001stand 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 limiting Justice thank you Mr romanccino I'd like to read a quick statement if I may the New Jersey opened public meetings law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to advance notice oven to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discuss our actual part in accordance with provision of this act because I part of Ed has of course noticed that this meeting could be published by having a date time in place they have a posted in the office of the federal Clerk or a library or a Rec Department the offices of the Board of
002Education and the offices of school numbers three four five six and in the high school on January 4th 2023 and notices referred to reports on the record January 24 2023 this is an official meeting I'd like to take the role if I may Mr romantino okay Mrs Abreu here Mr capano here Mrs Fredo here the Garcia yeah then the Drew Dr pantaliano oh okay sorry let me scratch that Mr Russo here Shelley said it's terbacca yeah Mr yunozzi here okay Mr Roman Gina okay thank you very much Mr alfano uh just like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight before we look at the consent agenda uh just a couple of items I'd like to just take this opportunity to thank our Administration and staff for running our staff and service day this past March
003February 7th we had our staff members Pre-K to 12 involved in a number of uh different activities throughout the afternoon from curriculum revisions to mental health workshops many different things went on during that that particular afternoon we have another staff in service tentatively scheduled for March 14th and Mrs calibri saw director of curriculum is in the process right now of coming up with an agenda for that day uh February 15th we had a parent workshop at school number six I want to thank Mr reinfest all Middle School principal for organizing that Workshop uh we didn't have as big of a turnout and we would have liked but um the workshop addressed uh wellness and mental health of our students and staff but we do plan on doing a follow-up Workshop later this spring but I
004do want to thank all of those who were involved I also want to thank our Administration staff and guidance staff for celebrating uh February 13th through 17th our random week of kindness a number of activities throughout all of our schools I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr Helm he's our high school science teacher and also advisor of our Academic Decathlon I'd like to congratulate Mr Helm and all of our students who participated this year in all of the events that had to do with our Academic Decathlon team did a great job I also want to wish good luck to our high school distributive education Club next week they're going to be in Atlantic City competing in different on various competitions Mrs basoli who is the advisor for that group has been doing a
005great job with our students so I want to wish them next good luck next week at our upcoming competition just a reminder to uh parents uh who might be viewing this um our board meeting tonight that we will be holding our Pre-K registrations for this coming September and our kindergarten registration for new students only to the district um at the end of March so if there are any parents out there who know uh of students who are going to be entering Pre-K or new to our kindergarten they can visit our website there are registration forms available there's information as far as making an appointment for registration and there's also information regarding medical information that might be necessary for registration so if you have a chance you can take a look at that if you have
006any questions feel free to call my office and we'll gladly help you with any uh questions or information you may need at this time um any questions or comments from the board any committee reports from the board okay very good so at this time what I would like to do then is just go through our consent agenda before we vote on it uh as always we are approving a number of Staff members who are attending uh in in person and virtual workshops and we are reimbursing them for registration fees and travel fees um at the bottom of page two actually the pages aren't numbered but at the very bottom of the first page or the second page Mariana Elias who has been substituting with us uh as a media specialist at school number three will
007now be transferring over to a title one substitute at school number three for the uh remainder of the school year uh next year uh next page under Personnel um I'm not going to read anything specific but we have a number of appointments and resignations as far as bus aides and teacher aides are concerned uh very bottom of the page we are approving um school nurse substitutes and Sue Bach who retired as our school nurse from school six this past June uh will be substitute we will be acting as a substitute nurse whenever needed at the rate per diem rate of 150 a day uh over to the next page again it's a number of teacher aides bus aides that are either resigning or we're hiring um nothing else really noted on that page uh following
008page atop we have Catherine Tomer who's a special education teacher at school number four is applying for a maternity leave Catherine will be leaving on or about uh April 17th and uh her anticipated return will be November 2023 we wish her good luck uh Denise hotos who has been an English teacher in our high school for over 35 years has announced her retirement effective July 1st 2023 we wish Denise the best in her retirement uh Maria Elso herleo who's been a custodian with us for a number of years has announced hurry time and she will be retiring effective May 1st um and we wish her the best in her retirement a little bit further down the page Sam Sedano who's a part-time custodian at school number five Sam also served as a board member for
009many many years with us uh has announced his retirement effective March 13 2023 so we wish Sam the best of luck okay uh next page is just some uh Financial Accounting information going over to policies and policies and procedures uh we are approving tonight the uh tentative calendar for the 2000 23-24 school year that calendar will be posted to our website uh sometime next week so pounds of the opportunity to look at the days uh for the 23-24 school year uh next resolution we are approving a staff and Service as I mentioned before for March 14th for pre-k through 12 students and we just have the release times as we do each half day program uh we are approving uh as a formality and Alternate education program in our high school called our Scythe program
010these are for students with interrupted formal education it mostly affects our ell population and this is a program that we've been running at the high school Mr Pinto has done a very good job with this but we are formally approving as per state guidelines that we have a safe program at the high school and we will continue to do so as far as the programs that we run for those students coming into our district we have a number of HIV cases that were investigated as per state law and buildings and grounds uh requests for activities that are being run by PTO and by um clubs from within our district Finance Mr alfano or anything a couple things Mr romancino I'm seeing your packet at the end of the agenda there are four resolution those are
011the formal resolutions to approve our 20 21 20 22 audit uh in the board's pack and the board's a packet they will see the AMR booklet which is essentially an overview of our findings and our Surplus and there's also a annual report in their large report of about 200 pages that goes through all these sub funds and both of those booklets are in the board's packets we are currently working on the budget for 23.24 which is due to the county and the state on March 8th Kia deliverables over the next week and a half is we're going to be meeting with the borough specifically the finance manager I will be meeting with him tomorrow in regard to doing a tax impact analysis on our residents in regard to the levy increase on March 3rd we
012will be meeting with the finance committee and the borough to go over the initial tax levy and the impact on the taxpayer and the total budget and then on the sixth or the seventh I will be requesting from the board for us to do a special meeting to approve the the quality temp resolution which essentially is a resolution that allows the county and the state to do the first blush review of our budget and that'll be on the 6th or the 7th we'll probably do a zoom I will ask Mr savastana to set that up and I know exactly what date yet because I don't know exactly when we're going to be fully completed but on the eighth end of day on the 8th at 11 59 PM we must submit by electronically the budget
013to the county and the state so that's pretty much the overview on the budget over the next two weeks okay any questions or comments on the consent agenda most to accept so moved a second that was Mr capano and I believe it's Mr Russo okay I'd like to take a vote if I may this is a brew yes Mr capano yes Mrs Fredo yes Mr Garcia yes Christina Drew Yes except it's not page six uh online items to regarding the school calendar I'll be boring now okay that's Page Six thank you Mr Russo yes Mr vacchia yes yes thank you so move Mr Roman Gina okay just a reminder uh March 22nd is our next work session March 29th tentatively we'll be uh our budget presentation or we have to wait excuse me no Mr
014Roman Gino I believe it's going to be the 22nd or the 29th I will be doing the the budget hearing to do the formal the formal approval of the budget one we're doing on the 6th of the seventh is the tentative approval to allow the county and state to right right review it and then I believe it will be the 22nd or the 29th based on the new account that's coming out okay we'll have the formal approval of the of the budget okay okay very good okay and then stop and then excuse me and then the vote is April 25th right no April 18th now let's move from because of Ramadan oh okay 25th yeah 18th through the 25th so we may have to tweak our board meeting for the organization meeting until May because
015I think you have to have after the budget vote you cannot approve for a minimum of five days but you have to prove where the maximum of 14. okay which probably leads us to the first so we can find we probably have to do some sort of we can finalize those dates yes okay Mrs savasana was there any questions or comments no okay motion to uh close I'll make a motion a second okay thank you very much thank you everyone thank you Frank