001good evening and welcome to the violent Board of Education combined meeting 5:00 pm July 13th 2022 roll call please Mr Costa here miss fabry here Mr fi here Mr Holmes here Mr river is absent Mr sabran present Mr Silva here Mrs kispa presid Miss Spinelli here in compliance with the New Jersey open public meeting law commonly referred to as the Sunshine Law the violent board of education has caused notice and posting of this meeting to be sent to the following announcing time place agenda Etc The Daily Journal SNJ today the Press of Atlantic City noesa Cuna Visto Bueno and the clerk for the city of Island and the administration office public bulletin board at this time we will now stand for the flag salute I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
002America America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Scott do we have a resolution for executive session we do not thank you for asking any special presentations tonight there are no special presentations do I have any questions or comments on the Hib report seeing none do I have a motion so moved for approval of the the Hib not two minutes yet so move roll call please we have a second thank you Mr Holmes roll call Miss aosta yes Miss fabry yes Mr foki yes Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs cispa yes Mrs pelli yes motion carries any questions or comments on the minutes from the May 4th May 10th meeting do I have a motion so move second roll call
003please Miss Costa abstain Miss fabri yes Mr foki yes Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs kispa yes and Miss Benelli yes motion carries moving on to committee reports this evening do I have any committee reports Mr foki good evening I have uh Chu I will be doing uh finance and Facilities on June 27th at 8: a.m. via Google meet uh finance committee met and attendance was myself Mr iano Miss Spinelli Mr Silva Dr sneen Miss painter Miss zagler Mr Fry and Mr musterel uh the topics we discussed and if any board member would like more detail just reach out to myself or Scott SDA funding uh meeting with the city the mayor and the business ad administrator upcoming purchases bids shared services Transportation Co-op transferred to milville Insurance Early Childhood Program
004uh Transportation survey vehicles uh construction trades update and transportation summer rate uh next facilities met on June 30th at 4:30 p.m. via zoom in attendance was myself Mr AA miss spelli Mr mustell and Mr farachio uh topics discussed update on SDA Grant and the money allocated for projects uh High School power line transfer uh centralizing electronic sign at the high school in front of VHS South uh update on districtwide projects hbac Windows Greenhouse track Roofing uh Staffing for facilities maintenance and the V Veterans Memorial Field usage that's it Mr holes good evening policy and Personnel committee met on July 6th at 4:15 p.m. in the superintendent's conference firm present were Miss Benelli Mr Yano Dr snen Mr foki Mr Fry Mr sabran and myself Personnel discussion Wallace and pill assistant principal recommendations the memorial principal
005search Memorial AP and Winslow AP searches the ba vacancy has been reposted and guidance transfers the policies discussed by law 142 board member qualifications prohibited acts and code of ethics we will add a statement about Board of Ed member School visits and proposed at the next policy and Personnel meeting thank you any other Miss Casta on June 13th 2022 um the curriculum instruction technology committee met um present were uh assistant superintendent Mr Fry um superintendent Mr Yano myself Miss katp Alex Silva and Megan Spinelli um discussed were um a new program re read uh 3100 critical skill and reading of academic text um we also discussed maintaining amsa in the fifth grade through the mtss um procedure we discussed the amsa framework and developing that framework in each of the elementary schools for grades four
006and five we discussed the Middle School Humanities degree path at Johnstone if anybody has any questions please feel free to ask and finally we discuss the math program adoption thank you Mr CA Miss kispa I do have a question about policy and personnal I was going to wait until after um when we were talking about some of the hires and things like that but I had I know the answer answer to this but I know some public have asked me some questions and I don't want to give an answer that I really truly don't feel comfortable giving so um I just have it's a couple questions when we're interviewing for um like a principal position or vice principle who would sit in on that interview process if we have a vice principal interview series we
007would have the principal of that building along with s Central Administration participate in principal positions we have a committee uh that includes Central Administration along with a committee of principles who assist with that process okay and then like one more question it's we we're being consistent like the principles if we're hiring for a certain School those principles are actually sitting in on some of those this again I I know the answer to this but I just would like it to come out from the as we hire the positions uh assistant principal the principal is definitely a part of that process entire process okay thank you any other committee reports this evening um any comments by our board solicitor none thank you moving on public comment on agenda items or any other manner please limit yourself
008to three minutes do we have any yellow sheets Scott we do L Vasquez good evening uh the only comment it's really just a comment right now um in preparing to come to uh the meeting tonight I did see the information on the website for the meeting the meeting time but I did not see the agenda and some of the public were inquiring as to where the agenda was and I know that those things are still being worked on till the very last minute but there should be some type of a general out there a little earlier to allow us as parents or the public to review the items and given us enough time to prepare if more of us need to be here on a particular issue we just need a little more time for
009that thank you thank you Steph Lewis good evening everybody step Lewis um my question is on school safety have all schools been inspected by professional people that's one of my main questions we're having a little bit of a hard time hearing can you speak a little bit more into the mic it's very sensitive okay uh have all schools been inspected by professional companies for safety procedures and uh the next question would be um if they were inspected by uh people uh companies have any changes been made with their recommendations for safety for our schools uh all schools are built different so each school should be inspected safely or separately to make sure that the safety is correct for that school um now that all schools are closed for the summer are there plans for any
010safety drills with the police Fire Department EMS uh City police at each school to make sure that everybody knows the layout of the school what procedures they should go through at each school and uh what should take place if something should happen have members of the school board been to every school in the city during school hours to see how all these safety uh features are being utilized uh if not I think it would be a good idea for everybody to go at least once hit all the schools because like I said all schools are different and uh I'm sure there can be improvements uh metal detectors aren't the only uh metal detectors aren't the only thing that we should be looking at as far as safety entrances and uh and the like I also
011think it's important to get the students involved can you hear me okay I'm sorry uh I think we should get all the students involved the students know more about the school than anybody else right so maybe the school can uh form some kind of committee to come to the school board or whoever and give their ideas and then we should listen to them and take action I'm sure there's things that can be improved and uh we don't want to see something happen and then say what should we have done so if we do everything ahead of time it would be a a way to maybe stop what could happen and uh because I know the violent High School is bigger and they have students that go from one building to another uh how are they
012protected when they go from one building to another that could be a major sticking point for somebody to uh commit a crime so these are things that maybe students can tell you and uh you can listen to them okay I cut some things out because I only have three minutes uh and also has the hospital been involved in this to know what they're supposed to do in case there is an emergency you know all these things have to come into play and uh this way here okay I think my three minutes are up anyway thank you for listening to me I appreciate it was his name Sten Lewis Mr Lewis I know you have some questions in there uh we don't engage in conversation during the meeting but we can certainly have somebody call you
013tomorrow and talk about your concerns okay yep got it right on here thank you next Dr Thomas mccan think you got I I think yeah I think I got that right good evening and thank you for having me I'm here this evening uh not as a future board member I'm not running for school board someone asked me that earlier this morning when I told him I was coming to the board meeting um you guys are doing a fine job and I leave that up to you um but I'm here U as obviously a past principal I was in this building for 24 years um and it was a beautiful place to be and work and uh I'm here as a grandparent and the reason I'm here is because this past spring uh what triggered up
014what I'm about to say is that I was at three middle schools in Violin working I've done a lot of work in Atlantic City as a substitute administrator I was in the middle schools here at Wallace at pill and at Memorial and what I um don't want my grandchildren to do is go through what they went through my grandchildren will be sixth generation viers they will it be four generations of violence lers going through violent Public Schools their great great great grandfather and great grand great-grandfathers did not go to school but they worked as shoemakers on Landis Avenue so we had four generations going to these beautiful schools of violin and uh obviously violin school district has done extremely well over the years but our school district is so so crowded in the middle schools
015were over 200 students Beyond legal capacity in the three middle schools 200 more and way more than 200 more than Wallace 200 Memorial and 200 pillar that [Music] is a unbelievable um situation as far as we're concerned but the problem is that we went from four schools four middle schools to three and what I found out when I'm talking to people in the community most people think Rosy school is a middle school and I tell them no that's a not a middle school they go well then what are the middle schools I say pillar Wallace and Memorial and that confusion that once we say we're dividing all the kids into three schools rather than four and we're over 200 in each school there's another school obviously we just had a school built so that's not
016the way to go in my opinion my suggestion would be to resolve help resolve the issue and certainly i' like the board to consider this option if they see it fit two go go to a model away from the Middle School model the Middle School model Nationwide and locally is dead the Middle School model does not work I was here like I said in the Middle School level for 24 years here and then 5 years at Middle School level in goul toown before I went up to the high school as assistant principal So based on Research going to the K through 8 what they call Neighborhood Schools go back to the creation of neighborhood schools neighborhood schools work and I have an abundance of research many documents showing how the schools Nationwide are going to
017K through 8 excuse me Mr mccan Dr mccan yes ma'am your three minutes is up okay so if you could just finish up okay I'll wrap it up okay thank you okay I want to read out some of the benefits to the k28 model for neighborhood schools violent is already a very diverse community in all areas each school will be culturally diverse not only good for schools but good for the community students walking to schools with their siblings the possibility of looping where the students get the same teacher one year after another students and teachers watch the success of students togetherness and pro progress together what I'll do is I have 30 items but since I'm limited in time I will share these with the board if it's okay with you miss Benelli and I'll
018send them to the board um and what I'll do is I have something for each um board member I appreciate your time didn't mean to exceed it but uh it's a very important topic for our community to consider going to the um neighborhood schools for the city of Island K through 8 it's a model that bridon school district has and they have been very successful thank you thank you Dr mam Angel Branch hi my name is Angel Branch I have a student in the school going the grade for your first speaker is the one that informed me about this um meeting tonight and I'm talking about I came here to talk about the gender ideology curriculum because every time I turn around there's some post on Facebook about you got to go protest this and
019I'm like well what is this curriculum what am I supposed to be protesting and I keep on being told to go through my district everybody wants me to have be upset be mad say that you guys are going to teach five and six-year-old inappropriate things about sex and I'm like can I see this curriculum so where can I find the information about this gender what's the word gender ideology curriculum because we'll refer you I'll take your information and we'll have our curriculum Department assistant superintendent Nathan fry contact you uh to give you information where to locate right that's all I want is the information so I can make an unbiased decision about whether or not and also what I found out is that people are upset but they don't know that there's the option to
020withdraw their children from religious for religious convictions and you guys need to make that well because people are getting upset about something they hey they don't know nothing about nobody can tell me anything about it but they're not telling them they're telling them to get upset but they're not telling them that you can withdraw so that's not fair to the school board and I think that information for the parents is good so that they can make their own decisions on what they want their children to be involved in so I can give my information to the man out front thank you that's all I have is there anybody else would like to speak on agenda items come up to the podium please give us your name thank you hi sorry I came in late um
021my name is Kathleen Morris I am a social worker within the district I would just like the board to consider um the detriment that can possibly be done at barcy school without a dedicated social worker I've been told that the reason to eliminate the position is based on numbers numbers don't equal our children and numbers don't equal problems I think that there should be a dedicated social worker to barcy and my position currently is split between sabot and barcy so we're not only looking at barcy numbers we're looking at sabot numbers and the impact that I can have there as well that's all thank you thank you anybody else okay thank you moving on to motions and resolutions I will now hand over to Mr Yano for his recommendations and approvals oh consent agenda seeing
022none none request and discussion regarding Personnel items 1.1 through 1.2 1.1 would be the approval of the following items a b CDE E and F uh as noted on the agenda and 1 point2 would be approval of hourly pay increase from 19 21 per hour for summer bus drivers retroactive to June 27th 2022 any questions or comments seeing none do I have a motion so move thank roll call please miss aosta yes Miss fabri yes Mr fi yes Mr Holmes Mr sabran uh yes except I stain under new hires uh number four employee 4706 sorry that employee number again 4706 thank you it's the only one on the list Mr Silva yes Miss kispa yes Miss Benelli yes motion carries request and discussion regarding procedures and operations items 2.1 through 2.4 2.1 approval of District
023travel 2.2 approval of the second reading of the following policies as noted on our agenda 2.3 approval of the memorandum of understanding between the state of New Jersey Foster grandparent volunteer program at the loo preschool to .4 approval authorizing the board secretary to enter into an affiliation agreement with the following colleges and universities for the 2223 school year at zero cost to the board any questions or comments seeing none do I have a motion so moved second roll call please miss aosta yes Miss fabry yes Mr foki yes Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs kispa yes Miss spelli yes motion carries there are no resolutions for buildings and grounds so we'll go to finance requesting discussion regarding Finance items 4.1 through 4.9 4.1 approval of budgetary transfers for General School based
024in ECA for May 2022 4.2 approval of the board secretary and treasur reports for May 4.3 approval of the establishment of petty cash and change funds for the 2022 2023 fiscal year PR list provided on file with the board secretary am as noted on our agenda 4.4 approval of a resolution authorizing the changes to the Newfield National Bank depositories as attached for Student Activity counts for the period of July 1st 2022 through June 30th 2023 4.5 approval of a resolution authorizing the changes to the truest Bank depositories as attached for Student Activity accounts for the same time period of July 1st through June 30th 2023 4.6 approval of the annual report of District contracts pursuant to njsa 18a 188 42.2 4.7 approval of the final New Jersey Sig insurance premiums 4.8 approval of the FY
02523 Perkins secondary Consolidated application 4.9 approval of the funding of the following Grant which is on file with the board secretary for the stting New Jersey Department of Children and Families familyfriendly Center grant for sabot elementary questions or comments saying none motion move second second roll call m c yes Miss Fab yes M fi yes Mr Holmes staying on 4.7 I'm sorry I apologize 4.7 Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Mr Silva yes Miss kispa yes Miss Benelli yes motion carries request discussion regarding Finance 4.10 through 4.6 4.10 acceptance of the njc grant as provided on follow the secretary of the board fiscal year 2223 New Jersey Youth Corps Department of Labor and Workforce Development 4.11 approval of the professional development on August 22nd for the administrative Academy with njpsa FEA at a cost
026of $3,700 4.12 approval of an agreement with Golden Gate in support of their 21st century Community Learning Center Grant 4.13 approval of a temporary staffing agreement with ACU staffin services at a rate of 2550 per hour 4.14 approval of the home instruction agreement between the city of violin Board of Education and Brookfield schools in a form acceptable by the board solicitor and superintendent to provide home instruction for students hospitalized or enrolled in the s a step ahead program 4.15 approval the renewal of the following service agreements with inspir Medical Center for impact Healthcare Services 4.16 approval of the renewal of the following public agreement between the city of violent Board of Education and spear Medical Center for Health Care Services in a form acceptable by the board solicitor and superintendent andp public donor agreement as
027noted on our agenda questions or comments seeing none do I have a motion so moved second roll call Miss Acosta yes Miss fabry yes Mr Holmes yes Mr foki yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs cispa yes Mrs pelli yes motion carries discussion regarding Finance 4.17 to 4.23 417 4.17 approval of an in-house equipment rental agreement for 42 water coolers in various locations throughout the district with arctic coolers 4.8 approval of the renewal contract with Blackboard ink for the district's out call service 4.9 approval of the shared service renewal with the cumland county um Improvement Authority for solid waste collection for the fourth year retroactive for July 1st 2021 through June 30th 2022 and the fifth year for the time period of July 1st 2022 through June 30th 2023 4.20 approval of The Interpreter
028services from the Latino spirit for the English and Spanish translation of the 2022 2023 VPS broadcasts on date specified between July 13th through December 7th in the amount of $17,500 4.21 approval of the financial management software agreement with systems 3000 July 1st 2022 to June 30th 2023 approval of the tuition contract between Kate mate County Technical School and the City Board city of violent board of education for 2223 school year in in amounts noted on our agenda 4.23 approval of the consulant agreement between the city of violand Board of Education and eate consultant in a form acceptable by the board solicitor and superintendent to provide Communications and other services through the rate program at a cost of 15,750 any questions or comments seeing none motion so move second second roll call Miss aosta yes Miss
029fabry yes Miss Mr foki yes on all abstain on 4.19 Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs kPa yes Miss belli yes motion carries discussion regarding Finance items 4.24 through 4.29 4.24 approval of the following year three contract renewal for fruit service management company RFP 011 0539 for the term of July 1st 2022 to June 30th 2023 with the option to renew two one-year terms for a total of 5 years with Sodexo 4.25 approval awarding the following contract for construction management services for the term of July 7th to July 6th 2024 with the option to renew two one-year terms construction Management Services contractor Cumberland County Improvement Authority 4.26 approval of a resolution rejecting all bids received for districtwide CCTV system replacement 4.27 approval of a tuition contract between the Salem County vocational
030school district and the city violand city of violent board of education for the following amount for fulltime for 14 students at 6,277 per pupil per year 4.28 approval of the sales of the vehicle list which is on file with the board secretary to be auction on gov. deals and 4.29 approval of the 10 of 10 violent preschool bus advertisements renewal with jmi Enterprises LLC for a 12-month term July 1st 2022 through June 30th 2023 in amount of $900 questions or comments just a point of clarification with 4.24 we had previously gotten this approved for d sedexo uh we added the verbiage guarantee return of $150,000 thank you do I have a motion so moved second roll call please miss aosta yes Miss fabry yes Mr foke yes on yes on all obstain on 4.25 Mr
031Holmes yes Mr saan yes and I guess I'm sorry to see the 2003 Chevy Blazer go uh we covered many many miles across North and South Jersey and and other uh parts of the Northeast and your only problem was on a hot day when it got warm and the exhaust fumes were everywhere so good luck to the new owner my condolences Mr Silva yes Mrs Scot body yes Miss pel yes motion carries requesting discussion regarding Finance 430 through 4.32 4.30 approval of the 2021 2022 joint Transportation agreement between willo Board of Education and the City of Vim Board of Education amount of 13793 and4 4.31 approval of an agreement with the city of mville board of education for the assignment of the cumland county regional transportation Cooperative agreement for the remaining 2022 2023 and 2023
0322024 school years effective July 1st 2022 and 4.32 approval of the following Cumberland County Regional Cooperative Transportation initiatives as noted on the agenda for a b and c any question questions or comments seeing none do I have a motion so moved second roll call please miss aosta yes Miss fabri yes Mr fi yes Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs Scot spotti yes Miss Benelli yes motion carries regular agenda none proposed items for review or discussion or adoption by board members none approval of the May 2022 bills any questions or comments do I have a motion so move second roll call Miss Acosta yes Miss fabri yes Mr foki yes Mr Holmes yes Mr sabran yes Mr Silva yes Mrs Mrs SCPA yes Miss Benelli yes motion carries emerging items with prior
033approval none old business anyone have any old business new business anyone have any new business seeing none board member remarks starting with Mr sabran thank you um wishing everyone a safe and happy summer and I know that uh our staff is going to be very busy getting ready for the school year and um hope we have a successful start without too many problems thank you Mr Silva um none at this time thank you Mr foki nothing at this time Mr Holmes nothing at this time missa just again I'll Echo Mr San's sentiments uh wishing everyone a very happy summer I hope the uh summer program for those involved in our summery are going well um and well look forward to seeing you sometime in August thank you Miss fabry nothing at this time Miss kispa
034I would just like to Echo what others said um I want to thank those who did come out and speak and I'm sure the concerns that you all have will be addressed by the department that needs to have it addressed by we are very concerned about school safety we don't take that lightly so I'm sure someone will be reaching out to you um I'm sure there was just something with the agenda that we just didn't we missed but I'm sure everything will be addressed at some point I'm hoping everybody is having a great summer and will continue you still have a month to go thank you to all the staff that are coming in for the summer programs um we do appreciate you again thank you and have a good night thank you mran you
035almost forgot me I saw you want to welcome our new food service director Shannon Lucio uh working with Sodexo she has been a great addition to our team and has jumped right into the thick of things as she supports our summer academy uh again big shout out to all our summer Academy teachers bus drivers AIDS administrators parents and students we've had a great reception a great kickoff to the program we look to do uh and continue a wonderful effort this summer I also want to thank all of our hardworking and dedicated staff members for another successful school year we had a wonderful school year J June was full of memorable events celebrating our students AC accomplishments at every level of our program and I want to wish a special congratulations to Devon high school graduates
036the class of 2022 it was an honor and a pleasure to see our 538 seniors walking across the stage and into the next exciting chapter of their lives we hope you continue to enjoy your summer and look forward to seeing in September thank you thank you the violence School Board election process is upon us the city of violent board of education has Schoolboard candidate applications available for residents of violent who intend to seek a term with the school board for the November 8th 2022 election the petitions are available to be downloaded or you can pick them up at the administrative office for more information you can call 856 794 6700 extension 2010 the school board has three seats open with a three-year term of each the petitions are to be filed directly with the Cumberland
037County clerk's office by 400 p.m. on Monday July 25th 2022 that's all I have for this evening at this time I call this meeting adjourned so moved second you just want to get that e