001but to open this meeting of the Eastern Townships Board of Education pursuant to the open public meetings Act adequate public notice has been given by the secretary of the Eastern Townships word of education in the following manner posting written notice oh hold on one second sorry about that posting a written notice on the official bulletin board at the Berlin Board of Education office emailing emailing written notice to the Berlin County Times and The Courier Post I'm filing written notice with the municipal clerk of each one Township may I have a roll call please mrs. barber Giovanni here mrs. Everhart this is Everhart here mr. pizzicato here mr. Fleming here mr. Canton here this is no here mr. Lanza lada here mr. Meighan here mrs. Ryan yeah we have a quorum thank you all right all
002right then your resolution to go into executive session or as in nsj a 10-12 allows for a public body to go into closed session during a public meeting and whereas the board of education of each from Township is deemed necessary to go into closed session a 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 and approximately 7:00 p.m. now therefore be it resolved the Board of Education will go into closed session for the following reasons as outlined in MJS a 10 4-12 and that is items 2.2 through 2.3 do I have a motion Lea Ryan makes mission motion by miss Ryan do I have a second Trish Everhart miss Everhard the second all
003right any questions or comments let's go with the roll call please this is Barbara Giovanni yes missus Everhart yes mr. physic ro oh yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes mrs. know yes mr. Lanza Lada yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Brion yes where's your pass okay we're gonna go an executive session mr. ace let me know when you're ready you like to reconvene this meeting of the evesham Township Board of Education if we could all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance that was crazy at this point first off welcome to anybody who is who's watching this or listening to this this is surreal for all of us I am going to try my best to go through this meeting as as deliberately as possible you're gonna notice me looking off to my
004side I have my agenda over here so it's not like I'm watching TV or a DVR in something so I want everybody to know that I for my efficiency sake that's what I'm doing you know we will have two public sessions one for agenda items only and in one for public discussion on anything all right with that being said we are going to start to move on all right so obviously at this point this meeting you don't have any presentations I would hope not so we are gonna move to the first public comment okay so this 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 you
005do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments to three minutes per person again this is for agenda items only at this point mr. summers I give you the floor since you are handling our give us a few minutes a few seconds for Frederick to bring that up this slide up for the people to sign in on and you will hear calls hopefully coming over the next two minutes sounds good you just let us know when you're ready we're not going anywhere God knows we're not going anywhere okay the slide is up and we're just waiting for the first phone call okay all time in the mo my end I'll let them know when they're three minutes is up okay and Frank I'm gonna I'm gonna rely on you to tell me when
006close this yep well you you really gotta tell me all right I just don't know what's going on on your and that's why I was saying it well you'll hear the phone ring if the phone rings and we'll give it another mode we'll give it a moment yeah I would I would give it a few moments yeah just to be sure I did get some phone calls around 6:30 they started around 6:30 okay Joe you're gonna have them state their name and address that Frank's going it's also over the board if they read the board Frank did you ask them to call back in no no okay okay here's the first phone call okay you're on with the board please state your name and address please yeah you know talking aloud please talk louder Terra
007for school and I know all of us are wondering decided how we're being paid are we doing a vice principal more by with the final employment so the board won't take questions at this point just for public comment okay is that all you had we tried to call back later yeah Frank can conductor dr. Blachford just we just explained that that there's a resolution on on the agenda about paying about paying the paraprofessionals so they have some peace of mind there's resolution there but you can you explain it if you want okay all right I'm sorry if you just called there is a resolution and new business for paying hourly employees it is it's a new business if you look at the agenda it's a please hold on for one second you guys ready for
008next call yep okay guys caller Kim Craig go go ahead call no you can't you this is calling just ask to state an opinion this isn't - listen you're listening on YouTube okay thank you that's okay thank you we're glad you're listening we were there at least 10 seconds behind us on you thoughts it's okay I just want to make sure they have the chance to do what they need to do Frank anything now you're here the yeah during Mike yeah Frank you're cool we'll wait til 7:10 how's that you are you are breaking up that I can barely hear you Frank so anybody who's listening out there we're gonna go up until 7:10 since another another minute and a half but do recognize that you were probably on a 10-second delay from us so
009if you do want to call just you know make sure that you are making that phone call now this is new for all of us so now should be the quietest this word has ever been that's cuz you have us all on Miuccia I know [Laughter] I know we backed out here on yeah someone yeah can you hear me can you see me I just got a yeah can you yeah yeah you're on and you you're fine you're moving fine okay yes Frank however is not I cannot see you okay that was me can't hear you friend got to see you Frank Frank it might be you man he's getting in and out you I'm being told via text message I'm on yeah legacy everybody I was just told Kent like you can't I can't
010see me when Frank has the duel I have the dialing number on the screen is that normal yes oh right right now the dial is no miss them on the screen so once you tell me public session is over we'll take okay all right then that's that's perfectly fine right that's that's designed that way correct correct okay all right well we're at 7-eleven at this point so I figure we can we can leave we can leave the this public agenda item very good Frederick go back to the live screen please just give us a second Joe to work till we verify that mm-hmm okay we're back to live screen all right so at that point if you were watching you were doing the the public agenda item when up came up the dial screen came
011on obviously you weren't able to see me but we were still able to hear you if you if you called in and then we could respond after after you called in we're going to move into the approval of the minutes and get started with the actual actual meet of meeting now so we're going to go to item six approval B of the minutes I need a motion to approve items six point one through six point four makes mission to prove motions on this Brian Melissa Fleming second seconded by Mrs Flynn are there any questions or comments pertaining to the approval of minutes okay seeing none yeah Dennis give a sorry they just screen popped on you for a second all right with that being said let's go to roll call please this is Barbie Giovanni
012yes to February 27th regular and executive session one and abstain for from others meetings executive session tip and then do our 24th 25th and 10th watch tap abstain okay miss Everhart yes mr. first Kara yes but abstain for the same reasons as miss barber Giovanni stated there's a lot to say there okay miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes this is no yes mr. Lancelot oh yes mr. Meighan yes this is Ryan yes mission carries Thank You mr. Shanthi at this point we're going to go to the superintendent's report administrative items I need a motion to approve items 7 1 through 7 6 5 a motion please chef Lazo motion by mr. Lanza lada do I have a second you name second it by miss Barbara Giovanni before we go into questions and comments dr. Blackford
013you have a report no no report today okay all right any questions or comments pertaining to the superintendent report or minute at this point administrative items all right seeing none let's go into a roll call please mr. Barbour Giovanni yes this is Everhard yes mr. Fisk arrow yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes mrs. Knoll yes mr. Lee is Alana yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes motion carries thank you all right we're gonna move on to curriculum and instruction I need a motion to approve items 8.1 through 8.5 do I have a motion main motion by mr. Barbour Giovanni seconded by mrs. Everett missus ever harder any questions or comments pertaining to curriculum and instruction just a quick comment Danny keep up the good work yes absolutely I heard it was a good meeting
014absolutely fabulous job I I do want to say something about curriculum and I say this is a board member and as a parent I've had the privilege of watching my daughter remotely learn the last a little most two weeks now it is unbelievable to see what what we're doing in evesham and I'm not saying that to say that I don't you know like to just you know blow smoke anywhere what what's going on here is incredible I'm Fred I am unbelievably proud of this staff I really in Danny you're you know what dynasty guys gave Supervisors down to every teacher and every staff member watching you know I got to actually be a part of quickly a morning meeting for my daughter you know get to see a bunch of first graders working together you
015know using using this better than me by the way I openly admit that watching them get together seeing lessons taught that way it is what is happening now is is tough for this entire world no we're talking about over a third of the world is isolated now but you know when when we come together as a community like this and and we we all batten down the hatches it really shows what amazing resolve this this township has and our staff has and our kids have and our parents have and and honestly I couldn't be prouder of what's going on here and I I say that with with such sincerity because I was scared I was scared to see how this will all happen and yeah it's hard work I can I can see it and
016I am proud of every individual who's part of this and I thought that in curriculum building was appropriate way to [Music] I didn't really catch you but I'm sure it was good any any questions of the questions for comments alright let's move to a roll call please mrs. Barwick Giovanni yes mrs. Everhart yes mr. pizzicato yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes mrs. noh yes mr. Lanza Lada yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Rani yes motion carries Thank You mr. Shanti now we're going to move to item 9 finance and operations I need a motion to approve items nine point one through nine point eight driving motion humming Commission Liam right motion by miss Ryan do I have a second Janice no good lord uh-huh miss seconded by mr. awful this is fun I'm enjoying this
017are there any questions or comments the finance and operations all right seeing the homeless little roll call please mrs. barber Giovanni yes mrs. Everhart yes mr. physic are up yes I mean yes mr. Canton yes this is null yes mr. Lanz Ilana yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes motion carries thank you watching the motions in seconds like it's like watching a really bad TV show like yeah one of those like game shows hey there's no prize at the end of this now we're gonna move to personnel need a motion to approve items 10 1 through 10 10 do I have a motion I make a motion for second mrs. barber Giovanni mr. barber Giovanni made the motion second please Melissa funny miss Fleming with the second any questions or comments on personnel I have
018a comment okay this Eberhardt I'd like to send a congratulatory message to mrs. Williams at MMS who's gonna be leaving us happy retirement was a great pleasure working with you my daughter was it I'm a mess so all the best of luck to you as well as all the other retirees thank you yes I would like to UM a shout out to carolyn lance and mes i worked with her in different school she's wonderful and i wish her a happy retirement and to everybody else who's retiring to miss Fleming yes congratulations to all the retirees and thank you for all your dedication right anybody else I just have something real quick to say we had a couple of teachers have babies over this past couple weeks so I just want to give a shout out
019it's miss teevan at Van Zant's and our teacher at Rice congratulations on your baby girls that's awesome yes very good any more questions or comments on personnel all right let's move to a roll call please mrs. Barwick Giovanni yes mrs. Everhart yes mr. physik era yes miss Fleming yes mr. Canton yes mrs. nul yes mr. LAN celada yes mr. Meighan yes mrs. Ryan yes motion carries all right we're gonna move to policy but we have no policy in store for right now so we're gonna move past policy I can interrupt we have a policy meeting scheduled for the end of them yes correct let's make sure everyone's aware that that we are on top of things and still meeting yes yeah we should thank thank you miss Ryan I appreciate that and I should have
020mentioned that myself you know just just to let you know we are our committees are still meeting our policy community committee is meeting on March 31st so though probably there may be first readings next month on on certain policies and we financing operations has met and curriculum has been met so we are as a Board of Education we are operating in the best capacity we can thank you miss Ryan I appreciate you putting an injection in all right personal meant to correct yes yes yes and finance is meeting April 9th and curriculum is April 20th okay well that takes me right to committee reports yeah we know we know what no no it's okay this is fun it's fine we're we're consolidating so we're all right so we have we have our meetings down for
021we're gonna meet again limit instruction and finance and operations didn't meet we have obviously their agendas are there anybody from either committee have anything they wish to speak about or all right we're gonna we're gonna move on then we're gonna move to old business but there is no old business so we're gonna skip over that and we are going to move to new business we do have a resolution here mr. doneö for the the motion of this how would you you know want me to what would you like me to read here in terms of this resolution Joe I think you know for the benefits on Mourdock's so people do have access to it I believe under the new business and I think you just read the the salient parts that you feel are necessary
022to be read with regards to resolution podcasting opportune you see but I don't think you need to read all the whereas is if you just want to read the resolution of actual board as to what the effect of the resolution that's more than adequate as of right now the resolution is only in executive content we the board can say it once the meetings over I will move it to public some public will have access to read all resolution I'm gonna read the title is the motion and then you know during the board comment partically need to explain anything we will okay yeah I think that's fine if you want to just like read from excerpts of the actual resolution the resolved part in this way the public will get a flavor as to what you
023actually have in the board or requesting it to board pass all right which the the entire there's there's four resolved parts there's actually there's seven resolved parts I think the bottom one on the first page says a lot I just to read the now therefore be it resolved part Joe that's like the very first residing I see I see I know what it is and I'll read that that's that's enough all right I'll read that paragraph so public please bear with me I'm gonna read this paragraph as as the as a resolution to go into motion all right so I need a motion for the resolution that upon the recommendation of the state of New Jersey the New Jersey Department of Education and the chief school administrator for the ischium Township School District and subject
024to laws rules regulations and orders that may supersede the action the board authorized the chief school administrator to place all hourly employees of the board as reference wherein who are unable to provide services under their job descriptions for who the chief school administrator or his designee has determined should not report to work regularly or at all or cannot work remotely on extended leave of absence at a rate equivalent to their current base wages during the temporary closure to students of school buildings within the district for a period of 19 sporting days which begins on March 16 2020 presently scheduled to continue through April 9 to 2020 such employees may include without limitations instructional aides one-on-one aides teaching assistants clerk typists health aides lunch aides library aides and clerks bus drivers bus aides part-time custodians CCC
025workers teddybear academy workers where other employees who are direct who are directed or directed not to report to work not to work remotely or may be placed on an intimate or rotating work of schedule okay I'm gonna stop there do I have a motion for that a motion by this and all seconded by Miss Fleming you have that Joan you okay yes yes all right this point any questions or comments pertaining to this motion to pay hourly workers in you shoot Township School District this water so if we guess yes is to pay them thank you and just for the record that motion is for the entire resolution but the word presents only read that exerted part of it that's correct yes any other questions or comments all right with that being said let's move
026to a roll call please mrs. barber Giovanni yes mrs. Everhart yes mr. physic Harrow yes mr. Fleming yes mr. Canton yes missus no yes mr. Lanz alotta yes mr. Meighan yes this is Ryan yes but I'm gonna abstain from just the ECC conflict okay thank you motion carries all right I I want to say to the board thank you for doing this you know this we are in such uncharted times that nothing right now is normal and by doing this you have given relief and whether that is mental emotional or financial relief to people who who may very well need it and I appreciate everyone's efforts in working on that resolution and getting it done so thank you all for your hard work on that all right at this point we are going to move
027to open public comment Frank I'm going to read the rules of the open public comment and then I will give it to you and when you and Frederick are ready this meeting will now be open to the public referencing any items of interest however if your questions or comments pertain the litigation student or personnel items for negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these matters in public please limit your comments to three minutes per person mr. summers mr. case okay give us absolutely your number back further quick video slide from the number back up there just make note that you will not see us at this moment okay the numbers back up if you want to count you know two minutes wait for a phone
028call let me do it you'll hear the phone ring they can still hear us right yes I have youtube on and yes we can still be heard there you go okay oh yeah they cannot see us okay and that's what I wanted to state if you are watching this and it comes on you are purposely you you cannot see us just to see the number on there so don't don't panic don't call okay good caller state your name and address before you start hi my name is Masonic injure my address is 132 briar Court Marlton New Jersey I just want to define the board very much for this for allowing entire professionals and obviously raises hourly to get paid because it's been a stressful couple weeks for a lot of us do you know that
029guys we did and thank you thank you for your comment we can't it's hard for us to we can't communicate with you one-on-one but we do hear you and we thank you for your comedy okay thank you car call your own with the board please state your name and address please hi my name is Lisa Millington I'm at a crossroads Marlton go ahead um I just want to say thank you I'm a classroom aide and thank you very much that's all I wanted to say thank you just waiting for some we freeze are we there we're still waiting for some more coffee okay so Joe when you get back on will you just say thank you to those that called in and you're all with the board state your name and address please hey vice
030president of yes only had to be moving forward to pay our hourly employees there's an important thing pushing with unprecedented times take anything off work for doing it thanks for us I lost connection from your on with the board I think you name an address first go ahead your hi everyone is rosemary good or anytime go ahead hi everyone for his method or you hear me yes we check good res minority and help I 1010 health expertise I just wanted to say congratulations everyone been touching and fun and you guys I'm breaking the technology so I we watch the livestream actually be a YouTube and i suspended thank you for being first one to embrace it it takes to work well and also i wanted to give a shout out to the teachers I've been
031asked for community and you know that positive feedback so just to shout out to the teachers and sports support staff and the administration for all day for all the work that they start to really get the online learning up so quickly again these are customers time but however you guys fits together and again stronger together so this Wednesday grant as good job with the meeting tonight thank you thank you Miss Bernardi just in between calls again it's okay Frank you good please state your name and address to the board sure hi everyone this is Annie pays off at 1:39 good bride I just wanted to thank everyone that first birthday as an ever 166 help me out financially thank you so much everyone and have a great evening thank you she say it was her
032birthday yes happy birthday you're on with the board state your name and address please yes my name is Joan Stryker and on that 2:01 piolin Marlton yes Jones strike yeah you're gonna turn excuse me you need to turn down okay when you won't get confused okay thank you very much I am okay I'm turning accounting okay so I am a jaggers paraprofessional and I just want to thank you for making the right decision many ESP staff can take a really deep breath of relief now so thank you very much we really appreciate it thank you call thank you you too [Music] good caller state your name and address you're on the air with my name is Boris Connell on the 15 line hem surprise for you and this was a jacquard and a parent of
033children in the district I want to thank the board very much you might proceed everything is individually so I thank you all very much thank you very much hi hello you're on with the board please state your name and address hello you're on with the board please state your name and address now Kurt 103 here turn your Jersey I've been a bus driver with you guys for almost 25 years and I'd like to say thank you for your consideration of us at this time thank you very much thank you Frank anything nothing yet all right give it another minute yeah give another minute take it to seven to thirty nine okay you're on with the board please state your name and address hi my name is Michelle Wright and I recited 17 Hastings Blaine and
034he's sort New Jersey and I'm a paraprofessional and jagged elementary school I just wanted to thank the board for approving to pay for the paraprofessionals in our district and I thank you for your time thank you very much take care of me I welcome your all with the board please state your name and address please hi my name is sue Beck I live at 5:48 to drive I've been a classroom aide with the district for 15 years and I wanted to thank you very much for your decision thanks thank you very much thank you thank you you're with the board please state your name and address hi Donna is Nero three strewed loss to Dorothy I'm the rep for of the Transportation Department and I just wanted to thank you guys for making their disbelief
035ethereum on on behalf of our department we appreciate it and everybody stay healthy and well take care you too thank you very much stay healthy too please Frank anymore welcome yet you think we should close hold on you're not you're wrong with the board please state your name and address Leah Perlmutter eight plus four quarters more often go ahead I just wanted to sign Sigalert and the staff very much and there's been a trying time and a lot of hard work I need to put in a lot of hours and on behalf of the PCPD and categorical thank you thank you Frank I think maybe we should close I'm thinking one hit 42 okay you [Music] go ahead you're all over the board please state your name and address my fellow 24th Blanchard Road I
036wanted to thank everyone for their decision and a teddybear Academy but I think in the body some have a PHY for unemployment how would that work you'll have the borders and take any questions you'll have to to speak to the superintendent or your principal or somebody like that you a chance and then they would get it for that cut employee I believe so where you can call your state representative or your state let's uncheck what a minute the board is not taking any questions this is just this is just public comment so the opening I stirred up it in thank you so much for everything I know you're all working really hard you really appreciate it very good thank you take care bye bye YouTube for the person who just called you know if you
037have if you have any questions please please email email us particularly dr. Blatchford or or any of the supervisors it's a look though the format's a little different for us today it's it's unusual for us we're trying our best so I apologize it feels a little different good you're on with the board please state your name and address you - thank you very much you're a call Joe I think I think we're ready I think we're okay that's that let's move on Frank now it's good thank you listen thank you Frank to everyone who called we appreciate your phone calls like I said I'd said this previously it's a little different for us this time a lot of times you come in front of the board and it's then nine or eleven of us mister
038doneö and dr. 12 of us dr. Blackford and mr. Ashanti sitting there and sometimes we can have a little bit more of a back-and-forth it's a little different here because the ability for us to hear each other while you're on the phone you more likely enough to turn your volume down when you call us but if you do have a serious question you do want to answer I mean always know email email us or that would we'll do our best to contact you particularly any of the administrators here okay or of course you know myself too if you need me thank you all for your comments and I do appreciate it we are going to move from there and we're going to go to board member announcements are there any announcements by the board I
039have one miss everyone yes glad so I just wanted to say thank you to the interim superintendent who never really thought he was going to have this on his plate when he came in shâm I'm sure but grateful for the your communications to board leadership and to the board members and it's just been really great so thank you for that and leading us ahead in these on unprecedented times I also want to say thank you to the cabinet been talking to a lot of these folks over the last couple days and everybody's just putting in so much time and know their home and they're walking their dogs or doing whatever - but they are really putting in more time I think probably than they would if we business as usual so that shoutout goes cabinet
040it goes to all the people that were helping us this week from Cooper Levinson and also to the board members who just had me time to go over all of this critical stuff and to make time for the dress rehearsal yesterday so thank you Lord and thank you everyone who's on the screen thank you and Frank great job you and Frederick so as Judah Julius used to say thank you for the cookies thank you [Laughter] absolutely I will yeah let me say one thing real quick dr. Glassman please go ahead thank you very much miss Earhart but it really has been a total team approach rich John Danni spectacular and the board is unbelievable you guys have worked through some very very difficult decisions and I appreciate everything you've done and mr. doneö the wording
041we went back and forth about five times with that resolution and you put up with us so thank you that's what we're here for thank you thank you to everyone - and dr. Blinn's Berg well Danny my fellow board members rich John it's wonderful working with you all and the teachers I'm so proud of the power professionals I'm glad we were able to get this resolution passed yes thank you to everyone yes I think we definitely created a lot of decrease in panic decrease anxiety so I think that's a great thing mm-hmm I'd like to add something it's Janice snow and I want to say so many of the callers are calling and saying thank you for working so hard for us but I just want to say that the teachers have been working overtime
042in terms of I know many of them have their own their own children at home and they're helping them also with their home school instruction and I am a stay Oh mother I have two boys and I'm struggling with it and so I can only imagine how these teachers are feeling having to manage all this and they're doing it with smiles on their faces of course I peek in on morning meetings all week and the teachers are amazing with smiles on their faces happy to see their students so everything's been working really smoothly and I know that all the teachers and administrators Danny all the principals and vice principals worked an entire weekend since we were notified on a Friday that we would be shutdown on Monday and I know all the hard work that
043went into getting everybody up and running on Monday and my students had um my children had morning meetings that Monday morning so it really was just so impressive to me how smooth everything went and the format is consistent for both of my children so it's easy for parents to follow so we know what's expected of the students so I want to thank all the teachers and on top of all this I believe they're working on report cards because report cards will be posted tomorrow so they're also work on that and um as far as the resolution I know all of our hourly employees they are so loyal to us and to our children and I'm just so happy that we can return the favor and do the right thing and be loyal to them so
044thanks thank you to all to everyone out there and if we can make your life a little less stressful we are all under a tremendous amount of stress with all of this so thank you for for everything nobody else Danielle it's Melissa I just wanted to check in real quick are you gonna send out an email about the board Technology Committee meeting to do it this way and okay okay all right listen anybody who's watching and listening stay safe stay healthy you know keep your keep your social distancing intact make sure you get some fresh air out there - all right try to enjoy some of the warm weather I do miss seeing all of you it is comfortable as this is right now it's it's not the same as being there and I hope
045everyone's doing okay and I hope your families are healthy and safe and on my own my love for all of you thank you he was well Jim thank you Jim Joe at this point in time or eight yeah great oh yes this is this is definitely not a living for me at this point in time i need my all-time favorite emotions they will thank you good night everyone tonight thanks for your help okay bye-bye leaving the meeting as my kids would say hit leave meaning the directions recording is stopped by the way Frank you