001[Applause] did her template. I told her to make you a copy and then our team. >> We have to >> what? >> We have to do one of those. >> That's a copy of hers. >> Make the people >> maybe that part we get to. >> Thank you. I'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 Freehold Township schools on the entrance door to the administrative offices of the board of education on the district website at the office of the Freehole Township Clerk, published in the
002Asbury Park Press on January 11th, 2025, and sent to the Star Ledger on January 8th, 2025. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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 get a roll call? Mr. Devita. >> Mrs. Brand. >> Dr. Casey >> here. >> Miss Crosby >> here. >> Mr. Garula >> here. >> Mrs. Lambert >> here. >> Mrs. Spieler >> here. >> Mr. Williams >> here. >> Mrs. O Sullivan >> here. >> Mr. Amaroso >> here. Nine people in the quorum. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I get a motion for the approval of the August 12th regular meeting minutes. >> A second. >> Second. >> All
003those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I abain. >> Abstain. >> To abain. >> Thank you. >> Okay. President's remarks. Um I will be brief. Um, again, we're getting very close to the opening of school and I want to thank administration once again for all the hard work with all the last minute staffing and getting the buildings ready. Um, you know, a little update with the Laura Donovan um in an abundance of caution. Um, when we were looking there's, you know, we're very obsessed with making sure the buildings are perfectly clean and using high resolution light. Now, we're even looking through the bookshelves, and if we find anything residual, we're going to have it manually cleaned at this point to the point where we're going to outsource that and just make
004100% sure that the buildings are totally ready. Um, so other than that, I didn't see any facility issues um that had hung us up, which I think is a good thing. And on behalf of the board, we just want to wish everybody a uh a big opening and uh a pleasant opening to schools. And uh congratulations again on a summer full of work um not only in curriculum with hiring facilities. It's been a busy busy summer and uh we do thank you for all of that. So with that I will move to the administrative report. As Mr. Amaroso shared we are closely um approaching our opening to school and ready to welcome our staff and our students back. Uh our facilities are in good shape. Uh today's communication was the purposes of transparency. It is
005uh not a major issue that was discovered. Um but in as I explained in the communication to staff and parents uh in the inspection that uh company the insurance company had hired to come out and um inspect all of Laura Donovan when shining a highresolution LED light in a couple of spots on a bookshelf and books in the media center. They found some small dots that are white and and appear to be mold. uh we are able to wipe them. If we walked by and wiped it with our finger, it would come off. But because we're very cautious when we're uh putting our students and staff in environments, we are choosing to um be very proactive and have that cleaned by deep cleaned by professionals. Um and again out of an abundance of caution and
006to ease the minds of our staff and families uh having that space air sample air testing sampling done twice pre cleaning post cleaning. Uh Mr. Dvita did look back that space after the remediation and students before students return at Donovan tested very low at 100. So it uh appears to be inactive. Um and the air results will confirm that uh back to school nights. If the board members can either access the document to populate which you would attend or not attend or simply email Cindy, that's fine, too. Um letting us know which uh back to school night you will attend. Uh the principles, we do give them a heads up. They always check just before um because they do like to introduce the board members in attendance. if there's any changes to your attendance, just
007email me and I make sure that I let them know um because they like to be very prepared and don't like to leave anybody out. Um our back to school nights are a mad dash in September. It's every night um outside of board meetings and the regional back to school night. Um and the holidays in September is a back to school night. Um years ago the board had asked that we don't duplicate and we do our best not to do that. So there's every school has its own evening. Um all of them are at 6:30 and the dates are on uh our website and also in that Google document. >> We'll move into our presentation of uh access scores. >> Yeah. Once she's done that screenbody. Yes. Please don't bonk anybody in the head. >>
008All right. Um, tonight is my first in a exciting series um of presentations around uh the statemandated student assessments in New Jersey. So, um you will see as the next board meetings approach, um I will be adding to our agenda and doing presentations about the other um state assessments. But tonight, we're going to focus on the access for ELLL testing. Um and then ultimately this slide deck once I've populated with all of the student data will be posted on the uh district website for public access. Um again, tonight we're focusing on the access for ELLL assessment. This is the assessment given to all of our ESL students um in grades K through 8. It measures student language profici proficiency in four domains, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. And students um gain proficiency in those four
009domains in that order. Students become more proficient as English listeners first, then as English speakers, then as English readers, and then as English writers. Um, and all of our students, um, as I said, who are identified as multilingual learners take this assessment. It's not like NJSLA where they don't start till third grade. Um, so the state u mandates which kind of data that we need to report. When I'm reporting on um achievement data around uh NJSLA, I report in in the content area specifics, but they also mandate that I have to report our student data around specific subgroups. So, we're going to look at our students performance on um on this access uh test both as a whole group of uh ESL students, but then also look at race, gender, and program data. Um I
010am going to remind you and this um happens every year because we have a small number of uh multilingual learners in the district. I am prohibited from reporting some data based on the size of the group. So, if there are groups of students in particular grade levels that are less than 10 students, you'll see that on those data charts. Um, oh, thank you. I forgot to tell you. I also made hard copies for you because I know that every time I do these presentations, you're all squinting at the screen trying to see the data. So, um, I will be moving forward always giving you hard copies of this as well. Um again just a reminder our access for ELLL test is based on the WEDA national standards. These are the standards developed by um by
011WEDA and they uh we also have a a WEDA model assessment that we use in district to identify students who are meeting these standards and who can exit our ESL program perhaps prior to the administration of the test. So and that does happen every year. Again, this is just sort of a visual about the progression of how students are assessed on this um on this particular test. And this assessment or this progression is um applies at in every one of the areas measured. So for listening, speaking, reading, and writing, students are um or given an assessment score across this continuum. Um, as a reminder, students need to score a 4.5 on this assessment to be determined no longer needing services. So, you will notice um when I put data up that we have very few
012students in the um level five and level six. That's because they're no longer being served in our ESL programs. So, I I know that question comes up every year. How come? Unlike NJSOA, we don't have kids at these higher performance levels because we're no longer testing them because they are being assessed um outside of um ESL. They're not needing the services any longer. Um so this data chart represents all of our students, grades K through 8, um identified as ESL students and the um the grade levels that they are in both at the elementary level and the middle school level. And then you can see down here at the bottom this is the total number of students across the um all grades K through 8. Um this chart also and the other charts also give
013us data across three years of performance. So we have three we can look at three years of performance um postcoid for students. >> Question. Sure. Maybe I should know this but is ELLL interchangeable ESL? >> Yes. So ESL is the name of the program. ELLL students are English language learners. >> So we're also using ESL >> also that's a that's a term that the state uses. Um we that our program is defined as an ESL program. Um we typically refer to these students either as multilingual learners or English language learners. So we're naming both the students but the program is an ESL program. Thank you. Um you will notice on this data chart that there are some grade levels where we have a less than 10. that means that we're not reporting out the data
014because it's a the population of students in that particular grade level is less than 10. So some highlights or things to note last year we tested 46 students in total um in for across all grade levels K 8 um which is a decrease in students from the previous year it's 10 fewer students so you can see the number of students um and you may recall this time last year when I reported we had a marketkedly um sizable increase in ESL students from 23 to 24. So, we're, you know, sort of riding this this um ESL wave. This is not atypical for us um to have um influxes or outgoing um students in large numbers. We typically are around that 40 number. um last this past year that those 46 students 15% of them scored um
015at the level one 35% of them scored at level two 35% of them scored at level three number at level four remember 4.5 they get proficient and that's why you see very few students in level five and level six right because we exit them from the program they no longer um are required to take this assessment Um some something important to note as we're looking at data across multiple years. You can see in 2024 we had 36% of our students scoring in that um lowest level of proficiency that entering level. And when we track those students into the 25 school year, those students have moved up to um level two. So we are moving kids along that progression um which I think is really important. Right? That's the that's the goal of of a program
016to see students continue to move across the continuum until they reach those level uh five and level six where they we are no longer assessing them. Um let's dig a little little bit into the demographic groups and then I'll share some summary data. So again this is our um this is the the same data but just broken down by race. Um, one thing to note is that the uh largest uh number of our students um in the um receiving ESL services fall in the um in the race of Hispanic. The state of New Jersey identifies Hispanic um as a race um as well as an ethnicity depending on the report, but how this data is reported, it it is considered race. Um I know in some places race and ethnicity are two separate things for
017this purpose and and for um data for the state's data they require that we include it in um with race. So the largest volume of our students are are Hispanic which means the largest portion of our non-English speakers are um Spanish is their native language. Um when we break that down by gender, you can see um that we um have more male students than female students. But again, it's um you know, not statistically significant. They are, you know, within 10 percentage points of each other in terms of um numbers of males and females taking the assessment. And then this looks at program. This is how we identify students um in terms of services that or supports that they may receive. So um you will notice in um in elementary school, middle school, and then across
018all of our grades, a large portion of our students, more than 70% and that's been consistent across three years are students who do qualify for free and reduced lunch. So, um remember when I um do the NJSLA data reporting, somebody had asked in the past, could kids be counted in multiple programs? Could they be um both special education and free and reduced lunch um andor uh receive 504 services or any number of those things? Um and the and the answer to that is yes. So um again for the NJSLA data I am often telling you remember that our some of our free and reduced lunch kids are also our students that receive ESL services and you can see that reflected in this report right a large um you know nearly 3/4ers of our students um
019who receive ESL services are are not speaking English at home and are learning English um for the first time you know in schools and speaking Spanish at home. questions about any of that demographic data and then I have some summary highlights to share. Um I do want to um share since Mrs. Rosen is here with us the this evening. Um some um appreciation for her and the ESL staff who really have done an extraordinary job in um moving our kids forward and um and this success that I am sharing with you tonight really is due to the work that they are doing um in the classrooms with um students and with families at the school level. um 16 students um 16 of those students that I just shared out with you representing almost 35% of
020our total ESL population exited our ESL services during the 2425 school year um as we use the WEITA model to measure um 50% of those kids only spent one year in our ESL program. Those are that's yeah that's some pretty impressive data. Um those are students who entered our our ESL program in the early grades, right? So these are kids when we when we can provide ESL services to them, the younger they are, the um faster they are acquiring language. Um we did notice that students demonstrated market growth not just on their access assessment but also on our district level measures. So I Ready, our dis district district level assessments. Several of the district resources that we are using to assess and support student learning students have access to now in their um in their
021native language. So um I the I Ready assessment we can give to kids who are native Spanish speakers in Spanish which allows us to accurately measure um their math and their reading needs uh based in their native language. So that's been really helpful for us as well. Um and we started this um several years ago and it has been tremendously successful. We've used some of our title one funds to support um multilingual um family engagement events. So the um family literacy night uh occurred last year um during the the Donovan school literacy night and an endofear family engagement night that was a a tremendous success focusing on students um a celebration of student learning. Kids brought things that they had learned and um developed or put together projects to show the language that they had
022acquired during the school year. Each grade level did a different project. It was this absolutely phenomenal display of student learning. Um parents were so excited to be there and really um celebrate in their kids learning over the course of last year. It was wonderful. Um so what are some new and exciting next steps in the world of access for EOL? Um we will be continuing ongoing professional development and training for our ESL teachers. We have um we you know we have teachers in the department that are new in in recent years and so um it is always a goal of ours to continue to support teachers and making sure that they have the most um up-to-date tools and are equipped with um best practices for supporting those kiddos. Um and with Mrs. Rosen's promotion to
023West Freehold, I have a new supervisor that I am working with and supporting um with our ESL students. Um and so Mrs. Hoppy is um already dug in. She and Mrs. Mrs. Rosen and I uh met earlier this month to talk about transitioning programs to really support Mrs. Hoppy in being successful and making sure that she's continuing um the efforts um that Mrs. Rosen has uh did with the team to make sure that our program continues to support and move kids forward. Um we will continue to be using digital tools to support homeschool communications. This past year we um acquired S'more across the district and S'more is a tool that um all of the schools are using to publish uh newsletters and teachers at Donovan School are using it to do their classroom newsletters. Parents
024can um access information in S'more in um up to 40 languages. So all they do is click on the newsletter, drop down the um the um arrow at the top and they can se select their native language so parents can stay connected to what's happening in their child's classroom in their native language. Um I shared with you how I Ready um is now available for students in Spanish. We are continuing to use Pocket Talks. They've been tremendous in supporting um communication um between teachers and students, but also kids communicating with one another. pocket talks. We noticed um an awful lot last year kids using them in social circumstances to build their communication, which is wonderful. Um we're also going to be adding um a new tool this year, a um a pen that uh can
025translate uh text. So, we're going to be trying that out with um we've the tech department has already vetted the tool. So, we're going to be acquiring some of these translation pens and giving them a try to see if they can help students with um translation of academic documents. Um, additionally, this summer we provided four weeks of high dosage tutoring for our um our um our multilingual students through remaining HIT grant funds. Um, we, as I shared at a previous board meeting, we did receive that additional $100,000 allocation from the state and our state funds for continued high impact tutoring. And we will be identifying some ML students to to continue high impact tutoring because we have noticed that it's been pretty impactful for these kiddos. Um, and um, there's a a specific curriculum that
026is specifically designed for students acquiring English um, that we've been using that's been very successful. questions. >> Great. >> Are you going to have another uh family engagement night plan? >> Um yes, most certainly. It was tremendously successful. Um last year our goal was to have more than one. Um so I I think that I mean at the very least we will have um another one of what we did this year which is that family that celebration of learning night which was tremendously successful. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Keep it chair. Thank you very much. That was a great presentation and congratulations, Mrs. Rosen, on that data. That's fantastic. We love to hear that as a board. >> Send the word back. We're we're very proud as a board to see
027data like that. >> Good job, team. >> All right. Do we have any other administration? I just have a certification. Um I, Robert Dvita, the school business administrator secretary, certifies that as of June 30th, 2025 and July 31st, 2025, build line item has been overextended in violation of NJAC6A23A-16.10C3 and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder of the year. And that's all I have. >> Excellent. Thank you. This is the first opportunity for public participation on agenda items only before I read this. Is there anyone that's going to approach the podium? >> Did he need to do July also because that's on the >> He did. He said July. >> He said July too. Okay. I'm sorry I missed that. I was only reading June. >> Seeing none,
028I'm going to go right to personnel policy and communications. Mrs. Spieler is actually um by phone today. Um, I don't know if one of the other committee members would like to do it. >> I knew she was going to be here. >> Absolutely. >> Good evening. We did not meet as a committee tonight. So, I'm just going to move agenda items. Item number two, first reading of policies and regulations. I don't have to read down the list, right? Just as listed. Item number three, second reading of policy is listed. Item four, first reading to abolish policy as listed. As listed. Number five, resignation is listed. Item number six, new employment as listed. Item number seven, resend resignation as listed. Number eight, adjust resignation date as listed. Number nine, establish start date as listed. Number 10,
029adjust start date as listed. Number 11, leave of absence as listed. Number 12, salary adjustment adjustments as listed. Item number 13, change of assignment, salary adjustment as listed. Number 14, change of assignment as listed. Number 15, temporary change of assignment slash salary adjustment as listed. [Applause] Number 16, transportation salaries as listed. [Applause] Number 17, lunchroom assistant salaries 2025 2026 as listed. Number 18, additional compensation transfer assignment/room as listed. Number 19, district mentors as listed. Number 20, translator/interpreter as listed. Number 21, substitute rates 2025 2026 school year as listed. Number 22, long-term substitute teacher pay rate of pay 2025 2026 school year as listed. 20. Number 23, student teacher practicum observation placement as listed. Number 24, name correction as listed. Number 25, certified substitutes as listed. Number 26, non-certified substitutes as listed. And that is all
030I have. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> Any questions policy? Seeing none, can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. BR? >> Yes. >> Dr. Casey? >> Yes. >> Miss Crosby? >> Yes. >> Mr. Rodullo? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lambert? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Spieler? >> Yes. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Williams. >> Yes. >> Mrs. O. Sullivan? >> Yes. >> Mr. Amaroso? >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you. Uh, curriculum. Mrs. Brandt. >> Yes. Good evening. We did not meet as a curriculum committee. How will we met later on to discuss the board um goals which I can discuss later when we get to the public participation and as uh and I'll just go through the course course number two course reimbursement as listed number three 2005 2000 uh
0312025 20226 professional development plan and mentoring plan as listed Listed. Number four, 2025 20226 instructional materials list as listed. Number five, 2025 2026 field trip list as listed. Number six, 2025 2026 curricula as listed. And that's all. >> Okay. Do I have a second? >> Second. Do I have any questions for curriculum? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Carries. >> Thank you. U finance, facilities, and transportation. Mrs. Lambert. >> See if this >> I'm waiting for Mr. M. >> The finance, facilities, and transportation committee met this evening. In attendance were myself, Mr. Devidita, Mr. Amaroso, Miss Gulo, um, Miss Williams, and, um, that's it. Did I say it right? Oh, we discussed, uh, multiple items. I can go into little detail, great detail. I'll keep it short and
032sweet, and if anybody has additional questions, feel free to reach out to me. I've got two pages of notes. Um, we talked about the bond refunding process. Uh we have some bonds that were issued in 2016 that are callable this fall and the state requires that when the net present value of the savings is 3% or more you have to refund them and they will be um going through that process. The issue is 13.7 million. Um part of the savings will go to pay the professionals involved which would be Wentz and um >> Phoenix >> and Phoenix and you'll see it on uh the first reading is going to be on tonight's agenda. the savings that will pay for Phoenix and Wens and the formal hearing for the public will be on September 30th and
033we will lens will provide us guidance for that in case anybody has further questions about the savings what makes them callable feel free to reach out. We discussed the transfer for the IBNR for health claims. IBNR is um incurred but not reported healthc care claims. Um Bob keeps um a certain reserve available for that. He had 120,000 available, but we had um $287,000 of more claims come in. As you know, we're self-insured, but we have a stop loss when someone's out of the stop loss. The liability is 100% on the district. So there's a bit of a guesstimating as well as transferring a lot that um goes on with that. Um so and there's a lag. So there's really no way to tell you know how long that comes in. It's typically within 15 to
03445 days, but sometimes it can take longer than that. So that's what that transfer was um in on the 812 agenda. You might see some more transfers. If you have any questions about the stop-loss IBNR claims, feel free to reach out to Bob or myself. Um, third item we discussed was the electrical upgrade at DDES. Uh, there's going to be two change orders coming on future agendas and they relate to this. Anyone who's familiar with those with the Eisenhower knows that in the back of the building and separate from the building on that concrete pad is the big electrical box. As part of the electrical upgrade, we were going to abandon that box, break up the asphalt, remove those wires, and bring all the electrical inhouse. But what had happened in a previous year when
035the seventh grade wing was built, there was another arm of electrical that came out of that box. And that box is known as the switch gear. So there was another arm that came out. So now it's cost prohibitive to break up the whole entire access road for the two arms. So instead, we're going to replace that switch gear. So there's there were some there's one minor change order for $4,200 for changes that were made probably in, you know, how we uh spected or in the asbuilts. and the second one will cost 60,000 but we will get a credit back for the work that we're not doing in breaking up the asphalt. So what the net of that is is yet to be seen. Um but if anybody has a question regarding feel free to reach
036out. Environmental insurance update first on site was the company hired by uh Gallagher who's our insurance broker to go out and inspect Laura Donovan school. so that we could possibly get our insurance reinstated by Beasley. If you all recall, after the mold situation last year, they dropped our insurance. So that was what Neil was talking about. The company that came out with the LED, the highle LED lights, that was first onsite. So they have looked at every aspect of the building. At some point they'll prepare a report to send to Beasley and we'll find out in the future if they're going to reinstate our insurance or not based upon that outcome. We'll see what happens next. Um we spoke about the referendum update last week on the 14th and 15th. Central office admin and some
037building level admin met with Speasel to go over uh the construction projects related to the referendum. Um Bob said it was an absolutely fruitful meeting. Um they really made some progress. Some great decisions were made. It was very helpful to have the admin there. Uh Diane who's uh Dr. Brethar was head of security who also had very intimate knowledge of DDES. Our superintendent Mr. Dixine who knows other buildings inside out upside down. they were able to make some um input as to certain doors, what types of doors, windows, locations of windows, all for the safety of the staff and students. Um the four schools with um UVs and wood ceilings will have a rooftop dehumidification system also added and built in. The RFP for commissioning um HVAC and controls will go out. Uh TCI environmental
038is taking core samples of all the materials that are going to be demoed uh to see if we need to add any specific steps to the process i.e. if they found asbestos that would be a certain process tending or whatever they do when they remove anything that can be considered an environmental hazard. Um Bob started work on the referendum safety committee. We spoke about that. Um maybe bringing in TCI and Allan from Wet, which was the group that worked on the Laura Don Mold situation last year. Um and starting first as a group meeting and then maybe breaking out into smaller building level safety committee meetings. We'll see how that goes. But in the initial it'll be a large group made up of central office, our maintenance staff, uh some administrative people, board personnel. Uh
039we'll keep you posted on that. And then we discussed the board goal template on this referendum process and what that's going to look like and the ultimate goal of how to get consistent and substantive information disseminated to the public every step of the way in the construction process when that all begins as well as agenda items. Okay. Anything you want to add? Okay. >> No. And I think we discussed um you know we would invite the two FDA presidents to give provide input ahead of time. That's why we had mentioned might be a good idea to have your environmental consultant if if and talk to M if ours is willing to. I haven't spoken to him yet and this way they can share information what he's already done. >> All right. >> And that we
040will be taking air samples before, during and after the construction process during any demolition. >> Yeah. Air samples throughout the whole de demolition. And in terms of disseminating the the information to the public, every day, uh, Bob will receive sort of like a a bullet hit list, you know, this was switched, this was ch like of what got done. How do we convert that into something substantive and brief to go out to the public that's meaningful to the public? So, we have to kind of figure that out. That's a work in progress. Um, with that said, I'd like to move the following items on the agenda. Um, item number three, uh, Secretary Treasurer's report. Item number four, bills and claims in the amount of 10,12258767 approved by >> me, Mrs. Brand. >> Bernard Brand. Item
041five, travel and related expenses as listed. six, disposals as listed. Item seven, the nursing services uh contract for the 2526 school year as listed. Um that seems to be an update. Um item eight, out of district transportation contracts through as listed. Item nine, the resolution authorizing the introduction of the refunding bond ordinance. That's what we discussed in the committee. Item 10, revised change order for interior renovations at Kina Elementary School. Item 11, fiscal year 2026 ESA grant application. Item 12, IDEIDA basic and preschool fiscal year 2026 grant. And that is it. >> Thank you, Mrs. Lambert, for that comprehensive. We talk a lot in our meetings. >> You made Bob speechless. That's not That's hard to do. >> Good job. >> Sorry, Bob. >> Okay. Do we have a second on that? >> Second. >>
042Okay. Do we have any questions for finance or facilities? >> Okay. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> I. >> Okay. >> All right. Motion carries. >> Excellent. >> We will move into old business. Do we have any old business? I have just one um which is a reminder for the I know the committees are diligently working on their goals. Ellena just handed me a template that they're working on. I know Michelle is working on ours and I'm sure curriculum is working on there. So we don't have to do an update tonight, but just a reminder to keep an eye on that. Um the other thing of course we've already mentioned is to make sure you're signing up for back to school nights. Um the list is >> going around.
043>> Okay. try to carve up some time. That's another goal, a hidden goal is we want to try to get high attendance. And I think that's about it on my reminders of old business. Does anybody else have any old business? >> Mike, I'd like to go over the uh board goals with the curriculum. We went we met tonight and we went over some of the board goals and the objective we we decided was to increase community attendance at board of education meetings >> and we listed four major activities in that we plan on executing in the coming um months. uh publishing board of education meeting dates on school matters coordination among board members to attend school-based events which we discussed and board members to attend school-based PTO meetings as uh directed and invite school sponsored
044activities and clubs to present at board meetings before the actual uh presentation for awards and just have an introduction to what their activities are and all this with the uh in goal of increasing attendance to the board meetings and questions and interaction with board members. >> Thank you. >> Ellen, do you want to share yours? >> It's we all worked out. >> That's all comprehensive as a committee. Okay. >> Okay. I haven't read that yet, but thank you for that. >> Um >> we're waiting for our chairperson to get back. >> Okay. >> From Italy, I think, right, Carmela? >> Oh my gosh. I am back. But yes, we we need to um >> I think she got back today. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> So, but once we once she's back, we will scar
045out some time. >> Okay. And as Michelle gave in her report, uh finance is working on that communication part of as the construction is going on. How can we best present that data to the whole Freel Township community so people can understand what's going on at each of the construction sites? you know, you know, if the playgrounds, you know, are going to be used or not being used, for example, or if there's a certain building going up, people might have questions about it. We'll try to keep as much up-to-date information as we can, and we'll try to derive the information from the construction management team and somehow get that perhaps on a web link with some photos. So, with that, we will go over to um new business. Does anybody have any new business? >>
046No. >> Okay. If not, um, second president's remarks. Um, none other than, um, this board, um, congratulates everyone once again. We look forward to a wonderful opening of school and a great day of no hiccups and, uh, knock on wood. >> So, uh, once again, I can't believe that summer's almost over. With that, we will go um into the second opportunity for public participation. Once again, any hands up if we're going to do that. Doesn't look like it. No. Okay. Then we're going to go to an executive session. Um so whereas pursuant to NJSA 10 col4-12B 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 NJSA 104-12B1-9. Now therefore be it resolved that in accordance with the provisions
047of the open public meeting act the board of education shall conduct a closed session pursuant to the personnel and legal exceptions prescribed by NJSA 104-12 for the purpose of discussing the following matters a settlement agreement. It is anticipated that the length of time of this executive session will be 30 minutes and that action will 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 close session no longer exist. >> Do I have a um a second on that? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Thanks folks for coming out.