001e e at F at 7:02 can I have a moment of silence please please stand for the flag [Music] salute pled aliance 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 good evening Welcome to our board meeting all we going to do roll call Mr Kenny here miss BL Miss Eileen blin here Miss Katherine blin here Mr Bramhall here miss falconera here Mrs Ione here Mr Meer here Mrs trumpe here miss Fitzwater here Wi-Fi is a little slow [Applause] 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 cinamon Township Clerk in the district website on the following dates January 17
0022024 and January 8th 2025 we're going to section four for those following along the routine business to get there sorry about that the slowly is very slow now okay we've got the board secretary's report for January 2025 uh the treasurer report for January 20125 the receipts and appropriation adjustments for January of 25 no I can do that from here uh the monthly transfer report for January 2025 the high school act activities report for February the Food Service management cost performance statement for February certified Bill list that ends February 12th and the approval of minutes [Music] or approval minutes uh for March no that's today where is it there we go for the regular session of February 18th and the executive session for uh February 18th uh Mr Kenny can I have a motion to approve
003section four routine business items a through H so moved second second second thank you Mr Maker comments or questions from the board hearing n we'll take a vote Miss e blin i i i i i i i i i motion approved uh moving on to section five the routine matters we have the enrollment report as of March 14th uh the health report for February of 25 the fire alarm report for February the crisis drill report for February and the superintendent monthly report Mr Capello thank you Mrs Fitzwater to the members of the public in our audience the members watching at home on YouTube thank you so much for engaging with the board this evening and being in attendance at our meeting unfortunately it is with great sadness that I Again Begin my remarks this evening
004with a message of loss uh last week the cinamon family lost another cherished member of our staff with the passing of dear draan treasured employee here at sentiment Middle School she was an employee of the district since 2019 and a fixture in the community for so much longer her losses felt especially hard by her co-workers here at the middle school who remember her kindness her grace and her empathy our thoughts and prayers go out to dear's family including her husband John and her children all CHS graduates Alex Kelly Caitlyn and Jack I would ask that members here join me tonight in an additional moment of silence in her memory thank you for that uh it is a busy night for the board and I appreciate seeing all of these faces in the audience so I
005will keep my remarks rather brief this evening but there were a few people I wanted to recognize very quickly earlier this evening as we'll hear about later uh several of my colleagues on the board took part in the future chefs competition adjudicating some of our young culinary Geniuses from the rush School uh they had a little bit of a student chopped competition and it was a lot of fun and we'll get to hear about the winner a little bit later on during our student recognition I also like to recognize Mr schwitzer Mr Ken and all of the casting crew and other adults who were involved in the production of The Little Mermaid at cinamon high school I know many people in the audience I saw out at the shows it was a very well attended
006event uh or six events and uh another fantastic show uh we are actually in the middle in between weekends as you can see this stage set up behind us uh here at cinnam Inon Middle School they are doing Beauty and the Beast also some very well attended shows I had a chance to see it last week and it was absolutely fantastic so congratulation congratulations to M lanzon and Mr Sereno and all of the students who are part of the casting crew of Beauty and the Beast we've been doing some testing some Assessments in the district and we appreciate the support of our students and families as our high school juniors took part in the NJ GPA assessment uh over the course of the last couple of weeks and that is a graduation requirement for all
007of the students in the class of 2020 and 2026 also we're doing some ml access testing and our district seal of biliteracy Assessments have been taking place over the last couple of weeks uh thank you to Mr per cupka and all of the staff who took part in the senior class trip to Disney uh a little bit of a reminder for anybody out there I see some young folks in the audience uh April 11th is the deadline to join the district's prek Lottery uh you'll start to see some signs pop up around town uh any parents of students who live in cinon who are 3 years old and 4-year-old are entitled to enter the lottery and we expect to have about 180 slots for preschoolers next year in cinon as we continue to grow that
008program uh next year with the addition of now 12 classrooms a little bit later this evening our annual Rush reporter will join us and we understand there were a number of very qualified folks to share so this might this might be one of maybe maybe we might get an additional one at some point but we're looking forward to hearing from Graham a little bit later uh also this evening on the agenda uh was the first public facing step in advancing next year's fiscal year budget and with the approval of the board tonight Mrs Wilkey our business administrator will send the preliminary budget to the county office for further approval and then of course members of the public are invited to attend a public hearing on the budget which is currently scheduled for April 29th at
0095:00 right here in this room and details are available on the sentiment and District website and I'd like to publicly acknowledge the finance committee and Mrs Wii for putting together uh that budget to advance later on this evening and with that Mrs Fitzwater that was my short report thank you Mr Capello and Mr Bramhall can I have a motion to approve section five routine matters items a through e so moved second second thank you Miss Eileen blin comments or questions from the board hearing them we'll take a vote Mr falconero i i i i i i i i i motion approved moving on to section six our student representative reports we'll start with our high school representative Gwen chansky good evening everyone the Golden Apple award for February was presented to Miss Lori Highland by
010Shay mcdevit the students of the month for February for the class of 2025 is Mariela D christofaro class of 2026 Ethan shrier class of 2027 Amina dfic class of 2028 sha Lan the athletes of the month for February are seniors Eliza Jeff and colum Parish winter sports have concluded their season and spring sports teams are practicing girls basketball team finished their year with an outstanding record of 22 and8 and made it to the quarterfinal of the playoffs boys basketball finished their season with an amazing record of 17 and 13 and made it to the semi-final round of the njsia playoffs for the third straight year in addition Drew Harvey is the new all-time scoring leader at CHS wrestling team made it to Regions represented by Dom Marino Davi guis and Victor Mera down Place third
011and went to Atlantic City to compete in the njsiaa state tournament Victor Amir finished his senior year with a 27 and5 record Davi GMA has finished his year with 26 wins the girls wrestling team finished their season competing at the girls regions at abami with Emily D Silva finished 2 and2 Desir Dal finished one and two overall the team finished with the following stats Riley Evans and Hannah Bomer set the record for the most wins in a season at 23 Emily D Silva finished the season 17 and three for the best winning percentage in history and the girls won their first dual match the swim team finished their season at the njsi AA meet of Champions Tessa Devone Brendan fat Bryce Bastion will Walsh and Wyatt urod competed against the best swimmers in the state
012for winter for winter track Eddie fry secured an impressive second place at the group two championship and then wrapped up the indoor season by taking fifth place in the pole vault at the meet of Champions for class of 2025 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 with their peers in the happiest place on Earth the CHS drama club is proud of the performances design and Technical expertise of the entire cast pit and crew especially the graduating class of 2026 the drama club will miss their leadership and persistence special thanks to the parent committee the maintenance staff and the administration for their assistance thanks to all for coming out to join their adventure under the sea for
013Deca 19 students attended the SDC at in Atlantic City March 4th through March 6th the chapter received multiple achievement awards the recognition earned will allow eight members to attend deca's in International Conference in Orlando on April 25th through the 30th two members will compete in the SC SBE Academy and the other six will attend a variety of emerging leadership acmy to enhance their leadership skills interact held its annual Cino night for the Arc of Burlington County on Friday February 21st in the high school cafeteria they hosted the largest number of guests and their caretakers since before the pandemic and everyone had a wonderful time interact members will be making sandwiches for Cathedral Kitchen on March 26 thank you thank you Gwen and now we'll hear from our uh Middle School representative Evan bavona good evening
014everyone my name is Evan Bona and I'm here in place of no bunny who cannot attend tonight I am also a member of the CMS student council the February students of the month are sixth grader Gabriel alera 7eventh grade Leonardo D Silva and eighth grader Chloe fidal Miss Donna mcgugan office secretary was a faculty member of the month for March congratulations on her retirement she will be missed Spring sport Tri outs are starting this week we are excited for some spring weather and sunshine the CMS drama club had a successful first weekend of Beauty and the Beast JR there are more performances this weekend Friday March 21st at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday March 22nd which shows at 2: p.m. and 7:30 p.m. come out and enjoy a fantastic show congratulations to the entire cast the
015Unity Club is hosting in unity night on March 19th from 6:30 to 8:30 Unity night is a new event for adults with disabilities in the community they will be they will be participating in crafts games and various activities this Friday March 21st is World Down syndrome awareness day it also it is also known as rock your socks day students teachers and staff are encouraged to wear crazy or any kind of fun socks to celebrate being unique CHS home and School Association is hosting at night a of family fun entertainment with the Harlem Wizards and cinamon staff members the game will be held on Saturday March 22nd at 6:30 p.m. please come out and support our schools it will definitely be a memorable experience the stop Club is seeking your help students are collecting donations for
016good Council home located in Riverside until Monday March 31st the good Council home is a nationally recognized nonprofit woman and children shelter that run solely off donations from generous individuals offers residential care and Community Based Services for homeless expectant and new mothers along with their children lastly CMS celebrated read Across America earlier this month we enjoy dressing up for our themed days and drop everything and read event with our special guest the k came into our classrooms to read with us congratulations to miss every Clayton's Home Room who had the most dress up participation points and will receive a treat this week thank you and I hope you all have a great night thank you Evan and we'll now hear from our Rush representative of the night Graham Lane good evening my name is Graham
017Lane and I'm a fifth grade student in Mr Freeze's class the February students of the month are as follows Emma Kaminsky for third grade Luke bavona for fourth grade Annie Jones for fifth grade and Robert Hill who received the specialist nomination for Miss Shields these students consistently go above and beyond the IRS expectations and serve as role models for their classmates the kids heart challenge ended on February 28th and the rush School Community came together to raise $2 6,943 Mr baldasari worked very hard to encourage everyone to participate in this worthy cause thanks to everyone's efforts Rush School is number 11 in this state and number one in Burlington County for the most donations Penelope Buell was the top earning student raising $2,000 Rush School celebrates rate Across America week week from March 3rd until
018March 7th Rush students and staff enjoyed theme days and got to wear their favorite sports jerseys unique socks and even pajamas everyone P participated in schoolwide Reading train on Thursday March 6th that lasted 20 minutes and 25 seconds and stretched throughout every hallway in the school on March 7th visiting author and cartoonist Mike Dawson presented two assemblies a special thanks to the Simonson home and School Association for sponsoring his visit ERS is hosting a spring concert on Wednesday April 2nd at cinamon High School fourth graders and advanced choir are in all grades will perform Disney's favorite from The Lion King and Kanto Cinderella the princess and the frog and more under the direction of Miss Shields the show will sure be a hit a live stream link will be shared for anyone interested in watching
019the show from the comfort of home there are many exciting events and field trips coming up on March 19th and 20th Rush school will follow a single session schedule due to report card conference conferences on March 20th students in all grades will walk over to the Cs to enjoy a math carnival on March 27th fifth grade teams will participate in the battle of the books competition in the rush School APR and the winning team will go on to compete in the county battle on March 28th Rush will hold its annual Unity assembly organized by miss catlet and miss McNeil as well as members of the Unity Club lastly the IRS drama club is excited to present willly Wonka Kids on May 1st and May 22 with evening performances on both days thank you for listening
020and have a wonderful evening thank you Grim we have a round of applause for our presenters tonight all right now we're going to have some presentations the first thing that we're going to do is the um Board of Education recognizes some of recognizing some of our sentiments and students for their outstanding achievements all right thank you Mr Kel uh if if you're following along in the program we did call a bit of an audible as I'm looking out over the audience I see some of our younger new Alban Rush students who I'm sure have bed times and homework and baths and all of those things so uh but before I continue with this I would like to point out we have two subsequent uh presentations one from the art Department uh in the middle and
021high school here in the district and also a great presentation from our cinnamon and cpeg that I would highly encourage you to stick around for and then we will take a brief recess after the presentations and just if you are not aware we do stream all of our board meetings on our district website and the shortcut to get to it is cn. TV and that will take you to our our district YouTube channel so uh periodically throughout the course of the year we like to recognize uh the most outstanding of our students for some really significant accomplishments and at this board meeting I think you'll be very impressed by the level of student achievement that we've had so far this year uh so with that we're going to bring up our principles and we do
022do it in birth order birth of the students not birth of the adults uh to do our presentation so at this time I'd like to welcome Miss Valerie Jones principal of the New Albany School up to do our first round of presentations [Applause] thank you Mr Capello I would like to invite all of the new alany students to come up and stand right over here in front of these adults right there this way bullet this way bullet this way all right so first up we honor the jump into reading challenge students for an entire month from October through November students were encouraged to read as many books as possible and that they did this uh challenge was part of Senator Troy Singleton's jump into reading challenge and we chose the top winners the first winner
023was mave Bond who was in kindergarten [Applause] great J and we also have McKenzie solder who is in second grade congratulations to these two young [Applause] ladies thank you ladies I'd also like to announce as part of the jump into reading challenge newom school had the top readers in the entire County and we uh received a acclamation for reading all right next up I'd like to honor the kids heart challenge top fundraisers these students were challenged to collect donations during the month of February as part of the kids heart challenge this annual fundraiser helps other kids with special Hearts all while our students are learning how to be healthy how to keep their hearts healthy as well as their bodies I'd like to recognize our top three students with the highest donations congratulations to Connor
024McKenna I'd also like to congratulate Nova jaquette as well as Grayson Shaw congratulations and then finally every October our art teacher Lisa Canal she works in conjunction with the cinnamons and fire department and these kids create some Majestic pieces and we have several winners we have Wesley Robinson from kindergarten [Applause] also congratulations to Leah Gaul in first grade [Applause] there's several more I'd also like to congratulate Jimmy Bley in second grade and Jimmy's artwork has advanced to the county [Applause] level and last but certainly not least bullet zali and his artwork as well Advanced to the county congratulations to these [Applause] students I'd now like to invite to the podium Miss Kate mey from the rush School good evening everyone we're so glad that you could join us this evening as Mrs Jones mentioned Senator
025Singleton's office does host an annual jump into reading challenge and we have a third grade student from Elanor Rush intermediate who was the overall top third grade reader in the competition Mr Douglas forson who read 241 books so Douglas and his family as you see up in the photograph we invited to Senator Senator Singleton's office over the winter holidays he received a plaque as well as a bowling gift certificate from Senator Singleton as our guest student representative Mr L already shared Rush School participates in the kids uh heart challenge in partnership with the American Heart Association every year and I would like to acknowledge our PE teacher Mr baldasari who does a tremendous job generating student interest in the competition and also teaching students about how to keep their hearts healthy during the month of
026February we would like to recognize our three uh top earning students the first student is not here this evening but we would still like to give her a nice round of applause penalo shell and then if I could ask my other two friends who are here to step on over while I read off some stats so if I could have Leo and Luke come on over to the side real quick thank you so Penelope uh did raise $2,000 during the month of February and then our second top Place fundraiser was Mr Leo asales who raised $1,494 [Applause] and then Mr Lucas sha was our third highest uh earning student raising $1,119 get one by themselves yeah thank you every year uh Mr baldasari challenges our student body to raise um as much money that coincides
027or aligns with the calendar year so our goal for fundraising was $25,000 for 202 and we exceeded that as Graham pointed out by raising $26,995 which would have been impossible without the very generous contributions of our community so thank you to everyone who contributed as we were fundraising during February hot off the press um not here tonight but was here about an hour ago is Mr Jonathan defis uh he is our winner for the national uh challenge future chef competition with his baked pork dumpling FL hours they were absolutely delicious I personally had two uh we had seven students compete in the competition uh guest judges were here to try all different samplings and this is Jonathan's third year competing in the competition so his mother pointed out to him third time the charm and
028he wins this year as a fifth grade student which is very exciting so congratulations to all of our future chefs who were here tonight and a special congratulations to Jonathan at this time I'd like to introduce Mrs Carrie D Simone principal of cinam misson middle school and I would also like to bring up Mr Garwood bacon as our first presentations will go to our eighth grade students who competed in the future city competition of Philadelphia sponsored by discover I'm going to have Mr bacon tell you a little bit about it sure okay thank you oh thank you good evening everyone um I'd just like to say how proud I am of our project challenge students this year for their efforts at the future city competition it's an annual competition um that challenges Middle School St
029students across the nation to Envision a city of the future and each year they change the theme this year they asked students to Envision a city that is floating and self-sustained and can provide protein and all the things that happy and healthy Citizens need um and for their efforts they came away with not one not two not three but four special awards for their Innovative designs um it started in September they worked diligently all the way up to the end of January uh where they they built a 3D model and took it over to Archbishop Carol High School in Radner PA and presented in front of a panel of professionals uh Engineers from all fields and I was just blown away by the way they represented cinamon They Carried themselves and I feel like our
030future is very bright so um anyway thank you so would our future city competitors please come up with me we have Mr Noah Bundy Mr Ben Carol Miss Isabella cerulo Mr Colin Highland Mr Frank Rio Mr Ethan Turner and Mr killiam Walsh come on up friends we got four do you want toic too yeah we're going to play the perfect yeah get in with them yeah why don't we do them individually and then we can okay so Colin step back a little bit okay Mr bacon you should join uh oh want there okay all right thank you thank you and we put a little video together just to give you away an idea of what they do uh in this [Music] competition while the platform Ure Easy Transport Goods the city's arit both space and
031nature with solar panels top each building to power the energy [Music] below many people so we, how many different types of engineers would you typically have working on [Music] and it's always so we use the electromagnets to keep the modules in place uh within their little like formation that way each module doesn't bump into each other or crash [Music] let's give a round of applause to our future city competitors and a special thank you to Mr John maker our board member who was a visiting engineer supporting our students through this process so thank you Mr merer okay so next up we have our our musicians our singers and musicians and I am happy to announce that four of our students were invited into the all South Jersey Junior High honors choir when I call your
032name name please come up Sarah Casey Gabriela s soik Vincent ianuzi and chukim okali we now have our all South Jersey honors band one student from cinamon Middle School uh made it into our honors band and that is Benjamin dos re Rees he plays the baritone vincing or Benjamin come on up Benjamin also made it into the Western Burlington County honors band also for his baritone come on up [Applause] congratulations also invited into the Western Burlington County honors band anise kabuk he plays the trumpet anise come back come on up Niko hapta Nico plays the alto Sachs sumai Sharma Sumi plays the trumpet sonita Sun who plays the flute and Jeffrey Weissman who plays Alto Sachs one last round of applause for my cinnamon in middle school students of honor and with that I will
033pass it over to Mr Gorman and Mr Wilkinson for cinnamon in high school before I start I just want to take a second to thank everybody for coming I know many of the people that we're going to be recognizing this evening are coming in hot off of a spring season sport or out of a spring uh practice so I know fitting that in can be challenging and I appreciate you guys taking the time to come here and celebrate with us some of your accomplishments uh we're going to start off with uh some out of the M out of the world of uh consumer Bowl consumer bowl is a contest where students compete against uh with consumer legislation and fraud practices our team this year took first place please recognize Satie beroff Anella Asbury and Kellen
034[Applause] kler we have five students that were uh entered into the all South Jersey choir Leila hobba Aron Madison Mary Quinn Kathy vau and Ryan White if you want to come on [Applause] up Anella you should come on up too so after I call your name if you could please come on up and accept your award we'll take your picture we'll give you a round of applause nice job oh Sam you got so many awards we put them all into one slide so please welcome Sam barin Sam was inducted into to the all South Jersey Choir The All State mixed choir and the all Eastern honors [Applause] choir uh Kim Mason was inducted into the All State trouble chorus and the all Eastern honors [Applause] chorus so we have an in I'm incredibly proud of
035such a large group getting inducted into the Western Burlington County Music Alliance honors band uh if you are here this evening please make sure you come up after your name is called Kyle choix Ben Jacob Robert Jacob Emily Herbert Deshawn Miller Madison mosy Carrie pazaric Ethan shrier Ry Somerville Jules Vargas Melendez and Taylor weight I'm sure they practicing as we speak the following three students are in the all South Jersey Orchestra vionica sosic Olivia goola and Annabelle Simone [Applause] the following two uh young men were inducted into the Philadelphia You Youth Orchestra Victor armos and Ronan segrest so the the remainder of our awards are going to be in the world of Athletics uh before I introduce our athletic director uh we really spent a lot of time and energy this year thinking about how
036we can really make the gym uh an area where uh we'll be a jewel of South Jersey in Burlington County I think if you have an opportunity to come by and check it out we've done a lot of things uh including some installations some some new lights and sounds Mr Wilkins has been really working hard on that one of one of the things that we introduced are some new record boards you'll find them by the concession stands many of the wards that we're going to recognize tonight are are are part of that process uh so uh without further Ado please welcome Mr Wilkinson so just to uh just to speak to that real quick um um we have such a rich and tremendous history in athletics at cinamon and so much to be proud of
037so um coaches have worked hard to research records and to get records right we would like uh the records of Great accomplishments in all the sports recognized so uh by June we look to have eight or nine different sports with record boards up on the walls and coaches and teachers have been researching records and then the next principal's newsletter we're going to print those Boards out uh and we're hoping the community will help correct us that if they see something that's wrong and they have uh a newspaper article or a banquet book and said no that record 1976 was this we'd love to hear about it because we want to get it right and we want to make sure that we recognize all the great athletic accomplishments at camenson uh it's uh it's it's a
038really cool thing and I hope you all get a chance to look at it so most of the people that we're to call up today are New School record holders um so uh pretty cool accomplishments first up uh Drew Harvey if you want to come up drew our 2025 single season records with three pointers at 93 in a career uh from 21 to 25 three pointers with 271 and the total points leader in the history of sentiments and basketball Drew [Applause] Harvey Drew just hang out there for a minute uh because Drew is only half of the story in the Harvey family uh third all time in points with 1,240 is Noah Harvey really the two of them were a a a lethal combination a one-w punch uh that led our basketball team and it
039was it was pretty awesome and pretty fun to watch congratulations maybe we get both Harvey's in the picture and while we're taking pictures I'd also like to recognize coach Mike freeze who this year hit uh a a major milestone for basketball coaches with 300 wins uh coach freeze if you could come on up 300 wins is quite an accomplishment because it's it's more than just uh longevity but it's a longevity of success congratulations coach [Applause] freeze if I could call up Ava stanevich Ava was a thousand Point score for us sets an all time record in steals in a career with 243 an alltime record in assists in a career with 263 and also had a nine steel uh game once and if grit and toughness were quantifiable I have no doubt that Ava will
040be in the top three in cinnamon in history congratulations to Ava congratul also I'd like to bring up Shiloh Moore and Madden Riddler if they're here um they actually tied Ava the three of them had nine steals in a game um just to point out because Mr Gordon and I did a little research that would be third in the NBA so uh congratulations to both of them nine steals in a game swimming is often looked at as an individual sport but anybody who's uh watched a relay and swimming knows I'm not sure there's uh more Spirit Decor in a uh uh in all of sports than in a relay in track or swimming um Bryce uh Bastion Brendan frado Michael ghard and will Walsh um broke the 200 medle relay record uh with a smoke
04114137 come on [Applause] up congratulations that way we makes off congratulations indoor track uh if I could call it Betty fry he broke his cinnamon record uh in the pole Vault jumping 14t 6 in placing him second in the section and fifth at the meat of Champs Eddie [Applause] fry takes a lot of guts to run down that Runway knowing that it's just about 2 in of fiberglass holding you up also an indoor track Kellen CER is she here kellen's not here she broke the school record in the 800 meter uh running 22111 great time in boys wrestling Dominic Marino Dominic uh finished the season he has third most wins in his season with 36 the most pins in a career with 64 was a district champ third place in a regions first place in
042the Burlington County open tournament and he wrestled in Atlantic City this year Boardwalk Hall pretty cool in girls wrestling uh first off wrestling is an intensely personal sport you don't have anybody else to blame when you're out there it's just you on the mat um so that's tough enough and gutsy enough to take that on but for for these girls a lot of them hadn't wrestled before high school that this is the first time they're out there competing in the last couple years so on top of just taking on that sport they're Trailblazers uh there's going to be a lot of movement on this on this board over the next couple years as hopefully more girls uh continue to wrestle but these girls are the first and there's nothing like being the first pretty awesome
043Riley Evans first most wins in a season with 23 first most wins in a career with 29 most pins in the season with 21 and most pins in a career with 24 Riley Evans did I miss one okay congratulations Hannah bottomer first most wins in the season with 23 third most wins in a career with 25 Hannah [Applause] congratulations and Emily D Silva thir Mo third most wins in a season most tech Falls in a season and most tech Falls in a career [Applause] in girls bowling a new school record single High game score of 824 Abby Gordon Ali hinski Elana malve Eliana and Francesco Ramy [Applause] congratulations thank you congratulations to all our [Applause] athletes all right thank you once again to all of our students congratulations on your many accomplishments I again would
044like to put in a plug uh we are going to have an outstanding presentation from our art Department also the cinnamon and cpag as well uh we will be doing another series of recognition for students from our spring Sports and everything that happens from the balance of this point on in the year uh through the end of the year so congratulations again to all of the winners and thank you to everyone for coming out tonight [Applause] ready two months ago at our January Board of Education meeting we heard from a number of our secondary Performing Arts teachers about what's new and happening at the music department at cinamon middle school and cinamon high school this month we're privileged to hear from some of our visual art teachers uh from camenson middle school and camenson high
045school the three Educators that we're going to hear from from tonight all uh outstanding Educators also all three of them are sentiments and parents uh so we're very much looking forward to that presentation so without no further Ado I'm going to turn it over to Mr Matt digy who is our supervisor of visual art health physical education family and consumer science the longest title in the district Mr Dy thank you Dr Gober it's a pleasure to be here and I'm super excited to uh show you guys some of what the wonderful things that we're doing in our middle school and high school art rooms so first of all let's start off with introducing our teachers we have Miss K rescue she's our middle school art teacher Miss Colleen D phro unfortunately she could not be
046here tonight but I'll be speaking for her she's from the high school and then Mr Derek Moore who's also from the high school not only are these teachers excellent in the classroom but you can see all their extracurriculars underneath um the combined years of these three teachers is 70 plus years in teaching art education we're very fortunate to have them in our classrooms so we'll start with the importance of Education when we sat down and tried to figure out what we wanted to say tonight we wanted to make a list of why art education is important the list was exhaustive it was very extensive but we are able to knock it down to what we thought were the top 10 uh reasons and what we tried to pursue in our classrooms so we're always trying
047to enhance creativity and self-expression and Innovative thinking uh develop problem solving skills critical thinking and decis decision-making improve fine motor skills encourage cultural awareness uh students to diverse perspective and Global uh tradition boost academic performance uh prepare for various careers as we'll talk about a little later uh building confidence takes uh encourage students to take risk and express themselves support emotional well-being uh outlet for stress and re relief and self-reflection promote collaboration and create college and scholarship opportunities which we'll also talk about a little later in the presentation so I'd like to start us off with uh Karen rescue and she can talk about our middle school art program Karen thank you so here at the middle school art um the sixth seventh and eighth grade art at the middle school level focuses on creating
048a supportive Studio environment that encourages the students to take creative RIS risks explore mediums engage in constructive critique of famous art throughout history and identify and apply the elements of art and principles of design in their com composition what you see up there is just one of our bulletin boards in our classroom that helps the students when we're critiquing artwork very simply we just describe analyze interpret and evaluate works of art we talk about it very freely and the students are um encouraged to give their opinions about different art and knowing that their interpretation of art is their interpretation and no one has a wrong interpretation of what they're looking at so it's a really nice way to have them uh get some courage up to talk in front of the class and to give
049their opinion about the art that we talk about there we go sixth grade artists uh explore techniques across various color-coded sections of the art studio so our art studio is broken up into drawing painting print making sculpture Fiber Arts Ceramics and a small mini Masterpiece area each one is colorcoded and all the materials necessary to utilize those areas are in those um specific sections they're learning how to experiment with the materials effective Sketchbook utilization Studio organization how to setup how to clean up and this way once they learn how to do that in those different areas they can always revisit those areas when they do a mini Masterpiece so when they have extra time if they liked print making project they can go back into another print making project of their own and um utilize
050the material materal my favorite thing that we do is on our first project that they do is their Sketchbook so they create their Sketchbook in sixth grade and it's a simple book binding technique that we use and the students keep that Sketchbook all throughout middle school so I collect all the sketchbooks keep them in the art room and then they get them back in seventh grade we add more pages they get them back again in eighth grade and then they finally get to take them home and it's a nice portfolio of all the ideas and changes that they went through while they were here at CMS here's a little video of one of our sixth grade artists Kelsey denan who gave her opinion on um what her favorite thing in art class was I don't
051know why it's not I don't know I mess up or you can look at it [Laughter] later in seventh grade we enhance um their artistic Independence and try to build as much confidence as we can with the seventh graders seventh grade is a really tough year for Middle School um for all middle schoolers so we try to do projects that are more abstract so they don't have to feel self-confident about drawing things absolutely correctly or if they're um drawing something exactly the way it should look so we do a lot of abstract work and use a lot of um symbolism when we do our projects so one of the projects that we do the bottom one lift each other up it's this advocacy poster in the style of Keith Herring whose Figures were basically like
052little gingerbread men so they love doing that we also look at um Samo and style tattoos where they take um five values that are most important to them as a person and they look up the different symbols for those in the simoan culture and then create a tattoo design uh we also do uh Mexican folk art they love working with plaster wrap and um it just have a really great experience because everything is based on things that they like and things that they enjoy eighth grade art is this is the number one project that we do is our large food sculpture projects and they are on display in the Pine Street Art Gallery in the back if you'd like to go see them they're amazing um our eighth grade artists engage in projects that demand
053greater scale extended time frames and a heightened attention to detail as we dive into more advanced techniques that refine skills craftsmanship and overall design preparing them for the high school um learning experience that they're going to be having uh we the three of us all uh teach very similarly we grade very similarly so it's a nice easy transition for them to go from middle school art up to the high scho any of the high school art classes so the sculptures you're looking at are um inspired by the artist C oldenberg who did the large clothes pin and he also did uh large food sculptures so the students choose their favorite food to do a sculpture of and the teachers will then vote on the sculptures to see who has the best one the best one
054wins the golden clothes pin award and a cookie from the cafeteria which is a favorite so this is sixth grade art or sixth seventh and eighth grade art and now I will turn it over to the high school thank you Karen so at the high school level we have 15 potential electives that you can take uh we start early with the exploratory art which is our uh no previous experience art so uh at the high school level a graduation requirement is you have to have five credits of a fine and Performing Art and that means either one class of art or one class of music so in our exploratory art um it's an entry-level appreciation course introduces various media and techniques and suitable for students that um have no prior experience this will satisfy the
055graduation requirement for a one-year course of five credits now we do find that a lot of students that take the exploratory art roughly about 50% of them will take another elective art in their High School career um here's some of our examples this is called an En Zangle type uh Zentangle art um it looks like doodling which it kind of is but it's actually an art style where students just draw lines of deep and light values um some of these assignments could take 30 minutes uh we've had students do these assignments for 3 weeks they're sometimes never ending they also do a self-portrait and this could be either done in a reflection of a mirror or in their camera roll now I got to be very honest with you this is not a typical exploratory
056art self-portrait uh usually we get the exact opposite of what this looks like this is a very talented student with no real PR previous art um experience who uh came into our exploratory program uh since then she has taken many art classes and has a very bright feature in art uh intro to Art would be the first elective course you could take after your exploratory experience um this is a little more deeper it builds on skills two-dimensional art um incorporates a little bit of personal exploration and art history some of the projects we have in here like we mentioned miss Karen Karen rescue mentioned that um the sketchbooks and this is a real important part of art it's I basically call it like an art diary and they're always encour to have these sketchbooks on
057them and when inspiration or moments occur where they want to write something down or Draw Something or cut something out and paste it they carry these books you'll see many art students carry these on their person non-stop um some are very personal some are some students love to show them um when I get an opportunity if a student is interested in showing me their Sketchbook I I never say no it's a really really interesting thing um this is another one from intro to Art this is matis inspired collage Andre matis a French artist who' like to uh work with cutout collages and shapes of abstract um GE geometric shapes and layer them on top giving the art a little bit of depth so we always try to be inspired by what artists have done in
058the past this is a acrylic uh painting by of a cat on canvas so the acrylic paint it gives a little bit of texture which kind of gives that cat the nice uh nice look with that um that fur that he has going there or she this is also a portrait but this is a with a natural background this student Drew this portrait 100% by pencil using light and dark shadings and smear techniques um this was taken from a camera roll with you can see the portrait in the front and the nature scene in the back um excellent example of what our students are doing in the intro course um some of our Advanced art courses would be the next level up and uh you know this includes drawing printing paint print making sculpture but
059it really emphasizes that our students can start to hone in on what interests them gives them a little more choice so first example of this is this student here loves still lives and it it is what it looks like it looks like a glass of gummy worms and gummy bears tilted over um but it's uh the color on it is amazing the shading and the circular round glass with the reflection it's just a really really good piece of one of our Advanced art students uh this is a different look at Advanced art student but you can kind of see the bright colors and what that student might have been feeling that day or that week U but an excellent example of the use of colors which is a big part of what we try to
060construct and this is a a portrait called in grayscale in grayscale is kind of a in between cartoon and real life kind of a lot of what of our our students and children are watching now on TV uh this is a portrait but uh it's done in a grayscale form another excellent piece AP art uh this is equivalent to a first year college Art Studio this is for seniors only um and during this AP art they will have to develop a portfolio and this portfolio is for students are looking to do some type of art Beyond High School whether it be art as a career or an art college um so a lot of these um these uh these hours that are spent many many hours will be put in a portfolio for submission so
061last year we had this Stu student submit this as one of their portfolio projects you can clearly see it's a it's a really really high class piece of uh works of art and this student did get accepted into art school and the student did get some art scholarship money as well uh so graphic arts so I uh you know I I break it down to 2D art which is flat art and 3D art which is building up which Mr Moore will talk about next and then graphic arts which is behind the screen we have an intro course and an advanced course um we use tools and software like Adobe Illustrator and Adobe adate um you know we this is an excellent base for uh foundation for photography and TV production um lot of projects include
062like logos and booklets and posters and packaging and animations and cartoons uh really really career oriented skills that the students are learning in this class um this year is called a vorer which this whole picture is a vorer challenge and this whole picture only has five shapes in it and this was done on Adobe Illustrator uh and the student did an extra job excellent job so as long as you look I looked at it for a long time there's only five shapes in there and that person was able to create that picture uh this is called an infographic kind of like the old Wild West days the one at Des with the pictures above it well this student wanted to recognize the Mexican holiday Day of the Dead so an infographic has text and uh
063a visual on there and they use it as like a pamphlet type handout type form this is probably one of our more popular uh uh projects it's our skate deck contest and students design skate uh board uh skate deck uh designs on their computer in graphics and then it goes through a vote and students vote and teachers vote on what they think is their favorite design and then once those winners are selected we will then print out those designs on a on a on a tacky acrylic type paper which can be attached to real skateboards that we purchase um so you'll see at the end of the presentation we have one of those skateboards for display but it's a really cool project uh art students and and non-art students really get behind this okay I
064have Adobe animate and I'm going to have the same problem as Miss Mor rescue I don't think it's going to click for me Should Skip us right past all we'll skip uh Advanced graphic design so we also have some software that allows students to take real measurements of real objects and real rooms add it into a computer program and start designing interior space super career oriented skills um as you can see here this student designed a little like flat with a loft um the measurements are exact it could be used in a in a blue plan if needed to be uh now we'll talk about 3D artw with Mr Moore all right so talk a little bit about 3D art um 3D art is a introductory or introductory level class um that combines sculpture and
065Ceramics um students will get a chance to explore materials like clay plaster wire paper Fountain objects and um things like that um it covers the basic Pottery techniques so when we first start off they use all hand building techniques they'll go through uh coil making slab and then pinch pot making um so they'll make a project each one of those and at the end of the ceramic unit they will use a make a combo pot which is a combination of at least two of those techniques um and they have opportunity obviously to in this class to um make Ceramics and sculpture second half the class is all Ceramics or all sculpture sorry um this is one of the first ones uh that we will look at uh this is by Junior Dylan Anderson um this
066is actually what we call I call pinch pot mood face but it's actually called an acara it's a whistle right so but I have them their task at making this um whistle have facial features and expression that's why I call it the pinch pot mood face and um so she has her little drawings there and she kind of had a sketch of what she wanted to look like she went through it did exactly how she Drew drew it and it also does whistle um so then they go through the glazing process and all that kind of stuff um to get their finished product okay so this one unfinished product this one is actually displayed right now it's a um project we did um it was to go with our Southwest ancient Southwest um unit um
067kind of exploring other cultures so in the ancient Southwest they had a bunch of different vessels they would use um for different things like carrying seeds to go plant or carrying water for their family or whatever um this one was a called a human effigy I don't know exactly what they used it for and it didn't always look like a human but this is kind of what they what they ended up with um this finished product and this photo I have is not finished they have have this um displayed right now at the Burling County teen Arts Festival um in its finished form which we'll see a picture of in at the end um but it came out very nice at the end um and that was done by Riley Evans who was here earlier
068for wrestling um Advanced 3D art so of course we have our basis um sculpture Ceramics this class is a kind of a a deeper dive into those uh those disciplines all right the students kind of have a choice uh which way they want to go if they want to kind of go more towards the ceramic part of it or if they want to do a little bit more of the sculpture part or if they'd like to kind of um you know dive into both of those um it continues work with Clay plaster and other media it covers the add itive and subtractive techniques um they will do freestanding sculptures sometimes relief sculptures um and what have you and this is uh one that was done by uh a advanced student last year uh Emily cloer
069she graduated last year 2024 this was a combination pot um kind of a surrealist idea that she had coming up with this octopus with a zipper for a head okay so on to the uh photography class um intro to photography intro level class again um going into this class it is a um intro level class where kids learn how to use a digital SLR camera all right so a lot of times people come to class nowadays and it's all about what they've done with Instagram or you know anything like that using their cell phone camera they don't necessarily know how to use a um digital SLR camera so in this class they will learn how to use the digital SLR camera um they will jump into dob Photoshop and learning how to do some photo
070editing um and then also in the meantime they will be kind of creating a digital portfolio um in Google Drive um we do study some professional photographers to enhance their composition skills um which will Aid them as they move on into some more advanced classes so this is one of our kind of entrylevel Photoshop assignments they did a um it's a lowkey photo that was really started out with just white light in it um in Photoshop they were able to start working with layers and adding in a colored light in order to kind of create a mood and kind of simulate them being in a different type of lighting than what they were actually in um and it all helped them with uh learning some of the uh skills in Photoshop right um this also
071was a entry level uh intro to photo class um I gave them some macro lenses and their task to go out and kind of shoot some close-up um textures and uh insects and stuff like that in order to kind of work on using short depth of fields and uh the getting um the use of form and what have you okay so Advanced photography um kind of Builds on what they've done before it emphasizes individual growth in photography conducts intensive research on um photo creation and careers um covers even more intense digital editing and manipulation and fine art photography um expands knowledge of Photography techniques through assignments um so we have two uh Advanced students this year and they have kind of been working together uh they collaborate back and forth through this uh program called
072padlet and they will kind of critique each other's work and stuff like that since they're not in the same class period um and this is one from artist called her name is Sophia Willers um and she did some product photography here which she really likes to do um and then this one is from uh Elana Malave uh she is also a junior and she was out um she chose to do some macro photography in nature so it really shows some nice textures and colors all right Sophia Willers more of a documentary style photography um she was out at the at the beach taking some documentary photos of uh you know kids and their families on the beach junior junior Elana Malave uh went to the Eastern State Penitentiary took some black and white photos there
073that really turned out nice showed some real depth leading lines real good eye for composition and then another documentary type photo um from uh Center City in Philadelphia then another macro photo from Elana malab okay so right now um all the stuff we do all year kind of comes to a culmination of this final thing um and it's the Burlington County teen Arts Festival uh we display work which we just put up at Burlington County College yesterday um and it will get judged tonight and we will be there on Thursday to take a field trip students will go looking at other schools uh artwork uh as uh as we take our field trip there um some students will have their artwork chosen to move on to the state teen Arts Festival um and once that
074happens it's usually at Ocean County College and they will get a chance to move on and make maybe get their stuff display displayed there that's the uh graphic design and the photo setup at bur County College thank you thank you Derek and Colleen appreciate your time I appreciate you guys that didn't have to stay staying for us we really appreciate that we always support the uh support you guys and we always love the support for the art so thank you for coming for that and staying for that any questions I can answer on this side of the room oh we really appreciate that and thank you for giving us the opportunity to show it we're we're super excited for that thank you guys have a good rest of your night [Applause] we do have one
075additional presentation this evening uh I'd like to welcome members of the cinnamon and cpeg Mrs palowski Mrs Neil and Mrs Joyce uh we are a community of Learners and we certainly appreciate all of the different organizations groups parent support groups uh who have partnered with us to ensure success for all of our students uh these three ladies here are part of the cinnamon and cpag organization and have made it their charge well actually I'm going to let them tell you about their charge but uh we definitely value the work that they have put into rejuvenating the cpag into the work that they're doing on behalf of all of our students so with that I'm going to go stand in the back and I'll let you introduce yourselves thank you for being here hi I'm e
076psky I'm Ashley Neil and this is Terry Terry is under the weather so we're going to do all the speaking tonight however the clicker goes to Terry so we don't mess up um so thank you Mr Capello and the board of educ oh we're not up yet are we use the thing however you guys are we up I'm sorry hang thank you for Mr Capello and the members of the board uh for having us tonight we are excited to share with you information about our group and what we have been working on and what we have coming up uh first and foremost as you can see thanks to our marketing manager standing over there um we have a wonderful website that's launched full of resources our site contains upcoming events resources and more it is
077intended to be a resource for anyone in town with an interest in special education doesn't mean you have to have a special education or special need child anyone can go in there and and find resources that might be of interest to you um we really do invite everybody to check it out next um special education parent advisory group or cpeg is a state mandated parent advisory group uh the regulation allows parents in collaboration with school district leaders to create and run an Advisory Group that meets local needs cpeg requirements create opportunities for working together in ways that we can address challenges and make a positive difference so every town should have a cpeg that is parent Le and with school collaboration about 16% of people live with a disability so if you think about it
07816% every every 100 adult 16% 16 adults have a disability of some type if you don't have if you don't yet have a personal connection to a disability you may wonder why advocating is so important that's why I'm not going to read the slide cuz I hate sitting in meetings and reading a slide so I'm sure these will be distributed and we can read and you can read them on your own I'm going to hand it over to Ashley oh I do it okay all right um so this cartoon that we have up here on the screen it's over 20 years old not everyone can use the stairs as you can see so let's shovel the ramp this way everyone gets the benefit and everyone gets the accessibility as you can see the range of
079eligible disabilities is wide and different disabilities require different supports this is why an individualized education plan or IEP is so important for every student here's a little bit about what we do and you can see there's some pictures on the screen some of our events that we've held in the past um since November of 2023 we've hosted some open houses some parent meetings presented speakers from the New Jersey Coalition of inclusive education and the New Jersey Department of disabilities we've established connections with span the Statewide parent advocacy Network and other cegs throughout the state we've presented at this year's new teacher orientation and we meet regularly with Mr Capello and we also o met um with Mrs lellan recently and with parents from from throughout the district here's our mission statement we aim to be
080a resource and a support for Local District parents in Cinnaminson as well as to maintain a dialogue with the district in regards to issues related to special education ultimately our goal is to improve the outcomes for all students including those with with disabilities thank you very much we invite you to check out our website follow us on social media um we do have an Instagram now I don't know how to work that but um Terry has set that up for us and it's connected to the Facebook page so please check us out thank you so much thank you can I ask can I ask when your next meeting is good night march1 thank you right any other questions for members of and that's at the community center yes yes okay and uh in closing I
081just want to add a copy of this presentation will be distributed to the parents in the district um as are other announcements from the CPC thank you ladies for your advocacy and your work on behalf of all of our students and for being here this evening um we're going to move past presentations Madam president I if you wanted to take a a one or two minute recess I don't know if the board's got the stamina to Barrel forward putting on the spot we good we'll move on everybody good okay all right the next thing we have is Section 8 correspondence to the board uh few emails this month from parents they were distributed to the appropriate administrator I don't have anything else anybody else yeah I've had correspondence same thing emails and phone calls regarding
082um asking that policy 2431 be sent back to a committee to be amended to include homeschooling students to participate in activities and sports anything else okay moving on to section nine uh committee reports uh we have uh several uh we had several committees committee meetings this month the first one uh that we'll get the minutes from is the curriculum meeting Mr trumpe that's me yep the curriculum and Student Activities Committee met virtually on March 6 committee members reviewed a proposal from Mrs lellan for a new course at cinnamons in high school for uh ages 18 to 21y old program uh committee members were supportive of this new course the committee also reviewed professional development and field trip requests a curriculum document for a new high school elective course called American law was reviewed for commune
083members and the administration provided committee members with an update on the 2526 P preliminary budget that is all okay thank you Mr trumpe you're welcome uh policy committee Mr Kenny thank you uh the policy committee met to discuss the Strauss SMA policies on March 3rd at 3:00 via Google meeting during the discussion the committee reviewed multiple policies which are on the agenda for adoption including policy 2365 which includes AI Miss melter presented to the board about the use of AI in the classroom in the district policy 5710 was discussed as well which has to do with grievances as well well as regulation 5516 which was tabled to await further possible direction from Trenton the board revised policy 8454 pediculosis as recommended by the district nurses and finally the committee considered a new student photography policy
084which is on the agenda this evening and there's no date for a new meeting next meeting as of yet okay thank you Mr Kenny and there were actually two finance committee meetings Mr Bramhall will tell us about those thank you the finance and Personnel committee met be a Google meet on Monday March 3rd at 4 p.m. and also on Thursday March 13th at 3 p.m. the purpose of the meetings was to review the 2025 2026 proposed budget submission Mr Capello discussed current staffing needs and annual contract renewals additionally Mr Capello shared some limited staffing needs for the upcoming school year the establishment of several new positions were discussed with the committee including a new assistant nurse Student Bus Aid director of early childhood and substitute athletic trainer the committee approved the creation of these new
085positions the job descriptions will be Advanced to the board for approval U Miss Wilkey reviewed the following budget items with the committee the district's three-year state aid history allowable adjustments a budget overview tax impact scenarios the 2025 26 Revenue projection and the district's tax levy History Mr capella reviewed the proposed tax increase and explain this increase would make up for the state aid reduction the preliminary budget proposal maintains the current District budget with no program or staff reductions Miss wiy reviewed the recommended tax rate impact which results in a $14.98 cents per month increase to the average assessed home in camenson the members in attendance on the finance committee agreed to raise the tax levy by 3.7% in the 2025 2026 budget in order to maintain Ain current staff and programs which is in the
086best interest of the students approval for submission of the 2025 2026 preliminary budget is on the agenda for approval at tonight's Board of Education meeting the full budget presentation and request for final approval will be at the April 24th public hearing at 5:00 pm the next meeting of the finance Personnel committee has not been scheduled at this time thank you thanks Mr Brom Hall uh section uh letter B under committee reports uh is the board approving the creation of an ad hoc referendum committee uh the members of the board who are on that committee uh are myself Ed Kenny Donna Marie Ione and Mike Bramhall so with that Miss trumpe can I have a motion to approve section N9 committee reports item A and B so moved second second thank you Mr Maker comments or
087questions from the board I have a a question um regarding 9B uh the ad ha committee yes can you just tell us what that's going to be discussing what that committee is for and who chose the people to be on that Committee just a little information background information about it please yeah the the referendum committee is an ad hoc committee um that was actually initially formed last April I can get you the exact date on that um and uh we had one meeting last spring and and um and then it was kind of just put on the back burner and so I reached out to those same people to see if they would still be interested in that in being a member of that ad hoc referendum committee and all of them committed to doing
088so so the referendum committee is going to um look into um different options for expansion building um improvements Etc and what that would look like and what would would cost okay thank you okay all right any other comments or questions hearing none will take a vote Mr vinero i i i i i i i i i motion approved U moving on to section 10 Public 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-agenda items all members of the public wishing to speak on agenda items only should raise their hand to indicate their wish to speak one called upon participant should take State their first and last name and address
089clearly for the record in accordance with sentiment and Board of Education bylaw 016 4.6 comments will be limited to a maximum of 4 minutes per person and the comment period will be limited to 30 minutes in duration is there anyone who wishes to um comment on any of the agenda items um I have two one the pH photography policy I try to comb through some of the policies and I haven't seen anything that addresses a copyright so when we have like team pictures done for sports teams or whatever curriculum teams are those pictures copyrighted so people can just happen to use them anywhere or do we just distribute them that's a little concern cuz I've seen some circulating as posters for certain social media Pages these are our kids so if we have to allow
090a checkbox to let you use the photo in a paper then maybe looking into a copyright version of those pictures for the same reason so people can't just put them on their social media as they're like hey this is my page but yeah here's a picture of the sports team from the local school and then you have people people from practically all over the world members of that social media page just a small concern as a parent if I have to check the box to let my daughter's picture be used I would love for them to be copyrighted so that pictures are taken for the school for school use aren't used in social media and aren't used anywhere else that's one just a suggestion I haven't found it if if it exists please let me
091know where it is two is more of a question for Miss trampe in reference the homeschooling policy you opposed that here but yet your school district allows it and you and where you work why did you oppose it here and allow it where you work are you done with your public comment before I speak yeah I'm are are you finished with your time no that's that's pretty much it great so I'm not going to get in a dialogue but be more than happy to speak to that my school district which is grades prek through six has no Sports we have no extracurricular activities we have nothing in which homeschool students can come and be a part of that of um in the district in which I work we have our students that attend Clear View
092Regional Middle and High School which is grades 7 through 12 also Harrison Township sends their students there students at Clear viiew do not allow um homeschooled students to participate in any activities of the 28 I believe it is Gloucester County Public School Districts only four allow homeschool students to participate in any activities and one that is repeatedly brought up as allowing homeschool students does not allow homeschool students to participate in athletics rather they only allow them to participate in extracurriculars in regard to the policy number that you're referencing in manua where I work that policy was board approved by back in 2020 and it's already under review by the policy committee currently in my district of where I work okay so part of what happens is for regulations and uh policies through St Esme which
093is you know a firm that many school districts use to ensure the fact that we're compliant there's certain policies that are considered mandated you T traditionally see that under stress SME when you say like an M um so we receive something called policy alerts anyone that belongs to stress SME and has laws and rules change these policies are reviewed by their attorneys revised and then given to districts as recommendations on how they are advising for them to make adjustments many times there are opportunities to make personal edits and that is done at the committee level traditionally depending on how your board and your district is um constructed or organized so similar to this District where I work we have a committee format in which board members can review policies and make determinations um but to
094answer your question that is the policy and that is when you're asking me specifically about where I work and what happens in my district and why that is there is no we have no Sports in our district I understand but I'm not I'm not going to have a dialogue I I as a courtesy I provided the answer to give you some information and I'll be more than happy to talk offline with you or meet with you afterwards if you like to reach out to me or call my office in manro where I work and I can answer any questions for you in regards as a superintendent of the district but just to briefly answer that um as courtesy okay you're welcome any other members of the public who would like to comment on agenda items1
095agenda it is not it is not an agenda item all right moving on to uh Personnel certified non-certified Mr Capello thank you Mrs Fitzwater hopefully board docs is behaving a little bit more swiftly it looks like we've gotten a little little quicker so uh thank you uh seeking under Section 11a for the board's approval on the non-certificated and certificated staff that are listed by name in the agenda under letter B transfers seeking the board to approve items one through three all names listed in the agenda under letter C there are five resignation retirement requests from members of our staff to the Board of Education under D leaves of absence seeking the board to approve items one through eight as listed by employee number in the agenda nothing under ER ORF this evening under letter G
096extra Duty appointments uh seeking the board to approve items one through 8 all of those names are listed in the agenda under letter H Mentor teachers there are none letter I student teachers uh there is one student teacher listed under i1 in the agenda for consideration for approval by the board under letter J sections 1 and two those names are listed in the agenda for approval for this evening under letter K tutor seeking the board to approve item number one listed in the agenda and finally under job description there are four job descriptions listed in the agenda that we are seeking the board's approval for this evening and that is Personnel certificated and non-certificated in section 11 Mrs Fitzwater thank you Mr Capello Miss sakon can I have a motion to approve section 11 personnel
097not certified non-certified items a through l so moved second second thank you Miss bin comments or questions from the board hearing now we'll take a vote Mr falconero i i i i i i i i i motion approved and very quickly Mrs Jones I believe you have brought a new member of our staff to meet the board this evening if you wouldn't mind doing a brief introduction congratulations thank you for being here this evening we're looking forward to having you as a member of our staff red and black go pirates all right we're moving on to section 12 curriculum and instruction Dr goldber thank you very much under number 12 letter A requesting approval of the professional development requests under letter B the monthly field trip requests under letter d uh curriculum numbers one and
098two letter E the monthly Hib report and letter F the monthly suspension report those are the curriculum and instruction items this month Mrs Fitzwater thank you Dr goldurn uh Miss cap leein can I have a motion to approve section 12 curriculum and instruction items a through F so Mo second second second thank you Mr Kenny comments or questions from the board hearing n we'll take a vote Miss Eileen blin i i i i i i i i i motion approved 13 okay we have no special education items tonight so we'll move on to uh section 14 policy Mr Capell thank you Mrs Fitzwater there are a number of policies on the agenda this evening under section one one seeking the board's approval on second reading and then official adoption of the following policies that are
099listed in the agenda and then under number two there are a few policies there that are listed under first reading for this evening so we ask the board to uh take a vote to consider approval of those policies this evening thank you Mr capella Mr Maker can I have a motion uh to approve section 14 item a so moved second second thank Mr trumpe comments or questions from the board hearing now we'll take a vote Miss e blin i i i i i i i i i motion approved moving on to section 15 business and finance Mrs wilky thank you Mrs Fitzwater uh first I would like to clarify I believe there might have been a typo in the um committee report for finance and the board the public hearing on the budget is April
10029th not the 24th it's the 29th at 5:00 P p.m. section A grants item number one that the board approves the submission of the preschool expansion Aid work book for the 2526 school year as outlined below for a total estimated preschool education Aid tuition carryover and special education funding in the amount of 3,157 345 and item number two that the cinamon and Township Board of Education accepts the preschool facilities Grant award in the amount of $150,000 section B Finance item number one that the board approves 2526 School District budget preliminary Ary submission to the Burlington County Executive superintendent for approval the total base budget 74 milon 643 and 97,000 with a local tax levy of 38,4 19694 and a Debt Service of 1,982 499 item number two that the board approves to include in the
101preliminary budget an enrollment adjustment in the amount of include in the preliminary budget submission an adjustment for increased health care costs in the amount of [Music] 424,000 item number five that the board approves the resolution establishing the maximum budget amount for travel and related expenses for the 2526 school year item number six that the board approves the resolution establishing the travel and related expense reimbursement procedures for the 25 26 school year item number seven that the board approves the revised 2324 tuition rates is outlined below item number eight that the board approves the staff mileage reimbursement requests as outlined below item number nine donations that the board accepts with appreciation the donation of $933 from Jersey miks of cinamon to the cinamon high school and that the board accept STS with appreciation the donation of
102$975 24 from Jersey Mike of cinamon to the middle school section c operations that the board approves the New Jersey Department of Education waiver application for preschool rooms is outlined below and section D contracts one item that the board approves the renewal agreement for services between the cinemat and Board of Education and educational D data services in the amount of $3,615 for the time period of July 1st 2025 through June 30th 2026 thank you Mrs Fitzwater thank you Mr wilky M falconero can I have a motion to approve section 15 business and finance items a through D so moved second second thank you Mr Kate blin comments or questions from the board I have a question um sorry I just have a question I wanted to know if the board or the administration is puts
103out a overview of the budget why we want to increase the budget what happened with the money the state aid that we get from the aid that we get from the state how there was a a decrease is that going to be available are we going to have something for the public prior to the budget meeting hearing I'm sorry so that the public can have some input so they can understand why we want to raise that is that thank you for that question that is certainly a part of our public hearing on the budget all of the details and um will be made available ailable uh we typically offer the Public Presentation that we do at the meeting is published on our website as well uh with the userfriendly budget so um you know to
104to address if if the question was you know how how the district intends to address the shortcoming from the state uh that will definitely be a part of the presentation along with how we the district the finance committee arrived at the numbers that are being proposed to the to the district and that's prior to that actual hearing where we vote uh so that information is shared with the public at the public facing meeting okay okay and I just another question if we were to ask if you guys were asked to come out and present to any Town um organization that wanted more information about that would you be willing to do a presentation regarding the budget of course I would yes okay all right thank you any other comments or questions take a vote um
105Miss e blin I'm sorry I I I I I I i i i motion approved uh we don't we have no other business tonight I have no other business right other business mhm okay I would again like to make a motion to add policy 2431 uh to the policy committee for review and possible Amendment second okay so we will vote on whether or not to send it back to committee so to clarify that would be a yes vote to refer the policy back to the policy committee uh no to not refer it to the policy committee we'll start with Miss banero yes yes no nope no yes no yes no motion does not pass it does not go back to committee all right moving from there we're going to um public comment on other items
106so members of the public are reminded that uh any comments any uh topic can be brought up at this portion of the meeting uh all members of the public wishing to speak on the items uh should raise your hand to indicate your 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 bylaws 01 64.6 comments will be Li limited to a maximum of 4 minutes per person the comment period will be limited to 30 minutes in duration pursuant to the open public meetings act the board will not publicly discuss or comment on matters involving Personnel litigation negotiations or attorney client privilege the board may choose not to respond to comments made by members of the public during
107this portion of the meeting however all comments will be giving appropriate consideration matters requiring followup will be referred to the superintendent for resolution is there anyone members of the public wishing to speak sure hi everyone um my name is Julie Gandy I live at 717 Willow Drive and I am on the board of the cinamon high school music boosters my daughter is a junior in the high school marching band she is part of the indoor drum line and was one of the percussionist in the recent amazing musical The Little Mermaid music is such an important part of brain development and helps with math skills with social skills with team building and many other aspects of creating a well-rounded human to limit our kids learning music is to limit their future a few months ago the
108cinamon high school marching band was honored by the previous board for their amazing season in winning States and second in the nine State AC regionals in in Hershey stadium and earlier tonight we saw a lot of children being honored for their hard work in the music department our kids were able to do all of this to be so successful in their school music career because they had a safe and supportive environment in their lower grades and now that has changed there is a concern about the stream being put on the elementary and middle school music programs Administration took by a middle school music department position a few years ago and despite yearly inquiries and advocacy for that position it is still unfilled this means a much more intensive course load for our Middle School teachers
109and an inability to grow their own instrumental and coral programs also our elementary General music teachers have been without classrooms not even having a space in their schools to foster a musical culture music brings us together watching our kids grow through the years being a part of the pit Orchestra during the amazing musicals is such a joy as a parent music builds Bridges and we need as many bridges in today's world as we can I speak for the entire cinnamon and high school music booster Association our kids have found their home in the music program here in Cinnaminson don't take that away from our younger students thank you say thing hello I'm Renee Chas I'm uh here also just to uh support everything that Julie said um I'm a parent of of four camenson um
110students uh two of them graduated um from high school two are still in high school and I I really honestly don't know what I would do without my kids participating in music classes starting um in New albanes School school and just a big shout out to miss Sigman um Dr salvio and Mr Banis who really changed my kids' lives um for the better uh as a widow of left with kids the four kids under the age of six um it's it's tremendous um what they uh added to my life and my my children's life so um I'm just here to just add that and and uh support everything that that Julie already previously said Thank you thank you Douglas cell 104 cubert Road camenson uh I was informed that the policy that policy 2431 came
111up at the February meeting was pleasantly surprised to see it come up again um after I watched the YouTube video last month a few of my thoughts Mrs blin you showed true courage last month and this month when you asked for the policy committee to revisit policy 2431 often times I hear from some in our Comm some in our community if you have the ability to make a difference you have the obligation to try you and embody this Credo and I thank you after the February 2025 meeting I decided to do some more research I found that large Regional districts like lenpy and eastern regional allow homeschoolers to participate in sports I also found that small districts like Clayton and Maple Shade allow homeschoolers to participate in sports some of our neighbors ran cookus Valley
112Regional and Del Ran allow homeschoolers to participate in sports and they've been doing it for over 20 years and a flow in communities most notably haddenfield allow homeschoolers to participate in sports again over 20 years but I didn't stop there I spoke with multiple athletic directors from these districts the notes from those phone calls are in an email that I sent to all of you in late February most notable was the phone call I had with Mr GDOT from Del Ran multiple times on our phone call he stated I don't understand why cinamon would be against this but there are two other districts that I found intriguing manua School District at K through 6 District where Miss trampe is the superintendent and her previous employer West Stepford that has allowed homeschoolers to participate for over
11320 years I also spoke with their athletic director who spoke very positively about allowing homeschoolers to participate in sports lastly I watched a former board member the former chair of the policy policy committee come up to this Podium and speak about how safety was a reason for not amending policy 2431 I want everyone to know I was provided with 10 pages of notes from this former chairperson and not once was the word safety ever mentioned in his notes please please please revisit policy 2431 if it's good enough for communities like haddenfield West Stepford eastern regional Del Ran RV barnegate Township Ocean City Clayton then I think it's good enough for camenson thank you thank you Mr s any other members of the public who would like to address the board on non-agenda items at this
114time do we did you want to Mrs Wy do we have any additional time on the four minutes 53 seconds the mic is yours last month I saw Tom Barton up here he's an attorney from a very affluent Philadelphia Law Firm uh apparently there was an issue with his wife who's an employee in the district you should probably take that guy seriously and you should probably uh get a better understanding of 0136 because you told him he had to leave the days there was still probably 25 minutes of public comment left so he he had every right to come back up here and speak and rather than letting him finish uh you didn't educate him on the policy I encourage all of you to read it thank you we under the 53 thank you again
115Mr yeah all right all right anyone else seeing none all right we move to oh Dan Evans 2172 Hemlock Lane um in reference to what you just brought up Mr cell uh Mrs Fitzwater always says at the beginning of the time up here that everyone has 4 minutes and it's only open till 30 minutes total so everyone is always presented with that information at the beginning of the open policy segment or open speaking segment so thank you again for your time and for your information um I used to be the policy chair here for 2431 and one of the reasons that I didn't bring up safety is because that should just be like common sense at this point especially in today's day and age um in our school environment it's hard enough to keep track
116of the kids that are already in school it's hard enough to to facilitate what we have especially when teachers and administrators are constantly um being Limited in what they can do so that has to be factored in in any sort of policy change so I I appreciate uh you bringing that up but um you know again we asked you I asked you personally at one point why do you want to leave the district and you never really gave me an answer that's not true I know it is and and it's funny it's funny that you say that it's funny that you say that because your opinion has been all over the board um but you know everybody has heard your opinion obviously but the fact of the matter is this M fitw during public comment
117not well I'm just reacting to to your statement since you brought me up do that during public comment thank you Mr thank you but anyway uh back to my point um the point being is that a lot of research was put into that decision at that time and I know the research is still available so I suggest I recommend the the the board if they need to um ask Mr Capello for the information he should have it thank you thank thank you Mr Evans all right we're going to move on to board comments Mr Kenny thank you the board would like to pass along our condolences to the family of Mrs dear chain who passed away on March 11th after long illness Mrs Kain was a beloved member of the cinam and Middle School family
118and is Surly missed congratulations to the winner of today's future chefs competition Jonathan Def flavis and to all of our compet competitors your dishes were delicious and congratulations to all of our student recipients of the sings Awards thank you to Gwen Evan and Graham for their excellent informative reports great job again as usual thank you to our art teachers for their interesting presentation some very impressive work and thank you to cpeg for their presentation and collaboration thank you to Jersey Mike camenson for their generous donations I believe that's it the next regularly scheduled meeting is on April 15th at 700 p.m. right here in the Middle School cafetorium more information can be found on the district website and also looking ahead as mentioned earlier the public hearing on the budget is scheduled for April 29th
119at 5:00 p.m. I'd also like to make some comments I got used to it sorry um so I had the privilege to attend um the njsba um new member orientation it was a weekend Friday Saturday Sunday packed Friday night from uh about 6:30 till 10:00 at night 7:00 a.m. Saturday till about 8:30 at night and then Sunday 7:00 a.m. to 12: so it was packed we learned a lot um I learned a lot and I don't know how to bring this up otherwise because we're not allowed to talk to each other as a whole unless the public is here so that's why I'm going to bring it up now so don't it's just some input I'd like to get put it out there so you guys can uh maybe we could talk about it um
120so I attend board meetings I've watched other board meetings I think there's some things that we could do that I just noticed in other board meetings so number one a simple structure thing is most board members have their tables are set up in a u so we can all see each other because sometimes it's very difficult to hear who's talking um it promotes um more of a we can have a conversation if we have questions I've watched other board meetings it's like everyone feels very comfortable here to me it feels like that you know it's very formal and we can't ask questions so I I kind of think we should go back and forth um the public can see us asking questions and more things are talked about in the open which I think is
121good for transparency um something else they do is they have on their screen they have the agenda so that everyone sitting out here could actually look at the agenda and see where we're going through I think it's just helpful um for us to do something like that and um they have a committee as a whole a lot of places have that we have certain committees where some members of the board are not aware of what you're talking about and our input is really not and I guess I understand we're supposed to trust everyone on a committee but sometimes it's nice to know that you can hear every board member's opinion about a topic especially if it keeps getting brought up so a committee of the whole which I think a lot of you already know
122is like a um they have a work session The public's allowed to be there I think it would be great if we could move to that we wouldn't have so many committee meetings on the side we'd have a a big meeting we could discuss things in the public the public can he we could get their input which we were elected to represent our town so that's just the comments I wanted to make and I thank you guys all for listening to me and putting up with me I appreciate it thank you thank you Mr blin uh that is it so miss BL Miss uh e blin can we have a motion to adjourn so moved second second second thank you Mr trumpe all in favor I opposed meeting is adjourned good night books