001I mean you don't have to e e e so uh in accordance with the open public meetings njsa 10 4-6 uh adequate notification of this meeting has been provided by advertising in The Courier News and posting uh 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 April 16th 2024 in the Lincoln Middle School cafetorium 400 dellan Avenue at 7 p.m. this meeting is broadcast live for details check www. dellan schools.org moving on to item number two on the agenda uh the Dyan Board of Education will now adjourn into executive session to discuss items that fall within specific exceptions to the open open public meetings Act njsa 10 412b the confidential matters discussed by the board during
002this executive session include items related to individual privacy collective bargaining agreements pending or anticipated litigation Personnel 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 take place after the conclusion of the executive session uh May a motion please to go into executive session move to go to exact second all those in favor I I opposed okay we are in executive session we will return in about about 7:30 e e e okay and we're back hello everyone hello hello hello good evening so um at this time I'd like to make a motion to go
003back looking for a motion to go back into public please motion to go to public second second all those in favor I opposed all right moving on to item number three on the agenda uh Pledge of Allegiance um could you please stand the flag's over here I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands 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 moving on to item number four Mr Pepe can you please call the role Mr Anderson present
004Mrs Condit here Mr dougen here Dr jeno present Mrs Howard here Mr satoi present Miss Shimp present Mrs Shep here Mr Walker here miss Sophia here everybody's here absolutely wonderful fantastic moving on to item number five uh approval of a minutes uh looking for a motion to approve the minutes from our last meeting on March 12th 2024 motion to approve second Al the oh sorry um please call need a roll call for this or no discuss oh yeah sorry discussion open for discussion questions comments last call okay Mr Pepe can you please call the roll Mr Anderson yes Mrs condet yes Mr Dugen yes Dr Jano yes Mrs Howard yes Mr saoi yes Miss Shimp yes Mrs Shep yes Mr Walker yes motion passes okay fantastic moving on to item number six student recognition I'll
005turn it over to Mr Ross thank you Dr gendrano so good evening parents and students hello and staff members it's wonderful to have you all here so we have uh our student recognition for the month of April we're very very excited for the students who have been recognized and we have some of our wonderful District administrators here to uh talk about each of the wonderful students so we will start uh with the high school so we have Mr Tobin [Applause] and parents what we do with these um with for p photo ops is Mr Tobin will call the students up students will come up and stand in the front and then we'll sort of move out of the background and we'll give everybody a beat and you can come to the middle take some pictures
006uh and all of that so we don't want you to feel rushed that you have to snap pictures before the kids sit down all right good evening everybody thank you for coming out it's great to see everyone here on a wonderful night where we get to recognize our students of the month at the high school we have four students of the month one for each grade level our first student of the month is Kenny Vargas Rosales if you want to come on up Kenny uh Kenny has maintained great grades throughout all three marking periods this year as a freshman uh he's had no conduct issues at all throughout this first year at the high school he seems to have integrated himself pretty well with the high school um perfect attendance which is great uh and
007he's participating in extracurricular activities uh currently in Spring Track and Field he did soccer in the fall and he is also involved in the French Club and his French teacher has uh noted on hisort card how much of a pleasure he is to have in class an active participant um and just lovely to have in that class so uh my interactions with Kenny as well which have been very few which is always good but he's been a wonderful student always uh engaging respectful eye contact um so appreciative and congratulations to uh Kenny Vargas you just wait here our next student of the month is Megan North [Applause] all right Megan is a sophomore here at dellan High School uh she has been on the high honor role for all three marking periods this year which
008is a great accomplishment that means she's getting all A's in every class in the whole marking period so that's three marking periods in a row uh she was a participant in the fall play she is a member of the band as well as the pet band a member of the art club and her teachers have noted how uh a pleasure she is to have in class as well an active participant and similar to what I mentioned about Kenny over here every time I passed by Megan always engaging hi Mr Tobin um and just has great mannerisms and uh a pleasure to have as a member of our high school so congratulations to Megan [Applause] our third student of the month is jazara [Applause] mclan jazar is a junior here at the high school she is
009the president of the class of 2025 uh she's involved and recognized in many ways at the high school she is a member of the French Club the National Honor Society she is a safety ambass Ambassador she participated in soccer in the fall and track in the winter uh she was on the high honor roll this past marking period um and again just a lovely student to have around the high school and we congratulate you jazara on an honor welld [Applause] deserved our final student of the month is Elijah dupus Brown don't think he's here I'll say a couple words about Elijah uh Elijah had his best marking period of the Year this third marking period which is always great to see um as a senior that is not always the case um so really showing
010that he's dedicated and working hard throughout the year uh just barely missing honor roll he is involved in a few clubs and Athletics as well he played football in the fall he's a member of the environmental club and our black student union and he's also in the leadership class that I teach with the Principal Paul Lynch and our athletic director Dave denapoli um and he participates in class also again respectful like these other fine students we have up here uh so congratulations to Elijah on an honor welld deserved as [Applause] well so yeah if anyone wants to come up and take an opportunity uh to Mr toin getting the picture with them yeah yeah thank you so much Mr Tobin all right we're going to move to the Middle School Lincoln Middle School and Mr
011[Applause] altm thank you Mr Ross so I am extremely pleased to announce our three students of the month at Lincoln middle school as I always mention uh what makes this award really special is the fact that our students are selected by a committee it's not just one person who decides on the individual to represent their grade level will make even special our sixth grade representative for Lincoln Middle School John Carlos Vargas Rosales please come [Applause] forward conat John Carlos is a cooperative and respectful individual he maintains high honor rooll status John Carlos helps teachers translate for elll students he is always willing to participate and contribute to class discussions John Carlos is friendly and personable both in and out of the classroom keep up the outstanding work [Applause] congratulations our seventh grade representative jayin Peralta
012please come forward the seventh grade team of teachers congratulate Jaylin Peralta for being recognized as our student of the month jayin always has a positive presence in the classroom she is considerate of others and is well-liked by her peers Jaylen always goes out of her way to help her classmates succeed in the classroom she should also be commended for the attention she puts in to her schoolwork Jaylin works hard to ensure that she has completed and turned in all her assignments daily keep up the great work Jaylin [Applause] congratulations and our eighth grade representative Isabella tles please come forward Iselle congratulations great job the e8th grade team of teachers is proud to announce Isabella tles as the student of the month Isabella is a responsible hardworking and kind student she shows interest and enthusiasm in
013all subjects and values her education she is an active participant in her classes which is evident through her attentiveness and insightful comments during discussions she is very respectful to both staff and class classmates alike and displays excellent manners Isabella cares about her teachers and always greets them by saying hello and asking how they are she is a friend to all and helps to make LMS and the denalan community a better place for everyone congratulations [Applause] Isabella once again congratulations again to our three students of the month and thank you for making LMS a tremendous place to learn congratulations thank you parents if feel free to come up for uh for photos all right and last last but not least Faber Elementary School and we have for the student recognition debut our new uh supervisor of
014Early Childhood Elementary uh education is Miss Jordan [Applause] gribben our favor students of the month for prek is Jude horn Jude always comes into school ready for the day we have really enjoyed watching Jude come out of his shell throughout this school year he has not only become such a great friend in the classroom but he is also a great helper to the teachers Jude always works his very hardest follows Direction and is a great role model to all his peers congratulations Jude [Applause] okay so for kindergarten we have ion con so come on [Applause] up so ion is the kindergarten student of the month ion is a pleasure to have in class he exemplifies the qualities of kindness curiosity and perseverance his eagerness to learn and his willingness to help others sets a shining
015example for his peers he is extremely thoughtful and respectful to everyone he meets ion we are so proud of [Applause] you our first grade student of the month is Angela Gonzalez [Applause] Lopez Angela is a role model student she puts in a great effort and always follows directions Angela is always willing to lend a helping hand to her peers and shows kindness and respect congratulations Angela our second grade student of the month is Hunter [Applause] Knight so Hunter Knight is a hardworking kind and empathetic student he always strives to do his best work and is eager to participate in group discussions he is a kind friend to all and is always willing to offer a helping hand to his classmates or a teacher in need congratulations Hunter our third grade student of the month is
016Miguel Isaac FiOS Rodriguez [Applause] so Miguel was voted for um because he is selfless and that's the reason he won the golden football the most times this month plus he is also extremely respectful to all of his teammates he has been really helpful and he has been working really hard in class Isaac is a very is a very good friend to all of his teammates he is nice caring thoughtful and most importantly a great friend [Applause] our fourth grade student of the month is Nikolai Vera [Applause] Medina Nikolai sets a strong example of being a respectful responsible peer he always goes out of his way to support and help others in addition since moving from Spain this year Nikolai has maintained a positive attitude and actively participates every day so he can learn the English
017language and succeed academically [Applause] congratulations our fifth grade student of the month is Kayla [Applause] husack Kayla is an amazing young girl she is the nearest definition to a perfect student Kayla gives her all day in and day out she consistent ently demonstrates excellent work habits and is a role model to all her peers I think everyone in my class would agree that she is the most kind and most respectful student of all time keep up the great work Kayla and then our special area student of the month is Vladimir kiup pangi [Applause] so Vladimir is sweet and hardworking Vladimir is always polite and says please and thank you Vladimir actively participates in class and is a pleasure to work with [Applause] congratulations parents feel free to uh to come up for a photo op
018e e [Applause] one [Applause] so parents congratulations to all of you students congratulations keep up the good work um we are going to take a little break so if you want to head out that's certainly okay you're certainly more than welcome to stay but we certainly understand it's going to be a late night so thank you again [Applause] all e e e Tove okay we are back moving along to item number six oh sorry item number seven on the agenda president's remarks just a few things for me to say first of all congratulations again to all of our students who are recognized this evening we're proud and so proud of the of their accomplishments and keep up that great work um as I've mentioned before staying healthy and as we are here moving from I
019guess winter into spring and you know the temperatures going going arai um it's important that you know to underscore healthy kids means healthy schools uh means a healthy community so previously I'd noted rates of respiratory infections and indeed rates are still high County and Statewide and in fact I was sidelined most of last week uh for with the flu so um bad flu um and not the not not the good one either the bad one um so with CDC released on March 1st updated respiratory virus guidance that signals basically Evolution on how we're dealing with these viruses and infections so the CDC indicated some core strategies for us to follow like immunizations hygiene steps for cleaner air treatment as well as staying home to prevent the spread yep I was home all last week to
020prevent the spread um and the CDC indicated additional prevention strategies like use of masks as appropriate distancing uh testing all right we okay oh okay and then also staying that's it and then also staying home and away from others until symptoms are feeling you're feeling better and your fever free without medications for at least 24 hours you know and taking the precautions for an additional 5 days just so you don't uh spread but the bottom line here is we're encouraging folks to take Common Sense precautions like the ones indicated uh by the CDC to minimize the spread of infectious diseases that can really impact our school year we're only a few short weeks away what is it like eight now eight and a half but who's counting um so monthly celebrations just to call these
021out April what do we got going on in April autism awareness month celebrate diversity month from the 7th to the 13th National Library week 12 21st to the 27th National volunteer week and National professionals week and then the 22nd to 26th National preser preservation week with uh April 22 of course being Earth Day I mentioned these different things just to underscore the importance of diversity equity and inclusion in the fabric of our daily lives and the impact that has on our community you know open honest and Equitable communication that's respectful positive supportive fair and most of all kind goes a long way in strengthening a community lastly I know we're going to go into more detail in a presentation later this evening but I'm very interested to hear in more detail about the demographic study
022of dellan led by Dr Richard grip so thank you everyone for your time and listening uh moving on to uh the superintendent Report with Mr Ross thank you Dr gendrano so superintendent report is going to begin as always with Miss Sophia fanti manella so miss Sophia if you would be so kind hello good evening can you hear me okay so there isn't too many fundraisers happening as of right now but Project Graduation is hosting uh a showing of cars at the dellan theater on April 21st and tickets are available for pre-order now so if you like to Mater then you should go see it yeah can I dress up totally yes come dress up okay the choir has many events coming up on April 21st the magicals will be performing for the cane choir on
023whoa for the cane choir on June 7th there is an anticipated trip to Dorney Park where the magical will be competing and then hopefully going on some rides on Memorial Day the magical will be singing the National Anthem at Washington Park for the annual Memorial Day parade and beside the National Honor Society I think also along with the National Art Honors Society has a field trip to the Met coming up on April 29th so that's fun I I know the I know the drama club's musical happened uh over a month ago but it's been a while since I've been here so I would say the musical was like overly successful and yet again we saw the talent that the drama club holds Miss Clemens was very proud of us and the club is very happy
024to have gained another great director this year but as a the the theater season comes to an end the annual denelli is closer and today was actually the auditions so so look forward to on May 17th hearing the amazing voices from the stage again speaking of the end of the year the the decision deadline for all senior college decisions is coming up fast May 1st to be exact and the seniors are very eager to get their final decision down but there's a lot more that goes into that than just deciding scholarships have gone have been done and their interviews have gone through and everything so that's just another thing the seniors are eager to know too a lot of seniors take the opportunity to go on practicum and Shadow someone or work at a company
025who will support their future major as of right now there's only two that we know of uh I bet aala and Aaron rovitz are the only like official ones confirmed I think but I know of many who are still in the process of doing so including myself so I wish luck to those people so far the track team has had a really good season during the Invitational meet on April 6th at relays all throwers received at least one medal the girls got first in jav second in discus and third in chop putut the female throwers were first in the relay and some shout outs Maria wall received first in high jump and jazar McLaughlin and Ava Gomez uh sorry I lost my PL Ava go Gomez Laya proes and Maria wall received third place for
026sprinters relay is that right third place for Sprinter relay yes the baseball team has won three out of five of their games and their last game was against w law hardridge High School which was 25 to1 Mark Stein had six RBI the girls softball had their first division game yesterday taking the win from Cavalry Christian 18 to3 freshman guel Val valz and sophomore Alexa divisa each hit a double tomorrow they'll have a tough double header against wlaw hardridge prom season is here and the senior class will start selling bids within the next two weeks and the prom committee is working quickly to make the anticipated night beautiful in the middle of all the fun and the end of the year activities comes AP testing students are working hard to receive great scores for the upcoming
027tests and are excited for it to be over thank you thank you Sophia um all right uh Dave do we have Dr grip no okay all right then we will come back to the demographic study presentation um I will do the rest of the um superintendence report um you may exit stage left if you'd like yes absolutely are you performing at the at the denelli I should yeah you both are good all right excellent um all right so the enrollment report we are up uh three students from March uh the total School District enrollment at this point is 1,384 the uh Faber elementary school has 642 students middle school has 338 students and the high school has 404 students so uh we'll obviously hear more about enrollment from Dr grip but since um we began
028the school year in uh August 29th we had 1,90 students so we are up nearly 100 students since the first day of school U which is crazy other items uh in the report um jazara mlin who was here obviously recognized as the 11th grade student of the month was selected for the Summer's uh New Jersey Scholars Program wartime cultures knowledge and Art In conflict and the aftermath so the New Jersey Scholars Program is a tuition-free 5we summer program for Rising New Jersey seniors its goal is to provide New Jersey Rising High School seniors of extraordinary demonstrated academic potential with a free ungraded diverse inclusive and residential interdisciplinary learning environment that sharpens critical thinking writing and research skills stimulates a desire for lifelong learning and fosters lasting interpersonal connections so this is a an incredibly prestigious
029program there were 39 students in the state who were selected for it so we're very very proud of uh jazara for her accomplishment um we have a preschool update for 2425 so we have the the fiscal year 25 preschool budget was approved by the state um which was good news many of the the the state budget Workshop uh worksheet was actually um had some errors in it we decided to just fix all the errors on our side which was good many of the school districts had their budget sent back um but ours was accepted which was great uh we we visited another potential site today for preschool expansion for the 25 26 School school year um and we have good registration overall we're trying to still recruit additional four-year-old students for um the 2425 school
030year so we've opened up registration again for four-year-olds and that closes uh late next week so we as a reminder we do have 92 slots that are available and we will be able to fill all of those slots which is exciting um the DEA make a difference Monday which uh was a celebration that started this year and I'm very pleased to to announce uh the the recipients of these Awards even though these Awards come directly from the the DEA and the recognition so on March 18th which was the last um time that this was provided before the the since our our last board meeting it was staff members that were involved in Greece um and so that was director Tory Clemens um philis piano CJ sua Carl Gyer and then we had a number of
031our staff who helped out um on stage Vance kak Tim McGovern uh Ashley Powell and we had Mr royel and uh Mr shimo who helped design and um fabricate the stage so we're very grateful to them those of you that saw the show it was it was very very cool um and now we're working on fixing the sound so that we're going to be in better shape moving forward but it was manageable at least for the show which was nice on the 25th uh Samir Cruz arios and Pasqual Martinez Pena who are uh two of the daytime custodians at Faber were recognized these guys are everywhere and the kids know them and they call them Mr Samir and Mr Pasqual and they're like so excited to see them um these are two young young gentlemen
032both bilingual um who have just they're just a part of the fabric of the school which is just wonderful so congratulations to them on April 8th uh Kim Rous was selected uh Miss Rous has picked up the slack in uh the DHS math department um with the the departure of uh a staff member that we had there so we we thank her for her work at the high school and then this week it was uh Eva clao and Debbie lubliner who are the two secretaries at Faber Elementary and obviously we know that they do great work every day but the specific shout out that they uh received recognition about was for the eclipse on April 8th um there were something like 175 students who were signed out early for early dismissal on the eth and
033so they had to manage that and all the parents coming in and the you know working with that and getting the flow and um you know I think the one thing that that we all know is that dismissal was very easy right as you as you stated because so many students had already gone home for the day or were absent to begin with so congratulations to them as well on March 26th and 27th I held my first student voice groups meetings and these are meetings with 12 students at each of the schools uh grades uh 3 four and five at Faber middle school and then at the high school and this is really a sort of a first attempt to try to get some feedback directly from students about their experience in the school and
034the types of things that they think are going well and where they think we might be able to make some improvements a lot of this work um sort of the the origin of this was from uh reading feedback from the student climate surveys and pretty much across the board students have have um you know expressed unbalance of very positive experience in the district very very positive about their teachers about the buildings and the environment and those types of things the one piece that they did there was sort of commonality in was that student felt that they did not have a voice in what happens at school and so part of my sort of impetus for this is to try to give them that voice and uh start to empower them to be able to speak
035with their building administrators and with me about the kinds of things that they might like to see and their teachers as well so we'll have another meeting at the end end of April and then in May and then should close one out in June we have another survey that's out right now for community members this is part of our ESA Grant this is a comprehensive needs assessment this is a very specific set of questions um so that is available for all staff members and for all uh parents and community members um we have a lot of responses uh from that survey which is fantastic um our advertised fiscal year 25 budget uh has been approved and it was post posted in The Courier News it's going to be posted in The Courier News shortly um
036we have a our final budget hearing is at our next board meeting which is May 7th um and so we will uh talk again about the budget which has been approved if you are listening at home uh just as a reminder the full budget presentation for the tentative budget is available on the website and I'm not sure if we put a recording of the presentation from the April meeting for the presentation I'm not sure that we did but um but we can put one up and try to excerpt that otherwise the presentation is there and all the information is there as well um yeah okay we we so so we have that um we have uh denalan High School just finished the third quarter we are three quarters done with the year and um we
037now are about two months away from graduation which is June 14th uh the valedictorian and the salutatorian of the class of 2024 have been um have been announced and they are the valedictorian is Jana ardan veren varchenko um and the salutatorian is Katrina ASU so this is a just an incredible honor for for both of those students um being a valedictorian or solidor is just an amazing dedication um you know countless hours with work and just the the dedication to to grades and performance and success so congratul ations to to those students and and their families and staff members who supported them along the way um and my last piece was just going to be to talk about the DHS senior practicum um and Sophia talked about that so I'm not going to add too
038much on there do we have Dr grip excellent all right so with that I'm going to close the superintendent report by inviting uh Dr Richard grip who is uh demographer uh that we worked with from uh statistical forecasting and we are are uh excited to have dark derp with us he's virtual um at from his office or his home in Connecticut um you all have a copy of the presentation the demographic report is an attachment uh or an enclosure in the agenda it's also available separately in a separate link if you're looking at home on the website so please follow along and I'll I'll turn it over to Dave to facilitate okay thank you very much I'm going to share my screen if that's okay okay if someone could just please tell me if they
039can see this okay I'm going to advance to the second slide could you is a second slide now available on your screen I'm toggling back and forth sometimes I have trouble with Google meet or are you just seeing the title page okay I'm gonna try this okay you should be able to see that right demographic study okay so uh good evening everyone uh my name is Dr Richard grip of statistical forecasting um coming from you from Dorset Vermont that's where I live and our office is based um just a little bit about our company this this um study that we did for you was done a couple months ago so the results are very fresh so our company has been in action for doing this type of work for the last 26 years and most
040of the work that we do is from the New York New Jersey metropolitan area but we do work down as far south as on Washington DC and up north into New England um we do mostly districts in the New York New Jersey metropolitan area about 200 plus districts that we've worked with and we're the demographic consultant for the New York City Public Schools um since 2006 okay so um hopefully you're seeing this slide about myself just making sure because sometimes again you can see that correct okay great so I'm the executive director of the company I went to school not too far away in Ruckers University and graduated with a doctor in educational statistics and measurement I actually was a physics and statistics teacher in Bridge board R in Somerset County for about seven or
041eight years and while I was there I was going for my doctorate um and was advised to go into this field from the superintendent at the time named Joe McGary who said this was a great field to go into I never heard of it um but I've still continue to publish in this field it's it's really a passion of mine I present around the country and I testify as an expert witness in school demography um for administrative law hearings that's when school districts want to divorce from each other usually when one District's involved in a sending receiving relationship with with another District so what's the purpose of a demographic study what did we look at um first of all like most demographic studies we project enrollment for a fiveyear period so for the 2425 school
042year out through 28 29 and I usually get a question of why don't we do more than five years and the Really reason is first of all the doe won't look Beyond five years when we submit the data to them but then you have to start projecting kids that hav't been born yet to project your kindergarten counts so that's why it's only a 5-year period we also look at your community's population Trends historically and projected the demographic characteristics of your community such as race socioeconomic status age structure birth counts and fertility rates we looked at your historical enrollments from the last decade by grade configuration and districtwide we also contact the buau to find out what kind of new housing starts or plan that could impact the school district and we compared your building capacities
043to current and projected enrollments to see if you have Surplus seating or a shortage of seating in the district so here's Den Allan's historical populations to the left of this vertical line right here and you can see that your population as of the 2020 census was a little more than 7600 people the the bar that you see out way here to the right is projecting 8500 people by 2050 and that's not a projection I made that's from a thirdparty agency called the north Jersey Transportation Planning Authority so they're talking about a gain of about a thousand people in the next 25 years so who are you as a community this is always interesting to look at um so you're a very racially diverse Community about 44 % white 37% Hispanic and about 9% black African-American
044in 2020 if we compare that data to 2010 you have a declining white population and an increasing Hispanic population your median age is a little bit lower than that of the state um you're you have a very large foreign born population about 12 and a half percentage points higher than that of the state Colombia and El Salvador are the two countries that provide the most foreign born people your bachelor's degree or higher is a little bit lower than that of the state as well as the income um as far as housing you have more than 2700 housing units of which about two3 are single family homes either attached or detached excuse me an attached home would be a townhouse 37.6% of the homes are renter occupi which is very similar to that of the state
045and and the median value of an owner occupied housing unit is 361,000 which is about $60,000 less than that of the median of the state so your socioeconomics for housing uh cost for salary for education and all three of those metrics are lower than that of the state so here's where we are um your schools you have free schools in the district um you have Faber the Middle School Lincoln and of course the n High School this is just a little picture of your community with respect to historical enrollments interestingly enough your 2324 enrollment as of this past October 15th that's the date that you always give your state your enrollment data to the state was 1350 students if we look back 10 years it was 1145 and a half that half is a shared
046time student so over the 10year period you've gained almost 2 five students so if we look at your Trends historically the enrollments went up through the 20192 year before they reversed Trend and that was due to the pandemic in 2020 and then 2021 but they've kind of gone up and rebounded in the last two years you can see there were small declines in enrollment in 2020 and 2021 of 26 and 12 students respectively and you've gained 76 and 62 students in the last two years um which continues the trend that occurred of increasing enrollment before the pandemic so we use something called the cowork survival ratio methods to project enrollments into the future this is your enrollment um graphs over time and you can see that if we just ignore the pandemic years that your
047enrollment has been increasing but what we really need to look at is your enrollments for the elementary middle and high school so this graph here shows your Elementary enrollment which is the one in blue and you can see that enrollments basically went up through the 2019 year before they stabilized but over the 10-year period you've gained almost a 100 students at the elementary level that's important because those students will advance onto middle and high school later on which would increase enrollments up there at the middle school level you've had declining enrollment which is the one in purple the bottom here you had declining enrollment through the 1718 year before It reversed trend and and and over that time period they've gained the Middle School's gained about 38 students and the high school had increasing enrollment
048through 1718 before It reversed Trend and then revers Trend again and the the high schools gained 69 students over the last decade so each three grade configurations has had a gain in enrollment over the last decade so when we project enrollment we use something called the cohort survival ratio method is where where we look at the rate of how students progress from one grade to the next um over time and there are 13 possible grade progressions they start out with birth to kindergarten which is a five-year Gap that goes all the way up through 11 through 12 there's 13 possible grade progressions so in this little example here let's just say you have 100 first graders in 2022 and the next year in 2023 it becomes 95 second graders you've lost five students in the
049net and that's 95 over 100 that's the survival ratio or grade progression difference or grade progression ratio if the values are below one it means you're losing students due to outward migration and if they're above one you're gaining students due to inward migration so we always take an average of your ratios um and we're going to use them apply them to the most current enrollment to project your future enrollments so we usually compute an average of the last four or five years and of the 13 possible average ratios 10 of yours were above one which is telling me that the reason that your enrollment has been increasing for the last decade is that you have an inward migration of students people are moving from other places most likely moving into the burrow and then attending
050your schools in 2020 which was the first year of the pandemic you had three survival ratios of the 13 that were the lowest value in the last decade two of which were in the Elementary grades when we did our projections we did not use a lot of those ratios from 2020 because it was a pandemic year okay you have a phenomenon called Kindergarten replacement that's occurring um you had positive kindergarten replacement in the five of the last nine years and negative for the last nine years positive kindergarten replacement is when the number of kindergarten students entering the district is greater than the number graduating in 12th grade from the prior year so I'm going to give you a really simple example if 100 seniors graduate and then the following year 1550 kindergarten students come in
051as kindergarten children you've gained 50 children in the net and that's one reason why some districts gain enrollment is due to positive kindergarten replacement negative is just the rever reversed when the entering kindergarten cohorts are less than that of the outcoming outgoing senior class so I'm just going to show you a picture what that looks like over time um you can see here's the positive values here's some of the negative ones but they're fairly similar they're fairly low in value they're they're not any nothing's greater than 25 students so that means that your senior class that's exiting or graduating is fairly similar to what's coming in the following year when we compare those gray kindergarten replacement values to how much your enrollment has changed from one year to the next just your overall enrollment change
052take a look at the last two years you've had positive kindergarten replacement but your overall gain in the district was 76 and 62 students so you're not gaining much you're not really gaining much in terms of kindergarten replacement that's not what's causing the enrollment change here it's due to this inward migration of children I just referred to that's what's causing this big jump up um from one or 9 all up to 76 or 62 so to project your kindergarten students as I mentioned earlier we use your birth counts and we looked at it from 2009 to 21 we didn't have data for 22 or 23 as of yet but birs have been fairly stable in the burrow ranging from 78 to 106 students so that's not really the reason why you're uh your enrollments growing
053it's not duee to births in fact if you look at the births in 2021 you had 90 as opposed to 2009 was 100 that's the other end point which is 10 births fewer so if we look at this little chart here you can see this is the birth counts over time it really has not changed that much so we compare how your BS relate to kindergarten students five years later I'm showing you a a table here from 2009 to 2021 showing the number of births then how many kindergarten students five years later and then what's the ratio between the two so the first line here is a ratio of 7 means that of um you had 100 births but only 70 kindergarten students came five years later which could mean a couple of things it
054could mean that students were going to private or perial schools but still living in denan or perhaps they moved out before they were school age which could happen in districts to a lot of turnover a lot of rentals so some of the ratios here are below one some are above one so we're not really seeing a pattern but we did see a pretty low ratio right here in 2020 and that's due to the pandemic when a lot of parents kept their younger children at home because they didn't want to send their kids to schools that had um remote learning or hybrid learning um so we did see that phenomena across the state so this is what's called an age pyram for the burrow of denan it's showing you the percentage of males and females in
055each age class males are in orange and green is females and this is for 2010 census and in 2010 the largest number of males was the 40 to 44 group and for females it was the 45 to 49 group now we're going to fast forward this to 2020 and you can see that now it's the 35 to 39 group is the biggest group for males and females which means that there's some migration happening because of course if people just age in place you would expect the biggest groups to be in their 50s and that's not the case here so you're still having some you're having some turnover of people in the burrow when we look at that time frame from 2010 to 2020 what was the biggest decliners in males and females and what's the
056biggest gainers the biggest decliners are on red which is the 45 to 49 age group and the biggest gainers are in blue which is 65 to 69 for males and 60 to 64 for females and what we saw was that for the ages 55 to 79 or sorry from 50 to 79 there were all gains if we added up the males and females which is just an aging of the population there were also big gains or or fairly large gains in the 0 to4 population which would be um under under um kids that aren't come to school yet under the age of five as well as Elementary Middle School students so next what we did is we contacted the burrow to find out about new housing starts and what we found is that there's nothing
057right now under construction or perhaps before the planning board um getting ready to have some type of approval but there are some things that are possible um because the nullen the burrow approved a settlement agreement with the fair share housing center in 2016 which is to make sure that each Town um constructs their fair share of affordable housing units so the town identified one about six different locations that are all listed here I'm not going to go over them where you might see possible future development in the downtown Redevelopment area and I say might because you need a developer to come forward and say yeah we want to build this project at that location that has not happened yet so it could happen in the future but it's really anybody's guess when that could happen
058um in the downtown Redevelopment you should you should probably already know that you already had two large developments constructed one of them was in 2022 called the Nell at the Nel and station where you had about 252 apartment units and the other was 130 townhouse units the following year in The Crossings at dellen so this is showing his historical construction over time you can see there was very little Construction in denell until the last two years when these two large developments came on board when we look at home sales in dellan you can see that home sales declin through the period where the banking and mortgage mortgage crisis happened around 2008 2009 and then it went the home sales have been increased since then um peaking around the pandemic year of 2020 and it's gone
059down the last couple years particularly in 2023 due to the rise in the mortgage interest rates so to cap to uh summarize what we're be talking about tonight of course everyone wants to talk about the enrollment projections which is this particular slide right here so we did two projections for the fiveyear period the first one is using a four-year average of those cohort survival ratios we talked about earlier and the other one was using a fiveyear average and we do different things so that we different projections so you can see that there's a range of what the enrollments can possibly be but in either instance at the end of The Five-Year period you can see that we're talking about gains in enrollment 123 students more in the one projection and 90 students in the other
060projection when we look at it at the elementary middle and high school level for the 5year period you can see that the gains are pretty much at the elementary and at the high school level but at the middle school level it's projected to be fairly stable so when we compare your enrollments to your capacities in each of the buildings for what you're seeing here this is from your long range facility plan um it's not a fire code capacity the capacity of a building can change from year to year depending on how you're using the building for instance if you decide to convert a general education space to special education or gifted and talented or English language learner which would have smaller number of children in those rooms you would lower the capacity so and if
061you want to increase class sizes in a district you can therefore um increase the capacity in schools as well so it's a fluid number so we're comparing Your Capacity in each building to the current enrollment in the 2324 year and in the projected enrollment in 2829 what you're seeing red is showing that you have what's called unhoused students um according to the way you're using the building there's a shortage of seating it's not that anyone's sitting out in the hallway it's just probably that the building's fairly tight Faber has the most unhoused students in 23 24 and it's projected to have a lot more by 2829 due to the increase in enrollment that's projected linkedn is pretty much at capacity as we speak and will remain so at the end of The Five-Year period the
062high school currently has a small surplus of seating but due to the increase in enrollment there they're also being they're projected to have um an unhoused students or a shortage of seating in the future so really quickly as I wrap up tonight I just wanted to talk to you about covid Co is still an effect that has had a big um impact on enrollment for school districts around the country as I mentioned I work with New York City they had like 35 to 40,000 student decline in um the co year of 2020 and this slide is showing you some other big declines around the country in Los Angeles Broward County which is in Florida Orange County in Florida and Charlotte mecklinburg in North Carolina and the big problem back then was that people were leaving
063large metropolitan areas to live in rural or Suburban areas and then they really weren't people weren't sure whether they would continue to live in those areas or return to their primary homes and the big question today really revolves around remote work we had a lot of people that still can work remotely 5 days a week and that is definitely causing demographic shifts when we look at Co and how it changed the population in the US this slide here is showing in green where the largest gains in population were from the beginning of the pandemic to July of 2021 so the Mountain West States had a lot of gains um the C part of the country had a lot of declines how did that affect New Jersey because it's really hard to see in this one
064so we'll show you the next slide middle sex County which is right here along the whole New Jersey Turnpike Corridor anything in this gray region or blue or dark blue had the biggest declines in population where the biggest gainers were in yellow which is Ocean County and my theory was that a lot of folks from North Jersey um moved in at least temporarily maybe permanently to their Shore Homes in Long Beach Island or some other places in Ocean County so to summarize for tonight the enrollments in in the denan public schools have been generally increasing prior to the pandemic uh the decline during the pandemic but they've rebounded in the last two years in the next five years we're projected for those those enrollments are projected to increase mostly due to this inward migration of
065students and we can tell that you have inward migration because your ratios are above one in 10 of the 13 grade level progressions the enrollment games are not projected to be uniform across the grade configurations the enrollments are projected to increase at Faber and denal in high school while remaining fairly stable at Lincoln so with that I would like to see if anyone has any questions yes Dr grip good evening hi my name is Dr Isaiah s jinru I'm the school board president thank you very much for a wonderful uh analysis um uh I I thought it was great very I love the detail it's fantastic um I did have a few uh follow-up questions um there was one statistic that I think was more in the report I didn't see it on the slide
066that was actually rather striking to me in looking uh referencing table two I think it's on page 10 of the report where we're looking at so there's two two lines specifically we talk about the the increase in median um income from 2010 to or 20 is it 2012 to 2022 or 2010 to 2020 and then the line immediately below it is the poverty line or the poverty uh for kids that are 5 to 17 so I would I anticipated obviously the median um uh income would increase just over time um but to go from 7% to almost 21% uh seemed like a three a three-fold jump in poverty for kids in the 5 to 17 age group seemed a bit striking to me and I'm wondering is that a is that a red flag is
067that something that we should be concerned about as we're as we're starting to think and you know absorb and um take into account the information that we're seeing in this report to Future decision-making right um well first of all let me talk about I'm glad you asked that question first of all the data in that table on page 10 um has it's colorcoded there's data that's orange which is from from the Census and then the ones in blue are from some something called the American Community survey which is um a survey that the census does in the intermediate years um when the decennial census is not occurring and they take um for small communities such as yours we take data from a period of 2018 to 2022 which is a fiveyear period and they do
0681% samples for that time frame now statistically speaking um the values that you're talking about for poverty and for income R all based on a 5% sample okay with that there is very large um confidence intervals of what the possible income or poverty rates could possibly be and they're very wide because such a small sample size um I would I would just look at that data from the Census with some caution okay a better metric to measure poverty in your District would be to Simply look at the Historical enrollments from the doe you report some other data to the state um besides race you also produce um send them data for free and reduced lunch so if we were to do a poverty um count by school over time that would be a better indicator
069of um poverty in the school district rather than looking at that census table understood okay thank you that that uh lay some of my fears there um second question I had was a different topic um so the I love the um the graph where you plotted out male on males and females um left and right I think it was orange and and green 2010 versus 2020 and the the the change um in the number so you you uh were showing how there was this um uh inward migration that's coming in essentially into the into our town but then there's a decrease in those particular age groups and kind of a graying of a um graying of the population where you saw increases in those that were I think it was 60 or 65 and higher
070and and older but yet that middle category kind of seems to have migrated out so is is it is it fair to say that the I'm just trying to I'm just trying to understand the you know the the gray while we have the this influx of of folks that are coming in is are we saying then that there are more older folks that are coming in to the town I I just want to be sure I understand that that piece of it yeah well this is just looking at it from one one point in time to the other um so most of this is just a lot of people aging forward um so a lot of this is just comparing say the 50 to 54 group um in 20120 to that of 202010 to see
071if there's been a big shift or not um you can see that most of it's in the uh the mid-50s and 60s and 70s and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have a lot of inward migration of older folks it just could mean that compared to the 10 years prior it was a smaller group back then I see of people but what I would look at if you were you is you know if we did see a big influx of people in their 20s and 30s or for you know this is the childbearing age is right in the middle of the screen and you really it doesn't really vary that much from zero so um you really don't have that much of a change in the childbearing population hence that's why I believe the uh
072The Bert data is showing stable burs over the last decade because you really that that group hasn't really changed that much um but it is kind of interesting seeing some of this data that you know you are seeing growth in the uh the under 14 population um that's for certain right compared to 10 years ago right that makes sense and just kind of you know thinking about it in terms of as we're you thinking about decisions going forward what does our population look like and you know what what things should we take into consideration as we're moving forward so um I think I'm hogging up the mic too much so I'll let others speak as well Dr G thank you again for a wonderful report and the presentation I appreciate it thank you you're welcome
073Dr um this is Will s I'm another board member U I'm just still not getting the numbers so if our age bear or childbearing age group isn't really fluctuating in in age how are we increasing the the the lower numbers where are they coming from are they just like magically appearing children all of a sudden with a with a consistent numbers in the childbearing age so instead of looking so much at those age sex pyramids that I just had up on the screen um if you want maybe let me pull up my let's pull up the report I'll show you that it's a little bit easier you don't mind sure okay you should be seeing the report um I'm just going to get to the one the one um document that I'm looking for so
074this is showing your historical survival Ates over time um rather than looking at the population data of the community the biggest biggest and greatest predictor of what your enrollment is going to be is of the school age population the students who are actually attending the school district so what I'm looking at here I'm going to just highlight these right here as you can see it focus on these two lines those are the fouryear and five year ratios you're just having students come in year over-year into the district could be coming in Via rentals they could be coming in through um turnover and detach single family homes but you're gaining like look at grade five to six you're gaining on average um 9% students um from grade five to six over the last four years that's
075pretty substantial so most of these ratios like 10 of the 13 are above one where you're not seeing them above one you can see in BT decay and you can also see in one to two but the rest of them are pretty much all above one so you just in this case we don't know exactly why people are moving into denan it could be the quality of the school district it could be affordable housing it could be I have family members there and I want to be close to family members there's a lit of reasons that these ratios are what they are um but we don't have the unless we interview every single student moving into or out of the school district I can't tell you the reason exactly what why they are um coming
076in but they are these values tell you so and would the increase in taxes with the reassessment in homes create an influx of of younger families as people who can't afford to live here move out um let me see if I it was a little bit muffled but did you say um as taxes are going up and then some people are moving out could you repeat that uh what I was saying is that as uh we had our our property taxes reassessed and the increase in taxes May um cause some people to move out uh would would you say like younger families could also come in and and then have another influx of younger uh younger School aged children into our school district well yes I mean like so let's talk about taxes I mean
077I don't know I'm assuming taxes been going up for a while because I know New Jersey and everywhere else they are but but this is showing a 10year period so it's not like we're looking at a one-time event here that your ratios on on the whole have been going up and you know there always going to be people leaving because they're not happy with their taxes but there are always a lot of people that are coming in for various reasons um you have a very highly diverse ethnic racially Comm racial community and in communities such as yours I very often find that um a lot of people move in of particular say countries that they happen to be from because they they know that there's a family um from the same country so that type
078of Attraction is draw I think is is probably one of the things that's happening in denan is that there's um people are attracted to um families and from the same countries where they're from or could be um they could be friends they could be relatives not really sure but that would be I think my opinion one of the big draws and and your whole prices are not that high compared to surrounding communities so I think it is it's it's a draw to also move in it's more affordable than a lot of places I look at Dr grip hi this is Nan Dro again just to clarify with Mr Salo was saying we were um I'm not sure if you're aware we were in an interesting situation where our Town hadn't been assessed for taxes for
079something like on the order of 30 to 40 years um and we were actually in a position where we had to do it or we were going to be in big trouble and I think it was about what four years ago five years years about about four years ago um the uh tax assessments began and then started um like within different um like 20% of the town was doing had their taxes reassessed one year then the following year another 20% of the town and so on on a 5year cycle but it started about four years ago and one of the um impacts was people saw in like just absolutely ballooning tax uh uh tax bills that were not seen for many many years I think that's kind of what Mr sway was talking about yeah
08015 to 20% increase in taxes in a very short amount of time so as much as we would like to think that it was increasing over time over years that unfortunately that particular event was pretty significant for a lot of the uh homeowners in town so that started like about four years ago just to add that piece of context Sarah if that if that helps that is that's a sign I did not know that it's been 40 years since you've been reassessed um but you know to be honest with you I'm a data junkie and when I when I look at these types of tables that you have right in front of me on the screen I usually can pick up things um and I'll say you know why why am I seeing what I'm
081seeing and I did not see that with respect to nothing jumped out at me with your data for the last four years that is saying you know something's going on here let me find out um what's happening so yes it's definitely I'm sure negatively impacting your your community your school district but at least from this angle from my perspective um it's not changing um the inward flow of kids that are moving in and dror this is Wilford saloi again um just to reiterate on that because it's over a period of time the biggest impact will probably start to be felt next year as people have the ability to sell their homes or or even better they may move out and then rent it to other families to cause um an influx in students so we're
082looking at at those um those factors because this is recent so those numbers probably won't be picked up until maybe you'll start seeing uh the changes next year I'd be interested to see that um because here's the other thing I should tell you is that enrollments do not change uh Trends in enrollment do not change very often unless something really significant happens like you saw in the pandemic you had increasing enrollment for the last decade except for the pandemic and then that was fairly significant um because what happens is once kids are in the system um it kind of they have to move through the system and out of the system for a new trend to start so unless you had you know a crazy event to happen like the pandemic I don't think the
083tax event I'm gonna be honest with you I don't think it's gonna it may be um maybe the numbers will be a little lower than when I'm projecting next year but I still think I'm still standing behind the increasing enrollment that I'm projecting for the next five years else question all right so Dr grip thank you very much this is Dan Ross the superintendent we really appreciate the work you've done uh for on behalf of the community and the school district uh we thank you for your presentation it's definitely very helpful and um we'll be in touch probably with a couple of follow-up questions from the meeting but otherwise uh hope you have a great night and again appreciate your time here okay thank you very much everybody good night got that right all right
084so as as we as as you're all sort of noticing and there's a lot to notice in this you have a copy of the presentation you also have a copy of the report so I would say just look through it again try to digest it what you can of it um and we'll go from there obviously the the most sort of concerning aspect of the report is the unhoused students numbers when we're looking at five years from now um to think that the high school has a surplus of space is also a little bit interesting given the the square footage and what we know of the the actual lived experience of being at the high school um but it really does provide a little bit of urgency for us to try to sort of figure
085out what to do in the in the um in the short term as we plan for this influx of students so anyway I appreciate your attention and the questions certainly that were asked were very helpful so thank you for that and um that does conclude the superintendent report okay thank you Mr Ross so moving on to item nine public comments on agenda items only uh so the board invites public comment on 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 be taking notes during the public comment but will not provide substantive responses to questions or concerns raised by individual speakers ERS if
086necessary 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 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 comments 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 a comment on agenda items only last call okay moving on to item 10 uh education uh education committee report I'll turn the floor over to Mr dougen who is the uh education committee chair thank you Dr gendrano the education committee met on April 8th and discussed a
087number of ID including a wide range of updates from Miss drapkin regarding ongoing curriculum initiatives professional development parent and Community engagement sessions summer programming content articulation meetings and instructional coaching the new eighth grade class trip which will be to I playay America this spring the district's continuing partnership with teen Arts NJ for the 2024 25 school year updates regarding preschool expansion for the 2425 school year information about the results of the district's climate surveys which will be discussed publicly in May and a variety of confidential matters thank you thank you Mr dougen moving on to item 11 uh education action items looking for a motion to approve items a 10 a I'm sorry 11a through d uh as a block approve 11 a through D second open for question questions and comments um just to
088note that a is the all a lot of the student trips that uh um Miss F fan manell was mentioning earlier and D is that te Arts High reupping which uh was really great success this year so at this time questions comments last call okay Mr Pepe can you please call the rooll Mr Anderson yes Mrs Condit yes Mr dougen yes Dr Jen Drano yes Mrs Howard yes Mr saoi yes Miss schimp yes Mrs Shep yes Mr Walker yes motion passes okay excellent moving on to item number 12 uh Personnel committee report um I will uh read that off as I'm the chair of that committee uh so the personel oh question you guys good okay Personnel committee met on April 8th and uh in attendance were uh myself Mr Anderson uh Mrs Shep and
089Mr Ross and we discuss discussed a number of items including uh specific Personnel items related to the fiscal year 2025 budget uh new job descriptions that are on tonight's agenda for approval uh the staff evaluation process for the 2023 to 2024 school year security staff ing for the 2024 to 2025 school year the district's attendance at an education educator excuse me Job Fair held at Ridge High School Ridge High School on April 11th and a number of confidential uh items so uh moving on to item number uh 13 for personnel action items looking for a motion to approve uh 13 a through r approved 13 a through R second open for questions and comments uh just to note um items PQ and R were were were added to the original list I just wanted to
090point out that uh items k l and m are three new job descriptions these are positions that were discussed as potential needs in the tentative budget uh hearing or presentation um we do plan to advertise for most of the new positions for the 2425 school year tomorrow and so these postings as well as others that we've talked about special education staff ESL staff Etc um will all be um sent out tomorrow so um you know again thank you for supporting the addition of these positions I think they'll have a great impact on the district where were those what letters are those new positions again KL and M those are the job descriptions we discussed in the committee and I just wanted to add as well the uh 22 new the 22 new items for staff
091travel for PD I think that's pretty cool um 20 26 I counted that's cool so questions comments guys anything last call okay Mr Pepe can you please call the roll Mr Anderson Mrs Condit yes Mr dougen yes Dr Jen Drano yes Mrs Howard yes Mr satoi yes Miss Shimp yes Mrs Shep yes Mr Walker yes motion passes excellent moving on to item number 14 operations uh and operations committee report to turn the uh chair uh turn the floor over to uh Mr Walker who is the committee chair for operations thank you Dr jenjo the operations committee met on April 8th at 7M I was present along with Miss conduit Mr sodoi Mr jenjo Mr Ross and Mr Pepe the committee discussed a number of items including information about the district's eate funded projects construction change
092orders the memorandum of understanding with Kan University related to the developing minority teachers Grant partnership school security Personnel options for the 24 25 school year construction projects still to be completed in District and a variety of confidential matters that is all thank you Mr Walker moving on to item 15 operations and action items looking for a motion to approve 15 a through P motion to approve second open for questions and comments last call okay Mr Pepe can you please call the role Mr Anderson yes Mrs Condit yes Mr dougen yes Dr jeno yes Mrs Howard yes Mr satoi yes Miss Shimp yes Mrs Shep yes Mr Walker yes motion passes wonderful thank you moving on to item 16 old business is there any business from previous meetings that we'd like to bring back up for
093discussion I just have uh two one brief item um I wanted to thank Miss Moore um who's here uh with regard to the I playay America trip for the eighth graders um so this is a really a new trip for the eighth grade students I'm not sure when the last time the the the class had a trip but we spent a lot of time trying to investigate uh opportunities for them and Mr altme and his uh his team did a really nice job of presenting some options we worked with the PTO and the PTO was very generous in their support of the trip and so um PTO does support trips throughout the district you know at all grade levels but they chipped in a little extra for this so that the students could have a
094special experience so we really appreciate your support for that thank you yes thank you indeed and if you need a chaperon I think I can be available it is funny because we talked about I play America and every board member in committee was like I want to go as a chaperon it's like the coolest place ever so the second item I wanted to just bring up again was just to provide the opportunity for any further conversations about the the um school security uh Personnel so we've had some discussion obviously um in committee and then we also spoke about it publicly sort of the general tenor of the last set of conversations was that there was uh comfort with replacing the current SRO position with an sleo position at dellan high school and then adding additional
095support staff in terms of security uh one security staff member from the district who would be able to also serve as the district um school safety specialist um so I wanted to just put that out there and then just see if there are other sort of General conversations other feelings about that obviously this is a model that we can either grow from if we feel we need more security or remove if we need less security but it is sort of a happy medium of many of the conversations that we've had I would just say I think that this is actually a model of consensus from from the various discussions that we've had I think it's a great uh starting uh starting position or going in position okay thank you anyone else okay all right wonderful
096I have no other old business okay wonderful moving on to item number 17 new business anything new that anyone would like to bring up tonight okay so moving on to item number 18 president's remarks I'm just going to copy what I said earlier dto um moving on to item number 19 uh public comments on any issue any topic so the board invites public comment comment on any issue any topic for members of our community in accordance with board policy 0167 public comment uh uh 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 the public comments but will not provide substantive responses to questions or concerns raised by the individual speakers if necessary
097the 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 engage in back and forth dialogue with members of the public during this portion of the meeting prior to making your public uh 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'd like to make comments on any issue or any topic last call okay uh moving on on to item 20 uh executive session the dellan Board of Education will now adjourn into executive session to discuss items that fall within specific exceptions to the open public meetings act uh njsa 10 4-12 B the confidential matters discussed
098by the board during this executive session include items related to individual privacy collective bargaining agreements pending or anticipated litigation Personnel um 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 not take place after the conclusion of the executive session so uh may I have a motion please to move to Executive move to go to exec second all those in favor I I I opposed okay all right everyone we're going to move move into executive and adjourn from there thanks everyone we'll see you next time in May 7th thank you