001I'd like to call this meeting to order. The mission of the Freel Township School District is to honor and support every learner every day on the journey to become curious and engaged members of a diverse global community. A notice listing the time, date, and place of this meeting was posted on the public bulletin board of all Freel Township schools on the entrance door to the administrative offices of the board of education on the district website at the office of the Freel Township Clerk and published in the Asbury Park Press on January 11th, 2026. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Can I
002get a roll call? Mr. Dvita. >> Mrs. Bran. >> Dr. Casey here. >> Mr. Confory >> here. >> Miss Crosby here. >> Mr. Arulo >> here. >> Mrs. Lambert. >> Mrs. Spieler. >> Mrs. O' Sullivan >> present. >> Mr. Shamarosu >> here. >> We have a qu. >> Thank you. Can I get a motion for the approval of the March 10th, 2026 regular meeting minutes? >> I have a second. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? Okay. Can I get a motion for the approval of March 10th, 2026 executive session minutes? >> Thank you. All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed or abstensions? Okay. Um, president's remarks. Don't have much. It's a pretty late night. I just do want to remind uh any board members
003that the National Junior Honor Society is tomorrow, March 25th, correct? >> 6 o'clock p.m. >> U. So, if any of you can attend, that would be wonderful. I'm going to try to make it myself. Um, I might have a conflict, but if anybody uh is going, you could shoot me a text or whatever. I'm assuming they would have chairs if people show. Okay, with that, we'll go to the administrative report. You uh since our last meeting, we many of us attended the Baralo uh production of Frozen. I know there were I saw board members there um equally as completely different show than Eisenhower in theme but equally as impressive. Uh this was Barkle's I believe first fulllength production. They usually do a junior production. Um and it was amazing. Very uh talented. It was filled.
004Um the chairs were filled, the bleachers were filled. Um it was a really great performance. >> The singing was great. >> Yeah. It was an amazing performance. Um this week I believe we complete the elementary schools uh literacy nights connected to one district one book with on the same night. So Thursday we have Applegate and Eric West Freehold Applegate and West Freehold on Thursday. Um and I believe that's um the since our last meeting we've had six reports of harassment, intimidation and bullying. Out of those six four were founded and two were unfounded. tomorrow is Kina's as well. I don't have on my calendar because we have Barcelo's. Um, >> yes. >> Thank you, >> Barklo Honor Society. >> And again, for all of the calendars, uh, you should be getting the emails from the
005schools with the school newsletters and in those school newsletters for all of the dates with events at each of those schools. I'll I'll do my best to highlight them when we're here, too. Um, and then we're gonna Bob will do his certification, then we'll go into updates from our last meeting at the budget presentation. >> All right. Uh, certification. I, Robert Dvita, the school business administrator/board secretary, certifies that as of February 28th, 2026, no line item has been overextended in violation of NJAC 6A 23A-16.10C3 and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year. do our budget update. Okay. There we go. All right. Good evening everyone. Um this is our tenative budget presentation. At the end of the finance uh portion of the agenda tonight,
006um we'll take a action on the motion that's there to approve the tenative budget. Um before I get into the presentation, just one thing to note. Um I know I updated the board um when we received our state aid and I discussed briefly about you know some of the changes we were making and just I just want to highlight something based on some questions that came back. So you know when we start these budget presentations as we went through the first one, the second one, now the third, we're getting more information day by day. So um we're able to see a little bit closer to the end of the year and where things will be to start the new year. So that's why when we make some changes or we say hey we we thought
007this might happen and then it did um it's a fluid process until we get until the end of April when you adopt the final budget. All right. So there could still be and we typically don't between the tenative and the final during that month make changes but if we have to um we will and we will make that as part of the presentation um next month. So I would just want to start I'm not going to run all the slides we did last time. Um we'll highlight a few things again but just want to talk about the changes since the last meeting on March 10th. And this has to do this first slide uh solely with state aid. So as I indicated to the board uh we were up about 6% or we received an
008extra $372,000 in state aid. Um my one item to note about this and I think I have mentioned this before. Um, we are still not fully funded, but we're getting closer to full uh being fully funded. We probably have one to one and a half budget cycles left of getting additional money, but as our enrollment continues to decline, um, we will get to a point sooner rather than later where we'll be flat to start to lose state aid because the way the funding formula works, it's a value per child and what category they fall into. So, we'll be winners this year. Hopefully, we'll be winners again next year, but after that, until that big development starts getting built, you know, our enrollment is going to be flat to slightly down. So, just putting that in
009everyone's mind right now. So, what do we do with this extra money? Um, as I indicated in my email, um, when we walked into the last meeting, we had two students that were out of district students for special education that we received that we one had just uh, withdrawn and a second one we found out right at that point in time that we can no longer handle them and so they're going back to their district of residency. So it made sense when we receive more money that if we know we're not going to receive that tuition revenue to reduce it dollar for dollar. We could have left it in there, but what that does is it impacts our surplus calculation at the end of the 26 27 year. So um this was the most prudent
010thing to do and that's why we made the reduction. Um we also are recommending that we put in an extra $140,000 into out of district tuition. We have one student right now who they have not appeared on an agenda yet. Um they were enrolled here for all five days. A situation occurred. Um the state took the student they're homeless now and they're now in a district down south in South Jersey. Um they sent us a tuition contract for about $80,000 for the rest of this year and it'll be about 40 for next year. But because the math doesn't tie in on their contract, I sent it back to him and said, "Please explain your math. I've never seen a contract written that way before. So, we know that next year for at least through November,
011we're going to have to pay that district to educate them. And then once they celebrate their year anniversary in that township, then it becomes uh they become a full resident of that town and we no longer have to pay for them. Um and we also so that's 40,000 and then the other 100 is as we had conversations this morning in our central office meeting, we had two contingencies built in. We want to put a third in. there's a good possibility that by the time we get to September one, all three are taken. So, it was a prudent thing to do. And then last year, we had a conversation when we built the 2526 budget of the need to increase energy. I think it was 8% on natural gas and 20% on electric. Well, the natural
012gas line is lower than we need. The last couple bills have been uh really high. Um, so it was prudent to put some more additional funds into uh the natural gas line for the year of 64,000. So that so that's where the state aid went. Um, when we look at the debt service slide, uh, Phoenix advisors did a very good job of estimating how much money we would receive. We actually received uh almost $50,000 more than they anticipated. Um, so it was a very accurate reflection of what the final state aid would be. Um, and then on our own, we are going to we're recommending withdrawing an additional $30,000 from Emergency Reserve. And Emergency Reserve, as we discussed last time, can be used for security purposes. Uh, technology informed me that we need a new
013server for our camera system. So, we could take the money out and spend it and it's budget neutral. And then there's a slight decrease in the charter school appropriation. The state provides that uh to us as well the day we get our state aid. and the township received a very slight increase in the Verizon tax which as we've discussed before offsets our um the taxes that the township has to collect on our behalf. I won't spend much time here um but we did discuss at both meetings before the necessary cuts to staffing. Um you see there was one instructional coach, seven teachers. Uh due to enrollment uh you know the preschool size getting lower. Uh we removed one section of preschool, one secretary, the custodial supervisor. What you see in red there is that the
014last two meetings we had projected needing nine additional part-time TAs. And again this goes back to my original statement. Every day that goes by we get better information. We had a conversation this morning that based upon what we're seeing now it's closer to four. So there's only four new ones in there. It was about $141,000. I applied that $140,000 to some other pressure points to energy um in the PERS pension area. I've done it the formula that I've used to calculate has been pretty accurate lately, but you never know. You you don't know until November what percentage of the salaries that go into PERS that the state's going to use to for calculation. This year I'd calculate 18 and a half. They went to 17 and a half. But whatever, you know, they're using actuarily,
015it could go up to 19. So, it was better to put additional dollars there and I put some additional dollars away in the instructional line. So, it's kind of we're cushioning some areas that uh I felt pressure in when we're developing the budget. So, it's I think it's prudent to do that. And then if those needs don't come to fruition, that money will either lapse surplus or I'm sure something else will happen in special ed or some other instructional area that we'll have to pull the uh the funds out for. So, we went from plus 9 to plus4. And we had talked about this before, too. Um, to get us to our first budget presentation, we had to cut a total of $1.5 million. Um, we talked about the staffing. And then we also then
016spoke about the $450,000 for reductions from non-mandated items, uh, Chromebooks, some, uh, PD materials, uh, and trainings. And then that was approximately 1.5 million. And we have talked both times, and I will continue to repeat it. We did allow $1.25 million to expire from bank tax cap levy. and that seems to be this 1.5 that we're short every year. So, we are going to continue every day to think differently about how we do things here because we know that over the next couple budget cycles, we need to reduce that number so it's not an every year annual uh deficit. Revenue projections, not much has changed here. Um the tax le exact same thing we spoke about last time. It's up 6.4%. That is the 2% plus the additional uh waiver for health care that we
017qualify for fund balance. As we discussed, this number we're going to have to take down each of the next couple years. It's getting harder to maintain, you know, these this 1.5 number, the 1.9. Um so it's something we'll work on as we do our budget process. State aid, I have it in red. It really is up to $372,000, but we discussed last time the state gave us one time revenue this year of $100,000. So, the appropriations associated with them went away. Um, but it shows up when you look at the net year-to-year that's only up 272. It's really up $372,000. Um, XAD, this is the number for our most needy special education students, we're keeping flat. Tuition fees, um, as we discussed in the previous slide. Um, we took that number down because unfortunately to
018the students we had anticipated educating will not be returning next year. Transportation fees are flat. This is for um the typical preschool students that the parents want to put their children on the bus. They pay a fee. SEMI is the stu this is federal funds. This is for students who are special education and they are Medicaid eligible. That number is given to us by the state. Miscellaneous revenue that is everything from facility rentals, interest earned, the sale of some assets. Usually we sell our old buses when we no longer use them. Um it's up 12% or 55,000. That is solely coming from our interest revenue. Maintenance reserve we talked about the last time. Um we're bringing that number up to $900,000. It supports an increase in the maintenance budget. Um it's the only thing it
019can be used for. Emergency reserve at $42,000. That is to purchase the server I discussed before. And at the previous meeting, we said there was about $12,500 worth of uh security supplies. This is like the badges and the IDs that we use when you check into the building. Um again, emergency reserves allowed to be used for security reasons. So if we have the money, we might as well allocate the funds to those purposes. Capital reserve. Well, we don't right now look to use any capital reserve. Uh in the current year, we use a small amount. And then as we discussed the last time, we have to show the state shows it in their budget for both revenues and appropriations. The prior year incumbrances. So when you compare the two, our projected budget that you'll see
020is up 2.2 almost 2.3 million or 2.5% um on the revenue side. Again, the only thing that changed here was the state aid number and the fact that we reduced the tu expected tuition from out of district students from the last two presentations. Yes, sir. >> Can you just explain the the $100,000 thing again in the last >> So, what happened was let's say and I don't it was $100,000. So, let's say we got $5.2 million last year. After we struck the budget, they said a couple districts got additional funds. We had a $100,000 given to us one-time revenue as state aid for 2526. It had a specific purpose which that money was the revenue came in. The funds were spent. So while when I show that slide, it looks like it's we were $100,000
021less than what the state had increased, that appropriation doesn't exist either. So it's all in balance. Does that make sense? Both sides of the equation are in balance. revenue went down, appropriation went down, but because it shows up in the official revenue sheet, I have to show it in the revenue. And so if you actually look at the if I if I pulled up the DOE budget, there's a separate line for it. And even our state aid, it's not all lumped into one category. There's transportation aid, security aid, uh, special education aid. For this purpose, and to save time, I just run it through as one lumpsum number. Does that make sense to everybody? cost drivers. We've discussed this before. Healthc care is up 20%. Um this is where we u arrive at that $3.4
022million healthc care waiver for the year. Um and as we said a couple times, that's what's you know we're in balance by taking that waiver. Um, we've discussed that the increasing cost for our special education students, whether it be headcount for staffing, uh, due to severity of the kids or these out of district placements in the support world and in the out of district, it's about $800,000 of approp additional appropriations for next year. Um, we discussed the estimated increase for property casualty, liability, and workers compensation be 20%. Um, that impacts the administrator, the custodial transportation, and benefits accounts. we probably won't know our final numbers until after the final budget struck. Um, what happens is everyone in the state is sending their numbers to either one carrier or multiple carriers and we're in a year
023where we have to get multiple quotes. So, all the underwriters are working on a lot of things. So, we typically don't find out until May or early June what our final numbers are. And as we discussed before, our energy cost um the natural gases has gone up beyond this year what I anticipated. So, we've added some funds there and to the electric accounts. Um, we discussed this in um our committee tonight and we've discussed it before. Once all the roofs are replaced through the referendum, and they should be done this summer or early fall, we'll begin to have discussions with our architect and our attorney about potentially doing uh for solar panels, what they call a power purchasing agreement. You don't buy the panels outright. You lease your roof and so you get a lower
024cost than what you would get from purchasing straight through JCPNL. So, but there's some legal con there's it's it's a complicated contract. Um, some of this may have I think there's been some impact due to the one big beautiful bill that was passed out of the federal government last year, but we will do that. That was one of the priorities of the board when they created their last strategic plan and the response for solar was we can't do it until the roofs are replaced. Well, the roofs are about to be replaced. So, we will investigate that as soon as we get through the summer. Okay. And hopefully we could do one and it may not impact us, excuse me, for the start of the 2728 budget, but maybe if things work out somewhere during that
025year, we'd have some solar panels up and it will start to help us reduce our electric cost. So, this way we can put more dollars back into the classroom where they belong. equipment lease purchases for the year. Um we have core switches that are at the end of their useful life. So about $120,000 we will that'll be part of our lease purchase. And again when we do the lease purchase we buy all this equipment that's about a million dollars in total and we spread it over the cost over five years. And we keep I have a cycle that runs through. So we keep the entire lease purchase budget pretty consistent year over year. um the custodial maintenance grounds. We have some lawn scrub. We have some scrubbers, a lawn tractor, a paint sprayer, and a
026pressure washer. These aren't the ones you would buy for your home. They're big industrial pieces of equipment. Um we need a front end loader. That is what we use to fill our trucks up with salt. The one that we have is at the end of its useful life. Um we are replacing four generators at uh that are at the end of their useful life as well. We're going to lease purchase them and then our team will install them. And as we discussed last time, we are in the we're going to begin next year the first of a two or three year cycle to purchase the active boards which will then replace the overhead projectors. So at some point in time we'll have one in here as well. And we won't be using the this uh
027overhead projector for presentations. And again, as we discussed, it's less expensive overall just because again, the bulb for one of these, how much, Joe? Is a bulb for this now for the overheads? Overheads, they're like $200 to $400, but the actual boot replacement is like 1,600. >> So, it's becoming antiquated technology. They're going quick. >> Yep. Appropriations. Um, there's been a couple changes in some of the lines, not much. So, regular instructions at 19.9 million. It's up about 1.8% or $358,000. This is for our salaries for our regular education teachers. It's for our um for some of the TAs. Part of the the regular preschool TAs were charged here. It's for any textbooks, instructional supplies. Um some of the curriculum items that directly go into the classroom are here. Special education is down 1.4% or
028$142,000. Um, some of the I think one or two of the teachers that were part of the reduction came out of the special ed world. That's why that line is down. Uh, English as a second language in basic skills is roughly flat up $8,000 or 0.5%. Uh, co-curricular athletics is flat again. Out of district tuition, as we discussed this, we have three contingencies built in here. Um, so that's where and then just the other students that we know are out of district, that's where you're getting that extra $423,000 up 31.7%. And one thing to note is I don't remember the exact number, but I believe about 50% or more of these students are eighth graders next year. So they will graduate and hopefully we get some relief in this budget area um the following year.
029Sure. >> So four of it came in that line. >> Yeah. >> And four of it's in that support line. So the way TAs work, if you are what they call a programmatic TA and you are in a classroom like our preschool, because code says you have so many kids, you have to have a TA there. Resource room, same thing. Those TAs are charged to the special education lines. When it if you're a one, a 2:1, or 3:1 aid, it's considered an extraordinary service. It's a support cost and so you're charged to this line that's in the support world. So that's $800,000. It was 400 in the OOD line and there's $400,000 in support cost. So, um, yeah, that's good question. That's that was easy. That's there's your 800 grand. Um, so that is up
0303.7%. Majority of that support cost is coming from an increase in those TAS. And also, as I mentioned before, the state is requiring us to budget only 75% of our current allocation for our federal grants, including IDA. that forced us to budget three additional TAS in the fund 10. Now, we anticipate getting all our money and they'll they'll come back out, but we can't take the chance that we are getting that money. So, we're following the rules and the guidelines um in years past. I don't I had every single one of the TAs we had spent in or allocated IDA in the IDA budget. So, that has an impact on here as well. Administration, that's down 4% from the prior year. Um, that's everything from Neil's office, our attorney, our auditor, our some of our
031architectural work for some pre-work is done there. Um, it's the business office, the tech office, it's the front offices in the schools, uh, facilities, grounds, and security is up $618,000 or 7.8%. A lot of this increase is supported by that additional $400,000 in maintenance reserve. Um also in the energy falls into the custodial area here in facilities that's up about 11%. Um so but overall there's some areas have gone down but that's the majority of it is to support the maintenance of the schools and it is supported by revenue. Transportation's up 3.2%. Um some of that has to do with the fact that insurance for um the buses has gone up or anticipated to go up 20%. It also includes an um unanticipated transportation runs for out of district needs. That's there. Um that's why
032that's up 3.2 benefits. This is the majority of that increase is the health benefit line. Some lines have actually come down. Um what's the the money that we anticipate paying for um waiverss of health benefits has gone down over the last two budget cycles. And our PERS pension payment, while I added some additional dollars, is still down from its peak over the last two or three cycles. And that's because the rules for being in the pension system, you have to work 32 hours, none of our bus drivers work 32 hours. So, as the old school ones retire, who were in the pension system, the new ones don't get enrolled. And as we hire part-time TAs, they don't get enrolled in the pension system. they get enrolled in something called DCRP which is more like a
033403 plan 403b plan and we make a small 3% contribution of their salary to that versus an 18% contribution for pers. So um that's why that number come has come down but overall it is up and the majority of this is driven due to the health benefit increase. >> Sure. factor in expected price of gas. >> We do. Um, so we have an interlocal agreement with the township. So we're not buying at the Exxon station. They have they go out and they bid for the fuel and then we pay them a small vig on top of what they because they they are responsible to maintain the pumps for us. So they do all that work. Anytime there's a maintenance need or a capital improvement, they bear that cost and then they bill us for the
034fuel that we use. So yeah, but it we do anticipate that, but we have we've been pretty good. We always try to, you know, it's conservative. It's usually higher than when it comes in at. So um but we do plan that. Let's see here. Capital outlay equipment, as we discussed the last meeting, um other than some equipment that we're purchasing um for next year, it's down 1.3 million, but that's because we had an open construction contract um that came out in 2526 for some HVAC units. Uh charter school tuition, we only have two students that are projected to go to the charter schools. It's down slightly, as I stated in the first slide, um about $12,000. And again, the state tells us what we're paying. We don't make this up. the school doesn't contact us.
035It comes through um a document on the state aid funding calculation. So overall, again, you'll see it's a 94.9 million budget. It's up $2.2 million or 2.5%. Any other questions on the appropriations? >> Yes, sir. >> When you're 256, is that budget or is that like a hybrid? It's the 2526 and I I cut the slide out because we talked about it twice. That is our actual appropriations on February 1st of 2026. That also includes that $3.3 million of carryover POS that we showed on the revenue slide. Yep. Federal grants. Um the numbers haven't changed. As I said before, we are being told by the state to budget 20 uh 75% of the grant versus uh 85 as we've traditionally have done, and that's why you see that almost $300,000 drop. We hope to get
036flat funding, which would be nice. Montgomery's got her fingers crossed. Um, and then the debt service. Um, the numbers changed slightly from the last time and that's because, as I showed you in the first slide, we received about $50,000 more than we anticipated for debt service aid. So, we're looking at the tax increase to be 9.3 million. Um, the debt service aid, as you see there, it's, you know, again, really close to what we projected at 2.76 million. And we have surplus this year from the refunding of $72,000. Um it's a total increase of uh $8 million in that budget and 194%. But these are the numbers we we knew when we started the process for the referendum over a year and a half ago. So our estimated tax impact um it's changed slightly from
037what we discussed at the last meeting. Um you're looking at the change in the general fund of about 5 million or 6.4%. the debt service, excuse me, um is up 5.2 or 128%. Again, it's, you know, it's actually a little bit better than we projected um back when our financial advisory gave us some numbers. The Verizon tax is up a whopping uh thousand. I'm sorry, it's up $1,000 or 0.2%. But again, it's still it didn't go down. And so when we fill out our form with the township to collect taxes, they'll deduct that from what that total number is. So, it'll be that much less that they have to collect from the taxpayers. And again, you're looking at about a $10.2 million increase or 12.5%. And this number, it changed slightly here. The top line
038here, as we said last time, it's about a 7.9% increase. Um, or 6.3 cents on the tax rate. Um, the average home, which the assessed value has gone up from $6 and change to $711,000, is a $270 a year increase from our portion of the tax levy. Um, the assessed value of the township has gone up 4.3% which again is when the denominator goes up. It helps with a lower number. Um, our pennies worth about a million dollars and I think I stated last time, I think when I started here 10 years ago, it was about 600,000. So, we've seen tremendous growth in a penny over that decade. Um, and again, I stated this the last few times, while it's 6.3% increase, we had originally anticipated as of July of 25 that the debt service
039alone would be a 6-centent increase. So again, the increase of the assessed value over the last 18 months, it's a cure all in some when it from the mass standpoint, it's still we're raising taxes, but um it's not as much as what it we had anticipated it being if uh the assessed value had not gone up. So at this point in time, if you pass a resolution tonight, I have to submit all the the budget supporting documentation to the county by Friday. Um at some point in time, and it probably won't be until the end of next sometime over break. um they should probably call me at the county BA. I might have to make some minor changes. Hopefully that's it. And then we'll present our final budget on April 28th. And I'll take any
040questions that anyone may have. And again, I appreciate everyone's time and patience with this. And as I said in the beginning, it is, you know, we every day goes by, we get more information. So typically this is what we present in April is typically what we have here. But if something else changes, um, we'll make those changes and present present it to the board on the 28th. I'm tired of hearing myself talk at this point. Thank you, Bob. That's the third time is the charm. >> Do we have any uh public participants? Um before I read my statement, is anyone in the public going to approach on agenda items? Okay, seeing none, then I'm going to go to uh personnel policy and communications. >> All right, good evening everybody. Um the personnel policy and communications
041committee did not meet this evening. So I would like to move the following items. Uh two, second reading of regulation as listed. Three, second reading to a polish abolish policies and regulations as listed. Uh four, new employment. A warm welcome to our new Frio Township U members as listed. Five, leaves of absence as listed. Six, temporary change of assignment as listed. Seven, additional compensation transfer of assignment or room as listed. Eight, additional compensation safety care training as listed. Nine, additional compensation as listed. 10, unpaid days as listed. 11, track officials as listed. I missed a 12. Here we go. Just thank you. District update as listed. 13. Student teacher practical observation placement as listed. 14. Bullin investigation findings as listed. 15 curriculum committee as listed. 16. Certified substitutes as listed. 17 non-certified substitutes as listed.
042>> Thank you. Do we have a second? >> Second. Any um questions for our policy committee? >> Okay, seeing none, can I get a roll call? >> Miss Brand, >> yes. >> Dr. Casey, >> yes. >> Mr. Confory, >> yes. >> Miss Crosby, >> yes. >> Mr. Gilo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Feler, >> yes. >> Mrs. O Sullivan, >> yes. >> Mr. Amarosa, >> yes. >> Thank you. A curriculum committee. Uh Dr. Casey, >> the curriculum committee did not meet today. And uh we move the following items. Number two, resend course reimbursement as listed, home instruction as listed. Okay, easy peasy. Do we have a second on that? >> Thank you. Um any questions for curriculum committee? >> Okay, all those in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Okay. Thank you. Finance, facilities,
043and transportation. Mr. Garula. >> Good evening. It beat tonight the finance committee um which consists of myself, Neil Gulo, members Ranata Bran, Mike Amaroso, and Robert Dvidita as our administrative liaison. Uh in our meeting, we discussed the construction update. There's bids out, new contracts to be ready uh in April. Uh future future pro uh projects, capital reserve. Uh we have a parking lot to do, trailers at bus depot and elevator at EC budget. Thanks to Bob and no further comment. um food service. We have um in April we're going to renew um the Sedesco contract. Uh we as far as committee goals, uh we're going to um get the form to fill out the goals, revise it a little bit, and uh then we did the agenda items. Other than that, we shall proceed to
044the regular items. Um, number three, uh, Secretary Treasurer's report as listed. Number four, bills and claims. Who did the bills today? Peter, thank you. Um, bills and claims, uh, a grand total of 5,434,983.79. Uh, number five, travel and related expenses as listed. Six, transfers as listed. Seven, donation as listed. Eight, disposal of surplus property, HC. Nine, sale of of surplus surplus property. Uh, HC. 10. Um, fiscal year 26, teach STEM classes for in non non-public school grants. 11. school bus emergency evacuation and safety drills as listed. And number 12, uh, tenative budget resolution as listed. Thank you. Do we have a second questions? >> I wonder if the Partridge family spent $255 on their bus. You think so? Not getting >> probably close to that. >> The paint job is probably two. >> Never know.
045Questions for finance once. Okay. Then um all those in favor um say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? No abstensions. Okay. Thank you. Uh old business. You have any old business? I have something. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Um just on the line of kind of activities. Um last week I you know myself Neil uh my we were judges for the future chef competition. Um kids cooked way better than I could have cooked as a as a fourth grader or fifth grader. So really nice to kind of volunteer there and see what you know activity school was doing. So, >> I'm so glad you did that because I always do that and I couldn't do it this year and I love doing it and the kids are amazing and the food is always so good. I
046eat all the leftovers and everything. >> So, I'm glad that that's always a great event. Thanks for sharing that. You have any other old business? >> Well, I'd like to just add that that Frozen uh uh concert was excellent. The singers singing was phenomenal. The acting was good. It's hard to believe that age level they performed so well. >> Fantastic. Awesome. >> Sure. >> I went to the um Eisenhower Middle School uh junior honorary society and it was very very touching, very emotional. Everybody was so uh polished and amazing. So young people, so so intelligent. >> That's great. It >> was good. >> Another one tomorrow. I'm >> I'm going tomorrow. Yes. >> Excellent. Anything else anybody have to share? Okay. Any new business that we want to talk about? Okay. Seeing none, um really
047don't have any further public remarks. Uh so we can go right into public participation. Um is there anybody that's going to approach? Excellent. So um if you could just state your name, sign our signing sheet. Statements are limited to three minutes and should not be abusive, obscene, or defamatory. None. Uh, this is the point where the board goes into an executive session to discuss some negotiation stuff. So, I have to read my statement. Whereas pursuant to NJSA 104-12B, the board of education may exclude the public from that portion of a public meeting at which the board discusses any of the matters described at NJSA104-12B1-9. Now therefore, be it resolved that in accordance with the provisions of the open public meeting act, Board of Education shall conduct a closed session pursuant to the personnel and legal
048exceptions prescribed by NJSA 104-12 for the purpose of discussing the following matters. pending or anticipated contract negotiations with our FTA and our TWWU. It is anticipated that the length of time of this executive session will be 40 minutes and that action will not be taken in public after the executive session. Be it further resolved that said discussion may be disclosed to the public when reasons for discussing and acting upon it in closed session no longer exist. Do I have a second on that motion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Thanks for coming out, folks.