001Okay, we are going to go ahead and get started. So uh in accordance with uh the open public meetings NJSA10 uh 4-6 adequate notification of this meeting has been provided by advertising in the courier news and posting notice in the board of education administration building and district schools and filing notice with the burough clerk. I hereby call to order the regular public meeting Tuesday, June 10, 2025, in the Lincoln Middle School Cafeterium, 400 Denellan Avenue at 7:02 p.m. This meeting is broadcast live. For details, check www.denellonsschools.org. Uh, moving on to item number two. Uh, roll call. Shall I call it or shall you? I can do it. Yeah. Okay. Mr. Ross, could you please call the role? Sure. Uh, Mr. Mr. Anderson is present. Mrs. Condit present. Miss Ibach present. Dr. Gendrono present. Mrs. Howard
002present. Mr. Sonoi present. Miss Shyf. Mrs. Shep present. Mr. Walker here. All right. We have a quorum. All right. Fantastic. Uh, moving on to item number three. Um, executive session. The Denellan Board of Education will now adjourn into executive session to discuss items that fall within specific exceptions to the Open Public Meetings Act C NJSA 104-12B. The confidential matters discussed by the board this executive session include items related to individual privacy, collecting collective bargaining agreements, pending or anticipated litigation, and personnel. Any others? Uh any any discussion that does not need to remain confidential will be made public as soon as it is practical. Minutes of the executive session will not be disclosed until the need for confidentiality no longer exists. All individuals who may be discussed in executive session have been adequately notified. Action will
003take place after the conclusion of the executive session. May I have a motion to move into executive session, please? Move to go to exe. Second. All those in favor? I I opposed. Okay, we will be back in about uh 25 minutes or so around 7:30 and uh we'll pick up there. Thank you. Okay, we are back. Thank you for your patience. So, um, at this time looking for a motion to come back to public. Move to return to public. Second. All those in favor? I opposed. All right, moving on to item number five, approval of the minutes. So, uh, oh, I'm sorry. Item number four, uh, pledge of allegiance. Uh, the flag is this way. Could you please stand? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
004for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Will you all please remain standing for a moment of reflection and respect for our troops serving throughout the world, our troops who have served and our troops who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the name of our United States of America. Thank you. Okay, moving on to item number five, approval of the minutes. Looking for a motion uh to approve the minutes from our last meeting on May 20th. So, approval of the May 20th uh uh board meeting minutes approve 5A. Second. That's a much easier way to say it. Okay. Open for questions or comments. Last call. Okay. Mr. Ross, could you please call the role? Yep. Uh, Mr. Anderson, yes. Mrs. Condet, yes. Miss Ibach, yes. Dr. Gendrono, yes.
005Mrs. Howard, yes. Mr. Salonoi, yes. Mrs. Shep, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Oh, fantastic. Moving on to item number six, recognitions. At this time, I'll turn this over to Mr. Ross. Wonderful. Thank you, Dr. Jendrono. Hi everyone. Um, welcome, welcome, welcome. This is a very, very exciting evening. Uh, it's wonderful to have you all here to celebrate our educators of the year. This is an annual tradition that recognizes the best and the brightest from our staff that we have uh at our three schools and our educational services professional of the year. um for the entire district. The process for the selection of educator of the year is a nomination process and then there's a committee that's formed that uses a rubric that's approved by the state that looks at each staff member's contributions to
006the school community um their relationship with staff, their effect on students, and just their overall excellence across a wide range of areas. So, we are very very excited to celebrate four of our own today. And to honor them, I'm going to bring up the principles. And Mr. Mr. Lynch, you are standing. So, why don't you come down first? All right. So, we'll welcome uh Mr. Paul Lynch, principal of the high school, to recognize two of our honores for tonight. So, Mr. Lynch [Applause] Good evening everyone. It's my privilege to announce the Denellan High School teacher of the year and then our also our educational services professional of the year. So we will start with the Denellan High School teacher of the year, Mrs. Tammy Del Rosario. And that's what we love to see. Uh, Miss
007Del Rosario has been teaching at Denellan High School for over 35 years. Correct. I went back and looked at some of the yearbooks today. Uh, the first year was 1989. Yes. So kind of yes. So been at Denellan High School, Lincoln Middle School for a long period of time. She's been very involved in the school and the school community. She is one of the leaders of our peer leaders, those uh teachers and students that help coordinate the nth grade transition over to the high school. She's also a in charge of the safety ambassadors with Miss Albertson. They've been working with Robert Wood Johnson for a number of years now and going over to Faber where the high school students teach lessons to the Faber students about safety around the community. She's also been a class
008advisor over the years. She is a fizzed teacher, but she also teaches health and our parenting class. any a lot of students who have come through the Denellan school system started as our little destroyer preschool program and it's so cute to see the two and three year olds that come into the high school in September because we always have a few criers that start out the school year and Miss Del Rosario does such a great job of calming them, getting them acclimated to the school and teaching the high school students how to take care of these little kids, especially when they're crying, because as we all know, that is no easy task. Um, so we just had our graduation from our preschool program on Friday, and it was another success. It was a great opportunity
009for our high school kids and for those little kids that we have this program. She's also our 11th and 12th grade health teacher. uh fund. She in 11th grade it's CPR first aid and she does a great job teaching the students how to save a life. Uh it's impressive to see how many students over the years go into health care become EMTs. uh for me and I know for Miss Del Rosario because uh we saw an article in the paper just a couple two years ago I think it was a former student of ours who is an EMT. They had an article in the paper about how they saved a life and it's impressive because the skills that that student had started with Miss Del Rosario when they took the first aid uh back in
01011th grade. She also has the challenge of teaching the 12th grade health class, which is all of those life skills and sexuality. And all I know is whenever I walk into her classroom, as you would know it, it's one of those uncomfortable topics that they are talking about that when as soon as the principal walks in, all of the kids look at me and there's that embarrassment factor that goes on and I just kind of try and fade into the background and Miss Del Rosario just keeps on teaching what she's doing. So, she's been an invaluable member of our staff uh all of these years. Uh she's been fantastic as a colleague to work with. She's the liaison for the fizzed department. She's worked incredibly well with all of our fizzed teachers, including Mr. Hmel,
011who is here tonight in support of her. So our 2025 teacher of the year, Miss Tammy Del Rosario. Congratulations. Tammy Dave's taking pictures. Oh, you can stand up. It's okay. [Applause] and our educational services professional of the year, Mrs. Libo Lisa Liowitz. Many might not know, uh, Mrs. Lee is one that kind of works behind the scenes. Uh, doesn't not a lot of people outside of her little area see her. She's our student assistance counselor at the high school. So, she deals with a lot of students that are going through are having issues, uh, teenage trauma, teenage issues with a lot of them do. And if it's beyond something that the regular counselors aren't able to deal with, they come see Mrs. Lieowitz. um affectionately just a lot just refer to her as Miss L.
012I'm going to go see Miss L. And sometimes, unfortunately for her, sometimes there's a line outside of her office waiting to talk to her. And she'll tell students, "Go back to class. I will call you down when I'm able to." Um she does so much for our school. A lot of people don't see the work that she does counseling the students on a regular basis. In addition to that, she's really done a phenomenal job of outreach within the school. She started a group that at the high school called Project Connect where it's been a goal to really are newer students to the school and the country. They don't speak the language and trying to get them to learn about the high school, how the things that are offered by the community and really make them
013feel a part of the high school. And over the last few years, this program really has grown to be a huge source of support for the students that we have at the high school. And she's done so much. There's a side garden at the high school that they have kind of taken over. And there's even a sign on there uh mentioning the Project Connect organization. and she's gotten a lot of the students that were part of the program uh learning English that are now proficient helping out with the newer students. They've done a lot of activities. They've taken field trips. She's or they took a trip trip to uh Ellis Island. They've done an organ. They've done a clothing drive where we have clothing available to all students in the school if they're having economic
014issues. Their families are and kids can just come and take what they need. And so Mrs. Lee really has been instrumental in trying to make it a community feel for all of the students here at the high school. and so we are indebted to all of the work that she does on a daily basis. Um, so our ed services professional of the year, Lisa Liowitz, congratulations. [Applause] Okay. All right. Good evening all. Um, congratulations to all Denellan's educators of the year. I'm Lauren Cfield, assistant principal here at Lincoln. So, um, tonight I am truly proud and honored to announce that Mrs. Stephanie DBA as the Lincoln Middle School teacher of the year for 2425. So, Mrs. TBAC is being recognized as the teacher of the year for Lincoln for the 2024 2025 school year. I'd
015like to recognize her whole squad. I think 10 plus over here. Um, and I am proud to honor her for this. She has been a contributing member and a true asset to the Denellan community for 13 years now. Her career here started at Faber and Lincoln was lucky enough to acquire her as the eighth grade English language arts teacher back in 2019. And Mr. Lieutenant, you're you're not getting her back. No, she we're locking the door. We keep her. Sorry. Um, Mrs. DBAC, she truly embodies all the attributes that contribute to true highquality teachers. She's dedicated to delivering sound instruction, engaging lessons, and promoting an enthusiasm for learning among her classes. Even more importantly, she flawlessly develops a strong rapport and relationship with every student she has over the years, whether she's making connections with
016them through attending their basketball games or endless conversation about music, which usually is about Taylor Swift, of course. Um, she has a steady stream of students who actively keep in contact with her over the years. um as soon as they step out of her classroom up until years beyond they've left Denellan and she always impresses me as she remembers names far quicker than I can. Um watching her interact with her students is a true joy and her passion for teaching the students she works with is evident particularly here at the middle school. She's really able to develop an honest and genuine relationship with everyone she has. Not only is she an immense supporter for her students, but also her colleagues and administration. Mrs. DBAC is a true leader in her role as Lincoln Middle School
017uh team leader in eighth grade. She flawlessly executes the eighth grade promotion coming up next week. Um as well as the eighth grade field trip which was held last month. Um she joins all different committees. this year it was the I Ready committee and has been part of the afterchool and summer program um instructions over all her years here. The LMS the LMS administration students and their families are so fortunate to have Mrs. DBC um to have chosen here at Lincoln um and we look forward to all her years to come in Denellan. So congratulations [Applause] Sherry's gonna get uh two speeches tonight. One from a little bit from me and a little bit from friend, pal, colleague for 20 years, Miss Venro like that though. Students, faculty, administrators, board of education members, and anyone
018lucky enough to be in this room right now. Let me make it clear right off the bat. We are here to celebrate not just any teacher. We are here to celebrate the teacher at Favor. The teacher who didn't just stroll in the building, clock in, hand in worksheets. No, we're talking about a force of nature, a disruptor of failure, a fixer of broken confidence, and a straightup interventionist, Miss Sher Krauss. Give a round of applause. Now, some of you may ask, what is an interventionist? Well, let me break it down for you. It's someone who sees a kid slipping through the cracks and says, "Not on my watch." It's someone who looks at the mountain of learning gaps and says, "Good. I like a challenge. An interventionist is a miracle worker with a marker, a
019coach, a counselor, a motivator, a warrior, all rolled into one. Miss Krauss, she does all that and more. She doesn't just teach, she shows up every single day with fire, with grit, and with a kind of patient that deserves its own medal. She puts in the work nobody sees. She's celebrating tiny victories most folks overlook because she knows little wins stack up into life-changing success stories. She's the one who tells the kids, "You're not a failure. You're not behind. You're just not done yet." She fights every fights for every child like that she was like they were her own. And you better believe she doesn't stop till they believe in themselves. She's not just there for the students. She's a go-to teammate for the teachers across the building as well. Need a plan? Call Miss
020Krauss. Need support? She's there. Need someone to tell you the truth and still have your back? You guessed it, Miss Krauss. She does it all and she elevates the whole team day in and day out. And let's talk about the numbers. Some folks run from data when like it's on fire. Not Miss Krauss. No sir. She leans into the data and bends it to her will. She's got spreadsheets that speak louder than words. She tracks progress, sets goals, and delivers receipts. She's not just good at data. She's a diva with data. And I mean that in the best way. She owns it. She rocks it. She makes it sing. She doesn't just celebrate a students. She brings the struggling ones up. She doesn't quit, doesn't coast, and sure doesn't make excuses. She brings the kind
021of dedication that turns problems into progress and doubt into confidence. So, no, this award isn't just a pat in the back. It's a full-blown standing ovation, victory lap, fireworks in the sky kind of honor. This is recognition for fearlessness, relentlessness, and no excuses kind of love for students that change lives. Miss Krauss, you did this. You deserve it. You are our favorite teachers of the year. And now my partner, Miss Van Ross. Try to follow that. I had to speak Sh. Um, so I have nominated actually Shrie for teacher of the year many times um since we've worked together over the years. So I'm so excited that this year that you won. I'm in a new position. and I get to speak. So, um she's a colleague and a friend whose dedication and passion have
022inspired me for many years. We go way back as classroom te neighbors in second grade for about a decade, working side by side as BSI teachers for six years and last year collaborating as interventionists. I can say honestly that she is one person who has consistently inspired me as an educator and as a person through the years. Her leadership and commitment to Denal students have been unwavering. So, I thought I would take excerpts from the nomination letters I wrote from way back when and you read them here. I found four of when I went digging. Um, and one from 2016. So, it's been a long time that she's doing awesome. Um, so just want to explain how consistently she's been leading, inspiring, and helping our Denellan students over the years. Um, from the beginning, you
023exemplify what it means to be creative and motivating. You're always bringing fresh ideas and effective instructional strategy to the table. Um, you're meeting diverse needs of students and in a fun way. I was in the room today and she was playing a game with the kids while doing Wilson, which can be kind of dry, but she is always, you know, spicing it up with games and making it fun for them and rewards and prizes. Um the lessons are interactive and engaging. Um and years ago when we were starting uh working on a basic skills program, she took the initiative to create a schoolwide bookroom. She's led um book swaps, author visits, readathons um and they've had a lasting impact on fab. Um over the last two years as an interventionist um it's been particularly remarkable
024like Mr. and said, um, providing differentiated instruction, um, you've really unlocked like the world of reading for students in Denellan, which is such like a priceless gift for them. Um, and then changes that come in the district and at Faber, you've really rolled with it all. Um, proving that you're a lifelong learner and you take leadership in it, which means you give back to others. Um, your influence extends far beyond your classroom. Like we said, you're a natural leader. You share your knowledge generously. You do ed camps. Um, your foundation's background is huge for helping teachers. Your Wilson training. You've mentored new teachers. You work to connect families with the events you plan. You collaborate with teachers in the classrooms you go into um to help out in. You're always respectful um in your communication
025with colleagues, parents. Um, and you're even digging, you know, and asking other educators around for new ideas and advice. I know your sister Stacy, you're always like conferring with her about what's going on in her district. Um, and you really embody professionalism, kindness, and flexibility. Um, you've been really flexible as the changes have happened. Um, I know that your colleagues really look up to you and look to you. You're always prompt, organized, and prepared. um colleagues really do rely on you as a go-to resource because you're always willing to assist, answer questions, share your expertise with kindness and enthusiasm. Um you're very dependable and really it fosters a sense of trust like among the staff and it really builds the the culture and the climate in the school. Um and you're so always so positive.
026So, I really do believe that Denellan is undeniably better because of your commitment and dedication over the years. And I am so proud to be able to speak about my work, bestie. I hope you still consider me now that I'm an admin. You can tell me stuff. Um, and I, you know, I I really look to you as not only an exceptional educator, but really like a beloved member of the Denal community. I know families are always speaking so highly of you. Um, so I really do hope that um your difference will continue to be made for years to come. We hope and we we love you here. [Applause] If we could have uh all of the educators of the year come on up and the administrators who spoke about them please come on up
027as well. Yep. She's here. She's back there. She's hiding. I know. Seriously. Seriously. You want to set up chairs in front. [Applause] All right. So, that was wonderful and congratulations to all the educators of the year. Yeah. We're going to take a little uh cake break, but before we do that, uh I want to bring up two very special students who have um served the board this year as student representatives to the board. So, I'd like to have Jazar McGlaughlin and Douglas Guardado Crian come on up here, please. Don't drop. All right. So, our student representatives to the board are selected by the high school administration. Um, typically in the past couple of years since I arrived in the district, we've had one student representative. Uh, this year, we're honored to have two. Uh, Douglas,
028who is a 11th grader, rising senior, and Jazara, who is a 12th grader. Uh, Douglas is a student council president, and Jazara is the class of 2025 president. Um, so Jazara is on her way out. She will be attending Rutgers uh the honors college for the school of business. Jazara is for those of you who know her an extraordinary academic performer and also an incredible athlete. Um she was recently recognized I guess it was about two weeks ago uh as a GMC scholar athlete um for her accomplishments. Three sport athlete just one of the one of the great people at Denellan High School. Um, and we're just incredibly honored to have had her serve on the board this year. So, Jazar McGlaughlin Douglas Gordado Crian is uh, as I said, a rising 12th grader and
029he uh, was just recently elected to be student council president for a second year in a row. So, we can first start with that. I met Douglas uh, when I first came to the district. uh he sort of bound bounded up to me and introduced himself shaking my hand and he was just this this incredible ball of energy and light and positivity uh and I was like who is this kid? I asked around and people said oh that's the mayor right and Douglas really is incredible the work that uh Mrs. Liowitz does with project uh connect um Douglas has been very involved with and just the desire and the the drive to give back to the community um as a student to support other students and make them feel welcome. Um as you know over
030the last bunch of years uh Denellan has had a massive influx of Hispanic students and uh students who uh speak Spanish uh as their primary language at home, English language learners. um and the connection that um those students feel with students who have achieved mastery of the English language or proficiency of the English language to have them bring them into the community is just one of the most fulfilling feelings and and Douglas has been a leader in that. And so congratulations to both of these students and thank you for your service to the board. Dave Picture Sure. [Applause] All right. So, we're going to take about a 15minute break in the actual board meeting. We've got a a beautiful cake that we'll bring out here. We've got plates. There's certainly enough for everyone. So, congratulations
031everyone who's been recognized today. Thank you to the administrators who spoke. Um, welcome families. It's beautiful to meet you and I'm so glad that you got to spend uh this incredible occasion with everyone. And let's just have another big round of applause because you should. Did you live in Demerest? No way. I lived in uh Brett, which is uh honors honors college. You walk up the hill and there's Herado Health Center right there and Brett's right next to it. Good night. See you. That was my second That was my third and fourth year. Wasn't okay. I lived in East Apartments for the for my third and fourth years. All right. So, uh we are going to move on with our wait I don't know even know president's remarks. Why am I talking then? I was
032trying to get to the student. Okay, we'll get I know I'll go quick. So, all right. So, um well, hello. So, just to say a few words, you know, um, congratulations again to our 2025 educators of the year, Tammy, Daryl Rousario, Stephanie Diosi, Sher Krauss, Lisa Liowitz. Thank you for all you've done for our kids in our community. Um, our school community is so much better, so much richer because of the outstanding work you've done. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um, also I wanted to again, you know, say a great big thank you to Jazar McGlaughlin and Douglas Gordado Cyrian on a great year as student representatives to the board. you made us whole and um we look forward to seeing what you guys do next and and Jazara, you know, wishing you all
033great things as you start your journey at Ruters. Go Scarlet Knights. Are you ra I was going to say class of class of a very long time ago. So um we are in the last week of school and so many things are happening. So, uh, you know, um, we had the spring sports awards just last week and oh my goodness, like two two major things with our coaches with, um, Coach Lindseay and Coach Johnson mega awards. So awesome. Congrats to the kids and all the awards that they students that they got as well. Fantastic. And we had the the band concert last week, LMS and DHS. We had the what is it? The favor one week or two before that. There's another choir concert coming up in the art show. There's the Middle Sex County,
034was it arts festival not too long ago? So many things happening. There's there's a huge list. Um but to say that, you know, we are very we're coming up on it. So we're coming up on uh 8th grade promotion and the DHS graduation. Um so um yeah, just I can't believe how quickly this time is going. So guys, enjoy this while we can. We have this is our last week before we uh say goodbye to our seniors, you know, and start the summer. Um well, I'll keep this short. You know, I'd um you know, like to thank Mr. Ross, the administration, the faculty, the staff, and our students for making um the 2024 2025 year a great success. We got through a lot this year. We accomplished a lot this year, and I'm excited for
035all that we have in store for next year. Plans are already in the works. So, I hope that everyone has a very relaxing and rejuvenating summer. I know we're not we're going to be coming back as a board in in July and August and the such, but for those that may not be joining us for those meetings, you know, have a great summer, enjoy, be kind. Um, you know, create community, have fun, and uh I'll uh leave it there. Thanks everyone for your time and listening. To you, Mr. Ross. Thank you, Dr. Jindano. So, the first item in the superintendent's report is the student representative report. So for their final time on the day, let's have our student report to Zara. Good evening. Um so first on the report, we just have the info regarding
036the 2024 and 2025 school year. So for class of 2025, we had the prom. So on May 22nd, the class of 2025 celebrated their long awaited prom at the Imperia, embracing the theme, a night at the city. venue was transformed into an elegant city inspired atmosphere filled with bright lights, music, and unforgettable moments. From stylish entrances to non-stop dancing, the night was a great success, giving students a chance to create lasting memories with their classmates as they unfortunately approach graduation. On May 16th, the class of 2025 embarked on their senior trip to Pocono Valley Resorts. The trip was a great success and served as a well-deserved celebration of the memories and milestones the class has shared through their high school journey. On June 3rd, seniors Jazar McLaughlin and Luke Patterson were recognized as the Nellan
037High School's Greater Middle Sex Conference Scholar Athletes for 2025. They were presented awards for their outstanding athletic and academic achievements. In addition, the seniors held their yearbook signing party June 3rd after school in the art room. Students got to chat with friends and sign yearbooks while enjoying pizza and snacks. The seniors take the win in the annual senior versus faculty game. On June 3rd, the class of 2025 faced off against the staff in the much anticipated annual senior versus faculty game. With energy high and school spirits on full display, both teams brought their best. But in the end, the seniors claimed the well-earned victory. On June on June 4th, the high school held its annual spring band concert, making the final performance of the year. Students delivered a powerful and emotional showcasing their growth and
038dedication throughout the season. The senior girls dominate in the powderpuff game. On June 9th, the senior girls took the juniors on in the highly anticipated powderpuff football game and delivered a blowout victory. With an unstoppable offense and a locked in defense, the class of 2025 shut out the juniors with a commanding 30 to zero win. Zar Mlacklin was the offensive MVP, scoring three touchdowns, while Ella Walker added to the scoreboard with a touchdown of her own. The game was packed with school spirit, friendly rivalry, and unforgettable performance by seniors. As the school year winds down, high school students will begin their final exams, which will kick off tomorrow and continue through June 17th, the official last day of school. Uh, as graduation approaches, the class of 2025 is just days away from grad. And with
039the ceremony scheduled for June 17th, excitement builds. Students, family, and staff are all hoping for clear skies so the celebration can be held outdoors. Next, we're going to transition into spring sports. Uh, first we have baseball. Our varsity boys baseball team finished with a record of 16 wins and 11 losses. The team unfortunately fell short of a win against South Hunter in the first round of the NJSIA Central Group 1 Tournament. Softball, we have the Denellan varsity softball team ended their season with a record of 10 and 15. They had three players named all silver division. Junior Alexa Devesa, sophomore Kyla Fuso, and sophomore Rose Chickala. Rose Chickala was also named the second team all conference. It is unfortunate they're losing their senior ABraago, but the team will be back for the next season. They'll
040be looking forward to next year and want to send a huge thank you to all who supported them this season. The track team has some impressive performances this year at the GMC's sectionals and groups this spring. The team is looking to bring the same momentum into the upcoming season. boys tennis team finished with a record of 49 and one. The team was small but tight-knit with only two seniors and a very young crew carrying on to the next season. All right, good evening everybody. First of all, I want to apologize for not being able to make it to the last two meetings. I tried my best but I had work to go to. Um so for Don High School um as we all approach by uh the end of the year a lot of people
041are turning in their last assignments and studying for the final exams which has some people nervous but at the same time excited to go on a summer break. Some students are also collecting signatures from fellow friends and classmates as well as the their teacher signatures. Um some other things that have happened over the last few days are there there were a lot of field trips while while we were approaching the end of the year. For example, some students made their way to see all to see a performance of Great Gatsby at Broadway near New York New York City. a field trip to Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, Somerset King, Patriots, and a performance of Romeo and Juliet between others. As Yasara said, prom was held and the students dressed to impress as they
042went in shiny suits and dresses. Um, students had a great time dancing and enjoying time with their peers, congratulating the graduating seniors. for Lincoln Middle School. I got the report from the executive council president at Lincoln Middle School, Adam GMA, and he wrote seven and eighth grade science fire uh fair. In late May, seven and eight, students presented their science project in a class as part of a grade assignment. Students explored a variety of science topics and demonstrated curiosity, creativity, and problem solving skills through their work. Great job to everyone for their effort and through and thoughtful presentations. Eighth grade graduation ceremony and dance. Our eighth grade students are preparing to take their next big step into high school. The upcoming graduation ceremony will honor their journey at LMS and celebrate their accomplishments after the
043ceremony. Students will enjoy the graduation dance, a final celebration filled with music, la laughter, and memories to mark the end of middle school. End of year appreciation. This school year has been filled with learning, friendship, and unforgettable experiences. We are proud of our students for their resilience, growth, and school spirit. A heart thank you, a heartfelt thank you to our teachers, staff, and families for their continued support and dedication. Your commitment has helped make this year a success. Have a uh for favorite elementary. Sorry. We have that they had the harvest fest day on for for f for the fifth grade. Sorry. They had the middle schooler the elementary students harvested lettuce and vegetables to give to at our f favorite farmers market. The market was a place for students to display projects to their
044parents and also take home letter lettuce for the harvest. First grade had their young outdoor celebrators celebration today. Students share stories they wrote to their parents. Fourth and third grade students had their academic awards ceremony. Academic achievements was celebrated across all subjects. The whole school fund raised for BBSID throughout the fifth annual color run. There was the race was a run around favor. Students from FRIPK to fifth and volunteers from DHS had a great time getting hit with powder and completing the curse. Overall, these last days of a school have been busy. But there is one more thing that we can there is one thing that we all can agree on. These times from high school are what built us. what shaped the way that we are and where we meet people who have an
045impact in our in our lives forever. Thank you to everybody who has been here with me and thank you for supporting me and helping me through. I appreciate it and I hope to be able to be with all of you next year. Thank you. All right, so with that, we're going to uh invite our students to head home for the evening if they'd like. Um, congratulations to both of you on your final report and for the year that you've served as members of the board of education. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right, take care. See you at graduation. Take care. All right. Next, we're going to head to our presentation. Uh I'm going to invite Miss Hoy up uh for her final presentation uh in front of the Denellan Board of Education. Um and
046it is a good one. It is the NJ DOE district and school HIB grade report for 2324. Miss Hoy. [Applause] It's on. He's good. Okay. Um, thank you. core element and like I said each core element there's eight of them they can have four to six indicators that the staff has to go through the minimum the maximum score that you can get is 78 points points and the minimum total score to pass for the state is 52 points. District grade is an average of all of the total scores of all schools in the district. Obviously, we have three. And in bold, the department wants to make sure that the issued grade is not represented as a letter grade. It is a number grade. That got pretty loud. So, here is our comparison that I put
047on here for you of the official release and I I combined it all. As you see, there is 10 columns on the bright blue. The first one is the school and if you look down, you'll see each of the schools listed and then the next eight are the core elements that I told you about and the last one is the school grade. So way down below that is the school's grades that they scored each other. I want you to take notice on the bottom of the blue square on the top where it says max. Uh maximum means that's the maximum points that you can get for each. So the first one hit programs approaches or other initiatives. The max is 15. LMS um scored 15. DHS and Faber scored themselves 14. training on board of
048education approved tip policy and procedures. The max is nine. Everyone got that. Other staff instruction and retraining programs. The max is 15. Two of the schools were 14. One was 15. Then the next one, two, three, four, five are all to the max which I make sure that they are to be honest with you because if we don't do it correctly, we can get in a lot of trouble if we don't do our hip procedures um right to the tea. And then this last column is where it you read it across and that is our score that the schools got. So when we send it in the district score says NA. So when they send it back to us it is we got a 77. But I also want to show on the bottom line
049the scores necessary to meet all requirements. That's the minimum you could score. So, the minimum a district can score is a 52. This link right here on the bottom will bring you to the grades report. And I just did that wrong. There it is. Here it is on the website which we're required to put on there. And you'll see the blue square hib graze report. Let me go this way. It's easier. There's a letter. And then you'll also see that here is the official documentation from the state of New Jersey for our 2324 districted school grade report. And then it gives you each school. Okay. So I just put it on a whole slide so that we didn't have to go through these. Here's Faber and Faber scored a 77 and Lincoln Middle School also
050scored a 77. So that's what you can find it on the school website. Thank you very much. So here's our strengths. Uh like I had said we had six areas where we had maximum scoring. It's on the training the curriculum instruction on HIV personnel um trained school level HIV incident reporting inhib investigation procedure. We make sure that every timeline is kept to the time frame which is 10 days of an investigation and then we have to have our HI reporting which is done at our board meetings. So our areas for improvement uh on the official release that we had we had there was two areas hip programs approaches or other initiatives and other staff instruction and training programs depending on the school. This is what they wanted. They wanted to incorporate more approaches or have
051more time to identify patterns where hip may be happening um in their school. And also, of course, we always want increased PD for school climate programs. Going forward, uh we're looking at K to 12 social emotional learning, vocabulary, and lessons reinforced continuously. And as you can see, we still have the posters of the four competencies up there in both English and Spanish. And that has is in every single classroom in all the schools. uh the elementary has more of pictures and less words uh so that they can understand what it means for accountability. We could apply for the bullying prevention program for K to8 students and district parents. And the reason why we can do that this year is because the NJCAP is what it's called from Milsex County only does districts every other year.
052So we didn't do it this year. We were didn't qualify. We did do it last year was a good success and next year we can have it again. And we're hoping to continue to partner with NJ4s um for grades 6 through 12 students and district parents. This year we had four parent nights uh virtual nights and we had two student assemblies and uh that they were very positively um appreciated and the students did pay attention. and the staff enjoyed it and I think they got a lot out of it and what we got from them, how we got their topics was from their survey from last year. Any questions? I have one. Dr. Gingerano. Yes, sir. Where's my confetti? You promised. Thank you very much. Good. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hoy. And
053if we could just recognize Miss Hoy, she's uh as as we discussed last meeting, she is uh retiring at the at the end of this year. It is not the most glorious set of presentations that she has to present, but she always does an excellent job and we really appreciate the work that she's done. We wish her the best. We wish her the her son the best on his upcoming uh television show appearance and uh competition and all the rest. Um Gajun Tolner was in the New York Times top 100. I'm sure you saw that. Um, which is very exciting. So, um, best of luck to you. It's It's been a pleasure. So, Oh, excellent. Fantastic. Yeah, congratulations and thank you. So, Mr. Ross, I do have a question. In terms of uh climate survey,
054any correlation the climate survey to see efficacy with to match it up with the hip report any correlation between results from the climate survey and the report to see if there's any like efficacy in in some of the programs and uh some of the you know benefits of getting training. Yeah, I think I mean uh when we so we haven't done an item by item year-over-year analysis. So I think longitudinally that would be the where the gains would really be shown. Um but uh Mr. Sonoy's question just for those of you who didn't quite hear it, we've completed our climate surveys for students, staff and uh and parents. And so we have the initial results in. I did a very brief analysis which I'll talk a little bit about during my superintendent report, but we
055we will do a full uh report in the July meeting of the results. I will say I think that the uh the verbiage around SEAL uh the competencies language that is directly used by students and staff members has definitely increased um over the last year and through our work with urban assembly and the the self-management posters that are really sort of everywhere. They're kind of ubiquitous. Um, so I think that building the language around is the type of thing that that helps improve student experience and the way that students have make connections. Um, but I think we'd have to sort of look year after year over year to see what types of improvements we have. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Y all right. So other items uh in superintendent report. First one is July board
056meeting uh possible date change. So I will not be available in on July 22nd. Um so I propose uh in the committee conversations that we move the meeting to July 15th. Um is there anyone who has an objection about that or a concern with that? No concern. Okay. So, when we get to I don't know, operations, we should probably uh we'll need someone to make a uh a resolution uh to change the date of the next board meeting from July 22nd to July 15th. And that will be uh what is it? Item you. Yes, you. Yep. So, if someone would like to, we could just work that out right now. That would be easier. Anyone? Rich. It has to be a board member. Oh, yeah. No, you just say, "I would like to make a
057resolution that the July board meeting be changed from July 22nd to July 15th." Yeah. Move to make a resolution to change the board meeting from July. What was the date again? When When we get When we get there. Yes. In operations. All right. Will's going to do it. Mr. Scotty, are you practicing? He's practicing. It's good. All right. Um All right. So, general items uh for discussion. First of all, I realized that because this board agenda was taken from the second May agenda, we didn't have a an enrollment report uh listed as an item. Uh but I did realize that right actually before I came over. So, I created an enrollment report. It will be added to the minutes. Um this is the last enrollment report for the school year. At the end of the
0582324 school year, we had 1,374 students um in preK through 12. Uh and this year we have um not including private providers, we have 1,381 students. With our private providers, we have 1424 students. Um each year each each enrollment report has two pages. One is the current year enrollment by month and one the next one is year-over-year comparison. Our estimated enrollment for 202526 including private providers is 1479. So we're almost going to be serving 1500 students in the district which you know there's about 15 grades if you if you go from 3 to 12 the age of three to grade 12. So that's a little under 100. Um that's not we're not quite getting everybody who's in town. Um but that's a pretty significant number. So up from uh 1286 in 201819 uh or um
059you know 1228 during the the COVID year. So pretty pretty significant increase. I was going to say that's pretty close to what Dr. Demographer had said. Yeah. Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. I'm not sure. I mean, the the incoming grades are not quite as large as the high school and the middle school grades are. U middle school has the largest grades right now, 111, 118, and 110. Um the 11th grade at the high school is 111, but all of the Faber grades right now are under 100. Um so we're anticipating probably a similar sort of high 90s um as we move forward. Obviously, we'll see what other building has done and and all the rest of it. All right. So, uh, and again, another sort of just housekeeping item, there is an addendum to today's agenda. We've
060we've gotten out of the habit of of having addendum, uh, items. We've we've really embedded things much better. Um, but there were two items that I really wanted to make sure got fixed. Um, the first is the staff list. We added uh one of our new hires, the instructional coach for ELA. Um, she was not included on the agenda that went out last week. Um, and then the board agenda summary for tenur and positions not eligible for tenure had some errors that I just wanted to fix before we moved forward. So, none of the numbers or anything like that. Some of the position names and the date on the top of the document was was incorrect. We also received a resignation from uh Taylor Clark um formerly Miss Stuno at Faber um who's been out
061on maternity leave and and is um has selected to remain home uh with her family. Um we wish her the best. Um and we also have in operations a the ver emergency virtual or remote instruction plan for uh the 2526 school year which is required by the department of education. So, that's the the the reasoning for those items. All right, on to some other things. Um, congrats to the educators of the year, our student representatives, um, and those who are being renewed. It's, um, quite an amazing accomplishment. We're very grateful for all those folks and the contributions that they make. Um, we had a very cool event on June 6th, which was, uh, Friday, um, where Deote came and did some great work with us. We had 26 volunteers um who participated in the corporatewide
062event impact day and um I'd like to bring up Dr. Jendano to speak a little bit more uh on behalf of the PTO um for that incredible event. Thank you so much. Absolutely. You got to use the mic. You have to use the mic. Thank you very much. Um you can take the mic out if you want. Yeah. Thanks. Okay. So, it was a great event. The folks from Deote uh assembled sensory bins for our uh special needs students to use in the classroom, which is wonderful. And they also um they donated school supplies and backpacks and assembled these backpacks for every preschool student who will be in the district next year, which is such an amazing um gift and is really going to help a lot of those families. And um so thank you
063to Deote for for doing all of that. Uh one of the things that I wanted to mention just to to plant a seed for next year. So this event featured 26 volunteers. Um, Deote can they they have a program they do this impact day every year and each organization that they work with can receive up to $10,000 and get the benefit of, you know, a hundred volunteers to come and do work to, you know, improve the community in some fashion. um we we kind of landed on this backpack idea because it was something that was really easy to implement and um met their criteria. Um but I would love to one I would love to have this be something that happens every year. I would also love to see if there are other corporations in
064the community. you know, if we have other parents who have corporations with these kinds of programs, I would love to to make good use of that and um you know, possibly have some other corporate partners um and just explore that further. It would probably need to be something where they work with the PTO since we are a 501c3. They can't at least with in the case of Deote they can't donate directly to the school but they can donate to a 501c3 organization which is you know why I got involved in it. Um projects for next year the uh for this particular company they cannot do anything that involves construction. I know there was a question about you know maybe building some benches and and things like that. Deote isn't going to allow their their employees
065to do anything that requires them to, you know, pick up power tools or hammers or anything like that because it is a liability for the company. Um, but they can do programs like, you know, the the backpack drive for the preschoolers. We could have that be expanded if that would be helpful. Um, they can do uh, you know, general cleanup days. They can do landscaping and gardening activities. Um I'm still very sad about all of the plants that were ripped out of all of the schools. Maybe perennials or I don't know something. Um they can paint. Um they there are they could do mentorship programs if we wanted to have them come and do mock interviews for the seniors who are graduating. There's a whole range of things that they can do. And what I
066would love to have happen is uh to when they come to me in February next year and say we'd love to do this again, I would love to be able to present them with a menu of options to choose from. So if perhaps in your capacity as the board, you could have some of those conversations among yourselves or with the the leadership of the three different schools to see what kinds of projects would be beneficial. Then I can come to them and say, you know, we've already had these conversations and here are the the big priority areas and where we think um your your generous donations could be most helpful. So, thank you. Just wanted to plant that little seed. Fantastic. So, we can keep that one going. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you.
067Yeah. Wait, hold on a second. I got a question. A couple questions. No. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Seriously? Seriously? questions. Yeah. No, I do actually. So the so the um it's a it's a a static day, right? Every year like meaning that it's the same day. It is always June 6th. Void impact day is always June 6th. Always June 6th. Okay. And for the other my other question, so the um event was successful, right? It was it was very successful. Um, but to your point, right, we it was a $10,000 is the is the limit, but I think we left money on the table, right? Oh, we definitely left money on the table, and I don't like leaving money on the table. Neither do I. I want to get that $10,000 for our school districts
068next year if it's possible. So, you know, if their classroom's looking a little dingy, you know, or whatever whatever it might be, I would love to be able to have their contribution come in at about that $10,000 level next year. And it wouldn't necessarily have to be specific to just one school. It could be across other schools. It could be. Yeah. So, this was just one event. the the contact person happens to be the mother of a kid who will be coming into the preschool. So obviously the preschool population was near and dear to her heart and that's why we sort of started there. But we could have projects at all of the different schools. It would be a $10,000 limit because they, you know, we the PTO was only one organization, right? So, it
069couldn't be $10,000 for LMS and 10,000 for DHS and 10,000 for favor, right? But we could certainly divide up that pool of $10,000 in whatever way it might make sense across all three schools. It doesn't have to be just one site. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Um and I do want to thank uh Binit who has been very very engaged. um she is the parent who really brought this to the district and she is um she's new to town um and she's got an incoming preschool student um she's been very involved in in in all this and we're incredibly grateful for the work that they did. They uh donated and assembled 192 backpacks um for our students which is just fantastic. So we're very grateful to her for her leadership on this and Deote as
070well. So, um, in other news, um, since our last board meeting, um, we have received three competitive grants from the New Jersey Department of Education, uh, yeah, it's it's just amazing. Um, the first is the funding for optimal comprehensive universal screeners, the focus grant. This is a $3,660 grant uh which is available to all districts in the state uh to support the adoption of highquality universal literacy screeners. So, the Department of Education has just now come out with new information about early reading requirements and they're requiring that students be screened um at certain uh grade point times. Um we're already using I Ready and uh BGance and other screeners, so we're well ahead. Um, but we were able to just kind of put in a very simple application and get the maximum, which was that
071$3,660 amount. At the end of May, we also received the expanding innovations in teacher climate and culture grant. This is the second round of the teacher climate and culture grant. The first round was $125,000. This is $61,250 to use to support staff empowerment and collaboration with the goal of improving outcomes and experiences for all students. And then today we learned that we received the AP course expansion grant which is a $50,000 grant to expand access to college level coursework for traditionally disadvantaged students. And basically the initiative is about um supporting staff training and supporting uh uh getting more staff members um uh certified to teach AP courses and providing materials and other sorts of things um to try to get uh more students in uh in AP courses. So that is uh you know $115,000
072or so in additional funding um in about two weeks. So, we're very very excited about that. Um, we as part of the grant, the teacher climate and culture grant, we will also be presenting at TCJ on July 29th. That event for registration is closed now. There will be over 600 attendees that will be there, which is fantastic. Um, and our team will be presenting some of the work that we've done and what we plan to do in the future. Um there's been a lot of conversation about events, so I'm not going to sort of list all the events, but needless to say, it has been an incredibly busy couple of weeks. Um some of the highlights for me, I would say the third grade culture fair um at Faber is like one of the great
073events every year. Um there's just an abundance of food cooked by families representing their cultures. Um and it's just fun and and incredible. Um and the far the Faber farmers market was also another event which was which was wonderful supported by our climate change grant and really trying to just get kids um to be really active with the aquaponics and hydroponics and different climate change activities. Um and then the award ceremonies and the parent orientations that we had for kindergarten, 6th and 9th grade. Um just an an incredible amount of uh parent engagement and involvement. Coming up this week, we've got the choir concert uh and the fine arts festival which are both tomorrow evening. Um we have the bike rodeo at Faber from 5 to 7. So this is the first bike rodeo in
074quite some time in Denellan. Um and we have 10 tables of um different folks who will be um sharing information and registering and they do bike helmet checks and other other cool things plus the the safety course um which is very cool. Um, and Friday is the fifth grade farewell. Next week we've got preschool graduation, LMS promotion, DHS graduation. Um, and then we are off to the summer. So, an update on Yeah, and that's that's all uh UPK grant update. The work continues on the design development uh phase. We're still waiting to hear back from the DOE about the original submission, which was May 16th. Um and our preliminary schedule, our construction documents we still plan to submit by late August, bidding and awarding by late September, board meeting award late September, permitting mid-occtober and
075then the construction schedule will be released at that time. Um I mentioned the climate surveys and I just wanted to share some initial results. We're working with urban assembly and they will um disagregate the results even further but we have some some basic student, staff and parents results. So the student results uh were disagregated by school. Um very very positive results from Faber. Um very positive results from the high school. Somewhat mixed results from the middle school. Um biggest concern in grades 6 through 12 um was students feeling empowered to be part of the learning process in school and in their classes. So there is this is work that we still need to continue to build on. um getting students involved in these conversations about what's happening in the school um you know forming student
076leadership groups and and really leaning on kids to share their experiences. Staff members very good results in terms of the overall experience and support from colleagues and administrators. Um the biggest concern identified is uh or concerns I would say uh use of collaborative time and ava a availability of collaborative time. Um student behaviors um and staff members feeling like they are part of the decision-making process. Um which is uh consistent and certainly something we've talked a lot about um as a as a leadership team and in in conversation with the DEA leadership. Parents uh very good results overall in terms of schools feeling like they are a safe and welcoming environment. lots of very positive feedback about teachers. The parent feedback was excellent. It was very very good. Uh overall, the biggest concern uh that
077parents raised was about feeling empowered to be involved in school decision-making processes. So there is a clear disconnect between the decisions that are being made and the decisions for whom the decisions are made, right? Uh, and so there there needs to be some more conversation. This is really a consistent theme in all of the groups that were uh surveyed. Um, I will say parent feedback was um was very was still very good um even on that item. But just in terms of consistency, it's a pretty interesting metric um to consider. Um, on that note, uh, I had a meeting with Miss Laguna Morau today, uh, and two members of the leadership team for the labor management collaborative, which is an NJ, uh, EA and, um, sort of led, um, initiative. And I've talked about it
078before at this table and with the board um, in committee and with the members of the public. Um, but our virtual kickoff today was at 5:00 p.m. and we spent over an hour really trying to map out the best way to kind of implement this process. And by implement the process really it's about forming collaborative teams at various levels. um you know whether it's a school-based team that deals with K5 issues, 68 issues, uh 912 issues, or a district team that kind of aggregates things and looks at consistent themes throughout like maybe the scheduling time or uh collaborative partnerships with special education teachers and their co-teers or other sort of more universal issues. Um and the goal is to get some summer training um put on the calendar. Uh we would bring our staff members
079in um invite folks from each of those grade bands to participate, pay them for their time, um and then probably have a second meeting uh in the summer and then start to roll the work out um in the fall and have the principles establish regular learning management collaborative LMC meeting time with the staff members so that they can address some of these issues that have been consistent since I arrived in school uh in the um cell phones, um you know, bathroom policies or hallway behaviors, uh the you know, start times or calendars or um materials, meetings, you know, the the kinds of issues that um that people talk a lot about in kind of the faculty room um and that might not sometimes uh really be spoken about in a truly collaborative way, in a
080in a solutionoriented way. So the goal is to solve some of those problems through this kind of collaborative dialogue. So I'm excited for it. I think it's going to be a great structure. Um I'm excited to have a very willing and and uh and positive partner in this conversation. Um so we'll see how it goes. Uh last thing um before I sort of close is hiring. So on tonight's agenda, we have uh Mr. Tobin um being appointed as acting principal of Lincoln Middle School. Um he's going to be starting in that role from the day after graduation and his appointment runs through the summer. Um we are anticipating having a final candidate who will be uh uh who could come into the district as a full-time um principal. Uh the appointment being in July. So
081depending on if that's an internal candidate versus an external candidate, the start date might be varied. So we might have to make some changes on that. Um but Mr. Tobin has been uh shown a great willingness to come in as the acting principal. I'm very excited for him to kind of take a peek under the hood and take some leadership in the middle school um as we head into the summer and um working with Miss Caulfield. Um the position for that uh posting closed on Friday or the posting for that position closed Friday at the end of the day. Candidates for first round interviews will be contacted this week. Um and then we'll see how it goes. I'll provide an update further. District security guard was a position that we created last year um and
082did not get a good applicant pool for. We do have a very nice applicant pool this year. Um we have four interviews scheduled and I uh we we had two today and both gentlemen that we met were great. Um so we have two more coming up. Uh Mr. Marinberg, Mr. Tobin and uh Mr. Pepe are involved in the interviews uh with me and uh so we're excited that position will start u in advance of next school year. On this agenda, we're welcoming our new instructional coach for ELA, uh, Miss Stephanie Dinguh St. Thomas. And we have a new PE health coach, uh, PE health teacher, um, who is Noah Wel, um, who many of you know as a former DHS student, Denellan student, and, uh, assistant basketball coach, also married to, uh, Rachel Delcampo, Rachel
083Wel, um, who is, uh, one of our amazing first grade teachers. So, we're really excited that uh Mr. Wel will be at the high school as a coach, as a teacher. Um, in the same way that Mr. Orango has really made great connections with students and kept an eye on them and their academic progress. Um, very excited for him to do the same. Uh, we have two new assistant coaches for football, uh, Ted AO and Jim Davidson. Um, and so that that's exciting. Just rounding out that crew of Mr. Howard and Mr. Lindsay. Um, and then we have a whole slew of returning coaches and ECAs um, that are on tonight's agenda. We have many other positions as well in the pipeline and probably in the next week or two, I will have five or
084six new hires um, hopefully for next year. Uh lastly, I just want to wrap wrap the year um by thanking all of the um the students, the amazing staff members, and our parent community, and of course the board for their work this year. This has been a long year. Um it has been a hard year for for many. Um but it has been a real year of growth, I would say, across the district. we have really tried to maintain focus on a pretty narrow set of things, but we've been working on those things very hard. Um, and we'll continue to work on on the same things as we move into next year. I'm excited about next year. I think that the new structures that we have, the new conversations about collaboration, uh, new leadership and,
085um, and and other changes are are really exciting. Um, and I feel like even in the second half of the school year, there was a much more open perspective on uh administrators talking to staff members about the things that they need and how we can better serve them and how they can better serve their students and um that dialogue is really essential for for us to uh continue to improve. So, I'm looking forward to seeing uh the test score results. Um, we know that uh test scores are a lagging indicator of success. So, we we may see some changes this year, we may not. Um, if it takes another year, so be it. Um, but I know that our programming has really become very solid. I'm excited for the instructional coaches, um, and the new
086support positions that we have in place. And, um, I'm really looking forward to next year. So, thank you all board members for your support. Thank you to the association. Thank you to the PTO leadership um, uh, past and present. Um and uh yeah so just a big thank you and that is my report. Okay thank you Mr. Ross. Moving on uh on the agenda moving on to item number nine public comments. So the board uh invites public comment. This is on agenda items only. Um uh from only from members of our community in accordance with board policy 0167. Public comment sections are intended to provide an opportunity for members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest. The board and administration will be taking notes during public comment, but will not
087provide substantive responses to questions or concerns raised by individual speakers. If necessary, the superintendent may provide a brief response after the entire public comment period is completed. The board appreciates and welcomes feedback from the community, but is not at liberty to engage in a back and forth um dialogue with members of the public during this portion of the meeting. Prior to making your public comment, please state your name and municipality. Please note that all statements must be directed to the presiding officer. Please come to the microphone at this time. If you would like to make comments on agenda items only prior to beginning your comment, please state uh the agenda item you would like to comment on. Okay, last call. Okay, moving on to item number 10, education. Uh our discussion items and the education
088committee report. I will turn the uh floor over uh to Mrs. Howard uh as chair of the education committee. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Jendrono. Um the education committee met on June 2nd at 6 PM. Uh present were myself, Miss Ibeck, Dr. Jano, Miss Drapkin, and Mr. Ross. Um the education committee uh discussed a number of items including a wide range of updates for Miss Dravkin on professional development committees, curriculum resources, and other items. Information regarding recent grants that were awarded to the district, plus another competitive grant through the NJ DOE that is being sought for next year and that appears on tonight's agenda. Summer programming that will take place at each school throughout July. the final title one and title three evening engagements uh engagement events for the year, plus the last LMS Title One
089schoolwide stakeholder meeting which took place on June 4th. Updates regarding the status of next year's preschool enrollment and a variety of confidential matters. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Howard. So, moving on to item 11, education action items. Looking for a motion uh to move uh items 11 A through E as a block. Motion to move 11 A through E as a block. Second. Open for questions or comments. Last call. Okay. Mr. Ross, could you please call the roll? Yep. Mr. Anderson? Yes. Mrs. Condit? Yes. Miss Ibach, yes. Dr. Gendrono, yes. Mrs. Howard, yes. Mr. Sonoi, yes. Mrs. Shep, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Wonderful. Moving on to item number 12, personnel discussion items in the personnel committee report. I chair that committee, so I'll go ahead and give the report. The personnel committee uh
090met on June 2nd at 8 p.m. Um, in attendance uh were u myself, Mr. Anderson, uh Mrs. Shep and Mr. Ross. Uh we discussed a number of items including information about evaluation and a wide range of staff renewals which are on tonight's agenda. New positions, open positions, and staffing in the district. We spoke about updates about the LMS principal search process. We talked about details regarding three new ECAs which are on tonight's agenda for approval and a number of confidential items as well. And uh that's the uh totality of the personnel committee report. So moving on to item number 13, personnel action items. Looking for a motion to approve uh 13 A through K. Right. No. Yeah, sorry. Um that's right. A through K uh as a block. Move 13 A through K as a
091block. Second. Open for questions. comments. I wanted to just add a comment about um letter C. It was really great to see that we are continuing to be able to establish clubs at the Faber level. Um I know that they all had great success in kind of that trial run this year with the kindness club and STEM. Uh and really excited to see the additional adviser for girls on the run. It's a program that has often had to have girls on a weight list because of the interest versus what they're able to accommodate. Um, and it's about a lot more than running, although they did just do their 5K this weekend and the girls all did amazing. Um, so I think it's great just to see that we're going to continue that for them. Awesome.
092Thank you. Other questions, other comments. Oh, addendum. K is on the addendum, right? That was the resignation. Yeah. Okay. All right. Um All right. Last call. All right. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mrs. Condit. Yes. Miss Ibach. Yes. Dr. Gendrono. Yes. Mrs. Howard. Uh, yes. But I have to abstain from item A lines 1121 and 71. 1121 and 71. Correct. Okay. Thank you. Mr. Sonoi. Yes. Mrs. Shep. Yes. And Mr. Walker. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Wonderful. Moving on to item number 14, operations discussion items and the operations committee report. I'll turn the floor over uh to Mr. Walker as the committee chair. Thank you, Dr. Gingrono. The operations committee met on June 2nd at 7 p.m. I was present along with Miss Condit, Dr. Gano, Mr. Pepe, Mr. Ross. The operations committee discussed a number of
093items including an update recruit uh regarding the district's preschool facilities expansion grant construction project information about current facilities projects and other construction work being completed in the district. The district's efforts to join a national person co purchasing cooperative which is on tonight's agenda safety and security initiatives that are being undertaken throughout the district plus details on the search process for the district security guard position and a variety of confidential matters. And that is all. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Walker. So, looking for motions. Um, so if it's okay, we'll split A to T and then do U separately, right? Because that's the one with the resolution. Uh, the date. Yeah, I mean, we can we can fine. Uh, yes. Okay. All right. So, um, looking for a motion uh to approve uh 15 A through
094T as a block. I need to uh I'm sorry. I I just need to also uh item D, the amount that's listed there, $350,000. Yes. Um needs to be amended to $600,000. Oh, okay. So, in item 15D, the amount in that uh resolution should be amended to $600,000 as opposed to $350,000. Move 15 A through T. Seconded. Open for questions or comments. I would just add for item D. Giddy up. Yeah, let's go. Do we need to add the resolution? Yeah. Yeah, we'll do that. I'm doing it second. You'll do looking to uh for a move for a resolution to change a July meeting date. Wait, we still have to vote on A through T. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yikes. Sorry. I know. I know. Okay. Practice, too. Gotcha. Yeah. Sorry. As long as there's a
095a motion and a second and a vote. Yes. It doesn't really matter what order we do it in. So, A through T. Discussion. Yes. With D as amended. D is amended. Any other questions, comments? Okay. Uh, Mr. Ross, call the role, please. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Uh, Mrs. Condit. Yes. Miss Ibach. Yes. Dr. Gendrono. Yes. Mrs. Howard. Yes. Mr. Sonoi. Yes. Mrs. Shep. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Now, um, moving on to item uh 15. Uh, you u Mr. Sanoi, what was that date that uh you wanted to move to? July 15th. Yeah. Okay. So I move for a resolution to change the July meeting date to the 15th of July. Second. Second that. Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. Open for questions or comments? No. Good. All right. Uh, please call the role. All right.
096Mr. Anderson, yes. Mrs. Mrs. Condit, yes. Miss Ibach, yes. Dr. Gendrono, yes. Mrs. Howard, yes. Mr. Sonoi, yes. Mrs. Shep, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Motion carries. Awesome. I was going to mess with you and abstain, but no. All right, moving along. Uh, where are we now? Okay. Um, moving on to item number 16, old business. Is there any old business that anyone would like to rehash? I would just make my uh every my plug for school boards coming in October. So, please uh you know consider it. We do have um rooms that are set aside. Registration is already covered. Um it's just the question of um you going and if you'd like if you'd like to go uh if you need any if you have if you need more details or have any questions, please
097reach out to myself or any other folks who have gone previously and we'll happy to uh share our experiences and other information. Moving on to item Oh, any other old business? Okay, moving on to item number 17. New business. Any new business? Yes. Uh recently, um there was a book published called The Anthology of Horror Stories, Fight Club, uh Creep Collection, edited by Lindseay Evans. Um in that collection, 27 um Denellan Public School students were had their stories published. and uh Liz Lopez from our local library would like to put something together and honor those students and their teacher. Wonderful. Yeah. So, we can certainly work with um with Liz on that and we could do uh board recognition um if if the board feels that that was appropriate um or some other form. Yeah.
098Okay. Any other new business? And that would be for the month of July. She was looking to do it in July. Yeah, we could certainly do that. Yes, I'm sure. I mean, July is tough, there will be kids who aren't present. Um, so if it's if it's if it's something timely, we could do it in July. If it's not timely, we could do it in September. But yes, she she she will be right. Yes. Right. All right. Well, if we know, we can make it happen. Yep. Okay. Any other new business? Okay. Moving on to item number 18, president's remarks. Uh, I'll stand by what I said earlier and move on to number 19, public comments on any issue, any topic. The board invites public comments on any issue or topic from members of our
099community in accordance with board policy 0167. Public comments. Uh the public comment sections are intended to provide an opportunity for members of the public to express themselves on school matters of community interest. The board and administration will be taking notes during public comment, but will not provide substantive responses to questions or concerns raised by individual speakers. If necessary, the superintendent may provide a brief response after the entire public comment period is completed. The board appreciates and welcomes feedback from the community, but is at not is not at liberty to engage in back and forth dialogue with members of the public during this portion of the meeting. Prior to making your public comments, please state your name and municipality. Please note that all statements must be directed to the presiding officer. Please come to the microphone
100at this time if you'd like to make comments on any issue or topic. Last call. Okay, moving on to item number 20, executive session. The Denellan Board of Education will now adjourn into executive session to discuss items that fall within specific exceptions to the Oakland Public Meetings Act, CJSA 104-12B. The confidential matters discussed by the board during this executive session include okay u items related to uh personnel. Uh any discussion that does not need to rem remain confidential will be made public as soon as it is practical. Minutes of the excuse me minutes of the executive session will not be disclosed until the need for confidentiality no longer exists. All individuals who may be discussed in e um executive session have been adequately notified. Action will not take place after the conclusion of the executive
101session. So I have a motion to uh move into executive session. Please move to move to executive session. A second. All those in favor? I opposed. Okay. So, uh, next meeting after the executive session, we'll go to the German. What? Um, and we'll meet again on July Oh my goodness. 15th. [Laughter] That's right. 22us 7. Thank you very much. Okay. Thanks everyone. We will see you then. And uh hopefully we'll see a graduation before that.