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June 16 - Orange Board of Education - Regular Meeting - Town of Orange, CT Live Meetings

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2025-06-17
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South Central Connecticut Planning Region, CT
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4,388 words · about 25 min
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2026-06-25

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001Good evening everyone. I'd like to call the Monday, June 16, 2025 board of education meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. Uh will we uh we will begin with the pledge of allegiance. Please rise [Music] 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. Yeah, you will need to do that. Uh, Susan, would you please read the mission statement? Sure. The Orange Elementary School District recognizes that the education of each child is the shared responsibility of every member of our community. Our goal is to inspire and empower each student to achieve academic excellence, embrace social and individual responsibility, and lead with integrity. We believe all individuals should be valued and treated with respect. Together, we will make

002a difference. Okay, thank you for that. Uh we'll move on to board introductions. Mr. Scarenzi, would you please start? Anthony Scarenzi. Ronette James, Carmen Rodriguez, Susan Rakio, Jeff Cap, Ken Zimman. Okay, moving on to public participation. Uh, do we have any public participation this evening? If so, please step to the podium and state your name and address. Uh, please. Sure. If you'd like to introduce yourself. Yeah. And uh I'm just gonna have um Susan just go ahead. Okay. Okay. Speakers may offer objective comments to the board concerning school operations and programs. Comments will be limited to two minutes per speaker. The board encourages speakers not to express personal complaints or defamatory comments to the Orange Board of Education personnel or any person associated with the Orange Public School System. Comments again about security matters related

003to due process. Negotiations or grievances will not be permitted. Consistent with the consistent with the principles of the Federal Education Right to Privacy Act, Furpa, discussions about students are prohibited absent a written parent waiver. Public participation does not allow for two-way conversation between the board and the participants. We thank you for expressing your thoughts and opinions. All comments will be taken into consideration. Thank you. Um, I just want to introduce myself. Uh, hello everyone. Happy Monday, evening. Uh, my name is Erin Wilson. Um, I'm the mom of two, um, 8-year-old Nathan, 5-year-old Nora. Um, we are a part of soon the MLT, uh, school from a younger Nora, and Turkey Hill for my son Nathan, uh, going into third grade in the fall. Um, here to learn, observe, be a sponge, and just happy to

004learn from all of you and happy to be here. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Hello. Hello. All right. Uh, my name is Ralph Margai. Um, my daughter just graduated from RBS. Yeah. Going into seventh grade, getting old. Um my my son is going into second grade in RBS and the same thing as Aaron. We're just, you know, happy to you guys are having us today and hello to everybody I've met before. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi everybody. So first that are so excellent. Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak? No. Okay. All right. Thank you for that. All right. We will move on to uh our consent agenda. I will need a motion to accept the first item under the consent agenda. The first item is the minutes from

005the May 19th, 2025 board of education special meeting. Do I have a motion to accept the minutes from the May 19th, 2025 board of education special meeting? Ronette. Um, okay. Second. All right. Any discussion? No. All in favor? Uh, opposed? Abstain. You got that? Okay. Thank you. Moving on to our superintendent report. Uh Dr. Scarpetti, the floor is yours. Good evening, Mr. Cap and the rest of the board members. Um happy belated Father's Day. By the way, I hope everyone had a great weekend. As you are aware, the school year officially ended two Fridays ago for our students and would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our staff and the entire Orange community for making this a successful year as we continue to address any challenge that have come our way. Thanks to the

006first selectman and all the board members who attended the ceremonies either in personally or virtually and I like to take a step aside of just uh talking about a variety of people who helped out. It takes a lot of work to make this h happen. Um I want to start off with our IT department. um when CO occurred, we wanted to make sure that we had um accessibility to all our parents with the promotion ceremonies. And what we found out is uh we need to keep doing this because uh beyond CO there are a lot of families that couldn't attend um either because of mobility issues or because they lived far away. So just to give you some idea, the MLT stepping up ceremony, 221 people viewed that. Our Peg plays promotion ceremony, 98 people

007viewed that. Racebrook 180 and Turkey Hill 101. It seems to be growing every year. So again, thanks to uh the tech department and we do our best to constantly improve the technology. Uh we've learned uh issues, climate issues that we've had to deal with. Some of you may have seen a big tent over that because the the way the sun hits, but wanted to first thank them. In addition, I think many of you know um Chris Smalls, Mr. Smalls. He happens to be a parent of ours, but he also works for the uh wreck department. So, um during this time of the year, we borrow bleachers from the town and uh we start off at MLT. And it was so nice because again, his crew sets it up. And for the sake of time, he

008actually and his crew helped set up the chairs, too, which usually our custodians do that. And so, just a shout out to Mr. Smalls and his crew who helped out immensely. And as I mentioned, the custodians uh working around the clock and helping with that. Um and just the the parents, the PTO's, as you all aware, I meet with the PTO council um every month. Want to extend a gratitude to them. And even before the promotion ceremonies occurred, there were a lot of events occurring with that, the art shows, which I know many of you showed up to. Um Mr. Ron, he does the uh the fifth and sixth grade Olympics. For those of you that that don't know, Mr. Run started that I don't know how many years ago but when his children his

009children have far passed I think all of them have graduated um passed and he consistently contributes his time and energy with his staff to make that happen for the kids. So want to thank everyone for regarding that. Um and in a moment Mr. Gray is going to be talking about a variety of things mostly some of the things that are being done to the building. Want to just do a quick shout out to 21st Century. They're helping us with a playscape in addition at um um not Raceburg School, I'm sorry, Techplay School, which is making it even with the other schools. So some of you when at least the building and grounds, Turkey Hill and uh has two playscapes. Race Brook has an extremely large one that encompasses basically two playscapes and Al Peek Place

010will have a second one. Um, in addition to that, we began our summer programs today and we look forward to our professional learning days with our leadership team and for our curriculum revisions during the summer and Dr. Russo will be giving an update in a moment. We've hired all our certified staff. We have to we're looking to hire our district permanent subs and such. Um, but all our certified staff have been hired. We just did our last hire last week. and just want to wish our families uh a safe and enjoyable summer and our graduates who are moving on to the middle school. Um wish them well as they can continue continue their journey and so want to thank everyone and wish everyone an enjoyable summer. Thank you for that report. Does anyone have any

011questions? Yes, I do. Sure. It's not a question. Um I did attend two of the graduations which were wonderful. I noticed the the pec place uh stands where the the graduates sat. The first row is so low that the girls had to sit like this. I wondered if we could just raise that up for next year. It seems you know blocks or something underneath just to raise it up make it it would seem to be more comfortable. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Zim. Go ahead. I was able to attend two of the art shows and I was again so impressed with um our talented students, but also you you can tell uh the the passion that their art teachers have. Um the schools looked beautiful and I know that so many families enjoyed taking home

012all those pieces and um if they're they're like me decorate their house with them and I still have them up from my kids from years past and uh it's just such a wonderful thing. Um both both Peck Place and Racebrook had amazing turnouts and uh they were wonderful nights. So thank you for inviting us. Um the the kids did a great job. Anyone else? Oh, Susan. I just wanted I I was only able to attend Pep Place's graduation and I have to say it was outstanding. I'm sure the others were also, but I was just so impressed with the students and their essays and their thoughtfulness. There were essays that I don't think I'll be honest, I know I couldn't write essays like they did. They were moving. They were insightful and they are just

013so talented. I mean, and there were three or four children that did it. And I was like, okay, all of them are smarter than I am. and I have I don't know how many degrees to raise. This is crazy. But I was so impressed. I wanted just to compliment all of the teachers and the faculty and the staff and they did such a great job. It's wonderful. So, thank you. A lot of work goes into and again I extend our our gratitude for all of you. I know you're busy during the day and everyone made time to attend uh at least one ceremony. So, thank you to all of you. Okay. Anyone? All right. And we do have some of the best teachers out there. So, Uh let's move over to Mr. Gray. Okay. Good

014evening everyone. My finance portion is rather short this evening. I'll start off with grant updates. Um our ARPA summer mental health supports grant. Uh we're in year two with this grant. It's a $50,000 grant. We've spent $7,400 worth of that grant so far and we have 42,600 left. Uh again, this is for delivery of mental health services to summer program students. Our primary mental health grant is a $20,000 grant. We have spent all the way down to a remaining $3,275. That is for K to3 early detection um programs for emotional behavioral learning problems. Our ARPA school mental health specialist, we are in year two, well we just ended year two. Again, this was a grant that was funding a a second social worker for the district. Um that was a $92,000 grant. Again, all for

015salary purposes. We are going to be entering year three and as you recall year three is funded at 70%. The other 30% is built into our operating budget. So that grant is $64,000 next year. And finally, we have a consolidated title three grant. This is a just over $18,000. It's $18,225. Uh a newer grant that Dr. Russo just procured. And this is for language instruction assistance um for families of students who uh are English language learners. The audit the end of the fiscal year always marks the start of the auditing process during which our vendor completes an independent accountance review process. They utilize agreed upon procedures from the state that they use um of our educational financial system expenditures and data. This is due December 31st, 2026. We always shoot for December 31st um as

016our deadline and the auditors will be visiting in June and July to get started on this work um meeting with various office staff um and getting data to begin that audit and that concludes the finance portion. Okay, any questions? Thank you. Um, so regarding the primary mental health grant, so since we're almost down to the bottom of that, how will the early detection programs be affected once that runs out? So we have another year of that. Okay. The ARPA summer mental health. No, no, the I'm sorry. Um Oh, the primary primary. Yeah, there's 3,000. We have to reapply. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Any anything else? No. Okay. Anyone Anyone else have? Okay. Uh the facilities portion uh again like Dr. Scarpetti said, the end of the year is really really busy especially in the facilities department

017with all the activities that are happening uh in the buildings. Um whether it's an art show or a concert or the promotion ceremonies, there's a lot happening. So I just want to recognize our custodial staff and our supervisor of maintenance and custodians um for all their work during the last couple of weeks of school. Uh again, we had those concerts, the the art shows, the assemblies, um promotion ceremonies. They have largecale setups. Uh any of you who again went to any of the pro promotion ceremonies, you could see the amount of setup there is. Um so they're doing this as they're doing their daily duties. So it's a lot of work. It's all hands- on deck um at each school. So this is um done during the course of their daily rout routines. They did

018a great job preparing the schools for these events. And as Dr. Scarpetti said, again, a special thanks to Chris Small and his team because any anytime we call him or even uh Donnie Foyer, the police department, the fire department, fire marshall's office, we instantly get feedback from them. They come out, they help us with whatever we need. But again, Chris Small and his team, they brought out the bleachers. We happen to be setting up chairs. They came over and set up chairs with us. So, it's it's great to work in a community where everyone helps out. So, I just wanted to thank them as well. Um, like Dr. Scarpetti did. Uh, we've now moved our building hours to uh summer hours. So, 7 to three the buildings are open. Our custodians once again are working

019in team uh in the buildings. So, they conduct their summer cleaning protocols all together in one building. They finish that building, they move to the next building. Uh, seems to go well. They've got a a really good plan down that they've been using the last few years. And um the finished product is what we see when we visit the buildings in August, right before school starts. They do a great job all summer long. Um so looking forward to getting the buildings in shape and ready for the start of school in August. Dr. Scarpetti had mentioned some of the summer projects that were taking place. Uh right now we're actually painting the interior hallways of Racebrook School. Uh, Racebrook is unique because the ceilings are a little bit lower in that building and the hallways are

020somewhat narrower than the other buildings. So, we're using a a much lighter paint in the hallways. Uh, Dr. Scarpedy and I were there last Friday afternoon and they had put the first coat of paint in the upper hallway, which is that really long hallway. It makes a world of difference how much brighter it is and it actually does make the hallways look larger. Um, so that's happening right now. Uh once they finish that job, which is probably going to be done tomorrow, they'll be up at Turkey Hill School painting all of the steel columns under the large overhang in front of the school. I think there are about 20 of those columns out there. They're in rough shape. All the paint is peeling and they're going to be painting those. Marielle Tracy School, you'll recall

021back in I believe it was March, I had reported that the boiler, the steam boiler had failed here. Um it failed a uh an inspection from the state. needed to be replaced. They took the old boiler out last week. They're in the process of installing the new boiler and the feed tank for it. Uh they poured concrete pads, new concrete pads for them. And we're putting the sections of the boiler together today. Uh so that should be up and running in about a week or so. Not that we're going to need heat until October, but it will be tested, pressure tested to make sure that it works. Uh we will also be doing uh trying to get done all three of our approved capital projects. These are the projects that I had mentioned back in

022uh during the budget process and in the budget uh BOE updates that Dr. Scarpetti sends out. So, we're looking at completing PC Place Library media flooring and furniture refurbishment. Paving of the primary playground blacktop at Turkey Hill School, which is really gone into tough shape. It's there's separations and large cracks. Uh it's it's not safe to be playing on. Um and then refinishing and relining the gymnasium floors. Again, they're used almost nightly during the school year for basketball practice, cheerleading practices, lacrosse. The community uses those quite a bit. Bad mitten from New Haven uses our MLT court. So, they take a beating. So, it's been about 10 or 11 years since they were last done, and that's another project that's going to be getting done. And that concludes the facilities portion. All right. Thank you

023for that questions. Did you guys say where the new PE playground is going to be located? I might have missed it. Is it is it adjacent to the current? It's going to be on the primary side of the building where the graduation took place, but in the corner a little bit further. So like in the courtyard? No, no, no, no. In the where the graduation the promotion ceremony took place for sixth grade. Okay. Where the flag pole is. Yep. Yep. So it's on the right hand side when you drive in like more towards the front of the building. Right. But in the back more got the right side. Looking at Peek, right hand side, you walk through that gate all the way into the corner. It almost replicates when we walk through Turkey Hill right

024next to their primary, but it's going to be closer to the corner. Okay. Back corner. Okay. Nice. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Okay. We'll move over to uh Dr. Russo. Good evening. Very much like facilities, curriculum has summer projects as well. The first is to, as Dr. Scarpetti shared, make sure that summer learning goes off smoothly. And the summer learning this year has a camp invention focus. um which is interesting to note that the curriculum is based on um the work of inventors that were awarded um prizes for their inventions and are in the inventors hall of fame. So that curriculum uh is based on those types of experiences that kids are learning about. Another summer project is to continue to add the details to our professional learning calendar. We did share with

025our curriculum subcommittee. We shared with uh all of you in the board update the plans for next year. We just really want to make sure that everything is set for our teachers and our students when they get back. So, we'll really be uh working to make sure that all those details are clear um and everything is communicated. We are also working on um behind the scenes details for the report cards so that we can have all subjects um be graded with standardsbased grading. Up up until now it's just been English language arts and math. And so now hopefully by the beginning of next year all subjects will rely on standardsbased grading as reflected on the report cards as well. We collect operational curriculum data throughout the year and we will be working this summer to

026include and layer those findings and that data into the curriculum and also communicating those changes uh to teachers next year and making sure that that communication is clear. We are also uh working with the administrators to unpack all of our student data to uh plan for our students for next year, create schedules and uh make sure that we hit the ground running with our differentiated instruction and uh it's also a time when our administrators have an opportunity to engage in professional learning as well. So, we're going to continue with that and also include this year's learning into our orange adult learning plan. So, many of you have seen our adult learning plan so that any new teacher or any teacher who has been with us wants to refresh that knowledge uh can access everything that

027we've learned in that document. And so, this summer, we'll make sure that we add all the new learning there to preserve as well. And that concludes my report. Thank you for that. Does anyone have any questions? No. Okay. Thank you. Okay. We'll move over to board business. Uh first item is policy second read Orange board of education policy 5127 students promotion procedures and ceremonies. Do I have a motion to accept the Orange Board of Ed policy 5127 students promotion procedures and ceremonies? Susan second. Anthony. Uh any discussion? All in favor? Okay, it's unanimous. Moving over to number two policy second read orange board of education policy students challenging behavior prevention restorative practice response. Do I have a motion to accept the orange board of ed policy 5144.12 students challenging behavior preventative restorative practices response. Ret

028second Ken. Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you. Uh, any discussion? All in favor? Okay, that's unanimous as well. Policy second read orange board of ed policy 6177 use of commercially produced produced video recordings. Do I have a motion to accept the Orange Board of Ed policy 6177 use of commercially produced video recordings? Susan second. Ken. Uh any discussion? All in favor? That's unanimous as well. Okay. Uh the next policies will be second reads at our next board of ed meeting. Uh the number four is Orange Board of Ed Policy 4135.1-4235.1 Personnel Certified Non-certified Agreement. Number five, Orange Board of Ed Policy 4147-4247, Personnel Certified Non-certified Employee Safety. Six, Orange Board of Ed Policy 5131.1, Students Bus Conduct. Seven, Orange Board of Ed policy 6156, instruction use computers and instruction. Okay, moving to item number

029eight, discussion and possible action PTO gift to Turkey Hill School. Um, Anthony, would you like to uh please share the PTO request uh with to the board? Sure. So, the PTO at the Turkey Hill School is proposing to fund an installation of a glass wall in the media center to support the audio visual club. Uh, I was invited by Dr. Sar Petty to visit the school where he and Mr. Gray uh explained the whole scope and purpose of that project. Uh following that visit, our subcommittee reviewed the proposal and we unanimously supported accepting that gift from the PTO and we're now seeking the board approval so installation could proceed uh during the summer. Okay. Um you're going to are you making a motion now then? So are you making the motion then to accept us?

030Okay. A second. Ret. Any discussion? All in favor? All right, that passes unanimously. Thank you. Uh, go ahead. I'd like to say a a gigantic thank you to the Turkey Hill PTO for their generous gift. Yes, you are right on with that. Much appreciated. Um, moving on to item nine, uh, July board of ed meeting. uh due to the me the summer schedule and the risk of not having a quorum almost like tonight almost we just made it um as discussed we're going to we're going to agree to cancel the July 21st 2025 meeting um with the understanding that if something arises a meeting is necessary we will have a special meeting called to order. Okay, sound good. Sound good? Okay. Happy vacations. Uh let's see here. Uh I will be looking for a motion

031to enter into executive session to discuss the next agenda item after the standing committees in the ASUS report. Um which is item number 10, the superintendent's evaluation. So we will move into standing committees uh finance and operations. Susan. So, the um finance and operations committee met prior to this meeting. Mr. Gray updated us on the financials. All are in order. Um he did a great job of sharing it with you earlier. And if anybody has any questions, let me know. Thank you. Any questions? Okay, we'll move over to personnel policy transportation. Anthony, the uh building and ground subcommittee we met on May 28th. Personnel policy transportation. I'm sorry. Personal policy. You're going to give it? No. Oh, I thought we were skipping because you want to I could give a brief update, Mr. Thank you.

032Somebody will do it. So, uh we met last month at the uh end of the month. Um as you saw, there are four policies as first reads as Betty has shared in the past. If there's any questions, please reach out. These policies were really chosen because since uh we typically do not meet in July, we want to choose policies not not necessarily were easy, but just because they've missed uh the date. Again, for whatever reason, some policies way back when we're missing the month um and the date. They had the year and that doesn't qualify as a approved policy. So those are the ones we're trying to chip away chip away and so those were uh decided um intentionally. Um in addition that in addition to that Mr. Cap we went over the long range

033plan. There were no revisions at that time and uh Mrs. Hadlock will be reaching out to the committee members to set up a uh meeting uh at the uh end of August basically to do that in August. So that ends Mrs. Hadlock's report. Okay. Thank you for that Dr. Scarpetti. All right. Now we'll move over to buildings and grounds. My apologies for skipping over you. All right. So, yes, we did meet on May 28th. Uh reviewed the uh Turkey Hill PTO's request that we just approved. The committee also went over the long range plan and had no revisions. So, our next meeting we're going to visit the schools as we've done in the past uh I believe in August. And uh that's it. Okay. Any questions? Go ahead. Um, could you let the board know

034if we can come with you to visit some of the schools? Uh, no. Okay, I'm coming anyway. Of course. All are welcome. Thank you. Okay. Uh, any other nothing. Okay. Curriculum instruction technology, Mr. Zimman. Um, we did have our meeting and I wrote a wonderful report, but uh, Dr. Russo shared a uh music lesson with us and I decided I would much rather have you see that lesson than me talk about it. Okay, I'll move out of the way. Are we going to do that? They're going to So, I did not mention um during my update that one of the summer projects is this amazing um music learning plan that Mr. Zyman is talking about. But can we unveil it um at the August session because because it's not ready yet, but you did see

035a beautiful glimpse of it. It's amazing. Are you giving the lesson, Dr. Russo? Am I what? Are you giving the music lesson? Oh gosh, no. No, it right. It's a a video of the of an amazing resource. Why don't you talk a little bit about it? When I was teaching, I found they were still singing the songs that they sang when I was a kid. And and what they've done, what they've created, the music department, what they've created now is is so far and away anything we've seen before. And inspire and empower. That's what's in the mission statement. And that's that's what the music department does now. I was I was just so impressed with it. And if and if I may add, Mr. Zimman, um what the what we follow is the music learning

036theory and that talks about tone, rhythm, improvisation, and movement. Uh for some of the board members that were here, we actually had the um some of our music teachers come and you for some of you may remember, we actually got into a circle and uh Mr. Ryan demonstrated what we do. And again, we could follow up with that, Mr. Zimman. Uh, and actually have uh either all or uh some of our music teachers here to back that up of what we're doing this summer. Oh, I can't wait now. Okay. Any uh questions? No one. Yeah. True. True. You don't want to hear me sing. You'll want to sing and play the ukulele along when you see this. All right, we'll move over to our ASUS report. So, area Cooperative Educational Services. Um, as you all

037know, the Orange District is part of ASUS. There are 26 other districts that are well 25 other districts that participate within ASES, which is a regional educational service center. So it provides services to all 26 towns to be able to do things that they might not be able to do but we can do collaboratively so that all everybody has that opportunity. Um so ASUS met on June 5th um in Hampton and we voted on 14 budgets. You think trying to get one budget through is hard. This was 14 in this last one. There was another 22 before that literally. So we had 36 budgets to vote on. So, you don't really want to see the list, but I'll, you know, we had a vote on the uh our magnet schools, which are ACES at Chase,

038Wintergreen Inter District Magnet School, and Educational Center for the Arts are our three magnet schools. All of those budgets passed. We're very happy about that. Um, we voted on security, community engagement, educational technology. No one needs to memorize these. um the educational technology deputy executive director, area directors, marketing, human capital development, fiscal management executive de director, the governing board and network services. Um we also um approved the human capital development report. Um we approved the early head start report. Um, we also had board nominations for officers and I was again selected chairman of the board which I was very happy about and very thankful to the board. Thank you. So that was very nice. Um, we have a couple new officers which is wonderful as well. We have one who's going to be stepping down

039from the board um in November and we have her back fill on it so that they're going to get to overlap to understand what the job is. So we're happy about that as well. Sorry to see Ethel leave, but happy to see somebody stepping into her shoes, which is great. Um, we also had an update on the Basset Road, which is going to be a complete special ed school focusing on um, autism and special needs. Um, and that will officially be opening not this year, but next year. So, next um, next June it'll be open. So, the first summer school there and keep going from there. So, that was a big deal. Um and um we also got a um an addition of a grant for ASUS at um Chase. So Chase, which is in

040Waterberry, um we have to do a major renovation because we bought it only a few years ago and it doesn't really comply with some of the state standards because it used to be a private school. So some of the size doors and having elevators in certain places and removing some of the stairs and making it a kind of a a ramp instead. there's been a lot of work and um we were able to get another grant to help with the building and so we're very thankful to all the legislators who helped us with that. So that's the highlight and we are not meeting in July and August for ACES. So I got the whole summer off. So yeah, all good stuff. Well, well congratulations on being elected chair again. Thank you. Great assist. Uh any

041questions for Yeah. Now, I just I just wanted to congratulate the AC's board on their ability to spot talent and uh and I appreciate Susan's efforts. Thank you. Yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. We're going to move I'm going to look for a motion to enter into executive session inviting Dr. Scarpetti to join us. Do I have a motion? Anthony second. Susan, any discussion? All in favor to move into executive session. Unanimous. All of us. Okay. We are going to end executive session at 7:42 PM. Okay. We are now exiting ex executive session to convene into our regular session at 8:13. Based on the board's positive review of the superintendent, Dr. Vince Scarpedi, I am looking for a motion to modify terms and to extend Dr. Scarped contract for one additional year with the modifications completed by

042the executive board. Do I have a motion? Susan second. Ken. Any discussion? All in favor? Unanimous. Okay, that passes and I'm looking for a motion to adjourn tonight's meeting. Susan, I saw your hand go up first. Ronette second. Any discussion? All in favor? That's okay. I let it go. You need to move over. He's got to go on this side. When you raise your hand, this is like my whole life. Everybody was unanimous on that. Okay, that was unanimous. We are ending our meeting at 8:14 p.m. Thank you and have a good summer, everyone. Thank you.

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