001please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states america and to the republic for which stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice mr fano okay mr romano thank you i'd like to read a quick statement if i may the new jersey open public meeting law is enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest if discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of this act the cliffside park board of ed has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having a date time in place they are posted in the office of the borough clerk the voter library the borough rec department the office
002of the board of ed and the offices of school number three four five six and the high school on august 30th 2021 and notice reported to the reporters of the record on august 30th 2021 this is an official meeting i'd like to take the role if i may mr roman gina a brew here mr cappano here mrs freda yeah mr garcia here dr fonteliano here mr raincourt here mr russo mr shelley here mr bhakti here mr yanuzzi here okay mr roman gina okay thank you mr alfano i just want to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight uh before we look at the consent agenda and before we hear from one of our guest speakers tonight just a couple of items i would like to review i just want to thank our administration our principals and
003our teachers for holding our parent visitation evenings uh this year during the months of september and the beginning of october we had an a um in person uh parent visitation night well attended uh everybody was safe and wearing masks we had one parent per child and uh each of the nights went very very well we got some very positive feedback from parents who were happy that their children are back in school i just want to make mention that during the month of october um we have previously celebrated the week of respect during october 4th week school violence awareness week is going on currently this week the 18th through the 22nd and then next week we'll be celebrating red ribbon week which is the week of october 25th if many of you follow our instagram accounts
004each of our schools and the district you'll see that many of our students and staff members are taking part in many activities that relate to the concept of each of these weeks so i thank again our staff members principals student councils for organizing these events as you know every three years each district in new jersey has to take part in cusack which is monitoring of the district uh this year cliffside park along with 30 other districts in bergen county will be monitored in early winter uh january 19th right now is our date for our monitoring um a district-wide committee has been formed we haven't formally met yet uh but we will uh shortly to talk about some of the things that we need to get in place but as i said during our last meeting
005uh based on what we've done the last couple of years in terms of our preparedness and filing reports uh in a timely manner i'm very very confident that we're going to be doing uh very well as far as our monitoring is concerned uh we had star uh start strong testing uh the last we had makeups last week and the week before uh our students took part this is similar to the spring assessments that are given each year and they weren't given this past spring because of covid so start strong was a shorter version right now we do have individual scores from students but at the beginning of december we'll be getting school cumulative reports and district cumulator reports and at that time i'll share the results with the board in the meantime what our principals
006and staff are doing is we are reviewing individual scores uh we are identifying students who are in need of remediation and we are going to be setting up additional homework clubs after school additional tutoring programs in the more in the mornings and uh the monies to uh run those programs will be provided from grants that we've received uh over the last year or two like so2 funding and arp funding so i will keep the board apprised as to how many students are taking part in that program in those programs november 10th um we are preparing for a pre-k and k parent workshop it's going to be run by um jewish family community center counseling services uh we're going to be inviting all of our pre-k parents all of our kindergarten cotton parents and speak about
007topics that have to do with supporting their children children's instructional program uh how to assist teachers uh with better classroom management um how to set up positive communication between the home and the classroom teacher in school so we're going to be promoting that program it'll be 6 p.m at school number 5 and a flyer will be uh sent out next week and we'll be inviting parents across the district who have children of that age we'll also be promoting it through our our pta program okay one thing i do want to point out uh that in this week's agenda we're going to be approving uh our graduation rate for the 2020 2020-21 school year and it's great news if you look at our uh and there's a lot of data on both sides of these uh
008of the paper that i gave you but the most important number to look at is the very top left hand corner where it says total students cliffside park high school our graduation rate this year was 95.4 percent if you remember last year it was around and i was just speaking to one of our board members prior to the meeting the increase in our graduation rate is really due to doing a better job of tracking students who leave the district because if you don't have information on students who leave the district that counts against your graduation rate so and again the lack of tracking is not necessarily a fault of our guidance department or administration but sometimes it's very difficult to track students who leave the state or leave for another country but over the last
009year and a half in fact mr savastano who's here with us tonight our director of technology has been working with mr pinto at the high school to do a better job of that and it's reflected in this report so i do want to congratulate everybody and i think it gives a better picture as to what the high school is doing in terms of graduation so we have a very very positive rate uh some of the other numbers uh we're not approving tonight it's just a graduation rate so you can look through the data on each of these on the two pages that i gave you and if you have any questions then next month on our work session we can talk about some of those numbers clarify some of those numbers so that'll be reflected
010in our um agenda for tonight okay before um we going to not on yet okay so you'll let me know uh we're just waiting for our guest speaker from alumni in recovery to log into our zoo meeting and we'll but before i do that any questions um from the board sure i just want to congratulate you and everyone in the district for improving the graduation rate because that's going to be tremendous in our cusack and our performance rating and i also want to commend you and the teachers and students in the district and obviously the administrators because i am on facebook for a lot of the elementary schools in the high school and so forth and i see some wonderful hands-on lessons going on throughout the district where they're outside they're actually engaging and learning
011activities and so forth and i think it's just a wonderful thing and it's beautiful to see and congratulations on a job well done thank you very much and i i do i have to commend uh our principals and of course our teachers who work with our students every day and even getting around the schools i know maybe not all students but i think the majority of our students and our staff are really happy to be back and try to get things back to quote unquote as normal as possible and i could see it in the faces of the kids there's a lot of wonderful things going on so i'm happy to see you and i would encourage anyone who's watching and listening that you can see on facebook what's going on in those schools really
012instrumental thank you very much uh so before again as we're waiting for our guest speaker to uh begin are there any committee reports lou you want to give a quick update i know you've been engaging a lot with the the gym renovation i know we've had some hiccups with and sure where uh how to stand still with the public service poll uh discrepancy and uh why don't you just do this or so uh some good news about the gym project we engaged in a painting project painting project's about 95 done it was incremental above and beyond uh we work with one of our local contractors and the contractor of record we got a couple of quotes got the chin painted in the interim while we're waiting for public service to install the poll we got
013some favorable news today that i heard from another public service contact who told me that there's a very good chance that the poll will be installed on saturday and or early next week and that will again kick-start the timeline because obviously we need juice to move the project and the process forward joe as you know so it's always a bit of a challenge at times with public service but it looks like there's a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel and given some of the delays we've asked our contractor of record and our architect of record to reshuffle the schedule we will have the schedule hopefully by the end of this week the revised schedule early next week and we will engage the facilities committee and mr porphido and mr roman gino
014in regard to uh the impact if any on the upcoming key events in athletics specifically uh the week of the 22nd they have tryouts for basketball and the week of the 29th they are starting practice so i'll keep everyone posted but that's pretty much the gym upgrade update very good any any other committee reports uh just on personnel uh mike had sent out the uh the uh contract for our supervisors and and that was it for this evening we'll be approving that i want to thank mike and the committee for taking care of that and that's pretty much it uh on my end for committee reports anybody else okay thank you very much nancy can you hear me nancy hello hi nancy it's mike romangino how are you hi mike i'm doing well thank you
015so much i'm sorry a program that students can depend upon for an educational group again like i said it disappeared your approach which the people that i'm showing you are just people with [Music] our members of the young like i [Music] um you know we really tried to bring people that you know community land identified so coming into cliffside park we do have some hispanic members that we default to that that were already signed up on the schedule here's just a picture of what it looks like at some of our presentation and this is just also so you know we have a lot of ability to engage um kids in schools um you can create a club you know again community actions we have a lot of events that we do and we have our
016young people junior volunteers paint rocks with nice messages on them the notes of compassion and inspiration that we put on our events tables and we do a lot of events with what's called the black potion which i won't go into the details but if you want to see the video michael so you can definitely watch two and a half minutes long in the shows about the black most project which is a large loss of information that's created by a couple of moms who lost their um adult sound i want to get [Music] um you can get to the regionals have faith in anything that could help them feel that they've got some support and first of all recovery pizza means a lot but the fact that the most vulnerable teenagers are showing that they care
017enough to wait no step of encouragement it's hugely choosing really means a lot so so just that because then there's breakdowns and then we also know what kind of resources we can work together with the police on too so one of the things that we talked about for the is the good samaritan law which is the one that protects you from legal consequences overdose and we always tell the receiver um i work in a parent book which is just a follow-up from the maytime speaking presentations where we speak to adult doctors you can do what you're doing excuse me virtually um during this time period really probably necessary but you know we also and again i mean unless you have a large system between the uh you know we do have members that are bilingual
018and uh we just want to be able to help serve all of the different populations within the bergen county 70 talents so but anyways that's just a combination of our recovery members and parents and then just so you know also for your community if you're interested we've always been put on a community-based vet this is where we get in saddlebrook prior to the um and we have right here it's the assistant prosecutor and somebody else in the prostitute [Music] project there we always have local resources show up and it's just a community effort that we do like on a quarterly basis we're doing it in westfield on a regular basis getting the pandemic but we can always do things virtually including um to go into the school there is no peace whatsoever it's just something
019that we can do this is so important for people to engage in and uh and this is just a picture from the black post projectors this is ruben who is one of our members that welcoming us into your school and i just wanted to also say that we also have a video library that we have started but some of our members have professionally done speaking with the stories in a way that we deal with homework assignment um it's in the new detention you know just things like that with questionnaires and involved with follow-up too so i just wanted to let you know we're here to serve your community you know thank you so much for letting me come and share thank you so nancy thank you very much and also thank you for taking the
020time to meet with us tonight and thank you for coming into our schools in the near future any questions from any of our board members before nancy leaves us tonight okay so once again nancy thank you very much for your time and i look forward to meeting you when you come into the district oh that's great will you be at the presentation yes i will excellent okay we'll need you back i'll see you then thank you everybody okay take care thanks thank you okay so at this time what i'd like to do is uh just go through the some of the items in the consent agenda before we take a vote uh page two we as we have been doing in the past are approving workshops both in person and virtual that staff members are
021attending uh in the upcoming months uh page three uh just a couple of resolutions i want to point out third resolution down uh we have a resolution recommended to appoint victor fredo as hey custodian at school number four uh you know victor was a head custodian at number four school uh when angela defaults was out on medical leave did a great job and now victor is once again taking over as head custodian uh we're appointing a we're moving a part-time custodian to a full-time custodian to fill angelo's position antonio capisi will be doing that and the next resolution angel angelo de phillips deep olympus is going to move from head custodian to uh school number four bus aide slash custodian at number three school okay over to page four we are approving some uh teacher
022aids but about halfway down we are approving uh an unpaid medical leave uh to joanna lozinski uh who is a teacher rate of the high school effective october 1st through uh until further notice uh we wish joanna the best during halibu absence we're also approving unpaid leave a full day leave for sonia compress teacher aid and below that testing destiny tanzi who's been a teacher aid at school number three uh beginning october 19th we'll be taking an unpaid leave for the remainder of this school year at the following resolution uh we are accepting the resignation of fran stomber fran has been a teacher aide with us for many years at school number four most recently at school number four under school number six fran has done a wonderful job in every position she's been in
023and i wish fran the best of luck uh uh as she moves on to another position uh page five our as per cpa agreement we are approving um a tuition reimbursement for two thousand twenty twenty one to john capizzi uh we are approving for the twenty one twenty two school years school year as per cpa agreement uh tuition reimbursement uh if they complete their courses for felicia east and kylie purcelli uh we're also approving or readjusting some co-curricular positions uh saturday's attention to middle school is going to now be a split position so we're splitting the stipend uh we're appointing heather gonzalez as an assistant track coach that's an opening that was previously not filled okay over to page six uh volunteers as you know volunteers who work with us have to be vaccinated uh
024and these are volunteers for the upcoming winter sport mackenzie dowdy who's a teacher with us in the district girls basketball eric manzo who is a math teacher in the high school wrestling charles diaz who has been a um a volunteer with us in the past middle school uh basketball we're also approving tonight the contract between the cliffside park board of education and the klitschleit park supervisors association effective july 1st 2021 through 2024 and the adjusted salaries are listed on page six um page seven is right we go on to page eight uh we are approving the policies that i spoke about last week safety plan for health care settings and the emergency remote instruction plan those are both in policy or will be in policy at this time uh third resolution is uh to accept
025the completed self-assessment for determining grades under the anti-bullying bill of rights which is each year what we do is a a self assessment of how we did as far as hiv is concerned our results from last year are currently posted to the website and as i've mentioned before each of our schools and staff do a great job in investigating thoroughly any accusations that have to do with bullying we're also reapproving the cliffside park district emergency response plans for schools three four five six middle school and high school i have a copy of those plans that are available in my office i want to thank mrs martinati who's in charge of security for the district is our representative uh for updating those plans as she does each year she does a great job with that we
026are accepting the reader um access test results dynamic learning maps for special education program for the 2020-20 school year as i mentioned before our students were tested uh two weeks ago with uh start strong and those results will be shared with the board once we get the cumulative results for school and district probably early december november 16th is going to be a staff and service so we're going to have a half day program november 24th which is the day before thanksgiving recess is also traditionally half day program at the bottom of page 8 some data that has to do with graduation i just want to go through each of these numbers real quick uh total number of students graduated 303 this is for the 2021 school year a number of students graduated under the complicity
027competency test process ela 36 math 28 a number of students that were graduate graduated under the portfolio appeals process that was weighed last year because of covert so there are there is no data for that number four the number of students receiving state endorsed high school diplomas as a result of meeting any alternative requirements for graduation as specified in their ieps which would be 49 students and there were a total of four students who were denied graduation from the 12th grade class because of not completing all of their coursework or state requirements and the number of students denied graduation because of the park assessments was zero and as i mentioned also i'm very happy that our graduation rate for the 2021 school year was at 95.4 percent uh page 10 we're just approving a mandated
028bus drill uh evacuation drill that we go through each year uh the date of the drill was october 20th which was today at 11 20 a.m at school number five we maintain all this information i believe mr alfona we have to do two drills a year that's correct usually in october and may mister okay october so we're certifying the fact that we did fulfill that obligation uh we're also uh updating the uh moa which is the memorandum of agreement between the question park school district and the cliffside park and fairview uh police departments so we have resolutions to each of those things mr alfano anything in finance a couple of quick items mr roman gino our 2122 school year is off and running i'm happy to say uh so far so good the key is
029obviously maintaining budget integrity and one of our major line items is our facilities line item and really it's all predicated on the winter if folks remember in a six week period last year from the end of march excuse me the end of january through the middle of march we had a significant amount of severe weather would put put significant pressure on our facilities budget specifically our boiler and our roofs so we try to be very pruning in our spending up until the winter months because we just don't know what mother nature is going to bring so fingers crossed with that i provided the uh jim uh renovation update uh with mr kapana that's moving forward for 2223 we have engaged our finance committee our facilities committee and our board in regard to potential capital projects
030and prioritization of those projects and uh we'll be engaging in november our principles to give them an update in regard to the potential capital projects for their respective schools and currently we are coming to the end of our audit for the previous year 2021 uh we'll be conducting hopefully our exit interview next week with our fiscal auditor which will uh provide us direction on our surplus which will help fund our capital projects as mentioned for our 2022-23 budget and they will also uh give us a direction on any formal findings right now directionally i spoke to the lead order he says so far so good on our audit and again we should be going through the exit interview process next week with the fiscal auditors and the business office staff uh that's pretty much it
031mr roman jam okay any questions from the board uh before i ask for a motion on the consent agenda any questions from the public nothing okay so motion to accept i'll make a motion was that mr capano yes may i have a second place was that mr garcia yes thank you i'll take a vote now if i may uh mr capano yes mrs freda yes mr garcia yes dr pantaliano yes mr raincourt yeah mr shelley yes except abstain page six john janucci that was page six mr shelley yes right yes okay thank you mr shelley sting uh mr turban yeah yeah mr yanuzi yes okay mr roman gino so moved okay before i ask for the german just a reminder that november 10th we have our work session november 17th is our correct uh board
032meeting and if i could just ask the board to say stay for a couple of minutes uh after we adjourn um thank you very much for that motion to adjourn so moved uh may have a second if i may play that's mr raincourt okay thank you everyone thank you very much thank you thank you frank thank you greg the 10th is the work set