001[Music] Hey okay I would like to welcome everyone to our Board of Education meeting tonight just a note to the public who might be viewing us on YouTube there is a document on our website right below where you click to get to YouTube that allow you to enter a question on a Google Doc and I'll entertain those questions just before ending the meeting tonight so if you would like to pose a question there is a doctor a document that you can complete and you can access that from our website let's begin by doing the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States and thank you mr. fanon would you like to read your statement yes I would mr. román Gina thank the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted
002to ensure the rights of the public to have advance notice of and to attend the meeting of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of tactical aside Porter vet has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the day time in place they were posted the new officers of the borough clerk for a library for a rec department you office of the Board of Ed and the offices at schools numbers 3 4 5 6 in high school on January 13 2020 and notices were forward to reporters of the record January 13th 2020 this is an official meeting mr. Roman Jean I'd like to take the roll if I may okay mr. Capano here mrs. Fredo here mr. Garcia here dr. Pantoliano
003mr. ring court with the ring court unmuted he's muted no my my my my our computer will just zoom I can't we see you yeah okay call your here mr. Shelley here Teddy Teddy here I'm sorry no word okay okay so what just once again like to welcome everyone to our meeting a couple of items I'd like to go over before we look at the consent agenda and also to the public who might be viewing our meeting tonight there is a copy of the consent agenda right in the same dialogue box where you clicked on to to view the meeting through YouTube one thing I'd like to point out to our our board members is a virtual schooling I have to say that we're in our sixth week of virtual schooling and things seem to
004be going very very well when we came back from Spring Break all students pre-k through 12 are now on remote learning using you the Chromebooks or a device that they may have at home so everyone has access to the Internet and all of our staff members are able to communicate to both parents and students virtually and like I had said it's our sixth week I think it's it's not an it's not an easy challenge especially for our staff members who are preparing lessons each day but the feedback that I'm getting from staff and from parents who have been emailing seems to be very very positive and I think everyone despite the virtual work learning working out very well looking forward to getting back to school as soon as possible some of the schools in Burton
005County high schools are honoring our seniors because graduation is up in the air in terms of whether or not it will be in person or virtual schools in Bergen County on Friday nights beginning this Friday night those schools that have high school field lights are going to light the lights from 8 p.m. to 8:20 in honor of our graduating class the class of 2020 because we don't have lights at the high school field the borough has been kind enough to allow us to use the lights at school number six so we're going to light or they're going to light the lights every Friday night for 20 minutes and that will honor our seniors from from the class of 2020 I'll get some publicity out on that and mr. Pinto will also to let residents know
006exactly what the meaning of the other lights are so that should start this Friday night just a reminder the school budget election is about mail ballot only as we were talking before the meeting most residents probably received their ballots today so I'm encouraging everyone to vote we and please return their ballot by the due date which I think someone said was May 14th but the sooner you get it back the better so please vote when that ballot does come in the mail you'll notice on the agenda tonight we're going to be appointing some of our staff members for our summer school which begins June 29th again that's tentative depending upon the governor's decision as to whether or not we will be back in school and we will continue virtual learning if summer school is not
007at school because schools are still closed the other option would be to look at as a virtual summer school similar to way the way we're doing virtual learning right now so the governor is supposed to be making a decision on May 15th once he makes a decision as to whether or not schools will be open this school year at all and what he allows us to do as far as the summer is concerned then we can make some definitive plans regarding summer school but my hope is that if it's not in person we will be doing some kind of virtual summer school to support our students speaking of virtual events last night we had our very first high school on a society virtual virtual induction we honored 6-7 seniors who are graduating in June they
008were inducted last night into the Honor Society there are about 30 juniors who would normally have been inducted last night and because they'll still be with us next year we're going to plan on an October induction for those students to honor them we also have some other events that are upcoming our middle school Honor Society I spoke to mrs. Forster today and we are we've begun planning the middle school Honor Society which we will also do virtually probably in about two weeks and I'll get the dates out to the public into the board once we finalize that I also spoke to Dave rafita our athletic director and we're going to be planning some type of athletic Awards early in June to honor the students that are in our winter program and our graduating seniors who
009would have played this spring so those those are some upcoming events and academic awards we've contacted the majority of people who are kind enough to give scholarships to our students all of our students have applied for most of the scholarships and everybody's willing to take part in some kind of virtual event so we will be doing some kind of academic awards before the end of the school year to honor those students who we would normally honor I believe this year was May 28th we were going to have our academic awards so we'll do something virtually around that date as I said before middle school high school graduation those are some events that we will be planning but once the governor gives us some Davitt some clarity as far as schools being open or closed we'll
010move forward with some of those more planning on those events I just I also want to point out that you know that we've been giving out free and reduced lunches every day since this started even over the spring break today the last couple of days correct me if I'm wrong Mustapha no we've given out somewhere around a thousand breakfast lunches per day to students who qualify for our free and reduced lunch program so I I think that's really great and I want to commend quantonium who's been basically there every day making sandwiches and they were there every day from 12:45 to 1:45 and parents and students have had the opportunity to pick up breakfast and a lunch every day and they've really been doing a great job and we've seen the number of people coming
011out increasing every day I think we started with 200 the first day and we're up to a thousand right now so it's great that we can we can do that yes mr. ohm you know just do we have had our highest total today of over 1200 okay well that's great to hear and I think we have about 1800 free and reduced students so it's about 3/4 or 75% of of the people have taken advantage of I think that's great and I think it's great that we're able to do that and we'll continue doing that until we're either back in school or when school officially is supposed to end which is the third week of June before I look at the consent agenda there's any any questions from the board members about what I just discussed
012or maybe something that I didn't discuss excuse me no it's the other way around last night we inducted seven seniors who are right the card the students who are current juniors will be here in October so we can do a live induction the seven seniors got excuse me we are because the gate graders are going to be in the high school well that's not normally the way it works if they're if it's a middle school on a society and again I don't know all the bylaws of the Honor Society but I speak to Mary Forester but my feeling is that their eighth grade is they're going to be graduating they're going to be honored at their graduation as honest Society members and I think the feeling was we'd like to do it while they're still
013eighth grade is before they move on some students may not be going to our ninth grade they may not be going to our high school or they may move and we may not have an opportunity that where we have an opportunity now something I talked to mr. forth mrs. Forster about yeah I like I said I have to ask her about I don't know if there's any guidelines regarding when a student has to be inducted but I'll find out I'm not sure but I'll find out and I'll get the information out to everyone thank you okay anyone else okay so I just want to take a couple of minutes just quickly to go through our consent agenda I'll just note what page I'm on at the bottom of page two we are appointing Janelle Duvall
014as a new social worker added to our child study team become effective September 1st 2020 as you know we spoke about adding two team members a social worker and a psychologist because of the caseload that our child study team has so Janelle will become a member of the team as a social worker pappa page three Lucy Canopus is also being appointed as a member of our child study team she's a certified school psychologist and she will also be beginning with us September 1st 2020 starting on page three we are appointing a number of teachers I'm not going to go through every teacher but there are a number of positions in summer school that we are filling on page three we are appointing our classroom teachers on page four we are appointing our special education teachers
015who will be working in our summer school special education program we have speech therapists at the bottom of page four who vide speech services to our special education students during the summer top of page five we are appointing our ESL staff for the summer who will be providing services to our ESL students a school nurse in the school first aid first people that we are hiring one one stationed at school five four our pre-k program and one at school six bottom of page five we are appointing a number of enrichment people we have a summer enrichment program for three weeks these people will be teaching a variety of classes we're in the process of making up a brochure and again that's a program that we may or may not be offering bottom of page six
016continued on to seven are a number of special education aides that were working classrooms during the summer then we have our art teacher phys ed teachers we have a grad point program which is a a program that we use where students are using Pearson grad point for credit recovery we have three people that are working in that program one on the high school two in the middle school we have our director have a ninth grade orientation program that we run each year and hopefully again it depends on whether or not schools will be open and then we have our seventh and eighth grade math and English teachers for students that are taking summer school courses in our middle school and as I stated and as stated in the resolution the resolution does state that if
017summer schools if schools are closed summer school point these people I will notify the staff of that schools again are closed we may be hiring a majority of these people back if their programs can be run virtually because we would like to offer programs for our students over the summer who do need the support we also have a weightlifting program that we run every summer for our athletes and again that's a program that can't be done virtually but I probably would be up in the air policies and procedures were just approving the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association approving the fact that we're joining that Association we have a resolution on the Virtual Learning Program this is something that our attorney mr. Fogerty sent me this morning that we just included I think was either
018late last night or this morning just something that we understand to the state stating when I submitted our remote learning plan to the Cary and when we officially began our remote learning program so the program was submitted a March 13th and our actual virtual learning program started on Monday 16th so that will be something that will be missed our founder will send it to the state's buildings and grounds which I have unfortunately nothing financed mr. Albano yeah just a couple of resolutions I'd like to quickly point out mr. román gee no we're approving our safety grant was for about 24,000 dollars that will be downloaded tomorrow to complete the application process we will apply that grant funding to school some interior cameras at our number six school well we are renewing our applications for number
019three and number five school temporary classroom units we have to do that each year and we are approving Liberty mechanical this could be doing the boiler replacement projects in the summer of this year for schools number three and schools number five that's pretty much it mr. Roman Jena I just wanna I'm just going to look to see if there are any questions from the public before we vote on the consent agenda okay I see one question well there's a few questions actually okay first question I have is and I'll paraphrase it if the school district has to cancel in-person graduation this year has there been any discussion about doing it at the beginning of the next school year instead of in the beginning of the next school year so there has been discussion regarding graduation
020one thing I wanted to point out but I didn't point out earlier it is at my round table superintendents meeting the other day one of the discussions was for principals high school principals and superintendents to form a committee to discuss what type of virtual graduation we may want to have what they're really looking for is consistency from district to district or as much consistency as possible so that one district is not doing something radically different than another they would like to make it somewhat uniform and that's only a discussion to answer the question that was asked I think it would be difficult to have it at the beginning of next school year I know many students are going off to college hopefully if colleges are open in September many of our students go into the
021military so that might be difficult there is a possibility that if schools are open in the summer that maybe we can have it in July so again that's something for discussion with the board and I don't think we can really have that discussion until we get some more definitive information from governor Murphy so I hope I answered that question okay next question I have is if we do not go back to school what plans are being looked at for senior prom and graduation so I think I answered the graduation question as far as prom is concerned I have asked mr. Pinto to look and look into some alternate dates he has come up with some dates for early July but again that's all dependent upon whether or not the governor is going to allow let's
022say crowds of 200 people to gather at a function like a prom same thing would be true for our grade 8 dinner our grade 8 dinner dance is in beginning of June and it usually I would say maybe 150 students so that's something that we can also hold in July but again we have to just wait and see what the guidelines state as far as whether or not we could do something I told I was in like I said before I was in a student council meeting last week and there are a lot of students that would like to see a prom because they look forward to that as their one of their senior functions and when I brought up the idea of early July they were in favor of that but again it depends
023on what the governor will allow us to do okay so I think those are the only questions that I have right now from the public so if not if there are not any questions from the board on our consent agenda the flyest will vote motion to accept I'll make a motion that mr. Shelley yes one second okay Cabot second with mr. Garcia yes okay okay I'll take a vote now mr. Capano yes mrs. Fredo yes mr. Garcia was dr. Pantoliano dr. Ponciano mr. rein court yes mr. Shelley yes except them abstaining from on page 8 the appointment of Kevin Shelley as a ninth grade transition teacher with that page eight mr. Shelley yes it was okay duly noted okay our neck and Mike one more and teddy yes okay sorry mr. all right our next
024public board meeting is Wednesday May 20th now mr. alfano is there a possibility that that mating may be changed due to the budget election being moved no since the budget election is the 12th you have 7 to 14 days after the budget election to have your reorganization meeting so that calls eight days you'd be fine so then more than likely that meeting will take place on the 20th correct okay very good okay anything else for many of our board members [Music] school I know we said we're beyond the five years at five school that we can have those how many years can you keep applying for an extension for that right now we're in our fifth year was November 2015 that we install those right so how I understand it say again on the application
025five years was the maximum choice I was wondering how many years beyond that you can go I the Department of Ed I understand that there's no limitation as long as you provide a sound reason for keeping the trailers you have to prove a need and that's what you do Lou right what's that I think that's terrific I think the county waves that when you show need and that we need the classroom space there's there some some I think in the under 17th or 18th year in North Bergen [Music] yeah but that's probably the state is known for that they they don't revamp their applications at times we're having an issue at the Senior Center with the lotto bingo license same thing they usually a doctor panthéon oh they usually come on-site to do an inspection
026each year when we do the initial application for the extension but I don't believe they're going to be coming on-site this year you know I only ask because I happen to read it and I saw five of the last boxes so I was just curious yeah so what yo you're welcome once this is approved I send this via email to the county and they usually give me a approval via email and then they send me a hard copy they also usually will then come on-site a week or two later to do an inspection but what I when I spoke at the county ba he's pretty sure they are not going to be coming on-site this summer okay Lu I have a question as you know on Fridays Mike yourself and I are privy to the
027Burroughs meetings are we gonna do anything with FEMA and put some reimbursement in for additional dollars for the coab Edina and emic we thought we we've completed the application Joe to be eligible okay my gran Trak ad called me today to confirm that that was done mr. Poirier was kind enough to give me the information so we completed the application and we are eligible if there is any incremental dollar specific to Kovac so we're all set in our grant writers willing and able to help us run through the paperwork when in it and evening excellent Thank You Lou my pleasure okay anyone else yeah Mike I don't like to say this I'm Georgina sure I'd like to thank you too along with the staff for my fellow board members during this difficult time you guys
028are doing outstanding job well this positive for social media and everything else song the police deparment Fire Department EMS everybody's doing a great job I like to thank everyone I have to go that thank you very much for reminding us teddy Thank You teddy okay anyone else mr. Roman do you know it once this we adjourn I just want to take a few minutes with the board sure okay so let me call for a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion that the complainer yes okay okay that was mr. Rancourt yes okay so move mr. román Gina okay so to our public thank you for attending as I said before our next meeting will be May 20th thank you okay board could stay on for a few minutes