001i 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 stop thank you mr roman gino i'd like to read a quick statement if i may the new jersey open public speaking law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public for advanced notice something to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest was discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of this act the cliffside park quarterback has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the daytime in place thereof posted in the office of the borough the federal library the borough rec department and the office of the board of education and the offices of
002school number three four five six and the high school on may 5th 2021 and notices were forwarded to reporters of the record may 5th 2021 this is an official meeting here mrs fredo here mr garcia here dr pantaliano mr raincourt yes mr russo here uh mr shelley here and mr terebot here hello teddy okay mr owen gina okay i want to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight a couple of items i'd like to review before we look at the consent agenda um this past week the governor did announce that uh all students will be in person come september so we we will be planning over the summer uh our return to school for all students um as a way of preparing we are preparing orientations this summer for both seventh and eighth grade students and
003ninth and tenth grade students because there probably are some 10th grade students going into 10th grade who may have been remote all year so they haven't been to the high school yet same thing for seventh graders who may have been remote all year who have yet to go to the middle school so we thought it best to run a orientation this summer optional for students that we'll be publicizing uh sometime in july uh beginning of august for grades 7 through 10. um we also also want to make mention that on our website we have posted that the public can make suggestions regarding something referred to as the safe reopening of school that's a mandate from the department of education so i'm in the process of writing up a report which is referred to as safe
004opening of schools in september but they're asking for community input so if you would like to make some suggestions regarding returning to school in september you can go to the website click on the link and make a statement about some of your suggestions i want to make mention that this past saturday we dedicated the batting cage to in memory of ben ludera a former teacher and a baseball coach who unfortunately passed away last march due to covid uh it was a great day and i want to thank the cpa pizza park education association for their efforts in fundraising and putting saturday's event together i also want to thank our supervisor of guidance elise casano for putting together last night's scholarship awards academic awards uh we had on the field last night great weather great night
005um a lot of great students received um scholarships for the workforce or for uh community or four-year colleges i do want to make mention that graduation right now is scheduled for monday june 21st a three o'clock graduation for the eighth grade a six o'clock graduation for high school on the same day we just received information late yesterday that there is a strong possibility that the governor will allow an open graduation which means no specific number of uh spectators we were planning on having just parents attend with their children uh as they did this year uh sorry last year but with this new uh guidelines that are coming out there is a possibility and i'll be speaking to the board about it and mr pinto mr bagner about having spectators at the graduation since the governor
006has um said effective june 4th uh this will go into effect uh last week of school for elementary students uh half days june 14th to june 21st uh middle school and high school schedules will stay the same uh a letter has either gone out or will go out to parents regarding that last week of june which is uh usually half days for staff uh for students and staff i should say just a reminder that this summer we are running a number of summer programs um summer programs for students who are in need of credits uh some are programmed for students who are um categorized as learning loss due to the pandemic and we're also running a summoner enrichment program for three weeks in august all of these things are posted on our website and if
007a particular student has been recommended for summer school parents have already been notified about that summer school begins june 8th and runs for four weeks and then our enrichment program uh runs for three weeks in august uh just a reminder we originally on the calendar had set june 1st as a half day due to the primary election but we found out later in the school year that the primary election is actually june 8th so i did send a notice out to parents that june 8th will now be a half day all remote for students so there will be no students attending school on june 8th due to the primary election uh staff will be in and will be teaching virtually as they did when we had a snow day this past winter okay um any
008questions from the board at this point before i go to the consent agenda any questions or comments from the public so do you think members of the board of education i'm very honored to be here with my friends to present our memoirs for things to avoid while here i also want to thank mr pinto particularly for recognizing the students talent and for trusting us and mr adler with the school's reputation he doesn't always get the credit he deserves for allowing us a chance to succeed in ways that other people wouldn't have we are great we are so grateful to each of you who have in your own ways this film the class of program 19 has it has been a journey of self-discovery as well as self we're here today to offer you what gives
009for candidates spreading this book can help it become an integral part of the preset part compared between uniting us together and reminding us how strong we are during one of modern street's greatest tribulations as the days behind our wall started bleeding into each other and nothing for value anymore a lot of students teachers and members of our own community fell into an abyss of loneliness heartbreak depression lack of motivation and even humor our beautiful and raw experiences are all explored within these within these memoirs while each story discloses a unique perspective of 1419 mental health struggles family situations or even other aspects of the warranty i'm going to show you a little bit of my experience for me and i feel like for most of my fellow friends as well the book sparked reason and
010purpose a reason to get up and get dressed in the morning a reason to check my emails a reason to talk to friends about their situations well combined to the four corners of my room i would count the minutes left until i would until i was able to close my computer and call back to bed after reaching out to mr adler and being and getting a part in the book and working with him on my memoir i didn't even i didn't even realize but i stopped counting those minutes being able to talk and open up to mr adler about what the past months have been like was a breakthrough that myself and many other authors were in need of writing and discussing the book with friends family and mentors was a form of therapy and
011self-exploration that we will always be great as a result of writing this book we have been recognized by news outlets nationally and more importantly locally realizing that our voices are being heard and people are actually listening has been an experience that will carry us for a lifetime this is who we are but more than that we are what this town can be mr other says that people will listen into me we have made them we we want to invite you to help us continue to make them talk with mr admiral plan the next book now we would also like to invite you to purchase copies of the book for the schools in the district and throughout the state put hard copies into school in the high school and middle schools and spread the word of
012our stories with your colleagues and friends in other towns we also want to offer you this poster which is in the back of the room um so so so that our collection may be recognized involved in public spaces in town including the live the library your offices in this very room with gratitude with uh with appreciation with thanks and we hope that you continue supporting projects like this at cliffside park high school we offer you these gifts thank you thank you very much you should buy one i did buy one amazon.com i just want to thank mr adler uh for the work he's done with our students i know from the very beginning when mr pinto made me aware of what the students were uh doing as far as writing this book um it sounded
013like a great idea but little did we know that it was going to blow up the way it did i know you've gotten a lot of press on cnn nbc um and even when i have my county superintendents meetings a lot of people have recognized the fact that they are aware of the book the kids did a great job i know the first time i became aware of mr adler uh having his students write is one morning i opened up my email and i had about 30 emails from students in his class and i guess the idea of the project correctly if i'm wrong was for them to um write their reasons as to why certain things in the high school should be changed or suggestions in terms of making changes and uh i took
014the time to answer those 30 emails and respond to each of those students so they had a response from me knowing that uh we did care about what they had to say and uh little did i know from that day when mr allen was working with the students that would come to such a great book like this so mr adler i thank you i thank all the students in your class i know during the typical times that uh this book has made an impression on not just cliffside park but as was said throughout the nation internationally so keep up the good work we hope to see more thank you very much if they can this way they can see it if not it's okay sure all right thank you thank you okay anyone else any
015questions or comments if not then i would like to look at the consent agenda frank do you know if anybody no i'd like to refer to the consent agenda the board has copies in their folders as i do each week or each month i'm just going to highlight some important items on the agenda if there is an item on the agenda that anyone has a question about uh just feel free and i will give a better explanation as to why we do have a resolution uh on page two um we haven't done this in a while but we are approving some professional development for staff members some the majority of it is virtual you'll notice that a number of staff members are taking classes for advanced placement as they do each year usually in person
016unfortunately right now it's still virtual but hopefully more and more staff members will have an opportunity when we come back in september to uh take part in professional development in person um the first resolution i have is resolution recommended by the superintendent of schools to appoint barbara braco as principal of school number three at a contracted salary of 127.3 effective july 1st 2021 for the 2021-22 school year so i just want to make mention obviously congratulations barbara i will send a letter out tonight to the district congratulating barbara but i know that i've had the pleasure of working with barbara for many years uh when she was a pre-k teacher most recently as a supervisor and in any job that barbara's had uh she's always been a great asset to the district and barbara i
017know you'll continue to to be that especially at school number three so congratulations uh resolution recommended by superintendent to accept the retirement of stella bianchi special ed resource room teacher at the high school uh stella came to see me last week stella's been with us for over 35 years um started out i believe it's school four as a resource room teacher uh i'm sorry school five as a resourceful teacher may have spent some time at four but uh most recently many of her years were spent at the high school has done a wonderful job with us with our special education program so i wish uh stella the best uh the next resolution is to appoint catherine piccola as a speech consultant this summer for our summer program top of page three as you know we
018have openings for high school guidance secretary high school main office secretary due to retirements uh first resolution is appointing a net scalar as full-time 12-month secretary assigned to high school guidance uh next resolution is to appoint cynthia mourinho as a full-time 12-month secretary assigned to the high school effective july 1st and a resolution to transfer jenny d has who is a currently a part-time secretary in the athletic department to full-time secretary in the athletic department so jenny will start that full-time position july 1st uh we're accepting a leave new jersey family leave from camilla tofano uh maternity leave a little bit further down the page we're approving an unpaid leave for donna murtagh secretary of school six on page four we're appointing for our summer program uh all of our teacher aides we're going to
019be working with our special education to um students this summer uh primarily at school six and school 5 in our pre-k handicap program so those people who are listed on this paper work in those programs during the school year and they'll be continuing on during the summer and we're accepting tonight i know i had sent you um i emailed you a copy of the board self-evaluation a couple of weeks ago i gave you a hard copy last week so we're accepting the board of education self-evaluation for the 2021 school year and we're also um approving the revised school vehicle assignment policy which is policy number 7650 which will go into effect effective tonight after we approve the agenda and as i mentioned before um early dismissal for students pre-k through six for the week of
020june 4th through june 21st mr fano anything in finance it's a couple items from gina um obviously working on our end of the year for the 2021 school year we have one major project going many projects going on this summer we have one major project that i think everyone is pretty jazzed about that's uh the gym upgrade project that we've uh we met on today in regard to uh replacing the gym floor at the high school all the windows and a new hvac system so we're pretty excited about that we expect that to be done by the end of the summer and we're opening up our 21-22 school year in the coming days also that's pretty much it on the finance side did you want to make mention about the apr yes the apr the
021american rescue plan just received arp american rescue plan which essentially received some guidance on about two days ago it looks like cliffside park is going to get an allocation of approximately 4.5 million dollars we don't have all the specs yet in regard to the allowable uses but directionally as mr roman gino mentioned the safe return plan is due on june 24th of this year and the application and the budget itself is due november 24th uh 2021. those are two key dates uh coming up so you know that we had an sr1 an sr2 and and now this is the um arp which is referred to as arp and uh with sr1 i think we received a couple hundred thousand as the two which we have an application in now uh we are going to receive
022somewhere in the range of 2.2 million dollars that goes towards learning loss summer programs uh facility upgrades uh counseling for students which we're going to be doing a lot more of this summer and next year anything that has to do with addressing something that surrounds either hvac in your buildings or learning laws for students and uh that's called essa ii the new plan which just was released this week uh is a plan that president biden signed in january or december maybe january uh has to be january and uh that's going to give districts uh x amount of dollars based on free and reduced lunch students so on and so forth and we found out the other day as mr alfano said the side park will receive 4.5 million dollars which is a significant amount of
023money and uh mr capano as we did last time uh we will put together a draft budget when the time comes uh we'll ask input from the teachers union which we did the administrators the board the community that's why i have that posted on the website now and see where we can best utilize this money to uh support our students and this and the district overall thank you okay so that's good news uh when we receive money like that it's always good news um and uh anything else any questions on the consent agenda motion to accept so moved that's uh mr garcia mr panna we're one and two correct yep okay i'll take a vote now mr romagino this is a brew yes mr cappano yes mrs fredo yes mr garcia yes mr raincourt yeah
024mr russo yes mr shelley yes mr terrific yeah so move mr romantina okay just before we i call for a motion to close the meeting just a reminder that in june we are going to have two regular meetings because june is usually a busy month with appointing staff for next year and new staff and so on and so forth june 19th is june 23rd i'm sorry june 23rd is our first meeting and you know that mr alfano sent a a notice out this week that the next meeting will be june 29th a tuesday night not wednesday the 30th so it will be the 23rd of wednesday 29th a um a tuesday but we'll send out notifications okay motion to adjourn supreme court may i have a second please second is that mr shelley yes okay
025mr owen okay thank you very much