001Executive session of the Wayne Board of Education work session meeting for February 5th, 2026 was convened in the conference room of the administrative office of the Wayne board of education 50 driveway, New Jersey statement of compliance setting forth daytime location was read in the in the with the requirements of the open public meetings act. The roll call was taken. The meeting was recessed being now reconvened. The Stanford flag followed by I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. Please seated. >> [snorts] >> This week we honor our school counselors and we have a proclamation for them resolved that the Wayne board of education recognizes February 2nd through February
0026, 2026 as National School Counseling Week whereas school counselors are employed in the public and private schools to help students reach their full potential. And whereas school counselors are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities, strengths, interest, and talents as the traits related to career awareness and development. And whereas school counselors help families focuses on ways to further the academic, career, and social emotional development of their children. And whereas school counselors work with teachers and other educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves. And whereas school counselors seek to identify and utilize community resources that can enhance and contemplate comprehensive school counseling programs and help students become productive members of society. And whereas comprehensive school counseling programs are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all
003students to achieve success in schools. Therefore, we the Wayne Board of Education to hereby recognize February 2nd through February 6, 2026 as NA National School Counseling Week. >> Thank you. Um just to our exceptional uh school counselors, we celebrate you, your contributions to our students and our community. We want to express our sincere gratitude to your dedication and timeless commitment to our students. We're very fortunate here in Wayne to have your commitment and we're fortunate to have your professional work as counselors to support our school community in times of need and as you you help our students to dream big in planning next steps of their lives. your profession uh professional skills and passion to help others is essential to the success of our students and the well-being of our community. So, on behalf of
004our district, I say thank you wholeheartedly to our school uh counselors. Uh one of the things I want to inform the board and the public of [snorts] that um Relay for Life is coming up again this year. Um they had their kickoff event on the 4th at Wayne Valley High School, but it was students um from both Hills and Wayne Valley there. Um, I was able to attend the event and it was a wonderful way to get the theme going. Um, I purchased a t-shirt and uh, Daisy was there well as well and she had a great time. Then we went over to uh, over to uh, Wayne Hills Wayne Valley Wrestling and u tough match [snorts] against Pakistan. Our our team fought back but we're still going to come up on top of you
005know a [snorts] lot of perseverance and commitment from our students. Um, but I also want to uh inform the public that on the agenda tonight, you'll see it this um our district goals. Uh we met as a a board at the end of January. Um we had our retreat and we reviewed three goals in which we'd like uh to present to the public tonight. uh one in the area of a third effective ac academics that we provide all a highquality education aligned with New Jersey student learning standards that provides student achievement, career readiness and continuous improvement. Our second goal will be around our facilities to maintain safe, secure and well-maintained facilities that support enrollment uh effective learning, effective teaching, I mean learning and district operations. And the last area is in the area of budget
006[snorts] efficiency to ensure responsible transparent use of financial resources by aligning and spending our district prior priorities, increasing fixed operation costs and long-term fiscal stability. Thank you. And that concludes our report. I know there's a few other things we'll go over today. >> Thank you. >> All right. District audit. >> Andrew, I will start by introducing myself. Kathy should be walking in probably just as I start. [laughter] >> I I have the whole report, but she's going to go through it tonight. So, I guess what I'll start by doing is I'll introduce myself. Um I know I haven't been here with you all before. Uh but my name is Andrew Kazinski. Um Kathy is actually she she retired as a partner at the end of 2025. She's still with us and she's still doing a
007lot of work with us. So, we're kind of transitioning things. So, um [snorts] just so you all know a little bit about me, I've been here for about 20 years. I've done several several school audits. You're in very good hands. Um but, [snorts] uh I'll I'll let Kathy take it away with the financials because it's a report this year. You guys will be treated to the Andrew show next year. I promise you that. [laughter] >> Don't step too far away. Anyway, I apologize for the several minute delay happens. I'm sorry. He's been talking for about 20 minutes. >> Yeah. >> Just about himself, too, right? [laughter] >> Andrew and I share [snorts] the same birthday. >> We do. >> So, we're a lot alike. Um, so anyway, I believe I sent over to Jenny the
008little report that I do. And again, it's the accountants version, what I take away from the [snorts] 185 pages of the audit. Um, I don't need to go over every single item, but I always show you the components of fund balance from 2025, the current year that we audited and the previous year, you were up $2.9 million and um, most of that was deposited into the capital reserve. So again the smaller we give you the big cap acer which is the financial report and then we have the management report and in the management report is the state's calculation of what the excess surplus is. So it's the adjusted expenditures for the year 2% and then if you had um extraordinary aid and non-public transportation aid that you didn't budget in that year came in excess
009they award that the applications go in the end of May. I think the awards come out in May or Jul June or July. Cash comes in the summer. So that's one place where the state says, "Okay, you got the award late, so you can carry any of those excess funds over." Um, so with that, uh, again, the $2.9 [clears throat] million change, you're very fortunate. I was a little surprised. So at the end of the day, there was 3.2 2 million left over from the budget, but you also had some incumbrances at the end of the year, 285. So, the unexpended balances once those purchase orders roll and they were most likely liquidated in 2526 um left you with about 1.5% [snorts] of your budget. So, 23 million sounds like a big number, but in
010relation to the size of this district's budget, it's a warning. And it's not um an administrative warning. It's the way the economy has gone since coming out of the pandemic. And so back when the pandemic started, the extraordinary aid rates were up. They doubled. And so we kept warning everybody, be careful, be careful, be careful because although you have more kids, you might have more eligible costs, they may reimburse a lot less. So what you did was again you reduce your reliance on that X aid and so you have a million that's getting added to your 2% which is a good financial mechanism. Another thing that I've been saying for years is removing fund balance from the revenue source for the budget has been a very good thing because once you do that you have
011to regenerate it. And so not having to have that pressure on the budget is good. What I remind you of is each year we don't audit the budget per se. We don't make sure that everything in it is sufficient. It's an administrative function. The budgets reviewed by the county for certain um dynamics of it. They look at the physician control rest um roster. But with that, we looked at June 30th of 25. you're already more than halfway through 25 26 and you're planning [snorts] 262 27 and so because there have been so many changes in administrative positions this is when really tried to be in close conversation with each other to know what's going on you do have quite a few things going on you have rod grants going on and for the life of
012me many many years have gone by and I said why in the world are they called rod grants They're like reg regular something regular something districts. Odd, but anyway, you do have them. You have a number of them in 530 and you also have now um the preschool expansion through the BCIA. So, you have a lot of things going on. We have a lot of knowledge. [snorts] You can come up here next to me, Andrew. We have a lot of knowledge about that. And that's what we do. We share it. And knowing that there have been a lot of changes, I think it's just really important to say in communication, pick up the phone, talk talked to Jenny several times since she's been in that spot. So, welcome back [snorts] Dwayne. Um, so with that,
013I think that was the important part in terms of the finance. And then, um, as of June of 25, you had $3.8 million in your capital reserve, which is good. But you haven't had a referendum in 20 years [snorts] and you've been funding all your capital and maintenance and your operations with a 2% limit. And we say, you know, it's just been difficult because when the caps went off the salaries, salary contracts were negotiated well above 2%. They're like three. I think the average now what I've been hearing from a lot of districts is 3.5, 3.6. So doing that and only getting a 2% bump in taxes, it's very difficult to do and the capital reserve for range probably be [snorts] a lot more. So the whole idea there and we talk about it each
014year is um if all the reserves were at the levels that we would love to see and it's not easy. It's like pie in the sky wishing, but I think you're doing a pretty good job is that the capital reserve would be used for projects that are not T& and eligible for state aid. So the referendum that you presented and didn't pass and a referendum that you'll be probably doing in the near future is all the financial advisors will say put in the projects that get state aid so that you get that 40% from the state and then the district is only funding 60%. Which is well enough. In the maintenance reserve um you ended the year with 4.443 443. And since this date of June 30th, you had a couple of withdrawals. You had
015a resolution in November and another one in December. So today you're looking at two 4.2 4.3. Then I listed all the balances in the capital project. So you have quite a few. It's a very active fund. And I I make little jokes because I was representing many school districts for the firm and um you made it to F1s from F1 F1A. Lots of projects, lots of things going on. But um as far as our firm, we [snorts] do we hold a lot of hands. As soon as a referendum's authorized, as soon as the rod grid is out, show me the money, show me the contract, show me the agreements, and we talk it through just to make sure that everything is set up and that you're good to go. Um, with the food service fund,
016let's [snorts] take a look here. Your operating expenditures were up 116,000. Your subsidies were down about 91,000. Um would have thought daily sales well the increase from year to year because those the student uh lunch prices were raised in the year 24. So that was to get you in um in compliance with the um department of agriculture rules. But those rules are very conflicting. So they say you cannot exceed a certain number in net cash resources which is basically your assets minus your liabilities. There are some things they exclude from it and I think I made a comment we have a comment in the management report and we had no recommendation that that number is about [snorts] 1.1 million over. It was very difficult again the subsidies were way up through the pandemic. They were
017coming out with rules again just never knowing which way you can go saying you can't use that money for anything that doesn't benefit everyone because it was for low price lunches reduced and free price lunches. So um the state offered some directive on that as to what it could be used for but we'll definitely keep that in Jenny's mind when she has a moment to breathe. I know budget is now everyone's um focus for the next month or so. Um so end of the year in uh food service with $1.6 million of net position. That's great. Extended day program um ended with $ 160,000 in net position. the there's [snorts] not a whole lot of change there, but there are salaries that are charged there. So, um part of the pension uh for pets is
018allocated there. It's it's a nuisance because it's important to me to demonstrate how you operated on an operational [snorts] basis, things you could control, but am I right that it was contracted out for 26 and so this should not be an issue. So, we're going to make a note of that. um all the all the uh things we can think of. So um and again there were facilities costs that were included in there. So when you outsource those won't be there. So that may cause some extra costs that will be absorbed in the general fund. And then we just go over the um long-term liabilities. Just so you're aware, the serial bonds have been gone since July 15th of 23, but I just put it on there to say that taxes were reduced because of
019that because that um that service tax levy isn't there. You haven't had a tax levy. [snorts] So then the pension liability, you have no control over that. That's for PES pension only. Finance purchases. Each year you buy equipment through the PCIA and all those payments are budgeted in the um general fund. What you uh did with preschool expansion program the capital part of that that's all being done through PCIA. So those lease payments are going to be in the general fund but I think there's a cap exception for them. We'll go through that because when that all came through, I kept saying, "How's this going to work? How's this work going to work? How is this going to serve the district?" So, I will communicate that to Jenny, I had seen that. Um, so just
020talking about the referendum and you know what are eligible costs and what aren't. And we have two new government and accounting standards coming up next year, Gatsby 103 and 104. We are aware of them. We know a little bit about them but usually in May we start doing the research on them. We educate our clients. We go to the conference in June for the school business administrators and we are doing a program on that in June. So um we will keep in tune with that. And then we had some findings and recommendations. So we do the um ESERT one. It's submitted by March. We look at it. These are um some of the high administrative positions in the district. And so we selected one individual and the new rate came through as a little bit
021higher for the Medicare. And I said, I'll just let them know. And then I said, well, with some of the things that are changing, it might be good just to make it, you know, put it in writing that it was just one incident and that um the district is aware and it should it will be corrected. I feel everything always has here. General lenders for all funds again that was because of the change in staff trying to keep up with the dayto-day even though they know what they're doing they're not familiar with the exact procedures that are followed in every single school district. So, because they were getting cash straightened out and everything else, we said once you get cash approved, we'll be good and then we can go through what are the receivables. We
022can find all that documentation here. And so, there were several um more journal entries that we made this year, but everything is recorded, everything is good, and we received so much cooperation in doing that. Um treasures report. So, part of the problem with cash was um communicating with the treasurer and um you know there's a little bit of back and forth. I find that a lot of districts the treasurer isn't independently preparing the bank reconciliation. They should they should be doing the outstanding checks because there are the set of balances outside the building to be able to say, "Hey, this looks a little odd." And then if the business office can adequately explain it, then everybody learns from it. So, just thought that that was good and I don't think that was being done most
023recently. Um, this has been something since the pandemic too, student cats receive for lunches. We've had some school districts that didn't even have a very large number and they were being very aggressive about it. Um, threatening, you know, to send it off to a collection agency and I thought it's a little severe. Um, but all you're trying to do, and again, you have your hands tied left and right. What you can do, what you can't do. Um, and the kids have to eat. So, we [snorts] can talk to you about ideas. I know the county office always talks about ideas, too, of how to um try to reduce these student accounts receivable. And then again, just wanted a reminder in there that um the net cash resources for the food service fund are higher than
024they should be and eventually you'll um get them back into that calculation. So with that, I don't know if anybody has any questions for me. >> Mr. [snorts] Now, thank you for for bringing up the uh the referendum and uh uh as far as state debt service aid goes where it's 40% eligible of costs um to reduce the cost to taxpayers. Is there any end date there or is there any um anything in Trenton? Okay. So, so far that's still on the table. >> It's always been that, but what happens is sometimes uh districts will include things that are not eligible. So, they're not TN, they're doing turf fields or whatever. Mostly that's been talked about a lot over the years and they're pulled apart and separated and not included. That's what could reduce your
02540%. But if it's all eligible, the estimate is pretty reliable that you would end up with 40% of the cost being funded by state aid. And in your opinion, given uh the capital improvements that we need and since we haven't had a bond referendum that's been approved in over 20 years uh to finance capital improvements, do do you think uh the Wayne Township District needs a uh bond referendum? Well, this is another conundrum because I know there are requirements and [snorts] again I don't get intimately involved in these but I know you have CUAC and they come through the facilities and you have to have a you schools that meet certain criteria so that the kids have a healthy safe place to learn and so I'm thinking how how can you not pass a referendum
026if you have um issues with groups that haven't been done in a long time. And so I see partial partial improvements to roofs and whatnot. I'm no expert. No expert whatsoever. Just from a financial point of view, I say to myself um you know with that 2% cap, it's it's impossible. That's really that that 2% um takes operations and then some. And then if you have any maintenance or capital emergency, you got to like you got to really pull it from somewhere. You got to make some real concessions. >> So you can't go a week now without hearing about the financial struggles of districts throughout the state. And you know, you heard about Monontlair and Anthony Hackinack and you have Jackson Howell. It seems like it's really becoming a very common theme and what you're
027hearing from the news is, you know, and parents, it's always like, well, who stole the money or why is, you know, where did all the money go? And, you know, I guess from seeing it from this side, we see the constraints in that 2% is always difficult, especially when you're saying, you know, the raises are three and a half and, you know, all that. What are other districts doing at this point to try to resolve these issues? Because I mean Montlair [snorts] is a $25 million hole they got to fill. >> I mean that's not insignificant and without some change to our aid there's no real [clears throat] >> change that's really going to bring about allow us to replenish these funds. >> That is a great question and one of the things I wanted
028to bring up tonight. So thank you. Um, so everybody's facing this crunch and I know it was three or four years ago and um, you know, Dana is the interim BA over in Monontlair and she has a um, company with Steve Robinson. They're very very intelligent, experienced BAS and um you know Steve had said three or four years ago when we were working together in the district, districts are just going to have to go out to referendum to fund their operating costs. And I was a gas. I was like, I can't believe he just said that to myself, you know? I was like, oh my goodness. But I've been just seeing it since the last three years. like he he knew more and he had no fear to say it out loud that it was
029just going to be very difficult and so budgeting is difficult. How you're going to manage the district is difficult. The money wasn't stolen. >> I don't >> and so yeah so that so that's a great thing. What it is is that sometimes, and this is my concern, been a lot of changes in Wayne, and we want to make sure that Wayne is in a good place. We're going to keep our [snorts] hands and heartbeat on it to make sure, but what happened there, there was a lot of change. And I had another school district say to me, board wants to know how we won't get into that situation. I said, number one, you have internal controls that are working effectively. the people in your building know their job, they don't cross the lines, etc. And
030um the other part of that is people who know their jobs. So in Montlair, you have people that either, you know, it just wasn't there. It wasn't there to the right level. And um then you find out that there were um contracts, I mean papers that just [snorts] weren't in the business office, things that were not disclosed, things that could not be found that we could um confirm outside. So, I made that other district feel confident that I just rattled off off the top of my head three things that make you different from that situation and that should keep you out of it. So, that's why got to keep our eyes and ears and everything on the beat and make sure that we're all on the same page and we know what decisions are being
031made and how you'll go through. Doesn't mean that putting the 7 budget together isn't going to be difficult. Um, adhering everything from 15% to 30% increases in health benefits. >> So again, talking about 2% talking about over three in salaries and 30% increase. It's just [clears throat] mind-boggling how to do it. So my heart tells me the only alternative [snorts] you have because 80 something% or 90% of your budget is salaries and benefits. It's got to either get creative or find ways to make it work in the budget. >> If I could just add something to that also. I I know that with a lot of the districts that you specifically mentioned, uh, one of the ways that they found themselves in that situation was that when we had the American Rescue Plan money, they
032were using that as a source to fund a lot of the salaries within them. So, they boosted up their position control roster. So, the position control roster basically takes every employee throughout the entire district and it puts all of their individual positions, salaries, all that information in. And I know that I was I was contacted by someone from the state at one point um for East Orange, which was another one of these um just so you all know I'm also a certified product center. So they wanted me to do some forensic work for them. Um and always before we start anything like that, we have to do a little bit of almost like discovery on things. [snorts] So I have to look at everything. I have to get a bunch of records to determine what
033I can do uh what my approach is going to be, how much it's going to cost the district, of course, uh in this case the state. Um but once I started going through all that, what I found was that when I compared their budget and then I compared their position control roster, they had a $12 million hole there. the $12 million hole that I had found was the position control roster had I think it was $112 million in uh salaries and there was only $100 million budgeted overall for salaries. So there you go. There's there's the $12 million and I didn't just use 112 to make the math easy on me. I can really do math. Okay. just you understand. But [laughter] but that actually that became if you if you look into a lot
034of those different districts that you had mentioned that was a commonality is that that position control roster when you took that total it was more not necessarily the entirety of it. Some of them had other extenduating circumstances but that was that was a large portion of it. So going through your budget process, doing a good job and being vigilant with your budget process really is going to lend to the strength of the district and not finding yourself in such a situation. >> Thank you. >> So I would just like to I'm going to start I know the answers to these questions, but I'm going to ask them because I'm going to refer refer back to this meeting in about three months. >> So you don't work for the district, correct? >> No. >> You're approved
035by the state of New Jersey to audit school districts. We're actually appointed by a board >> appointed by the board. So the point being that this is the most important meeting that people from the committee should be at but no one ever comes to it >> because this is where you know that you find out that there are checks and balances and there are audits to really verify that the board of education the district operates in a fiscal responsible way um to ensure that the taxpayers dollars are spent wisely and there's as to Mr. Favor's point money not being taken because as soon as the the taxes go up or as soon as soon as positions get reduced because of you know an area in which you have uh an increase in fixed costs such
036as healthcare which we talked about we're at around 30%. And increases in salaries and everyone says like well salaries you should just you know reduce don't don't give a 3.2% increase don't give a 3.5%. But that's not the way it works in public education in which you go to mediation and you go to factf finding and you wind up just giving at least the county average a minimum at best anyway otherwise you're not going to have an operating district. So these are part of those fixed costs and that you know these are the meetings that they need to be at because when they find out that we go through all those things [snorts] um and we do have the checks and balances in place um that maybe they'll reflect back on that or not or
037or not be so hopeful when you know you come into April and you're like I can't believe tax is going what are you doing with the money? Well, if you're here at the um February meeting, you'll see that there is an audit because there's always one parent or community member at a meeting goes, you guys should be audited. We [laughter] are audited every year. Um so just let her remember it is Wednesday 5th >> at the February 5th meeting report was there and if anybody wants to go [clears throat] back to to the meeting and reflect upon it um you should watch the video >> ju just to to reiterate what you what you both saying you know our healthcare [snorts] going up 30% $4.5 million [clears throat] where's the 2% that doesn't [snorts] even
038touch it that doesn't even bring that number down $500,000 It's and then let's throw fuel costs on it for gas and you know natural gas, electric >> insurance, >> we're done, >> you know, and then you know that that's it's a tough position and you know we try to we do the best we can within that position and it's tough every year and everybody's in the same position we are. It's no different. And you know, the community says, "Oh, keep cutting, keep cutting." And there was an article today in the [snorts] uh NJ.com about teacher salaries and district in Bergen County. And they came flat out and said it. You want to keep good teachers, you got to pay them. In today's world, that is exactly what it is. We can cut te, you know,
039you you brings a new teacher in and sometimes a new teacher brings great life into a classroom without a doubt. But you need the experience in certain areas and you have to pay for it because in today's market tenure means nothing anymore. Then go where the money is and they'll jump district to district and then you're going to see the impact on test scores and everything else. There's a residual effect to everything you [clears throat] do. And unfortunately money controls everything. The big S with the two lines through it. First thing I learned as a board member controls everything. And the only the last question I have is the um findings. You don't find them really >> no that's where I am and let me comment on that again. >> Well more to more to
040the change in [clears throat] >> from one BA to another BA finally to a great big >> A the GL and the uh treasures board looking you know that was never a recommendation before. You had people who were here for a long time. They knew their job. They did their job. It was um very very good. Medicare tax was just a new increase in the tax. I feel very comfortable that that's not an issue. And then um collection of student accounts receivable just to say it because you know the number was getting up there and >> whether there's anything that you can do within um everything that you do by the way is with a squeeze on this end and this end. So you heard me say how in the department of agriculture they tell
041you one thing and then they squeeze you from another end. So you're always between a rock and a hard place. So what you're trying to do is make the best decisions with what you have. And to the point about staff and salaries, again, I don't get involved in this, but I have a lot of friends who are VAs and um they just said typically the people who if there has to be a reduction, it's typically the newer staff that go and it's not necessarily what you choose to do. So, it it is very difficult. Nothing is straightforward black and white ABC. It's just not. So, um, I have reported that you have you have very good policies and procedures that [snorts] you follow and then you're just not alone. You're not outside the realm of
042New Jersey where everybody's feeling the same things you're feeling. Um, and definitely I feel very strongly about um, capital improvements. I don't know how you continue to do them with nothing to no money to do it. >> Thank you very much. >> See you next. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Have a great evening everyone too. This this is the mark digits to be agent. Uh under K item administrative items K revise number one approval of mission statement to read the Wayne Township Public School District promotes educational excellence by challenging students to become knowledgeable, positive, and productive members of society and provides tools and opportunities for all students to achieve future success. Then we're going to add an item under X emergent school resource legal approval of examination for cause recommended
043action. Whereas the employee ID 9336 is employed by the Wayne Township Board of Education. And whereas based upon information provided by the administration in the judgment of the board, the employee has exhibited evidence of deviation from normal physical health which is adversely affecting the employees ability to perform central job functions. And whereas as a result of the foregoing the board desires to direct the employee to submit a physical examination pursuant to NJSA 18A16-2 NJAC 6A32-6.3 and board of education policy 3161. Now therefore be it resolved upon the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, employee ID 9336 is hereby required and directed to submit a physical examination by the school's district designate physician and a written medical report detailing the result of such examination to be provided confidentially to the board within 30 days of this
044date, February 6, 2026. And be it further resolved that the superintendent of school is hereby authorized and directed to prepare and provide the employee with the pro appropriate statutory notice of the board's action and the reasons. Therefore, >> thank you. This portion of the meeting is open for citizens to comment on agenda items only. Residents are asked to state their name, address, and subject matter. Comments may be limited to three minutes per person. Members of the public are discouraged from speaking negatively about an employee or student. Board bears no responsibility for comments made by the public. Comments regarding employees or students cannot be legally responded to by the board. Other comments may be responded to tonight or at subsequent meeting under all this. Anyone from the public wishing to speak on an agenda item? Seeing
045no one move. Mr. >> Favor, Mr. Paul. Right. Do I have a mover for the agenda? Mr. Paul. Mr. Favor. >> Any discussion? Um, one thing we do have on the agenda tonight, um, is we will be forming a citizen budget advisory committee. Uh the CBAC is being established to strengthen transparency and improve public understanding of how the school budgets developed and provide a structured way for the community members to ask informed questions and offer thoughtful non-binding input. The committee is advisory only and will not replace the administrative's role in developing the budget with the board's responsibility to review and adopt it. Um this is in line with our district goal number three. Um we will be posting on the Wayne Township uh public school site at some [clears throat] point tomorrow for members of
046the community. There's a criteria for it and we that'll be open till Wednesday, February 11th and at that point we will uh the board will review the applications. Um, the qualifications will be on uh the website. Um, and we're we encourage interested [snorts] residents to apply to take a new look at uh putting another set of eyes on our budget. Right. >> Anyone else? Any other discussion? Roll call. >> Mr. Faber? >> Yes. >> Mr. Haymon? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lamandry? Yes. Mr. Paul? >> Yes. >> Mr. Pacos? >> Yes. >> Mr. Agnes? >> Yes. Mr. Elquin, >> yes. >> Mrs. Rialoso, >> yes. >> And Mr. Pavl, >> yes. >> Motion carries. >> This portion of the meeting is open to cis for comment on any time. Presidents are ask to state their name,
047address, and subject matter. Comments will be limited five minutes per person. Members of the public are discouraged from speaking negatively about an employee or student. The board bears no responsibility for comments made by the public. Comments regarding employees or students cannot be legally responded to by the board. Other comments maybe respond to tonight or subsequent meeting at all business. Do I have a mover? >> Keith will anyone from the Anyone from the public? >> No, you sit down. >> See that one? >> Mr. Any old business? New business board comments after I just wanted to take this opportunity to offer uh from on my behalf and the board's behalf uh condolences to the Olsson family uh on the passing of their son, brother, husband Chris uh and a longtime Wayne Hills High School football family
048member. Uh, I also wanted to say uh I was at the Skyler Koffax Middle School's uh band through the ages instrumental concert two nights ago uh put together by Mr. Vogle, Mr. Puzzac, and Miss Pescal. Uh the sixth, seventh, eighth graders and the the Wayne Hills High School bands were there. They put on an amazing performance. It was it was awesome. So, thank you. Thank you for the invitation. And um you know, it was open to the public and it was standing room only. So, um, you know, it's great to to see that we're able to offer these great musicians and and budding musicians, uh, this opportunity. And, uh, they did a really great job of, you know, exposing the middle school students with the the Wayne Hills High School students so that way they
049can, you know, transition and continue on their their music uh, lessons and their abilities. And and what was amazing was um uh Miss Pascal had asked everyone um stand up if uh you do something other than band [snorts] uh for um you know Wayne Hills High School and everybody stood up with an extracurricular activity that they did. So you know it really you know it shows what kind of caliber students we have here well-rounded students. So just wanted to to put that out there. Anyone else? Take a motion to adjourn. Mr. Agnes, Mr. A. Good night everybody. Thank you.