001like to call this meeting of the ECAM Township Board of Education to order pursuant to the open public meetings Act adequate public notice has been given by the Secretary of the Eastern Count report of education in the following manner posting written notice on the official bulletin board at the Board of Education office emailing written notice in Bergen County Times and The Courier Post and filing written notice with municipal clerk of etrem Township may I have a roll call please this is Barbra Giovanni here mrs. Everhart yes here mr. physic are up here miss Fleming mr. Kelton here mr. - a lotta is here Sam oh this is all here thank you yes we're walking this is Ryan yang we have a quorum Thank You mr. Ashanti hey John did you have me other yes yeah
002I got you I didn't hear anything all right thanks yeah yeah I have everybody presidents up for Miss Lonnie mm-hmm Thank You mr. Shanti all right at this point in time need a motion to go into executive session motion approve items 2.1 through 2.3 whereas in nsj a10 4-12 last republic body to go into closed session during a public meeting whereas the Board of Education of issuing township has deemed it necessary to go in the closed session discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public whereas the regular meeting of the Board of Education when we can be following the end of the closed session at approximately 7:00 p.m. now therefore be it resolved the Board of Education will go into closed sessions the following reasons as outlined in nsj a 10-4 - 12 and
003that's items 2.2 through 2.3 do I have a motion mrs. NOLA make a motion motion by mr. Hall seconded by Miss undermine any questions or comments all right go to roll call please this is Barbara Giovanni yes this is Everhart yes mr. physic are oh yes mr. Caffyn yes this is null yes mr. Lanz Alana yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yeah motion carries all right I'm gonna stop the recording mr. case are you okay let me know when we're off livestream one second okay for those listening we'll be back in in roughly approximately about a half an hour so just uh go grab a snack popcorn get your popcorn ready you welcome back to this edition of Evesham Township Board of Education we have just come out of executive session I apologize for our
004tardiness at this point in time if you could rise for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance [Music] all right first of all those who are here were watching us live stream thank you for your patience for waiting for us our executive session took a little longer than necessary so you know we we really do a very thankful than you are I'm gonna pretend that you were very patient so I appreciate that secondly those who you know I do this before every meeting just so you're aware of what's happening in case you are someone who's just signing in for the first time there's not watch this you're gonna see me looking away quite a bit I have the agenda on another computer screen it's just to help me out when you troll the meeting a little
005bit better all right we'll get to the public comment in in a moment and then I'll discuss how that all works for both the public comment for agenda items and then for anything else that you have okay so with that being said we are we don't have any presentations because it's just becoming fruitless to do that over over zoom we have nothing to present to to you or the public so we are going to move right into public comment for agenda items on this I'm going to read this to you real quick the rules and how this goes this meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personal items or negotiations we'd ask that you see the superintendent after the
006meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments at three minutes per person you're gonna see some some directions there on the screen the voluntarily give phone number for you to call a couple things to to understand about this this is Genda items only so what is only on the agenda number one also number two is that we can't really have a back and forth with you during this because this is like calling into a radio station so when you call us you're gonna have to turn your volume down you're gonna get some pretty nasty feedback in there so if you you know you want to voiced a concern or or or you know they anything that you would like to tell us this is a great time to do
007it about an agenda item but any typing back and forth is really difficult so just please be aware if you feel like you have questions that you do need an Supersport please don't hesitate to email dr. Blatchford you know any any concerns that you might have or course you know to us we can forward it to the appropriate people so alright mister case if you can set up a live stream for us I'd appreciate that set up the the callin or our mr. summers episode seven nights when we 770 will go to 719 sounds good and this of course anybody who's listening this will take a little while we're going to disappear physically you're not going to see us you're just going to see a screen pop up and we're going to wait to give
008you guys a time there to call and do what you need to do okay mr. summers you said 719 correct correct okay okay one more minute sounds good you seen him good movies anything good on Netflix I'll take that as a nap can't be heard I'm um I'm asking a question we cannot be heard right now I think we can be frame Janis refrain everybody knows you watch Tiger King it's alright avatar the last airbender man alright oh my god it's amazing Frank you're we good alright no it's alright man now you're good alright well that was fun alright we're gonna close the public discussion on agenda items only and we're going to move to item 6 which is the approval of the minutes I need a motion to approve item 6.1 through 6.4 motion
009by mr. brian do I have a second second by mr. Nolan any questions or comments to approve all the minutes all right let's go to a roll call please yes but abstain from a 6.3 the May 20th a regular in executive sessions okay yes mr. Carr yes but it's abstain from 6.3 as well okay mr. Canton yes this is null yes so as a Lada yes mr. Meighan yes this is Rian yeah motion carries okay at this point in time we're going to do what is called a consent agenda we're basically we're gonna lump in superintendents report an administrative items curriculum and instruction finance and operations and personnel and policy into into one voting block okay of course when this happens if any of the board members wish to vote no on something they could
010tell us the item number they wish to vote no long we can open up discussion for any any questions for the board members during that time so this this will just expediate the meeting for you and for us and get us closer to the next public portion of this to anybody it has any comments there all right so I need a motion to approve items 7.1 all the way through to item 11.3 Drive a motion for that motion by miss Ryan seconded by Miss Barbara Giovanni all right before we go in any questions or comments dr. Blanchard you have a superintendents report yes I do thank you tomorrow we have the evesham Township School District sound of music day it's absolutely a wonderful event and I hope you all listen in it follows about we
011had last Friday the virtual Art Show and that is still on the web page so please take a look the theme was Fantasia it has selective artwork from every school it's about 30 minutes long and it's well worth your time you'll be impressed with the quality of the art also under web pages our school health related closure preparedness plan for at-home digital online learning school districts are of course highly regulated by the Department of Ed and we have an excellent plan thanks to our director of curriculum the plan mirrors the type of instruction occurring in the classroom to the greatest extent possible taking into account the challenges and complexities make a company distant learning there are a variety of sections that are very impressive one is what if a student does and not have access
012or a device and there's a section on there where it explains that we loaned them devices and there are also some very cheap and actually free services that they can use also they have learning plans in elementary and secondary elementary and middle school and one section is very impressive is the expectations for teaching and learning it maps out exactly the way the instructions gone and I'm very proud of the plan thank you Segarra thank you dr. Blatchford there any other questions or comments pertaining to anything through 7 1 to 11 3 mr. Fitch can I have a quick question mr. boss glass for maybe you can clear this up I'm sorry for my ignorance can you explain what 918 is Kam a county educational service commission general service contract I can talk to that that's
013a basically an agreement for any services that we would need to be provided through Camden County special ed service commission similar to the bronze and County special ed service commission each most counties have and service commission and you can use services from any County you would like so we just approve their rates so in the future if we do need them it's all been approved most of the time who use Broughton County Special Services thank you I appreciate mr. zazic you're welcome - just a generalized question - any any of the common if you can answer this for me for where was it item 8.4 the adjustments in school calendar we we've we have a suite alerted or we have a system of alert for that particularly June 2nd that that's gonna be a school
014day and we have us we're gonna have that messenger or something let them know or excellent principals this afternoon and they were waiting til it was official tonight and then they are sending out a school messenger first thing in the morning awesome only because that one is so close anything official until it was board approved but they you know have been communicating that but not official so it'll be official in the morning it just allows us to have a full week of remote learning next week I I look I actually I I applaud the plan because obviously that was that was an election that was the election primary day and obviously that's not happening and I think it's it's better to get the kids out earlier on that I think it's June 16 I do
015applaud that decision and I was just making sure that people were aware but ever be able to where it was happen awesome I am very happy about that thank you very much any other questions or comments also make a note that our our policies that are being approved or the second reads from last from last month so just yours be be aware of that alright so in case you weren't sure yes was ever hard is this where I can say like congratulation to the retiree lutely congratulations the retirees and welcome to that second chapter I saw some interesting names there so uh good luck and enjoy thank you miss Everhart anybody else I was I just wanted to add about the Friday now moving forward and last week the the alcohol at the eyes on
016art because I miss eyes on heart so that was so wonderful and it was great to have the kids you know be able to see what their other classmates and peers are doing and I'm looking forward to tomorrow with the sounds of Evesham tomorrow I think it's a wonderful idea and then you know these are things that the kids are missing all the spring concerts that just be seeing in school so thank you for you know keeping these things and having them on a Friday is really great I'm and then next Friday will be do we have something for next Friday Read Across evesham it's your library medians specialist and we'll be announcing the one one book initiative kids will be announcing that through book trailers Oh saw that in the curriculum meeting minutes yeah
017Read Across evesham very excited to hear about the the summer reading interesting book selections loan committee got a chance to look at that don't spoil it I just I just want to say also I did see the eyes on art and fantastic it does is I can't find the word to say when you see what these children these students can do and I know it was limited because of and it can't be hung up in the municipal but hats off to the teachers to the students and also the music that played oh it was just wonderful enjoyed it yeah it was yep we shared it everywhere we could just so a lot of different people could see it cuz really remarkable a lot of you know all different kinds of mediums and a lot of
018time and effort probably went into that to set it up and had the background and have the kids play so cool singing really really meet thank you for that yep alright yes but for the addendum 10.10 I miss abstaining to for this hours from my daughter-in-law and also any of immediate supervisors okay every the whole thing all right this is Everhart yes mr. physic era yes mr. Kathy yes this is null yes mr. Lanz a lot yes mr. Regan yes accept item 1010 the attachment non-represented salaries that would be a No this is right yeah and congratulations so on not having to abstain anymore thank you thank you mr. Shetty all right we're gonna move on to committee reports are there any committees that wish to share any reports or anything that's happening all right
019okay we will we will move on move on there I know for some of these committees it can be I know a lot of you are trying to do the zoom thing so I applaud you for still trying to continue that and doing what you're doing old business I have no old business miss Ryan you have a business I know I have one of the things to say because I tried to get off me I just want to congratulate all like the PTA and PPO presidents they had just had their elections so it's gonna be a new batch of people coming in which is great and I think that they've done a great job that youth grade getting the signs out the fifth grade getting something signed out and just celebrating are all our students
020at once so thank you to all those parents and volunteers on the PTI in ppm - and good job Danny with the whole curriculum and the one fooling these are they're doing so yeah so thank you for that up them okay thank you miss Ryan all right I'm gonna move past committee reports and old business anybody have any new business that could bring up what was that is it a this was never he got a beeper is that just me that's my computer so okay I I was worried that maybe mine was melting down or something all right we're gonna pass by I'm gonna assume that beep was the passed by new business all right and that's going to take us into open public comment this meeting will now be open to the public referencing
021any items of interest however your questions or comments pertain the litigation student of personnel items or negotiations we'd ask that you see the superintendent well email the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments the three minutes per person games again same rules apply here well the phone number will be up it'll be in place of us you will see us they can hear us all right so just in case and then of course you call in like a radio you know we can hear you but back and forth is incredibly difficult to do or for you and for us so just you know relate to a comment or whether it's a constructive one or a critical one or whatever it may be all right if
022there's a question we'll do our best to answer it for you but you obviously we would have to wait on that all right um mr. summers when you are ready please let me know I miss what you said mr. summers say that again stick board and hear you you're breaking on mr. summers I've you tube open it's the the callin screens oh yeah actually the calling screen yeah mr. summers just let me know the time that you wish to go to I'm missing if there's a comment I I can't I can't hear it it's breaking up you [Music] hmm Frank I think I'm losing a man I didn't lose it all right we'll take a moment here until mr. summers comes back on because he's the one who helps us with this so we'll just
023let's take a moment you go ahead stick your name is for the board please okay carry 113 tree circle west tomorrow can you jersey good you can continue am I good to go give her good good hi board members first and foremost I wanted to thank everybody for all of their hard work recently getting the district up and running with our virtual learning he can throw a teacher and a character I think everybody's been doing an awesome job and I think the transition was quite smooth I was calling to Mister evening simply visit a request that I had originally made back in January I understand if they can't be given due to the context of the meeting but as a reminder at that time I refer to the word enforcement questioning the fact that a
024policy change he made to 81 times supportive the my request was that in community were helping residents of my affairs and have options you know their children after school employment so long as transportation was provided and I just wanted to call and check in and see if there's any progress we need for storage function types of use to test the process and then get right now the design of the school year when registration is happening teachers and administrators we're organizing for the upcoming Joe and I know that we do not know what September will look like but something pretty much said it will look very different than it has in the past and I think that that changes he has motivated me even more to flesh Judith each sighing heavily I suppose for me the
025importance of having family members learning and that's why I'm encouraging you to continue considering the revisions of policies for that family members mr. McKeon building together and again if you can't respond directly to the meeting I completely understand but if there's only way to receive this type of testing for another lesson sort of this happening I'd appreciate it very much thank you for your time frankly she hung up yes if yeah I can say that uh that the the reference that that mr songz making to to a policy that we were looking at reviewing was in the policy committee was was in the process of reviewing it we were still were strongly determined at this point I would say that um just to kind of gave a small update and I talked to history and
026teen about this as well as dr. Bradford it has been we haven't even get another policy meeting we don't have one yet to continue doing anything you need to do it's I'm not gonna lie it's been a little hectic around here the this this this this the Copa 19 thing is kind of put us all hands on deck so we've been a little off kilter than we normally have but you know the policy committee does not have a scheduled meeting coming up anytime soon but although we'll keep posted all right thank you go ahead do I call your own with the board please state your name and address hi Mindy Concord 25,000 table Avenue go ahead many on behalf of the evesham Township administrators Association I wanted to take this opportunity to welcome our colleagues
027my collages Michaels we look forward to working alongside you and Aziz and Sam's family duties a jagged elementary school please do not hesitate to reach out to any one of us and we look forward to meeting with person hopefully very soon board of education great to see everybody together and healthy and hopefully all inclusive and very soon thank you Thank You Mindy it's good to see everybody healthy okay 738 we'll give it another minute sure absolutely okay Joe you're on okay all right well thank you thank you for the public comments we do appreciate when you guys are here and you guys call in you know again it's it's a little different than standing in front of us you know it's hard for us to do this back and forth so we'll try our best
028always to reply to you I try to give you the best answer we can but you know apologize if somebody doesn't come off you know come off correctly all right at that point we are done public comment we're moving into board member announcements is any board never have any announcements look I uh the only thing I'll say is that we got a kind of another month of this left less than that few weeks left and you know before the school year ends we normally in about a week from now would be having our retirement dinner for our for retirees and I I was really looking forward to this one because I really wanted to give the speech was cold and I don't think she's listening now but but I really wanted to give that speech
029I do want to say though that you know I know that I know that you guys are all home and you know you you you we all have that vision of when we retire to be in our classroom turning to his lights off one final time and right now it feels like our classrooms are from like the apocalypse like the world had ended and time had just stopped but you know even though that we're not we may not get a chance to see each other and I might not get a chance to see many of you as I would do on that night IIIi do want to say from the bottom of my heart that I any of those who are retiring or listening I really appreciate everything that you have done for this district
030you have laid your heart and soul out for this district you have made us better all the time so I am sorry that we couldn't be there to celebrate you hopefully sometime in the future we'll be able to do that and all this stuff comes down but please please know that you earn this retirement and if we love you dearly and we wish you the best in your final weeks of doing what you expect a lifetime everybody else any other announcements I think we are going to move past executive session to because there is no executive session to - our favorite part which is turning the meeting does anybody motion to adjourn that's my girl in a second I understand one second our Avis barbecue taught me all in favor aye when's the next meeting
031cuz I keep screwing this up no no it's all right guys see on June 25th he safe [Music] you