Board of Education Meeting 9/27/16

001always remembering. Yeah, sure. Sure. That's a ticket. Thursday night. Good evening everyone. Welcome to the uh regular meeting of the West Milford Board of Education, September 27th, 2016. Um, I would ask that everybody silence or turn off their cell phones and notice uh the emergency exits. Um, I would like to have a moment of silence. It seems that this is almost a a monthly occurrence um for the Vive victims and their families in the Cascade Mall shooting in Burlington. Uh, Washington. Flag salute, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act, a public notice of this meeting has been sent to

002board members. All district schools, the Herald News, the trends, the record, AIM, West Milford, 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, please. Miss Francisco. Mr. Bailey. Mr. De here. Mr. Drew, Mrs. Dwire here. Mr. Foody present. Mr. Yuber here. Mrs. O'Brien here. Mr. Robins. Mr. Schulz here. Um, Mr. Yuber, would you uh read the executive session resolution, please? I move to approve the following resolution resolve that the board go into executive session at 9:00 p.m. for approximately 60 minutes for the purpose of discussing personnel negotiations a hip and matters of attorney client privilege. Thank

003you. The executive session minutes will not be released until such time as the privilege or confidentiality is no longer applicable. Second. Thank you, Terry. Um, any discussion? Okay. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Uh, Dr. Inamoon, superintendent report, please. Yes. Good evening, everybody. Just wanted to touch base a couple of quick hitters tonight. I want to thank all the community members, staff, parents who participated in the color run, the West Milford Education Foundation had on Sunday the 18th over here at Westbrook School. We had a wonderful morning on a Sunday. We had a few hundred participants including plenty of staff, administration, etc. So, a lot of fun was had. We walked or ran the full 5K and we played with the colorful stars. There's some great photos online, you can see um on Twitter

004accounts and whatnot. So, it was a great event. We raised a lot of money for the foundation and as always, the foundation funnels that money right back into the classroom through teacher grants. So, some of the more innovative programs you'll see later on the school year will be as a result of the success of the color run. And it's my understanding we're already planning for Color Run 2 next fall. So, yep. um don't have a date for you, but we'd love for everybody to participate. It's a wonderful event. Um also, we have been working with the West Mil I've been working with the West Milford Police Department along with my administrative team, the P County Sheriff's Department and the P County Prosecutor's Office to plan ahead for a K9 search of one or more buildings

005in the district, most likely West Milford High School, possibly even Makipin at some point if we deem it necessary. So, it's still in the preliminary stages. We don't know when it will be, what time, but we do have access to the K9 units with the sheriff's department. So, we thank them for their cooperation and we're working with our local department to make sure it's done in the most organized manner possible um so that people's rights are respected, but at the same time, we we're trying to keep a a safe school environment for all of our students and all of our staff. So, um that will be at some point during the school year. I just don't know when. And obviously once I do have a date, it won't be announced beforehand. It'll be just we'll

006show up one day with the uh with our K9 friends. We're in the middle of back or near the end of back to school night season. We've had six already. Six back to school nights already. Mr. Novak and I and Miss and Dr. Mcuade have been at all of them so far. We have two more. We have Upper Greenwood Lake tomorrow night and the high school on Thursday night. and that wrap it that will wrap it up for us all. So, it's been a very busy month, but it's been a fun month. We've seen uh all of our buildings, all of our administrators, many teachers, parents, even some students have been participating to serve as guides. So, it's been a fun month for me. I've really enjoyed getting about and seeing all the wonderful things

007going on in the in the schools. Um, and lastly, we do have one student suspension to report uh out of school suspension at West Milford High School. Um, I can't bulge you specific information, but there was one out of school suspension this month. And our student representative is absent from school today, so we will not be having that report this evening. Mr. Novak, education report, please. Be blinded. Blinded by the light. Okay. Uh what I wanted to do tonight was uh bring the board's attention to uh a new link that's on our homepage. You take a look at the top tab and follow my arrow. You'll see a little the West Milford Tech. And that is a link that was developed this summer um with our educational technology committee. I mentioned a few times um

008over the summer about some summer work that we had in place with our makerpace um group and our digital citizenship group. Um, we also had a couple other other things going on. So, this has been our our location for all things educational technology. It's a new link that we haven't had before. Uh, we've had some things on in the past, but they were um, you know, at the bottom of other drop down menus. This this is a nice nice place to go to and easy to get to. So, uh, the front page has all of our uh, educational technology committee members. Uh, if you click on their name, it's it brings up their contact information. So if you have questions, uh, each building and level is represented. Sorry, Dan. Sorry. It was good. You're too

009young to kick the bucket. Yeah. Um, a couple of the So, I'll just go through the links very, very briefly. Meet the ETC that I just went. The after hours academy, that is a um all volunteer process that we have in the district. The AHA Academy. After Hours Academy, we have staff members who volunteer their time to um train other staff members. So, we can have anything from uh Google Classroom to uh an app called Cahoot that that's a student engagement app in the classroom. So, we have um you know quite a few me staff members who take advantage either getting training or offering training through this process and it it's uh you know getting pretty popular. Uh we also offered a new course this year in the middle school. It's a flex period called

010coding from scratch. And with all of the um growth in discussion with coding and and our work in in steam and STEM, uh we thought it was a good idea to put all of the code links that are available. Uh code.org org is one of the more popular that you would have seen in in some of the the classrooms and and recommendations for students to use at home, but there's a collection of links there that that get students involved with um basic coding. The next tab is one of the ones that we're we're more proud of. This was the um if you attended, and here's my early plug, digital citizenship and literacy night, which will take place this spring, our second annual. Uh last year we promised at that event that we were going to

011put a collection of lessons in place K through 12. This is the location for those lessons. Um you know as you can see they span you know kindergarten through 12th grade and we have organized and um sort of assigned who's going to be responsible for these at each level. uh they can be found in anywhere from our you know kindergarten classrooms to our media centers for fifth and sixth grade students to our freshman seminar seminar course in the high school with Mrs. Neber and her and her media center at the high school as well. Um so we've got a a nice um a nice approach where there's many stakeholders from our staff who are involved in it. It's not just one person's responsibility. It's sort of a team approach and uh these are these are

012the lessons and they're available for the public to see on this on this site if if parents want to go in and follow up if they you know if the student comes home and says we did this great thing today about um keeping my password private um you know the parent can can go in very easy to find and they can they can help support it and that's really one of the most important pieces with digital citizenship is the follow through at home. We're going to take care of it in the classroom through awareness and and the and the the teaching points and we need that need that follow through at home and all these links are are available here. Google tools that's again we we've um you know we're three years in now to

013utilizing Google classroom and and Google apps for education and with our you know our our Chromebook rollouts over the years. So we've put in one place a collection of the tools that we have found useful uh in our work with Google over the over the last few years and it's a very easy link if you want to learn about it or or work with it. Uh you can go to the site and see what we're using in the schools. Um the next tab is still uh this is still in development. We talked about I've talked about maker space quite a few times. This is where we've placed um a spot on our site for the definition exactly what it is and I will read read this at you right now for what is a what

014is a maker space a learning environment where students can collaborate innovate and create using information resources tools and collections. Students can play, taker or explore or pursue personal and or educational goals. Uh the other point I want to highlight um which is I think you know sometimes a little bit more meaningful that this is not just um maker space isn't just building um for play. It's it's connected to some very valuable uh 21st century standards. There's engineering involved. There's a there's a lot of um uh connection to the to the standards that we we're already working with. This just gives another outlet for for students to to use. Um we're continuing to grow in that capacity. We had a committee over the summer as I mentioned. Uh we're putting it in place. We now have

015a common definition for for the district. Um at some point, you know, I'd like the community to expect a plea for donations. Um we're going to be putting out a letter requesting anything from um cardboard or the uh paper towel rolls to clean used Legos or Tinker Toys. So, if people want to clean out their, you know, their toy, their toy bins and and that sort of thing, we're going to be uh sending a letter home trying to get as much of that as we can. Uh we call that the the low the low tech end maker space where kids can get their hands on it and really build and and and learn and and come up with their own creation. Uh we also have some um of the more technological gadgets. We actually have

016one, I can see it from here behind Mr. Alta. It's a it's a kit called Little Bits. They are um electronic devices that can animate low tech. So if a if a child is working with a maker space with a collection of you know cardboard, tape, glue, um aluminum wheels, these little bits are very in you see Mr. Ela is holding it up there. Um this that that kit right there allows a child to animate the low tech creation that they made. So they can, you know, they can build a build a car out of out of this cardboard and and material and then have the ability to animate it with a working headlight or wheels that turn and that sort of thing. Very easy to use. Uh and we have it available in all

017our schools right now. Um so that's that's one of the fun pieces of it. So more to come with that. Uh we are planning a a board presentation a little bit more elaborate where we actually bring some of the materials, put them here in the middle of the horseshoe and allow the board to come up and get your hands dirty and and build something. I can take from the body language. We'll see if that really, you know, see how that goes. But I think it'll be a good good opportunity for all of you get your hands on. Um and the last one, um the last link, this one's still in development. This is something I've spoken about at the board meeting uh quite a bit with our implementation with the the SAM model of technology

018implementation. Uh if you link you click the link on it now uh these are two videos that we've uh started off with for how to advertise what this model is and and how the implementation of the SAM model for technology is going to uh impact and change what we're doing in the classrooms. We have a committee who is still at work and they have um they've got quite a quite a bit done. It just hasn't been linked to this yet because it's not finalized. So, in the the future connection to this website, you're going to be able to see um what we're doing in the classroom. We're going to see examples of common technology tools and how they um how they connect to each levels of the SAM model. And for those of you who

019are new to listening to the SAM model, the the the letters SAMR stand for substitution, augmentation, modification, and redefinition. And those are um different levels of interacting with technology. And we're um aiming to to get all of our staff members and all of our students involved in all the levels in that model through through our technology implementation. So that's available and that that's really uh that's all I want to do. Again, I'm going to go back to the beginning where I started so you can see exactly where it is. Very easy to get back. How do I get back home? We'll be a link back home. All right. So, there it is at the top. It's the main tab. Very easy to get to. Not so easy to get out of. Thank you. Could you

020repeat what SMR stand for, please? Sure. It's a substitution. Okay. Um for example, this um projector is a substitution for the old classic um you know the old classic overhead augmentation um the clicker that goes along with it. That's an added added functionality. Uh modification changes how you would interact. So now if you're um projecting using substitution rather than the old classic overhead projector I could use the projector now with my remote substitution augmentation uh a modification would be rather than sitting and writing like you are now you can be using a Google doc and you could be sharing it with Mrs. uh Schultz across the way and she could be adding comments. She could be saying, "Can you believe you didn't have a link to get back to the homepage through the Google doc?"

021And then that's why we put our phones away. And then the R is redefin if we were to create a a video clip um of me trying to get back to that site um with a with a new way of way of doing something. So, uh, so what it does and what we had very, uh, a lot of success with last year that we, um, we have technology in place. We have, you know, you see we've got devices in in the in the computer corral. We've got a Chrome lab over here. We've got devices in all of our buildings. This changed the conversation from do we use technology or not to how do we use technology? And we saw we saw a tremendous growth with the last year with our staff and administration and and

022the interaction with our kids. And now this year is just another another step in the right direction. Thank you. You're all good, Dan. We're good. Okay. Um Barbara, special reports and correspondence, please. I have the board minutes from meeting minutes from August 23rd. A quick update on the groups. Uh we're still dealing with um a few weeks. We have a construction meeting scheduled for Thursday to try to resolve and come up with a final completion date. Did they did they originally have a final or an estimated completion date? There was a substantial completion date August some Yeah. But that also has to do with, you know, weather and so that gets pushed out if we have weather issues. Yep. Hopefully It's not going to be much longer, but I think they're still having problems with

023the metal. Well, I mean, I'm looking at it. They started last week in June when the kids got out of school and I think the substantial completion date was August 19th. Does that sound about rights? Right. Um, so that's I'm looking at seven weeks, but uh or eight I guess it is eight weeks. 19th. Um, we're at I guess another six weeks at this point. So, if they're not done in in two weeks, the difficulty becomes when they have to work second shift. So, I think they're having a hard time getting people out of the hall for the for working at night. Okay. And I think that a few of them might have come up in the beginning, but the trip up here is a little bit more difficult. Um, you know, I I see

024people here at like 12 or 1:00 waiting to get on um the roof at 2:30 in the afternoon. I think, you know, they've realized that the traffic gets a little heavy coming up at night, so they they get here really early. Okay. All right. Jamie, are there any uh penalties for not meeting a completion date? Joe can answer that. Um, yeah, there is. I think it's $500. 500 a day. There are some issues when you when you're dealing with roofs, it's a little bit different because if it rains, they can't do the work. So, there's some contract issues there, but it's gen it is $500 a day for the mis completion fee less some other days that we have to go into. Um, you know, but there's some type of penalty. Yes, there is a

025penalty just as long as they want. $500 a day. Okay. Which isn't a lot. It Well, it could add up. It's it's it it it's not a lot of money as a a per day, right? Considering it's a $6 million, right, project. Yeah, that's that's project. It's it's a drop in the bucket. But my my only concern is if we have continuing leaking into the building, that means everything that they did underneath the new roof is is getting wet. And at Macapin, that's not a good thing because that's a wood deck. So that's that's troublesome. They're responsible for those issues under their contract and under their bond. Okay. Um so if we discover any issues like that, we'll have we'll have to deal with it and then go after them to reimburse us. Okay. All

026right. So I need a a motion for the minutes. I'd like to make a motion to approve the following board of education meeting minutes. August 23rd, 2016 workshop regular meeting, August 23rd, 2016 executive. Thank you. Thank you, Marilyn and Debbie. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Or voice vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? I abstain. Legal report. Mr. Roselli. Yes. I have a few issues to discuss later on tonight. Okay. Okay. Um president's report relatively um small. Um anybody who's got board training that hasn't done it um need to I guess we need to they need to do that before the reorg meeting. Correct. Yep. Okay. So you have three months. I know Glenn and and Terry, you guys did yours. Debbie, you're good. Mr. Mr. De? Yes. You your training is up

027to date. It should be. Yes. Yeah. Okay. And I know Mr. Drew, you said you hadn't gotten your your done, but you got three months. You you got a you got a best excuse out of them all. Excuse um the solar um Mr. Senino did the answer questions last week on solar. I hope that the board has had a chance to kind of mle through that in their minds for the for the members who were here. Um and we'll we'll bring that up shortly. Um the as as everybody is can see the library in the next to the municipal building is getting closer to completion. Um I think it it will be a uh an asset to the community especially to the school district. And I would humbly ask uh Dr. amone if um there's

028any way that we might be able to the buses in the afternoon that come from the main campus, the Makipin High School campus. If there's any way that that might be able to be incorporated as a stop for students who might want to go to the library and study, I think that's a worthwhile thing. I think it's something to talk about. I don't know what the logistics would be, but I think it's a good it's a worthwhile idea. All right. So, um I believe our high school library is open until 3:30. So, I think if you wanted to do that, you would have to use a late bus because the kids have um extraordinary resources in our own libraries. And then when our library They could go there, but I wouldn't want to discourage them

029from using our school library. Oh, no. Not not not at all. But if kids who are going home, they don't want to stay here or they got maybe two, three hours of studying where they can sit in one spot and do it instead of working here for an hour. Just another option. I it it can't hurt to be uh to at least be looked into and and and considered. Um I think it's I think it's a worthwhile um idea and maybe you should look at. Um that's it as far as president's report is concerned. I'm going to move on to petitions and request. Petitioners who have requested to speak prior to the meeting will be first with five minutes for each petitioner for a period of 30 minutes. And then time permitting other petitions and

030requests limited to five 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 name, their their full name, spell their last name for provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Barbara, is anybody requested to uh speak? Would anyone like to speak? Seeing none, like to close petitions and requests. Second. Thank you, Debbie and Marilyn. Uh, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Um, Mr. Deion to adopt the agenda as presented. Like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. I'll second that. And I think we have a a hand carry including hand carry. Sorry. How many did we have? We had

031two hand carries. Yeah. Three under personnel and One under budget and finance. Um is there any other corrections that need to be done, Alex? No. Okay. Anybody want to ask anything be pulled separately discussed? Yeah, she Terry did it. Yeah, Terry second. Um, is there anybody else who you know want to pull anything any further discussion? Okay, then we will adopt the agenda as presented with the hand carries. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, Mr. Drew, budget and finance, sir. So, we have removed or seven is going to be replaced by the hand carry. Is that right? Well, no. We have to we have to number seven. We have to rescend that award and then we're going to de hand carry and award the new. So, it does go all the way through 18

032with everything. Yep. But 1 through 11 first, right? But I just 1 through 10. One, you mean 11? 1 through 11 or 1 through 10? 11 needs a roll call. But no, all all all do 1 through 11. We can Okay. Thank you, Marilyn. Um any discussion, question? Go ahead, Glenn. Uh number five, um what is that maintenance contract for? What exactly are they going to do? It's the course switch that we have a maintenance contract on an annual basis so that it it's for the network. That's not something that our guys could do. Barbara, Mr. El Taib, would you like to answer that about the core switch? Do we have the maintenance contract for uh it's general support for you know it's vendor level support on the Okay. So, that's not that's not anything

033that you guys can do. It covers parts and labor. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, as as we can see, was there any particular reason did we get a much bigger price or a better price I should say on that vehicle on that going from precision to Warwick? Well, what happened was the vehicle that they quoted us that you approved. When we went to purchase it, there was not available. So, we've been going back and forth with them for about three weeks now. And finally, we just said, you know, we have we have one available at Warwick, so we're going to get it from Are we paying more for the other one from Warwick or or about the same? No, it's less than what we had originally. Less. Okay. Okay. Um, and then I got a question

034on number nine. Barber, um, was that it wasn't discussed in budget and finance. Um, I think I might have alluded to it or um, we've been trying to get this done since last winter. Yeah. When that gas smelled, right, evacuated the school and and what happened was um, we only got one price. it was for $21,000 and um naturally I would not even entertain that. So when we installed the generator at the high school recently um one of our maintenance people um got in touch with Norman sheet metal because we needed to fabricate a um something around the intake for the generator. And while I was over there, I asked him if he would give us a price on the stack, and he would. Okay. Uh there's a four-week lead time, so we're trying to

035do it before the heating season really gets into full full blossom. Okay. And and that the guys discovered last winter when uh it was Yeah, we had to evacuate Makaban school last winter um because they smelled the gas. The fire department had to come and they identified the fact that the the stack needed to be expanded or extended and um okay here we are heating season again and it hasn't been done all right so this is our best opportunity okay now it has to be done ahead Glenn and number eight where are we um putting the the convection oven in the freezer which schools are those going to Is that UGL? UGL. They had a residential type of freezer in there and UGL. Yeah, we're both both pieces of equipment. new freezer and a convection

036oven. They have an old pizza oven that they can't use anymore. So, now they'll have a convection oven. Slowly all the equipment is um breaking down to the point where it can't be repaired. Everything has life, including me. Any any other discussion? Seeing none. Roll call, please. Barbara. Mr. Yubert. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Schulz. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Like to move item number 12? Second. Bills. Thank you, Debbie. Um any discussion? Um Barbara, I saw in there that we are paying the auditor. Well, we cut the check and then we hold on to it until after the presentation because it's last year's purchase order. Is he close to being done? When when do we anticipate? They came in to do some preliminary

037work. We haven't gotten a a date as to when they're coming back. My guess is that it'll be some completed sometime in in November. Then why are we cutting a check now? Are we going to dangle it in front of their faces to then? No, because it's last year's purchase order. So, try to clear out all the last year's purchase orders by September 30th. Okay. All right. I I had uh two other questions uh that Barbara answered earlier. We have um and the one that surprised me was Mr. Rashika putting in for mileage reimbursements for from all of last year starting in August through. So, um, that one that one kind of surprised me, but, uh, anyway, any other discussion? Okay, roll call, please. Mr. Yuber. Uh, yes. As to payroll, abstain as to the

038remainder. What was that again? Yes to payroll. Abstaining as to the rest of it. Thank you, Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew, yes. M O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. De, yes. Mr. Foody, uh, yes on payroll, no on no on the other bills. Number to move item number 13, second, transfer fund. Mr. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew. Can you come back for Mrs. Schultz? Yes. Mrs. O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Huber? Abstain. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Foody. No, Mr. Drew. Yes, it passes. 14 and 15. Steve, we just did 13. No, 14. 14 and 15. Yeah. June 30th ESR. Are you moving them? Yes. Oh, I'm seconding. I wasn't sure. All right. That's why I could apply this. Any any discussion? Um, I

039have I have a concern, Barbara, when when I read the May report and then compare it to the June report, there are some discrepancies between the two. um and in particular the um the health expenditures, our healthcare expenditures and uh these are things that are are certified every month and when I see one month that we spent 10 million 8 and the next million we spent only 9.8 um that's that's a concern for me. I don't have the mayor secretaries report. I can't help you with that. No, that's that's all right. All I can tell you is that I don't know what you're looking at, but the expenditures are for a 12 month period. Well, when in May it says we spent 108 on that account and then in June it says we only spent

04098 in that account. Is it that's in our our health b our health benefits? I have to see it. Yep. And I don't have it here. I would have brought it so I can That's all right. Any other discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mr. Yuber, Mr. De? Yes. Mr. foodie. No. Like to move items number 16 and 17, please. Secondary. Oh, and a hand. Well, these got to be moved separately. All right. No, I still second it. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Barber. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mr. Yuber, stay to 16. Yes. To 17. Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Foody. Um, no. On 16 and uh, no, I'm

04117. Mr. De, you're up. Oh, sorry. 18. Sorry. I'd like to second that. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Shaw. Yes. Mr. Yuber. Yes. Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Okay. Now, Mr. Dever, policy. I'd like to make a motion to approve the following agenda items 1 through 70. Second. Okay. Um, any discussion? I would like uh for everybody to note that 1 through 43 Oh, go ahead, Ste. I'll I'll be done in a second, Steve. 1 through 43 are second readings. Um, and 44 through 70 are the first readings of of the revisions to those policies. Go ahead, Steve. Any basically, I'd like to reiterate what Muire just whispered over here. This is a lot of work. Good job.

042Really? I mean, that was a lot. Not done yet. Made some progress. You're on a mission. I think this is just absolutely excellent. We've done this time and effort into this. I think that uh Thank you. If we can have the next committee meeting, we can do our first readings on the last set. I think we're set for the 13th. We push it back to a Thursday this year because of the holiday. So, uh, next committee meeting is we're meeting tomorrow morning, a special meeting, the ad holiday. Yeah. Committee meeting and then next committee meeting the policy is the 13th. But there's a good should be good. But there may be new ones coming out. Yeah. New updates coming at any at any time. But, you know, it we should be close to our one

043of our board goals, which was to revise, you know, do all the revisions that were necessary. So, we're we're well on our way. So, any other discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Barbara, Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. I'll be saying yes on everything except three 9 and 12. I'll be voting no on that. And 66 we briefly discussed the uh UAS systems. I had some questions about that. I'm not sure of it yet. So I'm abstaining from that. Did you say 39 and what? 12. Okay. 39. Thank you. 66. Yeah. 66. Mr. Drew, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Huber. Yes. M. O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Yes. Education. M. I'd like to move items one through nine for approval. Second. Any uh discussion on items 1 through nine Mr. Drew? I double check tuition in Harvard

044this year 48. I can't believe we spent any more than that. I understand that we need to. We have no choice about that, but I just ridiculous amount of money. I just find the need to have to comment as the director of special services that student does need a unique and specialized program in the area of the IEP and it is the I team's decision to place that student there. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Barbara, Mrs. Stwire, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mrs. Mr. Drew. Uh, yes on all except six. And I Mr. Schultz. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Yuber. Well, I commiserate with Mr. Drew. I vote yes. We're stuck. We're stuck with it. It's just something we have to do. Mr. Foody. Yes. Miss Dwire, item 10 will do after

045uh executive session. Okay. Um we'll move on to personnel student affairs. Mrs. O'Brien like to move items 1 through 21 under personnel student affairs. Second. Any discussion? 21. Not the hand carry. Hand carry. Second. I would like to uh have 14 voted on after executive session. Yeah, I I would agree with that. So, you want to separate 14? Yeah. All right. So, then let me let me clate my request. I like to move items 1 through 13 and 15 through 21 under affairs. Okay. Second. 15. I'll second. Okay. Thank you, Terry. Any discussion? Just a quick clarification. Shoot. CL. The note at the bottom of 21. The district will reimburse for the process of volunteers. I assume that's processing like criminal check and fingerprints and things like that. Yeah. Finger background check. Yeah. Just want

046to make sure it was just worded. Okay. Hey, Mr. Drew. Let's see. I think I have a couple of questions. Um, item 13 is we do an extension of assignment. Does that have any issues with regard to 10ear contract? No. The answer is no. They're a long-term substitute and there's somebody else in that position already just on leave. So there's nothing good 10y old item number three where we are creating a new position why we uh as you are aware we reduced staff member we had a um position testing coordinator over the last few years with all the changes in testing park etc. um in assessing the workload of um our new testing coordinator slash um supervisor of guidance, we determined that uh some assistance at the elementary level would be helpful determining the amount

047of um re really to me it translates to uh travel time. Um you know it's a big district. The idea that we would ask our supervisor of guidance to be out of the building um in the various elementaryaries um you know often I thought was a reasonable idea to to approach Dr. animal with to see if we can get some support at the elementary level to help with the communication, dissemination of information, um you know, going through tests, linking labels, all all the all some of the the hands-on um items that are time consuming. Uh we are hoping that this representative at the elementary level can help lessen that burden and and allow uh Miss Gdau to uh really focus on her her new role and and you know and do do a really good

048job with it. And this is only 20 hours, right? Correct. Did did we have a decline in enrollment from last year to this year? I I have to look at the exact numbers. It's fairly static. If there's a change, it's only a handful of students. There wasn't any significant change. Uh I don't have the exact numbers. I could get them for you. There was nothing uh meaningful. How about over the last seven years? Oh, went down. Over the last seven years. Oh god. I think around 9 850 900 students. Seven years. It's it was I would say a few hundred because it was it was 4500 when I started in if I remember right it was just under 4,500 in 2010 and we're at the biggest graduating classes were 2008 and 2009 and those were

049about I think 4 no two I'm 325 students in that ballpark in those two in those two years. By the time 2012 rolled around, it was under 300. Well, we're down about a thousand thousand students from our high from our high school. Yes, absolutely. Back to the agenda, please. Prior to um Terry, um number 18, um I think these people who are volunteering to do this after school poetry society should be commended. Um, anytime you work with kids and poetry, it it's very emotional for them. Um, and I and I commend people who are volunteering. I think it's wonderful. I agree. I agree. You're here. Yeah. I a lot of that going around. Glenn, you had uh going back to number three before we had the district testing facilitator. I think it was only the

050last two years. Who did who did that job before that? Uh last year we had Dr. Pritchette. Prior to Dr. Pritchette we had Mrs. Kate Brennan for two years and prior to that we had uh Mr. Gorski in that role for one year I believe or was it two years? Was it How was it handled before that? Um prior to that we had a whole lot more staff. Um you had two language arts supervisors, you had a K6 and you had a 712. um testing at the elementary level was was taken uh you know from the K6 um language arts supervisor and the supervisor too yeah there was um there was a lot more staff thank you just want to clarify and correct me if I'm wrong um Kimberly Walker is an already employed at

051the school in their school district and this is just an additional it's not a new position position as far as new employee is just an additional responsibility for that particular person. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. Um now my only question is this we had discussed this um for this year. So it really isn't a new position permanently permanent. Okay. We'll readjust and recalibrate at the end of the year to see how it goes. Uh but again, it helps our district testing coordinator stay in two buildings as opposed to traveling to eight. Okay. So you take the six elementary schools off of her plate and it makes her work life a little bit easier. Cuts down her commute from place to face. Now she's going to travel or she's just going to have the one central

052meeting with different people from each school. There won't be significant travel in her role. um probably uh one to two group meetings through the course of the year to disseminate information. The rest of it can be done through um email and organization. Um I'll be traveling to that location because I'll be playing a role in this as well. Okay. So, she's a full-time employee, correct? Yeah. This is basically like a stipen for her, right? But all right. So, she will be doing this only after school then after her regular hours. Well, the the position the position she currently holds is that of a literacy specialist in the district. And all of our literary special literacy specialists have one in the audience. They already hold the position of school testing coordinator. So, coordination of the building

053test is already part of her um job assignment and there's time built into their schedules for that. This is for an additional um 20 hours above and beyond her current testing responsibilities for like I said dissemination of information and and um you know scheduling conversations and just the the type of maintenance you need to coordinate all six elementary schools meeting with Mr. Elaive when we have to implement our technology plan for the process. All right. So just so to make sure I understand she's going to fit this in where she can in a regular schedule and that won't cost anything extra. But if she has needs extra overtime, then this hourly rate will kick in. Correct. Okay. Any other further discussion on items 1 through 14 and 15 through 21? Thank you, Debbie. You're welcome.

054No. See roll call, please. Barber. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. M. O'Brien. Yes, Mr. Yuber. Yes, Mrs. Dwire. Yes, Mr. De. Yes, Mr. Foody. Yes. Okay. I just want to reiterate 14. We're going to discuss after executive student affairs. Second, any discussion. Okay. All right, Debbie. Uh, I just want to I just want to clarify number 24 is not a relation to Debbie O'Brien. Thank you. Somewhere is no DNA testing necessary these days. Okay. Any other discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please forward. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. M O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Schulz, yes. Mr. Yuber, yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. That concludes personnel student affairs for now until after executive session. Okay, we will move on to committees and liaison reports. I would Mr. Robin

055is not Robbins is not here. Mr. Bailey safety no report. Um, have you gone to any of the meetings this year, Mr. Bailey? Have there been meetings? There should have been. Did were they were you notified or No. No. Okay. I have no idea if there was even meetings. You tell me. I wouldn't have been notified. It would have been you. Find out when report superintendent's round table. Mrs. Schultz. There was a meeting on Thursday, September 20 22nd. Um some items of discussion were questions regarding bus cameras and monitors. U was wondering if there were plans to put all cameras on all of the buses including Jordan. Um wanted to know what the status what is um on the process for a permanent replacement for the West Westbrook school principal and how that is going

056to take place. Um they both felt there's a need for student assistance counselors full-time needed for each school. Currently they're shared but they feel that each building needs their own. Um I'm sure this is a budget issue but um further discussion I'm sure will take place. Uh there was discussion about um policy in the schools where if a child wore a coat in the morning to school that that child is required to wear it at recess but uh during the hot weather. That is something that really needs to be looked at because it's become problematic. Signage is a continuing discussion in this district. um some of the signs need to be they're either lacking or they need to be replaced. So that is something that is um continuing to discuss and as this Dr. Adam

057just started he's kind of getting a uh feel for sense for right what's been discussed and what has been changed and what needs to be changed and what needs to be looked at. Um more discussion took place as a followup regarding the status of fiberboard plates instead of styrofoam styrofoam polyine plates and um they wanted to know what the update was on piloting elementary third food option and then another discussion regarding um when will parents be able to prepay using those credit cards. uh turf field uh safety and deterring mischief and vandalism. Discussion took place regarding cameras if any were going to be installed. And then uh there was discussion regarding what the update on the roofing and auditorium renovation, how that has been going. more discussion on the high school walkway, which is the

058area by um the Senzo Pond Road and the outside of the senior parking lot. There's been an issue with students walking there and the area not being very safe. Again, Dr. just got into this position, so I'm sure it's something he's going to be looking at or has been looking at. And um that was about it. Okay, I'll get you the minutes. I'm still working on Okay, thank you. Uh, state county school boards. Apparently, there was a meeting on Monday, September 19th at the Brownstone. Yep. And it had to do with technology. Although it was the technology discussion was very minimal because the meeting with the technology um vendor actually uh started at about a quart to 8. And um I I really felt that he was more trying to sell things than to actually

059give a workshop to board members on technology because a lot a lot of the things we discussed I mean I think our district is beyond what he was discussing already doing it and have been doing it. Okay. Um there is also a meeting coming up for Bergen County. It's another county meeting, but it's being presented by Bergen County. I find my notes and it has to do with um miracles for superintendent and or business administrators and it's on Thursday and it's at it's a training program at Magana's Little Italy in Hackinack. school board members can sign up to New Jersey school boards themselves. And it discusses it's being run by uh Nora Peek. She's the Bergen County's interim executive county superintendent and Dr. Matthew Murphy. He's the superintendent of Ramsey Public Schools and also the

060president of the Bergen County Association of School Administrators. and they're going to share essential elements elements um of what an effective goal is and the processes, procedures, timelines for the submission and approval of those goals. So, that's another um offering that's coming up as far as being presented by New Jersey school boards at a county meeting. This happens to be Bergen County, but again, uninvited. Y that's this Thursday, right, Marilyn? Yes. Oh, and there was one other thing that we picked up when we were at uh the meeting at the Brownstone on September 19th. There's a workshop free being run by New Jersey school boards. It's um future ready working session and um there's one, two, three, four, five different offerings, but unfortunately they're all down in um AC Trenton. Oh, Trenton. I believe it's

061Trenton. So those are, you know, free workshops and, you know, districts are encouraged to come and they're encouraged to bring at least one wireless laptop, but um again, it's it's an all day affair and it's in trend. So, this is on the New Jersey school board's website, but I have this flyer. Okay. Interested in looking at it. Thank you, Marilyn. You're welcome. Um, New Jersey school boards, um, the Department of Education, I was reading, sent out a letter in conjunction with the the New Jersey D on sampling requirements for lead in drinking water. um in the school districts. There is a meeting I think for the northern section tomorrow. Tomorrow have hopefully we're sending some people. I've asked uh two of our maintenance people to go. Okay. Our new plumber. Okay. Good. Starting tomorrow. Okay.

062And Mr. Tom Gillan. Okay. Who is good? Um I was sure you were on top of because the both of you guys got the the the the letter from from the DOE. So, that's it's that's good that uh that we're on top of it. It's um being held at in Mount Olive tomorrow and there's just there's new working guidelines on how the samples are to be taken, what's to be done. Um, from what I read briefly, it's you got to run the pipes the the day before. Then they have to sit without being used for eight hours and then the samples taken. No flushing of the pipes so that you can get a a a accurate idea if there's any lead in the in the in the pipe. So that uh I think is important.

063Um, Mr. Drew, I'm going to go over to you now for both legislative and technology oversight. It's hard to tell what goes on in the legislature in the silly season before an election, but the planet seemed to be aligning for a review an actual serious review of the Abbott decision. And um they may be uh and this is more than perhaps this list lip service committee has been formed. They're reviewing whether we've interpreted the New Jersey Supreme Court decision correctly. And it just kind of looks like to me that this may be the last shots of this administration on their way out the door. The tanks are moving and so there may be something with regard to that and that may be uh uh used as negotiating leverage to get other things that the legislature

064wants. So we may actually see something come of um perhaps a bit of equalization on funding among the districts or at least being allowed to keep more of what you've got. So that's actually kind of interesting. I would assume that no way any change could be passed on that, but when you look at the legal opinions, it appears to be that they're saying it's been interpreted correct incorrectly. So even though there's a decision out there that can't be changed, maybe we haven't implemented it correctly. We'll have to see what happens. If I'm not mistaken, did were they, if I read right too, they were going to try to get a decision made before or around February so that the new funding that goes out to the various districts that would be adjusted if it's going

065to be adjusted. It may be something more along the lines. Cross your fingers freeze the funding and and u you know dispersements that are being made in the past and then make future dispersements based on a different interpretation rather than everything being in the same percentage as it is right now could change. Yep. Be very interesting to see. technology committee. I am disappointed to say that I've held up the progress on that. I do however think that I am nearing the end of my time conssuming medical issues. So I'm hopeful we'll actually make some progress which you may or may not want to see. Okay, Mrs. O'Brien, West Milford Education Foundation. Oh, I'm I I feel like I'm the luckiest kid on the block here. I first of all want to thank each and every

066person who came to the Color Run, who's who donated, who participated, who supported um to say the Ed Foundation was thrilled is an understatement. It it it was phenomenal beyond our wildest dreams. Um the community came out to support a very good organization, a very good foundation, which in turn support all our faculty and staff here at West Milford. And the numbers aren't in yet, but um what I can tell you is the following. Number one, we're planning on two. Um, it'll be better than Rambo 2 and it'll be better than draws two. It'll be better than anything because we've learned, you know, few things happened that we learned from so that next year will be even better. And I'm we're all excited for that. There'll be a spring fundraiser which I cannot tell you

067anything about. So, please delete that off the video right now. Thank you. Um, please teachers and faculty and staff continue sending your uh honeydew requests and and uh your wannabes so that we can start working on that. And um and I'd like to also personally thank everybody here on the board for all their support through all this because it means a lot to everybody. And um and I know I did not go and wear a tutu this year, but there's always next year. So um there is hope for me in the future. So but again from the bottom uh per personally from the bottom of my heart I say thank you. Thank you. Oh one more thing. I'm sorry. We are having a meeting next Thursday 7 o'clock I think at the high school. I'm

068not sure about that but we're always looking for volunteers. Thank you. Now I'm done. Thank you Mrs. O'Brien. No problem. Uh township board of education joint committee. There will be a meeting tomorrow. I think it's 6:30. Well, I did the email. They never confirmed. Anyone else? Jesus Christ. You, Jamie. I haven't heard from Councilman Signarino. Councilman Dale. I'll reach out to Lou and see what he's going to do. They're going to meet us. Uh, yeah. We were meeting at the at town hall, I believe. So, yeah, that was the plan. Okay. He called and I sent out the email and never heard from him yet. Okay, that's it. That's why we put it in their court. I mean, we've made ourselves available a few times now and yeah, this is where we're at. So, they

069want to meet. Maybe he just doesn't check his email or something. Give him a call. All right, I'm I'll call tomorrow. I'll call him tomorrow. Okay, I'm going to uh move on to old business. Is there anything uh under old business that uh anybody would like to discuss? Um I there's there's well two things I'd like to briefly discuss and one um was the the solar. Has anybody had any uh second thoughts, any uh decisions? They want more information. So if we need more information that uh we can maybe put a list of questions together and I don't want to ask Mr. Cenbrino to come up again and uh Barbara but if we could send him uh any questions that anybody might have it might be uh might be good. You were raising your hands

070Terry. I called our former business administrator because he's uh initiated the solar program in Pamis and um he he was very positive about it. The only thing that he said was that they overestimated um they underestimated how long it would take to recoup the construction charges. So instead of I think he said five years, it took seven or eight. It would take seven or eight. But he already has seen a savings this year so far, I guess, from January till now of $50,000. So that's kind of making me sway a little bit. Um he put the solar program in very easy terms and um you know, it's a it's a win-win situation. The only thing is um the thing that I worry about is that we have the snow factor up here and the ice

071factor that maybe Pamis might not have. So I'm still thinking about it, but I'm leaning toward it. Well, the I thought he was pretty clear in answering those questions. um when they factor in the the snow loads and the rain loads and and and all that that's figured in not only with the dead weight of the roof but anticipated snowfall. Anything beyond that is that reserve load which they said was almost eight pounds per square foot and that would leave the six pounds per square foot for the solar panels. And then there's al there's always a redundancy built in. It might be 10 or 15% but there's always a a redundancy built into those. So um we'll uh we'll yeah we'll we'll we'll go again. Go ahead, Jamie. Um, just a quick question, Terry. Do

072you know how long they've been online for? How long? Seven years. Yeah. So, then there's a signed contract that they have, which would be very helpful to They are now maintaining their own panels. So, they negotiated a seven-year contract. I don't know what their contract was. I pretty sure what they did, if I'm not mistaken, was they purchased the pan. They did it themselves. That is a good idea to investigate. They didn't go through a PPA. No, they didn't go through a PPA. That is a good idea to investigate because day they throw that switch on, they're making their money back. Where as for we're leasing them and that's what I don't like yet. You know, I I agree with the solar. I have an article that's coming out soon on my opinion on a

073solar energy and solar panels, but you know, I brought some of the overhangs that he displayed to us. They look good and they work for West Moper because of the snow and we can park cars under there, but they don't work for the investors and they're not going to do them for us because they don't make any money on it. So, you know, we're we're boxed into a decision that the investors are going to say, "Here's your here's what we're offering you and you can negotiate, but we may not move on it because we have to make money." So, there are my issues on it. I'm I'm not against solar and there is a savings. I I agree with that. It's a fact. I mean, just something we got to look into carefully and we

074have time. Barbara, how much time till these things expire. Um, I did come up with that question. 2019 is when the 30% goes away. But the tax credit is only for someone that has an understood, but that's the investors and that's how they're going to that that has no bearing on bearing on us. But it but it indirectly does because if the investors don't make money and I'm quoting Mr. San Marino, they're not going to do the deal, right? So yes, it indirectly has I would say that in the next six years, it's all going to go away. So we have a decision to make before 2019. We can look into this for a year if we want and still have it on the table because they're still going to make their money. We're still

075going to look to make these deals. Well, that's why that's why I asked if anybody's got any questions that that we Go ahead, Mr. Drew. Yeah, I really love to see cash flows on a spreadsheet and I know that there's a, you know, this tendency, oh, we don't know that until you move forward with this or that or you got to initiate this study, so on and so forth. But I can tell you that you can go to a car dealer and they'll tell you how much it's going to be payment. Yeah. Well, Barber, he did do something like that. Put up 500 bucks. They want to sell us this. He did he did a breakdown as to what we would save with anticipated cost. So right um we updated it with the list they're

076asking because it's not a contract. Yeah. No, I remember I don't remember Steve got one. Did if you look at an actual contract you're going to see he gave us it last week. Other than that it's non-negotiated. They can say whatever numbers they I'll go look. I thought I didn't have Okay. Glenn, you had a question. Yeah. uh this is all going to be very dependent on the terms of the lease and the contract. So is there any way to get their initial draft so that we can look at it? I don't know if we could do that. P I think we we the only thing we could really maybe possibly look at is what's one of these other districts that's Homedale or Abs that did one with with Kevin and get an idea. I

077don't know that that um if you don't contract with him to do that whether they're going to release the RFP. Normally um there's um a public notice saying that the RFP is available. I'm not quite sure if they were up on the their websites for public review or whether they were some kind of a document that was only available through the architect. I'd have to do some background check. Do you mean a draft of the RP or a draft of the power company's contract that they the PPA power purchase agreement? The power purchase agreement. Okay. So the answer to that is essentially no because one, we don't know who's going to bid on this once we put it out. So we don't know what company it's not. There's no specific company they're working with. JCBNL

078is going to do this. We're going to go to them and get the contract. So we don't we don't know. So they're going to put it at the bid. Yes. It's under the impression that he had a specific company work. Well, it's not really a bid. It has to be publicly advertised as a competitive contract proposal where we can get people to come in and say, "We're going to do this. and we pick the one that we like the best out of all those, but we don't know who's going to give us their PPA until we get those people in. And on top of one of my questions was, can we and I I spoke to Barbara about this. We're contracting Kevin San Bruno to write this proposal up. Can't we say we would like

079a seven-year contract and we would like this and we would like this and have the terms so to speak already in our favor for them these are companies to bid on but I was told that again if the investors don't make the money they're not going to touch it in but no one's going to come in right no one's going to come in because you know although we have choices we have no choice and there is very limited negotiation when someone says either I make x amount of money and you do the deal or you don't and someone else will do the deal. We have an economy based on capitalism so you have to expect I know that to move things forward. So understood now and and and based um Jamie about what you were

080saying having these panels on supports in the parking lot cars could uh park underneath it. He said that we'd be purchasing that power at 8% with on the roof or 8 cents, right? And a greater amount and a greater amount if we did something like that. We're looking at looking at let's just say it went to 12 cents because he said it would be between 10 and 12 and and I I believe it'll probably be closer to that 12. But if if we're going to save 90ome,00093 $94,000 at 8 cents and normally we purchasing our power and transmission costs are at that 146 and we go up to 12, right? We've we've cut our savings down to $33,000 a year. Um, and we might have we might have panels, you know, we might have these

081stansions up and they take the panels off at the end of 15 years. I understand that. I mean, that's that that's something that I wouldn't be in favor of. Well, it's walked away. It's worked for William Patterson. They've been successful with that in their parking lots and it's a great idea and I've seen it. I've walked around the the William Patterson. Yep. So have I. My son graduated. Wayne Wayne uh Wayne Hills High School also has them in their parking lot. The problem was as he explained the Srex a few years ago were two and a half times the value they are now and so the investors had a lot more money to play with to build that stuff which now they don't. Yeah. So we don't feel bad for these investors. I mean I

082fly them around in their private jets. It's just it's a tough life for them. I really do feel bad. Oh yeah. When I wash my when they get off the airplane and I wash my hands in that sink. It's just, you know, it's very difficult for them to live, especially when they can't make great deals that are in their favor, you know. Do I sense a bit of sarcasm there? I'm not sure. I haven't about that. I I would I would uh I'd request that if anybody Steve, you would raise your hand. You still had some questions. Uh Jamie, if you have any um if you could, you know, send them um to Barbara and myself so I can see what your questions are and then he she can forward them on to Mr. Senroino

083and we can get any uh any other answers because I think this is something that, you know, we we owe it to the district to save money when we can save money. um you know we we we have policy that says that we should look at ways to save money and and curb our carbon footprint so to speak. So it would be nice to see us try to try to make an attempt at that. I agree. But this at in this juncture with the um the SRX or the the carrot that dangles the financial carrot that dangles in front of the investors. We have time to make the decision. Oh, absolutely. That's why I'm asking more more questions. If you got questions, let's let's get them out and and answered. So, if he held off

084till the next board is sworn in in January, it's not going to make a difference as far as the investors are concerned. And William the board and he he can have for the the pleasure of the negotiations. I just I'm against it and I'm not against solar panels and I'm not against the the project. I'm against this specific um deal. That's what I don't like. It sounds good on the on the surface, but there's a lot of hidden costs and they won't be as great as there is okay. But if you got any questions, please please forward them to Barbara and myself. Um, the other thing that I'd like to discuss uh under business is our policy. We've made great strides in the past four months or three months with uh with Dr. Hannahone as

085far as updating what we didn't update last year and trying to get into compliance with uh some some critical policy. Um but I'd still at this point would um like to move forward with going through New Jersey school boards for them to redo our policy manual. Um, we haven't put out I don't think we haven't put out the money this year, Barbara, although it was in the budget for We haven't for um Strauss Esme. You realize that you're going to be doing the policy manual, not the statements. What's that? You're going to be doing the policy manual. No, they they they they'd read they were going to redo our policy manual and then update give us the updates as needed. Um if if maybe what I'll do then is get the me I'll get the

086I'll get the I'll get the contract that they sent I had they had sent me something that if we were uh interested in doing I'll have it printed up and I'll bring it to our next policy committee meeting and I'll also have it put into our next packet for all the board members so they can see what it is that they'd give us for our money, but um instead of paying Strauss's estimate $2,500 a year, um New Jersey school boards will do that as part of our uh yearly membership dues. An additional fee. It was an additional fee originally to have them redo it one time upfront. After that, it's it's free of charge. It's a, you know, hey, 2500 here, 2500 there. Pretty soon you're talking about real money. Um, I think we owe

087it to, you know, to ourselves and to the the community to economize where we can. So, um, I'll refrain from making that motion this evening and, uh, I'll get that out to everybody and we'll discuss it in policy and we'll we'll do something next month. I like I said before, I'd like to have somebody from New Jersey school boards um have be there to ask questions by phone or or in person. Yeah, we could probably go over what what exactly the the U board role in that process would be. Okay. All right. I think I I'll arrange that. I'll arrange that. Um, if there is no other um discussions, either close old business. I move to close all business. Second. Thank you, Terry and and Debbie. Uh, all in favor? I opposed. Okay, we go

088on to uh new business. Um, any anybody want to jump on this or should I? You'll take it. Jamie, thank you. I'd like to make a motion to approve the following resolution. Whereas the West Milford Township Public Schools has a rich heritage and tradition of outstanding athletic programs, teams, coaches, athletes, and special contributors who have provided support to our athletes and programs. And whereas in recognition of the need to perpetuate the memory of those exceptional people who have brought honor to West Milford High School and who can serve as a role serve as role models for present and future generations, the district hereby organizes the West Milford High School Athletic Hall of Fame. And whereas in doing so, the board wishes to honor former athletes, teams, coaches, and special contributors who demonstrate outstanding achievement as

089well as those individuals who provided distinguished service to West Milford High School in the area of athletics. end. Whereas the ultimate purpose of the Hall of Fame is to honor excellence in those who generated greater visibility for the high school, its academics, and who maintain pride in the athletic traditions of the community and inspired others through outstanding athletic achievements. And whereas nominations in the West Milford High School Athletic Hall of Fame are open to all male and female athletes, coaches, and special contributors, living or deceased, who have distinguished themselves in intercolastic athletic competition, as part of a West Milford High School team. And whereas the Westm High School athletic hall of fame will be governed by the Hall of Fame executive committee comprised of at least five voting members. And whereas a hall of fame

090selection committee will be comprised be comprised voting members who will meet by annually to select inductees based on the criteria specified in the bylaws of the Westmore High School athletic hall of fame. And whereas inductees are inductee represent representatives will be honored at an induction ceremony determined by the hall of fame executive committee. Now therefore, be it resolved that West Milford Board of Education endorses the creation of the West Milford High School Athletic Hall of Fame, and it be finally resolved that the West Milford High School Athletic Hall of Fame shall meet as soon as possible to establish the framework to organize and govern the Hall of Fame, as well as the rules for induct inducting each of the outstanding athletes, coaches, teams, and special contributors to There's a lot of $100 words in there.

091Go ahead, Terry. Um, I think this is a wonderful idea. However, um I think that we're ignoring our students that are working for NASA, that are making strides in medicine, that are advocates in education, that are musicians on Broadway and various symphonies, that are artists working for several um companies, that have worked with Peace Corps. Um, I I think we really need if you're going to make a hall of fame, I think it has to be all-incclusive. I don't think you can single out one area. We have a great school system. We have produced wonderful, wonderful kids that have gone on to do wonderful things besides athletics, and I think we should be recognizing all of them. Thank you. I had the same exact thought when I first saw this and I'm not going to

092say it better than Terry, so I'm just going to piggy back on her. Go ahead, Jamie. Um, I agree with the other trustees on the board. Um, I just want to say this specifically calls out amongst all the talented people you just spoke about, specifically calls out athletes. And we're open to I think everyone's open to the idea of creating hall of fame that may be open to other talented people in West Milford, but this specific one and I was never an athlete in high school, but uh this this one calls out for but it should be inclusive. I think that's just my opinion. Yeah. I mean I I'm not saying anything bad. I'm just trying to We're recognizing the athletes for West. Mrs. O'Brien, I'd like to know where this came from. Well, it

093came from Mr. Gillan. Um, Joe Trenosta, right? Well, you gave I know you gave it when we had that uh bylaws. Yep. I think most high schools have organizations like this to recognize their athletes. It was an ed committee in earlier September discussed in committee. Yeah, I wasn't there. Uh, do we know what the obligation and role of the district would be? I'm sorry. Did I step on someone? Sorry. Sorry, Steve. I'll I'll move back. Okay, you're done. There's no financial obligation for the district. It's going to be no public money. It's going to be all fundraising activities between now and the first uh potential class in two years from now. So, a beef steak dinner, a golf outing, etc. The only responsibility of the district would be they would be meeting most likely at

094West Milford High School to have their meetings every month or every quarter, how often they're going to meet. So, they meeting in our in our schools. Uh but it will not be uh a budget line for us. There's no public money. And and one of the prerequisites is that you have to be out of the school at least for 10 years before you could be inducted into that Hall of Fame. So it's not going to do the kids that are doing great the Karen kids but 10 years out Terry I think that your idea being allincclusive I think this could just be the start of something even bigger um I agree we should be recognizing kids who were musicians or NASA you know whoever um I think that's they it could be incorporated Then there's

095an academic hall of fame, an athletic hall of fame, or just a West Milford school district hall of fame with an athletics division, academics, you know, a wall of fame. Don't you have a wall of fame at the high school also? Yeah, but that's because I know like in in in my town, the wall of fame is for people that have made, you know, significant contributions. But I would like to see it if you're going to do this, I want to see a resolution for those other kids. I I really do. Go ahead, Steve. I'd like to make a motion to table this so that we can consider how to modify it to include academic performance and other areas of performance for reconsideration. Second. All right. Mr. Bailey, just one minute real quick. One one

096minute, Mr. Bailey. We have to um since that motion got put out and second and discussion. There's no discussion. Motion table on it. Oh motion. Oh yeah, you're right. Motion to table. Um there's a a motion been put on the table and seconded to uh to table this. So Barbara, I'd like to ask for roll call, please. Mr. Bailey. Excuse me. Can I comment before we take the vote? That's all my hand to be recognized. So there's a motion to table. There's no discussion on it. Oh, no discussion. Not on the motion table. Not on the motion to table. What is the clarification, please? What's the motion? The the the motion postpone the vote to postpone the vote until we can get ac other things academics looking into expanding the expanding the hall of fame.

097Just outside athletics, fellas. You know, so my question is I missed the boat discussing the the Hall of Fame which is now going to be cancelled to a future time. Point of privilege, Greg. Use a point of privilege. I'm sorry. Utilize a point of privilege after the vote. After the vote? Yes. Then you can then you can say what you need to say. Oh, we can discuss it afterwards. I'd like to weigh in on the topic, please. I'd like to weigh in before the vote, but if not, if you tell me, I can weigh in after the vote. So, this is just the vote to postpone this. If it fails, then this other motion is back up. If it does pass, then we postpone it to another meeting. I It's a motion at the table,

098but I think it's easier to um I I personally would would like to have more discussion on it, but uh you know, protocol protocol is what you know. Um so, Barbara, roll call, please, on the motion table. Mr. Bailey, no. Mr. De. We we will further discuss this at a later time. That's what the motion is for. So, I'm saying that yes, Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. Foody. Uh, yes. Mr. Yuber. I think this is a great idea and it could be greater. So, it's a yes. M. O'Brien. Yes. M. Mrs. Schultz. No. Okay. So, that's table. But she has a comment. Yeah. Greg, if you have a comment to make, please make it. Thank you. I think we need to be careful. Uh I know the people that were behind this effort

099and whether it's people that are going to go out put in their own time and effort and some cases even financial backing to establish in this case an athletic hall of fame or whether it be a Highlander band hall of fame or god forbid West Milford paving technician hall of fame. The point is you run the risk of dissuading others that might come down the road. So in other words, of course I know all about this and I think it's a tremendous idea. But now what we've done tonight because this is what the Hall of Fame we're heading towards, the micromanaging wall of fame. We've taken this specific entity, the athletic hall of fame, and rightfully so, made a great connection to tremendous other achievers that come out of our our township school system. But

100the fact of the matter is these people are interested in that aspect of it, just like there's, I'm sure, like a teachers hall of fame. There's various hall of fames. So their intent was not to like single out those that were involved in the different and various athletic programs, whether it's athletes themselves or somebody who comes to mind immediately that I would make sure goes into the first class of a hall of fame. A guy who just comes here and volunteers his services for 40 years. And that would be Mr. Henry. Who? Bob Henry. Michael winner. Y So in other words, I think we're gonna come to our senses. But none of us here are against great idea. Put together a group and start it up. These guys are taking it upon themselves to move

101forward with something that a lot of schools have and they're just pushing West Milford stuff. Timmy Gillan's retired, long gone. Joey Trent's our, you know, supposed to support this stuff. He's our AD. There's other people involved. Now, they come to the board and tonight we table it. I guess we're going to vote in October and discuss it again. But what I'm nervous about is what if these guys say, "Forget it. Go jump in a lake." I don't You understand what I'm saying? I I completely understand what you're saying, Greg, and and I think it is a great idea and and I absolutely want to do this, but if the board the board wishes to discuss something, I would like to see this brought up to us again next month and we vote on it next

102month and in the meantime, let them come up with something. But that's the those are that's the wishes of the board. It's you've I I agree, Joe and Tim. Great. I when they when they pitched this, I said, "How dare you, you know, how dare you make the uh former students of this district and the volunteers put them up on a pedestal." I think it's a great idea and it needs it it it's a long time coming, Greg. You know it just as well as I do. So to f So to conclude my remarks because when I get the minute I leave this uh room, I'm going to call Tim. I'm gonna say, "Coach, you're out of your mind." And I'm gonna call Joey Trent. I'm gonna say, "Joe, you're out of your mind. This

103is a good idea they had and it can't even get board approval tonight. Everybody thinks it's a good idea, but we got to table it for another month. I just don't know why when these things walk up to us, slap us in the face like color dash, band hall of fame, athletic hall of fame, somehow we muddy the water. Micromanage is the term that comes to mind and now table this for a month, which might seem like a minor issue to you guys, but I'm sure these people will be offended. Well, Greg did not vote to table it, and neither did some of my colleagues. I think we've made a paper. Go ahead. Go ahead. Now, Mr. Bailey's point is well taken. These folks are volunteers, but my thought was to approach them and see

104if they'd be willing to expand their original idea. If the answer is no, that's what we vote on. If the answer is yes, fantastic. Either way, we'll have a clarification and we'll be able to, you know, know where we're going forward. We'll bring it to the ed committee again in October. Yep. and with them invite those, you know, invite Joe and and Tim and anybody else who, you know, Dan, I think you were on that. Uh, so I you could reach out and I think it's Listen, we we know we got a winner here, but we can really make it a winner across the entire board of ed, you know, in this in the school district. and we owe it to ourselves to at least try. If if if it can't come up like Glenn

105said, then so be it and we go back to the athletic hall of fame. But Marilyn, you had your hand up. Jamie did first. Okay, Jamie. Yeah, I was just going to say unfortunately it's been tabled and we can't bring it back. Um, I did say prior to this, uh, I do agree that this is just focused on I agree with what Terry said, but what I what I said earlier is this was focused specifically on athletes, coaches, and and other volunteers in the athletic community. So, uh, the idea is out there. Terry had a good idea about that. Um, but I do support this. Uh, it's just unfortunate we tabled it and now we can't do anything about it until next month. So, We'll reach out to the committee. Go ahead, Marilyn. No, we

106have we have committee meetings. We have minutes of those committee meetings and I sometimes feel that not everybody takes advantage of those minutes or going to those meetings and I understand things come up, but this was brought to the education committee on September 14th. How long do we have to discuss something that's quite clear? When it was brought to our attention in the minutes in September, early on, even before we had our workshop last week or before we had this meeting, it was discussed what their intent was. And their intent was um you know they came and did a presentation to the ED committee and maybe they should have just come to the board but usually it's brought in committee and then brought to a board meeting or brought to the board for further discussion

107but their their plan and their intent was to uh create an athletic hall of fame not any other and I and I you know understand where you're coming from Terry. And I agree with you, but these volunteers specifically want to present and create um an acknowledgement for the West Milford Athletic Hall of Fame athletes. That's what these volunteers want to do. So, and I think that's good. It's great if you want to ask them to do more, but honestly, I think that um it's quite clear what their intent is. And unfortunately, it's been tabled for another month. So it it's I mean as far as I'm concerned this hasn't this isn't a a dead issue. We're not killing it. Absolutely. We're going to just it's you know I mean God how many years did we

108go without it? One more month at this point. It's a great idea. I love it. I told that to Joe. I told it to to Tim when he was there. It's just it's going to be delayed one month I think. And that's that's not a lot to ask for. You know, they they're they've set up a a committee structure, their bylaws, how they're going to do things. And if we can do the same thing and incorporate all the kids, not just the athletes, it's a win-win for the the entire district. But it's either way this is going to go for the for the for athletics. So um any other discussions for uh new business? No. Seeing none like to close new business. Second. Thank you Debbie and Glenn. Uh all in favor? I. Any opposed?

109Okay. Petitions and requests. Petitioners uh wait a minute. Um we'll give We're Okay. Okay. Um petitioners have request to speak prior to the meeting will be first with five minutes for each petitioner for a period of 30 minutes and then time permitting. Other petitions and requests limited to five minutes per petitioner will be allowed until a 30 minute period transpires. All speakers are asked to give their full name, spell or last name, provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Would anybody like to speak? Nope. Seeing none, like to close petitions and requests. Thank you, Deputy Marilyn. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Um, Glenn, would you read the resolution for executive session? Sure. At 9:15 p.m., I'll make a motion to go into executive session for the

110purpose of discussing personnel negotiations are and matters of attorney client. Second. Thank you, Debbie. Um and we will be taking action afterwards voting on Ahib and uh the personnel matter that we um that we put off until after 14. Yeah. Item 14. Um all in favor? Any opposed? Thank you. We are going to go into executive session. I just going to run out to my car. Oh no. Okay, we are um back from executive session. Um it is looks like 9:57. Um, we have a couple of items to vote on. Uh, Terry. Terry, we'll start with you with the Hib. Okay. Thank you, gentlemen. Item number 10. There we go. I have um move to approve the recommendation of the superintendent regarding hip to 217 E1. Second as unsubstantiated. Unsubstantiated. Okay. Any any discussion? Okay.

111Roll call, please. Barber. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Yuber. Yes. Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Okay. Then, uh, Debbie, personnel item number 14. Yeah. Yeah. I want to make a correction for number 14. The salary for the first employee, Eric Sanvi, should read 93386. That's $93,386. I'd like to make a motion to move item number 14 with the correction in the salary. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Seeing none, roll call, please. Barber. Mr. Deber. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. Foody. Uh, yes. Mr. Yuber. No. M. O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Motion to adjourn. Thank you, sir, for making that motion. It is now 9:59. I got 959 up there. That uh All in favor? Any opposed? The meeting is officially adjourned at 9:59. See,

112you did get your wish, Mr. Deborah. Thank you everyone. Nonetheless, tomorrow train