first part is the classroom. And then the gymnasium

079follows all the way in the back. The playgrounds get relocated because that's where the gym is going to land uh in the design scheme that we have. Here's what it looks like on on floor plan. Uh some of the same things. Here the uh the ceilings uh were in better condition. Um but the unit ventilators will be part of the program, the renovations in the APR. Uh the new gym is is is uh there in the back. And I should point out, I know it's hard to read. One of the things that we talked about when we strategized how the facilities can resonate with the entire community. I think it was the superintendent's idea to say, "Hey, we need to do a separate entrance. We need to have a row of bleachers. We need to

080have proper storage on the top of the plan, but we need to line this for pickleball and volleyball and a full-size basketball court. And I think that's very creative. We have to be as creative as we can with our facilities. And so you're probably thinking, "Well, how is that going to work?" You have to separate the the students from anybody else coming into the building. And we do that. Where you see the the two columns and I'll blow it up. I don't have the blow up here. But where the entrance is to the right of the gym, that's going to be a set of doors, security doors. So we'll be able to lock down the gymnasium. There's bathrooms opposite of where you enter the gymnasium with an office. And that'll be a self-contained um area,

081if you will, that can be used after hours uh separate from the student areas, which is the classrooms and the art rooms to the right-hand side. Here at this building, uh lots of of different things that are are going on. First and foremost, uh the the ceilings um in this building, the cafeteria, the echo that we have here this evening will be taken care of with new sound attenuation. New handicap lift uh on the stage. Hall locker replacement. Uh single tier, wider. Again, being sensitive to the transition of our students, the transition to the learning and the materials that they carry with them. The the single lockers that are narrow these day don't work for our students. They only have so much time to get from one class to another. So let's make it easier

082on them by uh taking care of that, giving them something useful. Hazardous materials here, VAT flooring under the univents. We have asbestos piping. We have transoms, transite panel. Convert the existing shop to a new wood shop and expand the music suite into storage areas. So, doing something for curriculum here in addition to the essential building systems. Tried to think outside the box. An exciting program that we're looking to bring in to the middle school and high school with this referendum is e-sports. E-sports arena and robotics. So, both of our middle school and our high school will have classroom spaces with furniture and systems to bring that curriculum into our middle school and high school. It's a trend that I'm seeing in a lot of my districts all over the state, and I think it's something

083again that will resonate with part of the student population that maybe's not into athletics or performing arts, but let's make sure we take care of all the needs of our students. So, the interior investment, you see it there 2.9. Building systems, same as the elementary schools, unit ventilators, main office, HVAC, the DDC controls, major investment to deal with the HVAC upgrades here at the middle school. Security camera expansion, emergency generator. This is also safety and security issue. We can run our building systems, we can run our heating systems in this building with an emergency generator. We could use it after hours and maybe even talk about some community use when we put the building systems on the generator. And then electric service that supports the other initiatives. So, the investment here at the middle school

084is $10 million. There's no new construction. So, it's fully funded by state government at $4 million, which leaves the local share at $6 million. So, this is what the the plan looks like. The the ceilings, the areas The one thing that I didn't mention, I brushed over the the blue areas in the gymnasium. Those will be the scoreboards from the high school. We will they will be upgraded here at the middle school. We will bring them over. I'll talk about what we're doing at the high school in a minute. Unit ventilators in red. The areas to the top right of the slide, that's where we're doing new carpentry and and wood shop with new curriculum back in the right corner. And then that's the expanded music suite. The other gray area there, where we're going

085to completely reconfigure that, practice rooms, and appropriate areas. E-sports and robotics land in the media center. Which is the the top right gray area in the blue lettering. On to the high school. The high school the the last piece of roofing that wasn't taken care of in is the old gym saw tooth roof. Interior, the auxiliary gym, new padding, flooring, and acoustics to improve that space. New STEM lab, converting the trainer's room and the storage room. I'll show you where that is in the back of the school. To a new STEM lab. Gymnasium, new video scoreboards. Again, that that beautiful gymnasium adding to its capabilities and features by going with some video scoreboards, relocating and reusing and conserving them and bringing them over here to the middle school where they're needed. In the media center,

086new sports arena, robotics classroom, the auditorium stage, when we renovated the auditorium in '14, we did not do the stage floor, so that will be taken care of as part of this referendum. And then the Honor Jim Carter, we've got some leftover asbestos there for a million six investment. HVAC, these are the 20 remaining ceiling unit ventilators along with updating this the control system for an investment of a million four. So at the high school, because it was significantly part and renovated and added to it in the 2014 referendum, the investment under this program is 3.2 million dollars. And there you see that the high school footprint, the areas in the gray, the new STEM lab is is back uh near the old gymnasium. The auxiliary gym's off to the right-hand side. The scoreboards are

087in blue, and then the e-sports is up in the the media center near the main office and entrance of the high school. So, question number one. Question number one, packaging all of these things together is a 57.7 million-dollar initiative. It blends some new construction with renovations, which is the 29% state aid that you see there. It's 16.8 million dollars and 40 million dollars for the taxpayer. Question two. So, what else did we talk about? What else was on our list? What else is needed in district? Well, Memorial School, the district and and I should pause here. They did take advantage of an early childhood grant last year. again trying to maximize state dollars and minimizing tax impact. We brought in some dollars to do renovations and conversions of some spaces at Memorial that were offices

088into pre-K classrooms. So we're going to continue that theme by adding classrooms in question number two and also expanding the parking lot to complement the area that's in light blue. So the classrooms will be 950 square feet. That's the state model. They'll have a 50 square foot bathroom in each of the classrooms and you can see the furniture there with the storytelling etc. etc. And then where the word school is, that'll be the entrance secured vestibule as you come in there with transaction window, storage on the back. So a nice self-contained one-story six classroom addition with bathrooms and then the the site work for an investment of of 5.6 million dollars with the second question for Memorial. Eleanor Rush, we covered question number one. That's the blue area with the classrooms on the right-hand side.

089Do in order to equalize the two elementary school programs a gymnasium is planned in question two for Eleanor Rush. We're expanding the parking in question one like I talked about before and the loop road. So the gymnasium and you can see the the the superintendent lines here a little bit clearer clearer on this floor plan. The pickleball is the area that is red. The basketball is obviously the larger area to the that fills most of the the gymnasium and then we have volleyball courts in green. But it gives you the idea where where the word APR addition is, that's a covered canopy. It'll be great for our students waiting to be picked up in the front of the school, expanding on the canopy that was constructed in 2014. Uh to be waiting there uh under

090cover and protection. You could see the bathrooms there, separate entrance. Same theme. Be able to lock this facility down so we can use it after hours, community use, uh maximize the use of this space as much as we can uh with the investment there of 7.3 million. On to the high school, uh some exciting uh things that are that are planned here. The stadium complex, uh new turf field and track, including track and field events areas, adding to our security camera and wireless for for supervision, and then a new concession uh building, concessions as well as supporting bathrooms uh to serve the excitement that's going to go on, whether it's Friday nights or other areas uh sporting events there for an investment of 4.8. Additionally, uh there was really a lot of pressure, as there

091is in every community, of recreation and different stakeholders in the community using our fields. So, the thought here is that when you come in to the campus, and I'll show you in a second, the front grass field will be converted to a nerve new turf field. That'll increase the opportunity for play, increase the opportunity for community participation, and reduce maintenance costs uh trying to deal with grass fields and not having any time to rest them. Uh so, that's a 1.9 investment. The Board of Education is looking to minimize the impact on the taxpayer. There is discussions going on right now with Township Council and Township government for a contribution of $1.5 million to try to reduce uh the outlay and the cost of that project. With it being uh available to the community, uh I

092think it's a great way to partner with them and also participate um in a holistic approach. So, the investment for question two at the high school would be $5.3 million. And you can see there on the slide um as you enter into the campus, the new turf field will be on your left-hand slide just shy of the baseball outfield. And then obviously our stadium complex back in the corner uh would have the track, the turf field, the field events um as well as a new concession building, which will be concession as well as bathrooms uh for use. The great thing about having a concession building with bathrooms is that we avoid porta-potties, we avoid going back into and security issues with the high school, etc. Uh it's it's free-standing and it it takes care of

093of all of our needs. And there's a schematic as to what it might look like with the concession up front and then the bathrooms in the back again for for use. So, in total uh question number one as I mentioned before is $57 million, state pledging 6-16.8 million dollars. Question two is $18.3 million. So, we're just shy of $77 million all in. Uh the 2014 referendum for reference was a total of $44 million. Uh $41 million passed with the the tennis courts not. But the the most important thing I think for the community is the tax impact. So as I mentioned moving projects around trying to get projects that are maximum state aid eligible and trying to come up with the least possible impact to the community was the goal in in putting the program

094together. And so what you have is you have a home assessed at $236,538. That's your assessment. So that document will be available on the township website your assessed value. It's not your sales value. It's not what you think you can sell your house for. It's your current assessed value. So if your assessed value is that 236538 the impact for question one for 57 almost $58 million worth of improvements is $399.68 a year. $399.68 a year. And then for question two which is the other projects early childhood, the athletic improvements that's $160 per year for the average assessed value. Now the district's financial advisors conservatively figured these amounts based on 4.15% interest over a 25-year borrow. So how it works is the referendum is successful and state government pays the district back debt service aid over

095the life of the loan which is in this case years. So that's the the the financial picture. Where we are in the process we have been planning as Steve said for a year, year and a half. As you see there, we've got our documents ready to go to the Department of Education. They will be filed. There will be a plan for each of the schools. There'll be a plan for question one projects and question two projects. We will also make a presentation at the planning board, like we did with the last project, not only to inform the voters, but inform the land use board, and hear if there's any concerns that they have. We will get those money letters back from the Department of Education. We will accept those letters with the favorable dollar amounts,

096as I've handicapped. And then we we roll into the the ordinary items that need to be dealt with with publications and certifications and ballots and mail-ins, sample ballots, etc. The special election, which is set forth by state regulation, it's one of the four special election dates that a school district can choose. This year it's September 15th. So, that would be the target of the Board of Education getting the favorable financial assistance from state government. This would enable the Board of Education then to borrow the money, and our office would be able to begin work in earnest to put the plans together, so that we can get some projects ready to go. And I envision that we would focus on getting the additions out to bid and drawn up in the fall, so that we can

097take advantage of starting those projects and creating swing space. So, when we move into the inside of the elementary schools and Memorial, will be able to do this improvements seamlessly with space to put our students. The summer of 2027 would be really really busy with roofing work that can't be done during the school year. And then the projects would go through 2028. So, it's a big program. Every single school is touched in the program. I think the the last year year and a half of the debate and that's sometimes what it was, debate about what's in, what's needed, what's out. I commend the Board of Education for the hours that they spent, the committees that we've held, the different forums, the creative thinking, the rethinking, the challenging. There's There's dates you can't see it here,

098but you'll see it maybe at home when you when you pull up the PowerPoint. You can see dates on some of the slides where some they've changed dramatically over time in order to get to the point this slide stated in in November and then we have some others that are dated here in March right up to the last minute. So, in summary it's been a great process. We're touching every single building. I think we're addressing not only the essential building systems, we're preserving the assets with the roofs, air quality with the HVAC, curriculum, trying to do different things for our students whether it's performing arts, athletics, um extracurricular activities, security, safety, um maintenance, ADA compliance. This program runs the gamut of all those different things which was the goal of when we started this to

099try to make sure that we thought of everything and still be respectful as we possibly can of the taxpayer by breaking it into two questions. So with that, I can answer any questions. Um real quick, Mr. Garrison. I did want to mention that in the final version, I may have misloaded the version where after our referendum committee last met, we had made the decision we were able to move some of the finances around from some of the roofing work that we were anticipating at the Memorial School so we would not need to approach the township for that contribution. So I did just want to clarify that that was a correction that should have been put in in the last iteration. So with that, I just wanted to note that for the public that that contribution

100would not necessarily be a part of the final project because we were able to account for those dollars elsewhere in the project. So any clarifying point at this point, members of the board, I would encourage you to ask Mr. Garrison any questions related to the project. And again, for members of the public, tonight is an important first step in this but we look forward to sharing this project with all corners of the community. We are really proud of the work that was done to date. The work of this board, the job of this board is to identify the challenges that exist in the in the district and to create potential solutions. And we feel like in presenting and advancing this project, ultimately it will be up to the public to tell us whether or not

101there will be support for this project but we feel that this project certainly addresses the challenges that we are facing both right now and for generations to come. So with that, members of the board, I would encourage any questions. And then I would also ask for a brief recess, Mrs. Livingood or excuse me, Mrs. Fitzwater if we're able to after the presentation because we've been going for about two hours now. I don't think the lack of questions reflects the lack of attention. As a board, we've had individual committee meetings in which we've had these presentations and reviewed this so I think it's important to to note date that that we've been able to speak to Mr. Garrison and ask some previous questions in in previous meetings. So, I do not have any questions this evening.

102I should also note Bob, I don't know if this is the 10th, 12th, 15th iteration of the plan. Um, but this is certainly um when when we began the process the the project was certainly significantly bigger and ultimately we had to make some decisions and determinations on which of the anticipated and projected projects would make the final cut and this is ultimately what was decided upon. So, um thank you Mr. Trumpet. Okay, everyone good? I'm good. Thank you Mr. Garrison. Can I just make two more points that I forgot? Certainly. Real quick. Uh, one of the things is in being sensitive to the taxpayer, you see also in in the slide on page 32, the borrowing capacity. I want to make sure that and that everybody understands that borrowing capacities are a formula of your

103ratables in your community. The Board of Education purposely chose not to go to the borrowing capacity of $84 million with this program. It's important to note that. It was project-based, it was needs-based, and that's where they stopped at at $77 million. Also on the website uh, the website will be dramatic. It will have one-page flyers. It will have a tax calculator. The tax calculator because I just told you $236,538 is $399 and you're and you're saying, well, I don't have an exact assessed value of my house. So, you'll be able to go on to our website, put your assessed value in there, and see that it may be $305 or $400 or whatever it turns out to be. So, there'll be no question before you vote that's exactly the impact of question one and question

104two. When you put your assessment into our tax calculator, it'll spit out the exact amount. And I imagine that we'll link that to the township's tax assessor site, so people can quickly find out what their assessment is and not have to guess or look at records that they may have received. Thank you, Mr. Gershener. Appreciate all your hard work on this so far. Thank you so much. It's great to be back. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh so, we're going to take a quick 5-minute uh intermission and then we'll come back and finish the work. Okay. You can think about 5 minutes. >> Mhm. >> Uh Uh we're on Okay. Uh We're at number eight, correspondence to the board. Uh there've been a few parent emails, but they will have been handled or are

105being handled. Anyone have anything else that they need to share? Okay, we're moving on to uh number nine, committee reports. We have um three different committees that met this this uh month. The referendum committee met a few times, the policy committee, and the finance committee. They uh finance met twice. I'll read the referendum committee uh minutes, and then I'll pass it off to the other chairs. Uh so the referendum the referendum committee met via Google Meet on Tuesday, February 17th at 8:30, Wednesday, March 4th at 7:00, and Wednesday, March 11th at 7:30. The referendum committee was established on March 18th, 2025. Over the past year, the committee, along with several subcommittees, have met numerous times to plan and organize these projects based on the needs of the district and the community. During these three most

106recent meetings, Mr. Garrison, from Garrison Architects, was in the in attendance and presented the referendum proposal broken into two questions. Mr. Capello and Mrs. Wilkie reviewed the tax implications of both questions. At the start of the last meeting, Mrs. Wilkie shared that Mr. Capello, Mr. Garrison, and she spoke with the other board committee members to present the final referendum projects list earlier in the week. Committee members were supportive of the list and need for the project. The referendum committee members spoke about the detailed planning that went into these project selections. There's something for every school in the plan. The referendum is on tonight's agenda for approval. If approved, the election will take place on September 15th, 2026. Thank you. Um we'll move to the um policy committee meetings. Mr. Kenny. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. The

107policy committee met on March 10th via Google Meet. The meeting began with a presentation from district architect, Mr. Garrison, with an overview of the referendum projects in questions one and two. Mr. Garrison discussed improvements proposed to all five district buildings, as well as the tax impact of the projects. Committee members asked questions about the project and rationale for which items made the final scope of work. Following that, Mrs. Wilkie gave a brief presentation to the committee outlining some projections for the 2026-2027 budget. The committee discussed the policy and regulation audit report prepared by Strauss Esmay. The committee reviewed discrepancies between the suggested updates and some existing policies. The board reviewed a series of policies and is making recommendations on first reading tonight. Additionally, the board reviewed policies that are on the agenda noting a review

108only. The committee decided to table discussion about policies 2110 and 2132. They will be addressed by the full board at a goal setting meeting or board retreat in the future. And the next meeting of the policy legislation committee is already scheduled for April 21st. That's all. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Kenny. Mr. Bramhall has our finance committee meeting minutes. Thank you. The finance personnel committee met via Google Meet on Tuesday, March 10th at 4:00 p.m. and again on Friday, March 13th at 9:00 a.m. During the March 10th meeting, Mr. Garrison from Garrison Architects provided the committee with an overview of the referendum projects in question one and question two as well as the tax impact. The purpose of the financial portion of the meetings was to review the 26-27 proposed budget submission. Ms. Wilkie shared

109the budget timeline and state aid release. The release of state aid was delayed this year and took place on March 12th. Due to the delay, the deadline for submission of the preliminary budget has been pushed from March 20th to March 27th. Ms. Wilkie discussed increase in salaries, health care, tuition, and insurance costs for the 26-27 budget year. She explained allowable budget adjustments that may be used to balance the budget if needed. The committee reviewed several tax impact scenarios related to the amount of potential budget cuts that would have to be made to reach each scenario. The committee members discussed the implications of the local tax levy on community members. The finance personnel committee will meet again after tonight's board meeting. There will be a board meeting on March 24th to approve the preliminary budget submission.

110Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bramhall. Uh Ms. Aiken, can I have a motion to approve uh section nine committee reports item A? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Trumpet. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Ms. Tadley? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Uh moving on to section 10 public comments on agenda items. Moving on to section 11 personnel certified non-certified. Mr. Capello. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under section 11 personnel letter A, seeking the board to approve uh the one item that is listed under certificated staff in the agenda. Under letter B, resignations, there are seven items for consideration by the board listed in the agenda items one through seven. Letter C, leaves of absence, there are items one through five, they are listed

111by employee number in the agenda. Under letter D, teaching overloads, uh the teaching overload changes are linked in the agenda under item number one. Under letter E, extra duty appointments, seeking the board to approve items one through seven as listed in the agenda. Under letter F, transfers, there is one item for the board's consideration listed in this evening's agenda. Skipping down to section J, substitute teacher, seeking the board's approval for item number one A through I. These are the items under personnel certificated and non-certificated. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Thank you, Mr. Capello. Mr. Bramhall, can I have a motion to approve section 11 certified non-certified personnel items A through K? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Kenny. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGough? I. I. I.

112I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Moving on to section 12 curriculum and instruction. Dr. Goldburn. Thank you very much. Under 12 letter A, we have the monthly professional development requests. Under letter B, the field trip requests. Under letter E, the monthly HIB report, under letter f, the monthly suspension report, and under letter g, we have an amendment to this school calendar. Monday, February 23rd was a snow day, and this calendar reflects that now Friday, April 3rd will be a single session day for staff and students. Thank you, Dr. Goldberg. Uh Mr. Meeker, can I have a motion to approve section 12, curriculum and instruction, items a through g? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Icon. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGough? I. I. I.

113I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Moving on to section 13, special education, Mrs. Llewellyn. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under letter a, contracts, there are none. Under letter b, student placements, seeking the board's approval of an affirmative tuition contract agreement with Brookfield Academy for one student. Under letter c, consultant agreement, seeking the board's approval of two consultant agreements. Number one, First Children Services Learning Services LLC to provide one-to-one support. And number two, Gabriel Siano to provide a functional behavioral assessment. And letter d, new program request, seeking the board's approval of a request to establish a newly proposed emotional regulation impairment special class program, which is in accordance to New Jersey Administrative Code, special education and educational facilities. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Thank you, Mrs. Llewellyn. Uh Miss Falcone, can I have a motion to

114approve section 13, special education, items a through d? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Meeker. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. Tadley? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Uh moving on to section 15, uh policy. We do have some uh content there, Mr. Capello? Yes, thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under Section 14 Policy, under item number one, seeking the board to approve on second reading and adoption the three policies and requisite regulations that are listed after being on the meeting last month under first reading. Under item number two, seeking the board's approval on first reading for the following policy revisions. Those policies are listed in the agenda. Under item number three, as the board will recall, we have been reviewing our policies. That's

115why we have been meeting monthly. Just to put fresh eyes on all of our policies and there are three policies that will remain there under review unchanged. So, they are listed in the agenda under item number three and that is policies. Thank you, Mr. Capello. Mr. McGough, can I have a motion to approve Section 14, item A, policies? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mrs. Iacono. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. Tadley? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Motion approved. Moving on to Section 15, Business and Finance, Mrs. Wilkie. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under Section A, Grants, there are no items tonight. Under Section B, Finance, item number one, that the board approves the staff mileage reimbursements. Item number two, that the board approves the

11625-26 semi-corrective action plan dated March 17th, 2026. Item number three, that the board approves the closure of the Calling Cross Scholarship Fund. Item number four, that the board accepts with appreciation the following donations. $384.82 from Vermees Machine Company to the Invention Convention. $100 from the Barclay Group to the Invention Convention. $250 from Colex Collision Experts to the Invention Convention. $500 from TD Bank to the Invention Convention. $100 from KPMG Gives, care of Bergen County United Way on behalf of Casey Lynn Cunningham to New Albany School. And $3,000 from PPG Industries to New Albany STEAM program and Invention Convention. Item number five, that the board approves the proposed school facilities project as outlined below and in Mr. Garrison's presentation tonight. Under section C operations, there are no items and under D contracts, item number one that

117the board approves the sending tuition contract between Cinnaminson Board of Ed and Burlington County Special Services as outlined below. Item number two that the board award that the board awards bid number 2526-004 for custodial services to ACB Services. And item number three that the board approves the settlement agreement as outlined. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Thank you, Mrs. Wilkie. Uh, Mrs. Tadley, can I have a motion to approve section 15 business and finance items A through D? So moved. Second? Second. Thank you, Mrs. Trombetta. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGough? I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. Motion approved. Um, section 16 we do not have any other business right now. Uh, section 17, uh, public comments on other matters. Since I don't see any members

118of the public here, I'm going to pass that. Anybody? Section 18, comments from the board. Mr. Kenny. Thank you. Congratulations to all of the award winners tonight and to our winter athletes, especially the girls basketball team for its historic season. Congratulations to Cinnaminson High School special ed teacher and Moorestown girls basketball head coach Jeb Hallett on his team's Group 3 state championship. Congratulations to New Albany STEAM teacher Lauren Cocker for receiving $3,000 in grants from PPG Industries for use in our STEAM program. And congratulations to Elizabeth McCoy and all of the contestants in the future chefs competition. Thank you to bus driver Brenda Brinhears for her service to Simonds and school children and congratulations on your upcoming retirement. Likewise, thank you to Simonds teacher Lauren Every Clayton for her years of service to the children

119of Simonds and middle school and also congratulations on your upcoming retirement. Thank you to our student representatives for their third report. A special shout out to our guest student rep from Rush, Elizabeth McCoy. Thank you to Bob Garrison for the referendum presentation and thank you for all the generous donations. Best wishes and good luck to the performers from the CHS indoor drumline and guard as they host their home show on Saturday and thank you to the many volunteers from the band boosters. And if that's it, the next scheduled meeting will be next Tuesday, March 24th right here in the cafeteria. This meeting will be for preliminary approval of next year's budget and then the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board is Tuesday, April 14th and more information can be found on the district website

120and that is it. Thank you, Mr. Carney. We are going to have a brief executive session where there will be a one business item afterwards. So, can I have a Uh Mr. Trumpet, can I have a motion to go into executive session? So moved. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right, we're going into executive session. >> Mhm. >> To reconvene the public meeting. So moved. Second. >> Second. Thank Mr. Trump. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? We're back in public session. Uh We have one uh item under number 21, other business. Uh Mr. Meeker, can I have a motion to approve section 21, other business number two, item A? So moved. Second. >> Second. Thank Mr. Kenny. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion is approved. Uh Ms. Falcone, can I have

121a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you. Thank you. One of you guys. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right. Good night, folks.