001foreign thank you Mr Roman Gino I'd like to make a read a quick statement if I may please the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public who have noticed of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon accordance with a provision of this act the Cliffside Park Board of Edis cause notice of this meeting to be published by a date time and place an era of course in the office of federal Clerk or a library Borough Rec Department the office of the Board of Ed and the offices of school numbers three four five and six and the high school on April 4 2023 and notices were forwarded to reporters of the record April 4 2023
002this is an official meeting might take the role if I may Mr Roman Gina uh Mrs Abreu Mr capano Mrs Fredo Mr Garcia missing the Drew Dr pantaliano Mr raincore Mr Russo Mr bakya here Mr yanuzzi here okay Mr Roman Gina should have a couple of quick items on my report before we get to Administration and staff for great 2022 school year our school year ended last week I also want to thank our Middle School principal Mr Ryan Chris and our high school principal Mr Pinto for running our graduations last Wednesday of the 21st weather was great and the turnout was great a lot of participation from parents and family and it was a great day we had our Middle School at 10 am in the morning and we celebrated high school at 6pm 6
003p.m everything went very very well I do want to just uh commend um of these casano and Dave profito for running events at the end of May academic Awards and our athletic awards June 6 as they do each year they put together a great program which celebrated some of the accomplishments of our students throughout the year in athletics and also in academics and obviously that's the most important thing to recognize the great work that our students so thank you to to those two staff members I do want to make note that this past Monday June 26th we started summer school we are running a summer school in Walmart elementary schools for grades pre-k through four at number six School we're running a summer school for grades five and six and we are also running a
004summer school program in our middle school for some 7th and 8th graders and also in our high school we are running a summer graph Point program at also ESL bridge program in fact in all of our programs besides running a an academic program for arcade through four students and six students we also have an ESL program in every building so as you know every summer we do run a four-week summer program toured by our staff members because they're most familiar with our kids and that that's our good start on Monday so that's running half days through June 21st I also want to make note that I know Kristoff Fano will probably fill you in blue I don't know if you want to make mention now of any of the major projects that are going on
005this summer quickly of course thank you Mr Roman Gina uh yes we have our masonry project that we're going to be doing at our number six school that that's off and running scaffolding is up we are going to be doing some we have two bathrooms at the decommissioned at the high school we're going to get them back up and running hopefully that'll be done the early part of August there's two those are two major projects a major bathroom Renovations like I said it's really starting from scratch those both builds bathrooms are decommissioned we're going to be doing another bathroom uh most likely at number five school and we're probably going to be doing a couple of floors at number four school and maybe a floor to replacement floors at number six School and uh obviously
006we've just bought probably about close to three thousand dollars worth of paint for the district and across the district and all the different schools we're going to be painting obviously multiple classrooms across the schools and across the district we hope that goes smoothly we're already off and running in regard to that well the paint's been delivered and uh that's pretty much the kind of major projects that are going to be kind of up and running for uh the summer of 23. busy time but we're uh we got a pretty good head start already thank you very much any questions or comments from the board before I move on to the consent agenda we were very fortunate thank you and I also want to congratulate you because I think the board knows that I'm not sure
007the community knows every year associations one Secret to receive the distinguished service award and considering in 50 years has only been 50 people will be there unfortunately Cliffside Park because you are the second perfect superintendent to receive that award and I want to congratulates you and again thank you on behalf of reported that the service of the colleagues who have something to present to you well Mike listen a few people here have been with you from the beginning it's really a lot of emotions here you've been here a long time in the district you've been loyal to close to the park loyal to the Board of Education more importantly loyal to the students here um you know we got together with the board and we felt uh you know get you a nice plaque here
008and the plaque is pretty simple it reads the closest park board of education has a deep appreciation of the dedicated service of Michael J Roman Geno who served as an educator principal assistant superintendent and superintendent of school to the closest Park School District may you be proud of the work you have done and the difference you have made to a retirement well-deserved June 30th 2023 in June de Brave Joseph capano Lisa Fredo Marcos Garcia Clayton the true Michael Russo Carl raincore James Shelley Teddy tarabakia Brian yanuzzi Dr nutizio pantolino and Lewis alphabetes and Superman administrative board secretary if I could sum up your career in one word and that's what you deserve nothing but the best congratulations Frank later on if you take a picture with the board with the plaque or put it on
009the website and we'll start auctioning off that pictures spent my whole career that's that's very common and to start out as a teacher I've worked with great teachers I as an administrator I work with great administrators as a superintendent I had the opportunity to work with the whole District staff and everybody in Cliffside Park always works too well together you know we may disagree times but in the end we do what's right for the kids and I've also been extremely lucky to work with Greenville board members and I know we're leaving and as I said in my email I leave the district in good hands because I know a great board who really cares about the facilities program and what's best for the kids so thank you very very much have great memories thank you
010thank you okay so we're gonna go quickly through the consent agenda oh you're still on the clock slow down uh okay so I'll talk slow I'll make a motion to accept the gender page two we are accepting uh workshops as we do each year for uh reimbursement for staff members who are programs some are during the summer some are in the form uh some people have already been putting in some forms at the bottom of that page as per contract which is PA we are compensating staff members who are retired they are unused 60 very last um resolution we are hiring Eileen young as an occupational therapist she will be assigned to school number three I have to say that in the past we've usually use the jointer and contract It Out For Occupational therapists
011and we with our new director of special services Charlene Pinto she's been looking to hire full-time occupational therapists that could work in the district and it is that a tremendous foreseking to the district so Charlene is doing a good job and Eileen will be our second OT person that we're hiring this year last board meeting we hired another word so we're moving in that direction which is positive in his budget and it's also positive positive students page three about halfway down the page Emily Walker he accepted her resignation she actually didn't install with us yet we had hired her but she decided to withdraw from her application and taking the position and then closer to our home Julianne brander I just received this yesterday she's been an English teacher with us I believe for two
012years middle school and high school and she submitted her resignation affected June 30th so I don't know if you've noticed today but Gio already sent out and posted for that position bottom of the page Sal Aiello it's a husband of a high school business teacher for a number of years we posted a position Middle School business teacher and salary Preston a transfer from high school to middle school so we're accepting that request and you'll be continuing for a high school business teacher teacher during the summer to replace that page four she will be our indoor track head coach track and field head coach and indoor track uh assistant coach we've had a couple of resignations in that in that area and Gabby's with been with us she's been subbing this year she's moving towards getting
013certified as a full-time teacher and worked with as a coach for the last year until you've done a nice job so our director of Athletics Mr profito is requesting that will be given the opportunity positions and Mike excuse me one moment page four the top uh we have indoor track District Middle School also I know what I'm sorry uh oh no I'm sorry it's rescinding the assistant oh this is great okay okay so we're making on the head indoor track and rescinding understand previous appointment thank you bottom of page four these are people uh staff members coaches who work in our weight room with our students throughout the school year I'm not sure this is the right time but I would like to consider than getting at least an annual wage ten dollars an hour
014you know maybe something that they've been doing but that's not minimum wage in New Jersey if I could propose it I would make 25 but I think it should be at least minimum wage good would it be a violation if that ten dollars or based on uh state's minimum wage Invasion dollars you know what's it asks for CPE ACP EA contract something you want to look into yeah we'll we can look into it so why don't we strike it and add it to the next week okay so we're gonna we're gonna strike the resolution of the uh look at increasing that to minimum wage I think it's 14th it's a crooked number I think it's 14 13. yeah terminology crooked number yeah yeah but I agree with that over to page five we are including
015tuition reimbursement as a for CPA contract you know the staff members have an opportunity to give reimbursed after tenure for um up to twenty five hundred dollars for tuition reimbursement and these are staff members who have satisfied all the criteria in terms of the courses uh being or more in terms of our grade and we are many pages six seven we are approving salaries from teacher aids and bus aides for the following the coming September over to page 10 we are approving our agreement with Jewish Family Service and we've done for the last 15 years for the after-school program and they handle a lot of our clerical work and they they really helped us out as far as dealing with parents so on and so forth before the colorful payment services so we're approving that
016contract and then over to when they jump to finance you know we already spoke about the facilities Mr romantino so we get a busy summer which is always good take advantage of the opportunities and we have a little extra time with the custodians our local contractors and our bidded contractors working on our end of year for 22-23 we're working on our star Dave here for 23 24 working on the 22-23 audit and orders will probably be in four to six weeks and the last two pages Pages 19 and 20 we are approving uh some Grant applications the Essa and the idea and these two applications to Grant applications help us offset our special needs tuition and our local budget salaries taxpayer salaries so they're obviously extremely helpful helping us manage and balance our zero-sum budget
017in regard to what we just spoke about on pages four and five the current minimum wage is 1413 starting January 1st 2024 it will go to 15 13 and that 13 cents was a incremental that was put into effect when inflation kind of hit 12 to 18 months ago we'll keep everyone posted on that that's pretty much it Mr we have not had a breakdown it's up and running and emails have gone back and forth and the compressors are replacing two of the compressors as four compressors and train has been on site the HVAC installers been on site with train we've also gotten some information from Fogerty on what our rights are and what do do process and do diligent and all of that is Steve Fogerty uh responded to Lou please have them installed
018the two compressors and then we'll see where this goes but everybody's in the on the same page we've been communicating back and forth they just need to come in time next week tentatively Thursday the email that was sent back to train was with any confirmification from the high school coming on site professors they're extremely heavy and uh hopefully next Thursday Friday it's done and after the next following week you can see where we're at so I just want to make let everybody know that you know we're on top of it thanks Joe any questions on the consent of the judgment motion to accept I'll make a motion okay that was Mr terabaki and Mr Garcia correct yes that or anything okay okay I like to take a a vote if I may Mrs Abreu yes
019page seven Jessica Foster thank you for that yes Mr ringcourt yeah Mr Russo yes Mr terabakia yes my last little as long as you know and Mr yandere yes uh I believe just confirm someone has their phone I believe that Wednesday I believe it's the 26th and there's no work session we combine the work and the public session July is our only month we have one yeah July's the only month where we have only one one meeting we don't do work in a public so we'll just have the work and public combine so it is the 26th that yep so that's that's the next one I'll say ice the board knows I'll send out my little gentle and friendly reminders thank you for boards always acquiescing to my gentle and friendly remind us I appreciate
020that hopefully it helps yeah yeah there's a lot going on I know there's a lot yeah there's a lot going on so um that's pretty much it Mr Robert any other questions and just note that uh you know Mike's last day is on Friday Dr Hayes takes over 12th of July 5th Lou will be away for an extended period of time everything's pretty much covered uh I've told the facilities of chiro has any issues you can reach out to me but everything if if blue the word can put out an email uh with Dr Hayes cell phone and all that after the board members it would be appreciated sure we want to welcome Dr Hayes we look forward to having you and working with you thank you thank you very much I look forward to
021working with working with all of you especially you Mr ramachino okay thank you again it's not up for this video all right like the emotions