001Okay. So, we have four board members that are going to be sworn in. First one will be Mrs. Abru. Put your left hand on the Bible. Raise your right hand. Come on and read it at the same time. >> And read it at the same time. >> I need a third handwrit solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear a true faith and allegiance to the same and to the government established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people. So help me God. I, Judith Abru, do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of a member of board of education and that I will
002faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. So help me God. Furthermore, I affirm and declare that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to RS19.4-1. So help me God. You got a sign. >> Here we go. >> Judith, you got a sign. >> The signs. >> Yeah. And then you keep one. >> Signs. Sign. Sign. Two. Two. And you keep one. >> Okay. >> We did it like six years ago on Zoom. Ronnie Zoom. That was my first leg. Next will be Mr. Rancor. >> Can you come up here and do it? >> Sure. Stay call >> I Carl. The song is swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey
003that I will bear true faith and allegiance to say to the government established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people. So helps be God. I Carl Rain Courtly swear that I possess the qualification prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and I will faithfully and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. So help me God. Furthermore, I affirm and declare that I am not I'm not disqualified to vote a person to RS 1914-1. So help me God. Don't look at Bible. >> Yeah. Thanks. Next up is Dr. Paniano. I think she know the drill, right? >> Your left hand there. >> I got to let my daughter hold it. Do my right. >> There you
004go. You do that. because I never have the pleasure. >> I think I must be pushing my daughter. >> Okay. >> I, Laticia Pantaliano, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey. And I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the government established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people. So help me God. I, Leticia Pantaliano, do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that it will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. So help me God. Furthermore, I affirm and declare that I am not
005disqualified as a voter pursuant to RS194-1. So help me God. two. >> I don't think kids know how to write anymore. >> Do they take scripts anymore? >> No, she didn't. >> You take script? >> Not here. >> They're putting it back. >> I think that's a good >> Yes. She had to learn how to sign kids. >> It's crazy. >> Okay. Thank you, Laticia. >> Next up is Mr. Carbakia. >> Thank you, Ver. >> Thank you. >> He's gonna find this trick. I, Teddy Tarbachia, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the government established in the United States and in this
006state under the authority of the people. So help me God. I, Teddy Tarvakia, do you solemnly swear or affirm that I possess the qualification prescribed by law for the office of members of the board of education and that I will faithfully and partly and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability. So help me God. Furthermore, I affirm and declare that I am not disqualified as a voter persuant to RS194-1. So help me God. Well done, young man. >> You You keep one. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Now, I'll take the role again. Congratulations to Carl, Leticia, Judy, and Teddy. I'll like to take the role again if I may. Mrs. Abru >> here. >> Mr. Capano >> here. >> Mrs. Fredo >> here. >> Mr. Garcia >>
007here, >> Mr. Nadru >> here, >> Mr. Pontiano, >> Mr. Rancor >> here, >> Mr. Russo >> here, >> Mr. Bakia >> here, >> and Mr. Munzi is not here. >> Okay, now we'll get into the reorganization agenda. We just did the ODS and is it oath or Os where you're from? >> I have a trouble pronouncing a >> I have I have trouble pronouncing it. I don't know why. Uh, we're going to ask for nominations now for the board president. >> I make a nomination for uh Teddy Terabakia. I'll second it. That's a second. May I have a a vote of hands for eyes? >> Okay. I'd like to ask for nominations for vice president. I nominate Judy. I'll second it. may have a show of hands for eyes for Judy. Right. >> Okay.
008So, we have board president Teddy, vice president Judy. I just want to put who was number one. Okay, I'll just I'll run through the reorganization just some highlights. Uh much of this is duplicative from last year, but there's some line items like just have make the board and the public aware. Um if you go down to the middle of the page, there's a resolution recommended by the superintendent of schools to approve to advertise in accordance with S465- A5878. That's essentially now there's a new really a new law out there that I think it was effective in early March in regard to you no longer have to have what we call hard print advertising in the record. You can put everything out on the web and online. So that's essentially what that is stating. Uh we're
009going to appoint again Frank Bardo as our treasurer of school monies. Uh Frank is just uh wonderful and professional to deal with. I've been dealing with for 13 years and we couldn't find anybody better than Frank. Uh we're also going to uh approve Brian and Izzy as our Fairview rep board member for the 2627 school year and Mr. Rinfirst. Correct me if I'm wrong. We're still TBD for the anti-bullying. >> Correct. Yes. Okay. We'll do that at a later date. >> Okay. page three and and page four is essentially it's a lot of the TD banking stuff our banking are going to be with continue with TD bank who the official signers are all our different accounts payroll account agency account treasury account uh page five and six are essentially the contractors have state contracts
010county cooperatives and national cooperatives with us we try to update those on a on a yearly basis again as you know with state contracts national cooperatives, county cooperatives, uh provide us the ability not to have to go out to bid and or achieve multiple quotes since they've already the bids have already been awarded to them. On page six on the top, uh Mr. Jonathan M. Dominguez, MD, we're going to reappoint him as a certified family medicine physician at the annual fee cost of $25,000. We appointed him last year. This is second year. I think he's working out very well from feedback that that I've heard. Mrs. Calibri, would you agree? Um, and then second to the bottom is you hear see the word aera. Aera is essentially a speestous. We have our asbestous contractor and
011consultant that we use in regard to uh bianual inspections and they also do a three-year inspection plan that's housed in all the schools and also housed in the board of ed. Turning to uh page eight, I think you can go second from the bottom. Uh Mr. Foro assisted me with this uh in regard to school health. They will be u managing and maintaining our auh AEDs, our defibrillators uh for two years for 2026, 27th and 2728. And actually, believe it or not, the price has gone down from nearly $19,000 for the previous two years, these new two years, 26, 27, 27,28 to less than $14,000. So, so one line item going in the right direction. I I will I will take it I will on page nine in the middle of the of the page,
012um you'll see our uh boiler contractor CJ Vanderbeck and Sons. Uh they will continue do our annual inspections on our 12 boilers for an annual fee of $12,000. Uh I spoke with Paul, the owner. He's going to lock that in for three years. And he's also going to put that in writing. And he also does what we call a combustion testing because if your boilers have a BTUs, I think it's a greater than 5 million or 10 million, you have to do a yearly combustion test and it has to be certified with the state in regard to the uh Department of Environmental Protection. So, those are the two key items they do fresh each and any every year. And V Vanderbeck um they're in my opinion worth their weight and gold. Very proactive, very responsive,
013and and always there, always there when we need them. Uh especially when things don't go quite right, especially this very challenging winter that we just had. Uh they were on site quite a bit. And uh like I said, very responsive, excellent business partner. Uh and then right below it is Dr. Ice is essentially they do the maintenance at their high school number six and middle school and number three school the coolers the freezers and the ice machines walk-in boxes milk boxes this was a recommendation from Pmptonian last year it's worked out very well we used to have a company called Harma uh we moved to Dr. rice and uh the schools and the Pmptonian uh believe it was was a very very good decision again very very responsive when we call them they're there uh
014and second to the bottom as we know is our policies is Strauss Esme we've been using them for for many many years and I just like to bring your attention to page 10 the second from the top you know as you know we deal with frontline that's essentially our attendance evaluation manage management system. They also are they call a strong district-wide partner. But we've also engaged them for a time and attendance module uh that will help payroll immensely in regard to making our time sheets online and creating much more efficiencies than what we're doing today which is a lot of I call it hand-to-hand combat oldfashioned going back to the 1990s. This is going to digitize and everything electronic. It's going to save us a ton of time and that those dollars that you see
015there in human capital will pay for itself at minimum in the first year and I want to applaud uh Joanne Mancin to kind of engage front line are trying to find you know the the best product so to speak uh that came in at a a price that we can digest and also give us what we need in regard to getting away from paper. Uh the bottom two on the bottom of page 10 again, those are our repair and preventive maintenance vendors for our bus fleet. They've been with us for many years, almost as long as I've been here. Uh they are excellent. Again, extremely responsive. We don't have a lot of extra buses. We maybe have two or three extra buses. So when a bus goes down, we can't have it down for two
016weeks. They turn our buses over 99 times out of 100 within one day. so we can get the buses back on the road and we always have two or three extra buses in case we have an extra athletic trip, an extra field trip or whatever the case may be. Again, they're worth their weight and gold also in regard to how quickly they turn around repairs. And if a repair if we're going to be down for a week, it's it's a repair that a significant repair, whether it's an engine or whatever the case may be, they let us know. They go through in painstaking detail the quotes um why it cost that much, why there's so much labor. They give us uh backup documentation on the on the materials. Uh so really again excellent business partners
017and as you know we run 20 to 25 routes per year. We have 20 plus buses going each and every day. We have special needs routes, we have field trips, we have athletic trips. So, and we make about $800,000 in revenue from partnering with Palisades Park, Fair View, Richfield, and Richfield Park. So, very valuable business partners. Um, page 11, kind of third and fourth from the top, you see Goosetown. We've been with them many years now, buying our two-way radios for both the schools. We only pay 10 months for the schools because school is only in section session 10 months. And then the two-way radios for the buses, we pay 12 months because obviously the buses run all all summer, especially with our uh special needs routes. Heading over to page 12, I just want
018to bring your attention to uh fourth from the top. Uh we we engaged them last year, J&J gym floors. Uh Dave Porfido raved about them. They do our gymnasium floor and maintenance for the the middle school gym and the high school gym. J Dave said they do really do a really great job. Um they do it in regard to the blackout period which is usually the very end of July or the first week in August in regard to the maintenance when obviously the the student athletes cannot engage in any type of athletic activity. Uh at at the bottom I think this is near and dear to Mrs. Calibris and Renaissance. Uh Mrs. caliber this will run its course in 2627. I know me and you will be chatting about what's next for Renaissance but I
019think that was an it's a hit right for >> right I think we engaged in 2425 >> yeah so this is the the last year um in regard to that and I've heard nothing but >> wonderful very very positive feedback from staff folks like Mrs. Cal Mr. Rinfus. Um, in regard to page 13, I think third from the top is very important. I want to thank Mr. Portfido. He's engaged this company. This is essentially for lightning detection, which is extremely important, especially in the summer when the kids are out on the field and it's 95 and all of a sudden some of these storms start to roll in. Um, we engaged them with a a wireless uh outdoor warning system with weather station at an annual cost of about $3,000. Obviously, it's It's obviously worth
020it for the safety of of the students and I really the Larry Pinto I have to give him kudos for the next one smart pass. It's really to provide a digital hall pass solution with real time action actionable data. >> Lou >> yes >> we can't save the money and Michael behind the field go out with a metal thing on his roof. That's a That's an opportunity I haven't really looked at. >> It's pretty funny. Uh so yeah, this was a Larry Larry Pinto really pushed on this. It's customize and distribute digital IDs that cannot be lost or stolen or replicated. And how I understand it, it's an invaluable product and uh I know Mr. Rinfist is a big fan of it. Uh folks in the high school are a big fan of it. And
021uh I have to give Larry Pinto kudos because he he was pushing on it for a couple of years. >> So good for Larry for that and Mr. Pinto in regard to that. And in uh page 14, these are all brand new. Um they were not uh part of our reorganization in 2025. Again, we have our main uh pl DMN plumbing uh for our plumbing and heating services. They'll book them for timely and materials. uh our electrical contractor J&J over had for several years or excellent business partner for the district. Same could be said for Rousen and Daru also doing significant amount of work both between DMN J&J Rousen and Drew very responsive our local folks uh couldn't ask for more from them. It's all about being responsive being fair and equitable and they really
022do it all. >> And Lou DMN I got them from you. We use him at housing. He's a close part graduate. >> He's one of the only I think he's the only state champion wrestler. >> His son is graduating St. Peters Prep as a wrestler. >> Big time. >> He's very very punctual. We have him at the housing. >> Very good with paperwork too. Man after my own heart. >> He's he's a solid guy. >> He's he's he's a solid guy. >> He knows prevailing wage rates, all that stuff. >> Yeah. And and Joe, I gotta thank you for the one for Liberty Heating and Air Conditioning. >> Mike's guy is the best. >> Michael Bear. Mike Bear. Oh, that's your guy. Uh, excellent. Another guy. Very responsive, very fair. Um, >> assist is good.
023>> So, I can't uh can't thank you guys enough for that. Obviously, HVAC is extremely important, especially in the high school. Um as we put together this year the uh purchasing manual that includes policy ethics uh bid state contract cooperative purchasing methods of procurement among other items. Uh I've tweaked the data in regard to any new thresholds in regard to uh new uh bid thresholds or quote thresholds. All that's been updated. Uh, I always have the auditor give it a second look since they're smarter than me in regard to all the laws and all the bid thresholds. So, Kevin from Wilcox was kind enough to take another look. About 98% of it was pretty much the same as what you guys viewed uh earlier this coming year. And then based on the very uh challenging
024winter we had uh this past winter, uh we thought it best to maybe do a point Riggy uh if we do get another one and two feet snowstorms like we did this year. He was invaluable to getting us up and running because without him with two feet of snow on the ground, uh it just would not have happened. We just don't have the people power or the equipment to move what he moved in a very short period of time. And the guys just raved about him in regard to being responsive, being part of the solution, educating them, uh hearing them out, getting reciprocated feedback. Um they just said, "Gosh, you know, if anything happens like this again next year, can we get ready?" I said, "Well, we'll see what we can do." But they were
025uh big fans of his. Uh you know, he obviously he's a cliffside guy also. And uh like I said, uh he without him uh as Mr. Rinfist can attest, we probably wouldn't have uh been able to open school. Uh so kudos to uh Mr. Riggy. And then the last couple of pages, Mr. Lombardo, we're appointing affirmative action. And we've also, which you guys were kind enough to sign, I think the only one I didn't get from was Mr. Mr. uh the uh code of ethics acknowledgement form. Um that's that resolution and that's essentially the reorganization agenda for the upcoming year 2627. Each and every one of these resolutions, using one of these vendors and contractors, we have agreements, contracts, political affidavits, uh, certificates of insurance, W9s, New Jersey business certificates, and on and on, on
026and on. >> Those Russian statements, >> always Russia, anything over $1,000. I actually spoke with my auditor the other day. I said, "Is this still in in effect?" He goes, "Yes." Um, but the good news with those Russia forms is if you do 20 jobs, you only need one Russia form. It's for the initial $1,000. You don't need each and every project on each and every job. But, uh, I get the same questions from the contractor says, "Why do we need to fill this out? What is this Russia Bellarus thing?" And I said, "It's just a federal mandate." Uh, it's pretty simple. You check a box, you sign, you put your FID number in, and you're done. But it's it's been in play now for about Joe four or five years, right? So yeah, so
027we have all those we have just about everyone you see on this document. We have pretty much all of the documentation I just mentioned. What happens in a few weeks, we open up 2627 school year with systems 3000 and we can start uh encumbering doing purchase orders. Obviously, we can't pay contractors until July, but we can start encumbering the funds. And that's important because you want to encumber as much as the funds as you can to really understand when the school year starts how much money you actually have to play with. We encumber all our salaries, all these contractors, and you realize that 70 plus million dollars comes down to a very, very, very small number very, very, very quickly. And it g it lends itself to understanding is that much of our budget is
028fixed. >> Lou, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but uh I was at a housing conference for a couple of days and state health benefits were there. Uh they're looking for January of 27 possibly at 39.6%. >> Yeah, I heard the same. >> I have a couple questions. Sure. >> On the agenda. Um first, Hold on. >> On page 11, >> the second one from the bottom, it says uh recommended to approve leasing agreement between Southside Park and Inside Investments getting cable on a monthly basis in the amount of $25,000. Is that $25,000 a month or 25,000 for the year? >> 25. So, we're paying $300,000 a year for the trailers in number three school. >> Both trailers. Okay. >> The the 12 classrooms. >> So then >> since uh 2019. >>
029So then I want to just look at a couple of resolutions if the board would bear with me. Um, if we look at if we look at page eight and it's the fourth one from the top, >> mobile lease modular space payable on a monthly basis for a total of $135,000. >> Yes. >> For the trailers at school five. So, at school five, we're paying $135,000 a year just to rent those trailers. And that's an annual expense that doesn't go away. Correct. >> Correct. That's been since 2015. >> So, we've been paying for those trailers since 2015. And obviously, like any building that's built, they just age. >> Yeah. But the any maintenance is on the trailer. We don't pay we don't pay roof leaks or anything like that, >> but they're aging buildings. And
030then if we look at page 11, so we're at 135 there. If we look at page 11, we're talking about over a year's time. So $300,000 for the temporary classrooms at three. So now we're up to 435 in temporary space that are aging and they'll never be permanent structures. And then if we look at page 12, uh, at the top of the page, third one down, we're paying another 10,500 annually for the modular trailers at school three. >> That That's the That's the annex. >> That's the annex. >> That's where the child study team. >> We're paying a significant amount of money to rent buildings that are basically just aging. Regardless of who does the maintenance on the building, they're aging structures. So, all I would like to do is ask the board if we
031could possibly think about replacing these temporary buildings that aren't getting any newer. And we are paying them a debt that never ends, right? They're being leased. So, we lease them every year. They're never going to be paid off. So, we're going to be paying 400 almost $500,000 a year for these temporary buildings forever. So, I would just ask the board if we could consider possibly looking into replacing them. Now, I know, and I'm sure there's people on this board that know construction better than I. We know stick bills are very expensive, right? But I know districts have used modular buildings to solve some of their problems. And if we bought a modular building, a would be new, and b we would own it. so we would get out of this temporary building type situation and
032we're paying almost a half million dollars a year forever. So I would just ask that possibly we could look into and I know that you have some state contract vendors on our um on our agenda this evening. I believe there are even state contract vendors for modular buildings. >> I it's a great point. do understand that sometimes module may cost more depending on uh you know what it entails than than stick. But I think what the board needs to do here is possibly engaging land associates to do some sort of a PNA uh to give us an assessment. What it would cost estimate for a module building with the same type of uh infrastructure that we already have replaced that we've paid above and beyond what the leasing price is. So, we've got the the
033the the the infrastructure in the ground. Then Lou can take that and give it to the auditor and maybe the auditor could do a performer based on a half a million dollars. How many years it's going to take us to pay off uh you know that. So, that may be a good idea >> because we're paid a half a million dollars a year for buildings that aren't getting any newer and >> they'll never be paid off, right? This isn't this is a permanent rental >> of just the buildings. And to Joe's point, he made, you know, a big part of the expense is the infrastructure that we already have, the PSEG hookup, the water lines, and all of that kind of stuff. We already have that. And when you have to do a build from
034scratch, if we were building on a vacant piece of land, that's a significant amount of money to put in. We're actually just looking to replace the structures, at least with something that we can pay off and say we own and not have residual, a half a million dollars a year, >> right? But also be mindful that you're going to have to apply to the close park zoning board if you wanted to go forward because you're you're going against their land use ordinances with the trailers. >> I'd have to recuse myself. >> We did the board. >> There you go. >> No, we for the trailers we had to go in front of the board. >> But regardless, I think, you know, we got to figure out, you know, um what the initial cost is. A
035lot of these module companies will tell you there is no initial cost. You can pay them over XYZ time and then do a performer. So I >> or if you have capital reserve money, you could just I did that at Rich. We had capital reserve money. We just bought them and had it put in and there was no there was no lease payment on it. There was no mortgage. There was no >> I I I wouldn't know what they would cost. I don't see either, but I just I'm sorry to belabor this point, but I just can't see a half a million dollars a year every year in this type of an economy that will never be paid off if all the buildings do is get older. >> So, I think at this juncture have
036have Teddy put committees together and then he could make a recommendation to possibly the building grounds committee engage associates with Lou and uh talk about maybe have a little meeting even via Zoom uh some of our options. But that's a good point. Anything else? Will I I would ask the board. >> I need I'm sorry. One more thing. This is not about construction. I want to thank and congratulate the curriculum department because I don't know that we really had a curriculum department several years back, but I am very impressed with Renaissance Learning and all that it has done. And I want to thank you also for adopting a new math series, the envisioned math program. You know, in the copyright of 2024, I think it's important. I don't think we talk enough about the curriculum
037purchases that we make, but for anybody that's listening out there, we're looking at just about a million dollars directly in curriculum going directly to the benefit of the students. So, I want to thank you and your department for that. >> Thank you, Dr. >> And and uh Pearson is now partnering with Renaissance. So I love Pearson. I think Envision Math is the best program out there. So great job. Thank you. >> Before we move forward, I would like to thank Blue and the business office work for the reorg meeting. Ready? >> Appreciate that. >> I'll make a motion to accept the meeting. >> Second. >> Okay. Number one. Number two. Okay. I'd like to take a vote if I may, please. Uh Mrs. Abru, >> yes. >> Mr. Capano, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fredo, >>
038yes. >> Mr. Mr. Garcia, >> yes. >> Mr. Lrew, >> yes. >> Dr. Poniano, >> yes. >> Mr. Rancor, >> yes. >> Mr. Russo, >> yes. >> Mr. Terbakia, >> yes. >> So moved. >> A motion to adjourn. >> Yes. Thank you. That was it. You ready for your taco?