June 2, 2022 - Clifton Board of Education Meeting

001thank you there's um [Music] um okay how do i start a new um not holding it though so we're gonna take the stand with us um told me they're not tell me they're not ready they need mcconaughey hey mike who's saying they need them they're camera guys okay all right my what's this thing for it's not going to reach out here oh i don't need to things ah uh he's not ready foreign okay foreign [Music] so if you could stand out here yeah i'll be able to pick you up off of this mic okay that one's not picking up that's coming out here so i have no idea why but all right so this might have picked up pretty good but don't go too far from this microphone okay so you just come right out

002there yeah and they'll get it yeah you can just make sure you can see the camera in the camera i'll be able to see you okay just give me about a second okay very good testing one two testing one two okay good evening everybody welcome to the regularly scheduled meeting of the clifton board of education for june the 2nd 2022 we will have a salute to our flag and a brief moment of silence please join me in the pledge i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you roll call please here okay we're going to uh deviate a little bit and let a great presentation happen this evening we have um our

003wonderful robotics team here under the direction of um monique dettori uh these kids work so tremendously hard throughout the year you can come down later and see all their wonderful awards that they've won they're truly truly amazing kids and an amazing group and we're so fortunate to have him here tonight to do a brief presentation for us so this is tori you're on so welcome everyone we are the mechanical mustangs we're our first robotics team this is our um this was our 10th year in existence here at clifton high school i just i would like to introduce my seniors because we'll be losing them next year avi stan and dan they've been with me for four years through all of the cover chaos and we wish them good luck for next season and where they're

004going to school so the name of our robot is what bread i don't know that's what they decided to name our robot this year and um the game this year was to shoot into this scoring mechanism and have these low scoring things on up and on all sides and that in the center spun so when he would shoot it would go out of one or four sides there was much more to the mechanism on the field these big trucks for the balls to go out but you could score in the top for three points in the bottom for one point and then the end game was to climb on this basically a monkey bar set that is on an angle and this was called a traversal climb the highest climb and that was our goal

005for the season our goal was to shoot into the high goal consistently and to climb to the traversal level if you look at the top of this if you see all that silver that's retro reflective tape that's what you see on runners and on people that when they're riding their bikes and you see your headlights shine really back at them so our robot can see that with this camera it's called a lime light we had a lot of difficulty with things this season there's always challenges and one of the challenges was we got to a competition and the lighting was so unbelievably intense that the original camera we put on the robot couldn't see the retro-reflective tape so halfway through the middle of the season we switched to that camera the other thing that we

006changed is we changed our shooter so we started with this shooter and then we didn't like the angle that it was shooting from we have a cam it could move up and down but we didn't like the angle so then our students alongside uh my alumni dominic class of 2016 who's currently at picatinny arsenal he worked with picatinny and they designed our horn with a rack and pinion on the back and that ended up being our final shooter for the season so we have avi who is our operator along with lamar lamar is also a track star so lamar couldn't be at all my competitions so thank goodness for avi the right-hand man who [Applause] where are my programmers way my programmers this amazing machine to do autonomous mode which does things on its own

007and to do the vision tracking and then i have a group of catters led by ishan who catted our climber savannah who's not here renata who did our entire drive train and nick who did our arthritis arm and three of the four three of the four of them had never catted before this season so we're going to show you the robot i'm going to explain it really loud and but i'm not going to explain the climb because i would like lamar to explain the climb because he'll explain all the sensors so we're currently getting calm which is what we do we waste lots of time getting calms for the robot so our robot is currently compressing the white belt that you see is part of our tunnel system so the balls get pulled in there's

008two currently in there the red belt on the side is part of our queuing system how many sensors are in our queuing system eight sensors in our between our intake and our queuing system now we can't target right now based on the lighting so they're setting it up at a certain distance [Applause] and they're going to shoot again you saw it go in many times a second ago [Applause] so another thing about the robot is you only can score your own ball so inside of the robot there's a color sensor and when if we would accidentally pick up a blue ball it would shoot it right through the front which allowed us to just drive and pick up the right color and we didn't have to worry about the wrong color it would just get

009rid of it now my students favorite program is called taco bell why is it called taco balamar so during that things can get really hectic um sometimes robots bump into you sometimes things just get stuck so um essentially we provided a sequence where everything um reverts and shoots out the robot just like taco bell would shoot after you um [Music] to ensure that everything is reset back to normal and our robot can run smoothly for the remainder of the competition all right so we're gonna and we needed to taco bell to show the taco bell all right so now we would sometimes the goal was to score many many balls very quickly so we would do so we would line up with the logo and we would just throw it into the logo like that

010that ensured that we could score many times quickly all right the final part of the game i'm gonna shoot and then oh you can you want to shoot the batter can you shoot batter from here that's the batter shot also we could run right up to it and run into the wall and cheat the battery wonderful group of engineers could join me all right we would climb the traversal climb we have to hold this lamar [Music] it's fully autonomous it waits until it's at the right angle and then a climb to the top of the traversal can you explain to them all of the sensors involved right yeah that loudly loudly so let's see all right first off um when we're trying to go into this climb um the first thing that we want to

011do is properly align um ready our and in order to do that in our first several matches we had a lot of trouble with wasting a lot of time trying to get it lined up and not having enough for our beautiful climb that you guys would so midway through the season me and my other programmers um may use these so all throughout the entirety of this climate structure with um each on our engineer designs we have two sensors up here two sensors over here for each hook each individual hook has two sensors so for our first alignment task um we would have to wait for both sensors to be true so these these proximity sensors wait for the metal to reflect off them and once it gets that metal reading that means we're good to

012climb so um as you just witnessed that pretty much means that we're properly aligned with the structure and we can presume safely so now the iteration that i was talking about with my other programmers was allowing it so that um the driver would simply have to press one button and they would auto align with the bars ensuring that we wasted as little time as possible because in a game like this it's very crazy um so for our next process in the climb once we're already aligned then we have to climb up or pull up sorry so in this process we um we have the bar so we wait for our center values to be through so essentially as soon as we get over here we click the button and the entire system goes down and

013we have these two hooks on both sides over here and these are also have sensors so as soon as this goes past this and this goes backwards a sensor the sensor gets disconnected and we know that it's the bar has reached this point now it's for that same thing for all these hooks and that's how the robot knows when to go down when to go up so that process you saw between the switching between hooks every single one of these has a sensor every single hook so in total we have nine sensors on this climb so it's all one button you hold one button it all gets done so i think that's one thing and we did really well this season uh it's also for that same process when the ball gets intake it goes

014up into the shooter that's all one all by itself the white belt and the red belt on the side all does it by itself and i think we did that really well this season implementing a lot of sensors yeah um and with this ability to use these sensors um we can also program result and i also devised um what's called a state machine so essentially um within the entire climbing process sometimes we want to be able to pause something doesn't go right we want to stop stop the entire mechanism and using these sensors we can track exactly where we are in that movement so we pull down we know where we are we get the reading from the sensors we know that we're in transition to hook b we hold down again we know we're

015transitioning from hook b to the next one and stop the robot at any time um so so this season we attended three competitions and then we qualified for the mid-atlantic district championship which is new jersey eastern pennsylvania new york and we won an engineering award at each of our events they give out five engineering awards at the events of 40 to 60 teams so during the first event i don't i don't remember the order but we won innovation control we won the autonomous award for our climb innovation and control for our sensors and then we also won excellence in engineering at the largest competition that we attended for the entire robot package as well as the team and as well as just being everything about the mechanical mustang [Applause] so we want to thank our

016sponsors obviously clifton public schools um we are very very grateful for hoban engineering and the warehouse at 308 colfax i don't know where jim went he's over there we work there five nights a week saturday and sunday from um january until the end of april every single day we're there um i'd like to also thank pomponian who was incredibly incredibly helpful they helped supply us with um dinners monday through friday during the week so that we start at four we eat at six and we can work until nine or ten every night um our longtime uh sponsors the montclair society of engineers they're tom is the president we have bob rich is our programming mentor from the engineering society um we also are sponsored by picatinny stem [Applause] which is our alumni and this year

017our newest sponsor is the tri-state arab american architects and engineering society and i want to thank them i'm sorry if i got the name wrong [Applause] so they um helped us sponsor about eight of our students to go to our district championship this year so the 2022 mechanical mustangs [Applause] board members everyone will take a 10-minute break to get inside thank you [Music] thank you do you want to be do you want to be in the picture yeah back on stand in the front mr paris miss beltran move over here we're going to take a picture we're not going to be able to see you neal is [Applause] thank you guys thank you all so much excellent job [Music] nothing i need to know come here do a congratulations thing thank you sir maybe [Music]

018what was the name testing one two three four all right mr lucy if we could just do a roll call please back from outside of course mr abhijabo here mr awad here miss basford here miss beltran here mr canova here dr danny here paris here vice president daley here president smith here we have a quorum uh anyone who's jealous can you read the mission statement the mission of the clifton school district in an opening reciprocal community partnership is to provide all students with a quality education to develop the skills necessary to become literate lifelong learners who are responsible and proactive citizens contributing to a democratic society and an ever-changing world the open public meetings act in new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right to the public to advance notice of

019and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act the clinton board of education has caused notice of this meeting to be publicized by having the date time and place thereof posted at the city clerk's office clifton public library administration building senior citizen nutrition center on cable tv and the local press on the district's website and mailed to the presidents of parent teacher organizations this meeting will be tape recorded in accordance with policy zero one six eight uh public we have a tremendous amount of presentations tonight so to not keep the public waiting to speak i'm going to allow public recognition at this time this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of

020clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and are directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested if in person to sign the registered provider for this purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality in which they live in subject matter before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or not be answered by the board members the board asks the members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of the individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged

021and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by this laws of the state of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments okay yeah we'll just move we'll move on you don't have to use it yeah trying they're trying a new program that's right um is there is there anyone on the calling ms vidal if you can hear us you have five minutes to address the board miss vidal if you can hear us on their end okay yeah that's is

022there anyone else okay so we'll go to the uh the uh in person if she happens to sign on we'll go back to that after okay if there's anyone here this evening that would like to address the board if you please uh come to the podium and address the board thank you good evening everybody mark brunsiak holly street clifton tonight i want to commend all board members who share similar views in helping protect our children those are that kids are not tools for adults to quell irrational fears that kids are not proxies in propaganda wars about adult issues that kids aren't experimental subjects for untried drugs and surgeries in most cases that kids are not the convenient object for policies that politicians are too cowardly to forced on adults because they lose votes and money

023that kids are not the captive audience for the latest unproven social theory that kids are not adult partners that kids are not the vehicle for every insane crazy fantasy any given adult might have quite simply our kids are our most precious resource they should be cherished protected and made our number one priority every single day the two most important things i think this board can do is number one make sure our children receive a quality education number two make sure all of our children and staff are safe to the commissioners i continue to urge you to draft and pass a resolution rejecting the 2020 education standards just as multiple other districts have done i received multiple communications before the grade 6-12 presentation on comprehensive health was even finalized last week and again how disturbing particularly

024those in grades six seven and eight even the youtube video from the last meeting on may 19th was taken down which i wonder if it was due to the language presented that is verbatim in the standards once again to this date i still haven't seen i haven't seen the most despicable of these standards sent to parents guardians or guardians verbatim from any written communications from this district this is an easy decision i would also like to commend the board for the hiring of six additional sros in the new budget with the additional funding that the state has provided us which this district is rightfully owed the district is safer as a result of this and the district can be even safer if the state actually funded our district properly i can't even count on my

025fingers how many times our wonderful superintendent dr robert tosi has referenced this and i urge the commissioners to reach out to the legislature to fund our district correctly based on the receipts that our districts pays to the state to continue to help our district become safer thank you for your time and god bless america have a good night everybody thank you anyone else wish to address the board hi i'm julie solagi and i'm at 43 new briar lane in clifton new jersey um i'd like to you know last night i was at the uh woods um ceremony for scholarships my daughter is a senior at clifton high school and i guess i was very upset last night that she was not acknowledged and part of the reason i think is the the leadership of the

026school okay i mean they had the superintendent there they had the principal they had jennifer bergman jody spring they had a bunch of people and i just don't understand okay how it actually worked out so my husband actually sent an email i'd like to read it um and it also like to see you know listen to the response that i was given uh regarding this so um this morning he sent the email and said first i would like to thank the women's clever award considering my daughter emily for the women's club warwick scholarship we appreciate their generosity however i wanted to comment on last night's awards ceremony following along in the program it became apparent that some scholarships were skipped for some reasons i'm assuring that representatives of that donor were not in attendance i

027completely understand that unforeseen circumstances arise prohibiting donors reps from attending my issue is why emily and other students uh who all were selected to receive one scholarship from a donor that have not been present were not recognized in front of their peers and the audience uh for the academic achievements we were very disappointed but i must say emily handles herself very well considering uh i would like to make the following recommendations formally recommend all students and their awards even if the donor may not be present we sat through the entire nearly two-hour ceremony without having emily recognized it for her achievements again we thank the women's club for warwick for their generosity my wife and i plan to attend tonight's board of education meeting uh during us we planned to acknowledge that emily the public

028in the portion meaning since no such recognition was provided last night okay so uh the response that i was given uh was i am replying to you this is actually from um at the end it's from jody springer i i am replying to you with a similar explanation to what i sent mr zimmerman which is another um i guess his daughter also didn't receive the woman scholarship earlier i understand your disappointment that emily was not announced as she should have been unfortunately we are the facilitators for community groups and we cannot control all the aspects of the scholarships administration we are grateful for their generosity and support and want to maintain good relationships with them if someone um does not show up when they say they would or deliver items before the deadlines we are

029limited in how we may respond mostly i hope nothing bad happened and that they are okay and they follow up as soon as possible what we can control is how the evening is planned we print every student's name with their scholarship in the program they they all deserve that acknowledgement and momentum some scholarships require um that we do so some scholarships are announced but in the beginning by representatives from the community other students are announced at the end based on their rank uh we do not announce the names of students who are not there even though their names are in the program uh this seems like we skipped some people but most were either called earlier later or not going to be called at all other 250 scholarships and rewards were given to over 150

030students there was an unusual amount last night changes last night we try to anticipate and accommodate everyone at best we can we ask for everyone to check in when they arrive and to keep the evening flowing we did not announce names of people who are not there unfortunately um things do and always go as well it doesn't always go as well as we hope they will make mistakes happen i sincerely apologize that emily's name was not called for the women's club scholarship i welcome your up your observations and suggestions we'll use your input for future planning please accept the regrets that emily and your family's experience was not what it should have been i have to tell you it wasn't what what i thought it should be and i just want people to know the

031ceremony is coming up and people have like every every kid should be acknowledged if if something goes wrong and a name gets skipped you guys have to do a better job i mean it's ridiculous i mean the graduation is coming up what are you going to start skipping names it's unprofessional you understand what i'm saying and regardless for these kids they worked very very hard nothing was said it was tossed at the end when they said when she had went up and said something said well here's something on the side unacceptable unacceptable behavior leadership comes down from beginning i have to tell you i raised my voice very well i'm very proud of her when she went up herself and handled it she couldn't have done a better job i congratulated for being distinguished honest

032be on honorable for four years i think she deserves it i think the board should recognize something and i really think that these people that work here i i work for a board of education so i know what it's like you understand and that's that's that's disappointing because you know what it doesn't happen over there that that that's really very disappointing to me and i'm very sorry that it happened to us but they don't have they don't have graduations they don't have things for easter thank you for your comments we will we will listen to those thank you anyone else wish to address the board see not motion to close motion to close public my mr abu drabo second by mr awad is the caller uh i'll check anyone on the corner nope uh no

033okay motion to close zoom motion for the uh calling by mr abu dravo second by mr awad okay we thank the um again we thank the robotics team uh for a tremendous job they did on the presentation outside um we were so happy that the weather cooperated and stopped to allow them to do this so we're very proud of the hard work that those students do um uh monique for the wonderful job that she does and all the other volunteers uh that do such a great job in that program they work very hard and uh we were very impressed with the presentation so thank you okay next we have our uh p b s i s miss rigoza all right all right good evening everyone um thank you president smith vice president mr daley commissioners

034of the board it's always a pleasure uh dr robertosi and central administration for this opportunity to get to showcase what our wonderful schools are doing with the pbsis implementation in our district so i'm really really excited for this one happy june we're almost there at the end of the school year for all of our my fellow educators for our pbsis recognition segment we have indeed saved the best for last and not just because dr orbitosi is walking in right now but seriously tonight we showcase oh and where are you there you are tonight we showcase mr mike mcconney a teacher yes look at that we didn't even get started and every single person in here applauded for him that that in itself but he's a teacher at clifton high school and the colleague to all

035in the one clifton learning community i want to look at you when i say this because i'm so sorry i'm giving away when students contemplate a career in the education field it is almost certainly because they have encountered an educator who has gone out of their way to connect with them to help them be successful to reach students authentically one must be empathetic and care to understand whether student is at in their lives as well as be driven to teach to the abilities of the student mr makani embodies the spirit and is loved by all who encounter his presence colleagues alumni parents and students have the utmost respect and admiration for mr makani as he is present with everyone he interacts with mr mcconney has helped all of our schools with pbsis implementation in one

036way or another he is a vital member of the mustang pbsis team at chs and has helped the middle and elementary schools develop outstanding video products for their pbsis implementation he does this all while staying cool under tremendous pressure he is also often the voice of reason in the group and always remains solution focused to all situations even when you're going live in two minutes harold s kushner says do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return but because of who you are mr mcconney you make thing you make things happen for all of us in clifton we honor and cherish you for this mr mcconney's everyone's foxhole friend and truly embodies the one clifton community by being an outstanding educator and colleague [Music] we have something that

037your colleagues and and and people who cherish you put together let's take a look at how we're going to honor mr mcconney there you go what can i say about mr mcconney that hasn't already been said i'm happy to share a few words about mr makani a teacher that i admire very very much it's really just an outstanding individual what can i possibly say about mike makani that would even remotely describe the pivotal role he consistently plays in connecting with and inspiring our students in clifton high for those of you who don't know mr mcconnell he's the single most selfless person i've ever met he's always putting his students first he's empathetic i'm sorry i really want to do this justice because they put yeah so um let me just try something else [Music] what

038can i say about mr mcconney that hasn't already been said i'm happy to share a few words about mr makani our teacher he's not here because he's fixing the problem hold on we'll wait for him sorry thank you for your patience but you know [Applause] [Music] what can i say about mr mcconney that hasn't already been said i'm happy to share a few words about mr makani a teacher that i admire very very much it's really just an outstanding individual what can i possibly say about mike mcconnie that would even remotely describe the pivotal role he consistently plays in connecting with and inspiring our students at clifton high for those of you who don't know mr mcconney he's the single most selfless person that i've ever met he's always putting his students first he's empathetic

039he's kind he's the teacher that every parent wants their kids to have they come home and they say only good things about him and that's how you know that mr mckenney is a valuable member of the clifton team it's really just an outstanding individual i tell a lot about a teacher by the way they interact with our students and i see mr mcconney interacting with our students at board meetings in his classroom at school kids absolutely love him he's always there teaching us responsibility not just for our positions in our cast studio but just real world responsibility he's the type of guy that will go above and beyond for his students every single day he's always putting his students first especially when it comes to producing any sort of project that we're working on like

040staying after school for like two hours in 89 degree weather getting sunburned helping us produce a segment for the morning show and he's just an outstanding team player he does so much for our district he's definitely my favorite part of walking into clifton high school every morning and the one thing that's always going to sit with me because of him mr mcconney is you should never settle for mediocre thank you mr mcconney and then i'd like to proudly recognize mr mcconney his worth ethic commitment and expertise are all unmatched and i couldn't be any happier to have him as a member of our visual and performing arts department congratulations mr mcconney on a job well done so county thanks for all you do know that i appreciate you and we love you very much throughout

041the year you've been such a great mentor and you've guided me through so much you've really made it such a fun learning environment for me and really showed me how enjoyable and how amazing this career choice is going to be for me mr mcconaughey you're the man it was always a great way to start off my day first period and cast buddy your interns and we just wanted to say thank you for making your classroom a safe space for us and thank you for everything you do for us you really do so much we appreciate you mr mcdonough especially me you do so many things for me okay mr mcconney my teacher partner next door for the last over 20 years thank you for always being there when something needs to be fixed we love

042you so much mr mcconney i consider mr makani a friend i think he's a great attribute to this school and i wish him all the luck and success hey mr makani when i was a student to now as your co-worker you've always been such a positive influence in my life and i really really appreciate you thank you for everything that you do and congratulations and i can't wait to come back and see you and help you out and thank you for all the opportunities that you've given me all of the experience all of the everything that you've taught me throughout the year and i i just want to say that i really really appreciate you and i can't wait to see the look on your face when you see this mike latony congratulations you have

043done so much for our school let alone pbsis and i want to thank you for always being there for us for always being creative and for always being supportive so thank you again mr mcconney for everything that you do for our students for your peers for our staff in general and our district as a whole thank you you truly make it a great day to be a mustang all right dr robitosi president smith if you would be so kind as to help me present um mr mcconney with his certificate if the full board would join us out there that would be great nicely done okay i'm used to reporting these things can't see you that's great thank you [Applause] hello mr president yes vice president daley yeah uh mr mcconney not so fast mr mcconney

044yes um uh i didn't know where you were going to recognize you and honor you tonight and i couldn't be happier i want to add a personal note to that um my daughter was one of his students and she always asked for for him how's he doing so i know how much you affected my daughter in her education here and she went on to get her doctorate in physical therapy so uh but she didn't take up visual arts but she did take up something important but the connection you made with her left a lasting impression so i would like to add my personal recognition to you and and honoring you and your position there thank you thank you if other board members would like to say something please state um i could start at the

045miss password very good mr mcconnelly you always a gentleman whenever you do anything you put a hundred and two hundred 200 into it uh you have been a guiding light into the members of my family my daughter is very respected of you she comes and visits you frequently um she's got great editing hands for some reason i guess yeah i don't know but uh she loved your classes and you did make an impact on her plus the countless of many other children that went through the cast program the morning news is wonderful because of you uh you're a highlight to everybody in the clifton community and i thank you from the bottom of my heart for your effort and continued success thank you mrs pastor thank you mr paris we'll go around mr mcconney i

046kind of got to know you fairly recently yes um but the one thing that strikes me other than the accolades from your peers and the board and and other adults the fact that the students touches me in the video how you touch students lives and you make such a big difference in their future and envious that is something that you can't get in any other career and real testimonial to your dedication to students and to the city thank thank you dr danny um i just want to say you know congratulations thank you for all that you do my daughter took your classes she loved them and i know like the personal that i worked with you a little bit um in asking you about some things about television production and all uh you were always

047so helpful and so kind and she did go into uh television production now she has a baby and she's kind of took a side but on that but you know it's um you were very very um instrumental in developing that so thank you thank you mr canova yeah um so mr cunning um i know a memory that that uh i know a bunch of students have told me is that you know when i get on the board they've always asked me uh how's mr mcconney doing i haven't seen him in so long uh so i know that i didn't take your class myself but i know that there are many out there that have and they're always asking about you uh and it just goes to show you that the impact that you have on

048students lives and it's the reason why you know you're here and you're a teacher and uh it goes to show you we saw the video we saw how much everyone you know loves and praises what you do and the things you do and you don't have to be here in an education system but you are and i applaud you for that thank you miss beltran um i didn't go to school in clifton um but i can appreciate all the my friends who did go to school in clifton and they all uh come back and talk about you and ask if you're still running the tvs and everything like that so it's it's nice to know that we have an educator here that is sought after to the point where you know i'll be out somewhere

049and someone will ask me if you're still here um so it's you know it's it's on it's i feel honored to have someone like you working for our district and i hope that you feel the same way working for us that's all i say thank you mr wadd my favorite um instantly when i first came onto this board uh you were nothing but welcoming you're a kind individual a caring uh teacher and something you know uh that you remind me of with a lot of our teachers in this district is that you're not just educators you guys are also like parents to a lot of these students you guys are shaping them to be fine a young men and women and you leave a life lifetime impact on them and that's something that you know

050uh we thank you for uh we will continue to support you and the cast anything that we can do to help and just may god give you many more years of health happiness and just i appreciate everything you do for us thank you mr uh abu dhabi mr mccutty uh next year is my 20 year graduate from high school and to echo mr canova i think there's nothing short of people really asking about who you are you are one of the staples of clifton and there's no doubt about that you know i had zero period my senior year in high school and i always try to skip my zero period class come and hang out with the cool kids over in over in cast and um then one time remember do you belong here no

051i'm gonna hang out anyway um you are truly you truly have left an impact on many people and i want you to remember that and to own that because your character the decency you have shown people there is not one negative bone in your body and i can truly truly truly appreciate that you're a positive individual you're a great individual and i really hope you're not going anywhere because we still have generations of people to teach but i do want to deeply thank you from the bottom of my heart as a student of this district and a board member of this district it's a full circle so i really do appreciate you thank you mr mcconney um prior to you we thought we had a phenomenal cast program with mr jim kelly um he kind

052of started it and uh whenever you have somebody new taking over the the range you always have some uh some concerns but you did such a tremendous job of stepping in um you're always willing to help and the best the best comments or accolades were seen on that on that video uh when your students or the or the people who you touch each and every day um when they can speak so highly of you that tells us we have somebody here doing a great job and not to mention all of your colleagues um they truly know what happens and what takes place and i'm always impressed with the the morning announcements if anyone does not have an opportunity to see them they are saved onto youtube i believe and you can go back and see

053them he puts a tremendous amount of work in it and the kids do a great job with it so congratulations and and uh well-deserved award thank you thank you thank you everyone okay adoption of the uh minutes of our regular meeting of may 19 2022 so moved by mr abu drabbo second by dr danny discussion seeing none roll call please mr evans yes mr abu drabba mr awad yes miss bassford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes presidents myth yes motion carries okay um next we have um our superintendent's report and uh you just bear with us it may be a little bit uh longer this evening because of the presentations but um a wonderful night for clifton here tonight so uh superintendent robertosi thank

054you mr president good evening commissioners and members of the public and our honored guests tonight our teachers of the year and our educational service professionals of the year certainly my favorite board meeting of the year where we get to if we're not honoring students if we can honor staff makes me really really happy before we do that i'd just like to say two things and i'm going to yield my report to the presentation i wish our board president a happy birthday today we're going to sing later in executive session there's cake and everything um and i just want the board to know that i was very upset about that parent who spoke tonight that really hurts me when i see a parent upset if i see a student you know disappointed so i did i

055was able to speak to mom in the parking lot and i told her although i know it won't make up for what happened last night i did tell her that i would love to have her her daughter and any student that didn't get recognized last night come to our next board meeting and be publicly recognized so it won't make up for what happened last night but she seemed receptive to that so we'll invite we'll do that at our next meeting tonight it is my great honor to recognize our governor's educator of the year and educational service professionals of the year each year the state of new jersey um through the governor's office runs this program and every public school in the state has the opportunity to nominate a teacher of the year and an educational

056service professional of the year those are all those other people that are not necessarily teachers but our counselors our nurses our paraprofessionals it could be any of those people who um have such a tremendous impact on students and so each school gets to nominate one each district so those teachers i'm sorry get to apply for the county teacher of the year and there's one county teacher of the year in each of our 21 counties and from those 21 counties they select one teacher of the year for the state and a couple of years ago we had our own megan graziano was the passaic county teacher of the year this year i think it was somebody from it wasn't from from clifton but it was certainly an outstanding teacher but tonight we recognize our own and

057i'm going to come up to the podium i'm going to call each of you up give you a small token of our appreciation we're going to take a family picture and then you can hang out and watch the rest of the meeting or be on your way so mr smith i think it would be great if uh if you would join me for a couple and then maybe the board members could rotate in and help me hand out some of the awards we might be having some technical please just bear with us um mr shiana could you check with mr makani oh okay thank you i think it might be mr mcconney messing with you f system so he has to come out and get another round of applause when he fixes it no he

058wanted to take all the credit tonight mr mcconnell sorry city hall is still down i'm still down is our live stream going yes it is okay okay so uh just so everyone knows city hall is uh redoing their studios and we were told it was back up but it's not so it's not being publicized that on tv but our live stream is available uh through our website and youtube and they're all saved there okay so now to the great part uh okay ladies and gentlemen this is very exciting who knows what's in the box it is my honor to introduce the teacher of the year from arseila our clifton early learning academy and that is stephanie rizzy stephanie are you here and we're going to call up the educational service professional of the year from

059sila is jody wassbrook i know you we have a lot of schools folks i'm sorry come on in guys for the picture bring it right up front and center getting ready mr smith thank you congratulations [Applause] it's my honor to present the teacher of the year from school number one amy cottola [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year from school number one regina kennedy congratulations you [Applause] our outstanding teacher of the year from school number two amy cuccinelli [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year from school number two sarah mundrick [Applause] keeping our bodies [Applause] the teacher of the year from school number four kelly keel [Applause] hard time counting sometimes so please please bear with me i i did that on purpose let's just see if everybody's paying attention tough

060crowd tonight we'll continue with four and we'll go back to three um you guys were afraid to tell me like i'm not gonna tell the superintendent you can't count school or educational service professional of the year from school number four giovanna changa bahamande how did i do with the name did i do okay with the name congratulations [Applause] our teacher of the year from school number three megan barhorst hi megan sorry about that megan and our educational service professional of the year our wonderful nurse over at school number three janet destefano [Applause] congratulations thank you [Applause] our teacher of the year from school five who invites me to read in her classroom every year during read across america miss mia francisco [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year from school number five anka

061early [Applause] congratulations thank you thank you we're going to unveil what's in the box later a little suspense our teacher of the year from school number eight and i didn't mess up that's the way it goes and nobody really knows what happened to school seven school number eight our teacher of the year jennifer minella [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year jenny teaching [Applause] like to invite former our retired assistant superintendent mr teaching to come up and join us for the picture please [Applause] okay [Applause] thank you mark from school number nine our teacher of the year kelly perusso [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year our councilor christine reiser [Applause] thank you so much thank you congratulations [Applause] our teacher of the year from school number 11 virginia sheehan [Applause]

062and our educational service professional of the year from school number 11 laura tinnell [Applause] congratulations thank you [Applause] our teacher of the year from school number 12 ian cutler [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year from school number 12 michelle de haven [Applause] all right [Applause] our teacher of the year from school number 13 nicole rossi and our educational service professional of the year from school number 13 lauren manny [Applause] don't stop me let's go opposite [Applause] who's taking bets that somebody's going down tonight on these stairs i know you are we got to watch the stair folks please it might be me from school number 14 our teacher of the year maria hirschbein [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year linda mcgrath [Applause] thank you the good thing is i

063know we have a couple nurses in the audience tonight from school number 15 our teacher of the year gabriella macaluso [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year felicia tapia [Applause] congratulations thank you congratulations thank you congratulations [Applause] from school number 16 our teacher of the year michael horton [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year caitlin le barbera [Applause] thank you [Applause] from school number 17 our teacher of the year catherine davey [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year erin tatino [Applause] so we're left with the big three our two middle schools and our high school from christopher columbus middle school our teacher of the year christine cole [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year jennifer hugo congratulations [Applause] from woodrow wilson middle school our teacher of the

064year karen defina [Applause] karen's not here our educational service professional of the year deanna farkas [Applause] from our flagship clifton high school the teacher of the year mr john o'reilly [Applause] and our educational service professional of the year who is not giving a speech tonight mr joel baker [Applause] congratulations [Applause] and finally it gives me a great honor on behalf of the board of education to recognize the 2022 educator of the year for the entire clifton public school district and mr smith if you want to have someone read the resolution please on uh ea too i can read it unless you want somebody to read it yeah i'll do it okay result of the clifton board education recognizes the 2022 educator of the year which honors an outstanding educator in clifton public schools the selection

065committee has named john o'reilly social studies teacher at chs mr o'reilly has been selected for this distinction by his colleagues for his dedication to the teaching profession the clifton board of education and the superintendent of schools commends him for his dedication to education and strong commitment to the clifton children of clifton congratulations i can't see mr away congratulations [Applause] does anybody have a box open so i can show the audience mr cutler we got one uh of course joel joel it's not food so it is a beautiful apple bell which has the year 2021-22 clifton board of education teacher of the year or ed service professional of the year i've certainly wish i could put an extra bonus check in there for all of you but we're gonna have to settle for the apple bell

066this year congratulations yes [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] mr president that concludes the superintendent report thank you very much um i didn't have to tell him but uh anyone who wishes to leave at this time is welcome to uh tiffany is not here oh there you are i'm sorry i was looking for you all right if we could have order in the room please uh tiffany our uh student representative would like to give her report thank you tiffany you're welcome at this time i'll be discussing the chs spring sports of 2022 outdoor track will be having their sectional championships june 3rd and june 4th june 30 will take place at the clifton stadium at 4 and june 4th will also take place at the clifton stadium at 9 00 in the morning next there there will

067be a kickball tournament the tour the kickball tournament will be hosted by the academic decathlon team assisted by the student council the tournament will be held at the chs rossi field at 2 30 on friday june 3rd all staff members students and families are able to attend for free snacks will be sold by purchase so come out and support our students andrew the senior representative spoke about the dress code last month unfortunately he couldn't be here today i just wanted to know if there are any changes or updates to the dress codes it's really important for the students to know of any changes happening to the dress code especially female students i want my fellow classmates i don't want my fellow classmates to get in trouble for a simple dress code violation if any information

068just let us know lastly i would like to mention school safety in texas a week ago the third deadliest school shootings in american history left 19 innocent students from the ages of 7 to 10 and two teachers dead at the hands of an 18 year old in the state of new jersey schools are required to perform a minimum of one fire drill and one security drill monthly at clifton high school since september we had several fire drills and and sheltering places but we've seen a lack of lockdown drills it's terrible that students have to become a custom custom to these procedures to stay safe in school where you shouldn't have to worry about your life parents are worrying if their children will come home from school that day with the tragedy in texas now more

069than ever our students and staff members all need to be reminded and practice our lockdown prison procedures again our our our hearts go out to all affected by this horrible event that hopefully will help change the way our school practices in these situations thank you tiffany for uh for that great report and you're welcome to say well or you can leave when you wish to leave okay thank you again all right i'm going to move past announcements we'll go to uh first reading of policy which it looks like we have none uh we have no no number 12 right okay we have two committee reports we'll start with facilities um mr awad do you want to read that thank you president smith uh we had a facilities meeting on may 31st 2022 i was president

070mr daley was present president smith was present uh dr abratosi was present uh mr uchi mr abedrabo mr moldano assistant uh business administrator mr ahmed shahadah mr watkins costello and mr shah the meeting started at 2 pm ended around 2 45 pm discussion was the referendum update a brief overview of what was taken place thus far passage valley water commission has determined the pipe underneath woodrow wilson's field does not have to be rerouted committee members are requesting legal documents to be written up regarding the easement and potential liability of the of the project administrators and legal will obtain the documents for review remaining three bid packages are with the state being reviewed schools are getting security uh will be requested to get work done in the beginning of the project a second item discussed with

071school nine and clifton high school uh manhole repair three sewer-drained manholes were repaired asphalt around the manholes had deteriorated and created large holes around them maintenance department received calls from the building principles and immediately got a vendor out to repair another item discussed was grounds upkeep update maintenance has a crew of an internal team cutting all the grass and maintaining all the buildings on a weekly basis fenders that is handling the softball fields has been doing a great job and coming out every wednesday to cut and treat the fields the meeting adjourned and that was all okay any questions for facilities seeing none we go on to uh legislative uh mr abu drabbo thank you president smith um in attendance where myself um mr joe canova dr lucy danny and president smith dr robert tosie

072mr uchimser gingero as well um from our legislative perspective uh senator gill summoning assemblyman giblin assemblywoman timberlake uh and their each of their respective chief of staffs terrell ricky in the leader all in present meetings are 10 a.m and ended at 11 a.m we had a slew of uh discussion topics that day and um the first thing we discussed were the 2022 comprehensive health standards we did relate and discuss the feedback we've been receiving at our board of ed meetings from our uh public and as well as um we gave them both sides of the discussion so they understand where clifton stands and where we are with that so they are well aware the conversation has started they don't foresee any changes as to many of the public hopes but at the same time they

073also explain to us the importance of having these discussions at an early age for our younger students number two we discussed the clarification on who can and cannot hold seats during terms and they further explain to us that we do need to be advised by our attorney and as well they also explain their perspectives from the law we did talk about the staff reform on the state aid funding in the future they are well aware of what clifton has received in the past and we have made it a point to them about how much we are still short in clifton so we will have further discussion from them for future legislative meetings uh we talked about update on permanent free lunch we asked that the free lunch waiver would become permanent that they stated that

074there is no plan to continue on free lunch waiver we will continue to fight that because we all know how important it is that many of our students their only meals are is when they come to school and we have made it very um important and made a point to them of how clear and how important that is to the city of clifton the update on charter and out of district schools on the budget lines while they believe and they being meaning the state not our three legislators believe that public aid for for charter schools should remain with public schools we have also made it and i uh you know mr konova spoke very eloquently about it since um you know he has it was actually his item on there and we basically said to

075them that there needs to be an own budget line on the charter schools that the fact that we as a board as a district the night of a budget passing or a letter from the doe that we have to put aside for example two million dollars or somehow dollars and millions be off our top the budget for charter schools is unacceptable and that we need to fight for every penny and every dollar that comes into our district for our staff for administrators and for our students we asked them for a couple of different agenda items that either have been in state legislature or have been have passed through said the legislator are introducing the state legislature one in particular is the um instruction for high school students how it's not early at 8 30 a.m

076they did give us an update on the late start for schools uh we talked about topics discussion on legislative developments and updates discussion uh assembly legislative bill 1281 senate 464 assembly bill 677 and it's reciprocated mirror bill in the senate on a 96 and we also made sure they're well aware of the new jersey school board discussions that we've had and how we support their priorities and making sure we showed how urgent it is to our district and that was majorly and predominantly around our charter schools so that was on our earlier discussion as many you are probably aware and many are not aware the state legislature is being redistricted happens every 10 years while we will be losing assemblywoman timberlake over to the new 34th will be the new 27th district which means that

077we will even either have a new senator or continue having the same senator of political reasons we will continue having assemblyman giblin but we will also have a new legislator in the assembly which is john mccain john mccain is an ally and a friend to many of us and i spoke to the president and i spoke also to the superintendent um and to the legislative committee we will ask assembly mckean to come in and explain to him who we are as a district the important priorities that we need to fight for so this way he keeps it in mind as well and hopefully we'll have a very fruitful conversation and to my colleagues on the board if there's anything else legislative on the legislative end that we have not discussed and you think is it's

078important to make sure we put on the agenda please let me know in an email to the superintendent to myself and the president thank you any questions a comment mr president yes just for the board to know we did have a not a lengthy discussion we had a good discussion about the movement i'll call it to delay the start time at high schools throughout the state of new jersey there is some action um a lot of talk uh i believe there's a bill it hasn't gone anywhere yet but there's a lot of talk and i'm a superintendent i'm not opposed to to to anything that would make us start our high schools later because there is a lot of research that shows basically the way we do it in clifton and how a lot of

079school districts do where our secondary schools are starting earlier and our elementary schools are starting later that really that should be flip flop the way children's brains work that teenagers need more sleep and younger children or perform better academically earlier in the morning the issue is that the practicality of it right there are so many factors that go into a schedule for for schools and not to to mention the transportation aspect of it which is probably our biggest issue uh here in clifton so we have 54 buses that are all utilized all day and those buses are tiered right so the kids who are dropped off at the high school those buses then go on routes and pick up the middle school students or elementary school students so may not necessarily be a problem to

080flip that but what i suggested and what i implored the legislators and what the superintendents association is asking the legislature is to if you're going to do this make sure you give us enough notice don't tell us in august that we have to do this in september and and the reality is you really need two years to make that change the planning the amount of planning and the changes that have to go into in regards to scheduling it's not as easy as you think just well you just change the times right it's not that easy there's so many other things that go into it but from my perspective i'm not necessarily opposed to it because i do think i i do wonder how sometimes our high school students they're starting class at 7 30 in

081the morning right it's great it's it's just seems to me to be really really early um and we do have a lot of students who come to school it's already the naysayers will say well they'll just if you change the time they'll go to bed later at night and they'll just be late later in the day i don't necessarily believe that i do believe there is something in in the brain that impacts the way um teenagers and i have three of them now oh my god three of my four kids are teenagers now that's scary there's definitely something wrong with their brains right i'm talking about my kids so maybe that maybe it maybe there there is something going on there but we did uh we did and we'll continue to push for the legislators

082to to not spring this on us to give us notice thank you and if i may add to that as well on that discussion and mr canova if i missed anything on this perspective let me know please because it was your agenda item as well that not only from the academic perspective but from the financial from the fiscal responsibility perspective that if schools were also to be pushed we also have to take accountability for our fiscal responsibility about our buses about our personnel uh and how we have to handle that as well so that was also a discussion which i uh failed to mention was anything else mr nova on that no no that was right um if if we go later in the day then what's going to happen is we have to have

083more buses more bus routes we're going to have the place to store the buses we'd have to purchase them so the term unfunded mandate was used and we said make sure this is not going to be one of those because otherwise we're going to get collaborative for it anyone else yeah mr president vice president yeah mr avedravo thank you for that report uh i'm sorry i couldn't attend uh of course the conflicts um i will give you some information there's two things number one on charter schools the way they're approved it's totally untransparent and i'll give you an outline and you can have that discussion with the legislators as well in case the public doesn't know they just file a application to the state whether to institute one or expand uh we get a letter

084dropped on the floor in the in in the board office that's their response to us and there's really no dialogue uh either or no public hearing whatsoever either on that so we can look to give them some guidance how we can bolster that the second part is with count county schools every county runs theirs differently for instance hudson county does not charge tuition to any of their students that come from the the municipal districts here they just give you there's a flat fee that they contribute which hasn't changed in about ten years it's about seven thousand dollars we contribute about about 14 a piece or something like that so there needs to be some uniformity uh of how state uh tech schools and magnet schools county tech schools and magnet schools uh operate because every

085county is different it's really very very unbalanced and i also give you some outlines on that too as well thank you mr daley and if the public is tuning in on this uh the conversation we've had i think for years mr daley has led the charge on um on the charter and and um county schools so if people are are not aware um we have students in clifton who go over to charter and and um and county schools in the county school where mr daley is referring to state county technical institute and if anybody's not aware the money in the state of new jersey follows the student so you're looking at about 700 students in total 750 times that by eleven thousand dollars that's how much money is leaving this the city of clifton to

086go to to pay for these students now in terms of charter schools um we made it clear to them that you know the reference i used was if you're shopping for a house and you know there's a short sale on a house in this shorts that we're talking about is um church properties and these charter schools are buying up um we have to move you know you have to move to buy the house quickly before somebody else does with cash or has a prior agreement so in this case if there is a building we have to say we have to think ourselves as a board do is it time for us to buy now or we have to jump on it quickly before another charter school opens up so we face many facets of different

087sides of how we have to make our arrangements as a board and as a superintendent and as as a whole as a city how we have to move forward and and it really changes and we made this clear to them it really changes around our budget priorities um to do we go after a building that's we know is coming down the road and we got to start a conversation quickly or can we wait a little bit get our you know the money of the house order in order and then move at at a prioritized date when we see fit so there's there's a lot of facets that we've discussed with the legislators on this and they are very well aware mr daley so anything you have to add to that moving forward please let us

088know okay any other questions legislative okay i just would like to uh comment uh um our assemblymen made it uh very clear how thankful they are of clifton for having this type of meeting he told us that it is very uh unique that it does not happen in other districts and they felt that this is a tremendous opportunity for both of us to share our ideas and our thoughts so i just wanted the public to know that it's this is something that clifton has initiated um and our legislators are very proud to be part of it and maybe other districts will uh follow us and and add on but uh uh something might give them on to make it uh known to us that this is not common practice with other boards so i thank

089you and president smith did the administration through you um superintendent robert tosie if you can just give us also a couple dates for summoning mckean for the new 27th legend district um so we can get a better understanding of when we can invite him in either meeting with you or with you and the committee as a whole or even with money mike to understand really where we are with our finances because moving forward we're going to be a very unique district moving forward we won't be with east orange orange and montclair we'll be with roosevelt park west orange livingston so we're really going to be um competitive and fighting with our urban essex county neighboring towns and montclair i think is the only town from the 34th that will continue to be in the 27th

090new legislative district okay we'll move on to um [Music] unfinished business is there any unfinished business yes mr smith um i see with you know the reports that there wasn't a report from the policy committee i'm just guessing that you know it's going to it's going to happen in the near future the policy committee yes so for this upcoming week next week yeah so um just everybody's aware as well thank you for um star wars uh mr president if you may um so i believe dr robertos it's the second tuesday of every month is our standing policy committee meeting uh we have a couple of things on there um talking about the dress code talking about the login process something that you brought up last meeting and a few other things that we're going to

091discuss for that meeting as well so if anybody has any agenda items please let us know as well thank you the only reason why i bring this up is because last week i brought to light when one board member decided to give another board member uh jello shots consumed of alcohol uh they didn't consume in the boardroom but i just found it very disrespectful for the deus and for the building and what we stand for for something like that to happen here and i would like to you know set to set it straight is because after the meeting you decide to send one of your family members to harass me and try to intimidate me why i brought this to light and i just find it very rude and very disrespectful for someone that's the

092vice president of clifton against substance abuse to be doing something like that in our administration building somewhere where we sit here we discuss policy and you know try to pave the path for our students what kind of example are we really setting for the students knowing that board members at all due respect sometimes we act childish or we throw tantrums or we're giving each other alcohol on certain things i think we should set the standard and the bar high and that's something i really want discussed in policy because if commissioners are allowed to do this what's going to happen with staff what's our excuse when staff students and others do that and i'm just really disappointed because we took an oath and i think we should you know abide by it and at least have

093mutual respect in this room we may have disagreements but you know because someone brought a light of a certain situation and when they do it they're being harassed and you know threatened and disrespected but if the tables were turned the other way around which you know it's always a loose cannon i just think that you know we should really look ourselves in the mirror and kind of you know you know before start judging other people make sure our hands are clean that's all i had to say okay so policy will uh yes i would like to on uh unfinished business yes i'd like to respond first of all i didn't send my daughter here my daughter came down on her own because she was watching the meeting directly okay i don't know what she said

094to you because i know she i asked her when we got home what did you say to mr white she said that she wanted to speak to you and you ran out of the room samantha does not have to use vulgar disrespectful or any kind of insulting language my daughter can speak very professionally she has a master's degree in communications and i'm very proud of her as she comes to the meeting several times and speaks very eloquently i told you last meeting it was a sealed bag it was wrapped up i did not know what it was she asked me to deliver it to miss beltran okay i didn't know what it was i walked over and handed to miss beltran that's it i didn't have my car that night i got dropped outside i

095didn't want to leave it in the car i didn't know what it was she just said to give it to her mr awad you have a funny way of talking about harassment you're the one that filed ethics charges against me and then you had then had your wife copy the ethics charges okay i can get into that as well you keep on bringing this up you talk about disrespect you should have spoke to me in the back room and said hey what did you do that for and secondly i am vice president of clifton against substance abuse we talk we teach people about the ill effects of substance and a substance awareness people partake all the time people on this day is partake all the time on every different thing from alcohol to to illegal

096and illegal drugs okay my job is to bring awareness to the community which i do if people want to partake in that including members of my family as long as they act responsibility so be it i can't prohibit people from stopping them from drinking i don't drink alcohol i don't do any kind of illegal drugs and i only take heart medicine for what i need for for my my enlarged heart but you are the one that disrespects me at every chance you get and you brought miss beltran and dragged her into this my daughter came here to speak to you and tell you what happened i did not know what was in that bag and i will take a lie detector test if you want to pay for it and swear to it on the

097lie detector test i challenge you thank you i'm more than welcome to because it was pretty funny when you handed her the bag you guys were discussing what was in the bag and you guys were giggling and chuckling about it there it is but it's okay listen president smith this is under a new business i think i think it's time to move on it is okay let's stop please it's un was unfinished business you brought up for the policy that's it that's where it'll end it will go to policy and bring it back to to the board uh yes unfinished business we had a a personnel meeting and we don't have any minutes and i understand that everything on that personnel meeting is confidential however the meeting should be documented who was there what time

098we started what time we stopped the board members should get a copy of the confidential report so they know the discussion that we had right the public shouldn't get the copy of that but because there are there are several things on the agenda that are going to reflect and i have a bunch of stuff that i want to pull to bring into the back room so we can have the discussion with the whole board what happened at that meeting but there's no there's no documentation to memorialize that that meeting actually occurred and it's a committee meeting it should be documented time date who attended personnel personnel personnel maybe something else was brought up in the personnel committee and then what we can release to the public and what we can't it's really important that we

099document and memorialize that the personnel committee actually met thank you and if i may uh president smith to follow up on that i actually agree with miss sebastard uh only because there is one issue i do i want to ask the pool uh if it's okay with you and the in the superintendent under personnel um that i had a question but i didn't get a chance to send it to dr robert has a toasted city because of work so okay when we get to that um yes uh dr robertosi did inform me that these meetings are documented who attended all that time uh we can get a copy of that out in the future to to all the boards so that everyone's aware of it but uh that information is documented um and uh i

100think it's only the second meeting you've had of personnel for for the year so we'll definitely make sure that that's done and that the board will get copies of that information okay any other unfinished business okay seeing none um oh i'm sorry i had one um i just wanted to let the board know i just got the response so um i did send the um i did ask for the advisory opinion so i will send everyone the uh the copy of the opinion that i asked for and then uh response we received today uh from the from that uh email um basically just stating that they received it and they'll look into it at their their next meeting so i will forward all the board members a copy of both the letter that i sent

101um as well as the response that we got today uh so this was uh a request from miss basford for legal opinion on adding members of the public to uh committees okay so once the meeting is over i will forward that to everybody so you have that i'm sorry thank you for bringing that because i just looked at my note um the young lady the student um um who spoke mentioned about the dress code and i apologize i just gone through the two different notes between this meeting and last meeting uh if it's okay with you and the superintendent i'd like to invite her to the next committee maybe we have the dress code as the first priority on that agenda and as the student rep sitting in since andrew's leaving if we can possibly

102get her feedback on that as well and understand what the gripes are with the student population okay okay any other unfinished business all right seeing none we'll move uh to number 16 mr daley would you mind reading that expression of condolence for us thank you mr president whereas on may 18 2022 the community noted with sorrow the passing of ms deanna steve smith and whereas mr steve smith had served the board of education and the children of clifton faithfully and conscientiously as a highly respected grade five teacher at school 17 for five years now therefore be resolved that this resolution be forwarded to her bereave family to serve as an expression of the great regard in which ms steve smith was held by the board of education the administration employees and the pupils of the

103clifton public schools and be further resolved that the the contents of this resolution be noted in their entirety in the official minutes of the clifton board of education for future generations to peruse okay motion by vice president daley second second by mr abu drabbo see no discussion vocal please mr abedrabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford yes ms beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daily yes and president smith yes ocean cares okay next we'll move on to um uh education administration okay we have uh ea one through ea 15 where any any of those that you want to pull uh on ea no but since you're asking a question um a number five ea which looks like p5 on here should be corrected to e5 e85 okay we'll

104make that the correction and on that note so moved so moved by uh mr abu drabo second by mr awad discussion seeing none roll call please mr abedrabo uh yes but i'm staying on ea4 mr awad miss bashford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes mr president can i get clarification on that um ea 5 please it just it's just a grammatical error here it it's on ea 5 says p 6 2 2 thank you that's all just for record purposes thank you all right next under p uh the superintendent has asked for p through 43 be pulled for executive so p38 243 these are um personnel matters and if i may add president smith pool p6 as well please for clarification

105see i just have some questions about reese um rescinded lines from previous meetings just get understandable why before i vote on it okay so we'll add p yeah six thank you mr president yes um can we also put p20 in there um for discussion for the board okay p20 as well we'll pull for executive and the public just the public know these are all personnel matters um when the board meets an executive session they will discuss these and they we will come back out then action will be taken all right so i'll make the motion to approve um p1 through 51 with the exception of p6 p20 and p 38 through 43. okay there's a motion by president daley second by mr abu drabbo i have a question everybody's been raised in order for the

106discussion to be thorough uh anybody who is mentioned in those resolutions has been rised thank you okay roll call please mr abba drabo yes with the standing on p19 and p47 i'm sorry p 47 name only mr watt yes miss basford uh yes i'm abstaining on uh p47 p 47 name only and yes to everything else miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes an abstaining p47 name only mr paris uh yes abstain on 19 and 30. vice president daley yes president smith yes motion scary okay we'll move on to finance and facilities mr smith if i may yes um very thankful that the board has taken my recommendation and appointed to administrators tonight and i'd just like to to give them a moment to introduce themselves if i may so first we have

107a brand new supervisor of special services at clifton high school board of education dr robertosi i'm so excited for this opportunity to be the new supervisor of special services for clifton high school i'm just being at this meeting tonight has made me even more excited to just get hit the ground running and get going and i just i'm so excited to be part of the clifton community thank you so much thank you and uh mr smith i feel we were very very fortunate to find our next principle for school number 11 who a very experienced principal dalia shalaby is a has been a principal in two different districts where she attained tenure in both districts and i feel like we found a diamond in the rough and i'm really really excited to have her join

108our team so dalia you want to say a few words thank you so much for the privilege of that the privilege to serve in this capacity to serve the district and for providing me with a platform that allows me to be my best self i firmly believe that it's such a noble endeavor to create a school learning environment that provides opportunities for students to grow into curious scholars and confident leaders and compassionate citizens so to that end i look forward to collaborating with all the stakeholder groups and doing my very best to make the district proud so thank you so much it's such a privilege and i look forward to giving it 200 percent today i had such the great fortune to not only attend on such a wonderful evening to share and meet uh

109so many wonderful people in the district but i also met the recipients of school 11's award this evening and they were such a delight so warm so welcoming and i have no doubt that that was just a sneak preview of all that's to come so thank you [Applause] not saying that um you know i said such nice things about you and i just introduced amanda like you know well we just hired her um amanda blew us away she was the top candidate by far and the interview committee told me we have to get this candidate you should know that and we're happy to have you [Applause] and i'd also like to recognize um not a new administrator but an administrator who applied for a new position our longtime supervisor of physical education and health nicole

110tory has been appointed tonight as the new vice principal at christopher columbus middle school so congratulations nicole [Applause] good evening so i'm pleased and honored to be appointed to the vice principal position at christopher columbus middle school i began as a school 11 student so you're taking my alma mater attended ccms and graduated clifton high school in 1991. i began my teaching career at ccms completed my admin internship at ccms and have enjoyed the last eight years as a k-12 district supervisor i thank you all for the opportunity to continue my passion and my career in the district i hold so dear to my heart so thank you again thank you [Applause] and for the record nicole has promised me she did not apply to be the vice principal because of the new health and

111comprehensive phys health standards she swears and and by the way probably not going to have your replacement for you know a month or so so you're going to be doing double duty this summer you know you're not getting rid of it so congratulations nicole nicole has been an outstanding administrator with us and i know she'll be fantastic in this in this new role congratulations and thank you to the board of education for accepting my recommendations exciting times for clifton and we welcome our two new ladies into the district and we wish you all the best and nicole i have no doubt that you will continue to do great things for this district um dr rutozie i think you're you're gonna be very proud and uh to know that your schools are going to be well

112run with great administrators so congratulations to all of you and welcome okay so now we can move on to finance facilities uh we have uh f1 through f16 so i moved by mr aberdrabbo second by mr awad discussion yes i do yes um so i noticed here that there is a lacrosse or the lower lacrosse team in the city um is using facilities over at the stadium are we just certain dr robertosi that it's not going to conflict with either football camp or anything else prior to prioritize any high school sports i do know that we we had one issue earlier in the year where there was a conflict so i can say pretty confidently that our business office has been checking twice three four five times to make sure there are no conflicts yeah

113so any time anybody's using any one of our athletic fields um we the first call is to the athletic director's office to make sure there's no conflicts thank you yeah i just um i have a question on f10 i think it's just uh informational but um i believe the medi center recently just sold and i believe it's not called the many center um i can't tell you what the new name is but if we could look into that um it definitely is a a new name um it's not the medi center anymore but i i think it still performs the same duties but just so we can update the proper name there yeah it's just like a formality right yep all right i'm sorry [Music] through you to the superintendent i'm looking at the bus

114drill evacuation reports uh i noticed uh three and four school three and school four were not on here and as well i believe no just three and four uh is there a reason dr robertson three four are not on here i want to say it's because they don't have buses and i'm correct okay thank you so much sure thank you okay roll call please mr abba drabo yes mr awak yes miss bassford yes abstaining on 16. miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daley uh yes no on f8 president smith yes all right emotions carry okay we'll move on to uh board member comments um miss beltran you're up first today okay i'll keep it sweet uh thank you for the robotics team for that thrilling uh presentation

115outside um i think it's really cool that we can um we could do something so special here and that we get to compete and traveling across the country with that robot must be a pretty exciting experience for the students that participate in that club and i look forward to i'm probably going to look at some more youtube videos of it performing because i think it was pretty cool with their little demonstration i'd love to see what other people have going at their schools but since we're winning a lot it seems to be we have a really good robot named toast or bread red named bread covered in toast stickers um and congratulations to all the teachers honored tonight it's truly special to stand out in a district's as large as this all of our schools

116have many teachers and many assistant support staff and for you to rise to the top it really is something special this is in a small district with a couple of schools this is a college sized campus if you want to uh take it like that so if you're if you rise to the top you really are something special you really are impacting the lives of the children and it doesn't say that the other teachers that didn't win this year aren't doing the same uh just means that next year now you have a shot to win it and um and that's all i have for tonight okay thank you uh next we have miss bassford okay um hello happy june and i'd like to know why we haven't had a resolution for equality for um pride

117month a little disappointed about that we have a lot of students that are believe in what my shirt says equality for all so i hope maybe our next meeting we can actually have a resolution on these that's right any board member can ask to have that resolution at any time so i'll be happy to put that on the agenda all right thank you um also um congratulations to all the award recipients job well done you make this district a better place to work and you also make it that people step up and look forward to being like you you get you set a good example because that's what leadership is and it's really nice to see so many people in this room that do a wonderful job so congratulations to mr mcconney i said what

118i needed to say before but once again uh thank you for a job well done um yesterday i have to apologize for yesterday i didn't make the scholarship award um ceremony i'm very sorry about that but um i had been invited months ago to the retirement dinner for dr feinstein from new jersey school boards association and i did attend to him um i did attend that and i wished him well uh he's uh i've known him for 12 years uh he's been a guiding light but the one thing um they talked about the larry isms of his 53 years of service in education because he started out as a special ed teacher and he advanced himself up to you know superintendent and um the garden state coalition he was the president of that to new

119jersey school boards association the one thing that stuck with me when i first met miss dr feinstein he keeps on telling me to call larry but i can't uh because he's just he's just a that figure that you know he with the respect because he just he commands it without asking for it he said that when you vote when i first met him when you vote on anything as a board member you stop and look and say is this is this best for kids and i've lived with that and last night he talked about that in length and it was really nice to hear that again and it brought up a lot of things to me as well so i really respect him so godspeed dr feinstein i know i'll be bumping into you in

120the state with other things um they did pick his replacement uh dr purcell um he's uh he's got a very very big resume so look him up uh so we wish him a lot of luck um we've got some of some of us got to meet him already at different meetings so we're really excited about that as well to meet him and and we we're looking forward to what his vision is going to be to move the advancement of public education to you know the future so that's a big deal so if anybody hasn't met him yet i encourage you to you know drop him a line say hello uh he's got a really impressive resume and they made a really good uh choice when they they appointed him uh or hired him um i

121have a question that i would like to bring into executive session this uh student representative mentioned something about lockdown drills i'd like to talk to about that in executive session because that is a security issue and also we did get an um an email i mean a letter from somebody from an organization uh because it has to do with finance and things like that i feel that we need to speak about this in executive session so i just want to bring that to executive session thank you have a good night uh happy pride month to all that celebrate um happy memorial day that was fun uh marching with everyone and uh and honoring the veteran the p the service men and women that paid the acc the ultimate sacrifice on a personal note um at

122three o'clock my whole family converged on the veterans um the vietnam veterans memorial in jersey city where they laid the pla my brother stone at the vietnam veterans memorial site and persian field on between summit and central avenue it was really a moving ceremony to meet some of my brother's comrades to meet some of the people that he actually served with to meet their children that i never knew and the kind words they had to say about my brother but it was such a moving ceremony from the beginning to the end um and they're all aging out there in the 70s the late 70s so i gave the one gentleman a promise as long as i can work a walk at 3 o'clock on memorial day i'll be there to help him with anything he

123needs to watch my family break down the way they did because a lot of us couldn't cry when my brother had passed and uh it was really an emotional day but to see the service that these people gave to themselves but the one thing that was brought away from it was after 53 years of my brother's life he finally obtained the welcome home that he deserved when my brother came from vietnam and he traveled through california because that's the way the flight went he was in his uniform and he was spat on at the airport in california when we met him in newark airport at 3 30 in the morning the night he rolled in he flew in from vietnam he walked very past us because he was in civvies of civilian clothes we didn't

124even know who he was he was bald old looking it really horrible what the war took away from him what the war took away from my brother was his innocence not a day went by that he complained he never boasted or bragged but never complained about anything he went through he said it was his duty this respect that those people showed my brother on memorial day i will never forget it will resonate with me for the rest of life i don't even know these people but the respect was just overwhelmingly kind so i'd like to thank the jersey city veterans association vietnam veterans association for what they did my brother and my sister and my other brother we got up to accept his uh his little placket my niece was there my nephew came in

125from massachusetts but to see my great nephew and my great niece standing there with the flags all furling and and just to hear the kind words about my brother really was overwhelming so i thank everybody and i thank everybody for um coming out from memorial day and showing their respect to everybody that has lost the ultimate sacrifice for this country it's about respect and i appreciate that thank you and good night okay uh mr canola yes good evening um first i want to give a congratulations to our mechanical mustangs i love seeing things like that and i'm definitely a geeky at heart so i love listening to what uh what you create and how you even speak so eloquently about it the students who are explaining it and talking about the sensors and how things

126operate um those are the future engineers i think we're teaching our kids to to do those things in the future and today's machine is tomorrow's whatever it's up to you all right we have people now that are doing space exploration that could be one of our students one day so i love seeing that um and that is one of the clubs that we offer here and i attended the open house for ccms with my daughter and there's a plethora of clubs different things that kids get involved in um miss gaba was encouraging parents to to let their students know about these clubs and encourage them to partake i would i would also agree i think you know getting students into into clubs and getting involved with other students and being in a cohort and having

127a group of people to rely on and people to to bounce things off of and conversate with i think that helps especially in a new school um so i encourage everyone to take a look at the clubs that we have congratulations to all the award recipients um i have to give a special shout out to my school three who school four went first for some uh unknown reason um but mrs barhorst who's actually my daughter's teacher and mr stefano who's our school nurse so congratulations to them um gracing them getting recognized tonight and i love having awards like this i think it's better than the in-fighting that goes on up here in this dais congratulations to all our new appointees tonight um and i'm glad seeing people getting into these uh into these roles where

128we can help educate students and help people you know get through the battles of theirs of life um and that's all i had for tonight thank you okay dr danny yes good evening i'd like to say congratulations to the robotics team it was actually very exciting to watch the demonstration and through my 10 years on the board they've always presented a you know robotics demonstration which is kind of always interesting because after all i mean that's why we're here is for the students and as mr kanova said it really was something to hear you know how eloquently they speak about um what it is that they're doing the demonstration and um how it's all put together so that's really really exciting and um congratulations on the awards um very well deserved also um congratulations to

129the awards recipients for being honored um and um you know we're we're coming towards the end of the year and i just want to say to all the students and all the teachers that um i think you know this year i think was a very challenging year um very tiring i know for myself as an educator i know and speaking to some of the teachers administrators who said that you know it was just a very challenging year so um we just have a little bit more to go and then you know summer break and for those administrators who um are in during the summer i always know that it's a little bit more of a lull so you know time to get refreshed and head on then to the new year and again uh congratulations

130to the new administrators who were appointed and those who will move into different positions it's a leadership role and it is you know interesting to then move into a different position where you are in charge of the students econo educational experiences and in you know their development so um and that's all i have for this evening thank you mr paris thank you mr smith um i'm going to echo what my colleagues have said about the robotics team it was so impressive to see what it truly is a wonderful team of people it's a team sport they all have their talents um they were the uh the one leader was referring to the software team uh several times and you could tell they they really work together it's amazing the amount of time that they put

131in and and also uh thank you to the wonderful community supporters that support that team um it's just a fantastic cooperation between uh the community and and uh our students um congratulations last week to ccms's junior honor society um amazingly well spoken young people um there's a lot of a lot of great great students coming up to high school next year um congratulations to our teachers and award winners and mr mcconney and that's all i got for now thank you thank you um mr abu drabo thank you president smith um to robotics team i apologize been a little late but i've had the opportunity to watch you in action during um during your competitions and i'm sure it was not a disappointment as i'm always amazed what you can do and i learned a lot

132through uh through your uh actions in your competitions uh the scholarship awards was phenomenal last night president smith and myself and dr robertson were there um and the amount of people the amount of students that were sitting on that stage and i believe dr robertos of your scholarship foundation gave away i believe 25 000 last night and that's phenomenal and that's just from one you know from one donor or foundation of him herself and that's phenomenal to help our students moving in uh into the higher education realm congratulations to uh principal dalia shelby from school eleven i think you'll be a great asset over there vice principal nicole turi i think you're doing an amazing role and amanda i'm sorry i didn't get your last name uh but if it was a recommendation of the

133committee and dr robert tozie i'm sure you'll do a phenomenal job congratulations against our governors of the year ca excellence in education our 25 years of service and of course mr o'reilly i've spoken very highly of you have past meetings and i will continue to do so as our 2022 educator of the year um [Music] mr mcconney i had you on my notes but we already discussed you our clifton pride flag raisings on june 18 at 11 a.m uh today i got invited to a group project uh to a facebook group um for ryan's eagle award project uh christy wellins invited many people to make it more of a community effort so if anybody is able to help and donate to ryan's eagle award project it's a facebook titled ryan's eagle award project i think

134ryan wallin will do a phenomenal job understanding the project that he's working on so please also donate to that there is an event coming up that kim castellano is hosting under her event under her organization it's called family fun day in nash park um it's something you have to register for i think it's a great opportunity uh and it's particularly why i'm highlighting this because um they're honoring um i believe her name is maria talley the former school 12 principal um retired principal and uh she's been a great continued community supporter after her retirement um so if you would like to attend it is a link that you just got to sign up your kids it's a great event to have it's going to be on june 5th on sunday from 1 to 4 p.m

135so bring your kids out uh just don't forget to register please and i believe it's on june 12th and i did notice dr robertosi you sent us an email about uh the use of bus um from the district so i didn't notice it on the agenda so if we can discuss that uh we received a letter from the driver just so you know i i couldn't find it i get my time back right i found it it's on there oh you did all right great mr found it it's on the agenda thanks mike um we all i believe we all got a letter from the palestinian community center for palestine week uh the flag raising for the palestinian flag raising clifton is on sunday june 5th at 11 a.m um so everybody's everybody's attended i

136believe everybody's um invited i think as all board members i believe got this letter as well uh i'm glad that tonight's meeting went well um [Music] listen the public is really at this point and people ask me what the heck's going up on the board and i can't speak for the rest of the board and i always say go to go to president smith to discuss this but we need to do a better job on this days working together being kinder to each other reflecting on the words that you know being kind to each other helps the heart as danny kept reminding us last time around we all we all mean well for our district we all mean well for our students we all mean well for our administrators for our teachers we really got

137to show the public that we can truly work together you know from both sides of the city infight really does nobody any good it doesn't do anybody any good and it creates nothing but barriers um [Music] whether it's saying that you have to get your heads checked or talking about what mr frost is talking about so i was talking about or in fighting off or infighting there it really needs to to be a better standard and we need to set the standards here up on this day is for our district for a better clifton clifton's phenomenal um and if i can have 30 seconds many of us are products of clifton and you know product students of clifton and we really need to give back we we told our students last night don't forget clifton

138come back do what good pay it forward we got to do the same here and that's from the mentality standpoint and that's from respecting each other thank you hey mr awad no comments tonight okay vice president daley uh thank you very much mr president uh just a small small correction for uh miss beltran uh toast was the name given to a defensive back of the new york giants obviously a dubious distinction but it made me trouble because i remember that when he got that name uh just briefly uh the robotics they're they're always here they're terrific and um and obviously our staff but also a shout out to mr hoban and the montclair uh society of engineers they put a lot of time and support these uh support these terrific students so i like to

139recognize them as well again i'd like to congratulate all those individuals who got awards and recognition tonight and our our new uh staff members also wish them uh all the success and support we can give them but that concludes my remarks mr smith thank you when the robotics team came and asked if they could do a demonstration we of course love the robotics and um we welcome the presentation um however we felt that in this room it really would not give justice to what they wanted to do we'd see a video of what took place um so um i believe it may be the first time that we ever uh started uh a board meeting outdoors um and then continued to uh move it inside so um i thank everyone for uh adjusting to it

140uh to allow our kids to demonstrate to not only us but to the public uh what a great job they do in the area of robotics and um the time and the effort that's put into that um monique had said to everybody about thanking pomptonian for the food she supplies them with meals um most of the time out of her own pocket uh so that the kids could so the kids could eat um i was just blown away by hearing that that um that one of our staff members uh and i'm sure there's other stories about other staff members who give and i'm not trying to um say that um she's the only one i'm just talking about this particular situation um but to ensure that those kids have food she makes sure that it's

141taken care of and that's not only here why they're practicing and setting up when they go on the road and they travel to these competitions the same thing happens so i thank her and i thank all other teachers um anyone who knows teaching your classroom becomes [Music] a major responsibility especially financially uh for all teachers i worked in a parochial school and i don't know if any of our teachers get reimbursed and if they do it's probably very little but uh in program schools there was no reimbursement um but you didn't care because you wanted to do what was best for the kids and you made your classroom look great and so i commend all the teachers that go above and beyond um what they have to do and even if it has a financial

142cost to them that they go ahead and do that and i hope that uh down the road we may be able to find some funding or maybe some of our big corporate donors could make some donations for staff expenses in their classrooms or something to that so if there's anyone in the corporate world that's uh listening uh we would gladly uh accept any donations you have for that um i i think it would be a a great thing for our teachers so i thank um monique and i i want the the uh the board if they don't know and the public to know that um i can't think of jim's last name off the top of my head um mr jim hoban has a um a warehouse across from clifton high school and um whatever

143product he produces during the day at the three o'clock when the kids get there there is a section of this warehouse that he allows our clifton kids to use the warehouse at no cost to the district to uh run this robotics program to build the uh the robots to program what they have to program all of that he donates his warehouse and we are so thankful for that uh not many people are aware of that i wasn't until this year and i had the opportunity to go visit his warehouse and saw the operation that is it is but um for someone who and he's very active um as an engineer um an advisor to the robotics program as well donating and dedicating their time so i thank jim for um allowing our students to have

144the space to do that and we all know what space would cost and uh the district so we're so thankful that he uh offers that to our our district um so i wish continued success for that and i i just think that's these demonstrations that we do for for our kids i think that i i wish all the rest of this stuff we could do in five minutes and the rest of it um of of showcasing our kids and showcasing our staff that's what makes clifton great and um while other towns honor their teachers i'm sure um clifton i believe does a phenomenal job of ensuring that our staff knows how much we appreciate them and how thankful we are that they teach here in clifton um whether it's a teacher whether it's a para

145whether it's a bus driver whether it's someone in the the uh office uh in our counseling uh food service transportation wherever it might be we're very proud of of the work that they do and uh as we're beginning to close out our year um we we thank you to say thank you to all of our staff um again we started out in a challenging year um but we we've come through it and uh clifton b can be very proud of its uh if it's in staff so i just wanted to quickly say that mr mcconney um when we built the uh the uh new wing at the high school and we put the um cast studio in um it was like state of the art and now i know we we have we have to

146update it because it's getting very old but i remember montclair state university had come to visit our studio and our studio was better than what they had at montclair state and they came and did a lot of their instruction and training at our at our studio um and then obviously they built their own studio um but we started that cast program um with that studio and i hope that the board uh will be able to fund and update that that studio because we produce a lot of good things there last thing uh pomponian i i can't begin to again thank them for all that they do for the district um from the wonderful job that they did on the superintendent's fundraiser to what they do for our kids all year long they really are a

147tremendous group um and uh i like to thank alex and donna and all of the staff um for the great job they do in food service clifton be very proud of uh pomponi and all that they do for our district so um again congratulations to all the award recipients um it's just not one night it's one night that you're here to receive the award but we appreciate and thank you every single day of the year for all your hard work and dedication so congratulations to all the recipients um and um i know that they will be uh being honored at a dinner um uh coming up uh and uh the board i will ask the board um for a head count of those that are attending that dinner so i can get that information to

148uh mr llama so um that's all i have and uh we could move on on your business i always forget all right we'll go to new business is there any new business president smith if i may yes mr object uh through you two the superintendent and money mike um so my understanding um that the track and the football rings uh i'm going to go a little athletic mine right now um are being given their rings for free because of the plant process and the rings taken forever for them to get for the students to get um my understanding dr artosi from what you told me was 22 thousand dollars that um the district is getting back can you just explain because there are there were people who were asking me and i referred him to

149dr robertosi and i believe uh some people reached out or somebody reached out because i didn't don't speak for the administration um can you tell just can you clear up and make some clarity about where that 22 thousand dollars is going back to what budget line um sure i mean i wasn't aware that we were getting refunded for this but if we paid for something and we're being refunded for it it's uh board funds i mean it could go back to the athletic fund it was purchased from i'm not sure that it was paid for yet like so you may not be getting refunded we don't pay for items until the items are received okay so i would be shocked if we did pay for it um the truth is you can't predict how many

150state championships you're going to win you know next year so you can't really budget for rings right so when it happens the athletic director doesn't have a budget but he probably has to go to mike and say well football team won and our policy is that we get rings for them and mike finds the money so i'm sure our athletic director has a budget line for that purpose okay um but something like he's not going to have 22 thousand dollars in that line every year because you know we don't win state championships every year he's going to have to go to the ba who's going to find the money from somewhere else and so um that's where that money would go back to thank you um and then also speaking since we're on the football

151um topic are we going to do anything for football in terms of their championship we're going to honor any of the students any of the track folks track team as well because i i still haven't seen them up here and i think i said this about a few months ago in terms of awarding them and i get there was discussion or president smith you told me maybe september by then can we do something sooner than that because by then many students will have graduated by then and nobody's going to come back for that um so either dr roberto president smith is there anything in the plan and discussion about honoring any of our teams from track football any others that i'm missing that have won championship sectionals states i don't have an update on that

152for you but i will get one um i don't think it's a wise idea to recognize a team in september when half the kids are going to be gone correct um the short answer for this year was basically because of our mishmash schedule we were born in the boardroom we were in the high school and we were coming here and then we were going to do it and so if we were going to honor all our teams um i don't think that's going to happen um at this point right now but i'll follow up and get you a better answer thank you uh and then just going off of what president smith mentioned earlier about um jim hogan using his facility across the street for our students for the mechanical mustangs um i know when

153the the what are they called again the arab american assault engineer association um presents tri-state thank you as uh presented them with a thousand dollar donation um i don't remember dr roberto mr hogan said that there was a facility next door to them um that they owned and they said that would be perhaps a good opportunity for the district to help the robotics team pay for that facility is there any way we can take a look at that i'm just saying since we're again since we haven't paid the 22 thousand dollars see where i'm connecting things um to help the mechanical mustangs with offsetting some cost at least for that facility so they can have a bigger place a bigger space and make it make it their own home i mean football teams have their

154fields the band still hasn't had doesn't have their own home space but it's something we hope to work on for them besides the upper band field but it's just it's just a thought throw out there an idea to have a discussion as a full board bless you so the robotics team can have a home uh rather than feel like they're always being a visitor and a space across the street i think it's a great idea i have no idea what the cost is i'll ask principal hamda to talk to mr tory see if they can get us a proposal on what that would include um i'll let the board know how much that is and the board can decide if that's an expense that we want to make i'll also ask if that's an expense

155that the teacher wants or would the teacher rather us give money for something else um i think after what we saw tonight i think we should give those give that group more money and get more students involved i agree because it's so so very impressive so um i'd rather i'd like to hear from the the teacher and the principal what they want i'll bring that to the board and we can make a decision on what we want to do and i and again i only ask because i remember when we were a visitor across the street during that donation they did mention or you did mention uh to them to put a budget together prior to us passing the budget but unfortunately i guess from what we haven't seen that they didn't do so um

156so actually not sure about that they very well may have okay um because the the principals do work with the ba directly on their budget um so that very well may have happened okay thank you any other new business okay seeing none we'll be moving into uh executive session for executive session we have personnel matters we have a legal matter we have the issue of the lockdown drills we have the anonymous letter and um we will uh we will probably be in executive session for an hour um at least an hour um action will be taken when we return uh if we're going to be longer than an hour we will come back and uh update the public on that okay motion for executive sessions second by mr awad any objection nope see none sorry

157lucy okay i just wanted to update the public uh that the board is still in executive session uh it's taken a little bit longer time uh we're on our last issue which we hope would be uh about another 20 minutes uh and then the board will come back out and vote on those resolutions that were made for executive session so we thank you all for your patience um this has taken a little bit longer than we had anticipated but we should be out relatively short shortly thank you all hmm uh vinny or tom can you ask mr mcconney if we're ready to go uh the board met in executive session we discussed numerous personnel matters a legal matter and roll call back from uh executive session please mr abedrabo here mr awad here miss password

158here miss beltran here mr canova here dr danny here mr paris here vice president daley president smith here we have a quorum and 38 through 43. motion second okay any discussion seeing non-roll call please mr abhijabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris uh abstain from 39. vice president daley yes president smith yes motions carry motion close second motion closer mr abu dravo second by mr awad any objections meeting adjourned you