001That wasn't the last meeting, right? And they were all on the phone with someone. All right, we good. Yep. Please. All right. Good evening. I'd like to call the meeting to order at 7:03. Can I have a moment of silence, please? Please stand for the flag salute. I pledge algiance 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. [Music] Uh, roll call. Mr. Kenny, Miss Bllestein, Miss Eileen Bllestein here. Miss Katherine Bllystein here. Mr. Bramhol here. Miss Falcinero here. Miss Aone here. Mr. Maker here. Mr. Trump here. Miss Fitzwater here. Statement is hereby made that adequate notice of this meeting was given by submission of said notice to the Burlington County Times, the Courier Post, the
002Cinnamonson Township Clerk, and the District website on the following dates, January 17, 2024 and January 8th of 2025. We're going to move down to section four, routine business. We have the board secretaries report for April of 2025, the receipts and appropriations adjustments for April of 25, the treasures report for April, the monthly transfer report for April, April, the high school activities report for May, the food service management cost performance statement for May, certified bill list for June as of 64, and approval of minutes, the regular minutes of May 13th of 2025 and the executive session also of May 13, 2025. Mr. Bramhal, can I have a motion to approve section uh four routine business items A through H? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Miss Trump. Comments or questions from the board hearing. Now, we'll
003take a vote. Mr. Balano, I I I I I I I I motion approved. Moving on to routine matters. We have the enrollment report as of June 6th of 25, the health report for May of 25, the fire alarm for May, fire alarm report for May, the crisis drill report for May, and the superintendent's monthly report. Mr. Capello, thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Thank you to members of the public for being here. I understand we are competing for eyeballs in town this evening, so I promise to keep my remarks short so we can get to the honory section of our board meeting this evening. So, uh, first I wanted to congratulate all of the awardees that are here this evening. Thank you so much for taking time out of your schedules to be present at this
004board meeting. Also, congratulations are due all around the district. We had a number of musicians who performed in various concerts throughout the month of May. Uh we had art shows and field trips. Uh recently celebrated another great trip to camp uh at the Rush School. Uh our eighth graders went to Great Adventure on their class trip. They experienced their eighth grade dance last week. All to uh great success. Uh it is definitely fun to be a student this time of year, but also a staff member and administrator as well. Uh this is hot off the press. No pun intended, but I have a copy of this year's high school Buccaneer yearbook and I want to extend congratulations to Mr. Carlo Aakona. The 2025 Buccaneer has once again been inducted into the publishers's gallery of excellence.
005This is the ninth consecutive year they've been selected for that honor and only a small percentage of books from that publisher are given this distinction and essentially the book becomes an exemplar for other schools throughout the country. Uh as an example of how to publish a great highquality yearbook from the cover to the content. Uh it has been recognized once again and congratulations to all of the students and their hard work and Mr. Iicono uh for making that possible. A lot of events going on. Uh we had our senior awards happen uh last week organized by our special events coordinator. So thank you to Julie Leites and Elizabeth Kilroy for the hard work they put into that. It's always such a great honor to watch our student scholarship recipients and the amount of money that
006they've been awarded in scholarships and grants always astounds me every year. Uh special quick congratulations to the newest inductees of the CHS Hall of Fame, class of 2025. Uh they are Kellen Kohler, Timothy Okconor, Ava Stanalovich, Eva Quinn, Addison Evans, Anella Ansbury, Shane McDev, Rose Carroll, Satie Bertoff, Elect Alexandra Dilippo, Saudi Gant, and Megan Nelson. Congratulations to all of those students. Uh their names will be enshrined in the Hall of Fame display uh shortly, so you'll be able to walk by the high school and see them in print. Uh, senior night was held successfully last night and tomorrow is one of our favorite annual events. It will be our senior clapout. Uh, where the senior class has an opportunity to walk through all of the schools in the district to revisit some of their old
007stomping grounds, but also to serve as a model for our younger students of what their graduation may look like in however many years it may be for them. Uh, we had a chance today to gather as a staff uh to recognize staff for some of their awards throughout the year, but also to honor years of service to our many uh, dedicated employees. I want to take just a moment to recognize one of these groups. Uh we had four individuals that were recognized today for 30 years of service which is an outstanding career all in one place. So special congratulations to Michelle Forbes, Lauren Ever Clayton, Mariel Patrezy and of course at the end of the table Miss Darlene Llewellyn for 30 years of service. Worth a special round of applause as she's sitting here. So
008graduation season is also officially upon us. Yesterday we celebrated thanks to our um life skills graduation program at the first little glimpse into what graduation looks like as they celebrated their end of the year ceremony yesterday. Uh next Thursday or this excuse me this Thursday we have our fifth grade promotion. On Tuesday of next week on the 16th is the eighth grade promotion whereby 244 uh excuse me the 17th uh 244 students will be receiving their eighth grade promotion certificate. And then of course next Wednesday will be the high school senior graduation where uh 230 plus seniors representing a very large graduating class will receive their diplomas. Uh quick updates on prek. Uh we're working with our community partners in prek. We've already started construction at Newman Learning Center to help a classroom receive students
009for next year and our work is just getting started at Temple Sinai to get three classrooms ready uh for our students who will be offsite. And I know we've given a number of updates uh at these board meetings. But if you have not been here prior, we are very excited to welcome uh a new batch of preschoolers to Cinnamonson next year and we are extending our preschool footprint beyond just the memorial school and into the community through various partnerships as well. So very excited about that. And I see Mrs. Spear here are assignment letters for students who are going to these programs are going to find out tomorrowish Fridayish by the end of the week uh where they will be attending the Memorial School at uh insert placement next year. So, very exciting for all
010of those families, but also very exciting uh for us as well. Also, if you have not been here, I've been referencing the last couple of board meetings. We'll hear an update later from Mrs. Fitzwater. Uh some information about the district's uh potential referendum. Um right now, we are still in the committee phase and the committee met uh recently to try to advance a project moving forward and have set a goal to have a finalized project ready to go for the start of school next year. So, we're uh very excited about that project and what is to come. And with that, Mrs. Fitzwater, that is the very brief superintendent's report. very brief and fast. Tried to get out as quick as I could and fast. Mr. Zakone, can I have a motion to approve section five
011routine matters items A through E? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Maker. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Eileen Blstein. I I I I I I I I motion approved. Uh moving on to the high school representative report. Uh tonight we uh have just the high school report uh and we will hear from Gwen Chakonssky. Good evening everyone. The May students of the month are as follows. Class of 2025, Lily McCarron, class of 2026, Ashley Chen. Class of 2027, Cara Mcado. And class of 2028, Ryan White. All spring sports have finished their seasons. On behalf of Mr. Wilkinson. Congratulations to all our spring sports teams who had an excellent season, many of whom made deep runs into the playoffs. Spec special recognition to two athletes from the
012track team. In an absolutely incredible competition that went to a sixth attempt jump off, Eddie Frey takes second at the meet of champions at Penn Stalken just down the road. Max takes 10th to cap off a great season. Last week, the play unified track team wrapped up their season with two meets at Pensalkul and Enzel Ren. Every athlete and partner gave a 100% of their heart to their events and teammates. Shout out to Isaiah Phillips for a 400 meter PR 6 63.7 and Kieran Gallagher 71.1. Alex Gomez and Gabby Deo through 20 in the shot put. Gabe Garcia threw 79 and Beika Akalazad threw 13 10.5. Congratulations on a wonderful season. CHS celebrated Asian diversity during the month of May with the following activities: origami, calligraphy, cooking, Indian cuisine lesson, and finally Indian fashion, music,
013and games. for student council. The new officers were selected for the 2025 2026 school year on Monday, June 2nd. The officers for the class of 2029 will be elected in the fall. Congratulations to all the new officers and thank you to all the candidates who submitted documents to run for office. Congratulations to this year's CHS inductees to the Hall of Fame class of 2025. Their hard work, dedication, and commitment is remarkable. For the class of 2025, the seniors are winding down their tenure at CHS. On Wednesday, June 11th, they will start their day with graduation practice and then have the highly anticipated walk down memory lane during which they revisit each Cinnamon School in their cap and gowns, led by the CHS marching band, drum line, and the pirate mascot. The day ends with senior
014day at Topgolf signing yearbooks and lunch. Senior night was on Monday, June 10th at the Marriott. Graduation is on June 18th. Congratulations to the graduating class of 2025. I would now like to introduce Carly Trae, who was elected by her peers in this year's 2025 2026 election as the board of education liaison for the 2025 2026 school year. [Applause] As this year's liaison, I wanted to leave this message for the board of education. I wanted to say thank you everyone for this amazing opportunity. I have enjoyed working alongside board board members and learning more about the school system. I appreciate being given the opportunity to learn and listen to what the community has to offer. Thank you and I hope everyone has an amazing summer. We'd like to thank you, Gwen, for your uh commitment
015and for being here every month. Um, and for your wonderful updates, keeping us updated about everything going on. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you, Gwen. [Applause] All right. Noah could not be with us tonight. So, uh, we'll just have to go with Mr. Capello's, uh, briefing from the middle school. All right, there we go. If you got sentence or two, we have a new uh, middle school representative. So, this month has been very busy, particularly for our eighth graders. Uh we had our eighth grade dance on Friday night. It was a beach blast theme. It was the kids came all dressed in their beach gear, uh sundresses and and shorts and everyone had a great time. I'd like to thank our home and school association and all of the parents who assisted with
016decorating and making food and donating food. It just was an absolute lovely evening for all of the kids. Uh yesterday we sort of uh weathered the storm uh over and went up to Great Adventure. Uh so we had our eighth grade trip to Great Adventure. It was a great day. It was because it was a little misty. Uh it was awesome for the kids. They got on and off rides non-stop all day. They were trying to clock how many rides they could get on during the day. Um I went on a few rides with them. I might not want to do that ever again, but it was a great time for all. Uh we do have our student recognition ice cream party this Thursday coming up that will recognize our students of the month, our
017principal list, uh the students who made principal lists this year, all three marking periods, as well as our students who received perfect attendance. And then we start with our promotion or I'm sorry, our Friday is our last Pirate Pride Friday. Uh, so we have a lot of wrapping up to do with our cafeteria and the kids in the cafeteria. We like to play our minute to win it games and next week we are practicing for promotion and having a wonderful hopefully rain-free promotion ceremony on Tuesday night. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh we're going to move on to number seven, presentations. Uh the board of education student recognitions. All right. Thank you again for everyone who is here this evening to be recognized. Special congratulations to all of our student recipients. Uh we typically
018do our awards in in birth order, school birth order, not the presenter's birth order. Uh however, when we do the last uh awards at the June board meeting, we have a long-standing tradition uh whereby we introduce the high school principal uh to recognize the each uh the validictorian each year sort of to serve as a model for all of the younger students in the room. So uh with that, Mr. Gorman, turn it over to you. It is my privilege this evening to introduce our 2025 valadictorian, Brendan Fredo. [Applause] Brendan will graduate from Cinemon High School with an overall GPA of 105.7. During his time at CHS, he took 21 honors in AP courses and scored a 1520 on the SAT. Brendan's interests are varied and equally as impressive as his academic accomplishments. He participated in
019the Technology Student Association, Global Economic Forum, Math League, World Affairs Council, AAPI Affinity Group, French Club, Debate Club, the Future City Competition, and Physics Olympics. He was inducted into the National Honor Society as a junior and has held leadership positions in several clubs and organizations. Brendan is also a talented athlete. He's a four-year member of the varsity swim team. He was named a BCSL first team and second team swimmer as a freshman and then a BCSL all south jersey as a junior. Finally, as a senior, he was a CHS most valuable swimmer. Brendan is a three-time recipient of the Burlington County Principles and Supervisors Award, which recognizes the top student in 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. Simply put, he won that award in every year he was eligible. Brendan is an exceptional individual and a
020truly deserving validictorian. Next year he will continue his education at Georgia Institute of Technology where he will study mechanical engineering. Congratulations Brendan. [Applause] I would like to continue to celebrate excellence by announcing our 2025 salutatoran, Kellen Kohler. Kellen will graduate from Cineson High School with an overall GPA of 105.3 while taking 21 honors and AP courses during her time at CHS. While a student here, Kellen was very involved in a variety of clubs and activities. She was a member of technology student association, homecoming committee, interact, French club, glamour gals, math league, the ships log, world affairs council, global economic forum, consumer bowl, future healthc care professionals, battle of the books, homecoming committee, prom committee, animal welfare club, and physics Olympics. She was inducted into the National Honor Society as a junior. She served as a
021class treasurer all four years and has held leadership clubs, leadership positions in several clubs and organizations. Kellen is a gifted athlete. She was a member of the varsity swim team as a freshman and played two years of soccer. However, it was in track and field where she found her home. She is a four-year varsity member of the spring track team and received three additional varsity letters from winter track. She was named to the first team BCSL and CHS MVP as a junior. Her excellence on the track and leadership resulted her in her being named captain for spring track as a junior and senior. Next year, Kellen will attend the honors college at New Jersey Institute of Technology where she will study biochemistry and continue her track career. Congratulations, Kellen. Thank you. And as a busy
022student, Kellen sends her regrets for not being able to attend this evening. Uh that's sometimes what happens in the life of very busy high schoolers. So, uh with that, I'm now going to welcome up Mrs. Jones uh from the New Albony School has some awards to give out as well. [Music] Thank you, Mr. Hello. If I can have the new Albony students just come over and line up right over here. So cute. So nice. So nice. Don't miss. Mhm. So this evening we're going to be honoring our pirate leaders. Each year our pirate leaders are selected at the beginning of the year and it is uh through teacher recommendation as well as our lead counselor Mrs. Devon Miller. Teachers look for students who display kindness, respect and leadership skills towards others. Each month the pirate
023leaders met with the counselor, Mrs. Miller and they helped to grow their skills to assist with schoolwide projects, brainstorm ideas to increase positive peer relationships and more throughout the year. Some of the things that they assisted Mrs. Miller with were developing skills to lead others, learning ways they can help others, creating posters for the schoolwide great kindness challenge, and they also help to lead kindness activities each in their classrooms. They also helped to brainstor brainstorm ideas to improve school culture as well as sharing information with Mrs. Miller regarding bullying. In addition, they assisted with this October don collection donation and they filmed a teaser video for the careers on wheels event which all of the students and staff in New Albony got to view. So, the pirate leaders ended their year with a scavenger hunt
024which resulted in an ice cream party with Mrs. Miller. So, we're grateful for their efforts as well as their leadership. And I'd like to congratulate each of these pirate leaders. So, first up, we have Sabiraa. [Applause] [Laughter] We'll be really good for the next ones. Got you. Okay. We also have Jackson Burns, [Applause] Bruce Crosby, Abigail Divio, [Applause] Gavin Juel, Logan Kasinski, [Applause] Mom, did you get it? McKenzie Solder, Quinn, Burmese, [Applause] Sandisha Vinadkumar [Applause] and Mariah Y'all, [Applause] Congratulations to all of our pirate leaders. I'd like to intro, excuse me, introduce Mrs. Kate Millie, principal of Rush School. [Applause] If I could have the three Rush honores join me up here, that would be wonderful. You are in the crowd. Come on. Just stand right over here. There we go. Perfect. All right. So,
025I believe that the New Albany recipients of our firerevention poster contest were announced earlier this year, but I have the Rush winners to announce, which I'm very happy to do. This is a great opportunity every year with our Cinnamonson fire department partnering with our art department um at the New Albony and Rush Schools and students create posters which are entered to be judged in a contest. And our third grade winner is Miss Penelope. if you would come over please. You can see her poster up there. And so she was our first place winner for the third grade class overall. So out of over about 200 entries. [Applause] Next up, we have our fourth grade winner, Miss Khloe Sawyer, who I don't believe is here this evening, uh, but her poster is there as well. We
026can certainly give her a round of applause. And then last but certainly not least is our fifth grade winner. And I don't have her beautiful poster to show you because it advanced to the county level for judging. But perhaps you could describe it in detail. No, I'm just kidding. But we will find out about uh Addison and whether or not she was the county winner at some point soon. So congratulations to you. Come on up. [Applause] At this time, I'd like to reintroduce Mrs. Carrie D. Simone, principal of Cinnamonson Middle School. [Applause] Okay. Okay. So, our first award tonight uh goes to a young man who has achieved principal list every marking period of his entire career at Cinnamonson Middle School. And that would be four in his sixth grade year, four in his seventh
027grade year, and three in his third grade year or third grade, eighth grade year. And that, too, I'm sure. Uh, we don't count the last marking period in this. And that goes to Mr. Ethan Turner. Come on up, Ethan. You here? Yeah. So, for those of you counting, uh, we have eight classes per marking period. That is 88 A's. 88 A's. And I'm sure it'll be 96 by the end of this school year. So, Ethan has so many great qualities. Um, not only of course intelligence, but he has to have motivation, perseverance, and dedication in order to achieve this goal. So, we cannot wait to see what CHS has in store for Ethan, or rather what Ethan has in store for CHS. So, congratulations, Ethan. Next up, I'm going to call up my sixth grade
028Battle of the Books team. If you are here, could you come on up? Yeah, I saw you. Okay. So, Battle of the Books is a book knowledge competition uh for elementary and middle school students. The students have to read a list of 15 books and then compete as teams answering questions about the books. Uh the program of course promotes reading comprehension, teamwork, and a love for literature. Our sixth grade team here is the first ever to win first place in this competition for our school. So, congratulations to this team. Let's give them a big round of applause. And those team members are Ben Lonardo, Lilia Marshall, Chloe Naman, Adriana Stellwag, Victoria Valentine, and Moana Yed. Laotti. Another big round of applause for them. Everybody get it? Thank you. And lastly, my seventh and eighth grade
029team, for those that are here, come on up. Hello, gentlemen. Thanks for coming. Our seventh and eighth grade team traveled to the Morstown Middle School to compete at the county level against 15 other teams and we were proud to say that they came in fifth out of the 15. A huge congratulations to all who helped and who participated and helped them uh you know really understand these books and basically study for this competition. So congratulations to Grace Bazilla in seventh grade. Anthony Broco in seventh grade. Hayden Burn in eighth grade. Cassidy Freebel in eighth grade. James Hannings in seventh grade. And Julia Sers in seventh grade. And once again, I'd like to invite Mr. Gorman up, our principal of the high school. [Music] So, we'd like to start off for the high school recognitions with
030Jackson Lane. Is Jackson here tonight? Jackson made the first team all BCSL BCSL for golf uh and won the South Jersey State sectional. Congratulations. Perfect. [Applause] Next we have Megan Nelson. Megan set several goals for the Simmonson High School this year. Uh most goals in a season 85 for girls lacrosse, most goals in a career 259, most assists in a career 91, most draw controls 321. She was also uh uh nominated to the first team BCSL all BCSL and second team all South Jersey. Megan Nelson For also for girls lacrosse, we have Tegan Fedulla. [Applause] Also has the record for most assist in a career with 91 and was recognized as a first team all BCSL. Congratulations [Applause] In softball, we have Madden Ritler. Madden holds the record for CHS in most runs in a
031career with 96. Congratulations. [Applause] Also in softball, we have Hannah Derby. [Applause] and has set a number of careers this year for softball. Most triples in a career with 10. Most RBI's in a career with 85. Most wins in a season with 17. Most wins in a career with 50. Most strikeouts in a season 185. Most strikeouts in a career 565. Uh ERA in a season of 1.25, ERA in her career of 2.09. She was recognized as a first team BCS all BCSL and first team all South Jersey. Continuing the celebration of softball, Delaney Kroll. Delaney has the most home runs in a season with nine, the most home runs in her career with 12, most RBI's in a season with 30, and was recognized as the second team all BCSL. In girls track, Kellen
032Kohler uh set the record for the 800 meter at 2 minutes 17 seconds and 5100s of a second uh and was recognized as first team all BBC BCSL for her senior year. Eddie Fry mentioned earlier uh set the polevolt record for cinnamonson high school at 15 foot 6 in uh and is recognized as a first team all BCSL. Max Fry won the state sectional for pvolt uh and in took in took 10th place in the meet of champions with a pvolt jump of 14 ft. Jacob Wickerssham. Jacob Wickersam won the sectional meet at at the 3200 4 by 800. Congratulations. Oh, no. You're getting your picture taken. Not official till the picture. Can you open up that picture? [Applause] Um, we made an error when we recognized some of our fall athletes. So, we wanted
033to correct that now by recognizing boys soccer. Uh, Noah Huber. wasn't able to join us tonight either, but he is recognized as a first team allstate uh player and he also made the first team all cell jersey. Congratulations. Also, Owen Digny. Owen, are you here? I don't think Owen was recognized as a second team allstate player for South Jersey section and second team all South Jersey. Congratulations. All right. Thank you, Mr. Gorman. Another round of applause for all of our award winners this evening. Uh, thank you all for being here this evening. Uh, if you'd like to, I'm going to ask Mrs. Fitzwater if we could take a quick two-minute recess. So, if anybody wants to come up and take a picture in front of our step and repeat up here, uh, we'll take a
034quick two-minute recess with her blessing and then we'll get back to the regular business. Of course, what you all are invited and encouraged to stay for, but I understand we're competing against the carnival this evening. So, thank you. Okay, we will take a 2-minute break. I was like, mom together. We are back in We are back in session. Uh we're going on to number eight, correspondence to the board. Uh we did get an email. I think everyone on the board got an email from CPAG. Um just recapping what we what they did this year and what they plan to do next year. Uh, and I personally received, well, several of us received an email from a parent. Um, that's all I have. Anybody else? Okay. All right. We are moving on to number nine, committee
035reports. We have um actually three reports this month. We did have a um curriculum committee meeting and Mrs. Trump will share the minutes with us. Thank you. The curriculum and student activities committee met virtually on June 3rd. The committee heard a presentation from the high school athletic director about adding girls wrestling as a new sport for Cinnamon High School for the upcoming school year. Committee members were supportive of this addition. The committee was then given an overview of the process for determining HIG grades and the certified grades for the previous school year were shared. These grades were previously approved in the fall for the submission to the NJDOE. The focus grant program for K to3 literacy was discussed along with as as along with funding levels available at the Cinnamonson and how grant monies would
036be spent. A minor update to the 2425 school calendar was explained adjusting the date of the last professional development day for the school year. This change has no impact on the student schedule. Lastly, upcoming field trip and PD requests were reviewed. That is all. Thank you, Mr. Trump. Uh we also held a referendum committee meeting um this month. Uh I have the minutes from that. The referendum committee met via Google Meet on Monday, June 2nd at 3 p.m. Mr. Capello began the meeting by sharing the revised project presentation from Garrison Architects. These updates were based on the previous committee meeting recommendations. The district borrowing capacity is approximately $60 million. The current list of projects contains three questions and totals more than our borrowing capacity. The committee discussed the creation of the following referendum subcommittees and
037that is as of now finance construction, public relations, athletics and early childhood. Once subcommittees are formed, they will meet to further discuss projects. Mr. Capello and Mrs. Wilky will be meeting with the architect and engineer to discuss projects and district needs. They will provide the referendum committee with an update at the next scheduled meeting which is scheduled for June 24th at 3 p.m. and will be a virtual meeting. Thank you. And then uh finally we have from Mrs. Akone the c uh county county school board association update. Thank you Mrs. Fitzwwater. Good evening everyone. The following is an update for members of the board of education and the public from the New Jersey school boards association. I have the privilege to represent Cine Menson as the New Jersey School Boards Association delegate and vice president
038of the Burlington County School Boards Association. On May 1st, the Burlington County School Boards Association held their semianual meeting at Medford Village Country Club. During the meeting, members received an introduction from the new executive director of NJSBA, Dr. Nicholas Diaz. Dr. Diaz reviewed new NJSBA services including cooperative purchasing services for personnel administrator, executive coaching and communication crisis support. Members also received updates on ELF- New Jersey as well as the legislative update from Jonathan Pushman, director of government relations. The county recognized the 2025 superintendent of the year, Mrs. Helen Payne and listen to the keynote address from the Burlington County Teacher of the Year, Mrs. Margaret Fan Nurakis from Shauny High School. Finally, board members were recognized for milestones and certifications by the president of the Bronton County SBA. There are a number of upcoming events,
039including the spring law forum on June 26 and a webinar on career and technical education scheduled for September 16th. Finally, as the board is aware, the annual workshop begins on October 20th. Board members should keep an eye out for an invitation to the fall county meeting, which is typically held in early October. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Aikon. We uh can I have we need to make a motion? Let me get my thing here. Mr. Trump, can I have a motion to approve the committee report section nine, item A? Motion. Second. Second. Thank you, Miss Icon. Comments or questions from the board? I do. I have a question just about the ad hoc committee for the referendum. Is that going to be for the November on the ballot this year? I mean, I haven't heard
040that much. I know we're talking about I know we've had a lot of meetings. I just wasn't sure um if that was going to be a ballot question for this year. Yeah, thanks. That's that that's a great question. So, there's only certain times a year where um a ballot um where a bond referendum question can be floated to the public. And at this point, I don't believe that it will be scheduled for November as it would require us to be a couple more months ahead of where we're at today. So, I'm not anticipating a November ballot question. So, maybe next year or the year after. Do you have an idea? There there's approximately three more dates during the year. So, right now we're trying to aggressively I either like a December or January timeline, but
041a lot of work has to be done before we get there. Thank you. Okay. All right. Let's um we'll take a vote. Miss Falconero. I I I I I I I I motion approved. Uh moving on to section 10, public comment on agenda items. Members of the public are reminded that comments should be limited to items appearing on the meeting's agenda. There will be another opportunity during this meeting to comment on non-aggenda items. All members of the public wishing to speak on agenda items only should raise their hand to indicate their wish to speak. When called upon, participants should state their first and last name and address clearly for the record. In accordance with sentiments and board of education policy, comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person. The comment period
042will be limited to 30 minutes in duration. And with all of that said, does anyone from the P public wish to speak on agenda items? Hi, Edie. Um, I have a on your agenda, you have a new classroom, uh, emotional support classroom. I don't know what the title is. Is that just going to be another self-contained? Are we aiming towards more segregation of students with needs? Um, I guess this is for Miss Llewellyn, if you can answer that at all. like are we looking to form yet another classroom that's going to segregate children based on abilities? Well, yeah, I'm I'm happy to answer that question. Um, we're looking to establish another program to meet the needs of our students. I I'm asking if there's going to be a self-contained class. The design of the emotional
043support class does involve um containing them in one room all day for part of the day. Correct. Yes. How much of the day? 80% 90% 99% or they're going to be allowed to just go to lunch and gym. Uh it could certainly be individualized on students needs and I'm happy to follow up with you after the meeting to give you more specifics as we have them planned. Thank you. I would like for it would be nice for the parents to understand what those classrooms really truly look like. If it's a self-contained classroom, so children are segregated pretty much most of the day. So again, there were several researches that came out, there's several articles that came out that really go against that kind of a environment for children with needs. And I'm kind of a
044little disappointed that this is where the school is aiming. Instead of looking at resources to include students with needs, you're looking to segregate them further. That's concerning. That makes me wonder if we're back in 1945 where everybody's kind of separated into pods. Um, and then No, I have to ask that later, right? Because it's not on the agenda. It's okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Paplowski. Anyone else? Okay, we're moving on to section 11, personnel, certified, non-certified. Mr. Capello. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Under section 11, number one, appointments and reappointments, seeking the board's approval on the following items that are listed in the agenda, numbers 1 through three. There are a number of names there. Under letter B, we have a few transfers and they are listed under section one in the agenda. Items A
045through C. Under resignations and retirements, there are six items included in the agenda for the board's consideration to accept. Uh items 1 through six, as I said, are listed in the agenda. Under leaves of absence, there are two items listed by employee ID number in the agenda for the board's approval this evening. Uh, skipping on to letter F, uh, there is, uh, seeking the board's approval for a follow-up memorandum, revised memorandum of agreement between the Cinnamon Board of Education and the Cinnamon and Supervisor Association listed in the agenda. Um, under letter G, we have no advancements on the salary guide. Extra duty appointment seeking the board's approval for items 1 through 18 as listed in the agenda. And under student teachers, there is one item uh, for the board's consideration this evening listed on the
046agenda, and that is personnel. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Capillo. Um, I'm sorry I lied. It's not. Uh, we also have section K, items 1 through T and tutors, uh, letter L, item one. Help if I scroll down. Thank you. Thank you. You caught me off guard there. Caught myself off guard. Uh, Miss Kate Flystein, can I have a motion uh to approve section 11 personnel items A through L? So move. Second. Second. Thank you, Miss Falconero. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Eileen Bllestein. I I I I I I I I accept everything. I I to everything except K3. Uh motion approved. Moving on to section 12, curriculum and instruction. Dr. Goldberg. Thank you very much. Under number 12, letter A, requesting approval of the professional development requests
047that are attached. Letter B, field trip requests that are attached. Nothing under letter C or D this month. Under letter E, approval of the monthly HIP report. Letter F, the monthly suspension report. Under letter G, uh approving the official HIB grades for each of the schools from the previous school year. These were submitted uh to the NJ DOE with sentiments and board approval uh back in October. Uh each of these grades is determined at the school level and there is a uh 26 uh different indicators that the uh principles, assistant principles, anti-bullying specialists, a parent, a teacher who are part of those uh teams review those rubrics and come up with scores that could totally max out at 78 points. And you see the school uh grades there. They're also on our district web page
048as well. Under letter H, requesting approval of girls wrestling as a new athletic team at Cinnamentson High School for the next school year with a dedicated head coach. And under letter I, requesting approval of revision to this year's school calendar rescheduling the May 23rd professional development day to Friday, June 20th. And those are the requests this month. Thank you, Dr. Goldburn. Mr. Maker, can I have a motion to approve section 12 curriculum and instruction items A through I? So moved. Second. Second. Second. Thank you, M. Trump comments or questions from the board hearing. None. We'll take a vote. Miss Falcanero. I I I I I I I vote yes for all and I abstain from a number six. I to everything except for uh line uh A1 line two. Motion approved. U moving on to
049um special education item 13. Uh, Mrs. Llewellyn. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Uh, there is nothing this evening under letters A, B, and C. Under letter D, request for approval of a new program or service seeking the board to approve the request to establish a newly proposed emotional regulation impairment special education program uh for the 202526 school year. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Llewellyn. Miss Falconer, can I have a motion to approve section 13 special education item D? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Miss Blestein. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Silene Bllestein. I I I I I I I I motion approved. Uh we have no policies to approve this month. So, we're moving on to section 15, uh business and finance. Mrs. Wilkkey. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under
050section A grants, that the board approves items 1A through 1D as listed on the agenda. Under section B, finance, that the board approves items 1 through nine as listed in the agenda. Under section C, operations, that the board approves item number one, which is to approve the 2526 school breakfast and lunch prices, which there will be no increase and they will remain the same as this year. and under section D contracts that the board approves items numbers 1 through nine as listed in the agenda. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Thank you, Mrs. Wilkkey. Miss Eileen Blindside, can I have a motion to approve section 15, business and finance items A through D? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Miss Trump. Comments or questions from the board. Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Falconer. I I
051I I I to everything except for 15B1. I abstain. I I to everything except section B uh 15B number one. Abstain. I motion approved. Uh moving on to section 16. Other business. Mr. Capella. Thank you, Mr. Fitzswwater. One item under other business. This is the annual renewal of the standing orders given from our district physician for our school nurses. So, seeking the board's approval for item A listed in or excuse me, A1 listed in the agenda. Thank you, Mr. Capillo. Uh, Mr. Bramhol, can I have a motion to approve section 16, item A. So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, Mr. Mer. Comments or questions from the board? Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Eileen Blstein. I I I I I I I I I got to come back to me real quick. Okay, I
052just got whispered at that I need to go back to Mr. Capello. I'm taking my second meeting mulligan. Uh we do have a wonderful tradition here in Cincson whereby we introduce our new staff members. Uh it is a small group this evening, but I did want to turn the floor over to Mrs. Sher Spear, our new director of early childhood education, who has someone to introduce to the board. I would like to introduce Amanda Foster. She will have a split position as a preschool instructional coach and preschool intervention referral specialist. She's a proud CHS graduate 2009 and she graduated with her bachelor's and her master from college. [Applause] Okay, good. All right. So, we're moving on to um section 17, public comment, right? Um during the public comment section of the meeting, the board will
053seek public comment on any item. Members of the public are reminded that if they wish to speak when called upon, participants should state their first and last name and address clearly for the record in accordance with sentiments and board of education policy. Comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person. The comment period will not exceed 30 minutes. Pursuant to the open public meetings act, the board will not publicly discuss or comment on matters involving personnel, litigation, negotiations, or the attorney client privilege. The board may choose not to respond to comments made by members of the public during this portion of the meeting. However, all comments will be given appropriate consideration. Matters requiring followup will be referred to the superintendent for resolution. I am back. So, we've mentioned this several times. I'm
054just wondering, did the school end up applying for the All-In for inclusive education, the formal NJCIE grant to help us be a little more inclusive? I guess this is to Mr. Capella, Miss Llewellyn, because you would have to have applied for it. I I know I sent an email to Eileen as well asking about this because I wasn't able to attend the meeting. I don't know if the deadline has passed. Um, but are we applying deadline? It's free. It's free resources. The deadline is not passed and we are planning to apply. Are we going to apply? That's what Mrs. Lone just said. We are going to We are going to apply. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, we're going on to section 18 board comments. Okay. Uh, congratulations to our retirees. May you
055enjoy the next phase of your life. Congratulations to the class of 2025. We look forward to celebrating your graduation with you next week. Congratulations to Lauren Coker for obtaining a $20,000 grant for New Alby's STEM Initiatives. Congratulations to our students who were recognized tonight. You rock. Thank you to our student representatives for bringing us the news from the schools every month. Congratulations to Gwen on your graduation. We can't wait to see what your future holds. Thank you to CF for the grant. Thank you to everyone who spoke at the meeting tonight or the everyone who spoke at the meeting tonight. Happy Pride. Enjoy your summer. The next regularly scheduled meeting will take place on Monday, August 26th at 7 PM right here in the middle school cafeterium. We will have a special meeting of of
056the board on Monday, August 25th at 6 p.m. be uh beginning here in C at CMS. More information can be found on the district website. Uh we are going into executive session and we may have a likely a followup from it related to the executive session. All right. Okay. Not related to anything currently on the agenda. Right. So, something different. Not not anything that is currently on the agenda as Mr. Capello said. Uh, so with that, um, Miss Ayaone, can I have a motion to convene into executive session? So moved. Second. Second. Thank you, M. Trump. All in favor? I opposed. All right, we're moving to executive session. Good night, folks.