001all right 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 and justice for all Mr Farrell okay I like to read a quick statement if I may Mr Roman Gino the New Jersey open Public's meeting law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have notice of and to attend the meaning of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of the sac the coastside public schools notice that this meeting to be published by having the date and time and place there were posted in the office of the borough clerk Borough Library for a Rec Department the office of the Board of Ed and
002the offices of school numbers 3456 and the high school on August 16 2022 and notice reported to the reporters of the record August 16 2022 this is an official meeting I'd like to take the attendance if I'm famous Roman Gina Mrs Abreu Mr capana yes Mrs Fredo Mr Garcia here Mr nadru Dr pantoliano here Mr Russo Mr Shelley here Mr terabakia here Mr yanuzzi here okay Mr Roman Gina okay thank you very much Mr Fano I would like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight just a couple of items I would like to go over before we look at the consent agenda um I would just like to take this opportunity to thank our administrators and our K-5 staff for taking part in our parent conferences as we do each year this year our conferences
003were held on December 6th 7th and 8th for all K-5 parents who were interested in attending and the reports that I got from our principals that it was well attended so again I want to thank our staff and our principals for organizing uh those conferences just a reminder to uh the board that we are going to continue the re-registration process that we started in the spring as a reminder this past spring we did a re-registration for students who were in grades 3 6 and 10 at the time and in January we're going to be sending letters out to parents who have students in grades two five and nine and they will go through the same process they will have to show proof of residency driver's license a number of items that would verify the fact
004that they're living at that particular address so that would be for Cliffside Park students only I want to make mention and thank Mr porfido our athletic director for running a great Awards night on December 13th uh at six o'clock in the high school gym uh we recognized all of our fall athletes who took part in our programs and this was the first year that we were able to have the awards in the high school gym and the gym looked great uh and Mr profito and all of the coaches did a great job and as I did in a text that I sent out I just brought a commend all of the students uh athlete that took part all of their recognitions and our coaches so that took part on on December 13th and as we
005do each year last couple of years our schedules have been a little bit off because of covid but in June we will have a similar night and we will recognize all of our students who play winter sports and spring Sports so more information about that will follow I want to thank our high school administration for housing a radiate orientation in November as we do each year we open it up to seventh and 8th grade students in Fairview and coastside park parents and students to come to the high school we had somewhere between 50 and 100 students and parents who came out for the orientation just to give them an overview of what programs are available at the High School academic athletic co-curricular so I want to thank Mr pinto and his staff for running that
006program I'd like to commend Lori Levine who's a guidance counselor at the high school and students actually Lori Levine held an instant College acceptance days at the high school we had 87 colleges who took part and they gave out eight hundred thousand dollars in scholarships to students at the high school so this has been something that we've been doing the last couple of years Mrs Levine one of our guidance counselors organizes it and I think it's a great opportunity for our students as far as getting scholarship monies and it's also a good opportunity for students who are interested in a particular school to get an instant acceptance so that took place in November and again thank you to our guidance department for taking part in that uh last board meeting I shared with the board
007uh the preliminary results for the New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment as I mentioned that was a test that was given last spring to our Juniors it was a preliminary test uh the results did not count it was the first time that the state administered such a test and I guess they were doing it so they could see what needs to be tweaked um or if they plan on um giving that test again this spring in fact uh is that scheduled for the spring in March so in March this year they will administer the test to all the current Juniors and more than likely this year's results will count although they haven't confirmed whether or not students will need it for graduation so that's something that uh we're waiting for information from the states okay so
008at this point any questions or comments from the board or the public uh if not then I would just like to take a couple of minutes to look at our consent agenda so you can follow along uh page two as we do each month we are approving um professional development for staff members I'm just reading it over as I'm speaking professional development for staff members you'll see that a lot of some workshops are still virtual although the majority of them now are in person so we have a number of Staff members going to conquer math which is a workshop we've been attending for a number of years for Staffing in grades K through 12 and then there's workshops on dyslexia and other topics that relate to the classroom so we're approving the reimbursement for gas
009and also for registration fees page three uh about the resolution which is second from the bottom Iman shahada who's been a substitute with us for a number of years we'll be filling in uh as a leave replacement in school number six for one of our special ed teachers who is going out on maternity leave and that will begin December 9th and end April 17th our parents again have been notified uh by letter by Mr Bogner page four uh about halfway down the page we are approving um the appointment of Catherine tamagong who is a Elementary music teacher she's been with us in September and she's just received her final notification from the state she was transferring her certification from New York to New Jersey so it has been received and we're reporting her as music
010teacher schools four and six ba step three uh next one down Joseph Aponte uh we're accepting his resignation he's been a high school business teacher with for us for a number of years and he'll be leaving uh effective January page five third resolution down uh we have a high school math teacher Suk Young Lim who has been with us since September but she has also submitted her resignation she'll be moving on to another District uh effective February 10th so just as a a note if a teacher does resign uh contractually they need to stay 60 days unless we make the decision to release them early so in both these cases both of these teachers as we look for Replacements are fulfilling their 60-day obligation uh very bottom of page five Dan Helm who's a science
011teacher in the High School uh were appointing as the high school Academic Decathlon advisor that position was held by Joe Aponte who's leaving so we needed to fill that co-curricular position uh Mr Helm who's been with us a number of years he's coordinator of the stem program at the high school we'll be taking over that position on Page Six uh last two appointments our part-time bus drivers who were increasing their hours so we're moving them from part-time to full-time positions I think they've already started that position yes Mr fan or no uh after the New Year third of January yes third gen okay page eight um second resolution down uh we are approving uh the updated safe return plan this is related to um safety regarding covid and uh as part of the ARP funding
012that we've received school districts every six months need to update their plans Cliffside has updated it as per guidelines it's posted to our website and that was uh to be submitted December 22nd and um I submitted that a couple of weeks ago and it has been posted to our website um next resolution is we're adjusting as per state guidelines um the travel reimbursement for professional workshops uh it is now 47 47 cents per mile uh for the 2022-23 school year uh next resolution is what I just spoke about we are proving the results of the spring 2020 field test administration of the New Jersey graduation proficiency proficiency assessment next couple of resolutions are just making note of uh confirming the outcome of bullying incidents uh that were investigated um in across the district um in
013a number of our schools and again the fact that it was investigated doesn't necessarily mean that it turns out that it's a confirmed investigation or confirmed incident but we are obligated if asked uh to investigate and we have a team in each school that takes care of that and if I skip over to page 10 we're approving as we do each month buildings and grounds a lot of those are activities that have taken place by advisors um Spring Dance karaoke Valentine band performance so on and so forth and we're just approving the use of the buildings and the grounds over to page 12 on the finance Mr alfano I don't know if you have anything a couple of quick items Mr Roman Gino um we started our early audit for 223 school year we completed
014successfully our Assa audit which is essentially an enrollment report that's due to the state we completed that with no findings and also what they call a Dr TRS report which triggers our state aid for special needs transportation we completed that report also with no findings and there are four resolutions at the back of this agenda uh specifically requesting approval for the land Associates our architect and engineering firm to submit the department of Ed applications and drawings for capital projects for our gym Lobby our rooftop project our masonry project at six school and our stair Tower projects at three School four school and six school we are hoping that these will be summer 2023 projects and we'll be going at the bid hopefully in March of 2023 I'll keep the board in the public uh posted
015it's pretty much it Mr one thing I didn't do while we're speaking about the consent agenda is I didn't call for any committee reports I don't know if there's anything as far as buildings and grounds the ongoing process of the 2000 uh summer of 2023 potential projects as everyone knows it's an extensive amount of paperwork that needs to go to the Department of Education over at the state so everything's moving along and some of our projects from the 2022 summer are pretty much closed out just some formalities have to be taken care of and that's pretty much it I I must say that for our buildings being the age they are and the Board of Education under your leadership is the Roman Junior we were able to do a lot of Capital Improvements to the
016last 10 years you know a lot of our buildings are in great shape but we're positive flow for this student administrators and teachers all good stuff okay anyone else any questions on the consent agenda before I ask for a motion to accept motion to accept my parents okay thank you both like to take emotion uh this is a brew is not here Mr capano yes yes Dr pantaliana yes Mr Shelley yes Mr vac yeah yes Mr yanizzi yes Mr Roman Gino's so moved okay any other comments questions other business okay then I just want to take this opportunity to wish uh everyone a restful and safe winter break our next meeting is uh January 25th correct yes okay uh thank you very much motion to close I'll make a motion okay thank you all okay
017if the board gets