001we could 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 and justice for all mr alfaro thank you mr roman jean i would like to read a quick statement if i may the new jersey opening called this meeting law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public [Music] department the office of the board of ed in the offices of schools numbers three four five six in the high school on august 30th 2021 and notices were forwarded to the report of the director august 30th 2021 this is an official meeting would you just like to take the role if i may mrs abreu here mr capano this is fredo mr garcia
002mr raincourt here mr russo mr shelley here back here here let's see you know here okay mr rowan here mr final thank you i want to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight uh just a couple of quick items um i just want to remind parents of elementary school students that we have our week of concerts pre-recorded on our website the schools three four five and six i want to thank our principals our music staff our uh teachers our tech staff mr savistano our director of technology and his tech staff for recording each concert so if you would like to view the concerts for each of those schools just go on our website click on it and they are available on youtube i do want to mention on december 13th i want to thank mrs russo
003for organizing a mental health workshop that was offered at the high school for parents across the district we had a lot of we had a few social workers therapists at the workshop to speak to parents about a lot of the struggles our students might be having as a result of covid and of experiencing remote learning the last year and a half and how we could deal with these issues and the help that we do have available for for students so we had a nice turnout and again thank you to mrs russo for organizing that workshop i do want to remind parents and i have a letter in your folder tonight i posted a letter on our website just an update on covid and the requirements for quarantining uh students and i also have some travel
004guidelines i know that many of us parents and staff do travel domestically some internationally obviously with covet as it is presently that's a concern when we come back to school on january 3rd so please adhere to those guidelines and i encourage parents to keep a surprise if there are any positive cases of covid uh in their household so we can take appropriate action so there is a copy of that letter on our website uh for parents to uh to review i also want to make mention that you have in your folder tonight a draft copy of a letter that's going to be posted to our parents a new software application called gaggle this is a safety management solution that we're going to be instituting in the district that will watch over content that students produce
005through their school issued accounts so again this is only for school issued accounts that we cliffside park board of education own and what the purpose of the program is is to take note of any wrongdoing profanity violence identifying students that might be suffering from depression thoughts to suicide and the software application which is monitored by this particular company gaggle uh will give administrators myself a heads up on which students might be in need of uh attention and once we get that email then we can provide support or we can identify students that might not be using the software or their accounts properly so this is something that we're going to institute january 18th a number of schools throughout bergen county already have had this uh software program a letter will be going out to parents
006post it to our website and also an email is going to be going out to students letting them know that um this software application is in effect and that they might get an email regarding uh content that they may be using or on with their particular accounts so there is a copy of that draft letter in your packet i do want to thank the high school guidance department especially mrs levine for organizing instant college acceptance day we had a number of colleges come to the high school uh saint peters seton hall william patterson njit fdu montclair to name a few and 131 of us received instant uh acceptance that on those two days so it's a great program that we bring into the high school our guidance department year in and year out do a
007great job with it and it gives students the opportunity to meet with various colleges and if if they agree and the colleges makes an offer they can be instantly accepted to college so this year we had 131 students i also want to thank our high school team uh for finishing in first place in raising funds for an organization called team teem which was raising funds for underprivileged in peru and cambodia and as you may have met saw in my email that i sent out to the board last week uh coaster park tied for first place in the amount of funds that they were able to raise through a walk from our high school students i do want to recognize dr meyer who you know has been a guidance counselor and tennis coach with us for
008a number of years dr meyer recently received an award that's called counselor that cares and that award was given by the new jersey athletic association dr maya has been recognized over the years for a number of awards and this is the most recent and i wanted to just extend my congratulations to him uh just to note that our middle school and high school newspapers the winter editions are available i had sent the copy to each of the board members the last couple of days one today but if the public would like to look at those copies they're available on our website okay i'll stop here for a minute any questions from the board on any of the things that i just spoke about how about uh the public nothing mr sanderson okay so if not
009at this time i'd like to look at the consent agenda as always on page two we are approving professional development for staff members some of it is still virtual a lot of it now is on site so these are staff members who are going to various professional development workshops in their area of instruction and we are reimbursing them for travel as per the contract or for uh registration fees uh first resolution is that um we are increasing the daily sub rate from 95 to 120 dollars per day and the long term sub rate from 125 dollars to 150 per day and this will be in effect beginning january 1st 2022 uh last resolution on that play on that page uh canoed ferdinand who has been a substitute social studies teacher at the high school for
010us from september through today will be taking over in the middle school currently he's filling in for a maternity leave at the high school and he will be moving over to the middle school effective january 3rd and will be filling in as a substitute teacher for someone who is out on a sick leave through june and he is a certified teacher he's been doing a nice job with us uh second resolution dan we are approving the medical leave slash maternity leave for janelle de ball social worker at our middle school beginning february 7th she will return to work on or about april 4th uh resolution underneath that liatoro also social studies teacher at the high school putting in from medical leave slash maternity leave uh beginning april 4th and she will return to her position
011at the high school september 1st 2022 victoria buckle we are continuing her medical leave or she's requested that we continue her medical leave through june through 2022. uh julian calabrese who has been on the maternity leave we requested that we extend our maternity leave from february 1st 2022 for another month march 1st 2022. uh we are appointing a new school nurse who will be assigned to the high school sanam de haldage as a non-certified school nur she is an rn she will begin february 7th her contract will run through june 30th 2022 chiro spinella did receive his certification or supervisor of buildings and grounds after his coursework so where we are approving uh or appointing him as officially uh from interim supervisor buildings and grounds to supervisor buildings and grounds we're appointing a new part-time
012title one teacher who is replacing a teacher who was reassigned amma hindi she has worked with us in the past as a substitute and she will take over january 3rd as a part-time title 1 teacher at the pro-rated salary of 46924 page 4 um i do want to go down to the last couple at the bottom of the page we are accepting the resignation resignation of kim douglas special ed teacher at school number four who has accepted a position in another school district she will be leading on or about february 18th we are also accepting the resignation of galia kizova high school math teacher also effective february 18 i have advertised those positions to fill those positions just this week the last resignation on page four is our high school nurse deidre mariotti uh who
013will be moving on to another position she will be leaving us effective january 21st 2022 that was actually the reason for the new appointment that i just previously read uh we have some transfers for bus age teacher aides i'm not going to read through them all but they're listed on page five and let's see on page seven we are approving our three-year mandated bilingual esl three-year program plan i want to thank dr julie o'connor for putting that plan together and we will be awaiting uh approval of that plan once it's submitted once i get the approved plan uh returned i will share that plan with the board it's actually outlining our plans for staffing programs and such for our bilingual and esl programs across the district page eight we have a number of um bullying
014uh incidents that occurred that we were asked to investigate and they are listed on page eight and you know by laura we can only list it and not discuss the outcome has that increased was that just actually this year we've seen a little somewhat of an increase in bullying situations it could be cyber bullying it could be you know there's different variations of it but we have had students that have come forward and parents that have come forward to ask if they could be investigated we have a team in each school that does that does that renee opp is our district bullying coordinator all of our bullying coordinators go through mandated training and we have a team of teachers in each school um social worker could be a member of the child study team that
015serve on the committee that investigate by interviewing sp um i'm sorry interviewing parents possibly students and determining uh an outcome uh as to the um validity of of the allegation but yes we have seen an increase in fact in talking to some other districts um a lot of us have seen increase and whether it's a result of uh students being on remote or virtual for a year and a half adjusting to coming back to school full-time um it could be related to that but we are taking every situation seriously we investigate it and um if need be if it's confirmed we do follow through with uh some type of i don't want to use the word punishment it could be counseling it depends upon the situation and mr alfano anything on finance you know uh
0162122 which is our current budget our items are doing pretty well in regard to what we forecasted and where we are currently in regard to actuals such as our benefits salary lines uh special needs tuition so so far so good i'm 21 22. we're working on the preliminary 2223 budget we've got some major capital projects that would engage the finance committee in the board we are now working our architects and engineers to do assessments and ultimately start the doe application process with the state our 2021 audit is completed happy to say it's good news it went very well and we also started our 21 22 early process audit and that very went very well also with with no findings this coming week uh the christmas break the holiday break week uh we've got about seven
017or eight different facilities projects uh up and running the two days uh that the custodians will be on site the 28th and the 29th and that's pretty much it okay um any questions from the board or the public on the consent agenda i don't have a question i think he's excellent with the before school tutoring i assume you're paying for that at a grant money learning lost money yeah and i think that that's an excellent concept and i hope to see a lot of students taking advantage of that uh we started that um uh doc doctor pendleton is referring to a morning tutoring program that we have in each of our elementary schools and also our middle school in the middle school actually in the rather than the morning it's we offer it in the
018afternoon also so we opened it up to all students who might be in need of homework help or just you know homework help from the night before or just just help in a particular subject or area so we do have two teachers on duty in each of our elementary schools and middle school and uh we are using learning loss money for that and so far the attendance has been very very good and we're going to continue that through the rest of the school year absolutely thank you so it's worked out very well thank you anyone else okay motion to accept the consent agenda i'll make a motion is that mr shelley yes may i have a second if i may plus a second uh that's mr raincourt okay i'd like to take a vote please
019mrs abrupe yes dr panquiano yeah mr raincourt yeah mr shelley yes starbucky yes mr yanuzi yes okay just a reminder that our next um board meeting will be we have a work session on the 19th uh we have a regular board meeting as we are having tonight on january 26th that'll be 2022. uh we will send out a reminder to everyone so i just want to take this opportunity before i call for the german to wish everyone a merry christmas happy holiday season uh hopefully 2022 will be a healthier year for everyone and a brighter year for everyone so i want to thank the board for your support as always during this school year and uh we look forward to next school year motion to adjourn i'll make a motion that's mr bark you may
020have a second if i may please i'll second it very good thank you happy holidays