001[Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you I would like to call this meeting application Township Board of Education to order pursuance to open up movies apps hosting a further notice on information hosting great notice on the official bulletin board at the Board of Education Office email and written notice to the Burlington County Times [Music] Mr Bob here Mr problem yeah this is awesome here Miss Lee here this is Mr Thompson here we have the board okay this time I will ask for a motion to go into executive session and a motion to approve items 2.1 through 2.4 whereas in njsa 10-4-25 has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are Exempted from the public whereas the regular meeting from the board will be convenient following the end of closed
002session at for the following reasons through 2.4 in Wisconsin any questions Mr Bach now yes Mrs Capello yes Mr physicaro yes Miss Fox yes Mr captain Mrs Knoll yes Miss Lee Yes Mrs Ryan yes Mr Thompson yes motion carries [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you [Music] together foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank
003you foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign thank you foreign thank you [Music] faith foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign the mission of the Evesham Township School District is to wrote to promote excellence in an environment that engages students in meaningful learning experiences in partnership with students dedicated staff families and Community the district provides a strong Educational Foundation that will Empower our students to achieve their unique potential Embrace self-directed lifelong learning develop the skills necessary for appropriate risk-taking and responsible decision making respect themselves and others problem solve individually and collaboratively and become contributing members of a diverse Global Society foreign [Music] so we have um a very special
004presentation of a donation from the Evesham Education Foundation we have Scott zielinski who is a long time member and outgoing president of the organization we have John cipollon long time member and organizer of the Golf Classic which recently occurred and was very very successful and is a huge part of what bill smithman who is the newly elected president of congratulations of the Evesham Education Foundation is about to share with us and Bill I don't know if you want to I'll hold that for you if you want so I didn't think I was speaking uh so this year we are announcing record funding 71 100 um [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you [Applause] so you know we have a great board a lot of members that put a lot of time you know a lot of effort
005to help us raise These funds for the district um I guess the programs that we're donating to you know we're purchasing one active board um I have a teacher to ask me if it's going in her room I don't know um you know we were paying for the framing for the art gal that just finished up recently also we have 35 000 for the counseling program ten thousand dollars for metamorphosis uh ten thousand dollars for the the coordinated arts program and also uh ten thousand dollars for tier three in Richmond and the literacy program so you know we hope that we can increase this funding you know every year you know we need to support from the community so we hope to see you guys one of our next events [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yeah yeah
006all right yeah thank you I'm I'm so glad not only uh that we get to recognize them but that we get to do that tonight with with such a large audience because um one thing we're always trying to do as the Ed Foundation is spread the word about that it exists and all the good that it does and um if you're interested in learning more or being involved please email me and we'll connect you with more information it's a fantastic way to serve our fantastic community so um thanks again guys appreciate it um so our next presentation and uh if Barbara ol is here let's see I'm looking around it's so many so many oh come on down come on down [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and then so I want to let Barb have her a
007stroll down all by herself but I also know a lot of family members are here and I and I see them sticking if her family could come down I want everyone to be able to see her together with her family because the olds are such a long time family here in town I know multiple members of the family in different ways um and uh so if the any family or friends who are here for Barb could come down as well [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so we have a we have a little just a little slideshow first um and uh and then an award for for Barb um yes I I used her full name Barbara ol on the slides but for me and for everybody who works with her she's Barb um so I'll be saying
008Barb the uh ah so she's reti she's on the agenda tonight for retirement so for anyone who doesn't isn't aware um she has worked for our district for 56 years which is longer than yeah all right which is longer than I would say a lot of people in this in this room have been alive and um and there's probably a lot of people in this room even from multiple Generations who have benefited from her work because she has been started as a bus driver in 1967 and then worked her way up to become transportation coordinator in 2000 so she's affected and improved thousands of lives out helping thousands of students every year for decades and decades and uh so this is just this is a picture of her uh year two of driving with the
009arrow there that's Barbara back in the day okay [Applause] [Music] so just just so you know so back in 1967 when she started working our Town's population was just about 20 percent of what it is now so Ten Thousand Seven Ten Thousand eight hundred people um neighborhoods that we can't imagine didn't exist were just starting like Brush Hollow the department had six employees total five vehicles and uh the first contract was six 265 an hour at that point okay just moving ahead a little bit and there was so much to pick through I just I went for um a little bit of less is more but shared a certificate of appreciation 1973 which out to me because a certain superintendent was born that year um and uh and and then in talking about it with
010people here uh our curriculum director we're pretty darn sure was rode on a bus that barb drove uh as she attended Evans uh School King's Grant meanwhile hadn't even Broken Ground on King's Grant so if you can just imagine that was just trees right in 1974 King's Grant neighborhood starts that's a a picture from uh the swipe card days right swipe card um and then we move on Jump Ahead to 2000 when she's approved as coordinator that's the same year our newest school so our newest School Marlton Elementary our only two-story school open for students and at that point the population had mushroom to 42 000 and woodlands and dominions had just been finished so essentially like and I can't imagine what that was like to be driving all those years in planning as like
011you know every year you come to work and there are just more roads right all the time then 2023 retires after 56 years of invaluable service to students of Evesham with over 500 accumulated sick days which is it and I I if I went you know if you could see like all the commendations for um attendance and that's just to me that's like that's that's such an important thing it's actually one of our district goals right it's one of our three District goals and you have walked that and driven that and modeled that for 56 years and this and she she's saying she's driven a bus for over 500 000 miles which I think that must be a Guinness Book of World Records I think right there um I'm going to look that up later
012if any of the kids here are liking this book if you want to help me with that we can check that out because if it's not there we should petition and get it in there I think okay um and uh remember that transportation department that had five vehicles and six employees well into that was in 1967 but by 2023 it's 51 vehicles 34 drop drivers plus two sub drivers 18 AIDS seven sub AIDS two mechanics three main office staff um and uh obviously reflecting our much larger School population in the town 48 000 by that point and um just a detail I found looking uh into the history of the town is we're actually the they're about 600 towns in the state where the sixth fastest growing right now since uh 2020 so um you
013know there may not be that many more roads added but there will be more bus stops potentially um and then uh just you know you look back through things and especially the picture on the left so the picture on the right was 2017 our district honored Barb for 50 years of service and there were some sunflowers in that picture and then deep in your post archives there was this photo of Barb in a field of sunflowers back in 2002 that was at the Old Farm Market in Evesham which I guess it speaks to the changes our Town's going through because I don't even know what that is Old Farm Market I guess it's uh the way the Lazy Boy is okay okay so there you go right um so uh but I you know I
014think to me like the simple hour in a way it's it has a little symbolism I think for your role only because um you know you have there are so many seeds of help and and wonderfulness that you've helped spread through driving 500 000 miles and helping 34 drivers drive millions of miles safely for so many decades so yeah so thank you so much for all that we got you a little something oh John's got it so uh [Applause] we we got her a um it's a it's a bronze uh school bus on a pedestal um with the etsd logo and it says uh for your outstanding dedication and care for the children of Evesham Township over 56 years of service June 22nd 22 [Applause] Dr Dr Smith Board of Education I appreciate all you've
015done I have loved working in this District I love all the employees and so many students that I have taken to and from school and some their parents I took them and now I had their children so I have enjoyed working in this district and it's a beautiful District to work in so good luck to everyone thank you [Music] if everybody can kind of like swing this way and we'll get uh get a picture um the uh just yeah you got to be in the middle you got to be in the middle you got to be in the middle thank you so much thank you [Music] Fred can you turn off the uh you turn off the here [Applause] let's turn this off now oh good oh good no no no we're done we're ready
016to stay upstairs laughs all right this is this one's we're gonna move when we're uh Joe is here [Music] [Applause] I think there might be some cake in your future this evening Barb so uh before and I'm and again I'm just I'm so glad that you could all be here tonight for each of these moments because again it's it's the story of who we are um and uh we have one more uh presentation for not a staff member but a board member um Joe physicaro if you can come on up so uh [Music] Mr physicaro has reached What's called the Milestone award from the New Jersey school boards Association it's for having served 16 years on our Board of Education so 16 years and I gotta say since there is no salary that's a heap
017of a lot of money you've earned um serving on the board of education I would I would say for those for anyone who doesn't know Joe um this award it's you know it's given for 16 years so it's essentially you earn it through through a quantity 16 . it's ironic because when I think of Joe the word that comes to mind is is in quantity it's quality you know um and I've known that in multiple ways at quality as a as a board member qualities award president quality as a teacher quality as as if as a family guy as Dad as a husband as a member of our community and um so it says 16 when in fact there is just so much more that you bring and thank you for for 16 years Joe
018yeah the uh [Music] yeah yeah all right all right so students the we tried something new this year which was um I mentioned the Golf Classic earlier for the Eastern Education Foundation so we we selected two student artworks to have in the silent auction at the Golf Classic so essentially uh part of that 71 000 that was donated came through two of our very own students artworks incredible artworks so I'd like to call down uh michelina Belleville and Sophia ilagash if they're here [Music] [Applause] are they here all right come on down come on down please so the uh and there's only ever going to be one one first cohort of artists that were selected for this so that's the two of you so you know history looks back it'll be the two of you
0192023. um everything right here [Music] [Applause] thank you so uh this is an evening of academic The Three A's academics arts and Athletics so we're going to move on to some academics now um these are our Math League winners [Music] I apologize if um any names are mispronounced I I was thinking that before the very first name um so we have a student says your names are called please come on down and then we'll take a picture at the end with everybody and we'll do that same uh approach for each of the student groups so um I and nandy Jason zamedas darsh gujera Ethan Carver and Joyce Lee [Applause] things [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right [Applause] [Music] Nick staying with the academics next up we have our Elks essay contest winners and to help
020present that I'm going to ask if Mr Mrs matches can come down to help with this presentation [Music] good good I'm so glad to see the two of them each year because when they're when I see them I know we're about to celebrate students so it's like fantastic wonderful thank you thank you so much it's great to be back here again this year we have so many awards that we're so happy that we've written so many wonderful words and wonderful stories through our essay contest it's a patriotic essay contest and it there's there's actually competition too we have our lodge winners District winners State winners and then if you go past the state of the all of the lodges in New Jersey then it goes on to the National winners at our Grand Lodge so
021without further Ado a number of these children I've met at our district Awards and now here you are getting your Awards here in your in your home school district [Applause] take that back take that back okay those are in order okay okay first of all we're going to do our fifth grade Awards and may I have our third place winner in the fifth grade is Ayan nandy come on down Ayan [Applause] thank you Ayan stay up here second place in fifth grade is oh hold on I'm sorry I wanted to give the schools their plug Ayan is in um Marlton Elementary School okay very good thank you okay the next person I'd like to award is from the jaggart elementary school Lira Mortage [Music] okay I think she's not here today okay next our first
022place winner from the demacie elementary school is Delaney d'andria Delaney here [Applause] she comes [Applause] here Delaney wonderful thank you and now for our sixth grade winners from Marlton Middle School our third place winner is Ella Betts [Applause] I don't see Ella here right now okay our second place winner also from Marlton Middle School is Dylan benchoff [Applause] there you go thanks yeah you got to carry a lot of things very good and first place the first place winner for sixth grade from Marlton Middle School is Ella Haney Ella may not I don't think Ella is here however I do I do need to tell you that she not only won our district award our lodge award District award and state she was chosen to go on to our Nationals so yes yeah that's wonderful
023news and we won't know if she has placed until our Grand Lodge which has their meetings in Minneapolis this year unfortunately I won't be there and they will decide that and that they'll be announcing it in that first week of July so we'll be letting you know soon Okay add seventh grade winners from demacie Middle School third place is nupur waji [Applause] okay the poor is not here and second place also from demacie Luke Park is Luke here here he comes [Applause] good congratulations wonderful and our last essay award goes to first place from demacie middle school Avery Rickard and here she comes [Music] [Applause] very nice congratulations very good I present to you our essay Award winners [Applause] to come this way just slide over just a little bit more centered yeah very good
024thank you so much good job everybody very good thank you that's awesome awesome [Music] we're staying with academics definitely applied academics because it's the stock market game and we're going to call first the uh the third place team from the Elementary School Division come on down as your name is called Paxton busalero [Applause] it's coming on down Nicholas gallo [Applause] Beckett Horning [Applause] Jacob Marco [Applause] oh yeah we we uh we swept up we got that was great we've got we've got that was awesome guys I'll look for you again hopefully next year okay then we've got our second place team southern region Elementary School Division stock market game Demetrios capnisis [Music] [Applause] Trent man [Applause] Jagger mullison [Applause] and Laura thrower [Applause] thank you all right awesome congratulations that's great you want this one
025and we've got first place team southern region Elementary School Division Anthony basso [Applause] Samuel Braithwaite faithwaite Jack day [Applause] and Finnegan Meyer [Applause] yeah special congrats to jack for representing first place team [Music] [Applause] good job all right moving on we've got second place team in the southern region Ryan Fleming [Applause] John France Andrew O'Connor and Matthew Rosano [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I can tell it's middle school because my line of sight was definitely blocked on that photo awesome now moving on we did academics we did Arts we still got more Arts coming but now we're on Athletics two undefeated teams just a great sport soccer Joseph Atley we're gonna start with the boys team okay so Joseph Atlee come on down oh you want me to hold these uh Cooper birdie Lance Chang Michael coluzzi
026[Applause] there he comes Aiden to Caesar Danielle espananda [Applause] Anthony gallo Parker Gill Ryan Hummel Thomas lautzenheiser Kaden Lumley Shane O'Donnell [Applause] Dominic pachula and Jacob Resto and Nicholas Suzanne and Landon smartchiasi Lucas Sorel Adam taglieri Dylan Walker [Applause] Kevin Wallace Kyle Wallace Gavin White and Casey winkelmann we're at the almost like backwards uh well we're passing out these certificates it I have to say it is taking every bone of my body to resist just talking soccer with you guys for a while because I want to know all about the season and what positions you play and all that but we'll resist we're going to give you your certificates but um I think it speaks so much of you to see you all here as a team um because you're a team 12 months of
027the year right not just during a season and uh and how many of you are coming back next year who are not eighth grade so you're you're going into going into the eighth or going into seventh you're not you're not graduating right so so I see a bunch of hands so you guys are that that core you know where the bar is set and uh to be able to um continue to build on the success from this year and for those of you going on a Cherokee um your school year will start a little earlier right because you're you're going to have practices um starting in the in August and um that's a fantastic program you're going into as well there so um it's we couldn't be prouder of all of you for for what
028you accomplished this year um and uh let's try to swing around this way so we can get a photo and now that I'm standing behind I can see they all have they have their names and numbers on the sweatshirt so [Music] [Applause] boys to Macy's soccer undefeated 20 23 22 season [Applause] [Music] all right we're good thanks guys so girls soccer at the Macy did not want to be outdone by the boys um they went undefeated as well I I just can't imagine what what when when schools see the Macy soccer boys or girls on their schedule they must just be like maybe it'll rain that day um but uh but they don't know is we've got Turf so they're in trouble there too um so we're going to call the girls down uh Emma
029Brogan [Applause] Emma Abigail Brown Ella bush Emily Couture yeah Mia Donovan okay yeah Aaron Gallagher Sydney Gaiman [Applause] Lillian gorsland Gracie Lambert [Applause] Riley lazy Ava Lumley Ava moranti Gracie O'Donnell Isabella patane Isabella Peterson Isabella Randall Brenna Rogers Brinley Rogers [Applause] so Soraya Rowe Ava salverian Natalie Thoreau and Leo weiner and as the girls are coming down um I love I love that you all wore you're you're representing with your demacy blue um it's almost like you might have practice later tonight and you're just stopping off on the way to pick up some certificates um how many of you play soccer more than just in the fall like other times a year right okay because I I just feel like uh you know it's it's that to get to an undefeated season means putting time
030in I'm sure all year round um so just congratulations from our district for everything you achieved on the field and the way you're represented off the field fantastic um can we give a big round of applause to our girls undefeated soccer team 22-23 season [Applause] they are definitely like professionals they're organizing for a team photo that was like amazing um [Music] great job great job [Music] that was fantastic um moving on to district elementary honors band students so our district elementary honors band took a pause during covet it came back stronger than ever this year they had a fantastic concert June 6th at the Cherokee pack and each of these students we want to congratulate them for all the effort they put in to get to that point we're going to call them down by
031school so first Beeler we've got Matthew Casper Shirley Joseph [Applause] Josephine Krauss Avery Pinot [Applause] Haley Schmidt [Applause] Suresh to Ned tenija Alexandra Werner [Applause] Christopher zarvalis [Applause] all right cool all right Beeler district elementary honors band and Mr Fox oh you're here awesome awesome Mr Fox the man who made it happen we're going to keep Mr Fox up here for future demacia Elementary up next Gavin Brennan from demisi elementary come on down [Applause] we're going to read through them all whether they're here or not Luca Colangelo awesome great great to see you [Applause] Jason Huang Jackson Hunter [Applause] Christian mantisi Tyler Martin Christian wrestler [Applause] Jacob Revell [Applause] Cadence Shout [Applause] and push car Vato that's uh [Applause] all right let's scooch in photo [Applause] I just want to give a shout out to
032Ms Green demaci Elementary principal representing here a lot of demisi kids celebrated tonight so fantastic fantastic um now we're moving on a jaggered vomit's here awesome um so we've got Jessica balma Alexandra digitano Eva Escobedo Nikita Jasmine Harris deruvi Patel Anthony palette oh there's two there I'm stuck Nola ragazone Charlotte Weinstein and Adeline eatman nice great job girls [Applause] Marlton Elementary School District honors band Lola Betts ashvik Gupta [Applause] Angela Kim [Applause] Evelyn ciders [Applause] and Luke there and that's uh Luke Martin Elementary District elementary honors band [Applause] now we're moving on to Rice Elementary School Matthew brunges [Applause] Edward Carmody Emily Cummings [Applause] noora Madison Ava sapio and Kira Wang [Applause] yeah yeah awesome good job all right fans in so it's a large large pile here fantastic pervy agrawal [Music] [Applause] Lily Byler
033Vincent Chang Logan Decker [Applause] John dinizio Avery devise [Applause] Cameron Edwards Parker Fenton the uh frangela [Applause] Juliet Italiano [Applause] Arian Kumar [Applause] Rudolph lampy Addison locks [Applause] [Music] Maggie Markovich Madison McDermott Jacob peelman [Applause] Natalie Rogers Dominic rudnicki [Applause] Joseph stranics [Applause] Francis Thornton and Justin Wolfe and we're going to swing VanZant around so we can get a picture here yeah these are great problems where we can't get everybody in we got to squeeze in fantastic [Music] fantastic thank you [Applause] um and for the Stu all the students who were here we're so proud of you in the Arts in athletics in academics thank you for making our district you're what make our district special so thank you to all the kids and uh we're going to move on now to our regular agenda
034families are welcome to stay it's a I'm not going to say it's exciting but but you're welcome to go there's probably some instruments to be practiced at some point so thank you all for coming [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] foreign I think we need to do the superintendent's uh comments first president I would be tempted to forego my comments but I have another positive to share about and that's the only reason that I'm not going to go um 23 to 24 school year now this changes required by the state of New Jersey so we have time the state requires that there's additional taxes approved by the passing of the separate question must start in January 2024 meaning our district must begin using that money in January 2024 as well the state will not let those
035taxes start in July 2024. this means that the annual 98 dollars in additional taxes for the average the system of Marlton for that tuition for you for the kindergarten second question will be taken in full from January through June of 2024 if the question passes at 49 each for the two tax quarters of January 1st and April 1st of 2024. and then starting in July 2024 and for each year moving forward annual taxes will be distributed across all yearly tax Quarters at 2450 per quarter so what would we do we would refund holding kindergarten tuition on a prorated basis covering from January through June 2024 amount into 3 348 cents per student if paid in full budget 31st 2024. this would make the cost of 324 speaker cost a full day kindergarten tuition only two
036thousand two hundred dollars per student instead of five thousand five hundred dollars if the separate proposal passes if it doesn't pass unnaturally there would be no refund and the 23-24 school year tuition will remain at five thousand five hundred dollars this refund in total based on our historic numbers in kindergarten well they had to average about eight hundred and nineteen thousand dollars total for the district so we have the 1.9 million minus which equals one million eighty one thousand dollars which would go into excess Surplus to address important challenges ahead and I'm going to name a couple of those challenges the first very dire challenge ahead is that our district is facing projecting state aid loss in the 24-25 school year of 602 869 and that's due to the opening August 7th and final year
037of the seventh straight years you've taken directions due to the S2 while in 24 25 school year is the last year for us too we cannot cover what has already been cut and for the 23-24 school year we only avoid of cutting the educational program by the narrowest of margins based on the state's refusal to share their CD formula and lack of response to the question of why our student has fallen 41 percent with more to come from its peak all our student enrollment has dropped 19 from its people stadium for Eastern Township School District may not prove after the 24-25 school year the second important challenge is capital projects totally over half a million dollars replacing the HVAC system of the dealer cafeteria and in the VanZant cafeteria and Library as well as roof
038Replacements throughout the district bathroom renovation involving those pool and more for the first time in many years positively the state has made in capital projects frankly called broadbands available for districts to apply for and we apply for many projects including the demacie Jagger and more Elementary rice and Ventana getting to see the fruits these grants they pay for 40 of the cost sounds good but the problem is the state is saying that they have been flooded understandably with applications and they won't have money for all which means our district will be left to make up the shortfall for any application not approved which could mean up to a total of 732 thousand dollars [Music] so any additional money in January through June of 2024 through the approval of the tuition tree for the Kindergarten Center
039proposal question and more is already desperately and we visit with these additional taxes our annual budget will still be Millions lower than the state average for districts are size again bottom line passing these questions means more help for more kids sooner and exponentially you need to be able to help more kids in more ways moving forward big example pending the approval of a fiscal year 24 estate budget just this week was announced that all public school districts that provide will they kindergarten regardless of their free reduced lunch percentages will be eligible to apply for preschool expansion grants for the 23-24 school year the cashier for us is that our district is the only District in all of South Jersey not eligible for this grant because we still charge tuition for police in the government this
040year all this information will be shared tomorrow in my update and in communication about the potential program before they kindergarten tuition refund we'll be going out specifically to our families we can come in kindergarten students next week so great news and thank you for that opportunity thank you Dr Smith any other questions or comments regarding anything on the agenda from the board yes she's sitting here in the audience I wanted to say congratulations to Mrs Patty Meeker for taking over that position in our transportation department and since you've served as the assistant well before a bus driver here for many years and then came back to be the assistant transportation coordinator so into that well for you and positive that the department will be in good hands congratulations thank you thank you questions or comments
041I just wanted to say as well um who's been in a position for 56 years very difficult to replace but I am super confident that behind Patty's leadership and transportation department will go smoothly in the transition so congratulations I'm so glad you're back with us thank you any other questions we'll call them especially Mr Bob yes this is yes I've stayed six one six two and the swings swapped yes Mr Kathy yes Mrs yes this week yes this is Ryan yes Mr Thompson yes Richard Carey thank you moving on to committee reports does any committee chair have a report they wish to share Mr physical I'll just speak very briefly uh just to go off with Dr Smith's comments on the on the ballot questions remember that Finance extensively and I think it will be
042very important we discussed in particular how poor just get that word out so people understand that even though maybe next year that they also will be impacted by that vote as well so we we discussed that extensively I don't want to go into many more comments about it because I think Dr Smith did a really good job with it but I just want to reiterate that uh that was really helpful to know that information yeah I'm I'm too late to mention that because I you know just thinking like we've got the word from the county and we were talking this through them I was thinking families multiple families that reached out uh for this September who um understanding why we are taking the process the idea that the preschool you know that this is time
043in preschool as well I think that's really important that we discuss that as we discussed that in life that's also a tour of America as well foreign it as a total tool for the students learn and I want to have evidence of it so we had so many students and family members here and that is by far my favorite part of any board meeting and I just want to thank them for coming out and congratulate them all for their accomplishments just Arts Athletics and academics across the board just wonderful and thank you to the principals for the support as well Miss Miller I'll give a brief overview of our technology meeting that we had this month we meet quarterly so this was an important meeting for us because we get to hear all about the
044lake and Mr cases long list of summer projects they have this every year and they really need to accomplish so much during the summer and I want to thank both of you and you took your time to explain everything to us so um tonight though we had a long-range technology plan document which is now final and we'll go to the county um that included some information there was a big you heard a lot from the teachers about Network reliability that kind of prohibits some of the usage of technology in the classroom so Frederick will be working on that and then as well as all the projects that go on during the summer with our new sixth graders coming in and they get their own Chromebooks so there is going to be a lot of that
045and updating Genesis of the Google classroom and let me say well and also curriculum mine this summer for some of the new technology that uh we're updating from the new technology and design thinking curriculum that we incorporated last year so I'm excited to see some of that as well as we move forward and then also a few new PD things going on for technology and I don't remember what they were I apologize professional development provided provide ground the programs that we need thank you Mrs Nolan any other County report have you seen none move on to Old business which we have none of it and but we do have new business and at this point I'd like to make a motion through the special education settlement as discussed in the executives the motion fee is
046no second it Mr physicara any questions or comments on the board call please Mr Clark yesterday yes this is Ryan yes Mr Thompson yes commission here moving on to public comments if anyone now be open to the public referencing any of their interests however if it questions or comments pertain to litigation student or Personnel items or negotiations superintendent after meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public we ask you a line of your comments of three minutes or person and also that this section is meant for one comment per person is yes please state your name and address um have questions so first thank you for the update we discussed the prorated refunds hey tuition I'm wondering about those families who did not register for full Decay at the tuition rate of 5500
047but may now be interested in switching and optimistic anticipation of it passing 5500 might have been Out Of Reach but the possibility that a full year at 2200 could be what's happened it can it be communicated to those families that this might be a benefit for them yeah thank you for being here and listening and your efforts to find uh that question that you just asked wouldn't exist without work that you put in since last spring back so thank you um thank you it talks about providing more for kids so um yes we will be getting information I mean general info tomorrow for my update and then we'll actually have a communication that is just for our incoming kindergartner families and try to make sure that everyone hears that message of an incoming kindergartner for
048September both our full day because we want our parents they've already signed up for full daytime some of them may have been on the fence they often on the full day and maybe this will you know strengthen their result for that and then for our happy kindergarten families it's additional consideration for them possible consideration um I want to give a minute from as soon as we can and and if they're gonna opt for a full day then hopefully they'll let us know as soon as they can so that we can begin to plan for that change through July okay thank you and [Music] any closing questions or comments are important I would just like to congratulate all the students in every grade especially those who graduated and are moving on out of the district Cherokee
049or wherever they're going best of luck to welcome them and thank you to all the staff members who meet this year so great and I would like to wish everyone I do in August something else to say meeting address oh sorry motion to adjourn the meeting sorry all those are great emotions all those in favor unanimous [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music]