Board of Education Meeting 9/26/17

001Good. >> We're We're on, Nate. >> We're on. >> Okay. >> Good evening everyone and welcome to the September 26, 2000 2017 workshop regular meeting and public hearing of the West Milford Board of Education. I would ask that everyone please silence their cell phones and notice the emergency exit locations just in case. And I would like to have a moment of silence for the victims of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Marie, hopefully no more. And uh so if we could have a moment of silence, please. If you could please stand for the flag salute. >> 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. In accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act,

002a public notice of this meeting has been sent to board members, all district schools, the Herald news, the trends, the record, the messenger, West Milford town hall, county superintendent's office, the board attorney, and cable vision of Warwick, and has been posted in the administration building. Copies of the board meeting calendar resolution were provided to all local media, town hall, township, library, and all district schools. Roll call. Mrs. Francisco. >> Mr. Bailey. Mr. Sid >> here. >> Mr. Drew >> here. >> Mrs. Dwer >> here. >> Mr. By >> present. >> Mrs. Fritz >> here. >> Mr. Huber >> here. >> Mrs. O'Brien >> here. >> Mr. Robinson >> here. could you uh do the honors and read the executive session resolution, please? >> Certainly. I'll move that the board immediately go into executive session at

0039:00 p.m. for approximately 30 minutes for the purpose of purpose of discussing personnel appointments, resignations, current litigation matters, special education matters, negotiations, and matters of attorney client privilege. The matters discussed in executive session shall be made public as soon as the need for confidentiality no longer exists. >> Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Um, all of these items that we just listed, we're going to be discussing each one something on each one of them or >> I would say that um that would be something that Dr. can't hear. >> We might be >> speaking to the mic. Barbara, either that or it's not turned on. >> You have to >> It's possible we could be discussing all these, but I'm not 100% certain. Now, >> if there's a need, we can discuss

004it. What we can't do is discuss things that aren't on the list. >> Correct. >> So, >> all right. So, if if there's something that's not on the list when we go into executive session, you'll cross it off then. I just want I don't want to be saying we're just broadcast everything and we're not going to discuss it. That's >> certainly This is certainly not everything. This is >> no understood. But >> what um Dr. Anamone has determined might come up in the executive session portion. It doesn't mean we have to talk about that. But it means we could. What we can't do is talk about something else that's not included in this list. >> Right. So we have a staff resignation tonight. If it comes up in executive session, we're covered because it's on

005here. But if it's not on here, we wouldn't I guess we probably couldn't discuss it. So >> Okay. >> It's just a broader uh it's just a broader stroke. >> Okay. Uh it's you Dr. Anamo the superintendent report. Okay. >> Uh good evening everybody. Welcome to our board meeting for September. Uh we are going to start off with a wonderful guest tonight. Uh just to brief the board and the community as well. We have a very uh rigorous process every year that we participate in. It's called the governor's educator of the year award. Uh used to be the teacher of the year award. Now it's a more broader term. So all of our eight schools participate in this program every year and the staff there elect a teacher of the year for each building. Of

006those eight people, one is selected as the West Milford teacher of the year. She's seated here in the front row. We made an announcement last spring when she won that award. Then every district teacher of the year goes on to the next segment which is the say county teacher of the year competition. I shouldn't say competition but they honor one district teacher of the year every year as our county teacher of the year. And we're pleased we're thrilled that the winner this year is Nicole Petraillo teacher West Milford High School. [Applause] She she has a she has a brief presentation here. So if the board wants to fan out to the wings and before I forget each county winner is now in a running for a state to be state teacher of the year. So

007good luck Miss Petello. >> Thank you. Thank you. Hello everyone. Thank you members of the board, Dr. Anamone, Mr. Novak, administrators, and good evening community members. On the first day back to school for staff, I spoke to my colleagues about spreading rainbows and finding our inner unicorns. It seems somewhat silly at first, but I believe teachers are magical and I believe West Milford is a magical place. So, here we are back to school. The kids posed for their first day pictures, got on their buses with smiles spread across their faces, but some fared better than others. [Music] Please. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Yes, even the teachers have survived our first few weeks. But I just truly I love back to school. As a teacher, there's the anticipation of a new class, the smiling faces of children

008who simply cannot wait for you to impart your vast wisdom upon them. Getting the hugs from kids you had last year whom you got to know and love. Crisp new bulletin boards. A fresh desk calendar with all your shiny new supplies next to it. Each year holds promise and excitement and new beginnings. A clean slate. I knew since I was in second grade that I was going to be a teacher. Mrs. Girk encouraged me to be the best reader I could be. and I completed my SRRA reading units and got to go across the hall to the third grade room and I felt very special. I devoured books. I appropriated my brother's books. I scrolled subject areas on the fronts of my books and set them in front of my dolls, usually grading my students

009very generously, if I do say so myself. I loved reading and I loved kids. So naturally, I became an English teacher. And all of that practice with my dolls has led to 18 years of successful teaching in the classroom. And I am now living my dream. I stand before you today as the Pose County 2017 teacher of the year, maybe more. And I could not be more proud of my students, of my school, and of my district. Bucky says, "Our mascot says that eight of the past nine Pa County teachers of the year have been from the West Milford Public School District. And Paul Gorski says that can't be an accident. And I agree. The teachers here in West Milford are simply magical. So I set out to find out what makes West Milford such

010a magical place to be. There are hiking trails and streams and lakes and swimming and more lakes and kaying and the music and the food of the Autumn Lights Festival. I have never known a town to pay such homage to a traffic light. It is truly inspirational. We have gorgeous winter scenes and activities and these little guys. And nature abounds in West Milford and is it is truly a beautiful place to be. It's a series of things that um nature, the mountains, the lakes. It's just a wide open atmosphere. That's what I enjoy. >> Great place. But in general, it's beautiful here as far as the town. It's a beautiful place. Um, we have mountains, we have lakes, sunsets on the lakes, wildlife. Um, it's just a beautiful place to be. But West Milford is

011more than just a magical place. It is a place where magic is made. It is evident from the moments stu moment students enter our schools. From the stands at the pep rallies to the football games, from the pride in the students and in the herd and in the staff. The staff is truly here for the kids. And we teach them how kindness rocks and how we are all in and how very much each and every single person matters here. We teach them how to read and we teach them how to write and we teach them how to lead and we teach them how to fight for those who cannot fight for themselves. We feed their minds and we feed their souls. We teach them to make a difference and to accept each other's differences. We

012have four schools that have been named national schools of character. Maple Road, Paradise, Null, UGL, and Makipin Middle School. And two schools have received honorable mention awards as national schools of character as well. West Milford High School and Aptua. We honor and exemplify our full values language here. Be here. Be safe. Be honest. Be respectful. Set goals. Let go and move on. We have been awarded numerous accolades in the visual and performing arts. We have won 19 promising practice awards districtwide. That is the most in the state. We are Paya County champions in multiple sports. We have received the DAA NJ athletic program of excellence award. We provide an outstanding education in the practical arts which is evident if you have ever visited our district arts program and have seen the architecture, CAD drawing, wood

013and metal shop projects. They are simply amazing. We have exceptional student representatives to regional and national level competitions, including my own son who's represented us at the National HistoryB three years in a row, proudly um boasting his Highlander pride. We have a special Olympics program and a special education program that are beyond compare. And there are so many more reasons why West Milford is magical. But there are I'm sorry but the most important is West Milford is magical because we have three A's, academics, athletics, and the arts. We have kids who are in AP classes and excel and go to some of the top universities in the country. We have some of the best arts programs between music and theater and art that I would say probably in the east coast and our athletics field

014hockey, soccer everywhere from football, cheerleading to all the sports here in the winter and spring. Some of the best in the county and also in the state. >> I think the band is awesome. >> Wester is a great place because it really is community that supports the arts. We have fantastic marching band. We have an awesome color and dance team who represent us nationally. We also have fantastic uh art programs here where many students go on and pursue art careers. Last year our our indoor callard had the opportunity to enjoy club students with special needs. We were able to partner and work together and have a public performance at our indoor color guard show as well as district arts festival. and it turned out great and the students to this day still acknowledge and say

015hello to each other in the hallway and it's a great partnership and that's a big reason why Milford is special. >> Hi Mrs. Murphy, >> can I ask you a question? >> Sure. What makes West Milford a wonderful place? [Music] >> I think Chris is here. >> That's the only reason anyone needs >> that's him. I think the fact that so many people are kind and caring and I love the atmosphere here too. >> Thank you. >> What is magical about Westfield is I noticed the last week is that there's more students on the field than others. That's something you'll see in most school districts. [Music] Wonderful sense of community that uh that uh is in the atmosphere. It's it's an environment. It's it's uh it's the demeanor of the students and parents, staff. It's

016just a wonderful place because there's so many activities and frankly I think the population here is just like the diversity and the talent which is excellent. So I enjoy it. >> What makes West Milford so wonderful? >> You can't do anything. have a whole stage front. It's got to be totally spontaneous. >> It is spontaneous. >> You know what? Pride makes the children and the families back to the people. It's like a like a big family. Everyone's so happy and cheerful. It's great here. >> Students um the the kids I've been other places. Uh the kids here are unlike unlike any other kids. Um you can tell them like it is. Um there's a real genuine warmth they cared about. Uh I love this place because of kids. Um the the ways in which they

017get involved with kids. Um let me count the weight. There's too many. Um it's just it's a great place to be. Uh it's because of all the all the human souls that breathe life into into this. >> Yeah. No, you you've already you've already tried. >> And all the lovely staff here people care about each other and are willing to help each other out. >> West Milford is wonderful because the students here and the faculty are kind and caring and they really support each other um even amongst their differences. [Music] Every day the teachers, the staff, the administrators, and the students of West Mil of the West Milford School District make a difference. And here is how I know that you have inspired me because she comes home every day. That's my most [Music] favorite

018because um our class discussions are always really great and she's just very inspiring and energetic and just like a lot. My favorite teacher is Miss Coffee because she was really nice like fun projects and stuff. My favorite teacher was an assistant teacher because she helps. >> My favorite teacher is Miss Pereira because we play funny games. >> Smile. >> I love all staff members and teachers. They're kind of the same thing. Um, one that inspires me is Miss Sally because she's taught me a lot about life and how to deal with some life lessons. inspired me because she's been very for so long and still awesome. >> Got a lot of teachers in my life, but one of my favorite ones was Mr. He just overall has a really fun class and a good job.

019>> So yeah, >> one teacher who inspired me was Mr. Kamari. His class was great and he made me love history. >> My favorite teachers are Mr. Rini and Mrs. Mrs. Rosini because she is really nice and so is Meta. >> You're an awesome teacher, Miss Russell. Even though our books were depressing to class in English, one of the teachers that inspired me was Miss Hos because she was really nice in class and she helped me with my art. >> Two teachers who have inspired me are Mrs. Higgins and Mr. Jakes. Mrs. Higgins taught me how to translate my thoughts into writing and one of Mr. Jinx's classes on gene splicing inspired me to want to enter a career in medicine. >> The teacher that really inspired me to want to become one myself was

020my win ensemble instructor and my lesson instructor Dr. uh Dr. Ryan Mclofflin. He's just taught me so much and he asked me to become one of the uh Mccupin student teachers for tuba lessons and that just set me off to want to become a teacher for music. >> I want to become a teacher because I was in middle school. I have a teacher named Mrs. Peterson. She was my English teacher and she was very helpful and she tried to work hard a lot for all our students in the past. So she inspired me to become a great teacher as she was. >> My favorite teacher is Miss Sh because she has a lot of fun things to do. >> So being a teacher hasn't always been the career that I thought I'd like to pursue

021or that I never see myself doing. But that all changed this year when I took American Sign Language. Um, and Mrs. Kcho was my teacher. She showed me that not only did I fall in love with the language, but that I also fell in love with the idea of being a teacher um, at a deaf school. um she was just so passionate what she taught us and sharing her knowledge and experiences in the deaf community that it just really showed me that it's something that I really like to do. So thank you Miss Coach for inspiring me to be a teacher. I do not accept this award alone. My colleagues are the ones who nominated me first to be the high school teacher of the year. And I simply must tell you how amazing they

022are. How amazing all the staff members of the West Milford School District are. Every day they teach. Every day they encourage. Every day they instruct. Every day they mentor. Every day they praise. Every day they influence. Every day they guide. Every day they inspire. each and every day. And they do it because they love it. And they do it because each one of them is somebody's rainbow. And I am so very proud to be a unicorn. And special thanks to all of you, the members of the board of education, Dr. Anamone, Mr. Novak, Mr. Gorski, Joe Jordan, who helped with all the videos, all the teachers and staff and students featured in my videos, my colleagues, my family who is here tonight. And Terry was laughing because she remembers my oldest in a car seat

023carrier on my arm when he came to department meetings with me. And um to all of my former teachers for making me who I am today, which is your Pose County Teacher of the Year. And I hope to represent you well in the state competition. Thank you. I have on behalf of the board of education, we have a resolution on our agenda tonight. We will approve it later on, but I do our lady now as well. Whereas the West Milford Board of Education encourages recognition of the contributions of their members and leaders. And whereas the West Milton Board of Education annually participates in the Governor's Educator of the Year Award program. And whereas the Governor's Educator of the Year program seeks to highlight educational innovation, student achievement, the rewards of teaching, and important services outside

024the classroom that lead to student success. And whereas this recognition brings public attention to the positive aspects of our educational system. And whereas Nicole Petrasillo has been recognized as the West Milter High School teacher of the year for 2017 18. And whereas Nicole Petrasillo has also been selected as the county teacher of the year for 2017 18. Now there be be it resolved that the West Board of Education on behalf of the community publicly acknowledges and expresses its sincerest appreciation to Nicole Petraillo for her contributions to the students of the West High School. And be it further resolved that this resolution be spread upon the official minutes of the board of education meeting held on September 26th, 2017 and presented to [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Okay, back to the superintendent report. We are in

025the middle of back to school night season. We have five back to school nights already completed with three more in the books. Uh three more coming. We have the high school tomorrow night. Upper Greenwood Lake school on Thursday and Macapin is our final back to school night on Tuesday. So, uh, we will be going to as many as we can or in conflicts with other board events. Some other dates to remember for the entire community. On Thursday, October 5th, the West Milford Hall of Excellence will be having its first general meeting, which is open to the public. Previously, our executive committee has been meeting. This committee was approved by the board last school year. It is to honor alumni of our high school for all their contributions in the academic world. That meeting will be

026held at the high school library at 6:30 p.m. on October 5th. >> You have seven here. >> The time has been changed from 7 to 6:30 and the location has been changed from the town library to the high school library as there was a conflict at the town library. Second night to remember, November 2nd, safe night, which is substance awareness and family empowerment night at 5:30 at Makipin School. We'll be sending out additional information, but please save the date. Next up, our carbon monoxide detectors. A new law was passed last I guess it was last spring to take effect this school year um where carbon monoxide detectors are required in certain spaces in every school building. um kitchens and uh science labs, things like that. So, we are all uh set with those and they've

027been installed everywhere they they need to be. So, we are covered there. Our 201617 HIV school self assessments grades for last school years have been submitted to the department. I will read these scores out school by school. The maximum score is 78 points. I don't know where they get that number from, but all of our schools are in the 70s. So, Ashua School is at 75, Maple Road 72, Marshall Hill 71, Paradise Null 77, Upper Greenwood Lake 73, Westbrook 75, Makipin and the High School are both 70. So, these are for last school year 201617 based on our self assessments. Second to last, we have a new student representative here. I would like to welcome on behalf of the entire board of education, a 12th grader at West Milford High School, Madison McIntyre. She's seated

028on my left, directly to the left of Dr. Mcuade, who was the first student representative to the board of education from West Milford High School a couple years ago. >> Mrs. M Miss McIntyre, do you have a student report for us? >> Um, I don't have a written one, but um I do know that our football team has won one game, so that's that's good. And our field hockey team has um been undefeated so far this season. And our band has taken overall best visual, music, and best percussion in our first competition. >> Thank you very much. [Music] Next up, our monthly progress toward district gold. I have two things I want to touch on, but one of them is going to be discussed in greater detail by Mrs. West. So, I'm not going to

029touch on the Font Simpanel training. I think that'll be covered in our next presentation. Um, one of our big goals this year, as you know, is math. So, Mr. Novak and I along with the administrative team last school year looked for ways where we could better benchmark our students in the area of math. We we identified fontis and panel which is our benchmark reading assessment. That's what we use in language arts to see how our children are performing in the fall and then again in the spring and we measure their growth from roughly September through let's say May and we see how much they grew in reading. So we didn't have anything comparable in math uh up until this year. So we spent the better part of a year researching software companies to see who

030can provide what we believe is the best software out there. And we settled on Renaissance Learning. They offer something called STAR testing which is a way to benchmark math scores for children in grades up to grade eight where you're using a four. Um so the training has been the last few weeks. We started testing I believe yesterday. It's the first day. Um and no glitches so far. So the test is designed to be completed either in the computer lab or if you bring the computers into the classroom, it can be done right in the classroom. So it's very easy. It's very userfriendly. It's roughly 35, it's roughly 30 minutes per test. So if you add on the login time, which the first time may take a little while, um it's usually typically the equivalent of

031one class period. So we have the uh potential to take this test four times a year. I don't think that's necessary, but we are going to take it at the very least two times per year to again measure the growth of our children quantifiably from the fall to the spring. And we can compare our schools with other schools in the county, other schools in the state as well as nationwide. It's a very big test. It's got a huge data set already. So we know the numbers are reliable and parents and teachers and principles are going to get well the principles and the teachers will get a a huge stack of data but the parents will get a summary sheet which basically says where you this test believes your child is in math which is to

032say the 57th percentile plus or minus 6 percentile points. So you can figure out a range there and uh what we do is we try to measure the growth over time. So um we're very excited about that. Like I said, we just started testing yesterday and we should be wrapped up probably by the middle of next week, >> October 6th. >> By October 6th, the end of next week. Um, so we're confident, we're cautiously optimistic about that and we we think it's a very good thing. And one last thing I glanced over, um, I did mention the Hall of Excellence meeting. We have two members of the executive committee here tonight, Mrs. Dwire and Mrs. Neker, who is also our treasur treasurer. Since this is a new group just started, we are trying to get

033all our paperwork in order and it turns out that nothing's free. Although we thought things were free, it turns out nothing's free. So, we need some money to get the ball rolling with this group. So, I would like to make a donation of $100 to the West Milford High School Hall of Excellence. So, if Miss Dwire, Miss Never can join me, we have a a large novelty check. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] You can hold it over and over again. Thank you very much. [Music] >> All right, that's all for the superintendent report. >> Yes. >> Hi. Sorry. >> I just want to say thank you both for getting the STAR uh testing going. It sounds like a very promising procedure to help the math program in town. >> Sure. Um, and but I would like

034to circle back and ask you a question about the HIV. >> Okay. >> Self assessment. >> Yeah. I have a recollection that one or two of our schools had no HIVs reported this this year. >> One. >> Am I wrong? >> It was actual. >> It was def it was definitely one. I don't know if it was two. I don't have that date in front of me. >> All right. >> It was actual. The reason I bring it up is because in the governance training, they pretty much told us that if there are none, we're doing something wrong. So, I don't know how we have such a lovely grade for a school that doesn't have any HI reporting. So, I'm going to ask you as the administrator to please look into that and make sure

035everything's, you know, going according to what the state is requiring and what will protect the students. >> Sure. Thank you. A lot of this is a an audit, a self audit. So if you're meeting with your school, with your HRB team, even if there are no HIPS to report, if you have if you had the meeting, if there was nothing to report, you had the meeting, that's a check off on that. >> They're regular children. It's impossible that there's not any HI reporting. >> It's not possible. >> We'll look into it. >> I I I got one question, Alex, about the store math. Your testing will be done next week. When do you expect to see the results from that testing? >> We have training on October 9th, which I believe is the the Monday

036uh day. So, we will be um working with our staff on that day to determine how do we get how and when we release the information. We'd like it to be consistent across the district so that the parents from Maple Road receive the reports the same day as Marshall Hill and PK and so on and so forth. So, um, we're going to use that day to regroup and discuss what we've learned and what the best, uh, you know, lessons learned about star testing. >> But will we see that, you know, during the month of October, you know, November? I mean, I look at >> I look at park and we see it four months, five months later. >> Start testing. You get your grade basically when you hit >> enter. >> Okay. So, as soon

037as their last question or >> basically, yes. Now, obviously, you won't have your school report until the last student finishes. You won't have your district report till the last student in the last school finishes. And sometimes you the national um percentiles may change because they give a testing window. Being in the north, we're sort of at the tail end of the fall semester. Some of the southern schools may have already started in August and tested in August. So, um that has a small effect, too. But, um it's our intention to move as expeditiously as possible. Okay, thank you. Uh, Mr. Novak, the education report, please. >> Good evening. Um, I just want to follow up briefly on the on the Starmath as well. Um, Dr. Animal mentioned October 9th. One of the other, um, opportunities

038our staff will have on the 9th is they're going to see their data that day. Um, so the staff members are going to work with uh, Renaissance Learning. they're going to be able to open up the data from their class from this assessment, which is why we had a uh two-eek window to get that assessment in and why we wanted it done by October 6th so they can get their data. And the power of the training on the 9th is to give the teachers the opportunity to see the data and then plan instruction accord accordingly. So, we'll be able to see where our students are at now and be able to see where we might have gaps, where we have strengths and so forth. So, um I mean that's a that's a tremendous opportunity for

039for our staff. Uh that's on the 9th. On October 10th, we have a second day training which is for our um administration and what we are calling our our core team of of staff members which includes our basic skills encore teachers in the elementary schools and a couple uh math teachers from Akapin who are going to get a second day of that training to then how uh see how we interpret that data uh on a uh school and district level again for um you know programmatic recommendations and that sort of thing. So, it's uh it's a really great opportunity. Uh shifting away from uh the discussion of mathematics, we have with us tonight, I'd like to introduce uh Mrs. Sharon West. Um at a number of opportunities over the last few years, we've um been

040talking about uh some of our initiatives, our professional development that the board has generously um supported in terms of training in readers and writers workshop. Dr. Anne referred to uh a recent training with our fonttoanel benchmark assessment. So, we thought it was a good opportunity now in September to highlight uh our language arts department and to give a brief overview of all things K12 language arts that we that we have in the works. So, uh Mrs. West has prepared a presentation and she's going to uh go through and and highlight um some of our initiatives, program changes, uh professional developments and and really the current and the future of our program. So, um Mrs. West. We clear out again. [Music] Good evening. I'm so pleased to be able to be here. Um I uh those

041are very that's a really tough act to follow coming after the county teacher of the year. But I am pleased to say that Mrs. Petraelo is a part of the English department. So I am very pleased to have the opportunity to share all the other wonderful things that are going on in the district in English language arts K to2. Uh so this is all things ELA K to2. I will make it as succinct as possible. What we've been working on at West Milford High School, Makipin Middle School and the elementary schools. the fruits of our PLC. I I will start with the high school highlights. Uh PLC's are our professional learning communities which give our teachers an opportunity to meet in an organic way and to collaborate and share best practices and look at student

042work and to uh really talk about instruction in meaningful ways. Um and out of that came the reconfiguration of our English program of studies which you may be familiar with. We are in year phase year three phase three of that project. Um we've also incorporated ed camps or the unconference model for professional development in department and PLC time and in classrooms. And again this gives teachers an opportunity to be the resident experts and to share their expertise because there is a wealth of knowledge throughout the district K to2 not only in English but in other content areas. So this really gives teachers that opportunity to share their best practices and um collaborate with one another in meaningful ways. And it's out of this work that our reconfiguration of the program of studies came. So very

043briefly the rationale and goals essentially we wanted uh the students at the high school to be able to read in ways that were meaningful. Um this is an idea that was really came directly from the English department itself and um one of the best practices in reading as we know in all grade levels is to incorporate choice. Uh we don't generally read about one particular area of the world at one particular uh period of time. We tend to read things that interest us. horror, science fiction, history. Um, so we reconfigure the the program of studies to reflect that. It also reflects what students will experience in college and um it helps them to build their critical thinking, analytic and some problem solving skills along the way. So the roll out looked like it's a three-year

044plan that began in 2015 16 with our seniors. All courses were designated to meet at that time the fourth year English requirements as they are for every grade level that corresponds afterwards. Uh the new courses include Gothic literature, literary, science fiction and fantasy, historical fiction, psychology and literature, coming of age, medieval literature, study of human nature. Um the roll out continued from 2015-16. We offered two to three new offerings for seniors. In 201617, two to three new offerings for juniors and sophomores respectively. And in 2017 18 this year the fresh the freshman had two to three offerings that they could choose for from uh we had a nice opportunity in the spring and June we had Jefferson High School come to actually sit in on those classes which was wonderful. It gave our teachers an

045opportunity to showcase their work. They went into the classrooms got to speak to PE to teachers on the prep and talk about um how this whole project unfolded. It was a really wonderful opportunity to give the teachers of the high school a chance to shine. Um, we continue to have our students writing and speaking for authentic audiences. Uh, we all know that as teachers, um, it's great when the teacher writes and and the and the teacher is reading the work, but it is even more meaningful and more authentic when they are writing for an audience that reaches far outside the classroom. So, as you know, we have the Highland Echo, which is an award-winning news site newspaper. Uh, the Black and Gold Highland Review is in we're starting our third year of resurrecting the literary

046magazine. Both of those are headed by our very own Mrs. Petraillo. Uh we offer the poetry out loud open mic night recitation contest. Again, students write and perform their own poetry, sometimes music, and give uh we give them an opportunity to perform for their peers. For students that don't participate in that particular um venue, we are having them collaborate digitally in the Google classroom. Again, this is an opportunity for them to uh write in real time, get immediate feedback from their teachers and also from their peers. So, that is also another form of authentic audience. Makipin Middle School highlights 201617 grade seven. Uh we began the readers workshop professional development which uh was completely job embedded. Um you can see in these two pictures we're showcasing Mrs. Infante's classroom and Mrs. Lions. They really took

047this idea of a a meaningful reading environment and ran with it. Um in 201718 our grade 7 is now participating in writer workshop professional development. So teachers have really embraced this and moved forward and are really making it their own. At Mccapin Middle School continued. Uh just today we had our first session with grade 8 in the reader workshop professional development. The two pictures that I have here are actually still grade seven but um I like the way the professional development unfolds. Um in the picture on the right you see our consultant who is doing a demo lesson for the actual students in the seventh grade and the teachers are there to watch their own students. And then um in the picture on the left, we've got our teachers going to the elementary schools and

048looking at grades five and six and watching how their own colleagues in the district are implementing the model um in the years that that lead up to this. So again, really good meaningful job embedded professional development. Our MAC PLC work continues. The outcomes have included articulation between and among grades in seven and eight with the honors testing with the help of Mr. Stryans at the middle school. We are completely Google classroom for the honors testing which has really expedited our process and really given uh students that authentic um opportunity to test online. We have ongoing alignment with the New Jersey student learning standards for ELA. They have ongoing articulation between general and special education English teachers. Uh we discuss technology infusion and SAMR and they talk about concrete examples of what that looks like in

049their classroom. And uh we have a teacher led ed camp for a professional development day again where the teachers were able to showcase their skills and share practices that are really meaningful and useful to them. Um last but certainly not least the elementary schools overview. I'm just going to give you a quick uh list here. Balance literacy support team is in year four writer workshop professional development handwriting grades K to2 handwriting grade three our cursive launch uh K to2 phonics pilot and our benchmark assessment refresher grades K to six. So I'll just give a bit more detail on each of those. Our balance literacy support team is um in addition to the job embedded uh professional development. It is two to three teachers at each elementary school who are there as go-to people to help

050their their colleagues with all things um related to balance literacy. Uh it's a volunteer committee and they also perform other tasks like uh creating a teachers guide for balance literacy. This is a document that we collaborated on with the consultant. Um it is a development of what we call looks so that one entering a readers or writers workshop classroom knows what it is that they're looking for. What does it look like? What does it mean to be in a classroom like that? How is it different from um any other classroom format? So they did a very good job of uh developing this document and they organized uh common assessments in writing for grades K to six. So uh they organized three writing types narrative, informational explanatory and opinion argument for all grade levels K to

051six and yes even kindergarteners have an opinion about what the best pet is. So uh they will be writing to each of these prompts and it is an ondemand cold writing piece. They will then um they also organize writing samples and rubrics for those to be assessed. And we will use our articulation time to review and discuss what that writing looks like and just talk about how we can uh inform our instruction, perhaps change the prompts or um just learn about the writing in general. Those writing samples will follow students kindergarten all the way through sixth grade. Ongoing professional development continued. Year two, we are in year two of a five-year initiative. Grades three and four uh will review and reflect on previous year's professional development post implementation of their new units. Grade five will

052be immersed in the writer workshop training. Formats again include uh demonstration lessons, something called the fishbowl observation where the the presenter will um show an instructional strategy. All the teachers can watch it there with their own students and then they will do something called mirroring which means they jump in and then immediately try it themselves with the students in the class. So it's all very very job embedded. Uh handwriting relaunch. I call it a relaunch because we launched beta last year which means that we are taking feedback through articulation meetings and monitoring adjusting as we go. This was for grades K to2. We see our illustrious OT's in these pictures. Um I wanted to really give them uh tremendous credit for the incredible amount of work and effort that they've put into developing what is

053a multiensory research-based differentiated best of the best. they call it a program tailored for West Milford students specifically. This is not an off-the-shelf. This is something that was designed with best practices um in handwriting in mind. The role of the district occupational therapists can only be described as all-in. The rolling role of the teaching teams is our teaching teams and representative grade levels are producing lots of these documents. Um I have screen captured the Google um folder with all of the documents that they have produced uh last summer and this summer as well. The results are scope and sequence for each grade level. They've developed a uniform terminology document so that everyone is speaking the same language and using the same letter formations from school to school, from class to class and they will also

054be implementing K to2 screenings in handwriting as well. So for grade three handwriting and cursive, this is a nice document that was produced by one of our teachers on the right. Beautifully done. This is a new launch for 2017 2018. Again, we have the uh support of the occupational therapists both in the pre in the creation of the program and the instruction in the program and the support of the program in classrooms and we will again use our articulation meetings to monitor and adjust the progress take all that feedback reinccorporate it in summer of 2018 K to2 phonics pilot three-year plan. This is a team of K to2 representative teachers from each elementary school. the timeline that we're looking at and we want this to be very researchbased and and incorporated in a way that's

055going to be uh meaningful and timely. Summer fall of 2017, we're going to do a a review of the research implementation of other programs and districts that'll include visitations. Um fall of 2017, select two to three programs to pilot in spring of 2018. September and November of 2018 2019, we're going to pilot three selected programs. Summer of 2019, make selections with feedback from all stakeholders. 2019 to 2020 full district implementation. That would be our goal. Last but certainly not least, Fountain and Panel benchmark reading assessment refresher. So Fontus and Panel, as we discussed earlier, it's a reading assessment. It determines student reading levels compared to their age age appropriate expectations. We use this data to inform instruction and to differentiate instruction specifically in the reader workshop model. The initial training and administration of this uh

056benchmark assessment began in 2009 with grades K to 6. It's given by annually in the fall and the spring every year since then. This was a K to6wide refresher for all elementary encore and literacy specialists just to ensure calibration among administrators, schools, classrooms. Um it's been a lot been a bit of time since the original training. um we wanted to ensure accuracy and to just incorporate the latest in Fountainis and Panel's own research. I thank you for this opportunity to share the wonderful things that teachers are doing in English language arts and um enjoy a couple of extra pictures of uh the Rotary grade through dictionary distribution also a big piece of ELA and one of our students uh at open mic night in 2016. [Applause] Thank you. Four and six. Thank you. Uh thank

057you, Mrs. West. I I know the um you know just some of the feedback and and seeing these initiatives in place this school year has been a uh a tremendous start. Uh we're only you know we're barely out of the month of September and uh a majority of the work that was just displayed in this uh presentation is already already in place and um you know most of these initiatives have already hit the ground and and and reminding us of where we were last year along with our summer meetings. So um really off to a good start. So thank you again Mrs. West for coming to and really doing an elaborate job. Um, having Mrs. West here tonight uh was uh first in what I plan to be um many opportunities for us to have

058this type of presentation for our um content areas. I think um um as a board you'll get a little bit more of a background knowledge for the things that we're doing. I reference uh some of these things often. Uh the presentation like this will give you some more background knowledge when we talk about it going forward. Um coming um looking ahead uh October is going to be our testing uh presentation. So we're not going to have a content specific presentation uh that month. November we'll be talking about um schools of character and our we'll do our um display in the back of the room as we did last November as well as bring in uh Mr. Kaine. Mr. Kaine um was uh one of the leaders in our Mr. Kane, principal from Maple Road, one

059of the leaders in our Boys and Girls Learn Differently uh training that that we launched last year. Uh the board supported the opportunity to send Mr. Kane out and get another level of training that um that enables him to be an on-site trainer for our staff. So, he's going to be here in November to talk about some of the initiatives that we started last year, some of the things going on at Maple Road, and then we'll project forward to our other schools. Uh we are also then looking for December to be our um our math presentation and at that time we are hoping that we're going to have the ability to um talk about our our first round of the STAR math assessment as well as some of the goals and objectives set forth on

060October 9th in our PD sessions and then followed through in our faculty and and um department meetings going forward. So, um, between now and January, we've got a, um, you know, a full a full slate of opportunities to really, um, get the board and the public, um, with a good knowledge base of the things that we're doing. So, thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Havoc. Um, Barbara, special reports and correspondence, please. >> Uh, we have the minutes from the August 22nd board meeting, uh, regular and executive session. >> Okay. Move to approve for minutes of August 22nd regular for workshop regular and executive session meeting. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Me too. >> Okay. Um All right then. Roll call, please. >> Normally out in the roll call. All in favor? >> I. >>

061Any opposed? You >> Abstain. Abstain. And I'm going to abstain also, Barbara, because I didn't get a chance to to read through them. So, >> um, legal report. >> Uh, sure. I have some items to discuss in executive session, uh, where my legal reports are always done. >> Okay. Um I I Joe, we spoke and I asked you if you could do give like a little primer on on emails and what we are allowed to discuss in an executive session. >> Right. Well, that's why the question earlier was a uh a good one just um about the executive session resolution. That resolution is on the agenda because of the open public meetings act, the OPMA. Um really that law is just to ensure that the public is aware of every action that the board takes,

062every uh board meeting, official meeting of the board. Um every vote, any authorization that the board does has to take place in public in view of uh members of the public whoever decide to come to the meeting or read the minutes. Um that's why they also call the sunshine law. Makes makes a little bit of sense on that. Um of course there are some items that are discussed in executive session like personnel uh legal issues. um student matters, those kind of confidential matters that cannot be discussed uh in front of the public because of privacy concerns. Uh and when those items come up, we go into executive session to discuss them. The law also requires that uh since all official meetings of the board must take place in public, that means anytime there's more than

063five board members, that that's an official meeting because official action could be taken. If five board members got together and voted on something, that would be official action. So any discussions with more than five or five or more board members or votes or anything like that has to take place right here uh at an announced public meeting with uh public notice. When we get into emails and things like that uh we don't like to email the full board. We don't like to engage in discussions with the full board. Usually what happens is maybe an email goes out to the full board with some information saying there's a meeting coming up this day. Are you available? That kind of thing is fine. But if you're asking for somebody's thoughts on the matter, that can be construed

064to be a meeting uh and when you're discussing and replying to all and we can't do that because they need to be official meeting uh of the board to have those discussions otherwise committee meetings those things are acceptable um at any time. So that's kind of just a quick overview of what the law requires. If anybody is interested, I don't know why you would be. The uh statute reference is 10 col 4-12 and it actually lays out every um exception, every item that we can discuss. Uh there's way more than the few that I mentioned. There's about 19 of them. >> Yep. >> Um so then we can go into executive session and discuss any of those other things. >> Okay. >> Thank you, Joe. um president's report. I had uh our last meeting um

065in an effort to do some team building asked everybody to just come up with one nice thing to say about your other your fellow board members. And you know, it's something that I think uh needs to be done. Um, and I told everybody I'd go first. I This shouldn't for each one of us. I mean, God, I think I'm going to be done in about 30 seconds. So, um, I'm going to I'm going to start with uh Mr. Drew. I think he's tenacious and dedicated. Terry, I think you're really generous. Glenn, you're thorough and consistent. Will, conscientious and determined. Rodney, you're extremely practical. Debbie, you're very kind-hearted. Nicole, when when you have uh feelings about something, you're very passionate about it, and I I respect that. And Greg, if he was here, he's strong willed

066and and and funny. Um, so and I don't think there's anybody who can disagree with us. Um, Steve, I see you got your your paper up in front of you. You want to you want to go next? >> Sure. Uh, Mr. Dave, he's humorous and he's very committed to use force. Um, puts a lot of time in. He's got a nice haircut. Uh, Mr. C's very hardworking. uh spends time to understand the issues, concerned about the taxpayers and committed to the middle of our class to ensure that we improvements we make apply to everything. Uh Mr. Wyatt u teachers perspective you know the system and frankly you've had some incredible ideas very very good ideas that we all benefit from for efficiencies and improvements. >> Sorry uh Mr. food persistent, uh, organized. You're the bright

067guy that he learns quickly. Good. Um, you invest the time it takes to understand the issues. Um, Miss Friends, nice shoes. You always have great >> You're obviously very committed to put the kids first in what you're what you're doing. Uh, Mr. you bright right bright right fellow a gifted worksmith I really have have respect for the way you you put things together you're thorough you take the time to understand the issues to to make sure that you you're making good decisions even when I disagree with um you're committed to improvements in the in the district and academics O'Brien >> oh god >> um I really appreciate your compassionate care about the kids. Uh it shows uh you've had some really good perspectives with regard to to uh public employees and and the issues related

068to those and uh really appreciate those perspectives and uh finally I I I think you've had you've helped me to see more about special education and understanding the issues regarding that. So just valuable uh Mr. Robins earns quickly. I'm sorry, learns quickly. Um, very concerned about the kids and taxpayers and I appreciate that. And of course, you didn't today, but you usually wear nice ties. So, that's my Okay, Debbie. >> Oh, I'm going to have to Okay. No, I I No, I'd like to, but I after following you and don't No, I I will I will have to I will have to ruminate my thoughts together and want something. >> My apologies. >> Okay, Coin. >> Okay. Um, Greg speaks well and is a great advocate for the sports program. Nicole is a good cheerleader

069for the district administration and schools. Debbie is kind and has excellent instincts. Steve, he's got a great knowledge base and grasp of statistical analysis. He keeps focus on our greatest priorities for the board. A little bit of a Jimny Cricut there for uh in that aspect. Uh he keeps academic education in his mind as a priority and I appreciate that as well and um and preparation of the students for the real world. gives a real world perspective to the board. That's that's uh a great benefit. Will uh going to echo somebody else. You're a great advocate for the regular students that um we often uh look at the most gifted and the least gifted and you're keeping us on point with the vast majority of students that are between those two polls. Thank you. Um

070Rodney has great courage of his convictions. He he'll stand up for things uh even if it's not something everybody else agrees with. Um Terry brings a great knowledge uh to the district of personnel and uh academic life. Um and um Jim consistently tries to get the board to collaborate to improve the district overall and provides us with u the needed leadership to keep moving forward instead of stagnating. >> That's what I've got there. >> Okay. Uh Nicole, >> I have to be honest, my day job didn't really allow me to put a lot of time into this. I a little bit don't feel that this is the right forum for this. Um I expressed that in advance. I feel like we have a lot on our agenda and a lot to get through and we've

071already are way behind schedule. But I'll just say that I appreciate the passion that everyone brings to their role here and that you know getting the job done and doing the best for the district. I'll leave it at that. >> Okay. Terry, >> sorry. Um I did not do this. I didn't feel that this was the venue. Um, we have enough on our plate right now. We could have done this at a retreat. But I will echo Nicole's um comment that I respect every board member even though we are sometimes disagreeing, but um I certainly don't feel this was the venue. Thank you, >> Mr. Sidowitz. >> Mr. Robins believes in the importance and strength of West Milford's special education program. Can you >> Hello. All right. Yeah, I think I was better like this.

072Mr. Foody is strong willed at making sure that the board and administration is held to task. Mrs. Dwire brings an important life career as an educator to the table. Mr. Bailey brings over 20 years of district history to the table as our longest serving trustee. Mrs. Fritz brings the perspective of a mother of two with the most at stake by our decisions. Mr. Huber pro provides strong conviction that bullying is critical to our school's climate. Mrs. O'Brien is the most overtly sincere trustee in her desire to see what's best for all our kids. when she has tears of joy after student presentations that honestly makes me happy. Mr. has a zenlike focus on the education aspect of all our decisions and his southern style always seemed to soften my jersey attitude. >> Okay. Thank you,

073Will. >> Okay, >> Mr. Roselli. Thank you. >> I'm sorry, Jim. I didn't I didn't really prepare something as >> that's that's okay. >> Everyone has done your I do in fact do respect everyone of you uh as a board member and we do have a very big mix of of people. Um and I do respect everyone's piece of of making you know making decisions and uh I always look forward to you know getting to conversations with uh everyone's personality. So >> okay thank you Rodney. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um I was I'm going to jump in with what with what Robbie said. I think we all I mean we we come here with different experiences, different educational backgrounds, different occupational backgrounds and I would like to do this. Um I'm very moved by what

074everybody has said about each other and about me and I thank you very much for your observations. Um I don't take this position lightly and um and I know neither of you do either. None of you do either. So, I wanted to say from the bottom of my heart, thank you. And that means everybody on the board. >> Thank you, Debbie. And I I just think that that this was took us about 8 n minutes. Um it's just a good way of, you know, somebody, you know, said a a kumbaya moment. But I mean, it's it's nice to know that how we feel about each other. even though we got a lot of differences, we're all here for the same for the same reason, which is for the kids. So, that's where where we need

075to put our focus and and I think we are. So, um I thank everybody for participating and and we'll move on. Um we have petitions and requests. Petitioners have requested to speak prior to the meeting. will be first with 5 minutes for each petitioner for a period of 30 minutes and then time permitting other petitions and requests limited to 5 minutes per petitioner will be allowed until the 30 minute period transpires. Petitioners speaking during petitions and requests are asked to address topics listed in the agenda. All speakers are asked to give their full name, spell their last name, and provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Barbara, has anybody requested to speak? No. >> Okay. Uh, is there anybody who would like to speak regarding something on

076the agenda? >> Seeing none, like to close petitions and requests. >> Second. >> Thank you, Debbie. And and and will uh all in favor? >> Anybody opposed? Okay. >> I'd like to make a few amendments to the agenda before we accept it. Page six, educ section education resolution 14. We received a new HIP today at about 2:00. So this is going to be slashe 2 and it will be unsubstantiated. [Music] On page 11, personnel student affairs resolution number 20. We're going to add two substitute teachers. First one is Jennifer Loruto. L O capital B bru t o. That's a teacher, substitute teacher. And the second name is Shan Palin. S E A N capital P A L E N as a substitute teacher. Also on page 12, personnel student affairs number 21, we are going

077to add Mona Harrison. That's capital M O N A Harrison. Capital H A R R I S O N. That's a cafe aid. We are also going to add Susan Reigns, R A I Ns, as a calf aid and also as a >> secretary. CF aid and secretary or substitute. >> Substitute. Page 14, personnel student affairs resolution number 34. There is a incorrect number there. Matthew Grammada is correct. Pit musician coordinator is correct. The actual amount is $364, not 3,364. So you strike the three. >> I think he might argue with that >> in the thousands column. And the last one is going to be on the following page. Page 15, personnel student affairs, resolution 36. The name Daniel Kaiser should be Danielle Kaiser. D A N I E L L E. Thank you. Okay.

078Um, I need a motion to adopt the agenda as presented with the modifications and the hand carry. >> Like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented with modifications by Dr. Amone and the hand carry under. >> I'll second it. >> Thank you, Debbie and Tyrie. Um, all in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. All right, Terry. Uh, we shall start with you with education, please. >> Okay. I'd like to move items 1 through 13 for approval. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> Question. >> Go ahead. >> Um, number two sounds great. I'd love to have a little bit more explanation on that and I think the public might like to hear about this one. >> Uh, Hero Heroes and Cool Kids is a um, sorry, Heroes and Cool Kids is a uh,

079new program. We um, we have a teacher on staff in our um, high school named um, Mrs. Bombser. First name, I'm going blank. Help me out. Kelly Bzer. Thank you. Sorry, wasn't prepared for that. Uh, Kelly Bombser. She worked with this program not only um as a uh as a student teacher, but she also was a student who in uh who benefited from this program. Um she talked to our athletic director and and some of our other um high school staff members and talked about a program um which is uh basically it's a mentoring program and it is a anti-substance abuse program that we are um going to begin with in our high school where we are able to um create an application process for our um our high school students who want to be

080those mentors and we want to uh um um be able to to to vet our students and and select our students who are going to be those great role models. Those students are then uh they go through a training program through Bergen County uh Bergen County Tech and they would then visit our elementary schools. They would work with fifth and sixth graders across the district. So um it's a new program. It's like I said, it's essentially one of the um one of the recommendations we've seen through um not only through character.org or but also through some of the um conversations about substance abuse is the power of the um the power of the peer and that positive peer influence and having our students be the leaders in in that regard is uh uh is a

081great um great thing for us to be able to do. We are going to have um Miss Sponszer uh Mr. Mr. Trancasta and hopefully a representative from the program to be with us at safe night on November 2nd when uh we open our doors on at 5:30 for our uh registration period. We're also going to have a uh vendor fair site uh type atmosphere where we're going to haveformational tables uh there for all of the resources that we have in our community and our schools. And one of those um exhibits during that time period will be Heroes and Cool Kids just to um talk about where we're at. The initial training is on October 19th and our staff members will be going to you know get the um you know get the whole scope of

082the program and and then be able to bring it back to our schools. Uh so we're hoping for a winter implementation um you know where we would get our our students trained and then um you know organize that process where they would go out and visit our elementary school. So um very very excited about it. >> That sounds great. >> I have a quick technical question. Uh the resolution doesn't mention elementary school mentoring. So do we need to change that? Make a change or an amendment or is it fine? >> Cuz it just says high school to mentor middle school. >> He's right. >> I think it's fine right now because no mentoring has taken place. >> Yeah. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> And this is just to approve the program and

083get the training done. >> Okay. >> We we could we could certainly amend that. >> Yeah. Middle school grades. >> Yeah. A lot a lot of districts have sixth grade and middle school. So I think the language has anything to do with it right now. It's an administrative thing. >> Okay. >> And number seven I had a question about I'm just wondering um uh what class that'll that'll help. That is our um business trades and our um engineer uh we just renamed the course the uh intro to engineering um um philosophy that is all through Mr. Bey actually Mr. Bey's if it's his son-in-law or his son >> help me too no more lifelines on this one and also Mr. organized it. He has a uh he has a relative, I don't know if it's

084a son-in-law, I may may have just made that up, who works at this um this group, and they're going to do a site visit and hear from the professionals in the field and and uh give the students in those courses a little glimpse of what this looks like in the real world. >> So, it's an architectural and financial uh sorry, environmental planning firm. >> Yes. >> Great. Sounds good. >> Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Then, Barbara, >> on items 1 through 13. >> Miss O'Brien, >> yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz, >> yes. >> Mr. Drew, >> yes. >> Mr. Bailey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Dwire, >> yes. >> Mr. Robbins, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fritz, >> yes. >> Mr. Yuber, >> no to number five. Yes to the rest. >> Mr. Foody. Uh yes, son.

085His son worth it out. >> Uh Mrs. O'Brien, personnel and student affairs. >> Okay. I would like to move item number one personel student affairs. Mr. >> That that we're going to do first. We're going to do that after executive session. >> Oh, okay. >> So, what we'll >> gave you not on this. >> So, what we'll what we'll do, Debbie, I'm sorry. I should have I should have explained. We'll since we're going to go into executive session and discuss this. >> Okay. >> Um, we'll allow the public to speak since it's a public hearing if they have any input. >> Okay. >> So, we'll we'll start with that. >> Um, is that good, Joe? Yeah, by law we have to have a quote public hearing on any superintendent contract amendment which is this is

086so this would constitute the public hearing. If anybody has a comment that's great. If not the public hearing would be concluded. >> Okay. >> Matter of responsibility. >> Okay. >> Does anybody wish to um speak about item number one under personnel is the amendment for the superintendent contract. Okay. We've uh Debbie met our obligation. So, we're going to discuss that after executive session. Um >> we'll vote on it after executive session. >> Did did the board want to and item two Joe if we discuss that that's is that done in executive session or >> it is but item two is a separate issue. Okay. So it we can all right >> if you want to wait we can wait otherwise >> did you did the did the board want to wait until uh after exec

087>> all together >> and do it then do the one and two together >> well I would I'm going to say there they are separate item two is a contractual issue from the original contract that's in place now >> so it's not they're not together item >> item two is with the regular contract that's in place now so they're not exactly together they are both related to his contract so we can do do it after exec or not. But just to be clear, item two is a contractual requirement that we have to discuss with the contract that's in place now that was already approved last year. >> Is it open for public discussion or we have to >> No, item two is item two is a is an executive session >> discussion. So then we

088should wait. I I'll be discuss about it. >> Well, I think you answered my question, but uh Okay, Mr. So it' be improper if you have any discussion on item two. >> If there's discussion item two questions or anything like that, it's a personnel action item. We should discuss it in executive session. If you have questions or discussion, we should wait on this resolution until after executive session. >> Okay. Well, let's >> So we're tableabling number two until after exe. >> Well, yeah. We'll vote on it. We don't we'll vote on it till after exact we don't at the table. >> Um >> it's a week and the world changes and >> no I do but I have no choice. >> Okay boys and girls let's do items 3 through 36 on the personnel student

089affair. >> Oh thank you. >> Any discussion? Go ahead. >> I've always got the questions. 15 through 18. Are those increases or decreases? We don't have the the base number to judge by. >> They're changes in their contract. Most likely they are increases in the hours that they're on the bus. >> Okay. Uh what number? >> Uh good. Uh 30. >> All right. You're in the 30s. Okay. >> Yeah. No, I didn't do a handful yet. Um, sorry. >> I have a question about number 28. It's a change of assignment from uh for speech language specialist from Westbrook to both Westbrook and Maple Road. I'm just want to make sure that we have enough coverage for Westbrook or is there just not enough business for her at at Westbrook? >> Good question. So anytime that

090I transfer somebody from one building to another or request that they then cover more than one school, it's because all the mandates in that one primary school can be accommodated by that therapist. So in this particular situation, Miss Varioli can absolutely service her students at Westbrook. There's still room that she would need in her schedule for here. And then with the overflow, she um in a conversation with her provided me with the amount of time that she would be able to give to our autism program at Maple Road. So she'll be then helping with the overflow over there. So anytime we do this internally, I give, you know, credit to my staff because they're able to then internally use the resources we have to be able be able to accommodate the new needs. >> Yeah.

091But but Westbrook is definitely taken care of. >> I can assure you. Any other discussion on items 3 through 36? >> Roll call, please. Barbara, >> yes. >> Mr. Taylor, >> yes. >> M O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chris, >> yes. >> Mr. Sid, >> yes. >> Mrs. Der, >> yes. >> Mr. Huber, >> yes. >> Mr. Foody, >> yes. I'd like to move the items 37 through 43 on the hand carry personnel student affairs. Thank you. >> Any discussion? >> Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. >> Mr. Mr. Bailey. >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fris. >> Yes. Mr. Mr. Huber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Robins. >> Yes. >> Mr. Foody. >> Yes. >> Personnel round two later on tonight. Be there. Be square. >> Mr.

092Drew. >> Budget and finance. Please. >> Like to move items one through 14. >> 14. >> Second. Any discussion, Barbara? On item six, the shuttle service for the Autumn Lights Festival. The town's going to reimburse us reimburse us for that. >> Yeah. >> Okay. There were some questions from other people and I I remembered that from last year, but I just wanted to >> Yeah. >> to to doubly sure. Just to clarify, that's for alternative parking. >> People are going to park different places. >> I believe Hillrest P. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Cuz also >> that's probably another good spot. >> Um, >> can somebody explain eight and nine? >> I was going to ask about nine, but go ahead. >> Eight and nine. Um, we have a a an online program to record

093absences. So, if a teacher is going to be absent, they have to put that absence into this program and then the subs that we have available can um put in for that class >> software. Is it software we use for our substitut? >> School districts use it and it it eliminates a calling service where you actually had somebody call at 5:00 in the morning. And um we've had it now for about seven or eight years. Yeah. >> Okay. Great. >> And number nine is um >> so website >> website hosting and the email filtering for the um students. >> I was going to ask for is that for us or just for the students? Okay. Any other Steve? >> Um, item 12. Why are we doing that? >> You said 12. >> Yeah. >> Well,

094I try to join as many community groups as I can, Rotary, Lions, things of that nature to really get out and about and meet with community members. So, the Lions uh membership is annual and it expired June 30th. So, we just now got this paperwork in from them and uh this is for my new uh membership fee. >> Are you actually attending those >> when they don't conflict with board events, you know, which is uh hard, but as many as I can. >> Number four, is there a cost associated with that? the submission >> that was already for the greenhouse replacement that was already included in the business the uh this current budget. I believe it was a $15,000 fee to um do all of the um rendering and the submissions >> was already anticipated

095and budgeted. >> That was in our current budget. Yeah. >> Okay. Um I'm I have to ask what's a duct diffuser? What? What? >> What's it under number two? What's a duct diffuser? >> Oh, >> and and what was the base amount? What are we actually going up? How much more are we going up here? There's no base amount here that we started at. >> Diffusers. >> The diffusers are where the air comes out. >> Okay. >> From the auditorium. All right. >> And they had to open up the ceiling before they can tell what was underneath it. >> Okay. And how much more are we paying? It's an increase of 10,867. >> The uh total increase over the allowance that we had was >> and the number I'm not seeing is what we were

096originally paying before that. >> I think the original contract. >> No. Well, it says that it's an increase of 10,867 and change and there was a balance budgeted of 30,000 originally. >> That was the Yeah. for on a >> that was an allowance budget. >> That was an allowance in the in the original contract. >> So what did we already what had we already what were we already paying out of the 30,000 is what I'm asking. >> Oh, out of that 30,000 we rewired the auditorium and put new heat detectors in. >> Okay. That was done a few months ago because the original plans don't include any changes to the fire alarm system because we weren't doing the entire fire alarm system. So when we exposed the wiring since it was the original, we had

097new wiring put in and that ate up part that we used part of the allowance for that and now these other change orders that were done are over and above the original. >> All right. Are we still within the $30,000? >> No, it's it's an excit now. >> So now we're now we're what? A little under 8,000 over. >> Yeah. >> So we're at 38,000. Okay. Got it. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Um I have a question with regards to number four. Barbara, at the the last sentence, this project is being funded as other capital projects and will not require state funding and the district is not seeking a grant. Are we able to get a grant? No. Okay. I just like to say thank you to um William Bose for

098donating the automobile to the auto shop. That's great. Thank you. >> Beat me to it. >> Sorry. Any other discussion on items 1 through under budget and finance? Seeing none, roll call, please. Barbara. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz. No to five. Yes to the remainder. >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bailey. >> Yes. >> Miss Mrs. Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mr. Robbins. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber. >> Abstain to number five. And yes to the rest. Mr. Foody. >> Yes, >> Steve. I'd like to move item number 15. >> Any discussion? All right. I didn't get a chance to go through the list of bills. Are we making any payments on the auditorium? >> Yes. >> In this bill list, what are we do you know

099off hand? >> Paying the payment application of 200 290,000 maybe. >> Okay. >> Payment. >> And that's to the to GC or to some of the subs? >> No, to the GC. >> Well, no. The reason I ask is didn't we seek Did the GC seek the bid for seating? That was something we did, didn't we? >> That was ours that we did. Okay. >> Have we paid that? >> No. >> Yeah. Okay. >> All right. Any other discussion? Roll call, please, on item 15. Barbara. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bailey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mr. Dwire, >> yes. >> Mr. Robbins, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fritz, >> yes. >> Mr. Yuber, >> yes. Payroll and utilities abstain to the remainder. >> Mr.

100Foody, >> I'm going to have to say the S the same as Mr. Yuber did. Um, payroll and utilities. I didn't get a chance to to go over the bill, so I want to make sure our teachers are paid. Okay. Uh 16. like to move item number 16, transfer fund. >> Second >> discussion. >> Uh Barbara, we I see that we're we're guess what, 3 months into the new year. We're already transferring money into our legal fund, our line item for for legal expenses and wondering why we have to at this early stage of the game. Well, because what we've done instead of paying when we we encumbered the entire amount of money, um it was an audit re recommendation to us that instead of paying the monthly bills as they come up, we encumber

101the entire amount of money that we spent in the previous year. So, we're encumbering a larger amount of money than we normally would. It's a little I'm trying to simplify it, but it's a little >> Oh, it it says for legal fees for special litigation. This is something from from last year, maybe. Do you know this? >> Is this Wait, let me find it. Let me find it. >> Or 16,000, not 11,000. [Music] >> Okay. Um I I there was you had to do it up up front so you can see. >> Yeah. What happened was after the budget was cast, the 1718 budget, we received a lawsuit and we have special counsel. So that's a separate purchase order which was not planned when the budget was prepared in 1718. Okay. >> So we have

102to transfer money in there to cover the purchase order. >> Okay. >> Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Barber. Item 16. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bailey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mr. Robbins. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Foody. >> I'm going to abstain. I'd like to move item number 17, approval of the board secretaries report. >> Second floor. >> Any discussion? >> I'm not going to. >> Go ahead, Steve. >> Good question. Off the top of your head, how does the uh 9.6 million >> on June 30th compared to the previous year? I don't >> that's fine if you don't know. >> No, it's probably more only because we have

103the funding from the bonds or >> I don't have a comparison. >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidewitz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bailey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire? >> Yes. >> Mr. Robbins? >> Yes. Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber, >> abstain. >> Mr. Foody. >> Uh, yes. Um, >> item number hold on, Steve. I think Debbiey's going to do the same thing I I was going to do. Go ahead, Deb. >> Time is 9:11. Um, I think we need to extend our meeting for a little bit. >> All right. So, you want to give it 9:30? >> 9:30. >> Okay. >> All in. Second. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay. >> Steve >> like to move item number 18.

104>> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call, please. Barbara on item 18. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Bailey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire? >> Yes. >> Mr. Robbins? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber? >> Yes. Mr. Foody. >> Yes. >> Number 19, Steve. >> Sorry, I was looking at Y 1950 from uh like to move item number 19, please. >> Second. >> Discussion. [Music] >> Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. >> Miss O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz. Yes, >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes, >> Mr. Bailey. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Dwire. >> Yes, >> Mr. Robbins. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes, >> Mr. Yuber. >> Abstain. >> Mr. Foody. [Music] >> Uh, I'm going to have to abstain

105on that one as well. Number 20. Steve move item number 20. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. >> Miss O'Brien, >> yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz, >> yes. >> Mr. Drew, >> yes. >> Mr. Bailey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Dwire, >> yes. >> Mr. Robbins, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fritz, >> yes. >> Mr. Yuber, >> yes. Mr. Foody >> abstain. >> Uh Glenn, policy. >> I feel so inadequate. I'll move item number one on policy. The only >> Oh, nice. Second for you, Miss >> 43. Well, I've still got more to go. >> Uh, any discussion? >> Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. >> Miss O'Brien. >> No. >> Mr. Sidowitz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew. >> Yeah. >> Mr. Bailey. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire. >> Epstein. >> Mr. Robbins. >> Yes. >>

106Mrs. Fritz. >> Abstain. >> Mr. Yuber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Foody. >> Yes. Okay, we be moving on to special committees and liaison reports. Um, Mr. Sidowitz, start with you. There was a recreation advisory meeting on September 21st and items discussed pertaining to the board were that the cooperative efforts with the district that the township has had have been well accommodating and I'd like to thank Mr. Hanman uh Miss Francisco Mr. Novak and any others who uh helped with the efforts of Mr. Roman I was surprised when the committee discussed board of education fields that I didn't know existed. And to further educate myself on these fields, I met with Mr. Roman and discussed the fields on Monday. And the fields were aptuous field, Maple Road, Paradise, Null, Marshall Hill, and Westbrook. We discussed the

107current conditions, the responsibilities of the township versus what the board of education would do. God bless you. And cooperative effort between the two during the school year. Um, we also both expressed a strong desire for joint Township Board of Education meetings and I hope that we as a board can push harder against the council to hopefully make that happen. Um, also they we talked about the Beyond the Bell program and that is for fifth through 8th grade students to go to the U to the center after school and they get a ride there and I think it's a great thing I wish I had going through school. And uh maybe if you haven't done a lot of PR on it yet, maybe the administration will just push. >> We're we're inviting them to November 2nd

108to also have an exhibit table in our uh registration area. >> Excellent. I think this is a great program. And lastly, the next meeting of the committee will be on October 19th at 7:30 at the township library. That be my report. >> Okay. The first safety meeting of the year is October 26th. Report will be forthcoming. Um, Mrs. Dwire, superintendent's round table. >> We resume our meetings tomorrow. >> Okay. >> Oh, I'm sorry, Thursday. So, I'll have a report for the next meeting. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, Mrs. O'Brien, Bake County School Boards. The first meeting of the Pacific County School Board Association will be taking place on October 12th at the Wayne Hills High School. Um the focus of the meeting will be a STEM workshop. Um I will I have not signed up

109yet, but I will be. So I should have a report next month. >> Okay. Uh New Jersey School Boards Association, Mr. side. >> On October 6th, they the NJSBA is going to have a historical perspectives in their leadership workshop. I'm not entirely sure what that indicates, but it's at 30 Washington Place in Morristown from 9:00 to 3:00 p.m. So, I'll look further into that and report back to the board. on October 23rd through 26th that is our workshop and I suggest that we all review our scheduled events and choose what we'll be attending and perhaps we can share our schedules. That way if we share interest we can kind of correlate that. Also any mandatory governance trainings must be registered for independently of the workshop. >> That's my report. >> Thank thank you will Mr.

110Mr. Drew, legislative. >> Uh, I'm sorry, I don't have it. >> Okay. Mr. Drew, technology oversight. >> Don't have anything there. I'll have to meet with you. >> Okay. Um, Mrs. O'Brien, West Milford Education Foundation. >> Um, due to a family emergency, I missed the meeting which took place two weeks ago. So, I don't I don't have it. Um, I've received a few emails, but I don't have any, you know, com I'm not comfortable in releasing any information that I'm not wasn't there. So, it's kind of like people are asking questions and stuff like that. So, but the bottom line, next meeting is October 19th. >> Okay. >> I should have >> an update for us >> an update for you. I >> Okay, thank you. >> Um, Mr. you or Kasa. >> Uh the

111last meeting there was discussion of course about the uh November 2nd uh event that is uh the Kasa's working with the school district um on that. Uh that sounds like it's going to be a really great family style event. Um so I'd encourage anybody to sign up for it. How do we sign up for that? Um >> it'll be in the same manner that we did for our digital citizenship night. There'll be a flyer that goes home with a mandatory um RSVP deadline so that we can prepare dinner and and seating and arrange our schedules and that sort of thing. Uh the flyer will be shared with the Wampa Group on Thursday morning. And when we um advertise once more for our cyber bullying event, which is on October 5th, we're also going to give

112a little save the date notice for November 2nd districtwide. And we expect that flyer to come out uh within the first two weeks of October. So once uh once that flyer goes out, we'll be um really pushing it within our schools. It's again it's for grades uh all students and and families uh from grades 5 through 8. >> I think the the cast committee would appreciate if we could do like a honey well maybe to save the date really quick before that's how this will go out >> before the end of this week. So we don't you don't >> it'll go out Friday with the announcement will be honey well Friday. >> November second. >> Oh um Yeah, they're al they've also discussed they're going to have a presence at ALF. They're going to have

113a table and they'll do various things um uh you know have various materials and and uh and things at the table for people um including uh they've recognized a correlation between uh substance abuse uh prevention and uh children being involved in sports scouts 4 uh all kinds of different things that you know activities and belonging into organizations and so they're planning on doing uh uh something where the information for who to contact to get involved in those organizations uh would be >> okay. Um it's not on the list but I I think everybody got c got copied on a email from Dave Oinsky regarding the friends of Wallish. >> Yeah. um their next meeting is October 6th and I'm going to I'm going to attend that. I asked at the council if they could send

114somebody because after reading those emails it was air apparent that uh things aren't uh rosy over there. So maybe by having both a a member from the school board and a member from the town council, it might bring a little bit of civility there, but it also give us a good opportunity to see what they're doing with the property and and then report back. So I'm going to attend that meeting on um on the 6th. >> So um >> is it October 6th? >> October 6th. Yeah, I think it's a Thursday. It's a Thursday. >> Friday night or Friday. Okay. But pretty sure that's what it is. I'll I'll I have it in a in a email. Um I'll send it out in case anybody else wants to go too. Um but I think it

115might be a uh a good way of of informing us but helping them out, too. So, um with that, we're going to move on to >> what? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> I'm sorry. No, I just wanted to ask a quick question to Mr. Novak. I don't I'm not at the very on the spot. The event for November 2nd, that's not the same as the citizenship that's not the same as the >> congressionally recognized digital citizenship. You have to put that you have to put that in the front. I apologize. >> Um no, it is it is no the um the date for digital citizenship night will be March 20th. I'm going to start that um advertising also, but no, it is totally separate date. We are using the same format from that event

116and we are applying it to uh what we're calling an annual event. So this will be our first annual safe night. Um so we are intending to have the fall for our safe event and the spring we'll continue our our work with digital citizenship. Also along that vein you got me speaking so I apologize. Uh on October 6th, we are going to be um having a district-wide digital citizenship day uh where we're going to be launching our uh lessons that we have in place, the curriculum that we've adopted for digital citizenship. So, we're going to be um starting that on on October 6th. Uh coupled with that, we have our speaker coming in that you approved. You know, I was going to pull it out. Uh number 10 earlier with High Impact was a speaker

117named Mrs. Melissa Stra. She's been here in the past. She does a presentation for parents and for our students on on cyber bullying specifically through through the lens of digital citizenship. So along that vein, we're we're starting that now and then we'll we'll have that event in the in the spring. >> No fundraising component. You're not looking for donations for that event, are you? >> Yes. >> Funny you should ask. >> Oh, I I haven't um so at this point we have commitments from a number of our uh local coaches for camps that they run in the summer. So, with digital citizenship night, we donate and raffle Chromebooks, Xbox, those types of things. Uh, with the safe event, our raffle is going to have a little bit um of a different flavor to it. As

118Mr. Huber um mentioned when he was talking about CASA, he talked about the connection between involvement in scouts and sports and guitar and those types of things um preventing students from going down the wrong path. So, that is going to be the focus of our raffle efforts. So if any of you can um you know work with a community organization that that you are are a part of for um donations along that that line, we are looking for the donation of activity for students to be involved in. So I said we have commitments from our um from many of our coaches to donate weeks of the camps that they run here uh here through our schools. Uh we have a number of um commitments from um the centers that are around our town like um

119uh I forget the name of the ice skater skate what's the skylands skylands out on 23 um laser one in in Hamburg uh castle fund center who provides you know some free certificates just for just for quick giveaways um but we are going to be looking for donations to um um provide more time for for students to get involved in activities. So, I do have a scheme that I will um present to the board in a private manner. >> Thank you. >> Before I forget, the uh November 2nd safe night is co-sponsored with CASA. So, we do have a keynote speaker coming that night for our culminating event uh nationally recognized speaker and the cost will be split 50/50 between a district and CASA. So, it's a really nice community event and we're excited. As

120you can tell, we're very excited for it. Okay. Uh thank you. >> Okay. Now we'll move on to old business. We have um Hillrest School. We'll be I guess discussing discussing that and kill two birds one with the joint meeting with the township that we have on October 11th. Um >> excuse me. >> Yes. >> Where is that meeting going to be held? >> Town Hall. Um, we also have under old business the MCAPIN and high school roofs. Anything on that, Barbara? >> They're uh working on the punch list. >> Okay. >> Uh, they've been coming up on weekends because they can't work during the week when the kids are here. >> Okay. >> So, um, we're getting closer to completion. >> Okay. They they doing the penthouse, I guess it is at Westbrook. They're

121they're doing that. Yeah, they're going to start that this weekend. >> They're doing that on the weekends as well. Okay. >> Um, we had talked about a while back um about the possibility of running a school bus to the library. Are we doing that? >> We we are doing that. We don't have it established at this point in time. I'm still uh in the process of working all the details out with Ricardo Pino who's the um library director. >> Okay. Okay. >> As well as our placement. We have a Chromebook card placed there as well. So, it's all part of the the discussion. We're hoping to launch that in early October. >> We don't have it. We don't have it there already, do we? >> Chromebook cart is there. >> Yeah. And so, only our

122students can access them. >> Okay. >> Hasn't been advertised to our students yet because we're still working out some of the permissions and oversight access to their >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah, we have to buy the filtering the the filters. Anything else under uh old business? Will >> is there any new word on the transportation remediation? >> No. >> Just moving along. >> Have they started the injections down there? >> They were still waiting for the D, right? Okay. >> They're waiting for the permits. They did a clean water thing and and they were happy with the results, but they have to wait for the permits. >> Okay. Okay. Rodney, >> on the subject of Hillress, is there any update on the stolen property? Has there been any additional stolen property on that building? >>

123No, >> we changed we did lock the building up, change the locks. Uh nothing since then, but no recovery either. Will >> uh several last school year I brought up that the flags on our school grounds weren't lit. Received a spreadsheet of schools that were lit. Didn't trust the sheet. Drove around to all the schools and if we walk outside this building was considered lit. Um, patriotism is something that I hold absolutely firmly as one of my most important items. And for $30, all you could do is just put a solar lamp on the flag and this will be done issue, but like I said, I didn't trust the spreadsheet and found out that it was for good reason. So, >> we'll look at that. >> Thank you. >> Anything else under old business? Well,

124we have a couple more things on the on the agenda. >> The what? >> Mm High School roof update. >> Yeah, she did that. >> We did that. >> Um I have a question about the uh auditorium seating. >> Would that be under new business? >> Well, >> yeah, new business >> sort of. >> It's Yeah, I think it's kind of new business. We haven't discussed it before. So, we're we're we're going to be moving on to it in a second. So, um, anything else under old business? >> Seeing none, like to close new old business. >> Yep. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> No. New business. Go ahead. >> Um, I want to ask Barbara, is there anything being done about the problem with the seating? >> What's the problem

125with the seating? >> You don't know? >> No. >> Um, enlighten me. That's >> the seats. Some of the seats are too small for adults. >> It It's a problem. If you're going to have a parents come in to see the kids do chorus or whatever it may be, it's going to be an issue. >> Okay, I will pass that along. However, >> there's multiple sides. >> See that? They're they're >> much different than the ones that were there. >> Very comfortable. They are they're they're um like for me the seat was not as wide as my shoulders. So there was no way for me to bring my arms in and not over lap. >> It's like Broadway. >> Oh, it's it's like an airplane. >> The small the smaller seats are tight. There's two

126different sizes. It looks kind of strange, but um the seriously I I it's it's going to be an issue >> like coach. >> So I think maybe we could look into that. Please would were you aware of this, Alex, Dr. >> I know we have different size seats to I know we have differentiz seats to make the arc a certain shape. >> I pass it along. We we we did have our staff in there for uh the day after Labor Day and I didn't hear anything then. >> Yeah. We had a couple of kids in the scout troop that wouldn't fit into those seats. >> Okay. That 14 and 15 year olds. So I I it's something that you guys really need to go over and look at. >> Anything else for Mr. Sidowitz? Um,

127I'm personally embarrassed that I saw that there were complaints about religious holidays online and I did take it personally because when I do schedule events with my own troop, I take them into account and um, when our calendar for our next school year does come out, >> it already has. >> It's out. >> I mean, we have to approve it. It's been approved. >> Next year's is approved already. >> 189 posted. >> Yeah. We do it for two years. >> We We did a two-year We did a two-year schedule. >> Well, I guess I got to check into that because >> what happened this year happened next year >> during Shana? >> Well, let me just ask Dr. Anamon, are the Jewish holidays on next year's >> Uncle Flores? I I looked it up. >>

128Yeah, >> I don't have it. I didn't bring the calendar tonight. I know it's on our website. It's in my office, but I did not bring it tonight. >> I agree. I I saw that. I'm sorry. >> But get >> I I agree. I I noticed that as well and and didn't have a lot of history behind it, but I noticed that we had Yan Kapore and then we didn't this year and then it's back again next year. So >> you don't have Yapor this year. >> It's Saturday. >> So there's But I know a lot of other districts had Thursday, Friday for Rashana as well. >> Barbara, can we put that under old business to circle back at the next meeting? >> Thank you. I think anything that's in new business that's not resolved

129will be in old business. >> Okay, good. >> Um, anything else under new? >> I I just a a question for you guys. You know, Will had um brought up and we had were using the bus our buses for the for the ALF. um might not be a bad idea if you to think about maybe possibility of next year for the board of ed to have a booth. Might be a you know we want to reach out to the community that's part of our communication. It might not be a a bad way of of reaching out. If people got questions, they might come up to a booth um ask questions, sign in, whatever. But it might not be a bad idea. So if you could just think about it, you know, will. >> And on

130that note, if WF has a dunk tank, I will personally be getting money for that. >> I'll be the first in line. >> And I hope it's 40°. And I And I hope it's 40°. >> I If it's not heated to 90 degrees, I will not be there. versus question just speaking a lot just a question like to do something like that I think it's a great idea does it get a little tricky with like people coming and asking questions that we probably a lot of things can't speak on or respond to and you know that that could be a little bit of a slippery slope >> if if there's questions you know certainly I think maybe it would have to be an administrator but if not we can at least take that information and

131say somebody will get back to you we're not necessarily going to speak. I mean, I don't know. Well, there's something for us to discuss. >> Yeah. I would like to see a West Milford School District booth. >> That's what I'm saying. >> Oh, you said board. >> Well, you know what I mean. Everything kind of goes under. We We have that >> or um Yeah, the the WMEA has a booth. They've had a booth for the last few years. They give away pumpkins. They smile. They wear black and gold. They take pictures with kids. >> Well, just black and gold pom poms in their hair. They do a really They do a really good job, >> you know, curriculum. um activities >> not health >> at all. Yeah. >> 15,000 people 100 degrees by curriculum.

132>> Well, who knows? I mean, >> I think I think that's But it should be the district, not the >> Yeah. Not the board. It's the district. >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> Yeah. I got a pumpkin. I didn't get a pumpkin last year. Okay. Any other uh Steve? Um [Music] just the first I wanted to point out that we added a link for spiritware onto the website. So people who are interested in doing that wtm wtbs.org now you can get spiritware and thank you very much for seeing that that's done. >> Oh good. Uh, I don't think I look very good in the leggings, but >> then I also wanted to thank M. West for that really looks like we're doing some great things with the program, especially the hands-on professional development. I can see

133how that really gets people involved. >> Um, similarly, I think what we're doing with the STAR math is kind of absolutely It's the right direction. >> It is. >> I'm very pleased. >> I bring up these two things at this park because as I visited my childhood home, um I remembered something that happened in first grade and somehow, you know, remember the teacher or anything else, but she had taken some time to praise the way that I did uh a particular drawing. And almost 60 years later, I remember that um it it happens time and again. I've talked to a lot of the doctors that I've gone to. In many many cases, the reason they decided to go into medicine was some teacher. Um sometimes it was a family member. And just time after time

134after time, the teachers motivate the kids to to reach their full potential. Um, and and you know, I can remember many when teachers turn on the light and and the kids become better people as a result. I'm bringing all of this up because we passed policy that say we're going to send letters home to the kids when they do something well. And I haven't heard anything about any kind of followup on that. Miss McIntyre pointed out some a couple of band uh or music uh contests that we entered that we did well in. Um and so I don't necessarily want to make a resolution about this, but I would like every month to hear where we have done something like that where we have sent these letters out and frankly I know we're doing things

135in this district where the kids deserve to be recognized. That kind of recognition motivates people. it motivates parents and uh uh you know so I I don't necessarily want to take a vote on this but we agreed we were going to do it and I haven't heard anything about it so let's please do and Mr. Novak, I would like you to report to us cases where we've done that. And frankly, if we can't find anything to praise these kids about, I don't think we're doing a very good job. >> In a similar vein, um, >> we could bring some we could bring some examples. I had examples in my f >> I had examples in my folder every meeting last year from like, you know, February on and it kind of never came up. And

136there's nothing here. Yeah, the year just started, but I I could easily break some examples. >> I appreciate that. Um, related to that, I would like we we got I don't know whether we're calling it a motto or whatever, but we've agreed we're going to put success starts here on our letterhead. Um, I would like to see that go on the interest of each one of our schools. But part of what we're trying to do, we're making some real good moves here to to move the school system forward. and and we should all recognize the importance of that to our community to these kids. You know, I think it's a great model and I know that the entrance to our schools to remind everybody what what the purpose of what we're trying to do. Um,

137do we need to take a vote on that or or >> you want to get some bids and then we will be unveiling our success starts here tablecloths at our November 2nd event registration area. If you would come, I'd like to take a picture of you standing with them. Thumbs up kind of thing. Success starts here. Yeah, we we've been uh we've been starting to re to the branding process. I know the letterhead and everything's been been redone. Mr. You've just taken a look at the website for where we can uh where we bring that in there and uh it's on our table for >> when will the new letterhead I know Alex had showed me and I told Steve that had showed me the >> the new letterhead >> administrative council meeting on Friday.

138Thanks for spoiling my surprise with my administrators by the way. >> This was on my this was on my agenda for this Friday. So I'll be meeting with my team then and >> uh we'll be discussing it. But yes to for everybody else's edification our district our district letter head has all the pertinent information on top the address the phone number etc. We uh slid success starts here above the you know below that but above the uh text of the letter so we're looking to collect letterhead from our principles on Friday and then you do do the same for that. So uh if any of them are watching I know that for Westbrook that we have t-shirts that everyone wears for spiritware. Do all the schools have their own custom t-shirt? Cuz if so, that

139might be something to put out there that maybe that's something that we start incorporating into those designs on the back or something. >> Like like Marshall Hill is the Marshall Eagle, >> right? Bobcats. Yep. >> They do a back to school night. I've been going to the back to school nights. I see the PTAs with the table in every building. >> Might be as they start to wean in new designs. Maybe they start putting that on there. Might be something catchy. >> Okay. Anything else under uh under new business? >> Seeing none. >> Move to close new business. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. We have uh petitions and requests. Petitioners who have requested to speak prior to the me meeting uh will be first with five minutes for each petitioner

140for a period of 30 minutes. Then time permitting other petitions and requests limited to 5 minutes per petitioner will be allowed until the 30-inut period transpires. All speakers are asked to give their full name, spell their last name, and provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Has anybody requested to speak here, Marber? >> Would anybody like to speak? >> Yep. We I saw a hand go up and come down real quick. He can speak if he wants. >> No. >> Okay. >> See, seeing >> none move to close petitions and requests. Second. >> Okay. All in favor? >> Any opposed? >> Okay, Glenn. Um, executive session session resolution >> at 9:44. I'll move to go into executive session for the purposes of discussing personnel appointments, uh, resignations,

141current litigation matters, special education matters, negotiations, and matters of attorney client privilege. >> Second. >> Okay. all and we're we're going to be >> talking about all those all those um subjects. Alex, >> I do not believe we can talk about that. >> We can we can we can't just put a blanket out there covers everything and then not speak about it as well. >> No, but there's not a blanket here. These are specific items. So, >> if there are questions about, for example, a resignation, we can discuss it. But if it was my understanding though, we can't put we're going to speak about negotiations and then not go in and speak about it. It is am I right? >> For all I know, there may be an update on negotiations. >> All right. >>

142Okay. Um all in favor? >> Any opposed? We will be um voting on items HIVs and Dr. amone's contract uh after executive session. Yep. >> You can't just list everything. >> Yeah. >> Tell them what you're going to tell them. So, actually, you know what? HIV wasn't listed. >> Was it >> student matters? Didn't say >> Oh, student matters. Okay. >> You used to say HIV. Well, it must be Dan and it >> we're good to go. >> Our stuff here. >> Is uh we going to wait for Alex or >> did he go? >> Dan, too, cuz Dan's books there. They must be walking. >> Dan said he was sticking around. >> Maybe he's just in the restroom. >> Should we Should we Should I run out in the hall and see if they're

143there? >> Maybe. >> I'll check. >> Thanks, CL. >> You text them. Yeah. Just stand. Just stay standing. You're fine. [Music] >> We can go with the HIVs, right? >> Well, yeah. I mean, we could do everything, but it would be nice to have them. went that way. >> You went that way. >> Yes. >> Which way? >> That way. >> Huh? >> Getting recorded. [Laughter] >> She moved away. It's like six inches going to make that big difference. joke over there like everywhere. It's >> better if I have kids that crawl all over me. Stop it. >> They put air on in here tonight. >> It's hot in here. It's really hot in here. >> That must be it. Must be the air. >> The air. >> This is the only cold room on

144back to school night. The school was sweltering. >> Oh god, this heat wave. It's not usually this hot this time. >> It was so hot. Yeah, >> there is. >> You heard me. >> I say that we voted in the freaking [Music] >> You missed the boat. >> Okay, you're all good, right, Nate? All right, we um we are we are back from executive session and um after we had made our resolution to go into executive session, we did notice that uh HIV student matters weren't listed on the resolution. So we um we did discuss them matters public. We and we wanted to let you know that we did discuss that. Um so we'll make every effort in the future >> to to make that not be the case. So um we will move on

145to um Terry the >> take off that one. >> Hi HIV. >> Yes. Table >> and we're going to take off the >> table E1. They just want to remove it from the agenda for next for next month >> for further information. >> Correct. >> Okay. Um move to approve the findings of H 2018H1 and 2018 E2. H1 is substantiated. E2 is unsubstantiated. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? None. Roll call, please. Barbara. >> Mrs. Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Mr. Robbins. >> Yes. >> Mr. Huber. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Drew? >> Yes. >> Mr. Foody? >> Yes. >> Um, >> personel. >> The goals. >> What? >> Yeah. No. But one and two on under personnel. So Debbie, >> yes.

146I'd like to make a motion to approve this agenda by member personel. >> Before we do that, I need to make a slight correction to the resolution. Um, it says that it was approved by the county superintendent. It we are waiting on the approval. So, the third paragraph, it should say whereas the contract amendment is subject to approval by the executive county superintendent. >> We're making an amendment. Yes. >> Okay. So, we're just waiting on the letter though from him. >> Yes. And in the last paragraph, it's it should say, "Be it further resolved that the amendment shall become effective immediately upon receipt of approval from the executive county superintendent." >> Right. >> And Barbara has that resolution. So if we approve the amended version, it would go in the minutes. >> Okay. >> So

147you're moving to amend or >> No, I I want >> We He needs a motion. >> If Debbie or if Debbie could remove the motion as amended, that's >> I will I will Do you want me to remove the the motion I just made? >> No. Amended as Joe. >> Yeah. Yes. Make the motion. >> I'd like to make a motion to amend it. >> Move the amended. >> Yeah, that's fine. >> Item one under personnel student affairs. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Now we'll go to discussion. >> Seeing none, roll call, please. >> I thought we weren't supposed to discuss it here because that's why we haven't. But I got to say I got to ask. >> So >> Mr. Robins. No, >> Mr. Drew. >> Yes. >> M O'Brien. >>

148Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dwire. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber. >> No. >> Mr. Foody. >> Yes. >> I would like to uh move item number two in person. >> Thank you. >> Any discussion? Should we have any discussion? >> Technically got to ask if I don't I don't know if we need it, but >> but you know just for for we're going to we're going to look at this next year earlier. We're going to do it when we get our board goals. we'll get our superintendent goals for the year so that if we do want to make any changes or additions or whatever that we'll have the time because we're we have to do this by September 30th. >> Mhm. >> Oh, but this one is

149not the goals. >> No. Right. Okay. >> No, this is the goals. >> We just did the contract. Now, this is the goals. >> Oh, I have them backwards in my head. before finalized in June, it gets discussed again. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> Mr. Robbins. >> No. >> Mr. Drew? >> Yes. >> Miss O'Brien? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Fritz? >> Yes. >> Mr. Sidowitz? >> No. >> Mrs. Dwire? >> Yes. >> Mr. Yuber? >> No. Mr. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. [Music] >> Motion to adjourn. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> The meeting is adjourned at 11:20. >> Sandwiches left. Yeah, I think there's like three, two, three, four. >> Yeah, thank you. [Music]