001is a virtual meeting. Public comment will be handled as followed. During the meeting, prior to the public comment, instructions will be displayed on how to join the meeting by phone. Roll call. Mrs. Francisco. >> Mr. Stillman. here. >> Mrs. Dwire >> here, >> Mr. Mrs. Romeo >> here. >> Mrs. Fritz, Mrs. Garino, Mr. Gorino >> here, >> Mrs. Van Dyk >> here. We're going to need a motion. Uh uh I'm making a motion. Be it resolved that the West Milford Township Board of Education hereby approve suspension of its normal meeting procedures pursuant to bylaw 131 and authorize this meeting to be conducted as a virtual meeting as described in the statement of public notice due to the public health emergency declared in the executive order 103 and as permitted by Assembly Bill 3850. I need
002Second. >> Okay. All those in f all those in favor. Is that a roll call vote? Barbara? >> Yes. >> Okay. Mr. >> You need roll call. >> Mr. Green. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwer. >> Yes. >> Stevenson. >> Mrs. Romeo. >> Yes. Mr. Oshinski, >> Mrs. Fris, >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Stillman, >> Mrs. Van Dyk, >> yes. >> I need a motion for executive session. Like to make a motion. Seven. that we go into executive um for approximately 30 minutes for the purpose of conducting one hib parent appeal. The exe executive session minutes will not be released until such time as the privilege or confidentiality is no longer applicable. >> Oh, that's Dave. All those uh all those in favor I any Okay. So, we're going into executive session. We'll call the
003meeting back to order. Uh, Barbara, can you take roll call, please? >> Mr. Conklin, >> here. >> Mrs. Stevenson, >> here. >> Mr. Stillman >> here. Mrs. Dwire, >> Mrs. Fritz >> Here. Sorry. >> Mr. Gino >> here. >> Mr. Oshinski >> here. >> Mrs. Romeo >> here. >> Mrs. Van Djk >> here. Um, okay. Uh, Dr. your report. >> All right. Good good evening everybody. Uh Mr. Winston, can you put the presentation up on the screen? All right. Good. Thank you members of the board and uh welcome members of the public who are watching at home. Uh thank you for taking the governor's social distancing mandate uh very seriously. I know it's a important meeting, but it's also very important that we not congregate in large crowds like we might typically have at this
004meeting. So, we're going to go through a PowerPoint tonight and the board of ed will vote on the budget for the next school year, which will begin on July 1st at our new fiscal year. So, next slide, Robert. Thanks in advance to our board of education. Uh these volunteers put in a large number of hours every day throughout the year. It's more than just a couple of board meetings uh a month. It's a lot of committees. It is a lot of reading. Uh it's a lot of homework. It's a lot of prep work. Uh so these unpaid volunteers uh really need to be thanked. If you see them around the community, uh please thank them. Next slide. So our budget here uh remains the same from the preliminary budget in March which we approved last
005month. Um the budget total budget decreases um by 0.28 28% and the general fund went down by 38%. Um, which is remarkable when you consider everything we do costs more every year. Whether it's salaries or benefits, supplies or transportation or fuel or heating co or whatever, everything goes up every year and this budget's going down. We set out uh to, as always, to have a budget that puts as much money as we can in the classroom. We try to limit our overhead because we want to make sure our budget focuses on children and children's needs. Um the state sets a regional limit for administrative costs of $2,360 per pupil. West Milford is $312 lower than that. So if you multiply that times our student population, that means we have about an extra million dollars in
006our budget than is typical for the region. The region of course would be North Jersey, Bergen, Payic, Essex, Hudson, Morris counties, etc. So this tells me that we did a good job with our budget this year. We put more money into the classrooms and less into overhead. Next slide. Mr. Novak, can you jump on and touch the curriculum highlights for us? Mr. Novak, I think you're on mute. >> I was. Thank you. Thank you for the reminder. Um I'll I'll speak at the end about some of our um recent adjustments with uh what we're going to be talking about with um the health related closing, but I'll start off with uh um some of our m main budget items already. Um as we've been we've been continuing with over the years is our um balance
007literacy professional development um program that has been uh really successful in elementary schools. um that has taken the form now most recently with our word study program. Um if some of you may remember in the last two school years we implemented a K through2 phonics program. Um we have now moved forward with a grades three through five um word study program which is the the evolution of um a phonics spelling um sort of approach to language. So we are in the process of uh putting new programming in place and that is a big part of the ELA budget going forward. Um math math has also been a conversation over the years about what to do with uh go math and and the program that we currently have. Uh go math is technically at um end
008of life meaning that they are no longer um making um updates to that program. Um it's still uh it it matches the current standards. So it is still a a valid uh standardsbased um uh text series but if there are any future changes to standards they are not going to update it within this. So we are in the process of looking at new programs to move forward and um we had ambitious plans for this spring for you know looking at a number of programs which we are still doing. Uh we're going to continue to to do that in in the distance learning climate with our with our staff and administration. Um but next year's budget is going to be reflective of our our want our need to um move forward with a new program. um
009uh science. We have uh really um done a great job with reorganizing our our high school process where now uh all students are going to get a uh physics experience throughout their time in our high school. And with that uh increased enrollment is going to require us to have um some more retrofitted uh labs and classrooms as well as uh changes to our mapping climate with the sixth grade uh the sixth grade students moving in there. We're going to have to have more labs and and uh you know some more retrofitted classrooms to to uh accommodate that. We are anticipating and it's not complete yet that the state is in the process of updating the New Jersey student l learning standards for social studies. Um I've been talking with our uh county leadership quite a
010bit over the last year and they um they believe that those standards will be uh released sometime between now and uh 2021. Um, so we're going to have to be able to, you know, adjust uh take a look at those standards and and make adjustments to curriculum and it will be something that will require some budget use from um the budget we're talking about now. Um, also fine and performing arts is in the same boat as the social studies standards. We're expecting um widespread updates to that curriculum and we need to be flexible and ready to adjust our programs based on changes that occur to the to the state standards. Um the uh second to last bullet point talks about data analysis. We've talked an awful lot about that over the last uh however many
011years in terms of um looking at our data and and really being systematic about how we um assess our students and the things that we teach in a in a really cohesive manner. And since we brought on Lincolnit, we have been able to um we've been able to do that in a in a much more uh succinct way. uh every staff member has been uh given the opportunity to to learn and and um adjust and look at this program and we're able to bring data all the way down to the um the classroom teacher and to the and to the parent at home. Um, so we're going to continue with that. And, um, I know we, you know, we have a little bit of a there was a bit of a pause button in terms
012of state standings, uh, state standards with, um, the assessment this year being cancelled, but we are in full anticipation that it will return. And we want to make sure that we are, you know, still continuing to to, you know, keep those skills and those standards in our in our mind and and be able to look look forward past this past this school closing. Um so the the budget is going to be supporting link and the uh usage of that uh program going forward. Um the last bullet point is one that we just recently added is that we are anticipating some additional costs in terms of um curriculum adjustments. um we're we're going to, you know, take advantage of the linket tool to, you know, utilize right away um the the potential skill loss that that
013may have occurred with uh with school closings. So, we're we're, you know, very hopeful that our distance learning program is is going to maintain and reinforce skills that the students have already um have already mastered and and move them forward in in uh in the best way that we can. Uh but we also want to be prepared for the um you know for the worst case scenario that we there are skills for this school year that we're going to have to recover. And um we are in the process now of discussing how those um you know curriculum committees and curriculum uh revisions and and um you know committee work can take a look at the things that we potentially um need to address in the summer and and in the fall for for this closing.
014Uh, next slide, Robert. All right. So, the budget timeline, uh, we're just about finished here. It's about a five-month process. We start the first week in December with administrative count, administrative meetings. Uh, we hone a budget more and more. The board has met in January and February to discuss committee the whole. We did our preliminary budget last month right before the school closure. And now we're doing our final public hearing on the budget. So, the budget's finalized tonight. The fiscal year starts July 1st and it doesn't end till July uh June 30th of 2021. So, we're like 15 months in we're trying to look 15 months into the future and come up with a budget that will satisfy the needs of the district in June of 2021. Um which is a long ways away. Next
015slide. So, our budget basics, uh we have two halves, revenues, expense and expenses. Uh expenses are going up. We're talking about salaries, benefits, supplies. Um, our revenues are going down. Our our tax levy is capped by the state. That's how much we can tax uh local or increase our local tax levy. Um, our state aid is uh declining dramatically almost $2 million. Uh the next point uh fund balance. Um, last month this would have said declining as well, but now we believe it's stabilizing. Uh, due to the school closure the past six weeks and potentially throughout the rest of this school year, um, we believe our fund balance is going to stabilize rather than decline. Uh, part of that is because our operating costs have gone down. We're no longer buying as much fuel for
016our buses, uh, heating and cooling the buildings, uh, substitutes, all the little things that go into operating a school district day in day out. We're just not absorbing those costs anymore. So that's if there's any good news, it's that it's that our fund balance will most likely stabilize by June 30th. Next slide. So our state aid reductions, um, S2 was in yellow. That is what we were promised. The state aid reductions were going to be our state a uh were going to be in uh yellow and now we have a revised S2 which is going to be in green. As you can see the state aid reductions are much more dramatic. So where do they land in four years? I'm not sure but we have four more years of uh state aid cuts. I don't
017think they're going to land at 7 million which would be here. I think they're going to be essentially off this chart. We'll have to create a new chart that could be as high as $10 million over seven years of state aid reductions. Next slide. And also a percentage of our total budget. Uh as you can see, a couple years ago, about 10 years ago, the state was uh covering more than 25% of our budget. And uh this year, it's going to or next year rather, it's going to be closer to 15%. Yeah. >> And in a in a couple years, it's going to be going down to about 7 and a half%. Next slide. >> Of course, that puts more pressure on the local tax levy, which is in a town like West Milford where
018most of our school money comes from local taxpayers. Uh the cap is not on the total tax on the total budget. It's on the local tax levy. So if about 75% of our revenues are from local taxes, if we increase our taxes by 2%, it doesn't increase our budget by 2%. It only increases it by 1.5%. Next slide. As you can see here, this board has done a tremendous job over the last decade holding taxes in tow. So it's been under a point and a half average increase over the last nine years. Next slide. Preliminary budget of our local tax levy. As you can see, it's going to be increased by 2.5%. Although it has an impact, our general fund, our total budget is going to go down by just under half a percent. And
019the reason the taxes go up, but the budget goes down, of course, is because we lost approximately $2 million in state aid. slide. So, as you see, our revenues went down and two tremend briefly on the budget fund balance this uh cut for next year and why we have two numbers there in the 2021 box. >> Okay. Um last year, June 30th, 2019, we um had a less uh surplus as you'd like to refer to budget balance that would be available to use in the 2021 budget. Um uh if you recall, we have uh the energy savings program that we are implementing and uh we sold bonds back in October to be able to accomplish this energy savings program. We need to extract some of the savings that were now reaping um because the um
020the the program has been in uh implemented since November, December and we have to take that savings and we have to bring it forward into the 2021 budget in order to pay the first payment on the bond. So, we're using approximately $913,000 to um pay for the um the bond issue. And we're also using some of that $913,000 to try to maintain some of the programs that we've started knowing that we were going to have some additional money in uh that we were going to be able to recoup uh from the 1920 budget because we had a number of maternity leaves. We knew that our salary accounts were going to have some um money that we we could um utilize to try to maintain uh the programs going into next year. Um this was before
021COVID. So, um as Dr. said, "We're um we do believe that we're going to have some uh healthy fund balance, but we're also concerned about some of the revenues that we may not see um especially from the state. And uh that's going to be a wait and see uh thing because we won't really know until this summer whether the revenues that we're anticipating receiving that's going to um uh be utilized to support this budget are actually going to materialize. And a bigger concern is whether the revenues for the 1920 budget in June and or um other things that we have to um balance uh may not materialize either. So it's a big wait and see. And um all we can do is hope that the budget that we're presenting with now uh we're going to
022be able to uh to maintain it going forward uh without too many large adjustments um the sound just cut out here. All right, I'll I'll jump back in. Uh, next slide, Robert. All right, so these are our expenses for the general fund for next year. There's a lot of red. There's been a lot of cuts across the board. Um, the biggest cost increase for next year uh is health benefits. Uh, also operations and maintenance is large. We've had cuts across the board in a lot of different areas, which is what we needed to do to get under budget. Next slide. The tax levy impact is uh what happened to the average household or the median assessed home in this township? It's $242,300, which is you can tell is $200 less than last year. So, the
023average tax increase year-over-year is going to be $11959 or just under $10 per month. Uh, that's the median household. The median assessed home. Half the township is more than that, but also half is less than that number. That's the middlemost number. Next slide. Our capital project are still on for this year. We are redoing the uh Makaban field and track uh for football, field hockey, soccer, lacrosse, all our youth sports, etc. track and field. We're doing the Mac and well replacement, the tennis courts resurfacing behind Mackman school. We're going to continue with our ESIP and our shared services with the township. Next slide. So proposed cuts that are in this budget. It's across the board for clubs, supplies, athletics, professional development, summer hours. Uh, one administrator, supervisor of math, two elementary teachers, halftime secretary in
024transportation, science at West Milford High School, special education, a 6 teacher, MPIN computer science, and districtwide a half-time nurse and a full-time music teacher. Next, next slide. and what does the future look like? Made some minor changes to this since since March, but um we believe our state aid is going to continue to decline dramatically. Um our federal aid will decline as well, whether that's title money, IDEA, our expenses are going to continue to rise. There'll be pressures on local taxes. Um and we're going to have a limited ability to fund our our reserve accounts, whether it's capital reserve or maintenance reserve. Now lastly, this is a new bullet point here, but the state extended its fiscal year from June 30th until September 30th. This is due to the COVID pandemic. Uh Governor Murphy has
025not mention has been mentioning um no specific numbers, but he is saying that the state revenues uh will be down about 20 to 25% for this budget year simply because nobody is going out, nobody's buying anything. there's just a a dramatic reduction in in taxes being paid to trend. So, there could be an additional cut in state aid for 202021 for all school districts or at least some school districts. Um, I would not be surprised if they another half million dollars was cut out of our state aid for next year. uh we won't know until September 30th or the days leading up to September 30th when the state budget is finalized, but um we're going to have to brace for impact on that for an additional cut for next year and then additional cuts in
026the years thereafter. So um the state has about a $40 billion budget and they're estimating revenues are coming in about $9 billion short. So that's somewhere in the 20 to 25% reduction in instate revenues. So that's going to fall back to the townships, the municipalities, the cities, the counties, and the school districts in terms of what they give us. So um we have a number given to us from the state for state aid, but that has not been set in stone until the budget is finalized. Normally that's June 30th. This year that will be September 30th. So, this is going to be a very uh hectic budget year for us all. Okay. Now, does anybody on the board have any questions about any of the slides? >> I I just want to comment on something
027that you just said, Alex. I I know that we've had some conversations, you and Barbara and I, about the fear that in in some of the statements that they've been making out of Trenton, that they are going to revisit state aid issues. And I would be very hopeful that the governor when he does revisit, he revisits the districts that he added to first before he comes and takes away even more from a district that's already lost almost, you know, like a million7. So I I I I would really be hopeful and I I think we need to stay on top of that, too. And I want to thank you again for the meeting that we had with Assembly Assemblyman Weber the other day. Um he had some things that he had told us about two
028bills that he's talking about. Um hopefully they will be able to push them through, but I realize that in this time the least of their worries is what we're worried about here. So, but I I I do want the rest of the board to know that we have been moving forward with trying to address some of this through um the politicians. So, >> thank you, Linda. >> Anyone else have any comments or >> I just like to kind of dubtail the [Music] Uh yeah, the state finances are really a a mess right now that they, you know, need to either freeze S2 or really revis um because yeah, I don't think they're going to have money to move ahead and you know, they're talking unless they get a lot of federal aid, there's going to
029be lay off all levels, uh, school districts. Um, yeah, it's hard to say what's going to happen. Uh, I think they really need to take a good look at all of this and I don't think really for what they have. It's such a radical gonna have to deal with mess, but it's hard to, you know, you know, it's uh it's really a mess out. >> Anyone else have anything they'd like to add to that? Right. Um I know Robert took the slides off but on I think it was slide 13 the general fund expense um there were there it shows general education reduction special ed a slight reduction encore bilingual a little bit reduction can you explain um I understand the increase in operations um can you explain the the administration. I thought you said
030I thought I heard you say we were eliminating a position. Does that not have anything to do with the position? >> No, that's cut. But everybody who remains gets a small raise. So that's the net amount. >> Okay. So what's the total? Um so that's the net amount. So everybody in administration. So you're not talking about I just want to make sure everybody's clear. You're not just talking about administrators. You're talking about everybody in the board of education building too, right? >> Not not the secretaries. I don't think they would be. >> They would be. >> Or Hold on. Barb's going to jump in here. She's a little her her internet's a little slow over there, but just give us a second. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yes. Um this [Music] includes everyone in the board
031office, everyone in the schools, including all the secretaries and it um and and the administrators. So, it's not just the principles and the supervisors, it's all of the secretaries and um all expenses, audits, legal, um communications, which we seem having a problem with today. Um all of that is considered a an administrative expense. >> Yeah. So, I just felt it was important for people to understand that because I think that they would immediately might have heard um Dr. Anamone say, you know, there's a supervisor position cut and they're looking at that and seeing that and they don't realize how many people actually affected with regard to you the merit adjustment. So, >> does anyone else have any other anything else? Um, all right. Um, I guess we'll move on to you, Dan, to do your
032report. Thank you, Dr. Anamone, again for the for the presentation. And I'm I know that this will maybe be a further disc public comment. Okay. >> Terry, you have a question. >> Oh, I'm sorry, Terry. I didn't see you. Do you have a question? You need to unmute yourself. >> Are we going to further discuss budget meeting. >> I couldn't hear that, Terry. I don't There was feedback on my end. I don't know if >> I I couldn't hear it either. >> Okay. Are we going to um that my connection with. Are we going to discuss this at our next meeting? Well, today is the adoption of the budget. This this is the vote for the budget today. I mean, if there's changes in the budget that you want to if some of the on
033the budget you further discussion about this budget. >> Okay. >> Can't hear you. I'm sorry. I >> think she asked if there would be further discussion on the budget. >> Well, this is a discussion. We're voting tonight. We have a uh a statutory deadline to get it into the department. So, um this is the chance to discuss it uh for the community for the board. >> Question. Is are you okay with that term? Is that you got your answer? >> Okay. Oh, she's frozen now. Go ahead, Dan. I I think >> we're g we're going to have public comments, so maybe the connection gets better by then. Hopefully, if any board members have any other questions, we'll be able to All right. >> Go ahead, Dan. >> Okay, I'm gonna get going. Um, just to
034give a a brief um update on our the current status of our our distance learning. Um the I guess the biggest change from uh our I guess the last meeting and our last discussion >> concerns and concerns administration >> I'm sorry Terry I I can't hear I can't hear what you're saying. I apologize. >> I I think it's a I think it's the delay from Well, I I want to make a statement. Statement is that um Okay. All right. This is good. >> Yeah, I can't I can't hear anything. Linda, uh, should I proceed, Linda? >> Muted. >> Robert, can you can you mute this? through my chat function. Are we not using that? >> I was just going to say I don't know if Terry knows function. Terry, there there's if you go down
035to the bottom there's an area where you could bring there there's a area where you can go to right or up above. I can't. Can you hear me? >> Not good. >> No. >> Terry dial line, >> you know. You could you could message me. >> Go ahead, Dan. Move forward. >> Okay. So, so I wanted to um start with the an update um from from the last time we spoke at ED committee and um at the last board meeting. And I guess one of the biggest uh changes in our current process has to do with our fourth uh fourth marking period grading. Um at uh most recent um Dr. Random one sent a message out to the community um about a week ago and our elementary principles sent a message out yesterday again with
036Mark and Matt um from the high school and middle school last Friday to uh explaining the um process how we are going to approach fourth mark period grading and the greater emphasis we're going to be placing on participation grading um in the early going of of that. It's uh you know this is new this is new for everybody and there were a few I guess growing pains and um some some um some uh situations that we had to work out >> with that um program. >> Um >> now >> I thought I lost you. I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> I stopped because I thought I was someone was jumping in again. Um so within that at the at the high school level we've adjusted the the grade weights to have a greater reflection on on
037participation and what we are asking which is sort of an SL for me now is to also um just make sure that we are um letting the community that if um they have concerns if students are um having concerns with how the anticipation grades are playing out that they are uh they should you know discuss this with their teacher and with their administrator um immediately because we are truly handling this on a on an individualized basis. Um we've had a few discussions about um you know the the real time is our grading system and we are locked into certain grades that are associated with um how we grade participation which is playing out as a check plus check and check minus and there are certain number values that get assigned to that and I think
038those number values um which which we couldn't change because it was going to go back if if we change it now for the fourth marking period it was going to impact our entire year and we did not want to go back and and have issues with first through third marking period. However, those grade weight assignments th those numbers were um potentially skewing um skewing some grades to the to the downside. Um, so initially there was some concern and some feedback we received from from the community teachers and and students and we've been able to work through that as a as a team to truly have a flexible uh sort of approach. Um, so we feel confident right now that that going forward this is going to be something that works. Um, as I've mentioned in
039the before, I've in the past I've had uh numerous conversations with everyone who's doing this throughout the county and then beyond the county and um no one really has a good answer for this. Um, some place some some districts have just abandoned grave giving grades in the fourth marking period altogether and they've taken the average of of the first three marking periods which um we didn't we didn't think was the best thing for for our community. We we wanted to make sure that there is some um there is something to work towards. Uh we we do have situations where we've um you know we're trying to work with who who we've lost contact with and students who are not um who are not completing or or interacting with our our distance learning process. Um, you
040know, so we want to make sure that we are, um, you know, doing everything we can to make get our students engaged. Um, we're we're really, uh, hoping that our fourth marking period process is is the maintenance and the, um, retaining of of the skills that we have while pushing forward with some new material. Um, and and we want to make sure that we're able to do that. So, so the the overall theme of our fourth marking period grading is is the word flexibility. And no parent should think that any grade that they see in a student's record right now is final. Um that our staff has really been really been doing a great job. I mean, I couldn't speak high right now. U in terms of their flexibility, their individualization, and their abil um
041willingness to work with every family uh um in this process. uh you know we have that that ability now on on the Fridays of each week where our students are getting to interact individually or in small groups with their teachers and uh and get all those things worked out. Um the other part of this participation grade or the fourth marking period grading is in the elementary schools where the message that went out to uh from the building principles Monday um was a was a um a statement again of flexibility where we are um greatly um recognizing the accomplishments of first, second and third marking period. Um, so that's a that's sort of a um a vague statement to say that we are going to be incorporating an average of those three marking periods into the
042fourth marking period grade. Student progress to this point should account for something and and we're making sure that that does. Um but we are also um going to have a strong uh component of fourth marking period participation and um you know we've worked with with administrators and staff to to remain flexible and to and to keep those conversations going and make sure that that our students are engaged. So again the flex flexibility is the key word and approached with questions about participation grading. uh the the answer to each question should be you need to contact the teacher and to make sure that the teacher these things on a on an individual basis. Um and and to this point, you know, we had we had a few issues early and uh so far the feedback I've
043gotten this week and and towards the end of last week is that most of these things have been resolved and the ones that haven't situations of family. Um so we're we're we're hopeful this is going to work. Um, like I said, we got to stay flexible and um and and it's really uh I think thinking of the best, you know, what's best for students in mind. >> Uh >> thank you, Dan. >> Um Barbara, we're we're going to move to the your your portion. Uh we have the um meeting minutes from March the 10th where we have the budget discussion in the executive session foration. I'd like to make a motion to approve the board of education meeting for March 10th and March 20th. >> All the all those in uh any discuss does anybody
044have anything on the minutes discussion on the minutes? If not, all those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. carried. Um, yeah. Yeah. You know what? Some of us are lagging behind. I think that that's part of the problem. I think we maybe it's the internet. It must be the internet connection because we lost it before, too. So hopefully as we move forward, it'll get better. Um, under my president, I just did want to say um again what a great job the district is doing with the distance learning. I think our I think our staff, you know, our teachers and everyone else have picked up and the administrators have done a good job of moving everyone forward. This is uncharted waters and I think that our staff and everyone are handling this excellent. Uh,
045you know, it they're taking into account what the needs are in the homes and and what's going on there. And I do hope that any parents that feel that they need to speak that they reach out because there are people here to help them. And a problem as I think Dan was saying, please reach out to your teacher and reach out to even your building principal or the administration building because we really, you know, you know, these are times that, you know, warrant that if there's a problem, we need to address that. But I feel our staff, you know, that we are, as a district, I'm thankful that Alex was and Dan and Liz were ahead of this. They were on the curve. We we were well prepared going in and I I think it's
046showing as we're moving forward, as we've adjusted different things. So, I want to say thank you to everyone. >> You're welcome. The staff did a great job. We have a resolution on the agenda tonight thanking our staff for what they've done. They've gone above and beyond. >> Thank you. Thank you so much, Alex. Um, now I we're going to move on to the uh public comment portion. Um, I'm going to read the statement. This portion of the meeting is open to members of the public for the purpose of addressing resolutions on this agenda only. Members of the public who have reg who have requested to speak prior to the meeting will be recognized by the chair first. Each speaker will be given five minutes for a period of 30 minutes. Then time permitting other public
047comment limited to five minutes per speaker will be allowed until the 30 minute time period transpires. All members of the public speaking during this public comment period are asked to address topics listed in the agenda. All speakers are asked to sign the register provided and to give their full name, spell their last name, group affiliation if appropriate, and provide their address. Issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board. All comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate. The board asks that the members of the public be courteous and respectful of the rights of other individuals when speaking. Specifically, comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and the board and the administration will not respond to them. Students
048and employees have specific legal rights afforded to them by the laws of New Jersey. The board is not responsible and is not liable for any comments made by members of the public. Members of the public should consider their comments in the light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments. Members of the public are reminded that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments. Yeah, I think we're going to be giving a few minutes to see if anybody's calling in or um has any comments or questions. >> I actually I actually have I'm sorry to interrupt, Linda. I have a staff member who sent in a statement she would like read. So, Barbara's having some technical difficulties. So, >> okay. >> So, it's from Trisha Perui, 91 Lindy's Drive, West
049Milford. >> Okay. Dear members of the board, my name is Trisha Perui and I am unable to attend this meeting due to the CO 19 pandemic. However, my employment status is being discussed number 29 under personnel student affairs. So, I am instead submitting this letter to express my concerns. I have worked for the transportation department for five years. I began as a bus driver, then moved into the route dispatch position. When the administrative assistant position became available, I applied and was fortunate enough to be selected. I have lived in West West Milford my entire life. I know the town. I understand the maps. I have and will always be 100% dedicated to this school district and the children it serves. In my position, I am responsible for performing routine clerical tasks such as mailing, copying,
050faxing, and filing, managing transportation funds, and purch and purchase orders for vehicle maintenance, completing and maintaining up-to-date billing for aiden loo for non-public students, time sheets for all transportation employees. I strive to excel at my job, to serve the department, and go above and beyond in my position, including taking on additional responsibilities such as driving a school bus most mornings and afternoons. I believe that you get what you give. Over the past years, I have demonstrated a strong commitment to my career at the West Milford Transportation Department. I take pride in my position and the work I do every day. Making my position 0.5 will greatly impact the transportation office by placing additional burdens on an already stretched staff, which will likely affect scheduling and other aspects of our work. Although I will work my
051hardest to complete my duties in only 3.5 hours each day, I believe such a decision will provide only minor cost savings to the board while negatively impacting the quality of services we provide to the families of West Milford. As a new mother, I hope our school system and transportation services remain strong and continue to meet the needs of our community. I would appreciate your con your every consideration in retaining this as a full-time position. Yours truly, Trish. >> Thank you, Alex. Is there anyone else um that has called in or respond? >> Callins, >> excuse me. >> The queue is empty. There have been no call-ins. >> Okay, I think we need to give it a just a minute or so. we had said because of the delay. Um I I don't know if any
052board members have anything under public comment um because I know we're kind of it was kind of short before. If not, uh I'm going to need a motion to close uh public comments. >> I'll move to close public comment. Okay, Dave. And I need a second. >> Second. >> Okay, Nicole. All those in favor? [Music] >> Any any opposed? Okay, we'll we'll move to operations and finance. >> Hold on. Make one or two minor edits to the agenda before we Oh, yes. I'm sorry. >> On page number. >> Okay. And for personnel student affairs number 12, you should have an insert uh which has names. Uh these are um sorry. I believe it's number 17. We're going to delete >> Leon Moscowitz >> school uh bus/band drivers. >> Okay. And for personnel number 12, we
053are going to delete Tracy Del Caliano. She's in the royal category. in the building. She's secretarial. She's in both category in which >> personel student affairs number 12 and personnel student affairs number 17. >> I got 17. Who was 12? >> Tracy Del Caliano. She is not list. She's she's listed at building aid. She is should not be. Is that all? There's two. There's a hand carry. Correct, Alex. Uh that has two and two. So that's number 36 and 37 on your p under your personnel uh for the hair and carries. If not, if that's it, then we need a >> Okay, we're going to need a motion to adopt the agenda. >> The chang second. All those in favor? I >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. So, we'll move on to operations and finance.
054That would be you, Mr. Karina. >> You're up on your big motion. >> All right. I'd like to make a motion to move items 1 through uh nine under operations and finance. >> Okay. Second, >> I think >> one by itself, right? >> Separately. Yes. >> Yeah. The budget has to be moved by itself. >> Where's that one? >> Number one. >> Sorry about that. Move item number one. My bad. >> Okay, we need a second. >> The other thing is for for some of you that maybe are having a difficulty with um where we maybe if it's if the video was turned off, you'd lower your bandwidth and maybe we'd be able to >> hear you a little bit better. >> Are you having a hard time hearing me >> bandwidth or your video?
055>> Okay. >> No, I was having a hard time hearing Dave and a hard time hearing Terry. So I don't know if >> going video off and Barbara maybe maybe it'll reduce the bandwidth of what you're using. >> Maybe not. >> So we we we we need a we do need a second on on raised motion for number one. >> I sec >> Dave. Okay. All right. Any any discussion under this? This is for the budget itself. Can you discuss the positions that we just talk about? >> Can't hear you. >> That Yeah, I'm sorry. This is when we can discuss the I'm sorry. Do you have a question, Jay, or a comment? >> What about the position that was just talked about that under the budget or under personnel? >> I I think you
056could talk about either either one, I guess. >> Student affairs. Um Andy, would you say that that's okay under the budget because it's a cut in the budget? >> It started now so you can adjust later. >> So if you have something about that, you can go ahead. I'm just questioning the the uh cut in the music teacher and the cut in that half uh secretary for the patient. That's >> okay. Um, so the cut in the the trans they're both really >> we need a music teacher in our district. >> Uh, we we don't want to cut anybody. We just are losing too much state aid. Um, we have 11 teachers, full-time music teachers now. um we had 11 I think 10 years ago we probably had a you know 800 more students. So
057uh it's a department that's uh we don't want to cut but we we're just going to have to to balance our budget. And the same goes true with transportation. Uh they do a great job getting our students around town. It's one of the biggest townships in the state and they get all of our kids to school every day. Unlike some towns where just a couple of kids get busted, we bust everybody. Um, we just have to make some really tough choices in this budget and in the next handful of budgets. I don't see an end in it's a difficult conversation to have and a very difficult cut to make and and it's even worse when the people that are cut are great employees. That makes it even harder. So, uh, we put the cuts in
058there to get our budget down to where it could be balanced. Terry T, you're you're frozen. Terror, you know, there is a chat thing. If you go on that little bubble, I think you might be able to ask the question on chat. >> I'm not seeing the chat on ours for some reason. >> Yeah, I don't see it either. >> Oh. Uh oh. I think I just did something. Yeah, I still >> you're still fine. But I was looking for >> I don't think there's a chat because we're not in a regular Zoom. We're in a panel Zoom. Okay. So, there's no chat. And I I looked up that up before. >> Do we need to cut Do we do we need 11 music teachers in the district or you're saying we could do without
05911 music? >> I think I think we can do okay with 10. You know, we prefer 11, but I think we can manage with 10. We can cover all our classes that we need to cover. We've lost students over the last couple years. >> Assume the responsibility the administrator we're cutting. >> That That is a good question. and she wants to know who's going to do the duties of the administrator that we're cutting. >> Okay, let me just finish with Jason. Um, >> okay. >> Don't cut anybody, but we we have lost sections at the elementary level. We used to have two or three sections per grade. >> All right, hold on, Terry. I'll get to you in a sec. >> Q&A. Hold on, Terry. Don't talk because it's gonna jump in. Um, so we've
060lost some elementary sections over the last years. >> Let me try. a message. >> Who is Okay. So, Jay, we used to have or for everybody, we used to have two or three sections in every elementary school per grade. Westbrook used to have a couple sections of four and now we're down to uh two sections per grade per school and a couple of sections of one. So we've lost some sections. It's just fewer teach just fewer classes to cover for music. >> Going to assume the respons >> I feel like it's an echo. >> I think it just keeps doing it. I I I She's not talking. She's on mute. like a repeat. >> It's a It's a repeat. It's weird. Um so in terms of the responsibilities, they're going to have to have to
061be a shared approach for the administrator that's cut. Um right now the elementary principles are really doing most of the observations for their own teachers. Uh they'll have one less grade next year, which means they'll have a couple uh less teachers to supervise. Um we're we're losing teachers all over. So the responsibility at the secondary level is going to have to be a joint between the principles, the vice principles and the central office staff. We'll have to put our heads together and come up with a new observation and evaluation schedule. We'll have to think about what PD we want to offer our math teachers. Um there are some districts who have lead teachers at the middle or high school level. That's something we're going to have to look into to see if that is something
062that could help us. But there's a lot of little things that we're going to have to work out. uh most notably observations and evaluations, ordering, things of that nature. But everybody's follow suit with the transportation. >> I think he means does that follow through with education? I mean, with transportation, the the secretary, >> every everybody's going to be doing a little bit more work every year. Um, is there just too there just too much data being cut? Uh, we don't have enough money in supplies or or other smaller accounts to to cover a $2 million cut in aid. Um, you know, we might be absorbing another half a million in in September. We don't know. Uh, but there's just going to be cuts. You know, we're trying to spread it out as best we can
063across the district. And you might see cuts in one area one year and the following year it's in another department or another school and the year after that it's somewhere else. So, we're trying to spread it out as best we can. Um, so it doesn't hurt our students in the classroom really. >> Kate, I I saw your hand before. >> That's exactly what I wanted to comment on and actually commend you. Um cuts are horrific and you know it's hard no matter what we cut and no matter who what positions and um when I look at this proposed cuts list I see that it is spread out across all levels all departments like really you know the big departments and um I'm I just wanted to say thank you um I also want to say
064it's hard when you know these people and they've lived in town their whole lives and they were students and they are amazing people and we know they're great employees. This isn't cuts are never personal, you know. Um it's a budget and this is really hard. Um my question is on the proposed cuts list it does say clubs uh athletics professional development and summer hours. um curious to know when will we know more about clubs and athletics as that is directly affecting our students and number two um is probably more of a statement um I know I was very disappointed in last year's summer hours or committees and I know last year we discussed around this time seeing our sheets and not our sheets but um more like mission what was accomplished and I I never
065saw any of that from last summer. Um, so just looking ahead, I really hope that the committees and I know that they are needed, but I hope that we really like that's just something that I I wanted to comment on as I know I was disappointed in that last year and I'm looking forward to it being a lot better and and I know um you know that you guys are working really really really hard on that and I wanted to thank you but I'm concerned about the clubs and activities and when will we know more about that? Well, we we we'll start to post for that. Uh though we there'll be some clubs that may not be offered next year. Um we may have a sport or two that aren't offered most likely because of
066enrollment is down. So I don't know that we're going to have freshman soccer next year. The signups we had now it was early earlier than normal. So that may change, but we we may not have enough students to offer as many sports as we have or maybe offer the sports but not as many levels. You know, historically we've had freshman JB varsity. There may be where we offer JV varsity if our numbers are low enough. Um athletics could also be supplies. There could be a lot of other things. Uh it could be cutting one person from the football game on Friday night. Rather than having, you know, 10 people work, you have nine or rather than having seven, you have six or or whatever the numbers are. There's always ways to eat around the margins
067there. Uh professional development most likely be a cut as well. And summer hours, uh depending on the programs, that's things we have to continue to look at. So if you make small cuts in a lot of little in a lot of areas, the net effect is somewhat large and you may save one or two jobs by making a lot of smaller cuts here or there where maybe people don't notice or if there's a club that was work was uh paid out for 50 hours this year, maybe next year it'll be 40 or if it was 40 last year, maybe it'll be 30 next year. So we'll try to keep the club as best we can, but there may be uh less hours offered to the to the teacher. Uh, does >> Thank you. >> Anyone
068else have anything? If not, um, roll call on the but Oh, I'm sorry, Kate. Go ahead. >> Um, I think, and Terry, you can nod. Yes. I think Terry's been trying to ask the question about the supervisor, the administrative position that's being cut, who is going to take on that work. We worked hard to get it. And I I think Terry, is that what you've been asking for a while? >> I think Alex did answer that because he said it was going to be shared amongst the principles and the central st central administration. I I and he mentioned something about a lead teacher. I think that's going to be another discussion as we go into committee this month that we need to have some of those answers and it probably is going to have to
069come through at all committee levels. It maybe we could ter can you not if that's what you wanted. Got it. Yeah. >> This is this is so unusual. It's very hard to uh think. Is there anyone else that has anything on the budget? We're just talking on the budget now. Okay, then I I think we should uh move for vocal. >> You're you're on a delay. It's like we hear you five minutes, but if you message me, I'll be glad to say whatever you want or message Alex so he could hallway. [Music] Wait for committee. >> Okay. Got it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, anybody else? If not, we'll go to roll call on the budget, please. >> Mr. Marina. >> Uh, yes. >> This is Fritz. Mr. Stevenson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Oshinski.
070>> Yes. >> Mr. Stoneman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Romeo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Conklin. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mrs. Dwire. [Music] This is abstain. >> I think I heard abstain. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. Um motion carries like to move motions two through nine. >> We need a set. >> Second by Dave. Okay. Any discussions on the motions? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Any any discussions on the motions? If not, >> roll call. Mrs. Francisco. >> Mr. Reno. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stevenson. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. Yeah, >> Mr. Conklin. >> Yes, Liar. Do your thumbs up sometime. He's giving you the thumbs up. >> Poor Terry. >> Oh, >> this is Romeo. >> Yes. [Music] I >> Yes. Okay, I'd like to move uh >> sorry item 11. Okay,
071disc. Is there any discussion? If not, Barbara, roll call. Serena. >> Yes. >> This is Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Stillman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cornin. [Music] Yes, >> Mrs. Romeo. >> Yes, Mr. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Fris. >> Yes, >> Mrs. F. Yes. >> Right. Next one. like to move item number 12. [Music] >> Any discussion? If not, roll call. >> Yes. This is Stevenson. Mrs. >> She's giving you the >> Yes, >> Mrs. Stillman. Yes. >> Yes, >> Mr. Conqu. >> Yes, Mr. Sinsky. Yes. Yeah, >> Barbara froze. >> Yeah. Yeah, Barbara's frozen. >> Let's turn the video off. >> Mr. Shinsky, >> better. >> Did you say yes? Yes, he said yes. >> Yes, Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Van Dyke. >> Yes. >> I'd like to move item number 13.
072>> I second. >> Mike, uh, discussion. If not, [Music] >> was if not Barber roll. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Chris. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Steven. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire. It's giving you a thumbs up >> from Rose too. Dave, turn your video off. >> Yeah, >> this is Romeo. >> Yes. Uh, I abstain. Sorry. >> You abain. >> All right. You have I I have to abstain too. >> I have to abstain to >> Yes. >> Sorry. So I abstain >> I abstain. >> Motion number you Mr. Green knows. >> Yes. So like >> Okay. Motion number 14. Ray >> to move motion. We move item number 14. Need a second. >> Dave. Okay. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. Corino. >> Yes. >> Mr. Stevenson.
073>> Yes. >> Mr. Stillman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Oshinski. Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes. Mrs. >> Romeo. >> Yes. >> Mr. Conklin. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wire. >> Try try and turn your video off. Terry. Is this the wire? This is >> Yes. >> Ray >> like to move item number 15. >> Like we have somebody calling in. Oh boy. >> That could be That could be Terry calling. >> Is that It's T. It might be Terry. >> Rob Robert Winston told me to call. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Into the meeting so you could hear. >> Oh, that's better. >> Can you hear me now? >> Okay. >> Sorry, I wasn't being rude. I was doing well. Oh, just mute mute your laptop so then you won't get the echo of both. >> And now
074turn your video off. >> Oh, okay. >> There you go. >> All right. So, um, any discussion on on item 15? If not, >> if not mute your f phone too, Terry, >> this is tough. >> Yes, Dave. Dave, Terry, you gotta make your phone, too. [Music] just on the phone that the you put. >> Okay. Roll call. Barbara M. >> Yes. Yes, >> Mrs. >> Yeah, >> Mrs. Sandy. >> Yes. >> Yeah. Robert calling you, >> right? >> Yes, we we can hear you now. Yes. Sorry, I >> that it's it's it's just because of this the connection. >> We're gonna go to personnel. >> It's still echoing. >> That's the phone. >> Okay, >> now it's better. >> Now you're muted. There you go. Good job, T. You got it. >> Very difficult
075to do this this meeting. Can I do I have to do the hand counters separate or I could do everything together? >> Move the hand together. If you add the numbers one through 35 and then the two hand carries numbers seven under personnel. >> We need a second on that. K. [Music] Okay. Uh, any discussion under this motion? There's multiple motions here under personnel. Okay, I'm going to go I'm going to go to Courtney and then I'll come back to you. Okay, Nicole, you're >> Go ahead. I I'll come to you too, Ray. Just give a second. Okay. >> I'm sure Nicole and I are going to mention the same thing. I adore Mrs. Forica. If there's any nurse that is amazing, it is her. She has done so much for my children. I cannot
076thank her enough and I hope she very much enjoys her retirement. >> Ray, did you have something? >> Yeah, I just wanted to thank Laura. You know, I think Alex alluded to losing two very good people. So, thanks to Laura for all her years of service to our school district. Um, I know that she'll be missed. Um the second piece was with regard to I don't know if it was in here or not the music um teacher right that position I don't know remember which number was >> okay so if Alex if there happens to be a retirement or two that come in the music department um would the job then be open for others to apply or would that person have the first opport opportunity to come back. >> We would bring back this
077person who's being let go. >> Okay, just just checking to see how that worked. Thank you, >> Nicole. >> Yep, Courtney was right. Um I am a West mom, too. And uh two girls over the last eight years that she's taking care of and through this situation, I know she was making phone calls home to everyone. And um Mrs. Mike is just the best. So, wish you much luck in your retirement. Thank you. Okay. Um, any other discussion? >> If not, um, B, you want a roll call? >> Yes. Mr. Romeo, >> yes on all abstain on 12 and 13. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Mina. Uh, abstain on 29. Yes to all the rest. >> This is Stillman. >> No. On 29 and 31. Yes. for the rest. [Music] >> Yes. >>
078Mr. Van Dyke. >> Yes. Uh I I have on 12, 13, and 21. And uh yes for the rest. Okay. Now education is Terry's committee. Terry, will you be a you be able to do that? >> Can you hear me? >> Yes, we can hear you. >> Yes. >> Um >> before you get there. Hang on. Before you get there. >> One second. Terry, hang on. Terry. Terry. Terry. Terry should have also number 13. >> My bad. >> Okay. >> Thanks, Barbara. >> I I wasn't paying attention. I'm sorry. >> Um uh Okay, Terry. I'm sorry. Go ahead. >> Okay. Um I'll move through and seven will be done as a separate motion. >> So I'd like to move items one through six. >> I'll second. >> Okay, Kate. Any discussion on these motions? I
079I just want to thank Alex and them. We're getting out June 19th. Um I know it's not probably in this realm of a big deal, but you know what can we do? This is where we are. Um, other than that, any other discussion? If not, roll call. Barbara. Yes. Mr. Marino, >> Mrs. Stevenson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Stillman. >> Yes, >> Mr. Shinsky. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Romeo. >> Yes, >> Mr. Conklin. Yes, >> Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes, >> I >> now carried a motion. I move to accept the recommendation of the superintendent to accept the decision to o over 10 to over uh turn where was the 2020 M4 Um, >> Terry, it's 2020 M4. >> What was it? >> 2020 M4 >> 8 2020 M4. That's what I just said. 20. This is
080crazy. I'll say it again. I move to accept. Thank you, Kate. >> I need a second. Did I do it again? >> No. No. We Kate is seconding. Second. >> Yes. Okay. Any discussion? If not, roll call bar on the head. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mrs. [Music] >> Yes. [Music] >> Sorry. Yes, >> Mr. Shippy. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Romeo. >> Yes, >> Mr. Stevenson. >> Yes, >> Mr. Stillman. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Van. Yes. Uh there's nothing for parks and wreck. >> Okay. Yeah. I I honestly I don't believe that there are any of the the Dave, you might be the only one that has anything under legislative. >> Okay. Uh just a little bit video here. Um actually most of the the things talked about were dealing with
081the p you know the COVID pandemic. They approved virtual instruction uh you know some of the meals additional access to technology leave time in junction with the um pandemic uh open respond be delayed remote meetings they approved which are doing right now um broadband access for people who don't have it. uh that was the bulk of the items that were in the legislature. Uh there were two other things. One's kind of interesting. They want to use the economic development authority to uh come up with a loan program for electron electric school buses, which I think is probably a good idea. Makes a lot of sense. I think sit most of the day and they don't go too far. And then the other was expanding free apprentice opportunities uh for in the schools. So that's about
082all I have. Uh you know we still have the bill we we a resolution where you know they want to delay the payments from municipality districts. Uh hopefully that won't go anywhere. I did see the governor is allowing the municipalities to um kind of delay receipt of the taxes. Um I hope that doesn't impact any of the decisions on um you know about the bad idea about delaying the payments to school districts. Uh that's about all I have. >> Thank you Dave. Um I I don't think there's anything else uh as far as uh I guess next would we we have old business I think or do you have something under committee >> um >> for the municipal alliance committee um the head of the west m alliance Katherine McGur has been actually very very
083busy planning um changing dates of all different things, but um presentation via Zoom. Um it's going to talk about stress, mental health, and self-care. Um and if anyone is interested in that, they can um contact either Katherine McGuard through CASA or the um Highlands Family Success Center. It's going to be open to the community. Obviously, it'll be a meeting like this. Um they're also talking about a health fair, a virtual health fair. Um and some other activities. Um so there's quite all and they had a virtual meeting um and things are just rolling um as is. Uh their funding has all changed. The grant has stopped. So they're looking where you know where that money is going to be used then in the fall. There's quite a bit happening with the municipal alliance. So I
084just wanted to mention that. >> Okay. Yeah. I I didn't realize that there was anything happening. Uh anybody uh did I skip anything that anybody had? I I don't think committees have really met. Um old business. Is there anything under old business? If not, we need a motion to close old business. >> I'll move old business. >> Okay. >> All those in favor Hi. >> Hi. >> New business. Anything? If not, >> we need a motion to close new business. >> Motion to close new business. >> Ray motion. >> Dave, I'll give you the second. >> Hear you. All those in favor. >> All right, I'm Time for public comment. >> Time time for public uh public comment. Robert, are you going to put that up again or All right. This portion of the meeting
085is open to members of the public having a legitimate interest in the actions of the board for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and or directly related to the operation of the West Milford Public School District. Members of the public who have requested to speak prior to the meeting will be recognized by the chair first. Each speaker will be given five minutes for a period of 30 minutes and then time permitting other public comment limited to five minutes per speaker will be allowed until the 30 minute time period transpires. All speakers are asked to sign the register provided and give their full name, spell their last name, group affiliation if appropriate, and provide their address. Issues raised by the members of the public may or may not be responded to by the
086board. All com comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate. The board asks that members of the public speak members of the public be courteous and respectful of the rights of other individuals when speaking. Specifically, comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and the board and the students that the board and the administration will not respond to them. Students and employees have specific legal rights afforded to them by the laws of New Jersey. The board is not responsible and is not liable for any comments made by members of the public. Members of the public should consider their comments in light of their legal the legal rights of those afforded affected and identified in their comments. Members of the public are reminded that they are legally responsible
087and liable for their comments. Have do we have anybody under public comment? >> Nobody yet. >> All right, we'll give it a minute. If not, I guess I'm going to need a motion to end public comment. >> Motion to end public comment. >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Okay. I need a motion >> motion to adjourn 9:34. >> Well, all those in favor Okay, guys. Have a great night. I'll talk to you soon. >> Muchbody. I appreciate all you safe trip home. >> Yeah, we're gonna try. >> You too. Yeah. Good night. >> Good night.