001Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Miss Solenus, can you please read our mission statement? Sure. Working together as a community, our mission is to welcome all and provide opportunities for our students in a safe and accepting learning environment to become creative, empathetic, resilient, and who choose to make an impact. Thank you. For those who wish to provide public comment remotely, a Google form was posted on the district website at 6:303 6:30 p.m. Those remote comments will be addressed in the second public comment section. This meeting, which is hereby called to order at 6:30 p.m. is in compliance with the notice requirements of the law. Public notice was posted in the office of the board of education and communicated to the municipal clerk and the daily record on January 15, 2025. Will
002you please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Miss Eso present. Miss DS present. Mr. Mar present. Miss Phillips. Miss Penelis present. Dr. Center. Miss Shower here. Miss Son here. Mr. Miller here. Okay. Mr. Haimey, would you like to introduce our presentations? Absolutely. My pleasure. Good evening. for this evening we have our first presentation still working okay so for our first pres presentation is NJCGTP first place winner by Miss Listister can't hear me oh they can't hear me sorry our first presenter the NJCGTP winner. Good evening. My name is Sharon Lyster and I teach fourth grade G&T at Northto Elementary. This year, my class participated
003in the New Jersey Consortium for Gifted and Talented Students annual poster contest. I'm proud to share that one of my students, Ariela Flores, won first prize. Thank you. The competition included many schools from across North Jersey. The theme of this year's contest was be like. Students were asked to choose someone they admire and create a poster that highlights that person's character traits and special qualities. As part of the project, students also submitted a written explanation of their poster. Ariela chose Albert Albert Einstein as her role model and would like to share her writing piece with you. I chose Albert Einstein to advertise on my poster. Albert Einstein was one of the greatest and most influential physicists and mathemat mathematicians of all times. He is mostly well known for his famous equation E= MC². Energy equals
004mass multiplied by the speed of light squared and the theories of relativity. Curiosity, creativity and intelligence are some of many qualities of Albert Einstein. His curiosity extended into his professional life where he had groundbreaking ideas in physics. Uh it was his curiosity that led him to explore and study light, matter, gravity, space, and time. Albert Einstein's creativity and imagination were crucial in developing new ideas and theories. Albert Einstein once said once said, "Creativity is intelligence having fun." It was his intelligence over everything along with hard work and persistence that led him to his achievements. Albert Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics for his services to the theoretical physics and for his discovery of the photoelectric effect. The photoelectric effect is when a photon or light hits a metal surface from which charged electrons
005bounce off. Today this effect is applied to X-ray imaging, light sensors in burglar alarms and automatic traffic lights and solar panels. Albert Einstein was someone that we should admire to this day. Many scientists have been influenced by him as well as used his theories to continue his work. So be curious, creative and use your intelligence to be su successful in life. [Applause] Right. And for our second presentation, we have North Door Elementary Tri-State Blue School Grants presented by Dr. Kina and Miss Bulock. Good evening. Oh, thank you. Two years ago at the NJA convention, I walked in the main hall and saw a gigantic inflatable whale. I got so excited. I'm like, "Wait, what is this?" And it was the whale mobile. I got to go inside. I got to see the skeleton, the organs,
006the baine. and the marine biologist there told me all about a school visit program that they had. So I knew I just knew I had to get this wheelmobile for our do students. Last year I was able to get a similar program for Academy Street School because we shared the travel cost with a local school system and it was awesome. So in the fall, both of the whale programs informed me about a tri-state blue school grant that was available. It's a $6,000 two-year grant sponsored by Prada. Although Prada is in the fashion industry and based in Italy, they're very concerned with the environment and ocean advocacy. And so they donated money to the tri-state division of the USA blue schools to get more schools involved. We were very fortunate, excuse me, to win this grant
007and we recently found that it was extremely competitive. In fact, it was the first year that they allowed New Jersey schools to apply for this grant and a lot of schools applied and they selected only four from New Jersey. Northtodo School being one of them. So, we're very proud. Through this grant, we've developed some special projects to help our students, families, and the community become more ocean literate and remain lifetime ocean advocates. Lori is going to share with you these projects and some weekly slides and challenges that she prepares to share with classroom teachers each week. So when we started our monthly uh virtual meetings with Tri-State, we uh learned a lot of information. We received a lot of resources. We also met uh other schools. We found that many of them are high schools
008with u sciencebased um um curriculums and some middle schools. So we're one of the few elementary schools. When I was talking to some of our teachers, they said many of our teachers, particularly our uh MLS, have not even seen the ocean. So the uh our dilemma was where do we begin? And since pictures say a thousand words, that's where we were going to start. So this is our second slide. It was uh the first slide was um uh the topic was the blue whale. We start with the largest living creature in the world. Uh the humpback was the second set of slides because that is what the whale mobile is based on. So adding charts to give um the science connection, lots of visuals. Uh the uh short videos are uh grade either for all
009grades or specific to kindergarten through 2 or 3 through six. bringing in the um the sounds and the sightes and labeling uh so that we have up close pictures to bring in the academic vocabulary. This is the um wheelmobile's um uh picture that they would send out before anyone would uh before they would come. And uh the uh that whale mobile is based on a real whale that uh travels the Atlantic Ocean named Nile. At the end of the slide, there's a challenge for uh to bring in student um activities and interest and curiosity. And these are some of the challenges. This is the whale mobile and you can see how much it takes up north do um the north do gymnasium and you can see inside and that's a 20 minute lesson and then
010outside another 20 minute lesson um learning about the different zones in the world and the animals that live there. So our progress for this year has been uh the whale mobile and our mural. Um also um having um enrichment activities within the classroom and the special areas. Next year our focus is going to be on uh sea turtles. We'll be f uh finishing up this year from whales to sharks to be able to um teach about sharks that we don't have to be afraid of them and also water safety for our students that do go to the beach. Uh next year will be uh the sea turtles and then moving into the deeper ocean uh with the squid and other marine life. uh and then bringing it to the coral and then slowly coming back
011to uh do where we need to talk about local watersheds. Um the Rockway River um one of my students just the other day looked out the window and said, "Hey, you know what? There's water back there." So they don't even notice sometimes that we have uh the pond. Uh so they'll be uh looking at local things. Uh right now we're in the process of adopting a whale and uh the uh school will be voting. And then this is just kind of walking you down our hallway with our mural uh as it um takes up one hallway in our our building. And you can see just from the energy and the enthusiasm and the color pictures speak a thousand words. And when we go to see the video uh the pictures of the students and their
012faces, it's just a very worthwhile program. We uh compare the healthy ocean uh versus the unhealthy ocean. This is one of the art projects uh with Mrs. Vikina and our first grade dual language. And you can see they're just very excited. Kindergarten and Dr. Kina's enrichment class with the Lego um ocean projects. This is one of our dual third grade where they were writing about whales in English and Spanish. And this is my class. they were uh designing um beach or ocean machines uh because it makes a difference. If we start now and they think that they too can make a difference, they'll be like this guy who's from the Netherlands. He was 16 years old when he created the ocean cleanup machine. And if you look at the graphs of when he first started
013to now, the amount of trash that it brings in, it's just amazing. And we want to kids to know that this is their future and they can make a difference because it's one ocean and it's their ocean. We just recently went uh to a webinar um uh hosted by Blue Schools Canada and the US uh a blue schools and the scientists did speak about their projects uh from the Virgin Islands Canada, two different places in Canada, Hawaii and the Mystic Aquarium. So, they were learning about the narwhals and the plight of the narwhals nowadays, the belugas, um, even the bottl-nose dolphin, the spinner dolphins. And one of the scientists, her big thing is try to try to figure out why does a spinner dolphin spin um, when no other dolphin does that. And Dr. Megan
014Morero is our leader. Uh, and she came to visit the day of the whale mobile. She enjoyed walking down through the mural. She enjoyed listening to the students read their projects. She's very very supportive and so pleased to see what we're doing. So C beyond is through uh Prada and uh this is their initiative since 2019. They started with 10 schools around the world and uh they're increasing every year. And uh the gentleman that you see in the photograph is the photographer of this uh photograph that he took in the Galopagus Islands. and he uh worked uh or works for Prada as a fashion photographer, but then turned environmental photographer because he saw that um he needed to bring um the concerns to the rest of the world through his books and um his talks.
015And there we go. that we have kids learning about whales and we know that they're our future. So Bianca is one of my students. She is just here to show you a couple of her uh projects that she's made. Why don't you just step all the way up? Hold it up. So the very first one is her uh contribution to the um mural adding her personality of color and um enthusiastic ideas of how we can show what a healthy ocean looks like. She's letting me do the talking. And her other project is her ocean cleaning machine called Wow, that's cool. Called the No Trash 3000. And the No Trash 3000 Jr., the No Trash 3000 Junior has a very special job because it helps to protect all of the living creatures that might get stuck
016in the No Trash 3000. And uh we know it has to have some sort of a sensor to be able to help those animals get out safely. You want to say anything about that? The No Trash 3000 Jr. has um has grabber arms for animals. It uses its grabber arms to hug or like um hold the little ones, but it kind of pushes the big ones. And if there's trash on the small ones, it has a little like drawer on the side, pulls it out, and then puts the trash in there. Then it goes back to the big one, the no trash 30,000, and then goes inside its little door, goes down to the basement, and drops it off where there's a little um cleanup station, and it separates it into trash bins for later
017to make more of the no trash 3000. The no trash 3000 can go from land form to ocean form to air form. The land form is to pick up trash on the land. The ocean form is to pick up trash in the ocean. And the air form is just to look for trash. Then the no trash 3000 junior has water mode for when it's saving the water animals. land mode for when it's saving the land animals and then a very different mode called health mode where it can help animals from everywhere like seagulls that can get stuck in trash and fish and other creatures in the land to help them with any issues they might have stuck with So, do we need to say more? This is our future right here. This is how we're
018going to save it. Okay. Thank you. Well, one more thing to show you. The photographer that Lori mentioned actually took this photo right here. L um Dr. Carlton, if you and Mr. Ganiel want to come up and show the board what we received. We were delighted one day to get this in the mail from Italy with a letter from Milan congratulating us on the group and it's one of his photographs that Lori showed you earlier. So we'll keep this in our school is part of the grant. Yeah, the air the actual signed it. So, actually, one of our projects is called Zoom Pals, and we were going to have the sixth grade students Zoom with a school from Long Island Sound that we're working with, but now that we know that it reaches globally, we're
019thinking of maybe having them be Zoom pals with some a school in Portugal or Italy where they came from. So, this is, you know, just the beginning of an amazing project. So, we want to thank you for your support of it. I want to thank you because that what a great program and the fact that you can see, you know, how big a whale really is when you're in the school to see and to be able to go inside is such a really neat experience and it's great for them to learn about conservation and and trying to take care of the earth. So, thank you so much. Anybody else from the board? I don't think these seem to be I can't hear you. I'm just I'm gonna use I'm gonna try this one. Okay. Um
020I wanted to thank uh Bianca and Ariela who clearly had many things going on tonight. Um, but thank both of you for showing up tonight and especially Bianca. Thank you so much for speaking in front of all of us. That must have been pretty scary, but you did an amazing job. And I wanted to thank Miss Lyster, Mrs. Bulock, and Dr. Kina. Thank you for doing these wonderful projects in your classrooms. These are the things that these children remember for the rest of their lives, and probably you, too. But thank you so much for your hard work and dedication. I appreciate it so much. Thank you. Anyone else on the board? Well, well, well. That was awesome. That's what my daughter said when she saw the Well, Thank you so much. Anyone else? Okay. At
021this time, I'd like to uh open the public portion of the meeting. The board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters. To ensure fair and orderly expression of such comment, each statement shall be held to a time period of three minutes. Public comments limited to items on this agenda shall be entertained for approximately 30 minutes upon the discretion of the presiding officer. Please understand that public comment portions of our agenda are not structured as question and answer sessions, but rather they are offered as opportunities to share your thoughts with the board. The board may or may not respond to public comments. However, all comments are considered and will be investigated and addressed as appropriate. Please be courteous and
022mindful of the rights of others when providing comments. Comments may not be abusive, obscene, threatening, or irrelevant. Please understand that students and employees have specific legal and privacy protections. The board is not permitted to respond in public to comments about students or employees. Please be advised that you are commenting at your own risk. Any public comments that are directed at an individual or individuals could be subject to legal liability for defamation. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to uh address the board? Please come forward and state your name and address. Okay, not seeing anybody. I'm going to close the public portion. Do we have a motion to approve minutes? So move. Do we have a second? Second. Any comments? Any corrections? Everybody good? Roll call, please. Mr. Cedo, yes. Miss DS, yes. Mr.
023Mur, yes. Miss Phillips, yes. Miss Penellis, yes. Dr. Ser, yes. Miss Sher, yes. Miss Sness, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Okay. Do we I I don't recall any whole board communications. I can't think of any. Uh, Mr. Sabulu, did we have any whole board communications that you're aware of? Okay. Um, seems to be better. Uh, okay. We'll move on. Mr. Miller. Oh, hey, I'm back. Okay. Um, I was going to suggest that maybe we take a 10-minute recess to allow them to address the micro, but I appear to be fine, so I withdraw my motion. Okay. Thank you. U, I'd like to hear from our student representative, uh, Mr. Le. Hello. Good evening, everyone. Uh, for my report today, I want to inform everyone that our Dober Olympic schedule is now finished. Our rule book is
024set, our teams are set, and we're ready to start it, which is next week. But before we do, we obviously have to finish out our AP testing and NJSLA testing this week. We also have our prom taking place very soon. Along with prom coming up here at the high school, we are hosting a drunk driving simulator that helps raise awareness about the dangers of driving while under the influence. It seems like a very fun event as it will have students wearing uh drunk goggles that stimulate the feeling of being under the influence alcohol. And while they wear those goggles, they are trying to drive in a simulator, which would be very fun and interesting to see. And then right after that, following there is a senior awards night June 12th. And right after that, the
025well before that, the art show tomorrow night will take place along with the spring concert that takes place right after. And also last Thursday, the math honor society here at at the high school hosted a STEM night at the do public library. It was a very successful event. We had teachers from the district come out and help out and lots of students come out as well. It was very successful and I wanted to bring up this idea to the board that Dr. Nunees and I talked about to get more parents to come and get involved with these board meetings. I had brought up the idea to send out more messages uh to the parents and to the students through emails and like alerts throughout the high school. Um I feel like it's important to get
026more parents to come here cuz it's it's good for parents to get involved and see what is going on with the high school and with the district for their for their kids. And one more thing I wanted to add to my report is for the committee that comes up with the courses for the high school. I wanted to make a suggestion that going in for going forward, we should uh if if we can to include community- based learning activities in some courses as these these events could help students go out and help the community like do community and use what they learned in the classroom. I know that um the child development classes did something similar going to delk one and the preschool and I think that it would be good going forward as Dr.
027MZ and I both agreed it's something to help the students get out of the classroom and get a little more focused and be more interested uh during their courses. And and I know especially during this time of year too, it would be beneficial to students because I know some of them are having a hard time focusing in the classroom with summer coming around the corner and school about to be out. And that's all. Thank you. Thank you very much. Anybody have any questions? Dr. Ser. Uh, thank you so much, Mr. Lei. Um, I really appreciate your, um, suggestion for community- based learning. Um, that would be under the purview of the curriculum and student achievement um, committee, which I chair. So, we'll I'll add this to the agenda for our next meeting. Um, I think
028that would benefit a lot of students. It's also always good for people to give back, right? We are all volunteers um, serving here to give back to our community. And um thank you for your suggestion uh for sending out alerts to get um more community members here. And I wanted to ask Mr. Haime, I just got before I came to this meeting an alert uh reminding me about the district art show and the high school band and chorus concert tomorrow. Is it possible to send out an alert either Mondays or Tuesdays reminding the community of these meetings? Absolutely. That'd be fabulous. You've already made a difference. Thank you. And another way you can make a difference is putting it on our calendar, the our meeting calendar. Yes. Those types of things because we don't always
029go and look at the district calendar to see those events. So I didn't know that the district art show was tomorrow. You got it. All right. I just think that that would be helpful. So I didn't see any the We were talking about the district art show. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah, the mic is not mine's great. I I would share my power if I could. Okay. All right. Um, president's report. Uh, good evening. It's uh definitely been a very active month and I'd like to share a few highlights and reflections in my report tonight. On May 1st, I had the privilege of attending the National Honor Society induction ceremony at Dober High School. Uh it was inspiring to witness so many of our students being recognized for their academic excellence, leadership, service, and character. These
030young scholars are a reflection of the strength and dedication of our entire school community. I also attended the Mars County School Boards Association scholarship and awards ceremony where several unsung hero award recipients were honored with scholarships. These awards celebrate students who have demonstrated remarkable perseverance, growth, and spirit often outside the traditional spotlight. It was a powerful reminder of the importance the importance of seeing and supporting every student. Uh during that event, uh both Mrs. Shower and I were recognized for over 15 years of service to the Dover Board of Education. I'm deeply grateful for the opportunity to serve for the ongoing collaboration and dedication of our fellow board members, administrators, and staff. During that event, uh I want to congratulate uh TC McCart who was sworn in as a new member of the Mars County
031School Boards Association. Uh his voice and leadership will be a valuable addition to the county level discussions. Uh this past Saturday, I attended the New Jersey School Board Association delegate Assembly where three key resolutions that I sent out to all of you were adopted. Uh one of those resolutions called for the recognition of esports student participants with varsity letters. And I'm not sure if we do that or not. Um, but as esports continues to grow and engage students in new ways, I'm asking that our policy committee review this topic and determine if any local policy updates may be appropriate so that we could recognize the ease boards uh students. All the information is in the email that I had sent uh from the New Jersey school board's resolution. Um uh in the next few days
032I'll be re representing our board at the Mars County Educational Services Commission. Um and this Saturday I will I encourage everyone to stop by getting to know Dover event uh from 12 to 4 at the Dover Middle School. Uh this community celebration will feature local performers, student talent, and opportunities to connect with vital services such as the Optical Academy, New Jersey Care, the Excellence Family Success Center. Uh it's really a wonderful way to strengthen the bond between our schools and our community. I'm also pleased to report that we continue to make progress as a board towards board certification. Um, I think this milestone reflects our commitment to continuous growth and and governance excellence. As part of this effort, on May 21st, our board will participate in an ethics training that will be conducted by the
033New Jersey School Boards Association, which is an important step towards fulfilling our certification requirements. This month, we proudly celebrate National Teacher Appreciation, National School Nurse Day, and National School Principal Day. So with teacher appreciation, it it's an opportunity to recognize the heart of our school system, our educators. Our teachers do far more than deliver instruction. They inspire confidence, nurture creativity, and support students through personal and academic challenges. Their daily work shapes the future of our students and our community. And we thank them for their unwavering dedication. On national uh school nurse day, we acknowledge the vital role nurses play in ensuring the health and safety of our students. They are often the first point of care for students with chronic conditions, mental health concerns or injuries. And they play a crucial role in promoting wellness
034and preventing illness in our school buildings. And the National School Principles Day recognizes the leadership and vision that our principles bring to our schools. They set the tone for school culture, support teachers and staff, and are deeply committed to the success of every student. Their tireless work behind the scenes ensures that our schools remain strong, inclusive, and student centered. So, I I just like for everyone to take a moment this month to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all of these professionals. Okay, that's my report. Uh, Mr. Haimey, now my microphone's working. Yeah. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Buenoes. Good evening. Um, just follow up with Mr. Miller. I also had the same recognitions and wanted to recognize National Nurses Day, Principal's Day, and our teacher appreciation week. Uh, once again, we can't continue to operate
035without these individuals being there. And I want to thank them so much for the support that they put out for our community, our students, um for our principles, recognizing the outstanding leadership, dedication, and hard work to our schools. Our principal play a vital role in shaping safe uh supportive and high achieving learning environments across the public schools. Thank you for each of our school leaders for their unwavering commitment to our students, staff, community. Your vision, guidance, and care make lasting differences every day. Uh we proudly celebrated teacher appreciation week. And with that, a time was dedicated to honoring an incredible educators who make a lasting impact on our students, schools, and community every day. To our dedicated teachers, thank you for your unwavering commitment, compassion, and excellence. Your tireless efforts to educate, support, and inspire
036our students do not go unnoticed. And whether you are teaching foundational skills, encouraging creativity, or guiding our learners through challenges, you are shaping the future of Dover with every lesson, conversation, and act of care. So, thank you to all of them as once again, they are vital to our community here in Dover. Uh before I forget, I want to hope uh everyone had a very nice Mother's Day. Um, on May 1st, Do High School proudly hosted the annual induction ceremony for the National Honor Society and the MU Alpha Theta Math Honor Society. Now in its second year as a combined event, the evening served as a powerful celebration of academic excellence and student achievements. Thanks to the thoughtful planning and coordination of NJHS advisor Kristen Zigg and Mu Alpha Theta advisor Heather Rondon. The event
037was a success. A total of 28 students were inducted into the National Honor Society. 28 20 students into the MW Alpha Theta. The ceremony concluded with inspiring remarks from Mass Supervisor Miss Aaron Shaw, whose words were underscored in significant academic dedication and leadership. It was meaningful evening that reflected the hard work and commitment of both our students and staff. Uh last week we hosted our first STEM night which was a success uh for DO public schools and we hosted it at the Dober public library. We are proud proud to I'm sorry. We are proud to share the success of ADOR public schools first STEM night. A dynamic event that brought students, staff, families, and community partners together to celebrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics throughout hands-on learning and collaboration. The event was held at the
038Door Public School, I mean public library, and was a true reflection of district's commitment to in innovative and student centered programming. We extend a sincere thanks to Mr. Rory Carl, Miss Aaron Shaw, and Mr. Matthew Krosinski for their support behind the scenes. And a special thank you to Miss Heather Randon for coordinating the event. The evening would not be possible without the outstanding contributions of our dedicated staff uh which is Astred Bad Ruiz, Karina Canales, Melanie Gonzalez, Jennifer Lachera, Arlene Labo, Gwen Public, Amy Van Wp, and Leslie Vargas. And I also want to thank our community uh supporters and vendors which is Dober High School Cyber Tigers advisor Miss Aaron Brooks Ma Magnesium of Denville Desline uh who donated 35 t-shirts to our students Alan Paper Supply who donated supplies and Schaefer Supplies uh Inc.
039who donated tape measuring tapes and weights. Uh to our student volunteers, thank you again because they did a fantastic job in engaging especially our younger students. Uh so that is what Carla Maya, Justin Viveros, Matthew Lelay, uh Rona Pearl, uh Briana Rossi, Eduardo Calderon, Alvarez, Mariana Castigeron, Tatiana Bentos, and Tyra Alvarez, Palop Hernandez, Kenneth Argua, Brian Horn, uh Zed Amed, Joselyn Bolanos, and Noah Cardona Sanchez. So once again, thank you again. It was a great evening. We're looking forward to next year. We're looking to expand. Uh so I really am looking forward to next year. I also want to give a quick update on our preschool fair we had this past Saturday um from 10 to 1:00 at Kasa Puerto Rico on Blackwell. Uh it was a great event, great turnout. We had eight new
040families register in district for preschool. Uh it was a little windy, I do want to say. Uh, we made sure to secure those tents very well. I didn't want any of our Dober tents flying across Blackwell. Would not have been a good look. But overall, it was a great event and I believe they were even dancing Zumba at one point. So, uh, definitely join us for next year. We're also talking about expanding and special thank you to Kasa Puerto Rico for allowing us to host our event there and making the location closer for our families. Uh, congratulations to Jaden Lopez for receiving the Superintendent Leadership Award for Dover Middle School. We was at the award uh ceremony last week and it was a great to see our one of our middle schools being acknowledged for
041the work he's been doing at the middle school. Uh and as a stellar student, I'm looking forward to seeing him uh moving up to do high school and all the great things he'll do here at Do High School. Um wishing all the schools and students and staff the best of luck uh during the next couple of days as we are in full swing for our spring concerts and art shows. So, please visit our website and our uh for for any dates. Um, and then I also have some I'm gonna do something different tonight. I'm going to offer an update on our spring athletics. Almost feels like I'm doing a little sports center for our ath athletes, but I think it's something that I would definitely want to acknowledge. Uh, there's been some great accomplishments this
042past spring and I definitely want to make sure that our students have that opportunity and that acknowledgement. So, I'll start off with just sharing um student participation and program growth. Approximately 275 student athletes participated in inter scholastic sports during the spring season. Proudly representing Dober High School and Dover Middle School. Students competed across a wide range of athletic programs including baseball, softball, track and field, boys volleyball, golf, and flag football. This strong level of participation reflects the school's district's ongoing commitment to inclusivity and student engagement athletics. So for academic excellence and scholar recognition, Zed Ahmed for boys and track has been named Doris's NJSIAA scholar athlete ranked at the top of his class. Zed will be attending Harvard University in the fall and his academic discipline, leadership, and athletic talent made him a model for
043student athletes. uh Aana Den, girls volleyball, and Kevin Michala Guamang, boys volleyball, have been selected as the Morris County Secondary Schools Athletic Directors Association uh scholar athletes. Both are ranked in top four of their class and will be attending Ruckers University in the fall. Aiana and Kevin have demonstrated exemplary commitment to the classroom and on the court on their leadership has been la has had a lasting impact on the rep on on the teams sorry got stuck my apologies. um team highlights and athletic achievements. Track and field. Many athletes achieve personal best throughout the season, performed very well on a high uh bigger stages such as in uh invitationals, pen relays, county and conference level competitions. We have numerous students who will be competing at the NJSIAA state national sectional championship on May 16th and
04417th at Verden Township High School. Boys volleyball have demonstrated a strong will and resilience competing hard in every match through their strong efforts in participating in practice. They have grown in cohesive group and that place together as a team. Some highlighted performance. Estoaldo Calderon who is averaging 19 digs per game. Kevin Machala and Ominus Martinez are both averaging 4.5 hits per game. in baseball and softball programs have showcased a resilience and progress with several standout individual performance. Dave Santiago batting 3.356 with 14 RBI's and also have accumulated 66 career strikeouts along with Millio Mendes who is batting a 4.488 with 15 runs uh scored have led the way. Softball programs have showcased of resilience and progress. uh Anna Booth with 14 runs scoring scored and a batting average of two. 270 and along with Justin
045Coup who uh currently has 418 career strikeouts, batting at 0.518, has led the way. Golf, which is a new program, we've been very competitive. of our student athletes have competed now at the NJAC conference and have been exposed to playing on some of the finest golf courses in Northwest Jersey including Rock Ridge, Hidden Acres, U Farmstead, Newton Country Club in Flanders Valley and Crystal Springs. And our newest addition also flag football quickly gained the momentum and popularity. Our team won the season opening game at Hamilton Field on April 9th against Menim High School and two players who have emerged as a lead point of the program are Briana Rodman and Haley Cabera Vargas. Um all right and just to to look forward to 2526 school year edition of girls wrestling and unified athletics interesting meeting
046interest meeting conducted at the middle school and high school in April. The interest indicated that we are confidently moving forward with the girls only team do uh do requested and has been approved and added to the American division of NJAC conference of 2526. The athletic department is working collaboratively with special services to pursue a grant to support the launch of unified athletics for the 2526. Thank you. That's great. Any any questions for Mr. Haimey? Yeah. No, that's great. I just love hearing about uh the new girls sports teams and having success already. That's great. Yeah. Okay. Business administrators report. Good evening everyone. Uh I'll be talking about four items on the finance section of the agenda. Item eight is EU. Uh EU stands for extraordinary unspecif broker of record services. We followed the computer procurement
047process advertised in a newspaper and submitted to the submitted the standard certification declaration for an extraordinary unspecific service to the board members before awarding the contract. Uh this uh process doesn't fall under RFP or bid. So this is the process we had to follow up for the insurance broker service services. Uh the resolution is on the agenda for approval, item eight, and our potential savings for this is $41,000 or more for next year. Item nine, uh it's regular uh RFP process, which is request for proposal for subsidy teacher services. The results of the RFP and our recommendation are on the agenda for approval. Item 14, we are working on the submission of the school violence prevention grant which may be approved for up to $300,000. I would like to thank our director of security, Mr.
048Rancho. He's be sitting there right there and uh we're working with him uh and his uh assistance is uh greatly appreciated. We're going to meet again on Friday to continue the application. Item 23, our tax le payment schedules are up for approval. Once approved, I will send them to the door and Victor Garners townships. That concludes my report. Any questions for Mr. Sabahulu? No. Okay. Uh, the Mars County Education Services Commission meeting is tomorrow at 6:30. So, I'm going to try to come to the district art show before and then make my way to the other meeting. Um, legislative report. Um, there is no legislation to report. Oh, there. Okay. And um Mars County School Boards. Miss Downs. Good evening. Is it working? Um no mic. Good evening. The MCSBA meeting took place on May
0497th at Manolive High School. It was a hybrid meeting. It was the last meeting of this school year. Um as Mr. Miller stated in his president's report um we had the milestones of um for 15 years for Mr. Miller and Miss Shower and the new board members uh boardmanship certification Miss Selenus and Miss Pinales and uh MCSBA executive committee uh for 2025 to 2027 was um Mr. McCort. Congratulations to you all. The next the MCSBAIa meetings will pick up again in the fall. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Uh administrative approval. Do we have a motion to approve items one through three? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Second. All right. You have to figure that out. Miss Phillips. All right. Any questions? Dr. Sainer. Um I had a question for uh Mr.
050Haime, but also uh just to bring it up to the board. Um there are so many unconfirmed HIVs this month. There are 12 old cases from table A. 0% of those are confirmed and three out of 27 of the cases in table B, which is about 11% were confirmed. The investigations and reporting requirements for HIVs exceed the requirements for disciplinary issues and are therefore a tremendous use of resources. To be clear, I want every single child in Dover to feel safe and that their school is a place of learning. And I want our staff to identify and address every single case of bullying. However, I can't help but wonder if we are educating our children and families on the difference between peer conflict and HIV and whether students have a way to communicate conflict that's
051happening as easily as it is to communicate HIV. I was also curious as to the source of the reporting. um because we're investing so many resources in these investigations, I'm wondering if if transitioning to more preventative measures and and so if a single case of HIV it winds up being conflict that requires a staff member to spend several hours doing the investigations, writing the report, doing all of the necessary steps. Um, and I was wondering if that time right where you're addressing the behaviors of just a few students, two, three, maybe four students would be better spent where appropriate of course in doing programming for dozens of students where we address issues of conflict and HIV and whether that would have a more preventative effect. Um, and like why I guess my the the final
052question like the the root of the question is is why are there so many unconfirmed cases and is the how do we use our resources appropriately to make our schools safe um being reactive or proactive? Okay. Um so I'll defin the the first question in regards to why our numbers are so high with unconfirmed HIPS. Uh so we do not have as a district uh principal discretion. So if a student or a parent uh indicates that they're being bullied or that their child's being bullied, we that is an automatic investigation for us. Um I truly believe in continuing getting more resources for our families and our children and educate them more on the difference between bullying and conflict. I know that we do a HIP assembly. Uh some schools do it as well as HIV
053lessons in class where they discuss the difference between uh the HIPS and you know a bullying incident or a conflict in in class in particular. Um one of the things that I definitely want to do as as a team is sit down and look at the year as a whole collect the data of what were some of the trends that we were seeing. Uh because as we prepare our title one funding we talk about assemblies and bring in resources. We want to also expand on what other resources we can bring in. For example, uh two years ago, we saw a big hike on the abuse on electronics. Uh and we brought in an organization that came in and spoke to our students and our parents both to talk about the safety and securities that they
054should be aware of, especially with cyber safety being so uh so out there with our many kids with our children and the fact that when our children do get electronic devices, our parents need to realize that they're opening up a whole new world for our children. So, as much education as we can, we're going to continue to provide as much information as we can for our students. Um, and continue to educate them to also be able to understand the difference between a bullying and a complex uh situation. Uh, but we do, like I said, investigate all of them and just to investigate thoroughly uh and make sure that it is, you know, does it classify as a HIP or if it's a a conflict? But I agree, it it is a it does take up
055a lot of our resources. So we are definitely going to look at ways to be more proactive and that's definitely going to be a team approach. Thank you so much. I think a piece of the puzzle that might help is where the HIV reports are initiating. Are they initiating with students? Are they initiating with staff? Are they initiating with families? And maybe that might lead you to where the education where you could target that education to be most effective. Oh, absolutely. I I think the data what we're looking we want to look at is number one, what are the trends we're seeing depending on the grade level, right? uh we also want to see who are reporting it right if we are able to identify the majority of our reports that say is staffing then
056how do we educate and so and support our staff better to be able to identify the difference between an incident that is a conflict or bullying uh or if it's coming from our parents you know maybe a parent forum to discuss a little bit more about the difference and also provide more of that education that is needed thank you I appreciate your data driven approach to tackling this thank you thank you any other questions Mr. record. Um this is just something I've just thought of um based on a comment um that Mr. Hime made. Um you mentioned that our district does not have um building level discretion. Does that am I take that to mean that there are districts that do and is that something that we should look into um as a way of
057addressing the concerns that uh Dr. Ser mentioned regarding use of resources. My fear with not having principal discretion is that, you know, an administrator can say, "No, it's not a a HIV or a conf it's a conflict, but then it's actually a hib. And if we didn't thoroughly investigate it, then we potentially allowed a student to continue to live in that that world, right? And it's something that for us for our safety just to make sure we investigate everything to make sure that it is thoroughly looked into and and and make sure that if it is a conf then it is a confidence addressed accordingly based on that. Now if it is a bullying then obviously we'll take it to the step further and address it as a bullying. But I truly feel more comfortable
058investigating everything as opposed to leaving it up to maybe it is or isn't. Okay. Yeah. Um Mr. Miller. I was on the policy committee a few years ago when we rewrote this policy and we had a long discussion about whim Mr. Heime just referred to in that the best way moving forward although it does lead to more work um is um allowing the pro the HIV process to play out for every single case. I I think again our goal is to make this district and every school as safe as it can be. um and uh putting like kind of like veto power in the hands of one person um who was also uh juggling 50 jobs. A a head principal has a tremendous amount of um varied responsibilities. Um we decided that at that time
059that it was in the children's best interest, our students best interest to allow um the process to play out with a specialist uh at the head of it. I agree. Anyone else? Can we have a roll call, please? Mr. Suedo? Yes. Miss DS? Yes. Mr. Mort? Yes. Miss Phillips? Yes. Miss Penellis? Yes. Dr. Center? Yes. Miss Sher? Yes. Miss Sness? Yes. Mr. Miller? Yes. Okay. On to personnel. Miss Solenis. Um, I would like to make a motion upon the recommendation of the superintendent and the board approve the following personnel resolutions one through 39. Do we have a second? Second. Uh, questions. Dr. Ser, I have uh one question that's multiple questions. Um, I'm asking about the role of the summer CST meeting staff. Um, I see that some of these at least uh appear to
060be teachers. And so my general question is why are we rewriting IEPs in the summer as opposed to during the school year when a particular child's actual teachers could offer targeted input into their IEP? Sure. Uh having a teacher present during the summer CST meeting is is so and we are in compliance with special ed law which requires a gen ed and a special ed teacher to attend the eligibility meeting. uh you know during the annual meetings we take place before school year ends so that the teach students teacher can attend and provide the needed feedback. So then my question is what I I understand the requirements of the law. What IEP meetings are happening in the summer that we are requiring that we need to have both that special ed and gened teacher present?
061Why are why are all or nearly all of our um IEP meetings happening within the school year? There are times that during the summer we might have a student that might transfer in and therefore we need to kind of revisit the IEP before school starts. Uh a parent might contact us saying they want to make an amendment or a change to an IEP as well. So that's another reason for them. So there are numerous reasons why we potentially find ourselves doing some IPS during the summer. Thank you. Anyone else? Mrs. Shower, Mr. Miller, uh, Mr. Hime had submitted a question in reference to the Weda Screamer screeners item number 33. Yes. Personnel, could you? Yeah, absolutely. So, for our weeder screeners, um, they our widow screamer is a 10-month uh, employee. Um, so for the
062summer, we do provide summer hours and for that, they do assist with registration, bringing the student in, making the appointments, and doing the access testing for our students. um the weed screener throughout the years is it's very she the person in in in that in that role is not only testing our kids but also working once again like I mentioned before handinhand with registration uh they also work hand in hand with our bilingual department in making sure that notices are being sent out to families, appointments are being made and information is then disseminated to each of the schools depending on where the student is going to attend. Uh so the position is very much needed. It's something that's very much valued. It's something we've assessed all as a team and and it's definitely something that
063you know for us is is needed. Gotcha. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Any other questions? Roll call. Mr. Seo. Yes. Uh to all except for 122. Number 122. Miss D. Yes. Mr. Mak. Yes, except for number 122. Miss Phillips, yes. Miss Penelis, yes. Dr. Center, yes. Miss Sher, uh, yes to all items except under item number seven. Um, number 12, 122. Miss Sness, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Okay. Negotiations. Miss Soloness, the negotiation committee is currently working on salary guidelines and aims to have a resolution ready for next board meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Uh governance, Miss DS, uh the governance committee did not meet yet this month. Um we have for second reading the bylaw of PO169.03. 03 use of electronic devices by board members at public meetings. Um I make a I'm
064like to make a motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Any questions? Roll call, please. Miss Espo? Yes. Miss DS? Yes. Mr. Mar? Yes. Miss Phillips? Yes. Miss Penales? Yes. Dr. Center? Yes. Miss Shower? Yes, Miss Sness. Yes, Mr. Miller. Yes. Student Achievement and Curriculum. Dr. Sainer. I move that the board approve items 1 through 7. Do we have a second? Second. You have a second. Any questions? Dr. Sainer. I have two questions. Um, first, could you explain uh we have a large number of teachers who are being approved for summer and fall literacy courses. What cohort are they a part of? One second. My apologies. I had it here and I So the question again, I'm sorry. Can you repeat the question? The large number of teachers who are being approved for
065summer and fall literacy courses, I assume they're part of a cohort. And I was what what degree or certification are they all moving towards? Sure. I have the information right here. So the teachers who are being approved for the summer and full literacy courses are part of a district teacher ESL certification program through Century University. Our first cohort of teachers are are going for applied linguistics and literacy and content areas. That's summer one and summer two. This cohort will complete the ESL certification following summer two course. And then the cohort two for teachers uh they will be working on approach and literacy instruction uh literacy for content areas and social linguistics in the fall. Thank you. That was just my way of getting you to share that our teachers are doing some amazing things. Absolutely.
066Um and then for the Spanish 8 curriculum um there are some New Jersey early learning standards ages birth to three years old listed. I was just curious as to why that was an error on our Atlas curriculum platform and that error has been corrected. Thank you. Any other questions? Um I don't have a question but I do have a comment. I I think it's also awesome that we have so many teachers participating to get the their um ESL certification. Thank you for that. Anyone else? Roll call, please. Mr. Eve. Yes, Miss D. Yes, Mr. Mort. Yes, Miss Phillips. Yes, Miss Penellis. Yes, Dr. Center. Yes, Miss Shower. Yes, Miss Son. Yes, Mr. Miller. Yes. Community relations. Mr. McCord. The community relations committee met on Tuesday the 6th of May. Present were myself, uh, Miss Panales,
067Miss Selenus, and Miss Phillips, as well as Mr. Haime. The main purpose of the meeting was to follow up on discussions regarding the proposed student forum. U Mr. Haime had asked for some background information on that which was shared with him and then we discussed uh sort of a game plan moving forward. Um Mr. Hime shared that he would prefer to build out the student forum for the next school year uh as a followup to um his restructuring of the district culture and climate committee which will uh move to include students um in the next school year. Uh we agreed with that plan and are now aiming for our first student forum to be held uh January or February 2026. Our next community relations committee meeting is scheduled for Tuesday the 3 of June. And
068that concludes my report. Okay. Any questions for Mr. McCort? No. All right. Policy. Miss Panales. Good evening. The policy committee met um on May 6 at 5:00 PM. Um for second reading we have policy 6620 on petticash policy 6660 on student activity fund and policy 6471 on school district travel. We have two new revised job descriptions payroll coordinator and benefit specialist assistant payroll coordinator. These are un unaffiliated positions and we discussed for a short time um policy 5312 and regulation 5312 on toileting and diapering of students. Our next meeting will be on June 10th. Um that concludes my that concludes my report and with that I would like to make a motion to approve items one to two on their policy. Do we have a second? Second. We have a a motion to second. Any
069discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Esto, yes. Miss DS, yes. Mr. McCord, yes. Miss Phillips, yes. Miss Penales, yes. Dr. Center, yes. Miss Shower, yes. Miss Solnes, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Finance and Facilities. Mrs. Shower. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Um, the Finance and Facilities Committee meeting will be next Tuesday, the 20th. U and this evening I'd like to move the following items 1 through 25 uh which include the again we had some district donations Casio again I think we mentioned last month with the calculators right is that on here and um I believe that there were two scholarship donations also uh I had asked Mr. Sabagulo to check on the bus evacuation drill forms and perhaps we could check the consistency of those. He said he definitely was going to look into that. And I see
070the cop school violence prevention program grant was already on the agenda and I had again sent it to Mr. Haime because uh school boards had a wonderful push for it. So with that items I'd like to move items 1 through 25 for approval. Do we have a second? Second. Any discussion? No. Dr. S. Um, I have a few questions. Um, according to the line item transfer report, we have underspent on tuition by almost 10%. Um, can you explain where these savings come from? Uh, the savings are we just estimate the uh students that we are going to be sending. Uh, if they don't go or if they move out from the districts, that's a potential savings. And that's the line item we cannot just do like make we cannot do like uh so tight because
071in case we have like a family comes with three kids and we need to serve them it might be like $300,000 we need to find and we cannot take that risk. Okay. Thank you. Um I see that we're um awarding a contract for substitute teachers. Um we over the past several years have hired a tremendous number of substitutes and permanent substitutes. Are we still having regular issues filling absences? Yes, we have significant significant teacher staff attendance issues. We still need to have extra service for uh even we have the in-house substitutes. We need to have extra service for that. Okay. We are trying to limit that but we are doing as much as we can. Sure. The safety of our children is paramount. Um can you explain why some of our iPads are leased while
072others are purchased? Um, what are the financial advantages of doing both to the district? And when we purchase last laptops, how long do they last? They usually last four years. After that, we still sell them and we still make some money and use it for buying new laptops and iPads. And also, we always talk to the reps and whichever they offer, whichever is like a financially better for the district, we go with that. Sometimes we do lease it, but it's the option to buy for a dollar each. So, at the end of the year, we could at least we could just get him. Okay, that makes sense. Um, that's all. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else with questions? Mr. McCort, on the um substitute teacher contract, is this the same company we used this year
073or is this a new? No. Thank you. Definitely not. Anyone else? Roll call, please. MO? Yes. Miss D? Yes. Mr. Makor. Yes. Miss Phillips. Uh, yes. With an abstension to payments to vendor 1950. Miss Penellis, yes. Dr. Center, yes. Miss Shower, yes. Miss Son, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Uh, upcoming board meetings. Uh, next Wednesday, the 21st, is our board ethics training, which is going to be at the Belmont Street, uh, building, and we have a New Jersey school board's person coming in to give us that training. Um, we will be meeting in executive session at 5:45. We will not be taking any action. Uh, and then June 24th is the next meeting. And then July 7th, uh, we will be having our board retreat. Um, and we will, um, be at the Belmont building again
074as well. But it all of these meetings of course are open to the public, but we will not be live streaming the the meeting on the 21st or July 7th. And as far as the facility requests, we still fireworks are still happening, so it's on there. Uh, do we have any old business? I know we have new business, Miss Phillips. Thank you. So, is this on? It's a little bit. Okay. I feel like I'm loud enough you can hear me. Um, so the Dover Shade Tree Commission, which I am a member of, is in the process of applying for a green communities grant in the amount of $20,000. If the grant is approved, it would allow the Shade Tree Commission to prepare an updated community forestry management plan, conduct a comprehensive street tree inventory, and
075implement a new software system to manage the data that is collected during the inventory. Currently, the Sha Tree Commission's um community forestry management plan expires at the end of December. So, that needs to be updated. And we currently do not have a tree inventory. Um so, full disclosure, I'm not really sure how in the past the commission has been making informed decisions when they don't have full information of what we do and do not have within the town. So, as part of the grant application, we are including letters of support from the mayor, from DPW, um the planning board, and the Sha Tree Commission itself. And I would like to request that the um the board approves a letter of support to be submitted, signed by Mr. Miller, and submitted along with the application. I
076did share a copy of the letter with everybody last night. Um and that's it. Do you have any questions? So, you're making a motion. Make a motion for that. Yes. Make a motion. Yes. Um, so I would like to make a motion that the board approve uh Mr. Miller signing a letter of support in connection with the do tree commission's green communities grant application. Do we have a second? Second. Okay. Any discussion? It's great. Thank you for bringing it to us. Yes. No. This is Greg. All right. Uh, roll call. Mr. Yes. Miss Downs. Yes. Mr. Mor? Yes. Miss Phillips. Should I abstain from that because I know I I like found the grant and I Okay, I'll abstain from that one. Abain. Miss Penellis, yes. Dr. Ser, yes. Miss Shawer, yes. Miss Tes, yes.
077Mr. Miller, yes. Okay, we're coming up to our second public uh comment portion. The board recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues and the importance of allowing members of the public to express themselves on school matters. To ensure fair and orderly expression of such comment, each statement shall be held to a time period of three minutes. Public comments not restricted to items on this agenda shall be entertained for approximately 30 minutes upon the discretion of the presiding officer. For those who wish to provide public comments remotely, a Google form was posted on the district website at 6:30. Remote comments will be read by a member of the board of education. The board of education will alternate between in-person and online comments. Please understand the public comment portions of our agenda are not structured
078as question and answer sessions, but rather they are offered as opportunities to share your thoughts with the board. The board may or may not respond to public comments. However, all comments are considered and will be investigated and addressed as appropriate. Be courteous and mindful of the rights of others when providing comments. Comments may not be abusive, obscene, threatening, or irrelevant. Please understand that students and employees have specific legal and privacy protections. The board is not permitted to respond in public to comments about students or employees. Please be advised that you are commenting at your own risk. Any public comments that are directed at a particular individual or individuals could subject you to legal liability for defamation. Does anybody would like to make a comment? Of course, we're always well open for people to make comments
079and I hope we don't scare them off with a statement. Hello. All right. Thank you. John Kigglio, 24 Taylortown Road, Montville. All right. Uh, just two things tonight. So, first, um, in regards to the HIV discussion that was addressed earlier. So, um, I I do understand that it's time consuming. Um, but I do believe that we are doing it the correct way. Um, as an educator in the district, I do I I would rather be safe than sorry. Um, I would rather do it the way we're doing it to avoid u conflict later on or lawsuits later on. I think that we're just doing everything the right way. I I really strongly believe that. I don't believe that um administration is doing anything wrong. I think they're doing everything that they're supposed to be doing.
080So, I I I 100% support the way that we're doing things. Um I would not want them to be hesitant to put anything down because they're feeling pressure from the board. So, we just have to be super careful about how, you know, um, the things that we say in that regard because I wouldn't want them to feel nervous about putting down a non-confirmed case or anything or investigating something because they don't want it to appear on on an agenda. So, it is it is my belief that we are doing it correctly. Um, and secondly, I just want to thank the board and thank all the administrators in the district, the administr the administrative team for uh a wonderful teacher appreciation week and for all of the other um staff members that were mentioned earlier, the
081nurses um principles and every other uh staff member that we honored this this month. Organizing all of that is a is a is a very large undertaking. doing all of those things, figuring out what you're going to do for your staff and that was done perfectly and and I can't say enough about how our staff accepted it uh very warm-heartedly and we appreciated all of the support that we were shown and uh it was just a great great week and I always say that this is a it's a challenging job but it is the best job to have as an educator especially here in the great state of New Jersey where we are number one in the nation by the way that just came out too. So, I just wanted to mention that. Thank you
082very much. Thank you. Any online comments? No. Anyone else from the public? Okay. I close the public portion of the meeting. Uh make a Anyone have a motion to adjurnn or question? May I just comment that the district art show starts tomorrow night uh here at the high school at 5:30 p.m. followed by the high school bands, multiple bands and coral groups. So I hope everybody watching or watching right now or watching later uh shows up. That would be great. Thank you, Mr. Miller. Hold on. I saw Mr. Recort first. Go ahead. Just to um piggyback off of what Mr. Kiglio said about the teacher appreciation week um celebrations. I know I said this to her privately earlier, but I just want to thank Miss DS for uh the baskets that she put together on
083behalf of the board. Um they were they were very well done and I'm sure um all of the staff appreciated them. So, thank you for taking that on and doing such a great job. Yes, thank you, Mr. Shower. I was going to say the same thing, Mr. record. But I also had one other small request and I don't know if I'm alone in this, but um I know we have a large room here and I know that we're doing a great job with our translation as the meeting is going on, but for some of us sitting right here and hearing the conversation echoed behind us and the blower and my hearing's not so great to begin with, it's very difficult to follow two conversations at the same time sometimes. So I'm just wondering if maybe
084If either we could scoot someplace else or if the translator could perhaps and his equipment safely be moved someplace else. How about we maybe younger ears someone else somewhere else in the room? How about we have the governance committee work on that with the administration? Governance committee. Okay. If that's necessary. I mean, because I think there's there's several issues in this room that make it very difficult to hear and um they can work with our and sometimes it's it's better and sometimes it's worse and just tonight it's I could barely hear some of what was going on. Okay. I I would just like to sort of back up what Miss Shower is saying. I'm on this side of the room and I think my ears are young sometimes, but even I have noticed success. It's
085like a dull, you know, in the background hearing that. I mean, it is it sometimes. And tonight was, I think, extra difficult with the whales in the room um through the feedback. Um yeah, I mean, obviously we want that, but but it can be a little distracting. Okay. Thank you. In the meantime, I can switch with you, Mr. Hour. What? I can switch with you in the meantime. I if we're allowed to do that. If we're allowed to do that, we can always look for ways to make it better. Absolutely. Yeah. No, I agree with you because when I sat there, I really couldn't hear a thing. I I don't have the greatest hearing to begin with. So, I second that. Okay. Do we have a motion to adjurnn? Yes. So moved. Do we have
086a second? Second. All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. Have a good night everybody.