001okay can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty Mr alfano thank you Mr Roman Gina I'll read a quick statement if I may the New Jersey opened public meetings laws and actors to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies that wish any business affecting their interests to discuss or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the Cliffside Park Board of Ed has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted in the offices of the borough clerk the library for a Rec Department the office of the Board
002of Ed and the offices of school numbers 3456 and the high school on April 4th 2023 and notices were forwarded to the reporters of the record April 4th 2023 this is an official meeting I have to take the role if I may Mr Roman Gina Mrs Abreu here Mr capano here Mrs Fredo here Mr Garcia here Mr Drew Dr pantiliano Mr Russo here Mr Shelley this terrible yeah and Mr yanosi here okay Mr Roman Gina okay I would like to welcome everyone to our meeting uh just a couple of items I'd like to um point out before we look at the consent agenda I would like to publicly thank or publicly commend our teacher of the year selections this year for Cliffside Park I invited our teachers to the May 3rd board meeting next week
003and we'll um uh I'll make a remark about each teacher and present them with a a plaque but Barbara scordo who's a sixth grade teacher at number six school and Patty Benomo a middle school teacher at a math teacher in our Middle School Kim Shaw from our high school guidance counselor and Carmine cabreri who is a high school special education teacher congratulations to uh all those staff members for being selected by their peers as teacher of the year so we'll say more about each of them next week um I'd like to just publicly read a letter that I sent to Jessica Foster at school number three I'm sure many of you may have seen uh on the news that Jessica came to the aid of one of our students at school number three uh probably
004saved her life um so I commended Jessica or I am commending Jessica publicly but I did send this letter dear Jessica on behalf of the Board of Education and the entire Cliffside Park School community community I want to commend and thank you for your heroic actions while assisting a student in distress your quick response using the Heimlich maneuver may have saved her life we are very lucky in the Cliffside Park School District to have dedicated employees as yourself who truly truly care about the well-being of our students thanks again so publicly thanks Jessica for uh job well done um Pre-K and kindergarten registrations are ongoing we did Pre-K or we are doing pre-k this week kindergarten we have done already but if there are any community members who have children who are new to kindergarten
005this September they can contact the central office and fill out a registration form for September last yesterday we had our budget vote and I want to again publicly thank our community for supporting our budget again this year a budget vote coming in as yes which it did yesterday is a big help to our schools district most importantly to our students so thank you to everyone who came out to vote yesterday I want to thank Mrs Forster guidance counselor at our middle school for holding the high school Honor Society event on April 18th uh just a reminder this coming Tuesday May 2nd I believe it's the second uh we have our middle middle school induction at school number six at six o'clock in fact I think in your packet there's a uh an invitation so if
006you can make that night great it's our it's our Middle School induction okay um before I look on to the consent agenda any questions from the board or the public any committee reports Joe I don't know if you wanted to mention that we're still in uh conversation with uh our committee for the temple and you know as you know we're we're exploring as it would be the reduction we discussed uh possibly uh making it a High School annex you know conversations are going on land Associates is working with the Pharaoh's architect and engine you try to put a package together that they can submit to the state we're still running some financial news Etc so people keyboard of the bar as soon as we get a little bit more things are moving along but you
007know these type of projects slow ly so see how it goes I think okay anyone else okay as everybody knows that this time of the year because of the good financial position we have with some Capital dollars we've gone out bid this evening we'll be approving two bits we'll win the chiro and the entire staff did a great job with the bidding process for the land Associates and then I believe will give us a little quick update I always contact with the attorneys and Architects and Engineers to make sure that everything complies with the bidding requirements and that the contractors are investing in the state so it's pretty much okay thanks John anyone else okay I just want to uh in your folder tonight um as you know each summer I'm going to talk about
008our summer school program in a minute but each summer we also run a enrichment program program for our students these flyers have gone out to our students and our parents posted on our website so this year we're running a two-week enrichment program in things such as science video game design Ceramics what's cooking Lego robotics and we usually have a pretty good turnout this year it's going to be two weeks in August August 7th through 11th and then August 14th through 18th so that's been posted to our website if there are any parents looking in tonight and they'd like to register their students they can download a form or get a copy of the form from their trials School office so if we look at the consent agenda uh on page two top of page two
009as we do each month we are approving professional development uh reimbursement for staff for travel and for registration fees at the bottom of page two we're in the process right now of uh interviewing staff for next year we have a number of openings due to some resignations that we have so we are actively interviewing and hopefully hiring as you know it's the education field has become very competitive and there are certain areas I'll name science math and other areas that are very competitive so we're trying to move along as quickly as possible but at the bottom of page two we are hiring Claire POTUS who is a beginning teacher in elementary school she'll be assigned to grade four in school number three and she's taking over for a staff member who's moving on to another
010position or will be top of Page Three Hannah velarde another beginning teacher she's moving into school number six uh grade grade six and she'll be also taking over for a current teacher who's moving in to a different position uh about halfway down the page uh recommendation uh by the superintendent of schools to accept the retirement of Robert Walker vice principal Middle School effective June 30th you know Bob Walker has been with us as a math teacher most recently as a vice principal in the middle school I wish Mr Walker the best he's been with uh the district over 40 years uh as a math teacher and a vice principal of school number six uh I'm I'm sorry the middle school so he'll be retiring June 30th Sue Avalon is also um has submitted her retirement
011papers Sue has been a science teacher in our high school for 20 years teaching a variety of subjects and again we wish sue the best Laura hushman who's a grade one teacher at school number four is resigning to move on to a different position outside of education so we wish Laura the best she's been with us for about three or four years at the bottom of page three as we do each year we are approving summer school teachers for grades pre-k through eight and these are teachers that obviously work with us in the district we try to assign summer school teachers who are interested to the school that they teach in so that they're familiar with our students so we have a number of teachers regular classroom and special ed who'll be working from June
01227th through July 26th top of page four we're continuing with the summer school teacher appointments next group of Staff members are teacher aides who work either in our kindergarten program during the summer or in special education education classes and again these are all teacher aides most of them familiar with the class they'll be in during the summer and the students that they'll be with the very bottom we are recommending a stair for our summer enrichment program that was the brochure that we were just looking at and these are staff members who are going to be teaching those uh specific subject classes during the summer top of page five uh we are proving Tom mandillo English teacher football coach at the high school for a summer weightlifting program Tom has been doing that for about six
013or seven years now that program runs from July 6 through August 4th uh we are proving to uh of our speech therapists to work during the summer with students who need continued speech services our colleague Wiley and Courtney vignola who are with us as full-time speech therapists they'll be working in the summer a little bit further down uh resolution next to last Christy pampinto is a high school mathematics teacher she has submitted a request for maternity leave beginning on or about May 15th and she'll be returning on or about June 2nd 2024 and Jacqueline Monte Carlo who's a teacher at school number three is also requesting a maternity leave she'll be leaving uh honor about May 22nd and then she will be returning February 21st 2024. so we are also interviewing uh four replacements for
014those staff members also okay if we look over to Page Six a resolution as we do each year tiro spinella who's our um director of uh buildings and grounds is also has to be appointed each year district-wide integrated Pest Management coordinator those are State guidelines so we're just it's a formality to approve that on page seven I think my secretary sent this memo out to the board but um just reminding everyone and putting it on as a resolution that schools due to no snow days this year will be closed Thursday May 25th through Wednesday and reopen Wednesday May 31st so this way we can have our 180th Day on June 21st which will be graduation and also our scheduled Project Graduation uh June 6 due to the primary election the borough has asked if we
015could have a half day session so we will have a half day session uh students are released at 12 45 staff will take part in a staff and service for the remainder of the day uh we will have half day sessions as we do each year at the end of the school year June 15th through June 21st will be half day sessions for uh Elementary Middle School and High School the last day of our after school program will be Wednesday June 14th parents have been notified and our Middle School and High School graduations are set for Wednesday June 21st I believe the middle school is 10 a.m on the high school field and the I'll we'll finalize that and the high school is six o'clock on the high school field also June 21st uh we
016then we just have some resolutions just uh for specifically June 6th and the June 15th through June 21st days uh half day half day sessions over on page eight uh second resolution we are approving uh that we will be notifying uh all non-tenuous staff of non-renewal which is a formality each year we have to notify them by May 15th and then the majority of those people uh will be reappointed as we do each year during our June meeting a number of HIV cases that have been investigated are listed on the following resolutions and then at the bottom of page eight just a brief summary of our summer school programs this summer so from June 26 to July 21st we'll be running remedial math and remedial language arts programs in all of our schools in school
017six for the weeks of August 7th and 14th is our summer in Richmond our high school from June 26 to June 21st we'll be running a high school credit recovery which is essentially giving students who have not been successful the opportunity to pass subjects or make up credits that they may not that they may have missed during the school year and our Middle School 7th and 8th will be running a credit recovery program and we also run a Summer School for Math and English if it's necessary so all of our schools are busy during the summer especially that four week period uh from July June 26 to July 21st and this is something that we do each year page nine is a first reading of mandated policies and regulations I gave a summary is in
018your packet tonight of what the updates are this is only our finished reading so if you get the opportunity to read through the policy alerts and you have any questions you can contact me and I will clarify if any needs clarification we are approving our comprehensive Equity plan the county has allowed us to extend this an extra year so our comprehensive Equity plan which has been in place for three years the county is now allowing us to continue that plan for the 23-24 school year and a resolution to approve that is necessary and we send that out to the county superintendental Accounting Office buildings and grounds approving activities that are taking place by either School functions such as the school play School Musical some are functions by ptos ptas within the schools uh Mr fan
019are you anything in finance a couple items Mr Roman Gino um Mr capano mentioned the two items were going to be approving tonight did you call them award letters of wood resolutions for our rtu project at number six School in our amazing project at number six School good process went well we hope to have a pre-construction meetings in the next couple of weeks and on May 16th we will have another bid opening for our jib Lobby renovation and I'll bring the board up to speed in regard to how that went and how it compared to what we assessed and then we'll have a pretty good idea of any incremental projects smaller projects we can do with our Capital money because that'll be the last bid project for the summer of 2023. for the 22-23 school
020year as we do each year we bring our fiscal Auditor in for a pre-audit prepare for the formal audit in September he will be coming in May 12th and on the May 17th work session uh we'll be going over the early stages of the end of year in our financial positioning uh vis-a-vis Surplus and we'll also have mark vitovich from pomptonian Food Service come in and talk a little bit about the end of year 2223 the food service and the upcoming challenges for the 23 24 school year strong that's pretty much it any questions from the public or on the board regarding the consent agenda sure where is that it's a it's on the bottom of page 11. thank you I believe basketball volleyball not Sports it's sports related I believe it's volleyball but I
021could double check I'm not sure I'll find out I'd have to look on the form okay I'm pretty sure it's volleyball but I will check and okay anyone else okay motion to accept is that Mr capana yeah okay Mr Garcia made the second okay very good thank you motion to accept Mrs Abreu uh yes except I'm abstaining on page four What specifically page four Mrs Brooke Jessica Foster Jessica Foster thank you for that uh Mr capano yes Mrs Freda yeah Mr Garcia yes Mr nidrue Dr puntliano yes Mr Russo yes Mr bakchia yes and Mr yanuzzi yes okay so move Mr romigiana okay very good our next meeting is next Wednesday May 3rd is our reorganization correct that'll be also a public meeting correct anything else let me just check I know we posted the
022opportunity for staffed perform the community members to ask questions I want to okay very good motion so if there's nothing else at this time motion to close a big emotion got it very good thank you all thank you very much we're just going to stay for a couple of minutes thank you so did you want to ask anything oh no okay the meeting's over the meeting's over okay thank you we're still alive enough no just waiting for Frank to answer me uh okay we're like yeah