001okay like to call this meeting of the HU 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 County Board of Education in the following manner posting with notice on the official bulletin board of the Board of Education office emailing written notices the Burlington County Times and The Courier Post and filing written notice with the municipal clerk of eëtion Township can I have a roll call please mrs. barber giovanni and my mute or not no your go you're good this is Everhart here mr. Fisk our oh you're miss Fleming here mr. Canton this is null here mr. Wynne Salada yeah mr. Meighan err mrs. Ryan here we have a quorum thank you okay at this point we will be going
002into executive session I need a motion to whereas in NJ s 8n 4-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the Board of Education of Evesham Township has deemed it necessary to go into closed session to discuss certain matters which are exempted from the public and whereas the regular meeting of the Board of Education will reconvene following the end of the closed session at approximately 7 p.m. now therefore be it resolved the Board of Education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in nsj a 10-4 - 12 items 2.2 through 2.4 do I have a motion motion from Janice motion by mr. Knowles seconded by mr. Eberhardt I have a roll call please mr. Ashanti mrs. barber Giovanni yes this is Everhart
003yes mr. physic ro yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes mrs. nul yes mr. Lanz Alana yes mr. Meighan yes this is Ryan yes motion carries okay we'll be closing off the recording and public session as soon as mr. summers in mr. Kay already you welcome back to the evesham Township Board of Education meeting please all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all that was really weird you guys are all I'm you and I'm just hearing myself as a school teacher does it feel right all right because obviously we are again in our second virtual meeting just to kind of give a couple heads up here
004I am for running this meeting I have one screen for the zoom and then I have another screen for the agenda so if I'm if I'm looking off camera I'm it's not the NFL Draft I promise I am looking over there so I can actually read what's going on so I'm not giving you the proper eye contact eye I apologize we are going to move into public comment first because we have no presentations it would be kind of bizarre to have one like this so we're gonna move past that so we're gonna head into into the public discussion of agenda items only now before I read my mighty usual usual thing about the three minutes and stuff I want to just you know let you guys know just a couple of things anybody who's interested
005commenting and I'll mention it again later on the meeting number one when it gets the public comment we're going to disappear and the number of the call-in number is going to appear on the screen so don't don't panic if you don't see us we we are listening we can hear you number two it's also make sure that you turn off you turn off your computer it's like calling into a radio so make sure that you you do that as well and this isn't really a good forum right now for a back-and-forth question and answers this is the time for you to you know tell us what you feel or if you have an opinion something or something that you want to the board to know about this would be good we will try our best
006to answer anything if we can but we we don't have the ability to do a true back and forth so I just before I go into the public content I just want you to know that so you're aware of that mr. summers if I said anything correct please correct me I I'm doing this based off my memory from a month ago so no we're good okay all right so I'm gonna read the public content what I'm when I'm supposed to read and then we'll go from there all right the meeting will now be open to the public referencing agenda items only however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public
007please limit your comments to three minutes per person is there anyone out there of the millions and millions of you listening but I would love to discuss anything on the agenda for those of you who are not used to what we do we are gonna have another public comment at the end for stuff that is not on the agenda this is just for what is on the agenda right now all right so if you have anything about the agenda please go ahead nothing so far Joe okay Frank they can still hear me right yes okay so make sure you give it a couple seconds because the screen like you said the youtubes about ten seconds behind so yeah yeah so the screen with the phone number no just came up just now so I'm a
008couple minutes sure Frank and we have to do this again in May we should do something about elevator music I just give it another 30 seconds last time they were called before the public session so Rob they've had they've had they've had the number all week on the website so you let me know when when we should go okay let's wait the 706 all right you hi Frank at 7:06 we're gonna move forward okay yeah sounds good all right we're gonna close the public comment for agenda items only so we're gonna move to item 6 which is our annual appointments and approvals of those annual appointments I need a motion to approve items 6.1 through 6.15 but I have a motion motion by miss Fleming seconded by mr. Lanza Lana any questions or comments pertaining
009to our annual appointments all right seeing none let's go to a roll call please mrs. barber Giovanni yes this is Everhart yes mr. physic era I can't be that dramatic yes farming yes mr. Canton yes missus oh yes mr. Waynes Alana yes mr. Meighan yes to everything but 6.3 6.3 that's a notice 6.3 correct okay and mrs. Ryan yes motion carries all right let's move to item 7 which is approval of the minutes I need a motion to approve items 71 and 72 do I have a motion I'll make a motion motion by miss Ryan seconded by Miss Hart are there any questions or comments pertaining to the approval of our minutes from March 26 2020 all right seeing none let's go to a roll call please this is Barbara Giovanni yes this is Everhart
010yes mr. physic ro yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes this is null yes mr. Waynes Alana yes mr. Meighan yes this is Ryan yes motion carries awesome all right we're going to go to item 8 which is superintendents report and administrative items I need a motion to approve items 8 1 through 8 6 do I have a motion for that miss barbara Giovanni seconded by mr. Lanz Ilana okay should we make sure all right before we have any questions or comments dr. Blatchford if you have a report yes I do thank you evesham has characteristics and values that set us apart from other school districts I'm not seeing in any way that those other districts are not doing well or to be disrespectful it's just that our approach greatly benefits the students during this
011time of remote meetings we were very effective from the very beginning recently we made some changes to apply to provide even higher levels of instruction for our students we are removing one item from the choice board assignment and replacing it with a science or social studies lesson direct instruction is more beneficial for the students and parents do not need to help their children with the choice or tasks the revised schedule has the same four lessons the only difference is we took away one lesson from the choice board and now teaches a delivering of social studies or science lesson teacher directed lessons are more meaningful and helpful there are not more assignments for the students it's an even choice which is to infuse therefore they still have four we are not adding a flexible day to
012our student our schedule or a flex day that may work in some other districts we don't need it Nev sham what happens is it could benefit some teachers or some students but for the most part all of our students would lose instructional time we are providing our teachers with a great deal of support they receive help in learning a lot of new technology skills the principals and supervisors are providing additional content assistance also and principals of scheduled google meets with grade-level team support through questions and options for implementation principals and supervisors have already shared recorded live lessons in the area of science and social studies we are looking after all of our students and teachers students are not the same and our teachers are very flexible and grading and have the power to be flexible
013in grade we take into account families and teachers that burden such as caring for their own children or relatives and our principals and supervisors are always willing to help them the evesham Township schools provide the best instruction for our students these minor modifications and is scheduled to the remote plan enhance our educational program we owe it to our students to provide absolutely the best possible education and once again we are flexible in supporting and working with students faculty and parents thank you very much thank you dr. Blackford any questions or comments pertaining to superintendents report or those administrative items in Section II I just it's Janice no I wanted to add that I did receive as a parent of two boys and mes I received the email today that came through the school that was
014written signed by misma Gulick and it explained all of what you had just explained dr. Blatchford so thank you for doing that it was very informative and I think it's a new good way to change things moving into the future with having the two video lessons each day Hey and one choice board so I'm looking forward to that starting on Monday thank you very much and what in terms of education if you're staying the same you are going backwards and we are not a backwards district we want to continually improve and like I said I couldn't have been more proud of Evesham when we first started this and now we're even better at it and I promise you be as long as this lasts so we will continue you better literally on a daily basis
015but thank you thank you Thank You Janice anybody else all right seeing none let's go to a real call this is barber Giovanni yes missus Everhart yes mr. physic ro yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes this is null yes mr. Lyons alotta yes mr. Meighan yes this is Ryan yes motion carries all right thank you moving into curriculum and instruction I need a motion to approve items 9 1 through 9 5 Oh make a motion motion by miss Ryan by the second second by miss Barbara Giovanni any questions or comments pertaining to curriculum and instruction um I just want to say and I want to also agree with what dr. Blanchard said and I thank Miss mulac for bringing in that extra lesson for the students and the way with your email and the
016way I read everything I really think it's a great enhancement to our program so thank you all so very much I just wanted to say I wanted to say it was a very comprehensive curriculum meeting thank you for explaining laying the groundwork for all of this as it was rolling out and it was very informative and just you guys are continuing to do so much work I you know it says that on the agenda there but we did here in great detail during the meeting so thank you for that and please extend that to your team thank you I will and to the teachers thank you all right I have a roll call I'm sorry any more questions or comments for curriculum instruction alright see none let's go to roll call please this is Barbara
017Giovanni yes missus Everhart yes mister physic era yes mr. Fleming yes mr. Canton yes this is null yes mr. Lancelot er yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes mission carries thank you John Thank You mr. Ashanti moving into now finance and operations I need a motion to approve items 10 1 through 10 18 do I have a motion motion from Janice no motion by mr. Knoll seconded by mr. Hart yes have any questions or comments pertaining to finance and operations okay seeing none let's go to a roll call please this is Barbara Giovanni yes but abstain from 10.4 board member travel but only applies to myself okay are you going it's the NJ SBA that's on there the convention yes well that's everybody's - do we all need to say we all need to do
018that we'll I mean we're all gonna be going right how does that work well you know the school board has said that you should abstain from your own part of that that you don't have a resolution just from your own I personally believe you don't have to abstain at all I mean I'm not getting any additional benefit but school boards has given the recommendation that each individual board member abstain from their own individual whether it's reimbursement or what-have-you for any type of New Jersey school ports participation okay so um yes and I'm staying from the portion of 10.4 as it relates to me and going to the convention please okay mr. Fisk Kara okay yes to everything abstain 10.4 for anything that would potentially include me okay miss Fleming yes mr. kantha yes abstain from
019ten points four line item five as it relates to me okay missus null yes to all and abstain from ten point four as it pertains to me attending the convention okay mr. Lanza Lana yes everything with ten point four step assembly point for thanks okay mr. Regan yes mrs. Ryan yes sir I think about ten point four is it four teams to me okay motion carries John yes same for me I'm sorry exemption to ten point four as it pertains to me for Joe well do we have to go back in okay you're good The ministers forests like that I don't want miss Fleming to go to school board jail all right are we okay to move the personnel yeah okay alright I can't have fun now one can you have fun gonna go now
020to personnel I need a motion to approve items eleven one through eleven eleven make a wish do I have a drive emotion to prove the items in personnel motion Melissa emotion bye-bye miss Fleming ii didn't say miss no any questions or comments pertaining to personnel I would just like to congratulate this is why Bowl for her retirement and you know wish everyone who's retiring or moving on good luck thank you for your service yes everybody else all right let's go to a roll call please this is Barbra Giovanni yes but abstain from 11.10 the addendum that applies to my daughter-in-law and any of our supervisors okay this is Everhart yes mr. visitor oh yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes this is null yes mr. Lanza lada yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes motion
021carries thank you all right moving on to policy we do have policy to to go through I need a motion to approve the first readings for items 12 1 through 12 3 Drive a motion for that hello my commission motion by miss Ryan seconded by mr. Lanza Lana any questions or comments pertain to the policy I would just like to make a comment we had our policy meeting was the first one in a while so some of the first readings are things that they're changing as far as like the wording so if you just take a look at that I'm sure rich can comment more on that but like I said this is only the first reading so the second reading will be approved later and then it'll be you know adopted in Torah you
022know school board things so but thank you in the meeting rich I appreciate it Danny I thanks for sitting in on it thank you miss Ryan any other questions or comments pertaining to policy no do it Trish no the thing the little green square came around you I thought you were trying to say something I'm breathing sorry ok let's go for a roll call please this is a barbecue Bonnie yes this is Everhart yes mr. Pfister Carol yeah it's just Fleming yes Anthon yes this is null yes this only has a lot mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes motion carries thank you all right we're moving now into committee reports if there is anybody who feels or wishes to share their committee report this is the time to do it anybody need anything off there
023Chester I just have one thing to say because we're not in session but Tricia and I are on the PTA and PTO liaison committee and it is volunteer appreciation week so I just wanted to give a shout out to all of our PTA members and PTO members and thank thank you for all the things that you're doing outside of this school day and virtually and to keep everyone's spirits up so appreciate everything that you guys are doing thank you to all our volunteers Thank You miss Ryan everybody else miss Barbara Giovanni unmute yourself fine - all right my husband wishes he could meet me I just want to say again how I think miss Magoo like and mr. virginity are working so hard during these times to help our districts through everything in dr. Blanchard
024and Mr Dan teen and all the supervisors and teachers and everything I really liked what's happening with the online learning what I'm seeing and the new revision I think it's going to be more than helpful which I already said that and and with the finance what mr. chinta has so many things with changing every day that he's doing a top-notch yes I want a second back something to John a lot lately just about different things and he is he really is as well as Danny and rich just got a lot on his plate and he's juggling a lot of new things and he's very patient with all of my questions and I'm sure other board members that are speaking with him he's equally as patient I also wanted to say you know great job for
025keeping the facilities I I called him and asked him what we were kind of doing about keeping the facilities school ready you know to go back and he explained to me some of the processes that they're doing that would be Tom mr. Donahue and his team so that the schools were going to be sort of up and ready to run when we do go back so thank you for that I also want to give a shout-out to dr. Bradford who attends daily those OAM meetings where he gets an update on what's happening in the town and you know he's keeping them apprised of what we're doing and he's offering a lot of resources that we might not be using or are no longer need to use and he's offering up that to the to the
026township I think that's a great it's a great shared service so to speak it's it's all new and I think I haven't really proud of what the district is doing just unprecedented and we're doing a great job I've had to say so myself so great job - everyone please pass that on to those who are not in attendance here the teachers and custodians that know whatever little thing that they're doing also the people that are taking care of the lunch I know that they do that they even did a during spring break delivering Chromebooks delivering packets of materials for learning I just all that stuff goes on unwritten and unspoken except maybe at the board level so it's a nice opportunity for us to have the public hear that that's what we're doing and a
027great job with that video Danny and your team having all these schools do that little stand up and dance thing it was so great the first day you unrolled it and then through the break you saw subsequent schools sending their stuff in and posting on social media it was really um everybody was embracing that that was really cool and I didn't I'm on social media a lot and I didn't see any other district doing that so great job evesham again that's it I'm done I would I'd like to add to what Trish just said I deserve no credit at all for the iPads what happens was John and Frank had made that recommendation I had contacted OEM very quickly on it and they just got back to me very late today they will take all
028of our old iPads and they can give them to people in long-term care facilities so they can FaceTime with people at home and also there are people that need the Facebook's like if they were monitoring relatives or they're monitoring their own children they will work on Wi-Fi and so on a lot of credit goes to of course John and Frank on that but thank you John and Frank and Thank You Trish I just would like to say as well thank you and second mr. Hart's statements it is taking an awful lot to get through this unprecedented time and I think it's just phenomenal what everybody's doing so many more committee reports are there so committee report all right I'm gonna move out at committee reports I'm gonna go to the old business we have no
029old business so that's going to move us to new business which we have no new business either all right so the next big thing here is we're gonna go back to open public comment and I'm gonna really reiterate what I said just quickly what I said before I just remember when when we go into a public comment you're not gonna see us you're just going to see the screen with the phone number on there we'll wait a little bit for you to to make that phone call if you you need to or you feel the need to contact us treat this like you're calling into a radio okay because if you try to listen to this while you're doing it you're gonna get that interference and it's no bueno lastly lastly this this is not
030a really good forum for from back and forth questions and answers so if you have a grievance or a you know something that you want to bring up to the board or complaint or compliment you know or you know even if it's a question we can answer later please do so but we will not be able to do the back-and-forth like we normally do which is a little more limited okay mr. summers I'm gonna read the public content section of this when you're ready we're ready all right this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain to litigation student or personnel items or negotiations we'd ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public
031please limit your comments to three minutes per person and again this is about anything this is this is whatever comment outside of those those three things which were litigation student or personal items okay we'll wait till seven wait till 7:30 job sounds good [Music] go ahead caller you're on with the board state your name and address please good call on do it Frank can't get their name and address serious or are the allergy workers getting paid and we're just might that's where you go okay Bob we please state your name and address one more time we just think I cut off in the beginning and this is just for comments the boards the board won't answer you directly tonight mr. donia or dr. Blatchford you either one do you want to speak up about the
032law sure Joe so the audience understands sure Joe I'd be happy to address that you know I didn't get the caller's name or address but you asked about our hourly workers New Jersey Legislature passed the bill and was signed by the governor requiring school districts to pay all their employees as if they were continuing to work and you know this was an obligation almost uniformly adopted by the boards of education before the law was passed in some fashion for some temporary component but now is a legal obligation in the school district so obviously we have to follow the laws that are passed in that regard and you know there are very strong two considerations as to why the legislature has insisted upon that for our school districts with the with those obligations but their legal
033obligations that you know we're very clearly spelled out in the wall Thank You mr. Dona I appreciate that and with no other phone calls right now all right it's 7:30 so did we have any in waiting no we do not okay all right then we'll close it out then all right we're gonna close public public session thank you for your phone call all right and at that point we are I don't snot here usually says announcements but we don't have announcements does anybody have an announcement we already did that I think you pretty much already did it it's like it's like who's deleted off of here I did it under listen you know the only thing I will say we're obviously in this for the long haul at least by May 15 unless you know
034the governor says otherwise you know I importantly enough you know we're always about physically staying safe and staying healthy but mentally and emotionally stay healthy too I think it's really important make sure I you know what dr. Blatchford did by giving those you know and our and our team and Frank and John giving those iPads to those in an assisted living to have a communication just communicate with each other you know give a little face time that you normally won't do we all could use it I think we all could use it so and and kids are resilient resilient resilient but even this could take a toll on them you know always always check up on them and I know that your your teachers are as far as I have seen and I've witnessed from
035just being in my living room as as it's going on our teachers love our kids have no doubt about that that that love is genuine and you know and I will say that um you know it's just I think you know takes a village to raise a child and even raise takes a village to make sure that child is going to be okay for the next month so just just everybody keep an eye on one another and make sure everyone's mentally healthy alright with that being said that being said we're gonna go to a motion to adjourn so I'm mentally emotionally healthy uh-huh at this point can I have a motion to adjourn OS I miss ever heart seconded by everyone but I'll give the credit to miss Fleming all in favor aye all right
036meeting is adjourned thank you everyone for attending you know you're right thank you as always it's a pleasure to see you may 10th correct what day what day thank you everybody good night you