001Adequate notice of this special meeting setting forth date, time, and location has been provided in accordance with the requirements of the open public meetings act on April 11th, 2025 by prominently posting a copy on the exterior and lobby bulletin boards of the offices of the board of education which is a public place reserved for such announcements. Transmitting a copy of this notice to the record today.net that and the municipal clerk roll call Mr. Pavlac yes here Mr. Parseco present Mrs. Reglioso you got to give it a roll here Mr. Gardano here Mr. Batteril here Mr. Farber here Mrs. Leandria here Mr. Paul here and Mr. elephant here. All right. At this time, I ask everyone to please stand for a flag followed by a moment of silence. I'd ask you to remember our principal, Mr.
002Kent Paliski, who passed away this past week. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you everyone. Please be seated. First uh item agenda item is to appoint the acting the appointment of an acting board secretary Dr. Daniel Gallagher to this meeting. Move second. Any comment, discussion? Seeing none, roll call. Um, Mr. Pavac, yes. Mr. Parseco, yes. Mrs. Frigleyo. Awesome. Getting Mr. Gardano. Yes. Mr. Batterell. Yes. Uh, Mr. Farber. Yes. Mr. Leandria. Yes. Mr. Paul. Yes. And Mr. Elephant. Yes. First item on our agenda this evening under human resources number one is recommendation superintendent to the following transfer transfer uh Lauren Tibbitz from director of facilities to acting assistant business administrator.
003Do I have a mover move? Any discussion? Seeing none. Great idea. Roll call. Mr. Pav. Yes. Mr. Pacos. Yes. Mrs. Realo. Regalo. Yes. Mr. Jano. Here. Yes. Batter. Yes. Mr. Farber. Yes. Miss Lamandria. Yes. I'm gonna get him phonics. Mr. Eloquin. All right. Motion carries. Second item is approval of the employment agreement with the superintendent of schools. Have public discussion on this. Yeah, you should open it to the public. Okay. You have to during the meeting and it makes sense. I thought we were just going to do one at the end. It'd probably be better beforehand. All right. Then we'll move to open to the public on agenda items only. Portion of the meeting is open to citizens for comment on agenda items only. Residents interested state subject matter. Comments may be limited to three
004minutes per person. Members of the public are discouraged from speaking negatively about an employee or student. Board bears no responsibilities for comments made by the public. Comments regarding employee students cannot be legally responded to by the board. Other comments may be respond to tonight or at a subsequent meeting. Do I move now? Mrs. Land. Anyone from the public wishing to speak? No. Paris open. See? No one move. Mr. Faber, Mr. We'll move on to the the human resource item number two. Approval of agreement with the superintendent. uh agreement with Superintendent David um Seno as superintendent effective August 11th through June 30th 20129 as reviewed and approved by the county superintendent have moved down Mr. F any discussion roll callus Mr. Mriiosa. Yes. Mr. Gearano. Yes. Mr. Batterell. Abstain. Mr. Farber. Yes. Miss Leandry. Abstain. Mr.
005Recuse. Recuse. That's right. Okay. Mr. Paul. Yes. And Mr. Elephant. Yes. [Applause] Mr. We'll call you up in a sec. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Come on up. Sit in the hot seat. Right up in the hot seat. Thank you. As we all know um that I want to express my sincere gratitude to Dr. Tobac who has decided after many years in the district for his leadership and commitment to retire. Now it's my honor to and privilege to introduce uh David Cadino as our new superintendent. Mr. Cadino brings a wealth of experience and proven track record to Wayne. For the past 11 years, he served as superintendent in the open school New Jersey schools district. Re reorganized for recognized for his excellence in education. As superintendent, he led a large suburban
006district of about 9,000 students, 1,200 staff members and $160 million budget. So you see closely resembles Wayne. His leadership there was marked by a significant achievement where he was honored in 2020 by the M Middle Sex County Middle Sex County Association of Superintendent. He was superintendent of the year and in NJPTA he was outstanding superintendent of the year for the state. Prior to his superintendency, Mr. Cadino served as assistant superintendent bridge to work collaboratively with the administration leadership team to develop and implement new district goals focused on technology, academics, athletics, and arts. He also demonstrated his commitment to collaboration communications by meeting regularly with various stakeholders including students, staff, parents, and community leaders. Mr. Sino's experience extends beyond the superintendent's office. He served as a high school and middle school principal and began his career
007as a teacher. This diverse background gives him a unique perspective and deep understanding of the many facets of education. We're confident that Mr. Cardino's leadership, experience, and dedication to student success will serve the Wayne public schools well. So, please join me in welcoming Mr. David Cardino as our new superintendent schools. Thank you. Amazing. Yours. Absolutely. Well, first thing I want to do is I I really want to join the Wayne community in um mourning the loss of of principal. um is such a good person and human that I was speaking to someone from Madawan um just a week ago and uh they extended to me how legendary he is as a as a leader and as high school principal and someone that um one of the their work the greatest high school principal they ever
008worked with. Um so that was truly amazing and so again I feel like the school districts are like a family and uh I'm joining in mourning the loss of some family member. Um, I want to thank the Wayne board of education uh and the overall Wayne community for having the faith in me uh as we move forward. Um, but it wouldn't be possible without the uh faith of my family believing in me. And so I want to thank them um and always being there for me and uh letting me know that you know there's many nights when you're not available when you're superintendent of schools and having that that support. Um so having the love of your loved ones and the support is is very important. Uh I want to thank my colleagues that I've
009worked with over the course of the my 27 years in education and who have always supported and u lifted me up when times got tough my friends and I have to say I'm going to thank uh over school community too because they believed me at one point and they gave me the opportunity to grow and flourish in a career and profession that I'm very proud of. Um but I'm happy to join you here in Wayne. It has a great reputation for tremendous leadership, historically great leadership, and an ability to put together programs that excel and offer your students excellent learning opportunities. And that's what it's all about. This is my commitment to you that I will um promise to bring you safe and secure schools. That's something that is my my guiding factor in everything
010that I do. Um, I believe that our children come to school every day and we should send them home a little safer and a little smarter and a little happier and a little healthier every day. And if we do that just a little bit every day, then we're doing our job. Um, no one should ever come to school to learn or work in fear. Um, so that's something that I hold true to my heart. Uh, presence. Um, I will always be present. I go, that's my reputation. I'm at everything and I always say to everyone um go to where they least expect you and that's where you make the biggest mark uh in education. You have to be there for the families and the parents because it's tremendous trust that they're instilling with you to
011take care for their children. Uh open-mindedness. I love new innovative ideas. So if you have an idea that's innovative as a parent, as a board member, as a community member, as a student, they have the best ideas. Come to me. Let me know about it. So this way we can share those innovative ideas and allow them to grow. And lastly, fun. Um I start off the year fun. I've always tried to do that u model of what I did in the classroom because if you're not engaged in work, if you're not engaged in education, you don't want to spend time here. It's going to impact our students uh performance and it's going to impact our overall staff um happiness. So if we make the learning environment fun and engaging, our students will want to be
012here. our staff will want to be here and the overall bottom line is our students will perform. To that end, I also bring with me which the public will get to meet out as um I bring a dog with me to work almost every day. Her name is Daisy. She has done a lot of work in the community and beyond New Jersey. Um bringing happiness and service to communities that have been grief struck by tragedy. This is something that we volunteer to do together. And it's also nice to go into a classroom because you walk into a classroom with a suit on and kids are like, "Who is this guy? Why is he here?" You walk into a classroom with a dog and they're like, "That's the pool guy who brings the dog here." So
013Daisy's going to be happy to join me and uh make a lot of new friends. As long as you have treats, we'll all be good. So thank you very much and I'm very excited to join us here in New Jersey. Well, thank you David. You you can generously find out a smile. Thank you. Appreciate it. We look forward to you, you know, you coming and always. Um, we will be having meet and greets with the superintendent and um to introduce him to our schools, to our parents over the coming months as we get him in ready to go for September and we pull force ahead of September. But we'll have you in a good place uh when you get here and you know to the board and the administration here. they will move forward with
014what they need to do and we will be looking forward to your coming on August 11. Any old business? No, we we have one. We only need one, right, John? Yeah. Special meeting one. Uh any new business? Board member comments want to say welcome. Um the process of uh finding a new superintendent was tough. Um we went through a lot of you very great candidates. Um we met with a lot of people that were I mean I I can't say that there was anybody that we met with that I really didn't like on some level. Uh it was a challenging test to find somebody that was going to be right for this district. somebody that would meet all those requests that the the town had um mentioned to us that would be able to communicate
015and share all information with people and be very transparent. Um and they you checked all those boxes very well for me and the board and um you know I'm not just on board of education, I'm also a parent of children in the district. So, you know, I have faith in you on multiple levels that you're going to do great for my children and I just want to say welcome. Thank you for accepting and I'm looking forward to working with you in the future. Thank you. Anyone else? First of all, congratulations and welcome Dave. We looked at over two dozen candidates who were excellent, but in looking at them, uh, I can say safely that this gentleman to my left was leaps and bounds above everybody else. there was to me was almost a no-brainer with
016the quality uh of his attorney of his interview, the quality of his background, uh his presentations to us, uh his match for the district was fantastic. Um I can go home tonight and sleep well knowing that as much as I loved working with Dr. Tobac, we have an excellent uh person to come back in. As I joke with Mr. Paul here, uh I like using TV references, so I always like to use MASH. And while Colonel Henry Blake left the building, Colonel Potter came in the room here. While they're both very different, they were both excellent at and at the right time for us. And the last thing I'm going to say is to my fellow board members, uh there are going to be very few times in your life where you're going to sit
017down and make a decision that's going to have a long true long lasting impact. Even as a board member, there's nothing more important than to be to hire your one employee. We only get one of them and that's this gentleman over here. and I feel that we really hit the nail on the head with this one. So, congratulations. Thank you very much. Um, I just want to say welcome and I look forward to seeing the leadership you bring to the school district. I'd also like to say welcome and it's a pleasure to meet you. Thank you. All the best, Dave. Uh, we knew from the beginning that you were our our guide. You were you had a beautiful interview. Um, we love all the things that you did in your old district and we're looking
018forward on behalf of the Wayne board and the Wayne community. Welcome to our family. Thank you so much. I don't want to be left out so I just welcome you and echo everyone else's sentiment. His last name is Pros just to help you out there, right? And he was happy that it's Harry. There you go. Yeah. To say congratulations. Welcome aboard. We're excited to have you. Now we got to get to work. As I as I mentioned in the beginning of this whole process, this is the most important thing any school board can do is hires to pretend and you all work through the process. Wonderful. And you saw how complicated it was. It was frustrating at times. very but at the end of the day you all came together and you picked what you
019felt was the best for the Wayne school district and after looking at his resume and everything else I fully agree with you everything so give a shout out to Magna for getting you know doing the job hey we we hire somebody to do a job and they did they did a great job for us there's no doubt about that thinking about that so With that, I will take a motion to adjourn. Motion, Mr. Mr. Bish, as useful. Thank you. Thank you everyone.