001and union. Go ahead. Check one, two. Check one, two. Check one, two. I call this meeting to order. At 6:03 p.m., the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of the public bodies at which any business affecting their interests is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of the act, the East Shretherford Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting by having the date, time, and place thereof provided to the record in South Bergenite newspapers to have published and posted in the vestibule of the Burough Hall and Public Library. Copies of agendas are available 48 hours prior to said meetings in the board of education office and are posted on the East Rutherford School
002website, www.e erbo.net. Uh, please stand for the flag salute and remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of the members of our police department, fire department, first responders, and our armed forces. I pledge allegiance to the flag, the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Roll call. Miss Caruso here. Miss Collie here. Miss Manz absent. Mr. Sanders here. Miss Shmley here. Mr. Banker here. Miss Laruso here. Uh, fire exits are located to the front and to your left. Uh committee reports uh school business administrators report. Mr. Verach. Thank you, Madam President. Good evening, board members. I'm start off the report with the buildings and grounds report. First, custodial cleaning efforts. Our custodial teams continue
003to demonstrate a strong commitment to maintain exemplary standards of cleanliness throughout the district with the implementation of enhanced cleaning protocols, continued professional development, and effective operational support. We observe consistent improvements across both day and evening shifts. Earlier today, I met with the custodial staff to review current cleaning practices and discuss upcoming maintenance projects. These ongoing conversations ensure that all team members remain aligned with district expectations and are wellprepared to support a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for our students, staff, and visitors. Maintenance update at McKenzie School. For the two gang bathrooms, the boys and girls will be upgraded to better accommodate younger students. The project includes the removal and replacement of adult-siz toilets with child height fixtures, lowering of two seats, seats, sinks. Tongue twister, installation of self-metering faucets, and the addition of a new
004angle shut off valve at each sink. In preparation for the upcoming school year, annual routine maintenance is underway across the district. This includes resurfacing of all gym floors, grease trap cleaning, kitchen hood safety control inspections and replacements, fire extinguisher inspections, bus and system inspections and bus fire extinguish services, scrub replacements at Lincoln School, elevator inspection, fire suppression system, and additional scheduled facility maintenance task. Uh, finally, transportation update. We continue to actively recruit part-time bus drivers and aids to strengthen our transportation department and ensure full coverage for all routes. This past year presented a number of challenges. However, each issue was addressed promptly and effectively, resulting in noticeable improvements in service and reliability. In addition to staffing efforts, we remain committed to maintaining our entire fleet of buses to the highest safety and performance standards. All
005vehicles underwent routine inspections, preventative maintenance, and necessary servicing throughout the year. I'm also pleased to report that all of our buses passed the annual New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission state inspections, reflecting the diligence and care of our transportation and maintenance staff. We also completed inspection of the bus fire suppression system on bus number six and the onboard fire extinguishers on all the other buses to ensure full compliance and readiness. Despite the challenges, our transportation team has remained resilient and proactive, putting us in a strong position heading in towards the next school year. Next is Mashio's uh for May 2025. The prepaid balances at the end of the month was $6,491.50. The negative balances was $14,58522. But some good news is our profit and loss for the end of May. We are right now running at
006a profit of $55,457.72. So I'm very happy to report that it has been a goal of of my department to ensure that the food service program is sustainable. Uh PF1 there are no uh events going on. PF2 is the recreation department requesting to use McKenzie in case there are days that it's raining and they need shelter. So they've done this in the past. So that's what PF2 is. Uh F1 is the payroll. F2 bills list. Thank you, Mr. Banker. Uh F3 and F4 are the financial reports from our treasurer. F5 is the contracts and agreements to for the 2526 school year. Uh F6, we did uh go out for an RFP for our coaches. Again, we did receive responses. Uh the only one we're holding off on is is the English language arts. Uh we
007did not go out for world language. Uh it was deemed that it wasn't necessary for the 2526 school year. Uh let's see. F7 just normal stuff that we do every year. F8 is with the Medallands YMCA. F9 authorization to write off any outstanding food service balances. F10 uh we haven't done this. I've noticed the approval of school tuition rates for non for should be it should be for non-resident and resident students for the 2526 school year. So that's there. Uh anticipation of anticipated vendors for the 2526 school year. F12 approval of contracts, agreements, and renewals for the 2526 school year. There's a a slew of them there. F13 and F-14 have to do with our technology support services with the Bergen County Technical Schools. F-15 is Johnson Controls Fire Protection. Uh the approval of them,
008this is for the current school year. Uh we did find out that they are part of a state contract. So in speaking to the auditors, they wanted to see this. Uh F16 is the approval of the withdrawal from the capital reserve account for the 2425 school year. Uh F17 is the approved procedures for the close of fiscal year. So after today, the business office we are trying to close out the fiscal year. So that includes closing down POS, sending out checks before the end of the fiscal year. F18 is a donation from uh the gas station, the uh one of our vendors at the gas station. Uh F19, we are awarding the contract to Lomar Roofing Company for the for this building that we're in. So they came in at the lowest uh 69,500. F20
009and F-21 similar to last year approving the transfer of 2425 surplus to capital and maintenance reserve. I will be working with the auditors on depending on what our surplus is, how much can go into that. To my understand the maintenance reserve we're already at the max. So most likely the majority of it will go into capital reserve. Any discussion? I have a couple of questions. Sure. Um the roof on this building you said 69,000 500. Yes. That was the lowest bidder. And then that is just the roof replacement. Not is it ply? I don't even know what's frame. Everything. Yeah, it was in the specs. It was in the specs. So if they have to replace plywood, they have to replace the plywood. So it's a complete roof replacement. So they they're not just putting
010like a second set on top. They're it's a completely brand new roof that they're going to put in. Okay. So the plywood is all being replaced. It's not as needed. It should be, but I could double check with the architect. really seems like a lot. But actually, that was the lowest of one of the highest ones was $170,000. Yes. Which kind of tells myself and the architect that maybe they didn't read the specs correctly. Um, and the other question was, uh, the shrubs. What shrubs are we replacing at Lincoln School? Isn't that all new or No, they're replacing some shrubs that are that are dying. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's a lie. We're We're replacing the ones that are dead to make sure they're alive. Okay. Yes. And mine would be also on that roof.
011It has drastic difference in pricing. Um is there is this old? Is that why it's being replaced? This was something that was done when the rod grant was being proposed during I want to say during co time and this was one of the projects that we put in for it was this roof as well as the partial roof replacement at McKenzie once that roof is done that partial roof replacement at Mackenzie McKenzie will be good this roof was identified that needed to that needed replacement just to remind the board that we do get 40% back of the cost so we will get 40% back from the SDA. Yeah, I think I asked about this once before and that's why it wasn't in the referendum. The roof, right? Because you were planning correct. This as well
012as the the other part that other section of the roof at McKenzie was not in the referendum. So, this wasn't in the referendum. That wasn't in the referendum. We were approved for the rod grant for both roof projects. Yes. But the good thing is we do get 40% back. We have more than enough money in our capital reserve. Uh, but the goal is over the summer to do this roof. It should take about a week. And then next summer we'll do the roof over at McKenzie and possibly the exterior door project which that would be 100% out of Capital Reserve. And my last one on the roof, sorry. Is is there any warranty on I mean again I not that I think cheap is bad work. I just don't know. I couldn't look into that.
013I would I would say there would have to be a warranty. No, no. I'm just talking about this wasn't the roof wasn't done though. We're outside of the warranty for this roof. This roof. Mr. G is saying we're outside of the warranty for this roof. And what about part of the referendum? But this building Yeah, but this building is course done but not the right. Yeah, because this used to be the preschool building. So, I guess the warranty piece is before the work that they're the referendum, the work they're doing now. They were in this building. Is there a warranty for this? There should be a warranty. I'll reach out to the architect, but there should be a warranty. Yeah, I'll double check on that. Yeah. And we're required to go with the lowest bidder,
014right? Yes. The lowest responsible bidder. Uh Tom and Drew reviewed the documents and Yes. Okay. So there was if you look at F19 Yeah, I saw the Yeah, if you look at it, you just see the disparity. And when I did ask Allison, she said probably they weren't reading the specs correctly. So you're looking at the lowest bid 69,500 and the highest bid was 173,000. So big difference. I asked Allison, our architect, I said, "Why such a disparity?" She goes, "They probably weren't reading the specs correctly." Yeah. All right. Is there a difference between F20 and F-21 or they just do one is capital, one is maintenance. Okay. Thank you. But I will find out what the warranty is. If it's 10, 20, 25 years. Yeah. At the end, I wrote it down. So, I'll
015reach out to to Allison at the Caribbean. What is the warranty? Just so you know, F-21 on the It's correct in the page, but the title says capital also. That's the only reason why I was questioning it. We will fix that. But in the in the actual like whereas part it says maiden. No it's done. Okay. I I have a question about the meal balances. Yes. The I guess forgiven whatever the forgiveness or um so this column here is what negative that's what they what they Yes. And this could be just want to make sure. No, a great question. It's not just for 2425. When we did our research in the office, between myself and Miss Baron, we were noticing it was going back to 23 24, which was giving us a huge problem trying
016to have parents pay uh pay their outstanding um balances. The good thing is we do have enough funds in our food service accounts. So, we do have enough funds to cover it. This way we can start at zero. the business office will work with the schools to ensure that once a food balance goes over I think the policy says $30 that's we have we start contacting the parents and let them know you have an outstanding balance and not let it get out of hand uh as it had as it was before I I arrived here. So that's the goal. Yes. Um okay and it's just the eighth graders everybody. Oh, everybody on this list. Everybody. Okay. So, we're talking all three schools, K to 8, even the eighth graders who graduated. Got it. So, I
017wouldn't bring this to you unless I felt comfortable that we had more than enough funds in our food service account, which we actually do have more than enough uh funds in there. Okay. To cover this. Got it. Okay. Any other discussion? Sure. You're clear. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Verra. You're welcome, Madam President. Um, superintendence report. Mr. Jean Caspro, uh, in the McKenzie school, we have 377 students. At Lincoln School, 171 students. foul school 233 students a total of 781 students uh that's as of June um so we have that all in place all fire drills and evacuation drills for the month of June we're taken care of prior to the last day of school which is June 16th um for McKenzie school let me pull up Mackenzie school real quick okay school Mackenzie Lincoln and
018FA school all building principles have approached the final weeks of the 2425 school here and they continued to strive as and as a vibrant center of learning, community and good and and school spirit. The month of June had been filled with meaningful and eventful uh joyful celebrations focus on academics and social emotional growth and all three building principles are extremely proud of their students, staff and families uh for their partnerships and dedication throughout the 2024 25 school year. Uh let me just pull up the agenda here. Okay. Under the area of uh let's see um uh before you underneath superintendent resolutions those were the uh resolutions that we discussed at the last uh special board meeting um for the one HIV that was presented to the board. Um there are two other um HIVs that
019will be discussed in executive session tonight. Um in the area of curriculum before you for C1 um it is the LEIP which is a three-year instructional uh educational program which the board approves every each and every year is it every three years sorry for the three-year plan. Um C2 and C3 one is the bilingual approval waiver application and the other one is that we got the approval on the waiver. So those are the two that have to be a resolution has to be sent over to the county once approved this evening. underneath personnel P P1 this evening is the Kelly education substitute list which um all the board members were supplied with. Personnel actions are before you which is P2.1 all the way through uh P2.31 those are appointments throughout um most of those are
020affixate are attached to um contract negotiations which are statemented positions which the board is aware of those are all of those uh we have travel expenditures which is P3 uh which would be Mr. Vari, Miss Alberta and Mr. Varachi, myself and Mr. Balardi as well. Um, in the area of personnel for P4 and P5, one is the retirement of Joanie D. Roza, there was a change to the date there. So, that's one that's there we have for her, which is effective September 2nd. Um, with a regret. Uh, Joanie, I've worked Joanie since I started in the district. Um, home run person. uh stellar uh we she will be greatly missed for all the work that she's done with our youngest wild cats. Um and also J. Chipkin uh resignation. Um he will be missed as
021he moves on with future endeavors that he has. Uh that's all I have for personnel. There's no technology and there is no community relations. Usually the board I just make you aware of we do get um a thick packet from Strauss SME for the month of July for any upcoming um either abolishments um add-ons or additional any kind of policies or regulations of that will start the 2526 school year. And that concludes my report. Any discussion? Yeah, I do have a question on the enrollment. Um, yes, Board Docs has 790. I think it said 780 if I'm not mistaken. Or did I misar that? I'm sorry. Say, it's a little bit of an echo, so I apologize. Ordog or doc shows 790 on enrollment. Hold on. Let me just pull that up quick on my
022end here. Hold on a second. Under board docs, what section? It was the enrollments. Mr. Bank is asking that on board docs. It says 790. Says 790. That's the I will check that with Mr. Banker just to confirm with Mr. Espazito tomorrow, but that was the number that I received. I verified this morning. Um, let me check if there were anything that was new that happened um today. I know that Mr. Espazito was not in, so I wasn't able to other than what I what I received, but I'll check that. You said 790, right? Correct. All right. Let me just make sure. Let me check one other place. Give me one second. And one other question on the enrollment is that does that include pea? Does that include what? PA not include not it would
023include I'm sorry. Say it again. M Can I say it again? Does it include our preschool students? Not our preschool disabled, but our students that are in the preschool program, the full-time preschool students. It would it would include all students in enrollment. Thank you. And what I can do, Mr. Bank, I'll get back to you first thing tomorrow. Um whether it's I'll have Sandy getting back in touch with you and just send you a quick email whether it's 781 or 790. Okay. Thanks. No problem. Okay. Anybody else? No. Yes. Oh, okay. Okay. Uh, thank you, Mr. Jean Caspro. Uh, let's see. Correspondence to members of the board of education. None. Um, adoption of prior board meeting minutes. Um, upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves the following meeting minutes. May 15, 2025
024work session meeting minutes. May 15, 2025 work session executive meeting minutes. May 22nd, 2025 public session meeting minutes. May 22nd, 2025 public session executive meeting minutes. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Which one were you at? Was it the 15th or the 22nd? I think it's the 15th. Yeah. You were not at Okay. Okay. So, you were both recused from the 15th because you weren't here. No, Jillian, you weren't here on the 15th. It says no. I came like a few minutes late. Okay. Yes. Then she came in. Yes. So m So Jeff the 15th you recuseed from 22nd. Maria. Yes. Okay. So Okay. Roll call. Let's start. Sparuso. Uh yes except um recusing. Oh yes. Except for May 22nd. I'm recusing myself. Okay, Miss Collie, yes. Miss Manet is absent. Mr. Sanders, yes. For the
02522nd, recusing for the 15th. Thank you, Miss Shmley. Yes. Mr. Banka? Yes. Miss Larusa? Yes. Okay. All right. So, we usually do two public comments. So, so at this time I will open to the hearing of the citizens. Opening public comments on any agenda items. State your name, address for the record. Address the board president. Each person wishing to speak will have five minutes each. Anyone wishing to speak will be given the opportunity to do so. Okay, seeing none, I close to the hearing of the citizens. Excuse me, Madam President. Yes. Do you want to just do that now in case you I I I just just Okay. Okay. Then I reopen to the hearing of the citizens on agenda and non-aggenda items. Hello. Uh Kevin Lion here. Uh 77 Clinton Place. I'm here representing
026the East Rutherford PTA uh to share with the board all the exciting things we did to end the school year for our students and faculty. Uh first uh we still have 191 members. We've been pretty stable with that all uh since probably around December. Our shoe collection was our final fundraiser. We we uh collected over 1,000 pairs of shoes. They were picked up by the company on June 13th. Uh we thank the East Rutherford DPW who was uh helpful in storing the shoes at their uh yard over on Maple Avenue. Uh they also helped load the truck when it came. Uh and the shoes will be used to support microenterprises in developing countries and we thank all those who donated their shoes through the months. Uh not a fundraiser we will be doing again. I
027will say that at least not for many years. I will say that. So we won't be begging you for shoes next year. Oh my goodness. all the events we did between last meeting and today. Get ready. It's going to be a ride. At Fouon Lincoln, we had the annual Holly Rock Entertainment Game Show assembly. PTA sponsored that event in advance of the Memorial Day weekend on May 23rd. Our third graders were bust over from McKenzie and joined the fourth and fifth for a morning session. And our sixth, seventh, and eighth had a later morning session. And they all enjoyed a quiz game show style format uh assembly. Uh, even our teachers got into the fun and had a quiz round for just the teachers and I have a video of that out on our YouTube
028channel if you want to check it out. They did get some questions wrong. Anyway, our Lincoln Field Day was hosted on June 5th at the Lincoln School. PTA provided the water bottles and the t-shirts. Uh, PTA also hosted a Kona ice truck for all the students and the staff. Uh, Beckton Scholarship was given out on June 4th at the Beckton High School award ceremony. The PTA scholarship recipients were Kaylee Dearborn, Kristen Dearborn, Claudia Damada, Nina Pod Kalich Khalicha, uh, and each received a $500 award from the PTA. Uh, FA field day was celebrated on June 9th at Rian Memorial Field, a slightly rainy day. We had some rain in the morning, but the afternoon turned out to be beautiful. Uh, PTA, oh my goodness, we provided water, bottles, pizza, lunch, chips, ice pops, and t-shirts
029for all the students and staff. and many of our PTO members, including our own Jillian Collie, were on hand at Rianfield in the fieldhouse serving that lunch to our students and staff. And despite the rain, we had a great time. Uh Lincoln School also hosted a Grit on the Go assembly with the Grit Ninja Company. Uh the there were a couple of the gentlemen there who had actually done the um similar to American Ninja Warrior but in other countries. So like the Vietnamese Ninja Warrior or whatever that sort of of assembly. They shared with our students in a assembly style uh talk about having grit and perseverance and getting through the hardships. Uh but they also set up in the uh courtyard out here the uh grit ninja uh obstacle courses. So, there were hanging
030bars for the kids to climb across and the things to jump back and forth on and the uh the best part was the warped wall that everybody enjoyed trying to run up the warp warped wall. So, great day there as well. We were so happy uh Mrs. Derovich brought that to our attention. So, thank you Mrs. Derovich uh for bringing that to us. We got some great feedback on that event as well. To end the school year, we had to say uh McKenzie School had to say farewell to the third graders. So PTA and our third grade parents hosted a breakfast on June 12th to celebrate our third graders as they prepare to enter Lincoln school and PTA volunteers were on hand helping with decorating, serving, and cleaning up of the breakfast held in Mackenzie
031school gym. And we thank uh Miss Cindy Tahada uh for all her work. She was our Mackenzie rep this year. She helped a lot with coordinating activities with Mr. Barrow and the staff at McKenzie School. So thank you to her. our fifth grade bridging party. Literally a bridging party because the fifth graders spend the morning uh crossing the bridge over into FA school to get a tour of the school and then came back to the Lincoln school gym. And in the Lincoln school gym, PTA and our fifth grade parents hosted a party for those fifth graders to celebrate them. Um the PTA volunteers were on hand to help with decorating, serving, and cleaning up there as well. And we thank Tara Peson who helped organize and run that event as well as all of her
032efforts working with Mr. Valardi and the staff of Lincoln School uh during her tenure as our Lincoln rep. Our eighth grade committee, oh my goodness, what can you not say about the eighth grade committee? They did so much this month to celebrate our eighth graders as they graduated from FA school. Um let's see. They provided waterproof pouches for each of the students to be used on their trip to Kalahari Water Park. They hosted the eighth grade formal at the Fiesta in Woodidge, which included a DJ, photo booth, candy station, balloons, and other fun surprises. They helped host the breakfast with the principal on June 13th. They provided gift cards and thank you notes to all our eighth grade teachers and the support staff. And they provided funding to every eighth graders so they could receive
033a yearbook free of charge. And we do thank Ranata Mayheu and our eighth grade committee for all their dedication and support of our eighth graders this past year. And we congratulate all those eighth graders and wish them well as they continue on to high school. Looking forward, we've already confirmed with some of our regular vendors and scheduled some events in the new year. First place spiritware will continue to be our online shop for spiritware wildcat gear and scholastic bookf fairs will return this fall with both with both bookf fairs at McKenzie School and at Lincoln School. Lincoln school will also include the FA students. Our BNL photographers will be on site in early October for our picture day. Gifts and things little shopper programs will be with us in December for the holiday shop at
034both again McKenzie and Lincoln school which Lincoln will include FA students and we've already committed with Jersey Mike's Panera Bread and Wendy's to have dine and donate events in the fall. So we have already three of them scheduled in the new year PTA will continue with our same executive team team in place as those roles are two-year commitments and many of our comm committee chairpersons have also agreed to stay on in their roles. Uh Mrs. Christine Green will lead our eighth grade committee. Uh Mrs. Natasha Banila will take over as McKenzie rep. Our PTA will need a parent or member to volunteer to be our Lincoln school rep. And we're going to solicit for memberships, leaders, and committee members as our new school year begins. And speaking of memberships, the new school the new membership
035year will begin in July. So memberships will be available online beginning in July. Membership fees remain at $10 for individual and $6 for a staff member. uh and membership in the East Rutherford PTA includes the New Jersey PTA and National PTA membership as well. And uh you'll be happy to know we are finalizing our meeting schedule for next year. We'll hope to get that done in early July so we can submit our facilities requests early this year so that we have the facilities in place for all of our meetings. Um we do appreciate actually that we were able to move over to the um FA school media center. That that room actually works well for us. as the meetings dwindle down. Probably the early meetings we'll want to still have in the gym when we
036expect larger crowds. So, um let's see what else here. PTA also wants to acknowledge because I wasn't here on the 10th uh meeting the following teachers who retired at the end of this school year. Lillian Spear, Judith Schneider, and Eileen Moore. Thank you so much for all of your efforts in educating our children. And just so everybody knows, you can see our Facebook page or YouTube channel. There's a brief year in review video that highlights all the activities that PTA was involved in this past year and we thank all of those uh volunteers and donors and everyone who made our year such a success. Thank you so much. No, thank you. Thank you. Yes. Then one more thing, just speaking as a parent now, not as a PTA uh president. Um, our Girl Scouts in
037the sixth grade when they were in fifth grade did a bronze award. And as part of that bronze award, what they wanted to do was create a bunny buddy bench for the Lincoln FA school plaza. So, if you go out into the plaza, you'll see a green bench there with a plaque. And that is the bronze award from our Girl Scouts, uh, Julia Lion, Ozer, Chetma, and uh, um, sorry, sorry, Charlotte Cowen. I was going to say Shannon, but that's the mother. Uh, they were the three Girl Scouts who with their troop put that together for us. So thank them very much for that and thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. You have a copy of the use of facility form. Do you have one? I have come online. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you
038so much. Okay, I will close to the hearing of the citizens. All right. Superintendent resolutions. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves motion S1 through S6. S1 approval of fire and emergency drill report. Approval of enrollment report. Approval of harassment, intimidation, and bullying monthly report. S4 resolution affirming the superintendent's decision relating to an alleged harassment, intimidation, and bullying incident. Report date, April 8th, 2025. S5 resolution affirming the superintendence decision relating to an alleged harassment, intimidation, and bullying incident report dated May 1st, 2025. S6, resolution affirming the superintendence decision relating to alleged harassment, intimidation, and bullying incident report dated May 19th, 2025. Doesn't matter. Second. Oh. Oh, you want it. I'll move it. I'll move it. Yes. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Roll call. Miss Caruso. Yes. Miss Collie. Mr. Sanders. Yes. Emily,
039yes. Mr. Banker, yes. And Miss Laruso, yes. Curriculum committee, Miss Shemley. Or did I skip? No. No. You're good. Okay. Thank you, Madam President. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves motion C1 through C3. C1 approval of the East Rutherford School District 2024 to 2027 language instruction educational program LEIP 3-year plan. C2, approval of the East Rutherford School District 2024 2025 bilingual program approved waiver. and C3, excuse me, approval of the East Rutherford School District 2025 2026 bilingual waiver application. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Miss Caruso? Yes. Miss Collie? Yes. Mr. Sanders? Yes. Miss Shmley? Yes, Mr. Banka. Yes, Miss Laruso. Yes. Personnel committee, Miss Caruso. Thank you, Madam President. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves motions P1 through P5. P1, approve the Kelly Education Substitute
040List. P2, personnel actions. P3, approval of travel expenditures. P4, acceptance of retirement notification, Joan D. Roza with regret. And P5, acceptance of resignation notification, Jake Tip Chipkin, I'm sorry, Jake Jake Chipkin. Second. Any discussion? I do have a question. Um, are these full-time positions in the business office? Yes. Yes, Mr. Banker. So, we will be hiring Michael Preion Presimone as a full-time accounts payable bookkeeper. Elaine Deer will then move over to payroll health benefits on a full-time basis. Both employees will be waving benefits, so which is a good thing. And the business office will be fully staffed. Okay. Yeah, these are just Yeah. Yes. Michael was part-time for the month of June. Uh so when we were hiring him May he was interning. June he was coming in part-time. Yes. And then July he would
041be full-time. And uh I'm very happy. Everyone in the business office is very happy with him. And we think he has an extremely bright future with us. None of these are new positions. This is all just filling. And when the other one's a part-time position, that's back filling on the P 229. 2.29. Which one is that? P229. That's just in case if um Heidi who right now who is uh Rodriguez who's currently doing it part-time, I talked to her, spoke to her uh about if we needed a second set of eyes while we have the transition to reach out to her on an as needed basis uh at $50 an hour just for the month of July. I remember reaching out to Miss Caruso. Who else did I reach out to? I think Mr. Sanders
042and Miss Shemley about this and uh and obviously President Laruso knew about it. Very good. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other discussion? Okay. Roll call. Miss Caruso? Yes. Miss Collie? Yes. Mr. Sanders? Yes. Miss Shmley? Yes. Mr. Banker? Yes. Miss Laruso? Yes. And that ends my report, Madame President. Thank you. Uh, community relations, uh, no new business, Miss Collie? Nope, not at this time. Okay. Uh, technology, no new business as well. You want facilities? Did I miss facilities? Oh, I did miss physical facilities. I'm sorry, Mr. No, no problem, Madam President. physical facilities. Mr. Sanders. Thank you, Madam President. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves motion PF1 through PF2. PF1, approval of monthly facility calendar July 2025. PF2, approval of district use of facility applications. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Okay.
043Roll call. Miss Caruso? Yes. Miss Collie? Yes. Mr. Sanders? Yes. Miss Shmley? Yes. Mr. Banker? Yes. And Miss Laruso? Yes. Okay. Are you ready, Mr. Banker? Just took a drink of water. Finance Committee. Mr. Banker. Thank you, Madam President. Upon the recommendation of the superintendent, the board hereby approves motions F1 through F21. F1, approval of the May 2025 payroll. F2, approval of bills list June 2025. F3, approval of financial reports for May 2025. F4, approval of transfer report for May 2025. F5, approval of tuition and extraordinary service contracts and agreements for the 2025 2026 school year. F6, approval to award request for proposals for professional services for the 2025 2026 school year. F7, approval of continuing disclosure and independent registered municipal advisory services for the 2025 2026 school year. F8, approval of the before and
044after program for the 2025 2026 school year. F9, authorization of write off 2023 2024 outstanding food service balances as of June 30th, 2025. F10, approval of schools tuition rates for non-resident students for the 2025 2026 school year. F11, acceptance of anticipated vendors for the 2025 2026 school year. F12, approval of contracts, agreements, and renewals for the 2025 2026 school year. F-13, approval of shared service agreements for technology support services level one for the 20252026 school year. F14, approval of shared service agreement for technology support services for level two for the 2025 2026 school year. F15, approval to utilize state of New Jersey contract 24-wave- 67793 Johnson Controls fire protection for the 2024 2025 school year. F-16 approval approve the withdrawal from capital reserve account for the 2025 2024 2025 school year budget. F17 approved procedures
045for the close of the fiscal year. F18 acceptance of a donation from Exxon Mobile K Serbos in Inc. F19 award of contract to LMAR roofing company for the FA annex roof replacement project. F20 approved transfer of 2024 2025 surplus to capital reserve. F-21 approved transfer of 2024 2025 surplus to maintenance reserve. Good job. So moved. Second. Any discussion? I have two quick things. One is under the F9 the food service balances. Have we sent out letters? And I'm only saying this because I didn't receive one and my daughter is on the list. So I just didn't know if like we did for everybody as one last push before we write off. We don't send out physical letters. We email them. Email in Genesis. Okay. Okay. And then um my other thing was just just to
046put us on the record again that I hope for next year we can look to possibly hire our own BCBA rather than contract that put it on the record. No no no that's good. I know we spoke about that. No that is that is the goal next year. So when we are building the budget next year can't believe it for 2627. Uh yes already the intention is there to hire our own uh behaviorist fulltime. So, we'll have those discussions. Uh, what should we budget it at? And obviously, uh, we'll put the benefits in there just in case. Okay. We have to budget for benefits. You're welcome. My only other question back to the roof. Um, there's no Yeah, there like we hold in that 695. There's no like, oh, we found this and now it's
047an extra 20,000 as an example. Um, well, there's built-in contingencies in there. So like if for some reason it it goes over it's already built in. Okay. So they can't go over the 695. Okay. Cool. Thanks. They build in contingencies like extras just in case something happens. Yeah. Cool. We do get back 40%. Thankful for that. I don't know if I said that. Yes, you did. Yeah. All right. Any other discussion? Okay. Roll call. Miss Caruso? Yes. Miss Collie? Yes. Mr. Sanders? Yes. Miss Shmley? Yes. Mr. Banker? Yes. And Miss Laruso? Yes. That concludes my report, Madam President. Thank you. All right. Old business. I believe Mr. Varra, you said you reached out to pay schools and you got an answer about the um like the meal donation. Ah yes, I did get an email
048from them. I can reach back out to them just to say what are the next steps to make this happen. One of my questions to them was anonymity and privacy that if somebody wanted to donate um let's say for example somebody from the board wants to donate you wouldn't know who that person is right and they wouldn't know that you donated to their negative balance. So there is a way that yes it can be done. Okay. They said it was they really don't get a request like that but they could honor that request for us. Okay. So that was my thing was all about privacy, right? Like I said, if the board wants to donate, you don't know who you're donating to and the person who's that doesn't know it's coming who it's coming from.
049So this way uh there's privacy on both sides. Okay. I mean, I just think we can put out there doesn't cost us anything. It doesn't cost the family anything. So, no, just a little extra something out there. Yeah, I mean that's something we can uh definitely let the the public know for next year. Maybe we could put it somewhere on the section of the business office for food services that it's there. They can do that. So it's, you know, we know sometimes families do have face some tough challenges and it's it's good to know that there are some, you know, there are good people out there who willing to help those who are who are in need. Thank you. You're welcome. Questions. Any other old business? New business. Okay. I will say the went to
050um a leadership conference today for the board presidents and vice presidents. It was the first one that school boards had. Um it was very they're supposed to give us the agendas and stuff um at a later time. Um but I did come back with some ideas that maybe I can bounce off you guys at a another time. But um there were some good sessions with other presidents and vice presidents and um yeah have some ideas. U we we've always talked about doing like a board retreat for goal planning and such. That'd probably be a good thing to maybe do this year if yes we could find a time at some point. Yes. Um, again, school boards does run those. So, we can I can definitely reach out to school boards and find out like when
051they typically do those or when we should, you know, plan for that. So, I can definitely reach out tomorrow. I'll send them a message and see what they suggest. Okay. Uh, let's see. I'll open to the hearing of the citizens again. Nope. Okay. I will close to the hearing of the citizens. Um at this time, we'll adjourn to executive session. uh resolved that in accordance with section 8 of the Open Public Meetings Act, chapter 231, the board has the authority to adjourn to close session to discuss matters pertaining to legal personnel negotiations, attorney client privilege, and/or student matters. Said matters will be made available upon the determination by the board that the disclosure of the minutes will not detrimentally affect any rights or interests of the board. The board expects to return to the business
052portion of the meeting in approximately well, we have we're going to go over the the resumes and Yeah. What? Sure. or we'll start at 90. Okay, we'll start at 90 minutes. Okay, but all right. Motion. All in favor? Any opposed? You don't vote. So, All right. How much is that? How much is that only a All right. A motion to return to the regular order of business. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Uh before we adjourn, the next board of education meeting will be held on Thursday, July 17th, 2025 at 6 pm followed by July 24th, 2025 at 6 pm. Motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Meeting adjourned.