001Oh, Bruins are up one nothing right now. Can I have a motion to move to public session? Motion to move to public. Second. Okay. You have to do a roll call. No. Okay. All in favor? I I opposed. Okay. All right. Will you please um please uh let's stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Will you all please remain standing for a moment of reflection and respect for our t for our troops serving throughout the world. Our troops who have served and our troops who have made the ulti ultimate sacrifice in the name of our United States of America. Okay, you may be seated. Okay.
002All right. Um, moving on to section five, approval of the minutes from our last meeting on May uh, March 11, 2025. We have a motion to approve the minutes. Approve 5A. Second. Any discussion? Okay. All right. Roll. Mr. Anderson. Yes, Mrs. Condit. Yes, Mrs. Ibach. Yes, Mrs. Howard. Yes, Mr. Senoi. Yes, Mrs. Shep. Yes. And Mr. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Okay, moving on to student recognition. Mr. Ross, you're up. How about this one? Oh, there you go. This one is uh we'll just retire that for now. Um so it's very nice to see everyone. Sorry for the awkward uh uh structure. We're sort of working through some things here. Obviously Dr. Dendrono is not available today. So uh Miss Howard, who is our board vice president, is filling in as president. Also, apologies for starting
003the public portion of the meeting a little bit late. We did have a matter that we had to attend to. But it's wonderful to see you all here and obviously this is an incredible opportunity to celebrate our students who have been recognized as student of the month for April. Um students, it's so nice to see you here. And uh what we're going to do is we're going to call the administrators up one by one. We're going to start with the high school and students, your name's going to be called. You're going to come up. We're going to bring the um step and repeat up. And so uh students, you'll stand in front of the step and repeat. We will pause after everybody from the school has been called up and then parents you can get
004up and you can take pictures. We'll take a little a little pause and then we'll go down to the next school. We'll go to Lincoln Middle School and then to Faber. All right. So without further ado, Mr. [Applause] Lynch. Good evening everyone. Thanks for coming. So, it's my honor to recognize our students of the month. Looks like a few of them are not weren't able to make it this evening, but our first our ninth grade student of the month is Sadiq Hannif. Sadique has done a great job getting started at the high school. He's in some of the honors classes. He is an incredibly nice individual. Uh he's involved in the Dungeons and Dragons club at the high school and so he's really been a positive uh force at the high school so far. So
005our ninth grade student of the month, it is Sadi Hanniff. Our 10th grade student of the month, Katie Lee Garcia. [Applause] Katie Lee, obviously a fantastic student as well. Played on our soccer team, is currently playing softball, and she's one of the two pitchers for the team. So, the team's gotten off to a nice start this season. Uh, also one of the nicest individuals. She's got a great group of friends uh that they hang out together. It's always great to see. So, our 10th grade student of the month, Katie Lee Garcia. Our 11th grade student of the month, also couldn't be here tonight, Madison Kenyonus. Uh Madison also another student who's done incredibly well straight A student has really worked hard is involved in the arts has done art club creative writing and has talked
006to us recently about really taking some challenging high school and college courses coming up to her senior year. So we're very excited to see what she's able to do coming up. uh Madison [Applause] Kenyonas and our 12th grade student of the month, Adrien Sana. There is so much to say about Adrian. Uh he is a fantastic individual. We've had it's been such a great time having him at the high school since he came over from the middle school. He is he's done such a great job with his classmates uh the younger students that are in class with him. Just last year he started taking choir and he is a joy to see up there on the stands with uh his choir classmates. This year, his choir class performed at the talent show and Adrian performed
007with him. And most recently, he started to learn how to play piano. And our choir teacher, Miss Piano, uh, took some video and showed it to us the other day, and he has really learned quickly. And another great thing about Adrien, if you ever have any questions about any animated movies made in the last 20 or 30 years, Adrien is your go-to guy. So, our 12th grade student of the month, Adrien Seldon. Yeah. Parents, if you want to get up, uh, feel free to grab a a picture. Thank you, Mr. Lynch. Uh, next I'm going to call up Miss Caulfield, who is our assistant principal from Lincoln Middle School. Miss Cfield. [Applause] So great. Sure. Okay. Good evening all. Um, I'm first going to recognize our sixth grade student of the month for Lincoln Middle
008School, Aiden Lubac. The sixth grade teachers are proud to recognize Aiden Lubac as the April student of the month. Aiden works tires tirelessly to consistently maintain high honoral status producing high-quality work throughout his days. He demonstrates a positive attitude and is always ready and willing to help his classmates. Aiden is a strong critical thinker and makes thoughtful contributions to classroom discussions. He is someone who is both friendly and personable both in and outside of the classroom. He serves as a role model for other students and we are incredibly proud to have him here at LMS. Congratulations, Aiden. Next we have our seventh grade student of the month, Ariana [Applause] Condit. Ariana. This month we are proud to recognize Ariana as the seventh grade student of the month. She stands out for being focused and dedicated
009to her schoolwork and her athletics every day. She always puts forth her best effort, paying close attention to details and making her work uh complete and accurate. In class, she participates thoughtfully and is always respectful to both teachers and classmates. She works very well with others and shows kindness, cooperation, and has a positive attitude in all group activities. We're very proud to recognize this hardworking and respectful student for setting such a great example. Congratulations. For eighth grade, we have Julian Fenor. I don't think I saw him. We are excited to announce Julian as the eighth grade student of the month. Julian is a pleasure to have in class, always bringing a positive attitude and enthusiasm to his learning. He actively participates in class discussions, contributing thoughtful insights and engaging with his peers. His strong work
010ethic is evident in his cons consistent effort to complete all his assignments on time. As a result, Julian has been on the honorable both first and second marking periods, always prepared for class, he sets a great example for his classmates and is organized and focused. His friendliness and display of respect truly helps to make LMS the best place for students and teachers. So, congratulations to all our LMS students. Yeah, parents, feel free. Come on up. It's worth a smile. Excellent. All right, one more for Mr. Pinger. All right, congratulations LMS students. Thank you, Miss Caulfield. And last but not least, from Faber Elementary School, principal, Mr. Tennant. Thank you and welcome. To start off our student of the month for special areas, we have Aiden Safari. Aiden, come on up, buddy. Clap it up. Very
011excited. Very excited. The special area teachers are pleased to have Aiden as their student of the month. Aiden is hardworking, polite, and kind, and he's a pleasure to have in class. Aiden always tries his best and is a good friend of his classmates. Clap it up for Aiden, please. PreK, we have Dorothy McNair. [Applause] Dorothy is a great friend to everyone. She works hard in class and is always happy. Her favorite thing to do in preschool is to play kitchen and loves dancing and singing our songs of the week. Dorothy has been fun to have in class and her teachers are going to miss her next year when she moves to kindergarten. Clap it up for Dorothy. First uh kindergarten we have Dax Zirkowski. Where's Dax? Come on up, Dax. [Applause] Dax Dax has stood
012out for his kindness, positive attitude, and strong work ethic. He always greets others with a smile and is quick to lend a helping hand to his friends. Dax shows kindness every day. He listens intently and follows directions and always works hard to do his best. Clap it up for Dax, [Applause] please. First grade, Christian Carter Walker. [Music] [Applause] Miss Wel says, "I chose Christian Carter Walker as a student of the month because he is kind and always hardworking. Christian tries his very best at everything he does and is a great role model in his class. He is enthusiastic and helps students and never gets a chance. Christian loves to participate and learn new things in the class and shows a constant positive attitude." Congratulations, Christian. Clap it up. Second grade, Leila Mendes. Come on up.
013Leila is always ready to help her friends. She looks to brighten everyone's day. She's never without a smile on her face. I can attest to that. There's always a smile on her face. And works LMG both inside and outside the classroom. Leiling is a Ila is a shining star and wonderful role model for her classmates. Her creativity, thoughtfulness, and dance moves are just a few things she does that are great in class. Congratulations, Leila. Clap it up. Third grade, we have Cameron Artist. Cameron, where are you? Well done. Miss Gunther would like to nominate Cameron for student of the month. Cameron is a good friend to many of the students in the class and always lends a helping hand. He does well in school and always tries his best with schoolwork. He has been recognized
014for his work in his I Ready program. Cameron is very kind and well-rounded student and makes our class better every single day. Great job, Cameron. Fourth grade, she's in the back there. McKenzie Johnson, come on up, McKenzie. Let's get him. Well done. McKenzie Johnson is a pick for student months class. She's very kind and caring to her peers. She's the first to help everyone. She even tries to help ELLL students in English when they are in trouble and they have problems with their work. She is our anti-bullying ambassador and takes her responsibility very seriously. She is always ready to participate and I have never heard anything but kind words said about her. Great job, McKenzie. Clap it up. And last but not least, we have Oliver Ramirez. Come on up, [Applause] Oliver. Oliver always strives
015to do his best and is a good friend. and he has shown more confidence in himself in the classroom and shows impressive growth in his work. He is a pleasure to have in class. Clap it up for Oliver, please. And one more time for favorite students of the month, please. Stay right there. How about [Music] [Applause] All right. So, first of all, thank you to our administrators. Congratulations all the students. Let's do one big round of applause for everyone again, please. All right. And what we're going to do right now is obviously we've got a meeting, uh, but we're going to leave this up for about 5 minutes or so. So, if you want to bring your child up here, grab a picture. It's actually two-sided, so you can come to the other side and
016take a picture this way. Um, congratulations again. It's wonderful seeing you. Thank you for being here. And, uh, have a wonderful night. Um, I Um, so just the president's uh remarks. null. Dr. Jano is not here tonight, so I'll just keep it brief and welcome everyone to the week before spring break and we have spring sports underway. Transitioning into the spring is always a great time of the year and so I just want to wish everyone in the um in the school community and the town to have a safe and happy spring break. All right, next up is item number seven. I mean, sorry, item number eight, pres uh superintendence report. All right. Thank you, Miss Howard. Uh, we're going to start the superintendent report with our student representative report. So, I'm going to turn
017it over to uh Douglas. Hello everyone. It's nice to see everyone of you again. Uh, I have my report like always from all the three schools. I picked some things that happened that were the most interesting in in the last month. So for a favor I have that they had the four great harvest of the aquaponics and hydrophonic system with the partners to drop the bits. The students went to drop multiple stations and got to bring home lettuce or herbs. Girls run girls on the run started up for the spring season and they are looking forward to their 5K race on in May. Looking forward to our spring parties on Friday. The students will also see Mr. Tenant get slim slime slime because of raising $10,000 for their radiation. Damn, that's impressive. Yeah. Uh for
018Lincoln Middle School, we had our fourth graders harvest. Wait one second. Okay, I lost the middle school, so I'm going to say the high school. Yeah. So, for the high school, uh we had a college fair on Monday, March 24 at Woodriidge High School where students met representative from colleges and universities from around the country. It was a good opportunity for students to see what schools had to offer and programs that might be interesting. On Monday, March 31st, the students, engineering students from Ruckers University came and presented at DHS to address questions a student may have about how to become an engineering student as well as the different types of engineering. On Thursday, April 3rd, DHS and LMS held a health and wellness fair which gave students in an opportunity to learn more about leading
019an a healthy lifestyle and being safe at home in a in the community. And today we had the Ryder University field trip where we went to Ryder's University and they gave us a tour of the whole university and they show us the options that we have, all the different careers that we can go for and all the resources that that we need to apply. That will be all for tonight. Awesome. Thank you, Douglas. Um, so just some other items uh from from my lens. Obviously, as uh Mrs. Howard mentioned, spring break is coming up. It is certainly something I think that we're all looking forward to. Uh it's uh it's been a a wonderful push this year and I think that the hard work of the staff, the hard work of the administrative team, the
020very hard work of our students um is to be commended. It's also something that really needs a little bit of downtime. Um and I think everybody's starting to feel that a little bit of spring fever. Um, and I know that everyone is looking forward to next week. Uh, and then it's a push. Uh, so we have our AP testing, uh, that starts about two weeks after we get back. We have NJSLA testing at the end of the year. We have concerts. We have all of our graduation ceremonies. We have spring sports recognition. We have so much going on. Uh, and May and June are extremely busy months. So, it's going to be a really good week for RNR. Um, and I appreciate everyone's work to get us to this point. To that end, uh we
021have the district calendar which was approved in January of 2024. We have two days that were not used that were allocated for inclement weather. Um and as per the approved calendar, those dates will be given back as the Tuesday and Wednesday of Memorial Day weekend. That means that Memorial Day weekend will be a uh one, two, three, four, five day weekend. So we will have uh professional development on Friday which means no stu no school for students. Then we have Saturday and Sunday we have Memorial Day Monday and then Tuesday and Wednesday are the days that will be given back for the calendar change. I know that there's been a lot of conversation about whether that's a good plan or not. Um we've we had a lot of conversation before the the uh calendar was
022approved. We talked about it for months publicly and that was what was decided. Um, in uh thinking about this for next year, I've asked the DEA members of the DAA, obviously board members, if you have different perspectives on things, please share them. Uh, we have approved the skeletal 2526 calendar, but we can certainly change those types of small details. So um you know we we are in the situation that we approved um you know a year and a half ago and and uh it's appropriate to stick with that but obviously we can think about how to uh change that moving forward. A couple other things of of note um yesterday uh Mkin presented with an administrator from Chadam about cross district partnerships and collaboration in educational leadership. This was at the NJASA NJPSA women's leadership
023conference which was held in Somerset. very exciting. Lots of folks there. Um and uh we had a district team that went, Dr. Santaneloo, uh Miss Van Ross, uh and Miss Drapkin and I were present for the conference. Um it was really great. Miss Drapin did a wonderful job obviously representing the district. We're proud of her. We're proud of her leadership and glad she was able to to take that that that step. We have the color run uh which is now scheduled for May 31st at Faber. Uh always a a fan favorite event. And then also for the first time this year we are running a bike rodeo which is going to be on June 12th. This is in partnership with keep middle sex moving. Bike rodeo is an event primarily for students you know under
024about seventh grade or so. Um it is a a bike safety course and then they also have representatives on hand to uh provide free helmets for kids that might not have helmets. They have um bike lights and other sorts of safety features that they that they help install uh on the bicycles themselves. Um and we're also sort of partnering with PTO and the Nelan Public Library and other organizations to make it more of a community fair type of event. So, we're going to bring in local service providers and uh folks from the community, set up tables so that it will be also a fun event for not just the kids, but also a really meaningful event for for the families. So, very excited about that. That's June 12th, and obviously there's going to be a
025lot of information shared about that. Uh prior to the event, we've also partnered with Middle Sex College. Um as Douglas mentioned, um students visited Ryder today from the high school. We had uh our eighth grade trip to Middle Sex College. For the first time, this uh first time ever, students were able to visit the college and understand sort of what it means to be in college and what the college experience can be like. Middle Sex College has been a really tremendous um advocate for students attending college. Um they have obviously two-year associates programs, but they also have a lot of trades programs and a lot of professional certificate programs. It's very inexpensive comparatively to to attend Middle Sex. They do outreach with all of the high schools in the county. Um and they also provide
026support for the uh juvenile justice uh services um that are done that are run through the county. So they've got dual credit courses that they offer and and all sorts of things. So we had that for our eighth grade students today um or yesterday rather and our high school students will be visiting um in late May after the end of the semester um at Middle Sex. And so again, the the point here is to try to open students eyes to some experiences. Um really give them that that concept of what they might be working for in high school if if they might, you know, if they don't have a parent who's attended college, um or if they just aren't familiar with that. Um Middle Sex College, uh just like KA is also considered a Hispanic
027serving um institution, which means that it uh serves above some threshold. I think it's 30% of its students are Hispanic, which means it has special federal designation as well and federal funding. Um, and so it's a it's a very it's a wonderful organization, wonderful institution. Uh, I'm glad that we're now able to partner with them. So, exciting stuff there. We also have uh news our preschool expansion facilities project um which was awarded uh by the state I guess in the winter, early winter. Um, we were awarded $ three and a half million dollars uh in funding from the state on a $6 million project to build eight classrooms uh to expand preschool. These are all 950 square foot classrooms with um with toilets in them with bathrooms in them um which are suitable for for
028preschool or for kindergarten requirements. And uh we've been working with our architects uh from LAN to finalize sort of the best plan moving forward. We've we've now figured out what that plan is. Now, we've entered basically the design phase. So, it's going to be a couple of months of design and materials preparation and all of that. All of that gets put into bid specifications, which then gets sent out to the public. There's a period of time that the bid is open and available to contractors. And then there's a bid opening, which is a a weird uh sort of uh Mr. Walker. I know you've had a lot of experience with this. It's a a a weird um what's the word that I'm looking for? It's like a ceremonial event where everybody sits down and they
029literally open up envelopes and they pull out the specs and they just read the numbers. They say, you know, contractor A, you know, whatever it is. So, um it's going to be a new experience for a lot of our staff. Um it'll be a very interesting process to see where we come in in terms of the bids and then we'll start the con construction phase and talk about uh exactly what steps will be taken in order to do the project. So very exciting work. Um you know it'll start probably construction in the winter or thereabouts. Uh over spring break we have a lot of work that's being done in the district. Um and spring break is always a good time to do facilities projects. So, we have a lot of work uh being done in
030this building with uh HVAC. Uh train is coming in and they're installing some new rooftop units. Um we also have a lot of work happening with our water fountains and our sinks and flushing um which is required. We're doing rekeying of a number of locks. We are doing some retrofitting of our guidance office, some repairs to our stage, some more work on our AV system at the high school. We're also installing uh new furniture in the media center uh at Faber. We obviously did sort of phase one of the Faber redesign, which was to add some uh offices and redo the carpet. Um, and now we've got new furniture coming in which is going to create a new collaborative learning space um, in the sort of back twothirds of that space which will allow it
031to be a really good learning space and also be uh, still flexible enough for things like the the PTA uh, PTO uh, the book fair and the the sales that are done um, and also for faculty meetings and all those types of things. So, it's going to look great. It looks great already, but it's going to be really nice to get those old bookshelves out of there. uh get rid of a lot of those old books and put in some new modern, you know, flexible uh seating and furniture options, which is great. Um and then really the last piece is that as we are in April, we're we're inching towards May. Uh and our next board meeting is May 6th. And at May 6th board meeting, we will be uh doing the renewal of our
032non-tenured staff members. And so uh this month is basically the finalization of all of the evaluation processes for non-tenured staff members. Um and uh that means that uh they're sort of the the folks who have been here for uh four years or fewer um are there some evaluations are going to be put together. There are different parameters for non-tenured staff members this year than there are for tenured staff members um because of recent pauses that have been put on on regulation requirements. Um but non-tenured staff members will be evaluated. Um then we'll also at the same time that sort of May 6th meeting, we're going to finalize which positions we may be adding. um as I did in the as I spoke about in the budget presentation, there are a couple positions that we're looking
033at potentially adding um to provide additional support. Um then sort of at the end of April, beginning of May, we start to post for next school year for all of the open positions. We have a couple of postings that are available now. Uh but we'll we'll start that process and then we'll really use the last seven weeks or so of school to interview and try to hire folks for the 2526 school year. We also uh have started the teacher of the year process which in this district is done uh kind of according to the old model which is that the teacher of the year is announced at the end of the year which makes a whole lot more sense than the current DOE pro uh process which is that the teacher of the year gets
034announced in October um or November or something like that. So uh the principles have all sent out information to staff and um I believe to parents uh or shortly will be sent to parents. There's a nominating process. There's a a team of folks at the school level uh who who discuss and we uh we recognize one uh educator of the year from each building and then one educational services uh specialist uh professional from the entire district since we're so small. Um so those four folks will be recognized in uh either the late May or the early June meeting. and um and you know, obviously we'll we'll we'll roll the red carpet out for them. So, that's what's happening. Um it's also my mom's birthday and my brother's birthday today. So, um that was nice. That
035which was cool. Yeah. Oh, was your father's birthday? I went to um the the chocolate store in Highland Park. It's called Burn Burn Chocolate. And they have uh my mom it's my mom loves um almond almond butter uh toffee. So, I drive past it and I turn around and I park and I see my dad walking out of the of the chocolate store empty-handed. And so, I'm like, "What's going on?" So, I get out of the car. He's totally startled when he sees me. And I'm like, "You're, you know, you're here for chocolate. You don't have any chocolate in your hand." He said, "They're all out of uh almond butterc crunch." And I was like, "Oh my god." So my dad and I had the same brilliant idea at 5:00 to go to the chocolate
036store and they were out of almond butterc crunch. Um so I I gave my mom an IOU. Um last thing for me is uh the enrollment report. So we're up to uh 1,374 students um not including the private provider of prek students. This is actually the same exact number that we ended with last June. Um so uh we have 627 students at Faber. We have 333 students at the middle school and 414 students at the high school. The specific grade level information is available for you in the board agenda if you would like more information. Um and with that that is the superintendent report. Okay. Thank you Miss Thank you Mr. Ross. Um before we move on I'm sorry. Uh Mr. for Ross. Um, is it possible that we can get uh some data from
037that Monday we come back? I I am very curious about our our numbers on that not that Monday we come back from spring break. Talking about student attendance. Yeah, student attendance. Can that be shared with me? And um you also mentioned um that you were finalizing ideas for the preschool expansion. Can you let us know um how that will impact uh the district this with disruptions and um just around the district wherever that construction will happen when you have more information? Yeah, absolutely. And there's information in the operations committee report about the the the specific project. Um but I'm happy to speak further about that once we have it uh some more detail on that. All right. Okay. Moving on to item number nine, public comments. Agenda items only. The board invite invites public comment
038on agenda items 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 take 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 not at liberty to engage in a back and forth 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
039microphone at this time if you would like to make comments on agenda items only. Prior to beginning your comment, please state the the agenda item you would like to comment on. Okay. All right. Seeing no public comment, we'll move on to item number 10, which is education. Um, we'll now hear the education committee report from me. Give me a second. Um, okay. The education committee met on April 1st at 7 p.m. in attendance were myself, Miss Ibach, Dr. Jendrono, Miss Japkin, and Mr. Ross. The education committee met on April 1st and discussed a number of items including information about adjustments to the to the district calendar due to unused inclement weather days. The district's ongoing goal setting work with Stutter. Policies and regulations that are being recommended for first reading at tonight's meeting. The district's
040upcoming bike rodeo which will take place on June 12th in partnership with Keep Middle Sex Moving. a wide range of updates from Miss Drapkin on professional development, grants, information, committee work, and uh afterchool programming, curriculum resources, and other items. Our staff is very busy. Um updates regarding the district's preschool expansion plans for the 2526 school year, and a variety of confidential matters. Um moving on to item 11, which is education act action items. Um, we have items A through G. If I could have a motion for education. So, this is 11 A through G. Move to approve education items 11 A through G. Second. Okay. Anything for discussion for education for the education committee? It's great to see a lot of upcoming field trips um across the grade levels. They look like very exciting opportunities
041for our students. Any discussion, comments? Okay. All right. Mr. Pepe, can you call the role? Sure can. Mr. Anderson, yes. Mrs. Condit, yes. Ms. Ibeck, yes. Mrs. Howard. Yes. Mr. Sautenoi. Yes. Mrs. Shep. Yes. Mr. Walker. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to item 12, personnel. We'll now have the personnel committee report. Mr. Anderson. The personnel committee uh met on April 1st at 8:00 PM present. Uh was Dr. Dendrano, Miss Shep, Mr. for Ross and me. Uh we discussed a number of items including open positions and staffing in the district, information about the evaluation process for the 202425 school year and a number of confidential items. Okay, thank you. Um item 13 is the personnel action items. We have uh items A through I on the agenda. This is 13 A through I.
042Looking for a motion. Move to approve 13 A through I. Second. Okay. Any discussion comments? Okay. All right. Mr. Pepe, you call the RO. Mr. Anderson? Yes. Mrs. Condit? Yes. Ms. Ibeck. Yes. Mrs. Howard, yes. Mr. Sadoi, yes. Mrs. Shep, yes. Mr. Walker, yes. Motion passes. Okay. Um, moving on to item 14, which is operations. We'll now hear the operations committee report from Mr. Walker. Thank you, Mr. Sard. The operations committee met on April 1st, 2025 at 6 p.m. I was present along with Miss Condit, Mr. Senoi, Dr. Jendrono, Mr. Pepe, Mr. Ross, and Mr. Trapkin. The operations committee discussed a number of items including a change to the date of the May 27th board meeting due the adjusted due to the adjusted district calendar as discussed during the education committee meeting. policies and regulations
043that are being recommended for first reading at tonight's meeting, an update about the district's preschool facilities expansion grant construction project, safety and security initiatives that are being undertaken throughout the district, a wide range of facilities updates, and a variety of confidential matters. And that is all. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Walker. Moving on to item 15, we have the operations action items, items A through K. Looking for a motion for 15 A through K. A through K. Oops. Seconded. Okay. Open for discussion. Okay. Mr. Pepe, can you call the RO? Mr. Anderson? Yes. Excuse me. Mrs. Condit. Yes. Ms. Ibeck. Yes. Mrs. Howard? Yes. Mr. Sautenoi. Yes. Mrs. Shep. Yes. And Mr. Walker. Yes. Mr. Pepe. I was just looking. I think it's A through M. Oh, did I miss? I said K. Sorry. Am I?
044Scratch. I went down too far. Forget that. Yeah. So, the motion passed. Okay. Thank you. Moving on to item 16, old business. Just reading this. Yeah. So, uh, this old business, uh, typically we wouldn't have a resolution in old business, but this is, um, something that we've discussed, uh, we discussed this last meeting. So, because we're, uh, not going to have school on May 27th, the district will be closed, um, you know, we we all had the conversation about moving the board meeting to the May 20th. So, basically, this is the resolution that would do that because we already have a board approved calendar. Um so at this point a board member would just need to make a motion to approve that and then you know go through the regular process. Move to approve item
04516A. Second. Any discussion? All right. Please call the role. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mrs. Condict. Yes, Ms. Ibeck. Yes, Mrs. Howard. Yes, Mr. Senoi. We need more snow. Yes, snow. Mrs. Shep? Yes. And Mr. Walker? Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Thank you. Any other old business besides Mr. Sinoi's request for more snow? Any other old business? Okay, moving on to um item 17, new business. Is there anything for new business? I'll jump in here. Um I know that it was recently shared throughout the community over the last week that Mr. Dapoli has announced that he is stepping back as the head coach of the football team. Um and so first and foremost, just thanking him for 29 years. That's pretty incredible to coach 29 years worth of students and games and um that's just really special I
046think to the community and the kids. So, thank you Mr. Dapoli. Um kind of secondary to that, I know that having a football team um and having that coaching staff set up is really important and very critical to making sure that next year's team gets to continue to move forward. So, um, hoping to see that that position is posted soon so that the team can get squared away. Okay. Thank you, Mrs. Shep. Any other new business? Yeah, thank you for bringing that up. I definitely echo your sentiments about um, Coach Dapoli. I mean, I think anyone in Central Jersey, you say Denaps or Coach Denaps knows exactly who you were talking about. We were um at the Varsity Jacket store in Somerville recently and the woman said, "Oh yeah, Denaps, he set everything up. You
047just give us a check, right?" And then he he has it all set up. So he's certainly a legend and he will be missed um on the as as our coach. Um but you know, he'll continue to bring such um you know, contribute so much to our our athletic program. And I um I agree with Miss Shepb that I think the posting for the coach should for the head coach position should go out soon um so that we can make sure our team is ready for the fall. I'll just add that um if you hadn't seen it, there's a a beautiful article about uh Coach Dapoli in nj.com that kind of chronicles his life and his time um in coaching in the district which is it was a really beautiful tribute to him. Um, I'll
048say that, uh, I had a conversation with him at at the softball game the day after he announced it. Um, and those of you who know him know that he just he's like just wears his heart on his every part of his body. Um, more than just his sleeve. And he's there just really trying to, you know, he's talking about all of the people who have inspired him. Um, and I know he talks a lot about trying to be a person that inspires others. Um, and really that message is just it's such a great one. It's really something that we need a lot more of in education and um, he really holds that as a uh, just an essential part of who he is and I really appreciate that about him and I'm I'm proud
049of him for the work that he's done. Um, and certainly we'll miss him on the field. I'm sure that he will be on the field. Uh, but he just won't be at every practice and grinding it out and all the rest of it. Um, which is also a good thing because I think he he needs some time for himself and his health as well. Um, which we also all appreciate. So, uh, Dave, thank you very much for everything you do. Thank you for everything that you've done. Um, and we'll certainly make sure that we follow in your footsteps with a strong head coach. All right. Thank you everyone. Um, moving on to item 18, which is president's remarks. I don't have any remarks. All right. Item 19, which is public comments for on any issue
050or topic. The board invites public comment on any issue topic from members of our community in accordance with board policy 0167. Public comment 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 not at liberty to engage in a back and forth 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
051directed to the presiding officer. Please come to the microphone at this time if you would like to make any uh make comments on any issue or topic. Okay. Okay. All right. No comments. Moving on to um item 20, which is executive session. The Denellan Board of Education will now adjourn to into executive session to discuss items that fall within the specific exceptions to the OP open public meetings act. The confidential matters discussed by the board during this executive session include items related to individual privacy, collective bargaining agreements, pending and anticipated litigation and attorney client privilege, personnel employment matters affecting a specific prospective and current employee. 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
052need for confidentiality no longer exists. All individuals who may be discussed in executive session have been adequately notified. Action will take will not take place after the conclusion of the executive session. Okay. Motion to move to executive. Move to go to exec. Second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I any opposed? Okay. All right. Let's go to executive.