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Cliffside Park Board of Ed. Meeting Live Stream

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Source
YouTube / Cliffside Park Board of Ed. Meeting
Date
2020-07-23
Location
Bergen County, NJ
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,929 words · about 11 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

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001good evening I like to welcome everyone to our meeting tonight we would stand for the pledge relations pledge allegiance black tie States of America [Music] yeah okay once again one before meeting just a couple of items I would like to go over the movie with that theme Sega gender and for the public the consent agenda is available online we are continuing our gravity belt lunch at school number three we will be distributing lunches to our families through the end of August I also believe this time of the break Department is also distributing lunch to residents we are going through the employers I just wanted to thank our administration at the high school and middle school they did a great job with two graduations are virtual graduations which we show at the end of June and

002we did have live graduations two different sessions adhering to the governor's social distancing during the week of July tonight and both were very successful and very happy to see that many parents and students took advantage of that graduations so I again congratulate all of our eighth grade students we enjoy the high school and our high school students on the college and the military just a reminder that we are accepting new students for September so if someone had moved to website for invite you to contact my office and we can register people virtually we'd like to get that done throughout the summer I will also accept the pre-k students our pre-k program and kindergarten registration the new Student Senate District for sports I met with our athletic committee and I've also met with mr. kogo our

003athletic director so right now as per the guidelines from the State Association we are finding our board season depending upon future guidelines but right now there are plans for students to begin July 27 receive a physical paperwork is in and these are just not contact workouts the teams can get together 10 then eventually the next stage is groups of 20 and eventually in September things continue to work out so right now you do have more scheduled you'll see tonight in our agenda we are appointing into some conditions or coaches full season so I'm beginning to the summer workouts students are when they get to practice inspection of students as everyone knows the governor Beebe sidelines we've been working on district-wide committee we start Committee which is made up community members or members teachers administrators students

004putting together a plan that we feel will be safe and also contain in-person instruction as well as virtual destruction so we're in the process right now completing the plan and once that plan is complete actually share your thing about more and once that's done I will be posted to the website and parents will be notified as to what the plans are for September just to mention the governor just recently came out with some additional statements regarding virtual learning so we're waiting for additional advisement on don't bad wines and hopefully within the next week or two we'll be able to final finalizing the cyclops plan have been a lot of press we buy plans from other district people intend to do with a brick what districts Bourbon County of doing or Somerset County Hudson County truly

005never plan for the district depending upon the number of students they have students they have to be serviced and summer and so forth so we hope that we will put a plan together that will combine all those different types of instruction and like I said our our principals I should say are in the process it will be in the process of contacting parents and having a Google session with their parents but big school prior to the middle school so somewhere around well this 28th and 29th when it's all plan is in place the principal will be contacting parents or because of our building inviting them through Google me so that they can share with those back with their hours what the guidelines are the back of specific school and also the answer questions and to

006take questions as far as things like how students have been tender in the morning how students with a breakfast because school to school with batteries so I thought the best thing to do would be to have this meeting by school so that parents have got here about their school and are the procedures will be and an opportunity to ask questions to the principal bye I will also be meeting with our staff ever I share flavored them on August 12 I'll be meeting with the elementary staff or night the high schoolers will stay up another night to again answer questions staff members might have talked about procedures they might be able to share information with us that is that we haven't thought about and then be incorporated because as we were just talking before I meet

007again this was really an ongoing plan depending upon what happened with guidelines in the state but depending upon what happens publicly the virus hopefully would prove but depending upon what happens he may have they changed or as I said to all principals we make my dad another district this will be something that we hadn't think about that works really well so if I should hear that they may be more accommodating so I'll be meeting with the staff and I'll also apply for this place you're going to be pushed parent survey out to the islands last week or that and had about 350 families that responded to that survey I shared the results with the board I shared them his own without district or committee and a lot of that important move over to our I

008do want to mention that although it's tentative for September we're still have an after-school program we have a 21st century grant so we are running a program for schools who raise 4 to 8 and last week we get over it up involvement of students in grades k-3 and a bunch of families that signed up after school so hopefully friends that come become will be able to run that program at the school and also know that that program doesn't help over there [Music] our [Music] we need [Music] anyone else okay so if we could just stop looking in gender I gave my I gave no cop faculty came in tonight just a couple of items I just want to point out as the stood annual convention we are back jessica is still wrong it's coming to

009us as a resource teacher she when you science for number six Jessica and also cover the position that would just recently made a move on one of our staffers decide things on move on to the mystery Nancy my Repetto who was our who have been are looking for accountant is desiring the effective July from ninety Silvio Master Ani with a historian with us and the high schoolers from the before for a number of years is retiring at that time the first munition the best has been in Kerala the battle is been with us a number of years in the district of the teacher in Cairo has decided to retire effective 2:30 on this ps2 Kevin Lee so as we've mentioned before we've been a secretary with us dr. Bachman now it's one of them full

010and transparent another three Marion kerreri who was the secretary of three will be moving over to business law office as all people and top of page three walk facility and with us serving as the teacher inning and as a son back walk with points in the petition they asked rate Wendy virtual learning went into effect simply box appointment of now we are the appointing walk as a substitute visited to those school is taking over for a teacher who was are returning these so walk will be with us in that position through the 730 person Whitney Way mostly the teacher aide with us without service a full-time Pokemon secretary at school board effective this last week she will respond in that position and really disappear will be moving their lunch eight results will film another part-time

011custodian is my map page three Ken Rousseau who is an English teacher at the high school were rescinding his equipment at the volunteer coach because Kent will be with us as an assistant coach so just type of page for the moment Alvin's who ate with us now the substitute the spring fp8 five-time title one teacher that's one of Appalachian blood substitute at the bottom of page four as for our contract with EPA and the city firing Association you know reimbursing staff members were completed and though their obligation will grab her work so we now reimbursing them what they additionally submit that's based on their tuition and also based on the successful opinion of the polls pages five six seven and eight stomach the contract because I park Education Association bitten without a contract in 2018

01219 1920 so we are now as for the contract they're going to be issuing retroactive pay to staff members or title to it are marination airplanes were at the top of the guide and some people in the cycle so rather than just standing there what the electrode is will actually just be adjusting here salary as per the torture it has to be stated but wasn't all the staff members that will get a retro check end of July because July 31st payroll and then DVDs September 2021 will be on a regular new contract as mister the panel noted age nine is the resolution we're going to appoint for coaches with stipulations based on the fact of whether or not is a full season or something work to happy with the governor were to guess for this

013system or virtual okay that would not happen but in preparation of that possibly happening the resolution on page nine testing them and then on pages 11 and 12 I'm sorry just 111 we are appointing just the four coaches or the high school and for the middle school and we will be well you don't find each of the coaches as far as their appointments and like I had said season will conditionally start on the site which is actually that's coming page twelve of the agenda we are recommending a resolution to submit our violence and vandalism report as per state guidelines and has to be submitted every December and every July or every each school year so with just a proving submitting effective report I think there's a copy of the incident and from July from January

014actually to July minimal page 13 is a first reading of policies that are going to be revised I had sent board members in their packet just a summary of these policies the majority of the policies are just minor revisions from the state nothing that is dramatic in the terms of how we go about visitors or guidelines that's the end of the students have to follow excuse me it just revisions to obviously never believe anything so this is our first reading focused we will have our second meeting and food policy it's not finally everything our findings over the final report of the year County with an executed resolution pointed out we are going to our summer projects forward together an expense table open 9 key expenses surprised by what happened quest we don't virtual it's tricky

015in regard to mr. kamatovik he cannot send them electronically so also we are opened up 2021 budget on July 1st and who you are they have closed the year 1820 there is the enemy would team up also explore s work so we are approaching a great amount of supply definitely pretty much filled in the supplies friction it's our hope you get reimbursed but they're telling us we may be in a bigger pipeline that is 75 thank you two versions of the revised age running watch yeah shame on say no came up to the hut it's the same cut for 20 so they said the room in out and the provision with the deck now the final form of eligible to be on around another silly we'll say so we've already we've already gone into what

0162021 budget isolated a certain line item present the capture of 429,000 but obviously have some challenges that money we lose important 25 down plus the coded which is increased on facilities budget hopefully be may help get the actual funds three first into 2021 school year but let's go one thing we can't control is 15 application in and this Spreadshirt spreadsheet in so it could be a challenging year well we'll keep everyone home I had it yes though if they were the same as July longest good but we do get those final numbers honking everybody okay what else so before we take a motion to accept the consent agenda I do have one question from the public that's related to virtual learning as I said during my initial presentation we are in the process of putting

017our what we openly plan together the still waiting for advisement from the governor which is supposed to about this priority regarding whether or not students can have all virtual learning or a hybrid of in-person and virtual zone and I know the public been waiting to hear about what days their kids may or may not be coming to school but they can just bear with us another week by this time next week we should have oil information from the governor and I will be able to post the plans in the public and I think at that time powers will be able to and community members beat through the plan and see exactly how we're asking students to come to school however s next day home there will be a combination of in-person and virtual right now

018that without the new guidelines that are coming out on the bar that we don't know yet what will it be required to do okay so we motion to accept except the tangle yes that was yes yep yes yes except that's meeting on a to earth Jonathan Gucci and big six and eight Kevin okay just before I ask for a motion to close just a reminder that our next board meeting will be August 26 we will be as the board they are now and we will unless otherwise noted will continue to scream to the poem so what is 26 and then the information regarding income on our website so thanks for everyone for attending stay safe and thank you everyone

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