Board of Education Meeting 6/22/16

001I would ask you that if you could please silence your cell phones and notice the emergency exits in the back and behind us as well. Um, I'd like to have a a moment of silence for the victims of the Orlando shootings and the and the victims that are still trying to recover. 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, the public notice of this meeting. [Music] All right. All right. I'll I'll I'll share this one with uh with Mr. Green. Um, in accordance with the provisions of the Open Public Meetings Act, a public notice of this meeting has been

002sent to board members, all district schools, the Herald News, The Trends, The Record, AI, West Milford, The Messenger, West Milford Town Hall, County Superintendent's Office, the Board attorney, and Cable Vision of Warwick, and has also 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. Mrs. Francisco, Mr. Bailey, here. Mr. De, Mr. Drew, here. Mrs. Dwire, here. Mr. Foody, present. Mr. Yuber here. Miss O'Brien here. Mr. Robbins here. Mrs. Schultz here. Thank you. Um, would you like to read the resolution for executive session? Thank you. Welcome. Uh, motion to approve the following resolution. Resolve that the board go into executive session approximately 900 p.m. for approximately 60 minutes for the purpose of discussing personnel negotiations

003and matters of attorney client privilege. The executive executive session minutes will not be released until such time as the privilege or confidentiality is no longer applicable. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. I I would like to just add there's no HIVs. There are two. Okay. So, that has to be student matters has to be added into that resolution and I'll second it. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you. Mr. Rashika. Okay. Um, just to wrap up the school year, I'm happy to announce that the high school graduation took place on Monday night along with project graduation. Um, and it was very successful ceremony. And I understand that project graduation also went very well and I want to thank Miss Romeo publicly for all her work on project graduation

004over the past I think 21 years or so. Um so that went uh extremely well and I want to thank the entire staff that was involved with the graduation custodial staff as well uh for making that a success. And then last night we had the pleasure of being at the eighth grade graduation from Makapin School. also a very nice uh ceremony topped off with uh of course Mrs. Reinhold retiring and and all the nicities that go along with that. So it was an excellent program and I was just happy to be part of that. Uh I want to give a just to change topic a little bit a uh a big thank you to the West Milford Police Department. Um as you know we had spoken many times in regards to the election and everything

005coming up that took place in June. Uh they delivered on what I had requested and uh Tim and I spoke about was to have at least two police officers at the polling place at Paradise Null and they did have them there and it was under control. So I thank them again publicly as well for all their uh support with that. Um also a couple of other events that took place that uh are notable at Marshall Hill School last week. Uh we had Mr. McCormack 10 years ago uh buried a time capsule with the students back then in 2006. It's a two a 10-year time cap capsule and uh they decided that 10 years to the date I think it was June 14th uh they would dig it up and uh it was very nice the

006entire school and some parents were there. More importantly some of the students who were there 10 years ago who buried it were actually there as well. So, it was very nice to see them. Uh, and they actually uncovered the time capsule while we were there. They they had one of the parents was very involved there with the landscaping and doing all kinds of things. Actually had a bobcat, dug it up, they found it as some of the ceremonial type things are going on and they opened it up and the kids who graduated who were there 10 years ago uh were there along with some of the teachers, our sixth grade teachers who were part of the festivities back in those in 2006. And uh it went extremely well. It was just great to see and

007I I I can't get over the fact that some of the boys who were there. Uh they had opened up one of the packages and I guess Harry Potter 10 years ago was a pretty hot thing, you know, and uh some of the Harry Potter jelly beans were in a bag and a couple of boys who were there from 10 years ago actually ate them. So it's pretty scary with that. But anyway, so they now in addition to this time capsule, they reeried that one, but also had one that they put in for this year. So in 2026, uh they will open it once again and but I just thought it was a great way to bring together the students to look back on how different things were 10 years ago. Uh and just the

008the the dialogue based on the types of things that were going on back then. So I thought that was excellent. And then this week on Monday morning uh again at Marshall Hill they have a memorial uh tree that they had planted in front of the building in memory of uh Valerie McInness who you know was on obviously you know better than I do was on the board of education for a short time before her passing unfortunately and u did a lot of work over at Marshall Hill from what I understand and they had a plaque that was made that's going on a rock right next to the tree was very well attended and again just commendable uh things that were going on at Marshall Hill and and all through the district, but those two things

009really stick out along with graduation. So, I wanted you to know that. Um and I think that's that's pretty much where we are. We're finishing up uh the the school year's over, the students are done, finals are over, obviously if people graduated. So, it's just a matter of us doing what we need to do to make sure all the records are complete. And uh we are already working on the August uh open um what are we going to call orientation and programs to get ready for the start of the new year. So you know we're closing one door, the next door is opening. And with that being said, I want to uh thank everyone on the board of education as my door is uh closely pushing me out the door here. I want to thank

010you for the opportunity to work in West Milford. I want to thank uh the students, the teachers, the entire staff and all the families for their support in the time I was here. It was really a pleasure to serve you. Uh I'm very proud to be part of this organization, the school system. And again, I want to thank everybody. And with that, I also want to congratulate Dr. Anamone as he comes in next Friday prior to that, but he starts officially next Friday. So, congratulations again, Alex. I wish you all the best of luck and thank you board. That's all I have. Nothing. No. Okay. Uh, special reports and correspondence. Mrs. Francisco. Oh, wait. Oh, sorry. I jumped a gun. Sorry, Dan. Do that often. Dan was giving you the look, too. Agenda. I feel

011the heat on the back of my head. I'll I'll keep it brief. I just wanted to uh I just wanted to highlight um we have uh many summer committees that are that are taking place. Um I was going to highlight a few of the out of the ordinary um you know our curriculum supervisors are are working with uh people in their departments to update curriculum and and look at textbooks and that sort of thing which is is sort of your run-of-the-mill summer work. Uh I'm going to highlight a few of the um committees that are in place that we haven't had before. Uh first committee I want to highlight is one that you know is very near and dear to my heart. I've been talking about it all year. We're finally at the point of

012being after the first year of implementation with talking about digital citizenship. So we have a um committee working this summer to put the plan into effect that we talked about all year which was um incorporating lessons into the classroom setting K through 12. And that's really the next step for what we talked about bringing awareness to what digital citizenship is. We've talked a lot about character education over the the last few years and uh we all sort of agreed this is sort uh a little bit like the the next big battlefield. You you see how much um happens with online interactions and social media and we feel that we really need to prepare our kids um and add that classroom and school connection to uh digital citizenship. So we have a committee working this summer

013to to organize that and put put it in the hands of the teachers for uh for September. Um the uh another committee we have is a a committee uh it's our media specialists throughout the district and they're going to be working on something called makerpace. Uh the makerpace movement is something that's really taking uh place in in districts across the state and across the country. And it's really a movement to get um students involved, hands-on um you know, manufacturing, creativity, uh building from scratch, using their thoughts and ideas, and getting a place in all of our buildings where where kids can create and learn and grow. Uh we had a week this year that was dedicated to maker space. It took place in all of the media uh centers across the district, including the high

014school and the middle school. and we're looking for um a way to increase um that in every building and make a permanent place for it in the building. So, it's part of what uh part of what we do. Um we're hoping to take this group, this this committee on a on a field trip to the uh Tom's River Schools. Um they are one of the the leading districts in in maker space. They host a lot of events called MakerFair and and those types of things and Makers Day where they invite the whole community in to to see some of the things that are going on in the school. So, we're going to uh look to some of the the districts that are really doing a great job and and try and grow from there. Um

015the the last committee I want to highlight is our um mindfulness committee um for mindfulness in the classroom. Uh really is a connection in our um in our character education full values. We have the the language of be here, be safe, be honest, be respectful. The idea of be here um is more than just that idea of of students paying attention and being ready in class. It's it's a um a process of of mental preparation and and students really um having the the intrinsic val um notion of of being present and and being part of of their surroundings. So, uh we have a few um places in the district that are that are really passionate about it. We have a few parents uh who've been incorporating some lessons in in a few of the schools.

016So, we're going to take those people who are really doing great things. we're going to put them together and and start the conversation about how we can incorporate this into our uh into our classroom. So, we're really excited about that. And they said a few of the things are that are out of the norm of your your summer work. So, just want to give that a highlight. Thank you. I I apologize. Mr. Foody, may I ask a question to Mr. Novak? Sure. with the committees you're speaking about. Um, is is this just within the district because you mentioned parents. Is do parents get involved with these committees or this is strictly within the At this point, it's just uh it's just staff. Okay. All right. Thank you. But, you know, I think last night um

017we saw the benefit of that character education. The kids, those eighth graders were just so respectful of one another and respectful of their sta staff and so loving of Mary Reinhold, you know, and it was it was a pleasure to see that grant. It was really well done there. Well done. Anybody else? Okay. Uh just that the minutes are before you for the month of May. Okay. Any discussion? Anyone? Okay. I need a motion to approve these minutes. I'd like to make a motion to approve the following board of education meeting minutes. May 3rd, 2016, special meeting, executive session. May 11th, 2016 special action meeting, executive session. May 24th, 2016 workshop, regular meeting and executive session. Second. Thank you, Any discussion. Okay. Voice vote, please. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Stain. One extension.

018Yeah. All right. Legal report. Mr. Green. Nothing this evening, Mr. President. Okay. Thank you. Um, president's report. Uh, I have a couple of things and I'll I'm going to start with um discussing character education. I'm going to send this um email out to everybody. Let's see where is Okay, I received this and and Mary Reinhold had read it in her graduation speech or promotion ceremony, whatever you want to call it, for the um kids at the middle school. And I'd just like to read the board this email, and I'll send a copy because there's a link with photographs as well. It says, "Kudos to West Milford Schools. My name is Ed Hawks and I was a volunteer with Mid Michigan Honorflight. Honorflight is a volunteer organization of individuals that provides a free trip for all

019World War II veterans to visit our World War II memorial in Washington DC along with several several other national memorials. On our June 8th trip, the West Milford 8th grade, not sure of the class, but they appeared to be of that age, was on a trip to Washington DC, and they were at Arlington National Cemetery just as our three buses were arriving. The West Milford students quickly assembled the reception line for our 63 World War II veterans and applauded them and shook their hands as they were getting off the bus. Throughout the day, we had several such planned receptions, but this one was completely spontaneous and I was especially proud to be from New Jersey. Hats off to the West Milford schools for producing such a great group of educated and aware students. We had

020a photographer with us all day. And if you go to this link and get to the area where we just arrived at Arlington, you will see your West Milford students greeting the World War II vets. There are quite a few photos. Ed Hawks. I I got that. It gave me goosebumps when I got that. So, I I I will pass that out for everybody who likes to like to look at the photos. Um it's just very nice. Yep. Um, okay. Graduation ceremonies went very smooth as both Tony um I think Dan, you had mentioned it too. Just very smooth, very respectful. Kids were great. Um, I'll be sending this uh a second email to you that I received from the governor's office regarding school funding formula. Um he is going to propose that the funding

021formula for schools change to our benefit. Um in a nutshell, he talked about I think it was 28 29 districts that receive more money in aid than the rest of the districts in the state combined and their results aren't what they should be. So, he thinks that it should be a per student um aid per student of of uh what is it? $6,995 per student, right? Um we get approximately 14.6 million in aid from the state. Now, every year that would jump under this proposed formula to 23.1 million, which would be a great benefit, you know, for us to to taxpayers. Um, so I'll I'll send that out to the board and would hope that they would contact some of their elected officials and and tell them that, you know, hopefully that they you guys

022like it. I think that the taxpayers would love that. Um, finally, um, I want to thank Mr. Rashika. Oh, go ahead. Can I comment very briefly on that? The one thing that stands out that if if there are changes to that, who knows? But everybody is in agreement that they will not change the funding for special education or reduce the funding for special education, which would have a severe impact on us. So, yeah. No, that wouldn't change. Okay. And finally, I want to thank Mr. Rashika for his service here. Um, it hasn't been easy. I'm sure the learning curve. I And I and and I heard something that that kind of blew my mind. Um, you're going for your doctorate? Yeah, I'm I'm trying to finish up my doctor, so I'll have more time to

023write now. Okay. But uh yeah, good luck. Um I uh hope you'll come back to visit occasionally and uh I'll come back to some sporting events and some of the concerts and uh I may even come back for the fireworks as I know he didn't say that was my line. Thanks Dan. That's not and I would I would think that Mr. Bailey would say, "You better be on our side and not let if they play in Lakewood, that will be a different story." But but every other every other school, I mean, I'll be on this side. I'm on this side. So, uh, it was a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you for your time here. Thank you for your time here. Thank you. I try to do my best. I still have hair. I know. Just

024a little whiter than when I came in, but that's okay. Okay. Um, that that concludes my uh my president's report. So, I'd like to move on to petitions and requests. Uh, petitioners who 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 petitional will be allowed until the 30 minute period transpires. Petitioners speaking during petitions and requests are asked to address address topics listed in the agenda. 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 request. However, anybody request to speak? Okay. Would anybody like to speak? Um, and I'm not seeing

025anything. Okay. Seeing none, like to close petitions and requests. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Um, I need a motion to adop to adopt the agenda as presented. Okay. I'd like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented, but as usual, there's probably going to be some changes. Am I correct? I I have one. Okay. And that includes the hand carriers, right? That includes the hands carriers. Absolutely. So, Can I make the Yes, please. Okay. On on the hand carry uh number 48 under personnel student affairs. Um recommendation superintendent approved so on and so forth. Uh it comes to supervisor of business and industrial arts and testing. Uh take out the industrial arts there which is supervisor of business testing. There's another configuration that we have discussed. um looking

026in the science uh science industrial here. I put that in by I put that in by mistake. So I will I will pass up. There's one other correction on page on the regular agenda. Yes. On the regular agenda under education resolution number seven. Okay. Um the second um tuition should be 14 students not 16 students. Okay. And uh we could remove number um where it lists the student numbers on the last line 62619 and 70659. It's um 14 students not 16. Correct. and it's 62619 and 70659. They're being removed from this resolution. They're being removed 619619659. Okay. They're next to each other. Okay. Um on page 35, we have a second. Second. Page 35. Yeah, page 35. I have a question for Barbara. Paragraph 23 and 24. We can we can do that. The question

027will depend on whether we add something to it. Um are those totals per year? No, that's just for the summer. Okay. one 23 is retroactive for the last uh four weeks. So it was um Okay. And and 24 is for the summer. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. No change. This was the only trouble. Unless students two students perspective applicants are also covered by No, he wants to talk about one more time. Okay. So, you won't be able to Thank you. Now, if I was passing a piece of pie, would you would you inter Rubar that wouldn't make it. If it was root, I'd give it to you. It was blueberry. It wouldn't it wouldn't touch it. So, what should you do? You have to pull it if you want. Make a request that that be

028removed from the other option is to take the matter closed, but that would be violated. Yeah. Y um 48. Uh yeah, number 48. Um since she has not been raced, we can't discuss it. Can we discuss the position? Yeah, the person that you can discuss the position in public, but you can't discuss the person, right? But I would like to what I was going to say is we pull this until our next meeting and then rice her be still have to he's still yes prospective employees are also covered by the such um why would I've never wred anybody that we're hiring you because typically contract you often don't just as a practical matter but but you are required if you want to talk about them I thought that was We're speaking about um so if

029we speak unacceptable behavior like any any discussion about the person the the individual has to be they have to be raised because they have the right to compel the discussion with the public but we can discuss the position. You can discuss the position in public in terms of whether you want to have the position um or whether you want to fill the position, but you can't discuss the individual who would be appointed to the position unless you first write them and then have the opportunity to close. So that's the quandry. Mhm. Well, you can talk about the position if you want publicly, right? Yes. Okay. Are we on personnel right now? I would like No, right now we're just talking about the agenda. The question is whether this item is going to be on the

030agenda. Okay. You can leave it on the agenda for now and then we can when we get to it, we can deal with it. Yeah. You want to defer it until after executive session. Well, we can't we can't talk about the person the position and executive session. The position though, I don't know if that's covered under the executive session rules. No, that would not. That would have to be an open discussion. Okay. discussion. That's all right. That's fine. All right. So, all right. So, we'll we'll leave that for discussion when we get to it. I I don't one other clarification. Um uh paragraph article 16 um number uh page starting starting on page 41. Numbers five, six, and seven. Don't go so fast. Sorry. It's under your number five, six, and seven. Correct. 5, six,

031seven, and eight. I believe those are all per student cost. We should just specify that they are for student cost. Um, for the record on items number five, six, seven, six, seven, eight. All of those items are the amounts there are per student. Right. Right. Right. So I just want to have it read that so that seven students had $47,000 just for accuracy purposes. We could clarify that too when we Okay. Is there a second on that? Do we need a second on that? I think so. to the agenda. If I'm if I'm making an amendment to the agenda and then well then we vote on the amendments and then we go to the agenda. Well, we when we vote on that item, we can clarify it then. Okay, that'll work. Okay. Okay. So, with

032the corrections to 48 and I can't remember 43, Barbara, where that was? Yeah, 43. 33. Um, all right. So, that's the agenda as presented. Um, all in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay, this is O'Brien. All right, got batters up. Yeah, a lot happening in this department, my dearest. Okay, I'd like to make a motion. We're just going to start with what's in the agenda. I'd like to move items 1 through 44 in the personnel student affairs. Um point of privilege, Mr. Cody. Yes. Um what what now? What was this? One through one. Okay, go ahead. Concerns about the way some of these things have happened and I just asked my fellow board members to please um just respect my opinion. Um, in the minutes of the June 7th meeting for the personnel committee, item number

033three reads, "Begin conversation for supervisor/assist assistant principal position and testing oversight implementation. There is, I feel, a deliberate lack of accuracy. At no time was the committee made aware of the true intention of our interim superintendent to create a position of quote supervisory observations of staff for additional support in both high school and middle school unquote. What was mentioned by the interim superintendent was it would be nice for an individual in the district to oversee testing between the high school and the middle school. In prior meetings of personnel, the interim superintendent assured us that the testing coordinator position could be eliminated and that it could be done as a stipened position. He added that the new science supervisor could also be supervisor of industrial arts and business. He stated that because of the new steam

034program, it would make sense that the disciplines would work well together. Last week, a posting for a district supervisor appeared. Many of the responsibilities are repetitious of what our director of education does on a daily basis. There was no prior knowledge by this board of education of this newly fabricated position. On tonight's hand carry section there is a recommendation to fill this newly invented position. I feel as a board we have been lied to, undermined and betrayed. There has been no transparency regarding this matter and as dedicated board members we do deserve honesty. With little over one week until our permanent superintendent takes charge I feel any new position should be developed under his charge and should not be a parting position from our interim superintendent. Thank you. Okay. Um, we have a second for

035items 1 through 44. If that was you, Maryland. Yes, I was Maryland. Any discussion? Motion to table 9 12 10 14 until after executive. 9 12 uh sorry 9 10 12 and 14 same um they're related to they're all related they're interrelated couple 9 10 12 and 14 yeah 9 12 10 14 um distance left. Okay. You need a second. Yes. Uh did you give him a second? Okay. Now that uh vote on that to discuss that until after executive session of the uh local police board. Sure. Um Mr. Bailey. No. Mr. De is absent. Sorry. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Dwire. No. Mr. Foody. I'll say yes. Mr. Yuber. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Abstain. Mr. Robbins. Yes. Mr. Schultz. No. One, two, three. Four to three. 431. Yeah. 43 and an abstension. We're missing a board

036member. So, but we the majority of the board be five. So, it doesn't carry. I'm sorry. Does not carry. Okay. All right. So, those items will remain in in the count from 1 through 44. Or is there any discussion on items 1 through 44? All right. Roll call, please. Barbara, Mr. Huber. Uh, yes. As to most no as to 9 10 12 14. 9 10 12 14. Okay. Mr. Robbins. Yes. Miss O'Brien. All right. I'm sorry I have to do this to you, Mrs. Francisco. I have to abstain from number 16 because my son's name is in is on the substitution list. Okay. Um and that's for public record. I want to abstain from number 10. Yes. To the rest. Thank you, Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes, Mr. Drew. Yes, Mr.

037Foody. Yes. Motion carries. Like to move items 45 through 54 under personnel student affairs. That's the blue carrier sheet. 45 through 54. Okay. Second on any discussion. Are we tableabling number 48? No. You have to make a motion for it. Okay. I motion that we table number 48. Okay. Second. To when? Till we have to do it to a date. certain until our next board meeting. Yeah. Okay. Can I can I just have a clarification? All right. Just on Terry Terry, I respect everything you said. Um the thing is that we did discuss this. We discussed it multiple times in the past, right? We did discuss we did discuss that they have a big gap that is left wide open with at least probably over 60 teachers that need observations. Um, I don't know how

038we're going to cover that if you don't have somebody competent to do the work. Now, you're focused in on the uh testing coordinator piece of it. This that's the smallest piece of this position. You don't need you don't need a full-time uh testing coordinator. You don't not at this point. And I absolutely agree and we did say that. Uh the point though is that we have two departments that are unsupervised. I do want to blend the industrial arts which would take over some of the technology. I said eventually maybe it can go with business as well if they're going to get into advertising. The initial piece is that we have somebody working with STEM and science to do the prototypes to build prototypes if we get into uh robotics or anything that needs to be

039engineered uh before they go out to be fabricated. But there's a whole department here that needs guidance. And again, on top of that, there's probably another 60 teachers. Um, I'm going to ask for our director of education to just give me some information or give you some information on uh achieve NJ and what the requirements are as far as the observations and, you know, looking looking at what at least two positions uh that are not in place currently. That that's a lot of people that need to be observed multiple times each year. I do not know, you know, a better way to fix that. Um, and it is something we discussed. So that's D. Can you just give me some of the information based on the observations for looking at there were 34 elementary teachers

040that have to have observation from what I remember outside of the principles. So that's 34 right there plus this department and uh all the other ones that were observed by the principal. So that's doesn't say elementary here. doesn't say elementary and it says business. We got 60 businesses. We do not have 60 business. They're going to also take on other responsibilities. Well, one of the and just to clarify, can I jump in? Sure. All right. Um to clarify, it's not just about the removal of the um testing coordinator position. There's also um as you're aware, other positions not being restored that um in both Makipin and the high school. uh those individuals had approximately 30 observations each. Um and that is under the premise that we received what's called an equivalency waiver under achieve NJ

041which allowed our tenur staff members to go from three observations down to two. So we had one less for tenured staff and a majority of our our staff are are tenured. We had one less observation this year. Uh the state has already come out to say that they will not be granting equivalency waiverss going forward, which means most likely our tenure staff are going to go back from two to three. Uh we just talked about it at advent council today is that the state is proposing changes to achieve NJ regulations. Uh, and we were just talking about it in my office today that that um they are still in a proposed stage and they're offering summer workshops for for people to work with the proposed changes and and it doesn't look like in my opinion

042that they will be ready with with changes um for the regulations and they've also said they're not granting us a waiver from it. Um so the sheer amount of observations that need to take place plus the potential reduction of um can I name those positions? Is that public knowledge? I won't. I won't. Okay. So we we have positions that are that have a very heavy load of observations that will not be conducting those next year. But how many of those observations are 20-minute observations? 20-minut or not. They still have post observation conferences. they have the work that goes along with them. So although the the task of and and I'll say a majority of those are the 20 minute um unannounced. So they don't have the pre-conference. However, they still have the the you know

043time in the classroom. They have the work to complete the the evaluation, the thoughtfulness that goes along with it and the post observation conference. We also um are changing our valuation system this year which is going to add a um you know at this point why we um the company that we were used called Teachcape has been purchased by a company called Frontline and we are transitioning from Teachcape to something called my learning plan. We're still we're still using Danielson model that's still the model's still the same but the plat the platform is is completely different and we have to do administrative training this summer. So that um in my opinion is going to add a a wrinkle into effectiveness because there it's a completely different portal for how to how to enter this information

044and if we're picking up a third more evaluations and reducing the people to do it could have a problem. I'm still not favor. Yeah, I was going to say, have we did we ever get a second on the motion to tip? We had we had No, there was fine. There wasn't a second if we had I've got you written down to discuss with the But you've got table. I'm sorry. You're correct. Steve brought it to the loop and was discussing this. I did discuss this with Dr. Danimone at least on two occasions. You can check with him there. It was something that they addressed. No, seriously something we did address. Seriously, it's a it's a big concern. I mean, we're coming in, you know, it's the end, it's the end of this school year, but

045the start starts July 1st and uh there's a lot of stuff that needs to be done. We have uh we have to know who's covering what positions and we have to know who's responsible for the 20-minute observation doesn't sound like much, but when you're sitting down and writing up the reports that go with the observations, it's not like it was, you know, 5 10 years ago, you know, you check off a box and maybe write a comment. That's not the way we do business anymore. But now you're just checking you're just checking off parts of the domains, but then you're writing a narrative. There is still narratives that are Yeah. It's lengthy. It's takes time. It's not it's not a quick especially for that many people. You you have to look what's out of the

046picture and how you going to fill that. How you going to make up for that without exorbitant expense. That's that's my recommendation. It was shared with the incoming superintendent. Um you know I did say we would be flexible but I think this is the best way uh a sound way to make this work. um with somebody with experience. And that's that's my recommendation. You know, I don't want to be called a liar. Maybe there might be some differences there, but I didn't lie about it. And there's definitely Well, we got a we got a motion. We got a motion to table. Um go ahead, Steve. I certainly have a tendency to discuss and to trust our professional educators about what we need to do. I also done considerable work to try to bring as many

047as straight as staff headcount in line with the decline in enrollment. And uh I sort of think that we should consider this relatively more carefully. I don't necessarily want to see a lame duck appointment and increase in headc count. Uh and so I think purely tableabling until the next meeting when we can have more uh input from Dr. saying we're not committing too but just let's consider this a little more carefully and make sure we haven't you know taken a step forward and now we're going to take a step backward. And it doesn't sound like it was really thoroughly discussed in the personnel committee either. And I'd really like to have the endorsement of the personnel committee on something like that as well as Dr. Any other discussion? I'm just a little confused with the

048description of the vacancy announcement with regard to steam stem science. I don't see I I would like some more information because I don't see anything in there with regard to that. Well, and by tableabling we have the opportunity. still have we well we have the opportunity in July to have a much more hearty discussion on this during committee and get input from the incoming superintendent as well and Dr. is taking over shortly. So, anything that needs to be adjusted as far as the announcement or anything else can be done before the next meeting if that's if that's his desire. Okay. Any other discussion? Then we need to take a vote on the motion to table till uh what's our next meeting then? July 19th. One second. Okay. 19 19 July 19th. Okay. So, a motion

049to table till July 19th. I move to table till July 19th. Yeah. You already seconded it. All right. Yes. Okay. Moved by Mr. All right. So, we need a roll call. Okay. Mr. Bailey. No. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mrs. Dwire? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes, Mr. Yuber. Yes, Miss O'Brien. Yes, Mr. Robbins. Yes, Mrs. Schulz. Yes. Motion carries. Um, okay. So, do I make a change in my uh is now? Yeah, you don't have to. I don't. It's automatically off. Okay. Thank you. All right. Any other discussions on any of the other items before us? 45 through 54. Seeing none. Roll call, please. Uh, I have a quick question. 54. Um, we have employees identified by number on 54. Is that something that we need to have executive session before we can vote on that particular item?

050uh not under the circumstances and I could explain the reasons it's it's under it's under NJ it falls under uh responsibility under NJ it's where it's at but you cannot explain that there was there was um some discussion at some point I really yeah I remember that yeah this isn't there was discussed in personel this is nothing out of extremely good with this then I'm fine about everything else Thank you. Wasn't sure what I don't want to be a lame duck on this one. No personality is very good. Take my word for it. Okay. So, any any other questions on any of those on any of these items? Oh my god. Roll call, please. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Yubert. Yes. Mr. Robbins. Yes.

051Mr. Foody. Yes. That concludes personnel student affairs. Thank you, Mrs. O'Brien. You're very welcome. Now we go to page 15 in the agenda. Mr. through. Would you, Barbara, is there any reason that we need to separately consider the motions regarding the bond issuance? And I don't believe so. When we have to certify, we'll just use the name says approved. Sometimes you need to have that sort of thing. Um, can we just go one through uh 15 first? Second. Whatever one through 15. Let me just get to 15. That's about 20 pages. 34. Unless you want to read it. There's a you said 1 through 15. Yeah. One. Yeah. There's a lot of language. Next page on three starts at 33. 33. Okay. My I have a question regarding second pick either one over each other

052or daddy whatever whatever I'll share both stand um we have on page 16 Barbara We have the amounts um that the payments are going to be for the bond for the principal payments. Yes. For for the principal payment. Now, correct me if I'm wrong. These these amounts are what we're going to pay for that year, but that it doesn't reflect any state aid. State aid. Correct. So if they're paying what was it? 40%. So if it was Yeah. Well, if it was 500,000, they'd pay All right. I just I just So there we'll actually see a reduction in our substantial debt service. Yes. Currently. Yeah. Yeah. After we've paid off our current debt and this one starts, we'll see a reduction in our debt. Yeah. in in 2017, the 1718 budget, I believe we only

053have an interest payment. That's why we're not selling them until next next month. Okay? So, we only have an interest payment and we'll have the last payment for the existing bonds, which is about $380,000. Okay? And uh then in 201819, then the principal payments start to be repaid. Okay? I have a question for council. Since it's a bond issue, do we have to vote separately on that? No. Okay. Yeah. Mhm. The language of the bond is that it's all from our bond council. Go ahead, Mar. Item number four on page 33. Are those cafeteria prices including the nonstyrofone plates? No, it's not. And um that was a discussion I had today um with the staff um in the cafeteria. It will be brought up at budget and finance in July. And if we decide to

054do it, then we'll just revise the prices. Okay? because there's a lot of other costs that are going to be associated just not just the the price of the um the the the plates or trace. So, does this get tabled? I'm sorry. What? So, does this item get tabled? No, she said it would be We could We could amend it. We could we could table it until next month. Um, one of the things I found out today also is that apparently the high school, um, probably I think part of the green team is looking into writing a grant for a dishwasher. But didn't we have one that I don't believe so at the high school, but then you'd have to purchase utensils and trays and and dishes that need to be washed. So, uh, and

055I don't know how much a a commercial dishwasher would be whether or not they would get the grant. And certainly they're not going to find out until September. So, we really can't wait until that determination is made. We have to be prepared for for when school opens. So, um, I was going to share the recyclable situation with the budget and finance committee in a couple weeks. So then at that point we can make a determination whether that's the way we want to go. My other question was um related to cafeteria service number seven is that so parents can pay online for lunches. Yes. And it may not be implemented for September but um you know with us going over to the system but I I think it'll I think it'll be uh helpful for the

056parents and the students. Thank you. There are huge number of advantages to this. Less cash handle, less cash loss. Parents can pay in advance instead of having to wait until after they're already in the rear. Everybody get out here, schools, kids, parents. Do we have a policy um that if a kid forgets his lunch money um Yes, we approved it, I believe, last month. Yeah. Okay. We did last month. We approved it. I wasn't here. No, I think we had two. I think we need two. All right. I didn't I wasn't here. Explain to me a little bit just the breakfast program that we have. I have two kids in school. I wasn't worried. Uh they do have breakfast for for students um that they can purchase. Um, I don't think a lot of students

057take advantage of it, um, because it's a pretty compressed time frame and I think that they have to take it to the classroom. Um, I don't know all the details of it, but I'd be happy to get that information and share it with you next meeting that well because you know the free the free students and the reduced students are eligible for for that. Um, and I think that other students can take advantage, but I don't, you know, I guess with the busing, there's just not a lot of time in the morning for them to do that. They don't even have a lot of time for lunch. Number six, it looks like we're buying a bunch of equipment for cafeterias, right? The um subcontractors, I think, required to provide that sort of thing. No, you

058have um I think it's important that you recognize the fact that the food service is our program. We just have somebody that's running it for us. All the expenses associated are our expenses. Um they can't provide any equipment by law, right? They they can just apply provide the management of we reimburse them with all the costs that are associated with the food program. And the reason why ju just so that you're aware the reason why we have to do this purchase the existing um pro uh computers that we have for the point of sales program are at the Macabin and at the high school and those computers need an upgrade in software and they would need to be replaced. You just can't upgrade the software. And that's why we're now going to real time, which

059is our student management system, because any upgrades will automatically flow through the system and we need to get new equipment to go along with it. That it. Yeah. Okay. Okay. I I I don't have any questions, so go ahead. Uh, number eight. Uh, $1,400. Is that per person or both? Number eight. Global compliance. Oh, no. That's for the entire program. It's about $2.75, $3 a person. Okay. And uh there's a couple things. Can you give me a little information? Number 11. Um, please explain the uh water conditioning for the boilers. What's the unless Jim knows the answer? Sure. Um, we have we have chemical we've had chemical treatment for the boilers for many years. However, um, they don't come in to do water testing. Um, and we found a company that will do the water

060testing for us also. And it makes sense. I mean, I used to do the water testing in the prior district because if you're feeding chemicals into the water in order to um make, you know, uh to to neutralize the water flow, you need to be able to test it to make sure that you're not releasing too much chemical. Yeah. and we weren't having that done. What you're basic what they're basically doing is pumping in chem chemicals. It's basically they take the oxygen out of the water. It could be. So it stops the corrosion inside the system. Yeah. And if you're bleeding down the system and you're not watching what you're feeding, you could either bleed down the system to nothing or you could be using way too much chemical. So if you if you feed

061it and test it, you get a better understanding of the chemistry inside the system. And we weren't getting it wasn't being tested any probably the to keep your equipment as preserve it as long as possible because it does corrode because the water is very hard. Thank you. I get it. Trust me. Any other questions? 15. My I my my only I have a question, Barbara. Um number nine on page 33 to approve the following resolution. West Milford Board of Education intends to renew award of permit to expire contracts previously awarded by the board of education. I didn't get to read that documentation, so would you mind explaining explaining it? We're required by law that they put into effect last year to keep a running list of all the contracts that we've awarded, whether we continue,

062whether we plan on continuing them, whether they've been renewed. And it's a document that we're just required to to keep and inform the board that we have this document and that's contracts for services. It's everything. It's professional contracts. It's goods and services. It's OTPT. It's It's everything. Nursing services. Okay. Bond. Yeah. Everything. Is it anism? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I have a question on number 21. We're not We're not there yet. We're not there yet. One one through 15. If we have no more discussion, I'd like to vote. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Foody, yes. Mr. Yuber, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mr. Robbins, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. All right. Mr. Drew, like to move 16 through 29. Second. See, you were wrong, too. I would have been up before. Am I

063giving that to Maryland? Go ahead, Marilyn. Number 17, I guess, is Barbara. Not sure why we're being charged $5,589.50 for May. through June. This is what Tony uh Mr. Rashika was just talking about the new evaluation system, right? So, um June, it's June of next year. I could explain the question through this year already. Our contract our contract was made our contract was up in May. We are looking to get our contract to be July one going forward. So we have to pay for the remaining time that we had teach and then we're starting with the new system July. So it makes a little bit more sense going forward. Okay. I would also I have a question on number 21. Are there logs kept for overtime? Do they have do the custodians keep logs so

064that you can check them? We have time sheets. Yes. Okay. Just going back to 17 question. If we're paying $11,22 for the entire year of 2016 to 2017, we're paying almost $5,600 for one month. Basically, we're paying half of that. We had um we had some um add-ons in the existing evaluation system that we currently have that um after evaluating the usage of these add-ons, we decided that we don't need it in the following school year. So there so it's kind of like an arrow there. I'll tell you specifically we we had a um there was a professional development component that was a resource of videos. Um, after speaking with staff and administration over the last few months, we determined that the usage of those components did not equal the the money that we were

065spending on it. So, we decided to take it out and going forward won't be in there. Thank you. That makes perfect sense. And I I want to point you point out to the board number item number 18. That is if I'm That's the new stairs for the press box. So we'll do that during the summer. I said be aluminum steel. Aluminum. Yeah, that's what I thought we were going to get. I heard they were going to be aluminum. would be more money. Yeah. Actually, it doesn't tell you what type of metal it is. Galvanized. Although you said that that does not wait no because I was told that that didn't no do not include says estimate is based on field dimensions all material to be shot primed pipe guard rail platform resale would be aing

066Galvaniz. Well, certainly something we need much safer. Yeah. Galvaniz do we want to do something? Well, here here guys, can I read this? It says um for galvanized finish at 2450 to total. So, yeah. And the galvanized will not require further painting and paint. But I was told that that wasn't part of it. I was told that the galvanized was not part of it. Isn't that what it's crossed out? If we wanted to make it galvanized, it would be an additional, if I'm reading that right, 2450. Mhm. Um, which probably the the better way to go having it galvanized versus depends on how long we keep the whole thing. Yeah. But even if we rebuilt it, we could just reattach the stairs to the You want to wait. You want to table that until after

067you determine how you after because on the agenda we have the land structural analysis going with the with the we have to have the structural analysis done prior to determine how you want to address the bleachers. So, do you want to hold off until we should spend more money now? And if we could clarify what the price would be more with galvaniz just to make sure that that So, do you want a motion to table that? You want a price with aluminum? Good idea. Yeah, but it's that that's what all those uh it does. It does hold up, but that's all like the frame of the of the bleachers right now is galvanized steel with all aluminum. Okay. So, it would it would Yeah. Yeah. If the mover and secondary consent, we can just remove

068that from the uh from the wait until after we have the analysis done. Or if the mover and secondary consent, you can just remove that item. Steve, do you consent to us removing that? And who do we hit? Barbara, I'm sorry. Not Marilyn or Debbie. 18. Debbie, it was Debbie. Okay, Debbie, you approve us removing that. Yeah, thank you. Table 18. I have a brief question. 16, the honey well. Have we looked much at alternative systems as opposed to just in the Well, the only other system that we're aware of is Real Time, which is our student management system. However, um we would not be able to have it up and running for September. Um there's too many um variables because our current notification system notifies a lot of people that are not part of

069our student program. You know, bus drivers from Jordan, um the non-public schools that we transport to. Um there's a lot of other people and we have to be able to figure out a way to tie everybody in so everybody is notified. All right. So that sounds like we did we did have we did have discussion. The concern is that we would like to overlap it for a while to see if it's doing what it's supposed to do. That's a safe way. So really let's let's sort of put this in the hopper to look at this early consider alter either do better or get more service. Okay. So any other discussion questioning applications for dual use rooms. What are dual use? Do you want to explain that? Sure. Yeah. Um, our dual our dual use rooms

070are rooms that are used for more than one purpose. Such as like if there was like a resource room where we have two resource centers going on at the same time, meaning one class is on part of the room with four students, the other side has maybe five students. So, we currently have dual you room use rooms in our facility. So, for instance, next year we have our well this year we have our ABA class in a dual use room where the two classes are shared in one room. Next year they'll have their own room, but our resource room in that same building of Marshall Hill, for instance, has two resource centers in one classroom. That would then stay for next year. And every year you have to apply for it again. Oh, so the

071teachers apply for this. Yeah, we get approval from approval from them saying that that it's okay to have the students and those grade levels. Yes. Okay. Anything else? Um, yeah, I was ask for a little bit of history on 25. Um, it's extraordinary. It feels like there's a history behind this. Well, they've been our our um brokers uh for a while, for many years. However, um there was the Department of Community Affairs. I believe Paul, you could spoke about that. They they're the ones that decided that you can't appoint them as a professional service anymore. They have to be an extraordinary unspecifiable service. I can clarify a little if you there there's actually an exception in the bidding statute under the local uh contracts public school contracts law for insurance. If you use it, you

072have to um follow the rules for extraordinary spe uh e extraordinary unspecifiable services which is a separate exception in the statute. Um, so it's technically not an EU as they call it. It is it is its own exception, but you follow the rule which essentially the courts have interpreted to mean trying to construct that. The bottom line is you have a specific exception and then you just advertise the award of the contract the same way you do for an extraordinary and specifiable services contract. I don't know if that makes sense because it's very convoluted, but it's like unnecessarily complex. So the bottom line is there is a separate bid exception for it, but you have to advertise it the same way you would this kind of an exception. So it's what it comes down to.

073Cool. those that need to be replaced at UGL. Um there's always a a capital need in in our district. Um but if you choose not to do it this year, definitely maintenance has helped us offset the expenses in our budget. So, we'll definitely use the maintenance reserve on a, you know, right away even start drawing off of that, but um yeah, can we choose to reduce the amount up to January? Um, I could do this. I could do this as the audit progresses. I can come back to budget and finance and say, you know, you have the resolution up to if you choose to do 300,000, then we can do the 300,000, but you already have the resolution in place that's going to allow you to do it with the the 201516 money. And now

074we could modify that. You can modify it, right? You can modify it now or you can um pass it as it is which says up to and then when we have the audited numbers you can make a final determination at that point. You have to adopt it tonight. You only have to adopt. So correct me. We have a little over a million I think a million one I was the number I saw and two and 200,000 in maintenance reserve. We have nothing in maintenance reserve. We spent it all down because that board secretary's report ending May 31st said 200,000 but the last amount of money will go into next year's budget. Okay. So we spent it down. Go ahead. She needs to do something. Yeah. It's 9:00 boys and girls. It's time to extend our

075board meeting till 9:30 p.m. Executive session till 9:30. Oh, that's session. Okay. Second. All in favor? Opposed? Um, okay. So, anyhow, we've got 30 on the table. I believe there's a second, but um I guess just call if we can change it. I feel more comfortable about that, but I'm nervous about the number and you need to what what number would you be comfortable with? Uh 300 would work for me. Move to amend half a 300 on item. I'll second that for 300k. I I want to want to hold my discussion. Who wants to hold my gap? You can hold it for a second. Okay. Um, did we have a second on that? Sorry. Um, we have a over a million in capital reserve. We have another 1.4 million budgeted surplus. Yep. That's a 2%.

076Yeah, that's 2%. I know that we required by law to have that that extra in there for extenduating circumstances, right? Um I don't know about capital reserve. I'm not in favor of putting anything in there. We we put 200,000 in there last year and we haven't spent any of it. Um, we're going to be using probably uh for the transportation garage the very conservative approach because if we go to try to remediate that, it's going to be a lot more expensive than treating it with the enzymes and the biologicals and all that. Um, I'm personally I'm not in favor of of putting anything in the capital reserve, but I am into maintenance reserve. You know, I agree with 500,000 in a maintenance reserve, but I don't I don't think we need it in the capital

077reserve. We'll be voting on this separately. 30 and I'm just on the table right now. I'm I'm just 30. They sort of need to be discussed together. They need to be voted on. Yeah. Yeah. Any other discussion? Okay. Then roll call, please. Barbara, I'm sorry. This is on the amendment. This is on the amendment. This on the amendment to reduce it to 300,000. Okay. Mr. Bailey. Bailey. Mr. Drew, yes. Mrs. Dwire, no. Mr. Foody, no. Mr. Yuber, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mr. Robbins, no. Mrs. Schulz, no. To reduce it. Motion carries. So, we're not reducing it. Okay. vote on the original motion half a minute. Right. The original motion at a half a million. Any discussion on it or can I call for the vote? I'll call the vote. The amendment minutes. Okay. So, it's

078500 and nothing. Okay. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew? No. Mrs. Dwire? Yes. Mr. Foody? No, Mr. Yuber. No, Miss O'Brien. Yes, Mr. Robbins. No, Mr. Schulz. Yes. Motion fails. 44. Fails. Okay. I'd like to move item 31. Moving half a million amendments reserved. Discussion. Okay, seeing none. Roll call, please. Barbara, on item 30 or Mr. Bailey? Mr. Drew? Yes. Mrs. Dwire? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Mr. Yuber? Yes. Miss O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes. Mrs. Schultz? Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Like to move item 32, which is to list bills. Second. Pay the bills. Any discussion? Oh, no. This a transfer next. Sorry. No discussion or I have one question. Um, and I think it'll probably be answered by a copy of the the contract for Simon Schwarz. So, I don't expect you to have the answer

079now, but I meant to ask you today when I was in the office reviewing the bill, administrative fee, how is that defined in the contract? It's the copying costs, um the any mailings, things like that. Okay. This, you know, from what I'm rather than charge for every copy per copy cost, they they have an administrative fee. Okay. Could you forward a copy of that contract to me if you don't mind? Thank you. You don't believe this stuff attorney flat feed them. Put your feet up on anything. He didn't he didn't he didn't have those administrative fees. So that's why I asked. All right. So roll call, please. Barbara. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Robbins. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mrs. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Huber. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Foody. Uh, yes. On payroll. No

080on the bills. [Music] Like to move the final. No. 33 transfers. Second. Yep. discussion. I have a question. Go ahead, Terry. Um, the ITV room, what's entailed in making that into a classroom? Like, I know there's two doors. Like, will one door be closed off that goes into the other library, which is all computers? What is really entailed in making that a classroom? Because I know the it's set up almost like an amphitheater, but not an amphitheater. It's not level. So, what's entailed in making this a classroom besides painting? They were going to put some furniture in there, but I don't believe that there's any desks in there right now. No, they're tables. There's the tables. No, the um off the media center at the high school. The ITV. The ITV room. Um I believe

081this was for multimedia. But there's going to be desks, no tables. I think there's tables. There's tables there now. Yeah. you've seen. It's an odd It's not It's odd. That's That's why I'm asking like how can you make that into a classroom? It's so narrow. Well, it's for for um smaller class sizes that that would be more like workstations I think would be more for that than an actual teaching classroom. They're not going to be closing off of that other door that you're talking about. The the doors are going to still both be there. Okay. To the upper. Okay. I was just Yeah, those are still going to be there. Okay. cuz that's a lot of money to replace that door. It's been broken. That's why. Okay. Thank you. Any other discussion on item 33?

082Seeing none, Barbara, roll, please. Miss O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Bailey? Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes. Mrs. Dwer? Yes. Mrs. Schultz? Yes. Mr. Yuber? Yes. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mr. Foody? No. like to move items 34 and 35 approval of the um A148 and A1 149 seven discussion you're doing just 34 or both 35 okay 34 and 35 okay any discussion seeing none roll call Please. Mr. Yuber. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. Robbins? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Education. I'd like I'd like to move items 1 through 12 as amended. Second. Any discussion? Yeah. On the special ed kids, do we have a plan? I mean, I know some students are very disabled and we can't we can't accommodate them. I understand that. But is there any plan

083in in place to maybe bring some of these kids back to our district? Yeah, there there every year the child team evaluates what students can return back to district based on the programs that we have in place and based on their profiles and their needs from their IEP team. So for next school year for the 1617 school year for instance there were three um no four students returning back to district. Okay. So every year they look at that number um and and they look at the students and they evaluate and they do all their testing evaluations to see who can come back. Um mo we do have a lot of programs and that's why as a board of education you guys have supported us opening up for instance our new you know the autism program

084the ABA program last year. We're planning to continue and opening up another class for that next year. So as we open up programs and as we grow our programs we will then continue to be able to support students. Will that will we be able to bring every student back to district? No. Would that be appropriate? No. But will we start to look for students that want to come back or students that the team feels should be back? Yes. And so we we do have that long-term vision. Okay. And actually we're in monitoring for least restrictive environment. So we look at that closely every every year. Okay. Thanks. Thank you though. Any other discussion? Seeing none, we'll call. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Mr. Yuber, yes. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes.

085Mr. Robbins, yes. Mr. Booty. Yes. Okay. Special committees and liaison reports. Yes. Boy, good. Good. Good catch. Thank you, Glenn. That wouldn't have been good. And and and we got one for education, too. We got some hips there. Terry, I thought I'd move on that. until we come back from executive session, right? Yep. So, thank you. I guess I should move 3644. Uh, yes. Yep. Okay. Any uh any discussion, questions? Um 42. Is that annual or No, that's just for the summer. Just July. Just for the summer. The extended year program. Yeah, we don't have drivers that um we only have a small amount of drivers that are willing to work during the summer. And so we have to um have say county ed services bid the roots out for us the first time they

086did not get a response the second time they got this. So we paying a premium somewhere. Um I don't know whether it's so much a premium. It's just that if we can't get a driver to do it, we have to outsource it to someone else to do it for us. Any other discussion? No roll, please. Mr. Huber, Mr. Robbins, yes. Mr. O'Brien, yes. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Mr. Foody, yes. And again, thank you, Brian. Um, and Terry, we have two HIVs that we'll discuss after executive session. You got to do Right. Item 13. Okay. Okay. Um Oh, I'm sorry. So, move items. Wait, that's personnel. Wait a minute. Here we go. No, I don't I don't move on this till after. Right. Till after executive. Yeah. No,

087we Yeah, that's what I said after executive. All right. I'm not trying. I just got it down. I just got it down. Okay. And now we'll go to special committee and leazison reports. And again, Glenn, thank you. Um, Mr. Robbins, parks and recreation. Yes. Um, during the last meeting I attended last Thursday, the list of things that uh was talked about uh since the uh the municipal budget was approved on June 8th. Part of the capital projects um will include uh the tennis court ceiling, truck purchase, and elevator at I guess elevator repair at the teen center. Uh also, um they talked about that the summer concerts at Bubbling Springs will start on June 18th. They put together a dodgeball uh league starting on June 21st. Uh I think most seniors I think are getting

088part of doing part of that. Um seniors like in senior citizens uh senior our our age group I think maybe you know I think it was originally set up for like you know kids young kids but I think a lot of the adults are getting into it. Yours is going to be high on Yeah. Um they also put together some parties uh at Baldwin Springs and which was good uh different grade levels uh you know they're having uh gettogethers at Bing Springs to encourage uh you know our students and uh to uh you know participate at Baldwin Springs. Um the summer camp is doing really well. They have as as many as 173 the first week. So that's, you know, that's really impressive that, you know, uh, parents are joining, uh, you know, joining their

089kids up to Bubbling Springs this summer and, uh, Fourth of July celebrations on, uh, you know, the fireworks is July 2nd and that's about it. Oh, also um at the very very tail end of the you know at our meeting we they talked about they're really trying to make that the high school uh baseball field as one of the focus um far as uh trying to improve it and that's where they could use our help um to make that feel you know one of the best better fields in in our community. So I think uh Jim when you talk with the town um with your meeting possibly uh work out some kind of agreement far as how much money we can put towards improving some of the some of the fields here. Yeah, that was

090have to be a discussion we had later on. We had talked about they would be willing to do some of the work if we could put up some Yeah. I I thought that they were supposed to come up with some kind of a presentation for us. That's what they other than the one that Mr. Gino provided. They were supposed to try to prioritize everything on, you know, some kind of a joint venture. And I haven't heard anything back from them. You know, as far as I know, Kilgallen Field has been one of the better fields this year because of the Is that the field in back of Westbrook? Correct. Is that the field in back of down low? And they don't have a drainage problem there. I don't know. Not anymore. They just we now

091were they talking the boys baseball field, high school baseball field. Yeah, that's field. I mean, that's in nice shape. Well, I think it still obviously needs some improvements. So, I I was going to say the one we played softball on that could use some improvements, but if you could next the next meeting you going to I don't know if they meet in the summer. Well, I I think what really needs to happen is I know Jim and Jamie may have a meeting with the town and I think that's gone back. So, I'll reach out to them uh to try to re I was going to do that after the election after the primary reach out and see if they could reschedu something. So, let me let me reach out and see. Okay. Okay. Dan was

092just saying that I guess probably from the drainage project. I'm not sure what was wrong with this. I've not heard anything about that. Like the width of the field? No, they're probably about a foot wide, but they they go to the length of the outfield. So, they're not draining. The drainage works fine from what I understand. Just dirty. The the turf for the outfield. I'm not aware of that. I I will look into that. Okay. And that's all I have. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Rodney. Mr. Bailey, safety. Uh, Mrs. Schultz, superintendent round table. Um, one of the items for discussion was back to school nights. Uh, wanting to know the dates for coming school year, which are now posted on the district website. Um there were questions with regards to freshman se the new

093course the freshman seminar um that course is going to be written this summer I believe that um Mrs. who is retiring. She's staying on through July to help handle scheduling and also Heather Burns will be um helping work on the sorry the uh curriculum for that class. Okay. For freshman seminar. Yes. It was also noted by Wampa parents that they had received feedback that Mrs. Aronson made positive and needed improvements in guidance scheduling during her time in West Milford and how important it is to find someone for that position who will continue to do the same. There was a followup with regard to transportation and the New Jersey State Department of Education about training bus drivers and bus aids that deal with special needs children on buses. This is a followup. Um this is Mr.

094Rashika's recommendation to Mr. Novak was to incorporate cafeteria staff and bus drivers on those professional development days. Then there was discussion about the status of the fiberboard plates at Hamiltonian um which is ongoing. Also um discussion for paying community pass or should we just approve the lunch? Right. Community pass doesn't work for us. Right. That was one of the ones that came up though and one of Right. one of the choices the for it something that um we're looking into and as far as we were told it should be set up for the fall sometime. There's also discussion about and this is ongoing about cameras for safety and deterring mischief and vandalism on the turf field. Then there was some discussion regarding um additional parking lots spots for visitors at Westbrook School and current kindergarten

095enrollment update that was given to us. Um Ashua 34 students, Maple Road 28, Marshall Hill 26, Paradise Null 35, Upper Guma Lake 29, Westbrook 35 that's 87 so far, but that changes y on a daily basis. And then there was discussion about rusted fences on some of the school grounds as well as unusable swing sets. And there was discussion on volunteers that might want to help switch them out. That's something that needs to be looked into. And then there was discussion and this has been ongoing about the high school walkway request and that's over by the senior parking lot. There were pictures that were taken and sent over to Mr. Oshika. And right now they're discussing maybe working within the guard rails because that's a town road out there road. I don't know um anybody

096in town is Yeah, there's there's also a there's also a gully there so it's not safe for the kids to go over that. So we're trying to come up with a a this good path where they'll be safe uh walk along the fence or the the guardrail and have enough space for the cars to go by. So it is something we should really and I'm leaving that on my my list of uh things for the new superintendent to look at and uh try to come to some resolution with that. It's important. Yeah. And then discussion about the field hockey bleachers if that's on a wish list for field improvements. And then another discussion about signs around the district. Um there's no directionals as to where the schools are in the complex and where the ball

097fields. So there was discussion about possibly having signage to you. Yeah. That's direction. Yeah. Yeah, lot of people a lot of people come and you see them driving back and forth and back. They don't know where they're going. So, we'll try to correct that. Also discussed, I don't know if it's there or not, the the uh actually having directions to the fields online available. Um, and an easy place you don't have to go into, you know, the link for athletics. Perhaps just have it on the district web page, direction to fields or something. Yeah, that's a very good idea. That signage would help because some of the fields don't have Oh, definitely. Yeah. I mean, we know what they are, but if you're not from here, I still get confused behind the high school. And

098then we discussed um parent climate survey results, which will be posted on the district website. Um July. Okay. And then I just wanted to say that um everybody from Wampa thanked Mr. Rashika for his time here in the district and they all felt that he he's leaving the district in a better place than when he got here. So everyone thanked him and we had a little celebration of cake and fruit and um coffee and coffee. Thanks That's all I have for SRT. Okay. Um county school boards. Yes. Um that letter that we received Oh, yeah. From the woman from Woodland Park, right? Woodland Park. Yeah. Um that that's very uh disturbing. So, I don't know if I haven't gotten any updates from say county school boards or I did I did send the regards to

099uh PCTI the latest uh version from Mr. Davis, the county superintendent on the uh districts that would you know the plan to not vote for it or vote for it, who would benefit and who wouldn't benefit. So, I don't know if you had a chance to look at that. I think I sent it out on Monday. That's the latest uh version. there was an earlier one. Um, at some point, um, you know, maybe next month you should really kind of decide what your feelings are and I guess weigh in on it. So, I could put on the budget and finance agenda if you want to discuss it. To me though, I don't understand why the school board's being brought in to it. In the past, anything that's gone on at say county tech has really

100not involved. I I think I think it's because this is being brought on by school by local school boards fighting the amount of money they're paying. I think that's that's how you ended up involved. So, there was an article this past week in the record about uh Horththornne bringing this to our attention and and basically uh a synopsis is that Horththornne as well as Clifton and possibly another district or two are concerned about loss of their funding because the children are leaving the district and going to PCTI and that the districts are paying for the students and the taxpayers are paying for the students. To me, the article, and this is just for what it's worth, it seems like it's being driven by Horn and Clifton, their school their school districts or those with, you

101know, certain people within the school districts. Okay. Is that it? Yes. Um, school board, all I have to say is you received in your packet on Friday the application for school board's convention in October. So, if you're going to attend, please fill her out. Let me say he's going to meet us down there and take his car off himself, right? But Jim's paying the T. He's paying. So, that's that's all I had. Um, Mr. Drew, you have the next two legislative and technology. Um, discussed a little bit that there's all this discussion about changing formula and the most significant, who knows what they're going to do, but the most significant thing is everybody agrees they're not going to cut funding for special education. There's also been quite a bit of discussion in both houses uh

102regarding bus safety and potential changes to bus safety. Uh but again, it's hard to tell what might come out of that other than that both houses seem to be concerned. So something will come out of that that will probably cost us money, but hopefully at the end of the day, the kids will be safer. Um there's very substantial discussion uh and it may uh move through about changing the law regarding moving school board elections um from general election back to April and putting a moratorum on that and so on and so forth. There seem to be people pretty excited about all of that. So something may come out of that. Um but it's very difficult to tell. Um the uh at the federal level, the federal government actually finally did something. They decided that it

103is a good idea for teenagers to sleep more, but there's no mandate yet for us. So, um, teenagers don't seem to get enough sleep and, uh, the PCTI, I think the concern is that we're winding and we're paying for PCTI when the individual tuitions and then even though we have absolutely no influence over the freeholders or over the town, um, that nonetheless education you know, we're we're getting taxpayers are getting hit from that side, our side, and uh uh all of it is coming out of our taxpayers and going there. We're already paying for the PCTI tuitions. And then so they're looking for a statement that might can we can we go to one place and make a you know reasonable economic decision instead of but we'll wait and see. Uh with regard to technology,

104um BBR has tried very hard to try to get us together to discuss all of this. And you know, I'm sorry. You know, some of that is is my fault in my schedule. I think we have some some fairly big issues to consider regarding one-on-one and some of the other things that we're doing and we just have not made progress yet on those discussions. Even though I think B Marsh has done a pretty good job of putting some things together, but uh hopefully we will do that. There there's some very big issues there I think for us to consider and we should give that all do careful consideration. Hopefully we will over the next uh few weeks or months. I' I'd like to make a motion just to extend uh the meeting executive sessions on

105line 41. Second. All in favor? I might as well make the motion to extend the meeting till 10:30. We we we we made a halfhearted effort to see if we can get out by 10, but we'll we're going to be Miss O'Brien Education Foundation. Um, I'd missed the meeting, so I have no updates other than the fact that the color run is still going on. Uh, registration is still going on, and it will be September 18th, and it'll be in front of Westbrook High School in Makipin. Um, we're working out logistics, um, and all the other fun stuff that goes along with it. But I just want to bring to the public's attention something that I had sent uh an email to all my constituents here that um Mary Ronhold had sent me uh uh

106forwarded an email to me from Mary Boen Meyer who is the eighth grade physical science and STEM teacher and um the Ed Foundation granted uh a request for from her for her students called greener roofs project presentation. If you had the opportunity to look at it, it's a PowerPoint presentation and it's amazing. And what they did is they knew we were having problems with our roofs and they took the roofing materials and they tested them for wind, water, sunlight, and the uh weather conditions. And they made their uh analysis. And these are seventh and eighth grade students that did it and was absolutely amazing. Um the kids were very excited about the project. They felt like they made a difference and um this is the stuff we like to do as a a foundation member

107and uh we continue to uh hope more projects come our way that we can fund. Debbie, I have a question. Yes. How do we register? Uh um are you are you let you know are you a Facebook person? Yes I am. Okay. Um it's uh through the West Milford Education Foundation has their own website. Okay. And it has their own Facebook page and you go there and it has the hyperlink for you to click on and you can register right online. And uh we're we're very excited. Um, we had a couple of our members do a color run outside of West Milford recently and it was very successful and they enjoyed it and we're all very pumped up for this event. Thank you. You're welcome. Um, we're playing date tag as far as a joint

108um committee meeting between the township and and the board. So, um I Jamie and I have nothing to to discuss on that. So, can I move on? Old business. Um need a motion for old business to close it. No. Oh, that's right. To close it. What am I saying? Anything in old business? I'm sorry. It's okay. Any anything to discuss in old business? I I was going to discuss the PCTI issue, but we did that already. So, Okay. Okay. Um, anything to discuss under old business? Seeing seeing none like to move to close old business. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. New business. Anything under new business that anybody would like to discuss? I I would just like to uh you know, I just want to say a few words in regards

109to um you know, leaving here um at my last meeting. I just want to uh thank also everybody in the central office for uh all their hard work. I mean every day it's a different challenge but they do a wonderful job and my three key cohorts that I work with daily um have been very very helpful and I think you have some strong people in that office to lead the district ahead. Uh and I'm talking about Dr. McUade working in special education uh who's always willing to listen and looks for creative ways of doing uh services for children. I think that's very important. Um also Mr. Novak as director of education has been working very very hard. In fact, most days I can't find him because he's in the middle of a meeting with I

110don't know who but he's all over. So he's he's doing an excellent job because we do see results and uh so I know when he's missing something comes back to me in emails or discussions. So that's all very positive. And also special thank you to Barbara as I've said many times the best business administrator I've ever worked with. Um and again has the best interest of the district at hand. So thank you to my my colleagues, my my cohort and I will miss you guys. So thank you very much. Okay. Thanks. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Steve, you were Yeah, I actually had this written down here. I wanted to say thank you to Tony for your stewardship of the district for the last couple of years. You know, we certainly had plenty of problems to

111throw at you. We didn't solve them all, but uh uh I think you you put your best effort into it and cared about the kids. And thank you very much for your help. You're all welcome. Anything else? I don't have a cupcake with a cake. I don't need It's on his birthday. Yeah, that was yesterday. Oh, it was. Oh, happy birthday. Oh, right. Okay. Anything else? Seeing Seeing none then I'll move to close new business. Second. Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Petitions and requests. Requests. Petitioners who have requests to speak prior to the meeting will be first five minutes for each petitioner for a period of 30 minutes. Then time permitting other petitions and requests limited to 5 minutes per petitioner will be allowed until the 30-minut period transpires. Speakers are asked

112to give their full names, number, last name or address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Is there anybody who would like to speak? Okay. Seeing none, like to close petitions and requests. A second. Okay. Okay. All in favor? I I any opposed? Okay. Glenn, would you read the executive session resolution with the matters concerned in that? At 9:30 p.m., I will make the motion uh to go to executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel negotiations and matters attorney client privilege and student. Okay. All in favor? I opposed. All right. We shall go into executive session. We will be acting on the HIV matters when we come out of executive session. Thanks for I know how to do plans on here. You made the claims. We're back from executive

113session and it's all it's all you Terry. Okay. Move to approve the um unsubstantiated HI report recommended by the superintendent. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Also known as number 13. Yes. Also known as number 13 on the also known amended to accept number 13. Thank you. Any discussion? M O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Robbins. Yes. Mr. Yuber. Yes. Mrs. Dwire. Yes. Mr. B. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Okay. We have to approve the other secondary. All All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. The meeting is officially adjourned at 11:03. Have a great Fourth of July every So Terry, could I see you for one sec? Do you guys want to meet on Monday? Have a