001Last year, [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Don't have to be [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> No way. [music] >> [music] [music] >> There we go. [music] [music] All >> [music] [music] >> right. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> I love [music] you. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> It's over here. [music] America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Booth >> here. >> Mr. Chapman >> here. >> Mr. Gianakis
002>> here. >> Mr. Miller >> here. >> Mr. Pender >> here. >> Mr. Peni >> here. >> Mr. Ceelberg >> here. >> Mr. Casio >> here. >> Mr. Ch >> here. Mr. Hi Skype. I apologize. I didn't see my guys. In accordance to terms with the sunshine law ads meeting was posted in all school buildings, the administration building, Burough Cook's office, public library, free newspapers, tap into and tapped into on January 7th, 2025. Please be advised there is no smoking on school grounds inside or outside at any time. Please silence all electronic devices and pursuant to district policy number 0167, each statement made by participant shall be limited to 3 minutes duration and no participant can speak more than once on the same topic. Thank you, Mr. Superintendent Report. >> Thank you, Mr. Pascio. Um,
003my favorite meeting of the year. Uh, for those of you who arrived early, um, you were able to enjoy the music of our our, uh, South Planefield High School jazz band, which is fantastic. I'm so jealous that I never learned how to play anything under the direction of Mr. Bill Howout. Uh, my understanding is Mr. Howard, are we going to be playing another couple of songs here? Okay. So, I'm going to ask Mr. How to step on up. >> Absolutely. the choir. >> Is the choir going first? Okay, I have different names. Um, all right, then we'll skip over to Dr. Craigler. Dr. Craigler is here with the uh the chorus from the South Painfield High School. So, we're going to ask them to come to the front and they are going to play uh
004sing for us some of their amazing holiday uh numbers. >> [applause] >> Second person on the chair. >> No, you're good. >> Second chair. First go. >> All right. So, sorry that I'm sitting on the floor, but I promise you will see why. Our first song that we are going to sing for you uh was made famous by the pentatonics. It's called White Winter Himnel. Squeeze. I was [singing] following me. I was following me. I was following [singing] me. I was following me. I was following me. I was [singing] following me. I was following the pack all swallowed in their coats with scars [singing] of red tie around their throats to keep their little heads from falling in the snow. And I turn around and [singing] there you go. And Michael, you would fall. and
005turn white snow red [singing] as strawberries in the summer time. Ooh. >> [music] >> I was [singing] following the pack [music] balls followed in their homes with scars of [singing] red eye their boats to keep their little heads from falling in [singing and music] the snow. And I turn around and there you go. And Michael, you fall and turn [singing] the lights and strawberries in the summer time. Ooh. Oo, I was following the [singing and music] pack all swed in their coats with scars of red tied around their coats to keep their little [singing] heads from falling in the snow. And I [music] turn around and there you go. And my beautiful [singing] and turn red in the summer time. [applause] The next song and the last song that we are going to perform for
006you tonight is We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Enjoy your time with your fans. We [singing] wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you a merry Christmas. [singing] We wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. Good tidings to you [music] wherever you [singing] are. Good tidings for Christmas and a happy new year. We wish you a merry Christmas. [singing] We wish you a merry Christmas. We wish you a merry Christmas [music] and a [singing] happy new year. [singing] [applause] Thank you. >> Thank you. You were great. Oh yeah, >> thank you so much. You did a great job. Thank you so much. You did a great job. Thank you, Dr. Mr. How Mr. How and the Jazz Band are now going to play a couple of songs for us. And
007I can't wait to hear them. >> We have We have one song for you we're going to play. It's kind of a long one. It's a play on the uh dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. This is Jazz Waltz of the Sugar Plum Fairy. two. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Oh, [music] [music] heat, heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat. [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. >> [music] [applause] >> Thank you so much. Thank you to our South Poor Chorus, our amazing jazz band, to Dr. Kler and Mr. Howout. And thank you so much for coming every uh December to play for us. Thank
008you. This evening, we're also joined by our student representative, Jody Ren. I'm sorry, Brody Renault. Brody has joined us up here a couple of times on the day. Um Rudy is the current president of the sophomore class, a member of DECA heroes of cool cool kids cross country and winter track. So thank you for joining us this evening and we can't wait to do it again. Okay. I also just want to say thank you to the both the jazz band and program for [applause] Good evening Dr. Ky Melissa and members of the board of education and all in attendance. My name is Jordi. I am the sophomore class president here to speak on behalf of the school and recent events in campus. I participate in varsity track in the winter and spring as well as
009the fallac team. In addition, in addition to being a part of the student council, I'm also involved with death years of focus. The 2025 to 2026 sport season is underway. The teams have been wrapping up their preseason scrimmages and are starting to begin their regular season schedules. All sports teams have been working to the best of their abilities and preparing to all have a successful season. The boys basketball team traveled to Woodbridge to face off against the Woodbridge parents in their first game of the regular season. The Tigers came on victorious 77 to66. Alongside the boys, the girls basketball team also had their first game of the regular season yesterday, December 16th, where they faced off against Woodbridge in a very post game and lost by three. The Tigers are looking to bounce back from
010this loss and continue to work hard. The competition cheerleaders are working hard at practices and getting ready for their season with their first competition on January 4th. They're very excited to show showcase their new theme and everything they have been working on. The swim team is coming off of a successful season last year and looking to do even better this year. The team is currently 1 and one as they proceed through the season and today they are taking on JP Stub Stevens in in the third match of the season. This Friday, the 19th, the wrestling team takes on East Brunswick in their home opener. The team has been working very hard at practice and bettering themselves every day. The wrestling team recently had a friendly scrimmage against Bridgewater Ritan at home and the team's looking
011very prepared for the season. The winter track team recently traveled down to Tom's River where they competed in the Demmeritus Invitational. The team did very well and had many athletes placed in the top seven in different events. The team is going to be continuing to visit Tom's River and other indoor tracks to compete and show off the hard work they've been putting in. They're working diligently to win the division title like they did the previous season. Coming off a strong season last year, the bowling team is looking to have another great season and dominate once again. Their next match is Thursday 18th against Bertham. The athletic department recently had their 21st annual toy drive which ended a few days ago on the 12th. Toys were dropped off at the athletic athletic office and toys were
012then students will be able to receive a ticket that will provide them with um one free admission to a winter sporting event. All donations of the toys and gift cards will be vote will be delivered to the South Plain Social Services Department where they will be distributed to families in our community who are in need. Recently, we hosted our annual winter senior sign days where 10 student athletes were celebrated for committing to continue their academic and athletic careers at a college level. Model UN traveled to Ruffers University to compete against students all over the country. 25 students from South Planefield attended which was the most in club history. The team represented Somalia and had a good number of students win awards. A select group of students at South Playfield went to the GMC sportsmanship conference
013and visited the Woodbridge Community Center. Student athletes who displayed good sportsmanship were nominated to go by their coaches and met other students over 360 from different schools within the GMC to talk about good sportsmanship practices on and off the field by a v variety of different speakers. We were excited also to have many of our students attend the H.B.CU CU college fair this past month where 10 of our students were accepted for instant decisions. Here's cool kids club visited grand school on Tuesday, December 2nd to present a lesson to the sixth graders on the main topic of resilience. Heroes and cool kids will visit the grand school two more times throughout the year and present different topics that students can learn from and use in their daily lives. On December 11th, the MAT team had
014170 students from 17 different schools all over Central Jersey attend the Central Jersey Mathle event at SPHS last week. The team is led by Captain Shay Shaw and they finished 12th out of 17 against some very tough competition. Team members did a great job hosting the event for such a large group of students. The music program recently had their winter con winter concert on December 19th. It was phenomenal. The ca the chamber choir performed on stage at the esteemed radio city music hall before the radio city Christmas spectacular featuring the rockheads. The choir pro program visited elementary schools today to perform a concert for the students. They are also going tomorrow to perform as well. Also, five members of the chamber choir were selected to participate in the TCJ honors choir. They are Elena Compatello,
015Liliana Davis, Dyl Nicole, Jason Miller, and Sophia Miller. The concert these five singers performed in was excellent and they represented South Planefield very well. Bravo to the choir program and all the outstanding performances. South Planefield's gaming club hosted the very first schoolwide Mario Karts tournament in the auditorium. Students were invited to come down and compete in a friendly yet still competitive Mario Kart tournament. The students also enrolled in the course biodirmatics traveled to the Waxman Institute and showed off their findings on a project in front of Rucker's professor Dr. Verson and other schools. The group of students are hoping that their findings will be published at Ruckers as part of an ongoing lab. They're currently working on a new DNA samples to present and publish again in January. December 23rd, our school will be having
016an early dismissal. And the day after that, students will enjoy a nice winter break from school until the January until the 4th of January. And students will return as school will open on the 5th. Following that, on the January 8th, clubs will be in the auditorium taking pictures for the yearbook. This week is also stop playing fields spirit week. Today, I mean, sorry, Monday was holiday and at soccer day. Tuesday was holiday to the max. Wednesday, students wore holiday PJs. And Thursday will be dressed like your favorite holiday character. And Friday will be ugly sweater. Just a couple weeks ago, we had our first pep rally of the school year. Students went and sat with their classmates in their grade and competed in [snorts] a series of events against the other grades. The winter cheer
017team performed one of their routines throughout the rally. Also, the band was in attendance performing and captains from the fall sports came up and honored the seniors of their sports and different athletes of of the athletes in the sports. The event went very well and smoothly and was a fun event for the students to participate in a great way to wrap up the fall season. I appreciate all of your time and thank you for this opportunity to inform you about the achievements and events here at the high school over the past month. Thank you. [applause] Thank you. Great job as always. Um, as Brody has already mentioned to you, uh, as a reminder to our families, students have a half day schedule on December 23rd and we're closed from December 24th until January 2nd and
018the district will reopen back from break on Monday, January 5th for a full day of school. So, just one more time, there's a half day on the 23rd. During the month of November, the district offered students the opportunity to enjoy free breakfast in all of our schools. As a result, 15,895 students participated in the free breakfast program. That's 3,755 student increase over the prior months. Over the prior month, one important factor to note is not only did the students who are fully paid increase, so did the number of students eligible for free breakfast also increase. Starting the day off with a healthy and nutritious uh breakfast is very important, and we realize students don't always come to school with a full belly. This could be for many reasons from economic hardships to just running late
019and not having time to grab something. And if they do, we know it's usually not the healthiest choice. Our district participates in the federal meals program and as a result, we are able to receive a portion of the breakfast program cost reimbured. This opens the door for further discussion regarding the breakfast program and the ability to offer free breakfast to all our district students for the remainder of the year. I'm going to pass this over to Mr. Casc. Thank you, doctor. As Dr. Tany mentioned, the district offered free breakfast to all students during the month of November, and the increase was substantial substantial. It is important to note that there's a cost to the district. However, we want to explore the option of offering free breakfast to our students utilizing the reimbursement to offset some
020of the cost. for the board and the public to fully understand. I want to provide you with some information as to why only breakfast and not lunch is being considered free from the district, which believe me is something we fully support if it was possible and maybe someday it will be as a district participating in federal meals program. Each meal is assigned reimbursement figure. In this case, the district was reimbursed by the government for free breakfast served. As you were informed earlier, more than free reduced student participated in free breakfast program last month, allowing for an increase in our reimbursement from the government. This increase will offset some of the cost to the district for the breakfast served. We can't be sure how many students will participate, but we know for participation last month as
021well as last year when we offered the free breakfast for a period, more students arrived early to school and participated in the program. In the end, district may experience a loss. However, it will be minimal and all the students will be fed a healthy breakfast. It should also be noted that we have an outstanding meals balance annually that results in a loss far greater than any amount from a free breakfast program. We want to be clear this is only an option now for breakfast as the formula is very formula is very different for breakfast as compared to lunch reimbursement and it is not possible for us to consider a free lunch option currently. We encourage our residents to complete a free and reduced meal application as the meal program in the district goes hand in
022hand in providing healthy breakfast and lunch to our students prek through 12. At this time I'd like to make a motion uh to extend the free breakfast for remainder of the 202526 school year. >> So move second. >> Any discussion? Can we add that to the uh >> you made the motion? So it's it's made. >> Okay. Very good. Where are we at? >> On that. >> This is just get back. >> Okay. >> Mr. Both. >> Yes. >> Mr. Espen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Jakis. Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. Yes. >> Mr. Pender. Yes. >> Mr. Peny. Yes. >> Mr. Cesleberg. Yes. Mr. Chapman. >> Mr. Casio. >> Yes. All right. At this point, we want to make a presentation with Mr. Chapman for his years of service. Please come to the podium. [clears throat]
023Very good. >> Yeah. >> Oh, thanks, Tommy. [laughter] >> In appreciation of able and conscientious leadership to the children of the school school district. As a member of the South Plain Board of Education, I like to present this plaque to Mr. Chapman. Second round. >> All right. >> Thank you, Tommy. I'll have to say my remarks over. All right, moving on. Any public comments on the agenda items only? >> And we skip to board member comments and presentations. >> Yeah. Thank you. Uh great job at music students tonight. Um thank you Brody for the high school update. And Doug, real quick, thanks for your work with the board. You were helpful in using our funds responsibly and saved us a bit of money at times and helped in many other ways while you were a
024member of the board. And um thank you and keep in touch. >> I just want to thank our jazz band and chorus for that wonderful performance. They always put us in the holiday spirit and this is one of the best meetings we have all year. Thank you Roie for providing us with high school update. It was very informative. We appreciate you letting us know everything that's going on around the high school and you did a great job. Um, Doug, thank you for all you've done for the children of South Planefield, but somehow I think you'll be back sooner than you realize. So, [laughter] >> Jimmy, >> yeah, I mean, the band and they all just knocked it out. These kids, I'm still trying to figure out how to coordinate that whole clapping thing. That was
025really pretty. You're right. Um, they're great, Brody. Great job. Very well composed. Very well done. Great job, Doug. I don't think people actually realize the impact of our finance committee specifically that you have in this district and and I can't begin to tell you how greatly that will be missed. What you bring to the table is more than just the average person brings. Your knowledge and your common sense really goes a long way. And I I can't tell you how much I appreciate and I know that this whole district has benefited from you being here. and it's a big loss. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Anything else, Mr. J? >> I'm going to save my other remarks for the end of the meeting, but I just want to uh Brody, every time you come
026up here, you are awesome. You get better and better every single time. Um, I don't know if you understand, but you're relaxed up there. It's not easy to do. You can see you watch your shoulders are relaxed, your face is relaxed. you're very confident in what you're doing and you know I definitely think that some sort of public speaking or communications or something may definitely be in your future. You you'll certainly excel at it if that is an option for you. So great job as always. Proud of you man. Uh the uh the band and choir I thought they were here for me time [laughter] when you said that uh you know that they come every year >> but for you but they come for you every year. >> Great job by the band. Thanks.
027Mr. [clears throat] Cass. >> Yes. >> Doug, I just wanted to say thank you for the many years of dedication that you've given to the students in the South Planefield School District. Um to the support you've given the teachers, the administration, and to me personally and professionally. I've learned so much from you and I plan to take it with me moving forward. Um you have been an asset to the school district more than you will ever know and I'm happy to call you a friend. you will definitely be missed. And luckily for you, I still have your number and I intend to use it. >> Thanks, Bill. >> Brody, great job as usual. Um, Dan and Fire were awesome like they always were. Doug, thanks. Uh, you know, what Jimmy said is true. People really
028don't realize how much you do and how much impact you have on the district. And I think that what we really don't know is that every time we look at anything in finance or whatever as far as trying to make a budget and trying to and we have to make cuts or whatever, one thing you always say is we don't touch staff, kids, programs. And um I don't think they they they really realize that you know and and and another thing that's that that that's you know um Nice said you can call a friend and I consider you a friend also and you know people you know nowadays you can't you can't disagree with anybody they they'll hate you they'll they'll twist it they'll whatever but one thing we always do know if we disagree
029we disagree you know but we still walk away as friends or whatever and you know and uh everybody has an opinion and you're willing to listen to everybody. Got to miss you and uh I agree with Sharon and I'll see you next year. [laughter] >> Well said. Thanks, Peter. >> Thank you. >> Anybody else? >> All right, moving along. Resolution to approve prior board minutes. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. B. Air Forum. >> Mr. Esp. >> Yes. >> Mr. Jakus. >> Unfortunately, I was I was out last meeting, too, so I was >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Pender, >> yes. >> Mr. Peny, >> yes. >> Mr. Senberg, >> yes. >> Mr. Chapman, >> yes. >> Mr. Casio, >> yes. Curriculum A through >> F.
030So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Vote. >> Yes. >> Mr. Espen. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gino? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pani? >> Yes. >> Mr. CLER? >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Casser? >> Yes. Policy? EA. So move >> second. >> Any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Mo, >> yes. >> Mr. Esco, >> yes. >> Mr. Gaku, >> yes. >> Mrs. Mill, >> yes. >> Mr. Pedrick, >> yes. >> Mr. Pissy, >> yes. >> Mr. Celberg, >> yes. >> Mr. Chapman, >> yes. >> Mr. Cassio, >> yes. Got policy, >> I'm sorry, personnel A through >> D. So move. Second. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aspen. >> Yes. >>
031Mr. J. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Py. >> Yes. >> Mr. Senberg. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cassio. >> Yes. Finance A through Y. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll callers. >> Mr. B. Yes, >> Mr. Espen. >> Yes, >> Mr. Ganakus. >> Yes, >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes, >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes, >> Mr. Py. >> Yes. Abstain on G. >> Mr. Sleberg. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Casio. >> Yes. >> Any public comments on any matter? >> Seeing none, any board member comments? Bill. >> Yes. Thank you. Uh first condolences to the family and friends of uh Joe Bondo, teacher of the middle school, and the passing of his mother. And uh one
032thing that we heard not only with these the music students tonight, the Broers report throughout the school district that a lot of the students represent, they go outside the school district and represent South Plainfield schools, whether it be math competition, athletic competition, uh concerts, uh model UN, anything like that. And it it's really a testament to the quality of our students and our teaching and our district that um the skills and talents of our students represent us well in all these events and happy holidays all see you next year. >> Okay. Yeah, forgive me. I wasn't here last month. So, I just wanted to congratulate uh our board members Tom and Bill for winning and congratulate our new board member there Williams. Look forward to working with her and uh happy holidays, healthy, happy, safe
033holidays. Whatever you celebrate, enjoy shar um first of all, I just want to give a very special congratulations to Marilyn Carney on your retirement. Marilyn is one of our employees who has the greatest length of service with our district with 48 years. She started on September 1st, 1977. >> 10, would you? >> Yeah, probably. Yeah, she has to be in the top three. We're so grateful and thank you for your remarkable number of years of service to our district. You've been an amazing middle school science teacher. Your students have learned so much from you and gained a love of science. Your dedication, hard work, and mentorship to the children of style playing field is to be commended. As you begin the next chapter of your life, I hope you have an enjoyable, fun, relaxing, and
034healthy retirement. You truly deserve it, and she will certainly be missed. Um, Moroc, thank you for all you've done for our district. Best of luck and congratulations on your new position. I know you will succeed. It was a pleasure getting to know you and we will really miss you. And then lastly, I want to wish everyone a magical holiday season with your family and friends and happy, healthy, fabulous 2026. >> Thank you. >> Merry Christmas, happy holidays, happy Hanukkah, happy Quanza, happy new year. Enjoy your break. If I missed anything, just have happy festivist. Um, I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday break. PO's offices. >> Yeah. Just want to wish everybody a happy holiday, a merry Christmas, and also a happy and healthy new year. >> Thank you. Be remissed without saying
035this. Mr. Wings, great job in that snow the other day. School open. I'm not kidding. I I I deal with schools, one of them closed, three of them had delays, and we were perfect. Right on spot. I was going to wait till next month because you're coming to reorg, but best of luck to you, man. You're going to be missed. I I said to you before, it's like you're always here. Thank you, >> Mr. Chapman. All right. So, uh thank you very much for the plaque. I appreciate it. Um I want to thank everybody for uh uh everything that we've accomplished over the last basically decade uh that I've been on the board. we've really done some great things in the school district and we've accomplished a lot together, a lot of us the the
036entire period of time. So, um you know, the strides we've made in the school, I could sit here and it would take an hour to list everything that we've accomplished in the last 10 years. Um but thank you to to everybody in particular. Uh thank you to Norine for your leadership in this district. You brought stability to the district. I mean, before I got on the board, I don't think that we had a superintendent that was here for more than two years for the previous decade if I'm not mistaken. So, thank you for the uh stability that you bring to the district and for um uh for everything that you do for the students. I don't think that you know people say that you don't appreciate or or people don't aren't aware to appreciate what
037you actually do. Uh you know, the biggest thing that sticks out to me is when you had your health challenge and nobody would have ever known it. Uh you missed two days, I think one or maybe one and a half days, whatever it was. So, uh thank you for everything you do. Mary's not here tonight, but I want to thank Mary for everything she does. She works hard as well. Uh very dedicated and cares about the students a lot. Uh has taught me a lot about curriculum and stuff of that nature. So I appreciate it. Alex, great job in the uh in the business office. Um uh I know that we've got uh another um a lawyer report coming up here that's um from what I understand going to be uh stellar again. So, >>
038thanks for all the work that uh that you done that you have done and and continue to do for the district. Morat, same over there to you. Business office wouldn't be smooth running smoothly uh without you. It's going to, you know, it's going to be different not having you here, but you are invaluable to the district. I wish you all the best of luck, the best for you and your family. Great move going forward. Uh I'd be remiss if I didn't thank Jim Demano. So, Jim's not here, but I would be very remiss if I did not. Um, when I came on to the board, I didn't really have a clear understanding about how things worked in the uh in the uh public school districts. And Mr. Espman's kind of learning the hard way that
039I learned along the way there, too. Uh, but Jim was uh a ball of wisdom and taught me so many things and, you know, I couldn't I can't be, you know, grateful enough to Jim for everything that that, you know, we we did some great work together, too. We really did, especially with that referendum. Um Carl Sporker. I want to thank Carl for uh you know heading up the the you know the teachers association and being uh a breath of fresh air when he took over the uh the association for sure. Uh we have a great relationship with the uh with the SBA now. Uh it's very nice to not have somebody who always just wants to fight and bicker and argue and yell and somebody just wants to sit down and get things done.
040So, that's a a a nice nice uh uh breath of fresh air when Carl took over and he's always been a pleasure to work with. Uh Kevin Haidok with the principles. Want to let everybody know very happy to uh to announce that we have reached a memorandum of agreement with the principles on a new uh three-year contract. Uh the details are forthcoming um for sure. Uh Mr. Pascol was on that committee as well. It was a pleasure working with them. they uh talk about professional two meetings. I don't think that we've had a contract negotiation that's gone more than two meetings uh since uh you know since we started the uh a different approach to negotiation. So it's been great. Um I want to thank all the principles in the entire district and the vice
041principles and all the administrators for everything that they do for our students. Uh it is genuinely appreciated. You guys work really really hard. Uh same with the teachers and the paris and everybody who's involved in the district, the janitors, the maintenance, everybody who does anything around here. Um thank you for everything that you do. You know, great great job. Um will I be back? Probably not. This is probably it for me. So um you know, I uh it was uh an honor to be here. We accomplished so many great things. Some things I'm, you know, really, really proud of. And uh you know it's just my pleasure to serve on the board with most of you guys um and the whole time and some of you guys for just a short period of time. But
042it was my honor uh and my pleasure and I can't wait to see what you guys do going forwards. It's going to continue to be great stuff. So thank you very much. [applause] [applause] Anybody else? All right, I'll finish. Moroc going to miss you. It's been a pleasure. Uh you you're the having you in those finance meetings was was important. You know, having your input, you always had the numbers prepared. You're ready to go and I felt comfortable getting those meetings with you there and you're going to do great things moving forward. Um Miss Carney and Makis are retiring. So I understand. So thank them for their years of of service, 48 years. Miss Carney, like you said, Mr. clock is 25. I wish them the best on the retirement. Uh Brody, nice job. Doug,
043I don't know what to say. We've been doing this for what, 9 years? And uh you told me a lot and uh you know, it's not going to be the same. You know, the things we've done, you know, we we've not always agreed, >> right? But we've gotten a lot of comments like you said. I mean, a lot of people up here on this board, you know, we've all contributed. But, uh, Doug's Doug's knowledge in in in the financial world, business world, um, the money he has saved this district in in his ideas, I'll give you a perfect example. Um, recommending going self-insured or health insurance. I can tell you that that is that saved that saved jobs in this district by doing what he suggested. You suggested it. We looked into it with the
044broker. We sat in there in our finance meeting. We put it in place and there are people in this district still have jobs because of what he he recommended. I can tell you that for a fact cuz I know that Rawway, my wife works there and they had a $4 million shortfall, an increase in their health benefits uh starting January 1. and I don't know what they're going to do, but uh I know that we're in a better place because of Doug's knowledge in in that field. Um I you know I can go on and on. We've accomplished so much, but I am going to miss you buddy, >> but um I'll see you Friday night. >> Yeah, [laughter] just want to say I held it together. Okay, >> I know I held it together.
045>> Well, not talking about me. I was impressed with how you held it together. >> No, I held it together [laughter] >> at this time. Uh we're going to go to executive session. Uh there will be uh student matters and legal matters discussed. Action will be taken. >> Can I get a motion? So move >> second. >> All in favor? I >> we'll be back in 15 minutes. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. B here. Mr. Espen >> here. >> Mr. Gianaka here. >> Mr. Miller here. >> Mr. Per. >> Mr. Py >> here. >> Mr. Mr. Senber here. >> Mr. Chapman here. >> Mr. Casio >> here. >> Okay. Just have a resolution to read. Whereas residency hearings were held this evening in executive session for students numbers 2023 283 2023 1275 and 20252383
046which the parents did not attend despite being a prize of their right to do so. Whereas based on the results of the hearing, the board finds that the students are not dodged in South Planefield are not entitled to attend school in the district. Being resolved that the board hereby disenrolls these students and assesses tuition for the period of their ineligible attendance during the 2526 school year and direct superintendent to notify the family of the decision. >> Motion you can add or just Yeah. Motion to add. >> Motion to add, please move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Rollers. >> Mr. V. >> Yes. Mr. Esman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Pender, >> y >> Mr. Peni, >> yes. >> Mr. Sleber, >> yes. >> Mr. Chapman, >> yes. >> Mr. Casio,
047>> yes. >> Motion to approve. >> Approve. I apologize. >> Motion to approve. >> So move. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Booth. >> Yes. >> Mr. Esman. Yes. >> Mr. Ganakus. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Pender. >> Yes. >> Mr. Peny? Yes, >> Mr. Cessleberg. >> Yes, >> Mr. Chapman. >> Yes, >> Mr. Casc. >> Yes. >> Now, a motion to adjurnn. So move. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Have a good night. Merry Christmas. Like I'm sorry.