001all right mr turner can i have a motion to reconvene the public session second second thank you mr trump they all in favor aye aye aye opposed we are back in public session good evening folks we are going to be in section four um if i could address the audience uh very quickly as you are aware face masks are a requirement uh being inside a public school building i do recognize that some of the guests who are here with us this evening may have opted to not wear a face mask at this point i am requesting that anybody in the audience who is not wearing a face mask to please do so once again i am asking that any members of the audience who are not wearing a face mask if you would please wear
002a face mask we're going to be in section 4 the routine business letter a the board secretary's report for june 2021 the treasurer's report for june 2021 the budget receipt and transfers for june 2021 monthly transfer report as as up to august 24 2021 the high school activities report for june and july of 2021 the food management the food service management cost performance statement for june of 2021 certified bill list july 1st through july 31st june 3rd through june 30th and august 1st through august 25th all 2021 and approval of minutes uh the regular minutes for june 8th the confidential minutes session a for june 8th the confidential minute session b for june 8th special meeting minutes june 23rd confidential minutes for session a june 23rd confidential minutes for session b june 23rd special meeting
003minutes for august 25th and the confidential minutes for august 25th uh mr kenny can i have a motion to approve section 4 routine business letters a through h so moved second second thank you mr gaffney comments or questions from the board hearing them will take a vote uh mrs quinn abstain i abstain from 4-h hi i abstain from 4-h yes to everything else i with the exception that i abstain on 4-h uh the minutes for june 23rd regular and confidential aye motion approved moving on to section 5 routine matters we have the enrollment report for as of august 28 2021 the health report for june 2021 the fire alarm report for june and july 2021 the crisis drill report for june july and august 2021 there is no hip report and the superintendent's monthly report
004mr capello thank you mrs fitzwater thank you to members of the board for your long evening this evening and thank you to members of the public who have chosen to join us here it's august 31st we know what that means there's a lot going on the start of school is right around the corner and i know for me the members of the board the members of the administrative staff this is certainly the most exciting time of our summers we anticipate the arrival of as of today 2733 cinnamon students a new record for enrollment at the start of the school year we've got a lot to celebrate as we look forward to the 21 22 school year including but not limited to the start of our first full day kindergarten class we are in the middle
005of our new teacher orientation session right now today was day one tomorrow is day two i see some of our folks are here with us in the audience this has also been the largest new teacher class that we've had in cinemason at least in the last 10 years we're very excited about the talent pool that has come to us it's a talented group of educators and i'm inspired by their motivation to want to work with the students in our community it's also the time of year where we start to welcome students back via our various orientation programs we're very happy to have some of them taking place in person this year a lot of the things that we weren't able to do last year we're excited about this year including our kindergarten orientation where our
006now full-time kindergarten students had an opportunity to ride a bus for the first time come in and meet with their teachers and get a little bit of insight as to what it's like to be a kindergarten student we also changed up the way we do our programs at the rush school and at the middle school where now our incoming third graders and incoming sixth grade students haven't had an opportunity just like the kindergarten students come in and visit with the school meet their teachers and take away some of that first day angst and anxiety that might travel with them as they start a new school in our district we'll be looking forward to continuing this with our high school freshman orientation program which takes place tomorrow night and if i could put a quick plug-in
007if you've seen it on our social media pages on our website there will be an additional vaccination clinic offered tomorrow in conjunction with the high school freshman locker night there's also a lot going on in a typical year getting our buildings ready to go for the school year mr tindall is in the back along with his supervisor mr zimeki i'd like to commend the work of our great members of the buildings and ground staff our schools look great they are ready for students but for a few finishing touches we also have some key additions this year that i'm very proud of the work that they have done preparing as i mentioned 2733 students given the same footprint of the school we had to expand our space and get creative with adding new spaces to the
008district and we're very proud that for the start of school next week on nine nine we'll be opening eight new classrooms via our learning cottages at the new albany school and our learning cottages at the eleanor rush school that's four new classrooms each to accommodate our growing population we're very excited about that the board got to tour them earlier this evening and they absolutely look fantastic and none of the work would be possible at all again without mr tindall and the gentleman on his crew helped make that happen we were also moved our preschool program over to the memorial school so what was a retired previously non-operating school once again once again host kids on a daily basis we were able to refurbish and rehash those rooms all in-house the board got to tour them
009earlier this evening they look fantastic and we're really excited to welcome our bright eyes our pre-k and our ipk program over to the memorial school as well so a little update of all the things that we are looking forward to in the district i'd also like to take this opportunity to thank publicly all of our teachers who have been in the summer prepping their classrooms all of our administrators who didn't get to take a lot of vacation last summer and thought that this summer would add some relief and it really hasn't as there is still a lot in flux and they've been working really hard to prepare our schools and we're really proud of their work i'd like to recognize them now mr gorman is here mr gorman thank you for your work at the
010high school new principal at the middle school miss melcher mrs d simone from the rush school and mrs jones from the new albany school thank you to you and your team and your office staff and your teachers for all of the great work you've done this summer also like to recognize mrs llewellyn the work she has done with the special education and the child study team and also the nurses getting ready for another exciting school year dr wilburn with the curriculum and last but not least ms joanne tomkowitz our transportation supervisor who does a fantastic job preparing our fleet of buses for the school year so moving right along i did prepare a very very brief presentation as uh this evening we are officially looking to vote on and adopt our return to school plan
011that we have dubbed the pirate path forward and to simplify some of the things that are in the document and prepared a couple of slides that outline things as they existed in 2020 for the start of school year and how we anticipate them to look uh for 2021 so excited about what hopes to be an uninterrupted school you're returning back to full day instruction and i'll highlight a couple of these slides along the way so just like last summer we did engage a reopening task force and a special thank you to all the members who are listed up on this slide right here for their help and assistance and meeting weekly bi-weekly throughout the course of the summer as things were changing and coming our way out of trenton we met regularly representing the various
012stakeholder groups throughout the district to make sure that our plan was in compliance with any mandates that were out there and also changing to meet the needs of our students and staff in the district our guidance was based on the road forward published by the new jersey department of education which i imagine a number of the folks in the audience this evening have familiarized themselves with in the details of so again all of our guidance is based off of what we receive from the new jersey department of education new jersey department of health and also some information that we received in our bi-weekly meetings with the burlington county department of health so i'd like to touch on a couple of the points from our plan number one is vaccination they're very pleased with the efforts
013that we had in terms of offering vaccination clinics on site in this building over at our high school we hosted two of them as early back as last spring and as late as the clinic that we're hosting tomorrow evening in an attempt to promote vaccinations throughout the community um skip that slide for a moment uh so reopening 2020 versus reopening 2021. uh obviously um going into this year we saw the governor's executive order that we know that when we returned to school this year despite conversations that began in the spring of last year and continued throughout the summer we know that at least to start the school year masks will be a mandate and again that was covered under the governor's executive order on april excuse me august 6 2021 uh eo 251 student belongings
014last year we didn't uh utilize lockers students were using individual supplies no communal sharing of those supplies and at the middle school in high school we did not use the locker room for changing for phys ed class so this year and every we still promote individual student supplies and limiting any communal supplies wherever possible and wherever practical in the district uh we are bringing back student lockers this year particularly at you know the middle school in the high school where they use those lockers and at least for now we know at the middle school in the high school that we're we're not going to be employing locker rooms for pe for at least the first quarter we'll reassess that at the end of the first quarter uh social distancing and food services uh the two
015are coupled together for purposes of this slide we knew when we started the year that we were in a hybrid system last year kids were coming every other day with wednesday's uh where monday thursday or tuesday friday wednesday um was a virtual day for all so uh our classrooms were half subscribed which allowed for six foot distancing that changed uh just after the midway point in the year where we were able to move to a range of three to six foot spacing so that is where we will start the year this year with a range of three to six foot spacing and our class sizes uh are now reflecting full instruction with no hybrid we were lunches in classrooms strictly last year and this year we'll be moving our lunches uh back to the cafeteria
016with some exceptions at the high school where we're trying out a new lunch program which for any of our high school families in the audience you received communications from mr gorman uh in terms of what lunch is going to look like an exciting new smart lunch program that's happening at the high school uh just like last year too i'll be i'd like to point out that all lunches will be free for this year for all students health health screenings for our parents in the audience you know last year we did daily health screening forms we also did daily temperature checks uh this year we're moving to an attestation system where essentially we're asking parents uh to cross-reference a symptom list and assert attest the fact that they will not send students if they are polysymptomatic
017with covid symptoms and we are eliminating the daily temperature chips just a couple more slides here extracurricular activities were one of the sad things about last year and that we had to limit them in some circumstances we also had a lot of quarantines that came up as a result not necessarily of transmission on the teams but for some of the students who were involved so we had some delays for some of our sports uh we were limited what we did with clubs a lot of them went virtual and uh for those of you maybe parents of drama students you know at high school we did our drama acts high school and the middle school uh purely virtually uh at the middle school too uh sports were not a part of the lexicon until the lexicon
018until the spring and we had limited and virtual clubs here and we eliminated them at the rush to last year and the longer they started in 2021 is we're hoping to bring everything back with limited restrictions uh anything that is able to to run in person we hope to be able to do so for this year from rush all the way up through the high school again i referenced last year we were on a hybrid schedule this year all students all day every day we know from the department of ed that there will not be a virtual option afforded to parents this year but we will have a little carve out there for students who are on the mandatory quarantine list as referenced and decided by our school nurse students that are are on the
019mandatory quarantine list will be able to synchronously learn alongside the students in their classroom but again it will be limited only to students who are on the quarantine list and the last slide i have here is a district technology update at the beginning of the year last year many of our parents know that we reached out to families uh that were in need of an extra device at home uh to give you a little bit of the history early on uh in kobe days like february 2020 we sent a poll out to parents asking who needed technology support at home and i think maybe folks just didn't understand the breadth of what we were looking at in terms of virtual and at-home instruction and the feedback we got as a district was that our folks
020at home were in really good shape in terms of access to high-speed internet and then access to devices and i think the practicality of having students at home set in and that really we couldn't share computers and couldn't share ipads and so we realized that we needed a lot more district devices to make available to students uh thank you to mr creel who is actually in the other room managing the technology we acquired a lot of chromebooks made them available to students at the beginning of last year to anybody at home that needed them this year we are continuing to move in that direction thanks to some federal funds made made available to us through esser and also through the ecf funds in the federal program we're going to have access uh to be able
021to continue towards a one-to-one initiative in the district we've run into some supply constraints you've heard that throughout covet in terms of access to technology so at this point we are moving forward from the rush school on up with our plan to be able to get closer to one to one uh hopefully by the mid-year point but obviously devices will be made available to any students in need and that includes internet access as well we're still making that available to any students or parents who need them and obviously if a student is placed on quarantine and they don't have a technology device but they would need one uh to be able to synchronously learn alongside them our buildings uh we'll have a supply made available to them so that said those were the highlights for
022the board in terms of comparing uh learning uh 2020 versus 2021 and some of the finer items that i'm looking forward to bringing back and returning to school for this year and with that mrs fitzwater that concludes the superintendent's report for this board meeting thank you mr cappello uh mr trump can i have a motion to approve section five letters a through f so moved second second thank you mr kenny comments or questions from the board hearing them will take a vote mr bromhall aye aye aye hi hi hi aye motion approved uh we have no student representative reports this month but we look forward to those next month that was our only presentation that's great okay correspondence to the board anybody have anything there moving to section 9 committee reports we had two committees
023meet this month the curriculum committee and the facility and transportation committee and i believe mrs turner you're going to give us the highlights of both of those meetings yes the facilities and transportation committee met on tuesday august 25th 2021 at 8 45 pm committee members discussed use of school facilities for the fall and agreed to make the school facilities available for use effective october 1st 2021 the learning cottages are in place at both rush school and new albany school and will be finalized during the week of august 30th 2021. final inspections are underway and furnishings are being moved in over this weekend under transportation matters committee members were informed of the need to retain a license site remediation professional from tnm associates for the removal of the underground fuel tanks the plan will be to
024replace them with above ground tanks three of the new 54 passenger school buses have arrived this past week the 29 passenger school buses with wheelchair lift is expected later in the year and then our curriculum and student activities committee report met on tuesday august 10 the committee met with members of the high school administration to review their plan to move a single lunch period for this to move to a single lunch period for the coming school year the purpose of the shift was discussed along with the impact on the schedule and the logistics of ordering food and where students would be able to eat the committee received an update on the njdoes start strong assessment which will be given in the fall to the new jersey students who were supposed to take the njsla this
025last spring the assessments are for math science and language arts and are substantially shorter than the njsla more information will be provided in the coming weeks professional development and field trips requests were also reviewed as well routine items for the august agenda such as hip grades evaluation and instruments excuse me and certain grant applications lastly the committee review requests for new stipend positions for equity team leaders as well as new esports club at the middle school thank you mr turner mr twain can i have a motion to approve the section 9 committee reports letter a move second second thank you mr trump comments or questions from the board hearing them will take a vote mr brownhall hi hi hi hi hi uh motion approved uh moving to uh section 10 public items on public comment
026on items appearing on the agenda now we will move to section 11 personnel certificated mr cappello thank you again mrs fitzwater and as you can imagine it's been a very busy uh hiring season here in cinnamon so i do have a number of items under section 11 personnel certificate letter a seeking the board to ratify the firm the resignation for personal reasons of amanda phillips special education teacher at the russian intermediate school under number two seeking the board to ratify to firm the resignation of chernarian mccormick md kindergarten teacher at the new albany school effective retroactive august 6 2021 and under number three seeking the board to ratify and affirm the resignation personal reasons of nicole adamski special education teacher at the new albany school effective on or before october 19 2021. under letter b
027appointments for expedient's sake i will refer everyone to the agenda and seeking the board to approve the appointments of items number one through item 19. under letter c teaching overload seeking the board to approve the following certificated staff members for a teaching overload for the 21 22 school year and those names are listed with their respective courses in the agenda under number two seeking the board to approve suzanne kerr for an overage for ell and under number three seeking the board to approve anthony faults for counseling overload for to provide student mental health counseling paid for by c rrsa sr2 funds under letter d memorandum of agreement seeking the board to approve a cyber agreement between the cinnamons and board of education and cinnamon and education association to amend the collective bargaining agreements under letter
028e transfers and classrooms seeking the board to ratify and affirm the transfers and classroom buildings of the following staff effective retroactive to june 30th 2021 and those names are listed along with their respective moves in the agenda and then effective july 1st 2021 at a different rate and those names are listed with their respective moves in the agenda under letter f salary adjustments you can afford to approve a salary adjustment for chelsea dairy speech therapist at the new albany school moving from full-time to part-time under letter g extra duty appointments seeking the board to approve the extra duty assignment for the 2021 school year as attached seeking the board to approve brooke kaffenberg speech therapist the russian intermediate school to three additional summer days they're number three seeking the board approved the following technology representatives
029at their respective buildings and those names and their buildings are listed in the agenda under number four seeking the board to approve kathy jenkins speech therapy at the university school for one additional summer day of work number five seeking the board to approve the following teachers for the summer plc work in algebra one algebra two in geometry retroactive august 10th 2021 for up to eight hours paid for with sr2 funds and those names are nicole arbolas and emery berent number six seeking the board to approve the following teachers for sheltered instruction training up to 15 hours um and they are listed by school in the agenda under item number six number seven seeking the board to approve the following teachers for kindergarten plc work up to 12 hours to be paid with sr2 funds and
030those names are listed under number seven in the agenda they're number eight seeking the board to approve the following new teaching staff members for training on the district's literacy series up to six hours and those names are listed under number eight in the agenda they're number nine seeking the board to approve ed palmer department supervisor at the high school as the environmental compliance officer for the 21-22 school year and under number 10 seeking the board to approve ed palmer department supervisor at the high school to update curriculum in chemistry to align with cusack expectations no leave of absence is this meeting under letter i substitute teachers and nurses number one seeking the board to reappoint substitute nurses to be called on an as needed basis under number two seeking the board to increase the permanent
031substitution substitute teacher daily rate of pay effective september 1st 2021 seeking the board to approve the following permanent substitute teachers to work four days per week um and they are listed by school in the agenda and under number four seeking the board to prove the following substitute teachers to be called on an as-needed basis for the remainder of the 21-22 school year they are listed under number four in the agenda under letter j tutors seeking the board to reappoint caitlyn mckinney as a tutor to be called on as needed basis for the 21-22 school year student teachers seeking the board to approve the student teachers listed under item k numbers one through seven uh as listed in the agenda student teachers to join us for the 2020 excuse me the 21 22 school year and
032their respective cooperating teachers under letter l id preschool fund seeking the board to approve uh 18 073 portion of salary to be paid to kate johnson as a part of the special education preschool program at memorial school funded by the idea preschool funds for the 21 22 school year and under letter m seeking the board to approve mentor teachers for the provisional teachers and they are listed by school with respect to provisional and mental and mentor teachers in the agenda mrs fitzwater that is the certificated staff section of the agenda thank you mr cappella mr bromhall can i have a motion to approve section 11 personnel certificated items a through m so move second thank you mr kenny comments or questions from the board [Music] hearing none we'll take a vote mrs quinn hi to
033everything except for 11b14 i vote no hi i except for 11 g1 i abstain aye motion passed moving on to section 12 non-certificated mr cappello thank you once again mrs fitzwater i'm under section 12 letter a resignations retirements number one seeking the board to ratify and firm the resignation for personal reasons of deidre kane special education aid and classroom uh at the middle school retroactive to july 7th 2021 under number two seeking the board to ratify and affirm the resignation personal reasons of mary curran's pentecost cafeteria playground as a rush school retroactive to august 1 2021 and under number three seeking the board to accept the resignation for personal reasons of rebecca abrams bsip aid at the new albany school effective august 31 2021. under letter b leave of absences seeking the board to approve
034the unpaid leave of absence in conjunction with fmla for employee number one zero zero zero four two effective owner about september 27th through december 23 2021 under number two seeking the board to approve the extension of an unpaid leave of absence for employee number one zero one two one 217 to honor about october 29th 2021 and under number three seeking the board to approve an unpaid leave of absence which is in conjunction with the family medical leave act for employee number 100613 effective august 30th to honor about november 23rd 2021. under letter c appointments reappointments and adjustments adjustments under number one seeking the board to approve the reappointment of tiffany pinto the position of special education aide aba tech effective september 9th um under number two seeking the board to approve the request for the
035following new albany school cafeteria playground needs to be increased from two hours daily to two and a half hours daily and that's because of the addition of our full day kindergarten program where now our kindergartners will be eating lunch with us during the day those names their steps and their salary adjustments are listed under number two in the agenda under number three seeking the board to approve the appointment of kiana hawkins daravin to the position of special education aba tech at the new albany school six point seven five hours daily effective september 8th 2021 uh seeking the board to approve the appointment of alexa lewis position special education aide at the new albany school number five seeking the board to approve the transfer appointment of tracy walker from the position of full-time bookkeeper new central
036registrar in the curriculum office effective october 1st number six seeking the board to approve the appointment of alexander pritchard to the position of special education aid aba ticket the high school effect of september 8th 2021 number seven seeking the board to approve the appointment of andrew pulling to the position of special education classroom made uh 6.75 hours daily under number eight seeking the board to approve the appointment of melissa wong to the position of special education classroom eight effective september 8th 2021. number nine seeking the board to approve the appointment of rachel garbridge position the 10-month secretary attendance at the high school they're number 10 seeking the board to approve the appointment of lauren luciano the position the cafeteria playground aid at the new albany school number 11 seeking the board to approve the appointment
037of teresa egan in the position of classroom aid at the new albany school 5.75 hours daily under number 12 seeking the board to approve the appointment of ebony johnson the position of special education aid in the classroom step 10 under number 13 seeking the board to approve the appointment of heather canning to the position of cafeteria playground aid at the new albany school under number 13 excuse me under number 14 seeking the board to approve their request for marine run bsip aid at the new albany school to be increased from four days a week to five days a week and that's to provide additional support for students learning on quarantine under number 15 seeking the board to approve a change to contract the school bus driver salaries to reflect an increase for step a and
038step a on the guide for the 22-23 school year under number 16 seeking the board to approve a salary adjustment for the following school bus drivers and they are listed in the agenda and under number 17 seeking the board to approve the appointments of the following school bus drivers effective september 1st 2021 they are listed with their coordinating step in the agenda under number 18 seeking the board to approve the appointment of amy curtis to the position the cafeteria playground in at the rush school two and a half hours daily effective september 9th 2021 under number 19 seeking the board to approve the appointment of kelly talbert to the pacific cafeteria playground aid 2.5 hours daily effective september 9th and under number 20 seeking the board to approve the appointment of patricia virtorami to the
039position of bsip aid at the new albany school six hours daily effective september 7th 2021. under a letter d transfer seeking the board to approve the transfer of maya to case k special education agent from the rush school from the rush school to the middle school excuse me to the high school under letter e extracurricular extra duty excuse me the board ratifies and firms danielle schweids a special education aide in the smart program that's retroactive june 28th to july 22nd under letter f job description seeking the board to approve the following job descriptions and that's for a teacher library media specialist e17 under letter t substitute seeking the board to reappoint substitute teachers for the 20 substitute aids to be called on an as-needed basis for the 21-22 school year under number two seeking the
040board to approve bonnie fabiani sarah pitt june newman and cynthia davis substitute teacher aides to be called on as needed basis for the 21-22 school year number three seeking the board to approve jeffrey girl as a substitute school bus driver to be called on an as-needed basis for the 2012 school year under number four seeking the board to approve stacey miranda benner and robert brown to be called on subs uh to the substitute school bus aides to be called on as needed basis for the 21-22 school year and our number five seeking the board to approve robert drayer and grace foreign summer student bus aides to be called an as needed basis and that's retroactive for the 2021 and remainder of the summer months the school under number six seeking the board to approve kate
041harding is volunteering the rush summer camp program under the supervision of jan alvarado tennis instructor and under number seven seeking the board to approve the following fall volunteer coaches under the supervision of their respective head coaches and they are listed as under number seven in the agenda and seeking the board to approve donna good june as a substitute bookkeeper and the business office clerk effective august 31st 2021 for a maximum 25 hours weekly under letter h i d ea preschool fund seeking the vote to ratify and affirm a portion of the salary 76.11 of the approved salary for jennifer kelowna romano special education aba tech at new albany school to be funded with idea preschool grants retroactive to july 1st and that is certificated staff non-certificate is deaf and when you're done i want to
042introduce some folks and that is a busy summer mr gaffney can i have a motion to approve personnel non-certificated items a through h so moved second second thank you mr turner comments or questions from the board hearing them will take the vote mr bromhall aye aye aye aye aye aye aye motion approved so we do have a fun tradition here in cinemason uh where whenever possible we have new teachers joining our ranks uh when they're approved by the board we invite them to come to the board meeting and they noticed a couple of them were able to be here with us this evening at this point i'd like to turn it over to we'll start with uh mrs d simone mrsam do you have any folks to introduce here that are on your squad welcome
043krista welcome okay thank you mrs d simone uh mrs jones you're up she's been in rbt at new albany for the past five years and now she's joining us all right thank you welcome to the district i know you'll be very happy here and finally i suppose uh my person introduced for once i get to introduce a new staff member uh melissa living melissa if you say hi to the folks uh melissa will be joining us after the retirement of mr egan to the position of business school business administrator and board secretary welcome to sentimental melissa i know you're gonna love it here okay and thank you for catching my failure to introduce down there appreciate it all right we're moving to section 13 curriculum and instruction mr dr goldberg thank you very much under
04413 letter a requesting board approval of the professional development requests that are attached under letter b requesting approval of the field trip requests that are attached under letter c requesting board approval of the instructional material for spanish one at the middle school in eighth grade and possibly in the high school under letter d requesting board approval of the revised calendar for the upcoming school year which makes december 10th a full day of school for kindergarten under letter e requesting approval of the disposal of the textbooks that are listed in the attachment from the middle school under letter f requesting board approval of the hib grades from not last year the year before that the 2019-2020 school year those grades are out of a maximum of 78 and those are based on compliance with the anti-bullying
045bill of rights under letter g uh the annual readoption of the evaluation instruments for the upcoming school year the new jersey principle evaluation for professional learning tool for principals and supervisors and the danielson 2013 tool for teachers and all other certificated staff under letter h number one requesting board approval of the submission of the esea grant for the upcoming year and under number two requesting approval of the submission of the arc esser grant for the 21-22 school year under letter i the board approves the building level and the district level professional development plans for the upcoming school year and the pdp statement of assurance and lastly under letter j the board approves the following non-classified out of district placements for the upcoming school year and those student id numbers are printed in the agenda thank
046you dr goldberg mr trumpey can i have a motion to approve section 13 curriculum and instruction items a through j so moved second second thank you mr gaffney comments or questions from the board hearing them we'll take a vote mrs quinn hi i but i abstain from 13a hi but i have steam from 13a hi but i extend x abstain from 13a hi but i'm staying from 13a line 22. i but i've stained from 13a line 21. i i accept the 13a num line 18. uh motion is approved and now we move on to special education and mrs llewellyn thank you under letter a contract there are none under letter b consultant agreement uh requesting the board approved the filing consultant agreements for the 2021-22 school year we have four the first one is speech
047language associates to provide speech language therapy at the requested as requested by the district the filing rates as listed in the agenda number two making friends social center to provide social skill services as requested by the district at the rates listed in the agenda number three kenyan learning and consulting llc to provide assistive technology as requested by the district at the rate of a thousand dollars per evaluation and number four barbara c fine bloom to provide home instruction as requested by the district at 75 per hour thank you thank you mrs llewellyn mr kenny can i have a motion to approve section 14 special education item b so moved second second thank you mr turner comments or questions from the board hearing them we'll take a vote miss quinn hi aye aye aye aye aye
048aye motion approved uh moving on to section 15 uh policies mr cappello thank you once again mrs fitzwater under number one seeking the board of proof on second reading and adoption the following policies and regulations that are listed in the agenda under number two seeking the board to approve the abolishing of the following policy on first reading and that's p1648 remote learning options for families um and i should also point out that policy 1648 the original pirate path back uh is also going to be uh the motion is also going to include abolishing that policy as well as it will be replaced with the pirate path forward and under number three recommend the board suspend bylaw zero one three one requiring two readings and two separate board of education meetings for policy adoption of policy
0491648-11 the pirate path forward policy 164805 mass mandate policy and policy 1648.13 school employee vaccination requirements that is the policy section thank you mr cappello uh mr turner can i have a motion to approve section 15 item a senator second second thank you mr trump comments or questions from the board hearing them we'll take a vote mr bromhall all right hi hi hi aye motion approved uh 16 we're going to business and finance mr regan hey thank you under letter a grants that the board accepts the 2021 22 non-public funds for item a non-public textbook aid b non-public nursing services aid c non-public technology aid d non-public security aid and e-non-public chapters 192 193 aid as attached item two that the board approves the submission of the idea part b application and acceptance of funds
050for the 2021-22 school year as attached under letter b finance that the board approves the withdrawal from capital reserve excess costs in the amount of 500 000 to be withdrawn from the board of education's approved capital reserve account as other capital project costs for the state approved projects relating to the new albany school and russia intermediate school learning cottages item two that the border proves the withdrawal from capital reserve excess cost of the amount of 75 000 to be withdrawn from the board of education's approved capital reserve account as other capital project costs for the state projects relating to the memorial school preschool program under letter c operations you have two items that the board approves the initial applications for temporary instructional space for the learning cottages at new albany and eleanor rush intermediate schools
051for the 2021-22 school year as attached item two that the board approves the disposal of five expired school buses under letter d under contracts we have a number of them this evening one is the board approves the shared service agreement between the township of cinemason and the cinnamon township board of education for class iii special law enforcement officers for the twenty one twenty two school year as attached item two the board approves the consulting service agreement over the educational consortium protect uh telecommunication savings for the 2021-22 school year item three that the board approves participation in the shared services for a public information officer provided by haddon township school district as a lead agency and within the uniform shared services and consolidated act the 2021-22 school year and the 22-23 school years with an annual
052fee of five thousand dollars item four that the board approves the agreement with cooper health system to provide at least one sports medicine physician at each of the cinnamons and high school home football games for the 2021-22 school year football season at no cost to the district item five that the board approves participation in the class action suit with regards to the damages associated with dual and electronic cigarettes as attached item six requesting approval for the non-resident tuition contracts and going on to e just your final thing asking for approval please thank you mr regan uh miss quinn can i have a motion to approve section 16 business and finance letters a through d second second thank you mr trump hey comments or questions from the board hearing them we'll take a vote mr bromhall
053hi hi hi hi hi motion approved uh 17 other business thank you mrs fitzwater uh under other business we have one item and that is a pending grievance before the board and under the superintendent's recommendation asking the board to deny cea grievance 2021-1 and make a motion to approve that mrs fitzwater okay mr gaffney can i have a motion to approve section 17 item a so second second thank you mr trump hey comments or questions from the board hearing number take a vote mr bromhall aye i'm gonna abstain i will abstain i'm gonna abstain hi motion does not pass moving on to section 18 public comments on other matters so at this point we would open the board meeting up for members of the public that would wish to speak as per board policy would
054ask that you state your name and address for the record we would typically invite folks to come to the microphone to speak i will ask that any folks that have chosen to disobey the request to wear a mask that you would please remain at your seats to share your comments but again we would still ask that you share your name and address for the record at this time the floor is open hi my name is asha quinn i live at 110 winding brook i have two kids in the district one is starting middle school and the other one is starting high school the township facebook sites led me to believe that this week's hot topics were going to be masks and schools and critical race theory as to masks my younger child was quarantined for
055exposure twice this month within a 14-day period once he was exposed to a child of his own age outdoors but was relatively close for a long period of time the second exposure was to a vaccinated adult with a breakthrough infection i am grateful he was fine and i'm grateful that it's summertime and he didn't miss school because although my son did okay during remote learning he certainly was not prided i would like to thank the board for listening to the vast majority of medical professionals and scientists who are and for following the state guidelines to keep our children in school i'm a little disheartened to see that there's people who are right now in this room without masks on and that challenge was very brief i'm hoping that when the kids go back to school
056if someone's going to claim a medical exemption that they better have a doctor's note because i don't want my kid being quarantined for even longer this year than he was last year i also understand that some parents have concerns about the introduction of critical race theory to our social studies curriculum critical race theory says that institutions and policies can be just as racist as the people as people can and that is it it doesn't say the white people are bad we're lazy we're stupid people who object to critical race theory are upset because the next step is the discussion about whether we change those policies how we change them and who should be responsible for changing them and there's many of our neighbors who don't want to change them at all and so they want
057to pretend that they never existed redlining was the practice of excluding black people from certain neighborhoods through mortgage and loan practices the effects of redlining are still here even though banks have auditing that's supposed to stop this from happening a house purchase is a lifetime purchase we live in the suburbs this is not there's not a lot of turnover here now there was a point in sentiments in where the catchment for the elementary schools was all by geography one side of 130 went to new albany and the other side of 130 went to rush at some point the state realized that because of the results of redlining one school had a far higher percentage of minority students than the other and the solution they came up with was one we use today one school is
058k-2 one's for three to five this is critical race theory in action you look at policy you figure out how it impacts today and you discuss what should be done by whom to level the playing field by the time our children are juniors and seniors in high school they should absolutely be able to discuss these things they are almost adults to be able to have these discussions we have to equip them by teaching them all about american history and culture before high school so we teach them about our melting pot and our salad bowl and we teach them about how our intelligent well-rounded fouling fathers envisioned our brand of democracy and american ingenuity and invention and we teach them about slavery into immigration and civil rights because they are all part of what it means
059to be an american so i would ask what people are objecting to exactly are other cultures than your own just not important to you was slavery okay if george washington was the one doing it is racism over now and who's going to tell the klansmen that put up recruitment flyers in our town just four years ago so to the board i encourage you to please be as transparent as possible with every one of these curriculum changes whether they've been discussed or if they're going to be discussed in the future so that people will have to justify their objections line by line in a public forum and we can all see what the objections really are okay thank you mr [Applause] give it a five okay with no other comments we'll move on to uh comments
060from the board sir i asked if you would please remain standing where you where you were previously since you've chosen not to wear a mask this meeting i'd ask that you please remain over there again if you would please state your name and address for the record uh because you're choosing to disobey an executive order and a policy now with the district to not wear a mask so i'm asking you to limit your exposure to just the area that you were standing and that's that's going to be my final comment and i'm going to ask you to remain over there to offer your comments please go ahead his name is what appears though the microphone is wired and will not be made available i can hear you very clearly i'm certain the others can hear
061you as well if you could please start by stating your name and address for the record yes dominick it is the policy of the board to please share your full name and full address for the record i actually don't but that's that's regardless of it i'm asking you to state your name and address for the record you could choose not to do it and i will choose not to hear your comments thank you since the board of ed is discriminating segregating me now consumer constitutional rights to free i will stay here hi my name fact that is guys are violating all of our students rights by trying to force us to wear a masking taxi wearing a mask and on the box that says does not prevent the clothes by refusing any students to come
062into a school that their parents paid for with tax money is a violation of my rights since we have rights to this building therefore you cannot remove me or deny me and you just talk because our parents are invested in the school also if you are not doctors and by telling us we have to put math on and take our temperatures and vaccines means you are practicing medicine without a license which is a crime that can be punished for one to eight years depending on the crime and it is absolutely inappropriate to have that drive at school since you are not hospitable and your job as a school facility is to teach not practice medicine also by separating kids that wear masks with don't wear masks and discrimination and segregation and by telling kids to
063wear masks you're telling them to be quiet and shut up but i will not be silent and i will stand up for what and i think our school has no right to teach these kids about sex it is not third place and should be taught by the hair and the critical race theory will cause more segregation than there has ever been before because you want me to apologize for my witness no that's not happening and god made me and every other human being perfect in his eyes you tell me this you put two little kids together two different races do you think they see color no and honestly i don't think you have any right to tell us kids what to do if you're not in school every day this sport should be run by
064kids who know and feel the same way about this and to be honest school will be a much peaceful place if you call about god and who doesn't seek help but you won't teach about god but you want to teach about us about the ways of satan that makes absolutely no sense and honestly if you think vaccines mass and teaching about state and segregation okay i would like for the board of head to queen your complaint please you're right give me your recommendation by the end of tonight it's about time we get good people in here who actually care about us kids and love education thank you for your time and god bless any other comments if you would please could you could you please wear your face mask properly would you mind pulling it
065over your nose as well sure i spoke um at the june meeting it's virtual um i also you know brought up crt and i just wanted to know how it was going to be introduced into the curriculum i still haven't seen anything i'm not disagreeing with the program wholeheartedly but i just think that there's things that are being you know in those that was signed in in the law by murphy on march 1st 2021 i just don't agree with the whole program on the outline of what i've seen on age appropriate who decides what's age appropriate for our children who decides that because one person thinks it's okay that it's okay for everyone um also on august 10th nea had a zoom meeting that was shared by the nga njea uh the main focus of
066the meeting was the reach app and for those of you that don't know the reach app tracks teachers interactions with peers and vaccine eligible students it basically said that the nea outlined teachers as trusted community professionals so they could speak to our kids freely about vaccinations if they choose to why they should do it the pros of it things like that so i want to know you know what is the district's policy regarding the promotion of the vaccination will the district's teachers be logged in conversations had with students via the reach app and will educators also be incorporating informed consent into these conversations uh also the thing that killed me the most about the reach app is that it's an apple app the nea has had in a zoom meeting i've spoken to several people
067who have seen the zoom meeting attended there's monetary rewards that would be offered to the teacher who received the most points for speaking to the most students and peers about the vaccine improving the vaccine that's a bribe they're using our children it's manipulation if i choose to not have my child vaccinated that is my right as a parent i don't need it brought into the school i don't need my teacher my children's teachers talking about it to them that should not be in school this is a public school my kids come here to learn not to be indoctrinated the public school system needs to teach them and that's it my children have parents who are fully capable of making these choices for them students in hoboken new jersey k through 12 now need to be
068that uh now need to be subjected to weekly testing if they're not vaccinated in order to be able to attend school how long before we are put in the same situation i know that there's parents that want a vaccine there's parents that don't want to vaccinate for those that don't want to vac how long until we are put in the same situation as those parents in hoboken that you know eat the vax up mask up or take weekly tests it's going to happen and it's going to happen sooner than later so be the voice and speak for your kids [Applause] any other members of the public that wish to comment at this time hi i'm jackie snellevedge 712 barberry drive i'm a cinnamonson resident have lived here my entire life my husband and i both
069grew up graduated from cinemason reason we stayed here to raise our four children our two oldest are in high school junior and a freshman and i guess i'm here tonight to ask what is our plan for homecoming one of my husband we loved homecoming it's something we still talk about with our friends we still have pictures we laugh about we joke about it's something we need to bring back and it's something these kids need all that we're talking about mass and everything else things that we can do we need to do and i think homecoming needs to be brought back i did see that it was penciled in i think for all october 16th which happens to be the same day as the cinnamonson festival which i find ironic um cinnamons and festival from what
070i've read we're gonna have food trucks we are going to have vans we are going to have different organizations come we're even going to have fireworks the town's going to come together and be outside which is fine so my hope is that there's a committee that can figure out a way for our kids to have a homecoming dance outside get some tents same night and guess what the kids can watch the fireworks we can bring them all together i think i don't know what needs to be done or how or where the money comes from but i think we got to make it work and not push it off until the spring that's when prom is and everything else so i just ask that you please try your best and help our kids have a
071high school that they'll remember and talk about for years to come thank you thank you hello not for seven plus hours in a day due to her anxiety and her adhd that she was diagnosed with luckily at the end of the year of june when they were getting ready to graduate i have pleaded them out with the superintendent about no match especially for outdoor graduation which shouldn't even have been an issue at that time i was told you still had to wait for guidance from the governor and didn't get word of this until that monday before graduation which was thursday june 17. by that time i had also spoken with the principal of cinnamons in middle school he assured me that they would be graduating locally without masks and also try to reassure me that
072hopefully in september 2021 that this wouldn't be an issue anymore and i can't this was his direct blind quote that he's speaking to me i can't see us going backwards to september i say here we are and we are still very fast this school year my point i am getting that is my daughter and other students already lost so much in a whole year's time with remote learning masks warranty etc on monday june 28 the governor stated max will not be mandatory in schools although that was stated by the governor now in the oldest sixth he turned around and mandated ahead and there is no public emergency there is no state burdens which gives him no authority to maintain mass on students in schools so my point is that if students children teenagers were all
073out hanging out with each other going down the shore going out to eat in amusement parks and no one's getting sick but you can do that go to shoprite go to target or go wherever and nobody's wearing masks but to get a public school education they are mandated to wear masks and i reiterate a mandate is not a law so i have also asked on the staff of cinnamon that some are not happy as well about wearing masks and if that is the case then people need to stand up and start to do something about that okay sure if you talk to your staff you will find that they also do not approve of the mandate so i ask every board member if they would be interested in joining the lawsuit as well for the
074class action lawsuit free new jersey kids.com and if anybody is interested you can feel free to reach out to me with any information and preference to them school should be fun to go to not a scary environment where fear is always promoted and yes also i do have things against some of the subjects that they are trying to introduce into the curriculum such as sex and class and stuff that's been introduced by our governor that i don't approve of and i also would hope that like your critical race theory as well some parts of critical race theory that i do not approve of that the children would have an option to opt out of those classes um like i said if anyone is interested in the lost because we do need to free new jersey
075kids from wearing masks and these mandates when does it end here we are another year of school and we're back to wearing masks where other people don't have to wear them is that fair should they and should you be fighting like this about when they're gonna graduate do they have to wear a mask or they're gonna have to wear a mask when does it end when will things be back to normal you see me talking right now without a mask i've been without a mask haven't gotten sick been around a lot of people been here been there been everywhere why can't students be free to go to school and breathe freely thank you hi my name is calista klein 2619 riverton road um i just want to take a minute to thank the board i
076was very pleased when i saw the pirate path back my students stayed full virtual last year and i knew going into this year that there wouldn't be the virtual option which was you know at points i hope there might be but i'm really excited to get them back into the classroom they have all missed it to varying degrees and so i'm very happy to see that the board has put together a plan that will keep them in the classroom as was mentioned there are a lot of states that are not having mass mandates and they're having lots of quarantines as well i hope that the policies that you're putting in place are going to get them in the classroom and keep them in the classroom and from my interactions with parents and cinnamons and i
077feel like you do have your finger on the pulse is that the biggest thing is that they want their kids going into school and not being a quarantine flip-flop between multiple kids in the district and some quarantine now and then quarantine later to get them in keep them in keep them safe so i just wanted to take a second to say thank you i really i like the plan and i think you put a lot of work into doing what's best for the kids thank you good anyone else there is no statutory law that requires employees and students to wear masks get their temperature taken or stay six feet apart [Music] ma'am if you please continue thank you in fact if you require your employees and students to wear a mask to restrict their movement
078or entry if they're not wearing a mask you are at risk for violating several federal and state laws any violation of the following laws will be reported and you personally will be at risk for fines and improvement upon conviction of these crimes our u.s federal laws u.s constitution first amendment right to assemble right to freedom of speech right through religious exemption expression requiring someone to wear a mask as a condition to assemble and replace a public accommodation is an infringement of the right protection of the us constitution the highest law of the land no law is valid or lawful that violates the constitution no health order no emergency board no state of emergency no municipal ordinance or state policy may suspend or violate the constitution period u.s constitution fourth amendment rights of privacy forcing a
079person to wear a mask without after consent is a violation of the fourth amendment further gathering vital statistics such as taking one's temperature is a violation of a person's right to privacy violation of this protection will result in your actions being reported to the u.s department of justice which is required by law to investigate civil rights violations no law was balanced or lawful that violates the constitution no health order emergency order state of emergency no municipal order or stored policy may suspend or violate the constitution u.s title 52 civil rights act of 1964 unlawful to discriminate in place of public accommodation your business establishes legally defined as a place of public accommodation and as such you may not participate in entry by discriminating against someone with a medical condition disability or religious views if someone
080is unable or unwilling to wear a mask for one of those reasons you may not prohibit their entry nor may you file charge of trespassing because of their legally protected status just as you would not be able to deny entry to someone based on their skin color you may not deny entry to someone based on their fair face having someone else do stuff is denies the full enjoyment and equal access to facilities services and accommodations as required by law the u.s title 42 section 12-101 unlawful to deny entry to persons with disabilities who receive medical conditions your business establishment is legally defined as a place of public accommodation and as such you may not prohibit entry by distributing in someone with a medical condition or disability if someone is unable or willing to wear a
081face pass for any of those reasons you may not prohibit their entry nor may you follow charge against them just as you would not be able to deny someone in a wheelchair you cannot deny entry to someone not wearing a mask children segregated is not a reasonable accommodation as it denies the full enjoyment and equal access to facilities services and accommodations as required by that i'm asking our children enough already thank you [Music] thank you hi my name is christine libitsky i live at 2210 clover drive um my son just started middle school and my my question is more tactical i'm a teacher first of all and i feel protected wearing a mask i came in contact with students many students last year who had covet we had to quarantine i had to go home
082to my family at the end of the day and you know god forbid i have to pass that along to them it just made my sense of my you know it just made me feel easier um other than going into the school year bringing everyone back and then saying oh well we didn't wear masks i guess we should have whoops and i don't feel like being a guinea pig so i feel comfortable with my son wearing a mask my question would be just visually for me um you know bringing the kids into the cafeteria um having the locker situation just kind of how you're monitoring that like how close they will be and also you know just being feasible like a sixth grade boy you know how are they keeping their hands clean things like
083that are just really my questions that i had um but i think you know going back last year my son was really excited to come back with the mask on without a mask he was just happy to see his friends so i'm glad we can get back but those just visual questions i have thank you great thank you oh [Music] with the mask i haven't been able to experience the college experience due to the massive mandate or having to be vaccinated um not everyone it doesn't fit everything these kids should be able to experience the school experience like i did at least i'm missing out on all my college years because of the mass mandate and having to be vaccinated no one should ask what my medical is and no one should need to know
084my personal business if i choose how to remaster that's my business if i choose not to get vaccinated that's also my business no one should be asking me what if i'm vaccinated or if i if i'm aware of mass no it's discriminating on everything um you violate everybody's rights everyone you should be asking for medical from anybody um no one can hear as a doctor so i think these kids to school and it should be up to them if they want to wear a mask or not um you shouldn't have to separate these children from each other they need to have friends they need to talk separating them is segregated we're going back to being separated from history they had all these kids separated well not kids by color you were separated by public but
085now everybody comes together and now you guys are trying to separate everybody again nobody just because they don't want to wear a mask or get vaccinated doesn't mean they can't come to school and learn they're kids they need to learn they need to go out they need to see their friends if everyone can have these gatherings here and we're all in the same room um if people can go out to eat and sit away from each other and take their masks off i don't understand why can't we do that here consider considering it during a restaurant kids that don't want to wear a mask when you wear a mask get them together or it shouldn't even matter to be honest but yeah match should be optional and it should be up to the kids thank
086you good evening my name is dawn jones i'm at 706 perry boulevard um i said i wasn't going to say anything however i want to thank the board for your continuous support in doing whatever the state tells you to do um i know it's been tough i'm a nurse i've been a nurse for 30 plus years it's tough but i just have some questions because i'm just a little confused um my daughter is going to be entering high school and i know that there's a math mandate however i know someone might have asked this question already but i just want to make sure that it's down and i get some clarification on to the kids who parents don't want them to wear masks what are the options um i didn't i don't think i heard
087anybody say anything about that i know masks are going to be mandated but what about the kids whose parents feel as though they shouldn't second um like how are they gonna what's gonna be the plan um medical is there gonna be a note required or what i just want to my daughter's going to have a lot of questions and i just want to be ready to answer my next question is the critical race theory is that going to be a vote on that or is that something that's going to take place whether or not we like it or not or want it or not that was my next question and again i thank you guys for being in such a tough and rough position right now and masks are uncomfortable i'm in them sometimes 16
088hours a day and it's not this mask it's tough and i get it it's uncomfortable the kids are uncomfortable however i don't think it's up to them whether or not the kids wear a mask they just have to follow the rules and i think that's exactly what they're doing um so everybody has their right to their own opinion i'm not saying you guys are right i'm not saying that they're wrong the state is wrong all i know is i'm in nursing covett is real and if the kids could at least get back to school to get some normalcy and they're asking them to wear a mask i think that's the better option than them being home again it's a lot so again i thank you guys and i look forward to hearing what the answers
089are going to be thank you [Applause] all right we're gonna move on to board comments laura i'd like to say something sure so um i just wanted to address two different things um first of all as far as masks are concerned no we are not doctors um but the american academy of pediatrics has recommended universal masking in schools this fall we also follow the governor's mandate that is part of our ethics as a sworn in board member and i am happy that there are you know some people that have never worn a mask and have not gotten sick but however there are people in this room that have lost people that they love very dearly due to covet and very close relatives and they have suffered immensely and to them i want to let them
090know that i'm very sorry that you've had to lose family members and that you sometimes have to hear people you know say that they didn't get sick which is a great thing for them i'm so happy that that you have not been sick and secondly uh the governor signed into law that new jersey school districts promote it's this is the quote from the law economic diversity equity inclusion tolerance and belonging in connection with gender and sexual orientation race and ethnicity disabilities and religious tolerance and the sponsors of that bill what their next step is the natural next step is to to promote diversity tolerance and respect for all critical race theory is not required um by the new jersey student learning standards it never was you can look them up online and this is directly
091from the new jersey school board's website so i just wanted to put that out there this is not there is not a vote on curriculum tonight there was not and and this is how it has been and so i just wanted to uh explain that to everybody you know um the state just believes the students should understand the historically accurate past of our nation okay which includes some very difficult history about racial issues and that's the truth and so that's it thank you thank you mr quinn any other board members speak okay then in final thoughts uh thank you to mr tindall and his team for a fantastic job getting our schools ready for students and staff welcome to our new teachers and staff we are so excited to have you join the cinnamon family
092and welcome back to everyone we hope everyone in the district enjoys a safe healthy fun and educational school year and with that we are going to uh you know exactly all right all right so uh mr bromhell can i have a motion to adjourn the meeting so moved second second thank you mr gaffney all in favor aye opposed meeting adjourned the next meeting of the board is september 22nd at 7 pm