001i'd like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight please stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag in the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all this stuff you know i'd like to take the role if i may this is the brew mr capano here mrs fredo mr garcia dr pangliano mr raincourt mr russo mr shelley yeah mr tarabaki yeah you came from gina a couple items i would just like to review um i just like to thank our administration our board and our staff for a very smooth opening last week students started attending on wednesday the 9th that was when we had our first group of elementary hybrid students in and so since then
002i have to say things have gone very very well entry in the morning students are having their temperatures taken staff members are completing a health form and having their temperatures taken and so far things seem to be running running very very well i have to commend our teachers who are doing a great job in the classroom uh they're teaching simultaneously um a live remote for students who are virtual and also for students who are in class if you get the opportunity to walk through the buildings uh or parents may even see classrooms because their kids are on um are on virtually you can see that all of our students are wearing masks we've had very little issue with that whether it be elementary middle school or high school uh students are socially distanced during classroom
003time and during entry and during dismissal so i really want to commend everyone for their efforts it's only with everyone's cooperation and working together that we had a successful opening and i hope it continues i just want to make mention that four sports other than volleyball uh started again up on monday so at the end of this month which is september 29th 30th october 1st then we will start games with football tennis and soccer you know the middle school sports we said last time we suspended for this school year but uh once we get into uh the school year another week or so we're gonna look into some type of intramural programs for our middle school students and our high school in your packet tonight um dave porfido our uh athletic director sent us an
004initial spectator policy uh he came up with a policy based on uh guidelines from the state and um right now it's just it's an initial draft copy until we actually start games and spectators actually attend we're going to see how this works in terms of how many people we can actually accommodate we want to be able to accommodate obviously the teams the parents of those teams of those participants and then how many students we can then handle and community members and so on and so forth a lot of that is going to depend really on what the participation looks like and uh and speaking to mr porpito today um he's you know gauging how many people we can fit in the bleachers so that they're socially distanced uh how many people can stand on the
005field and so on and so forth so i told him that the policy that he put together for games at our field and also at the school number six direct is really based on um guidelines from the state and how he thinks it could possibly work i think once we start football or once we have a soccer game at number six school or at the high school then he will have to tweak the guidelines to be able to maybe accommodate less people or maybe if we're fortunate accommodate more people but right now what you have in your packet is the um draft policy of the spectator policy uh once it's finalized uh and i'll share it with the board then we'll post it online but um you know he'll get the word out to coaches
006and to students about having parents come and so forth so on and so forth so we did begin again on monday and um hopefully we'll have a successful fall season and once we get into october we're supposed to be getting some guidelines for the uh winter season uh and see how those sports will go a lot of those are indoor and i don't know what the state is going to say about student participation but we'll wait and see um i'll be posting a flyer to to our website we're going to be offering again this year it's called an sat boot camp for seniors this year it'll be remote we have 10 dates where students or eight dates right now where students can uh it's for free at no cost we have two of our staff
007members in the high school working with our seniors um to try to prep them for the sat so um a flyer is going out uh to our students and you post it to our website uh next week as i mentioned to our personnel committee uh we'll be appointing and i'll send out the recommendations to the rest of our board uh later this week for the co-curricular activities that we can offer this year as i mentioned there's there are some activities uh based on the organization like the math team uh we're waiting to hear from mock trial we're waiting to hear from those organizations as to whether or not they're going to have a program if they're having a virtual program then we will have we'll appoint an advisor and we'll have our students participate but
008right now activities such as the literary magazine on society uh debate club school newspaper robotics these are activities that we can uh put into effect immediately i know teachers have been promoting it already and will be officially appointing the uh advisers for those activities at our um board meeting next week so i will send a copy out to the board uh within the next day or so since i just discussed it with the personnel meeting again if there are any um parents who are viewing the board meeting tonight and you know of new registrants to the district please let them know that we are registering students they can call my office for an appointment and then we will register them there is a 14-day waiting period for new students coming into the district so that
009we quarantine those students from the day that a person fills out the initial application they have to wait 14 days if they want to go hybrid and be in person in school if they want to be remote then once their residency is verified they can go remote but we want to be safe and wait the 14 days for students that are entering our building who are new to our district yes so we're we're providing a lot of that stuff so in the uh in the elementary schools as an example at the end of the day custodians are doing a deeper clean sanitizing the buildings so the next morning when students come in the first group i'll call it group a everything is sanitized at lunchtime when that group leaves we have custodians teacher aides and
010lunch aides sanitizing every classroom between the hour of 11 30 and 12 30 the hours so that the next group that comes in in the afternoon has a classroom that's sanitized the district is providing all of the spray we have hand sanitizers in every classroom if they're not excuse me the board of education is paid for um all of the hand sanitizers that are on the walls we have a hand sanitizer in every classroom we're paying for that we're refilling all of that every day there's hand sanitizers as you enter every doorway in every building the spray bottles that are used to clean the desks in middle school and high school we're providing the pump spray for all classrooms we're refilling those you know some teachers might feel comfortable bringing in their own wipes or
011some may have even asked students to bring in extras just as an extra but we're supplying everything that's yeah yeah and we and we're keeping up with making sure that we always have a stock of sanitizing spray or the sanitizer that you put in the pumps things like that okay i mentioned the opening of school and i thank everyone for things going very very well parents should just download the cliffside park app for updated information and refer to our website today was the first day of our grab and go lunch at the high school for students who are all remote so for student is all remote and they want to pick up five days of a breakfast and a lunch they can do so wednesday afternoons from four until 5 30. i don't think yet
012today we got a number right in terms of having i haven't heard from a cat she's gonna text me about seven o'clock okay so today was the first day i sent out notifications to the app i did a swift reach we posted it on instagram and i think once the word gets around that uh students and parents can come to the high school on wednesdays these are the all remote students they can pick up a five-day supply of a breakfast or a lunch so that they have it all week students who come into school every day are getting a grab-and-go lunch every student is getting a grab-and-go breakfast and a grab-and-go lunch that they bring home so that the next day they can have the breakfast before they come in and they can have a
013lunch when they when they go home this way there's no eating in school and that eliminates a lot of the issues with sanitizing the classroom after students eat things like that so there's there's no eating going on in school which we find to be a safer environment so that seems to be running very very well the grab and go okay at this point if there are no other questions i'd like to ask our board if there are any committee reports uh yeah just uh i'd like to go over uh building grounds i know tomorrow our boiler project that number three school and uh number five school is moving along i'm pretty sure uh mr alfano can interject we're almost three quarters of the way completed there uh we're having a zoom meeting with the architect
014and uh the boiler contractor tomorrow at 11 o'clock uh and uh that's going well there um middle school bleachers we had gone out and gotten uh bids for uh middle school replacement bleachers and at that time we came in within under our budget but we realized that as the project was moving forward uh starting to order everything and get everything ready uh we had specified plastic bleachers as you know in the middle school in the new building they're they're wood and we decided that you know what we should stick with wood we've done some evaluations it's much better with the wood bleachers than plastic bleachers for durability slipping et cetera all these kind of factors so i believe it was the same manufacturer that did our floors correct correct yeah and and then we we
015spoke to him and he recommended that well maybe you want to do a change order and go to wood and we asked him for a proposal on the change order and believe it or not it came within our below our sixty five thousand dollar budget we budgeted sixty five thousand uh plastic was around forty if i'm not mistaken well yeah he came in originally at about 39 and changed right but the other contractors who had plastic they were around 64 65 right so even with the wood we're slightly below the other contractors who were at plastic so with wood we're going to get 63 000 correct to pull and replace exactly what we have and we thought we were going to save some money but in the long run we still came uh under our
016uh budget and i just wanted to make everybody aware and i think i hope everybody's comfortable with that we're going to stick with the wood it's the way to go i know a lot of new facilities have been going plastic kind of excited to think about it but then looking at some other facilities looking at the wood we have and talking to some athletic directors and some facility managers and they all recommend it stick with the wood you can't go wrong it's easy to repair etc so uh that's the decision we made and we still are way below our budget by two thousand dollars so uh that's pretty much it uh finance committee did meet this evening uh i'm on that committee also we're just uh like every year uh mr alfano gives us uh
017a list of some potential capital improvement projects for 2021-22 uh we did uh have some dialogue uh on a spreadsheet that he presented to us and we will uh digest that in next month and as the months go on before we introduce the budget we'll have a better idea of what we can do and what we can do uh we are fortunate enough with the frugal uh uh spending we do here that we've done over the years i've been here 12 plus years about 15 million dollars in capital improvement projects that have not impacted the taxpayer and that's kudos to the administration here from mr roman gino mr alfano and the board so i want to thank everybody for uh their cooperation with that and hopefully 2021 will be a better year we hope that's
018it that's it for me okay anyone else okay so uh just a reminder that uh next week we have our public meeting uh if the public are viewing at this time next week you will have the opportunity through our website to ask questions and we'll respond to those questions if not everyone have a safe night and a motion to adjourn so moved i'll second it thank you thank you