001good evening everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all mr alfano thank you quick statement in new jersey open public media law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public who have advanced notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies which any business affecting their interests can be discussed or act upon in accordance with the provision of this act because i talked for the medical school's notice of this meeting to be published by having the daytime in place they are posted in the office for the library for our rec department the office of the board and the offices of school number three four five six and the high
002school on may 18 2021 and notice that the reporters here okay i'd like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight for those community members who are watching the stream welcome just a couple of items i'd like to um go over i'd like to publicly thank our administration at our middle school in high school for last monday's graduation exercises everyone really did a great job in putting the program together the weather held out thankfully and everything went very very well last night we had our prom uh in paramus and uh and speaking to mr prin pinto this morning everything went well last night kids got home safe as you know as a precaution we did have every student who attended the prom tested for covid every student tested negative so everyone that paid for their bids
003were allowed to attend the prom so we're happy that that went well we did end our school year last monday on the 21st uh it was a difficult year in terms of remote learning virtual and we're looking forward to uh being back to as as normal as possible for september and speaking of that last night the governor uh sent out guidelines for september tentative guidelines uh as you read through them and i i started today uh it does state that there may be changes that could come in august depending upon the climate at that time and covet at that time but right now he is asking for a full return to school no remote learning and those guidelines that he put out i will be summarizing and putting some suggestions together and i will share
004that with the board um i'll get it to you before our meeting on the 21st of july so you can review it and then on that night we can have some discussions regarding some of the discussions um i mentioned to mr capano that i will be conferring some of the with some of the local superintendents to get an idea of some of their plans and we can share some ideas so i will be putting that material together for for the board and then once we approve it we'll get it out to the public in august i don't want to get it out too early because in doing that there may be changes between now and the middle of august so i'd rather wait a little bit longer and see if the governor does come out
005with any additional guidelines or revisions as you know we started our summer school program on june 28th we have students in pre-k through grades 12 attending summer school across the district we have summer school classes running at schools five three four and the middle school our high school students who are taking part in summer school are going to the middle school this summer because we are in the process of installing a new pa system in the high school and there are construction workers up there between the pa and the gym and we felt for the safety of staff and students they're attending summer school at the middle school with high school teachers we also are running our enrichment program three weeks beginning august second i believe for three consecutive weeks if parents are interested we
006have a brochure on the website and uh you can contact school six if you are interested in still signing up your child okay um any questions comments from the board okay uh before i look at the consent agenda i just do want to make mention that i had sent out the uh the final copy of the middle school and the high school newspapers um the both papers are available online if you get a chance the kids and the advisors really do a great job with every addition that they put out and the final editions for this school year are posted okay no other questions if not then i will uh ask for any committee reports well uh getting some feedback from uh as you know uh building grounds gets busy this time of the year
007uh dr pantaliano and myself attended a meeting on uh abuse last last week with welfano in reference to the gym upgrades things are moving along uh right now they're in the asbestos removal stage and a lot of submittals are being submitted to lan associates and uh it was more of a listening uh lesson for the both of us and we sat there and they went over their plan for the summer we hope that they'll be completed before the school year they did indicate to us that the hvac system is on back order because of covet some of the parts uh uh could be uh uh stalled uh so uh we'll see how it goes uh we'll get more information in the next few weeks i know there's a lot of projects going on um that's
008pretty much it for um the facilities maybe luke can give us a better update a little bit later uh in reference to personnel uh as you know we are uh negotiating uh some contracts and approving some of them this evening i want to thank uh all the committees that have been working hard and also i want to thank mr alfano and mr roman gino for uh putting a lot of effort into trying to get some of these contracts completed and i also want to thank the administrative staff and all the employees for cooperating and getting this done well more than that that's it on my end for committees any anyone else with any committee reports i actually have a question and i know mr ermangino asked before about questions but last week we had discussed
009issuing certificates for kindergarten promotion i did speak to the principals and they will be doing that they will be doing that yesterday so our younger students can expect kindergarten kindergarten yes they'll be expected to see something in the mail i notified the principals the day after our board meeting and they they do have the certificates it's just a matter of printing them mailing them and they they will be doing that thank you very much i appreciate that yeah on another note i know that the middle school did send out the honor roll or certificates and everything because we did get some at home thank you okay anyone else before i look at the consent agenda okay so we have a pretty lengthy lengthy agenda i'm gonna pick out some of the key items uh you
010know this is the time of year when we reappoint um primarily at this meeting our teaching staff for next year we will be reappointing other employees of the district at our july meeting and some even in august as mr capano mentioned most of the contracts are completed so you will see that as i go through the agenda but we also have new staff that are coming to the district uh replacing staff members who have left replacing staff members who have retired so some of those resolutions are in here and i will point some of those out on page two of your agenda we have some staff members who are taking part in professional development over the summer some of the professional development is now becoming live once again as you know during this school year
011we didn't do much pd because a lot of it was virtual or more than that not being offered so we are we do have two staff members attending pd over the summer months some staff members underneath that are being transferred these are staff members who have been with us and they're being transferred from one position to another um to fill positions or it's a it's a request they may have made and we're honoring that request so i'm not going to go through all the names but those are staff who are currently with us i do want to point out that angela celso will be taking over as head custodian at school number three danny scabilia who's been with us for a number of years who did a good a nice job with us is moving
012on to another position uh we are approving uh the salary for the superintendent of schools we are approving my self-evaluation i'm sorry the board evaluation for the superintendent for the 2021 school year uh top of page three we are approving the contract for glenn luciano who's our transportation coordinator coordinator chiro spinella who's our supervisor of buildings and grounds uh gf favano who's the administrative secretary to the superintendent uh frank savasano is being appointed as director of curriculum uh josephine vela as i mentioned last week and spoke to the board right dr what did i say great director of technology sorry about that he's got that capacity yeah he can do it all right could uh josephine veller is going to be our new 12-month supervisor josephine will be replacing barbara bracco who uh effective july
0131st will be principal of school number three i wish josephine value the best of luck in a new position tatiana dragon is going to be a ldtc learning disabilities consultant at the salary of 65 440 plus a stipend for working an additional 10 days uh michelina katmeyer who's been a sub with us for a couple of years is going to be a part-time title one teacher without benefits at school number three uh knud fernand ferdinand is going to be a maternity leave teacher replacement teacher uh for high school social studies and um we are approving angela margiotti who's our school nurse at school number five angela's been with us since january she's going to continue into the next school year uh we are approving a new art teacher for the high school hillary line uh
014hillary is replacing natalya max who resigned to take a position in another bergen county district uh ben marciano is going to be part-time council uh custodian at school number five we are approving the contracts for the following the cliffside park district technology department cafeteria lunch aids custodial association bus driver association cliffside park teacher aide slash bus aides secretarial association uh those contracts are being approved tonight all of them are three-year contracts and i had emailed the board a copy of all those contracts i believe it was either friday or saturday over the weekend uh natalia max were accepting her resignation she's done a good job with us as a high school art teacher for the last few years we're rescinding the appointment we made last month of mata madeleine de la pesca who was going
015to be an elementary school teacher with us but has decided to accept the position in a different district we're rescinding the appointment of alexander tribeca as a part-time title one teacher alexandra will now be a full-time teacher with us at school number four to replace actually madeline um so that is on top of page five uh we are um i'm recommending the termination of an employee effective may 31st employee number 5470 jillian calabrese who's a grade 2 teacher at school number 4 is requesting a maternity leave from september 1st through october 12th sick days and she will return on or about february 1st underneath that we have as per contract staff members who are moving from one salary classification to another which would mean an adjustment in their salary we're approving bus drivers for our
016summer program a special ed program and bus aides you know that during the summer we bus special education students within district but we also do quite a bit of busing for students who are in an 11th month program outside of our outside of our district okay like i said we are accepting the resignation i'm at the bottom of page six danny scabilia head custodian number three and frank hoshbach who was a part-time custodian at number five uh his resignation effective june 25th antoinette segrow who was a elementary teacher at school number four in various grade levels has accepted a position in another district we're accepting her resignation uh we're accepting the contract or approving the contract for marianne carrera who's the bookkeeper in our central office for the 2021-22 school year we have some stipends
017that we are paying out that were not paid at the beginning of the school year or we missed during the year stephanie witte at the high school for teaching holding a dual certificate and utilizing that certificate uh mark purcelli who taught us sixth class during the year at the middle school uh gladys brzezuto is going to be a full-time bus driver with us effective i guess august alfano or july of course you said i have monsters oh tenant afterwards in july then it kicks back into last week august uh as per contract with the cpa we are approving payment of graduate courses that were submitted last august and were approved and now these staff members have submitted proof of payment and uh successful completion of a grade of b or better in their graduate classes
018some volunteer coaches for our four sports boys soccer football competition dance and cross country all of these volunteers as we do each year are fingerprinted through the department of education and then at the bottom of page eight we start listing as per contract salaries for all of our tenured staff in the district with stipends uh longevity i should say not snipers longevity and at the bottom of page 13 uh the same listing for non-tenured staff members you know that the law in new jersey now is completion of four successful years uh in order to be tenured and then that runs through page 15 and beginning on page 15 we are appointing as i discussed last week at our meeting all of our coaches for the 2021-22 school year as per contracted salary the other pages
019are just the actual resolutions for various personnel which were listed earlier second reading of our policies and regulations which i shared with the board last week we are approving our agreement with jewish family services you know who works with us cooperatively with our after-school program they handle all of our payments throughout the year and provide counseling services to us which are also very important buildings and grounds and then mr alfano do you have anything in finance trying to quantify our surplus we are opening currently opening up our 21-22 school year our new school year mr caprano mentioned some summer projects high school gym renovation um a couple of schools number five school in high school where we are revamping our pa systems and in regard to food service this summer we have two programs going
020on pretty much simultaneously one is every day from june 28th to august 6th we call that the sfsq program it's our rec program at 26th school approximately 175 snacks 175 lunches will be served each day from tomtonian food service vendor and the other program is our sso program which has been going on since the beginning of covid that happens at number three school whereby once a week we will serve seven total meals starting on june 30th through august 11 so that starts tomorrow every wednesday throughout the summer 46 p.m and runs to what date june 30th through process we believe august 11th okay and then it'll resume again and that's available to all parents all students correct and we give really a week's worth of meals each wednesday okay that's been pretty much business as
021usual since the early right early part of uh so yeah some nice work for us those are two key programs food services that's pretty much it on miami okay um before i ask for a vote on the consent agenda i just want to check no questions okay um any comments questions on the consent agenda okay motion to accept i'll second uh that was mr russo number number two okay i'd like to take a vote uh this is a brew yes um yes and one abstain on the salary from maria capanos yes this is freedom yes but i have to recuse myself page eight ashley fredo yes yes yes except uh page 12 salary for kevin shelley i'm staying that's page 12. yes that's the custodial staff contract right thank you okay um just a reminder
022that in july our meeting is july 21st i do want to make mention to the public that uh beginning in july you can attend uh meetings uh our public meetings our open board meetings we still will be streaming the uh meetings to the public in case you're unable to make it uh so once again i just want to thank all of our administration and staff uh for a great job this has been a difficult difficult year and we hope that come september like i had mentioned earlier things earlier things get back to uh more normal where students can attend school for a full full day eat lunch in school and do all the kinds of activities that we've done in the past uh motion to adjourn i'll make a motion second mr compater was number
023one and mr shelley was number two very good thank you okay thank you very much everybody that was quick no no