001[Music] Mr. K Mr. Kate Heat. Heat. probably [Music] I saw that weird cheater for school We had a brief executive session. Um um we're back from that. I'm going to hand everything off to uh Mr. Rash. It's all you, sir. [Applause] Welcome everyone. Okay. Hello. All right. Feel much better now. Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming out this evening. This is one of the best occasions uh especially during our end of year uh activities where everyone has worked so hard during the course of the year and the board of education certainly and myself certainly like to take the opportunity to recognize all of you for your contribution to West Milford whether it's in the school itself uh whether you're a community member who's been involved with uh something with our students and doing something special
002or belong to a specific group or love that has helped us. We truly appreciate that and we thank you. Uh without you, we wouldn't be here tonight. So that's very important. So with that being said, I'm going to stop because we do have a long list. So we're going to try to move as quickly as possible, but we do want to give everyone the time to be recognized and have a nice hand and wish them luck. So, I'm going to start with some of the people that perhaps are closer in age to me, maybe a little younger in some cases. Um, and those are the folks who are going to retire from West Milker this year. So, I'm going to start with six and a half years of service. Miss Wendy Donnelly, school bus driver,
003van driver. the final year. Nine years in education and two years here at West Milford. Our uh supervisor of guidance, Myra Haronson. Come on over. Congratulations. 13 years. William Grryer, special class aid at McAppin School. not going to be here. That's it. Next 15 years. Donna Hines, Secretary Elementary, child study team at Maple Road School. That's what I hope. 16 years. Peter Jacqueline, science teacher at the high school. 17 years. Teresa McCay, grade four teacher, Westbrook. Let's see the numbers are going up now. One is Abby Yabby, school bus driver, van driver. 21 years, Emmanuela, special class aid at the high school. 22 years, Colleen Herodnik, special class A, Maple Road. years of service. Joyce Jennis, special education teacher, Paradise Soul. Here she is. Yay. Congratulations. Thank you. Moving on. Kathleen Ves, 25 years as
004a school bus driver, van driver. and cafeteria worker Aid Cook. Good luck to every Thank you. Congratulations. Patricia Rambowski, 26 years cook manager at Paradise Null. 26 years. Also 26 years Susan Weaver, school bus driver, van driver. 30 years, Mary Greyar, world language teacher at the high school. In 31 years, Melissa Cavanino, special ed teacher, Nathan School. There we go. Thank you so much. 34 years of service. Kathleen Warren, Encore teacher at Aptuary School. after 35 years in the district living very close to the school itself and uh a frequent diner at the highland deli from what I understand um we want to congratulate and certainly we're going to miss everyone but we're certainly going to miss this Mary Reinhold 35 years principal Mary Mary will be the last July I believe. So that uh
005that gives you plenty of opportunity to invite me over for a piece of crumb cake which I have not had yet cuz I heard how wonderful that is. And with 36 years Mr. Richard Hecma music teacher who is off the hill. All right. I'm going to move on now to big announcement for our district. Uh, you know, every year there's government teacher recognition and support staff. So, uh, for the township of West Milford, our overall teacher of the year who works over at Paradise Old School, second grade teacher with a very nice smile, Miss Katie Bunner. Thank you. Teacher of the year, Miss Bunner. [Applause] It was very very interesting when I went to Bernie Katie uh for flowers and announced that she was the winner of the district. uh she informed me that not
006only is she teaching second grade, she replaced her own second grade teacher of when she was a child at Paradise Middle School. So that's a wonderful thing. That's a lot of years in one place. Congratulations. The following teacher is being recognized for his acceptance into the American School Band Directors Association. Uh Dr. Brian McLaclin. Congratulations. All that wonderful music we hear. All that wonderful music that we hear coming from our concert band and marching band and all the various ensembles under the direction of Dr. McLaclin did a wonderful job and being recognized with that honor is not an easy feat. So I congratulate him on that. [Applause] Although he's not here this evening to receive this award, I would like to um acknowledge Mr. Eric Carson Rotarian for his generous gift of dictionaries to the
007third grade students in every elementary school in West Milberg. Welcome to It is with great pleasure that I uh announce this next individual. And we recognize him for his participation at all of our board meetings and giving us uh abundance of information from the high school, keeping us up to date, letting us know what goes on. He knows more than I do. And I always let him speak first uh so that he can get it all out there. A natural with a microphone, a natural. I could see this young man on TV in a few years if we turn on our TVs and watch the news or some kind of report. We want to certainly congratulate Matthew Ventrella and thank you. Congratulations Victorian. Well, [Music] student council president, which is why he has this wonderful
008job at the board of education and he will be attending a Boston College in September, majoring in political science. Congratulations The following high school student is being recognized. Something funny going on back there. Uh she is being recognized for the attainment of the Girl Scout Gold Award. Uh the Girl Scout Gold Award is the highest award the Girl Scout can earn. In addition to the many pre uh prerequisites, it consists of service projects that reaches out to the community as a lasting benefit. Allison's project involved constructing a raised bed garden with fencing on property of Paradise Null Elementary School. It also includes a compost bin and instructions for composting material that would otherwise go to waste. This bed is built solidly and is enjoyed by all the students at Paradise Roll and will be for
009many school years to come. The students in the school are also involved in working in the garden. We call them the PK Sprouts Wabbit Garden. Is that it? The Wabbit Garden. I like that. They also help create some stepping stones for the pathways in the garden. To help the students and community, Allison created a booklet to inspire and teach others to build their own gardens. I'd like to acknowledge and welcome Allison Blli. [Applause] Yeah. U Thank you, Mr. Rashika. Um this was supposed to be something Mr. Rashika was able to present, but I um I have a special connection to the student that we're going to be uh presenting this next award for the Eagle Scout with U in a moment. Stay back there, Liam. Going to talk about your project first. Um sentimental to
010me, Mr. Liam Harrington was in one of my first uh great sixth grade class as a principal. And now to see him become a fine young man is a very important moment for me. I was able to attend his Eagle Scout Court of Honor uh over the weekend on Sunday where he was honored and accepted into the ranks of Eagle Scout. Uh very very special moment for the upper Green Lake community in the the Troop 146 that Liam is is a part of. Uh they are sponsored by the Upper Green Lake fire department and his project was uh able to renovate they recently did a renovation of the whole building. his project renovated the flag pole which is now a a really a tremendous symbol in the community. I was able to witness the first
011flag ceremony which raised his flag that had been flown over the capital building uh in his name after receiving his uh his eagle project. So um I could go on all day about Liam, but I'll I'll cut it short. He was an Eagle Scout from the day I met him in sixth grade, and I'm sure he's going to continue um that that process in life. So Liam, come up and get on. At this time, I'd like to introduce Mr. Bill Kane, who's going to present our uh outstanding awards since West Milford Special Olympics. [Applause] At this time, I'd like to invite up Coach Clay and all her assistant coaches to come on up. So, uh before we recognize our athletes, uh couple words about Coach Blade and our assistant coaches. So, uh Coach Glade has
012taken our uh West Milford Special Olympics team from a uh small mid road Mustangs team into a district and communitywide and as you see from uh the the uh black and gold here in in the audience uh it's grown it's grown and taken quite quite a footprint in our community and I just want to thank her and all of her assistant coaches for all their hard work they put in each and every day out the year to to continue to grow and support our such Olympics program. Our program would not be what it what it is without the support of our volunteers. We have an amazing group of volunteers. And at this time, I'd like any volunteers for the West Co special agency or in the audience, please come up and be honored here. These
013children volunteer their time, many of them, throughout the school year, and really learn the true meaning of community service. Many of them stay with the program for several years from elementary school to middle school all the way to high school. All right. So now on to our athletes. The Bon West Mford students are being recognized for their achievements at West Milford special. The West Islanders participated in the following event. Each athlete tried their very best and made us very proud. Wyatt Becker track and field Brook Kelly Buttery, basketball champion. Nicholaso, basketball. Matthew Burl, basketball. Michael Carlson, bowling track and field. Clark, [Applause] [Music] Jacob, Kaminsky, basketball. Kevin point basketball. [Applause] Joseph Krillley, basketball, track and field game. Jaden Foster, basketball. Vincent Green, basketball, track and field. [Applause] Derry, basketball, track and field, summer games. Heather
014Barry, basketball, track and field, summer games. Paradise, basketball, track and sport. Maggie, basketball. [Applause] Daily Halfty. [Applause] Calter bowling track and field summer TJ Helmer basketball. Michael McCcluskey basketball. Molly basketball track and field. Hey Molly, I'm getting ready now. These next two girls were able to carry the uh the uh the torch for the uh summer games recently um this past weekend. Caitlyn O'Neal, basketball, track and field summer games. Heat. Heat. [Applause] Jude Auto track and field basketball. [Applause] Taylor Samson, basketball track, [Applause] basketball. [Applause] Alexander Sandalin, basketball. George, basketball. [Applause] We basketball track and field and Jeffrey Younren, basketball, bowling, track and field. [Applause] Mr. Before they step away, I like all the Olympians. They want to grab a water and a cookie before they go back to their seat. We're not done yet.
015Oh, okay. I appreciate that very coach and her assistant coaches have been growing a young athlete program. uh recently and I have had the honor of being involved in that as a parent and it's it's really been an amazing uh process for the family. So the following West Mil students are being recognized for their achievements in the West Milford Special Olympics young athletes program. Asher Samuel Elliot stand up Riley Brand Emma Hoffman [Applause] Logan, [Applause] Nathan Jordan Samuel King, [Applause] Truman Kane, Wilson Kane, Alison Kissler, Billy, Andrew Lockwood, [Applause] Who's Robert? [Applause] Emily Roland. Jake, [Applause] we know again. Addison Carllo, [Applause] Jacob Bridget. Spider Shmer. [Applause] That would be [Applause] Conor West and Sydney West. and Jacob Z. Another round of applause for our special. I think it's not only but also thank Mr.
016King for all your support all the time. We really Boys and girls, thank you Mr. How are you doing? [Music] different game. There'll be some open seats now. It's great seeing you guys. Thank you. Don't be a stranger. pay our plays this week Thursday and Friday. [Music] Go White Socks. Jason's going to play game right now. Okay. On behalf of history and social sciences, it gave me a great pleasure to recognize our regional qualifiers for the National History Day Bank. Aiden Becker, Maple Road, Timothy Butcher, Marshall Hill, Matthew M. Colin Clinton back Sam Duffy Marshall Hill. Volante not the bed. James Gon Paradise. No, Brian Hankle. DL J Paradise Null. Axel Mallet Mat. J. Nelson Maple Road, Christian Patton, Magnipin, Francesco Prico, Maple Road, [Music] and Benjamin Taylor Math. Again, on behalf of the department
017of history and social sciences, I just want to keep in mind that our students here work extremely hard in the National History Day. Picture a spelling be but being interrogated by Alex Rebecca Fishray. It was impossible but they did it. Uh several of these students to recognize them very quickly. Tim Butcher, Colin Clinton, JD Jones, Francisco Peterson went to Chicago just recently to compete in finals and extremely well. We're very proud of you. Thank you. And last but not least, and not just Mrs. Rinhold's thunder Matt Carol study has never been achieved in in the math history department's history so to speak. He won the triple crown history award which consists of winning the national history bay, the geography b and the spelling b. Thank you very much. [Music] At this time, the elementary principles
018will come up to present the awards for the spelling be. [Music] I'd like to call up Russell Fleming who is a first place winner for grade four after school. Our face for free winner, Justin Robins. [Applause] [Music] I'm Callie Moore for sixth grade. [Applause] First place selling via Paradise Null is JD Jones. First place in the upper Grim School, Luke Mosley. First place winner, sixth grader, Lauren Vaughn. One more round of applause for our Sh. [Applause] Thank you. Good job. [Applause] [Music] Okay. Now, Dr. Matt Los told you that we had a crown winner at Makipin and Matt competed against approximately 60 to 70th and eighth graders and he was the overall winner of the whole school. So our MPIN school champ Matt Coward. I'm glad we're following Mrs. Reinhold with this next award because
019it has to do with character and as we know African school was voted the 2015 National School of Character. Um the following students received an award for writing an essay that was specially designed for them this contest about um what it means to make character count every day. And I would say that the students in Actton certainly do know that uh our first place winner was Marie Parkin. [Applause] Our second place winner is Jay Folo. Our third place winner is uh Mary Kington. Congratulations. Uh, and finally we have Elizabeth Palazo, fourth place. We'd like to thank the Rotary Club as well. [Applause] Hey, the following students are being recognized as West Calford's winners of the 2015 2016 American Legion Safety Essay Contest. I will be joined by Mr. Gamble, the American Legion contest chair. [Applause]
020Uh for first place we have JD Jones from PK. JD also came in sixth place in the state. Second place, we have Katie Smith from Macin School. And in third place, we have Emily Ginder from Macin. Thank you. [Applause] The following students are being recognized as West winners of the 201516 American Legion Safety Coloring Contest. In first place from Westbrook, Amelia Philowski. [Applause] Second place again from Westbrook, Chloe. How do I say it? Right. Thank you. And in third place, also from Westbrook, Caitlyn Pen. Thank you. I'm very proud to announce the West Milford High School student being recognized as the first place winner in the West Milford American Legion for historical contest and particularly I'm sure will resonate with uh Mr. Gamble and all those who have served uh in the armed forces that
021uh the winner of of this contest uh is attending United States Air Force Academy to study premed. Her name is Andre Hilario. [Applause] I would like to recognize the following students uh as West Milford's finalists in the 2015 2016 Elks American essay Americanism essay contest. I'll be joined by Mr. Sultis who is the Elks contest chairperson. Uh we have Nichol Nicholas Yodas from Math School, George Funis from UDL. Nicholas Del Power from African School. Ryan Davis from Marshall Hill. Samantha Tur from Matin School and Abigail Z from UGL. Congratulations again to our winners. These next students are finalists in the Elks Drug Awareness Poster Contest. Paul is assisting me, our contest chairperson, and we'd like to recognize Jennifer Scalla from Westbrook, first place local state runnerup. handful of awards. Uh, in second place, also from
022Westbrook, Lauren Fry. And in third place, Jacob Schwarzo from Maple Road. [Applause] Someone drop the keys right here. Okay. The following students are being recognized as West Smokers finalists in the 2015 2016 Elks Drug Awareness Essay Contest. I'm joined by M who's the Elks contest chairperson. Uh we have Alyssa Hedi from PK in first place. Abigail Kosher from Maple Road in second place. And in third place, Sasha Villoeva from Makin School. Congratulations again to our winners. Our final category from the Elk Strug Awareness is the video contest. And I want you to remember this name because you're going to be hearing from this young man down the road, I assure you. And the winner, both local and state winner, Frank Lagani. [Applause] remember that name regardless. And second place, Justin Gity and Rebecca Croak. And
023I've just told that they were second place, not just locally, but also statewide. And finally, thank you again to the Elks Club for their support and sponsorship for these awards. Thank you. Good evening. The following student, Marshall student is being recognized as West Milford winner for the Cay County poster contest, Skylar Rabbitzki. Good evening. The next eight names are sixth graders from four schools in two classes in each building. Enough with the numbers. These are the recipients of the first place prizes for the New Jersey Mathematics League competition which is a rigorous challenging series of questions and problems that the students have all excelled in. My pleasure tonight to welcome Lennox Van Dunang from Asha. Also the master Kai Foster [Applause] Abigail Adiposa [Applause] also command Richard RC Sidolei the third from Marshall Hill, Jillian.
024Also from Marshall Hill, Dylan Orsino. Owen Cole can't be here from PK tonight, but Jake Wines is here from PK. [Applause] Okay. At Hackup, we have a new beginnings program for some for some of our special needs students from West Milford. And the students that I'm about to announce are volunteers. They volunteer half of their lunch period uh to help out these students. They they get involved in all kinds of activities and we're very proud of their efforts this year. So, with the following students, please join me up here. Megan Baron Cody Eert, Kristen Graph, Haley Hajisa. Make a movie. Ashley Jacobs. Stephen Lever, Matthew Lombardi and Navy Ran Paula. I'd like to thank all of the students for their time this year. Thank you so much. The next MPIN student is being recognized for
025winning the West Milford Beautifification Committee t-shirt logo contest and her logo was featured on this year's t-shirt. I'd like to congratulate Ashley Sant Sant. The following students were recognized this year during their seventh or eighth grade year as model citizens for the different months of the year. They're nominated by their teachers. It's voted on by a faculty committee and uh I'm very proud of all the names that you're going to hear tonight. So if you're here, please come up and Mr. Gorski has your certificates for you. Hope Palari, Ryan Castles, Colin Clayton, [Applause] Kyler Graham, Alyssa Gunny, Maddox M, Sean Pardington, John Sepford, Kate Breland, Nicholas Federici, Riley Knight, Lauren McCory, Matthew Mullen, Cory, Roberto, Leah Payne, [Applause] Sasha Villan Noea, Sarah Chandler, Kaitlyn Coven, Jack Leonard, Kylie Montina, April Roasano, Amanda Faith. Yes, Alyssa
026Kaiser, [Applause] Axel Mallet, Sky Summers, Ryan Munz, Miller, Julia Bow, Jeremy Brick, Riley Lane, Haley Moro, So these before you are our seventh grade citizens of the month. So I would say they adjusted very well to Macin School this year. So I thank you for that. Congratulations to all of you. So we'll add to that Sergio Adams Aras. There you go. Sergio Armas, Joseph Parazone, Matthew Lombardi, Nicholas Cuda, Megan Rampola Ola, Darren Bose, Renee Burns, Samantha Hazen, Brian Manscalo, Michael Nicholas, Alia De Benadetto, [Applause] Yuri Yuri, Jonathan Kenny. Kristen Graph, Joshua Leuk, Riley McIll, Mary Perezky, Madison backup, Sarah Chumlesi, Delaney Garza, [Applause] So I think you can see right up here why school was named the National School of Character with all these good students. So congratulations to each and every one of you.
027[Music] This year, West Milford High School has been very focused on the theme of Highland of Pride. All of our programs have really tied in with that theme of Highland of Pride. which stands for perseverance, respect, integrity, and a dedication to excellence. We truly believe that these students and our programs at the high school are dedicated to excellence. And so, uh, we recognize these students, two students per month who were, uh, nominated by and voted upon by a faculty committee, uh, and recognized as citizens of the month of our high school. So, I'd like to recognize those students now. They saw their names on the big digital sign which always is uh a thrill out of Island Drive and I'd like to recognize those students now. So the citizens for the month month of March
028were three eldri [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Luke Vanover I think both Luke and Belle retired from all that walking this weekend, right? And Stephanie Rose for the month of May. Theresa Thurbacher and Brendon Mater and for the month of June, Glenn Dunlop and Erica Marzel. [Applause] Good evening. I'd like to recognize now students at the high school who participated in the New Jersey Science League competed against schools all over the state of New Jersey. They are Victoria Alisia, Ryan Clark, Joseph, [Music] Robert, Tina Han, Sean Gennison, Drewz, Willie Maron John Brian Abigail Forio The next award is for a student who's expresses interest in robotics. That award is Emily Golden. [Applause] You're the champion. My soul has enjoyed the chapter of the National Mathematics Honor Society for over 10 years. My pleasure tonight to recognize these
029officers for their service and dedication. If they're not here, it's only because they're studying for their exams tomorrow morning. Her president, Kristen Augustineelli. Vice President Zora Freriedman who He is also our senior. And our secretary is Caitlyn Claus. And our secretary, Caitlyn Claus, good luck on the exam. Again, on behalf of the Department of History and Social Sciences, it gives me the immense pleasure in recognizing the best delegates of our international debate team aka Model United Nations, Jordan Churchella, Megan Hogan, who of course cannot be here tonight, Coochin, [Applause] And last but not least, Kayla uh with the department of history and social sciences would like to recognize not only our history department award winner for this year. But uh the leader of the model progress team and that is Matthew Pentella. [Applause] Our next
030students are recognized for their selection to the North Jersey Area Band. We start with Macken School. First, we had four students. Yuri A, this is Ronald. Thank you and Marie Park and [Applause] Dr. McGlaughlin told me that this year we had the most students we think in the history of the school, certainly within his history of the school, ever selected to the North Jersey area band. So, we're very proud of all of these senior high school students that were selected. Start with Daniel Dalber. Eric Johnson, Danielle Drier, Jordan Drier. One more go. Felix Gonzalez, Logan Hogan, Dominica Kazinski, Katherine Keller, Alexander Ken, Rebecca Cron, Stephen Lang, Eric Lson, Melinda MacArthur, Madison McIntyre, Zachary McIntyre, Emily Perry, Steven Rampola, Christopher Sansome, Teresa Santo Luchia, Steven Shaheen, Alexa Silverman, Peter Ste and we had a very good
031showing in the all North Jersey Region One band. Danielle Dryer, [Applause] Felix Gonzalez, Megan Hogan, Rebecca Cron, Zack McIntyre, Steven Shaheen, Alexis Silverman for region one orchestra. Jordan Driver also region orchestra, uh, Felix Gonzalez, Zach McIntyre, and then the Capstone New Jersey All State Symphonic Band, Alexa Silverman. And for junior high region one band, all North Jersey Region One band, junior high, Benjamin Blossom, And we had one student that was a representative for our school in the junior region chorus, Amanda Fink. I skipped over the come back to them now. This is the all North Jersey Thursday High School region one chorus. Summer Carpenter, Danielle Duranti, Sarah Gerbano, and Emily Perry. Following high school students are recognized as West Milford winners of the Young Artist Award sponsored by the Ringwood Matter Artist Association last month.
032First place grade 12 photography, Frank Leggano. Third place, grade 12D artwork, Ariana Blau. Honorable mention, grade 12 sculpture, Allison Cotch. Second place, grade 10 2D artwork, Jen Wong. And third place, grade 11 sculpture, Samantha Carney. In the Walill Valley Art High School Art Show, second place honors, Faith Calamari [Applause] and second place ribbon, Allison Cotch. And the last award that I have is that gentleman that we heard about before who we know is not here but remember this name and he is the winner of the Pik County Film Festival. Frank Lagana first place documentary Risk of Life and second place public service announcement heroin. Thank you. Thank you. Presenting on behalf uh a number of these awards are on behalf of Mr. Tanakra, our athletic director who is with one of the honores right now
033at a dinner. And this is uh some of you might be noticing a lot of high school students are not are not here for the awards. Very busy times the high school for the final exams and a lot going on. Uh but I'll be very pleased to uh present these awards to them and see them in school tomorrow. Following high school student is being recognized as West Milford's recipient of the National Football Foundation College Football Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete of the Year Award. That's Steve White. This year, uh, as you know, we incorporate full value language into, uh, all of our, uh, programs throughout all of our district schools. And, um, at the high school, uh, we had a, a sponsored scholarship by our former director of education, Miss Iris Wling, uh, for a
034student who embodies full value language, which is be here, be safe, be honest, respect self and others, set goals, let go, and move on. And uh I I don't know if she's here this evening. Uh but this is a young lady that's been through through a lot this school year and uh very uh proud to to recognize her tonight. And uh hopefully if you stop by graduation, you'll see her. Sarah, the lady I see sitting over here right now is being recognized as West Milford's recipient county coaches association female athlete of the year and she was one of the three finalists for Payic County and that is Esento. [Applause] And our male athlete who's being honored this evening uh with Mr. Trent in attendance. Uh state parent coaches association male athlete of the year. Uh
035he is tonight at the boys all county dinner uh at the tides and hailen and that is Colin Timmy. We have also as a high school uh one nominee for the uh New Jersey state nurse scholastic athletic association NJSIAA scholar athlete of the year award. Uh he was uh our overall sports nominee and winner recipient of a $500 scholarship for NJSIA and that is Matt Angela. [Applause] This young man had a very distinguished career in our wrestling program at West Milford High School. uh one of the uh few to attain uh these honors and uh he is recognized for his achievements. Uh he was uh in the state wrestling tournament this past year, the first place district winner and the first place county winner, the sixth place state overall winner and also with over 100
036career wins and that was Christian Duckies. very special award, a very special young lady that we had the opportunity to nominate and she was recognized uh for the National Girls and Women in Sports Award for our high school and that's Pel [Applause] recognized as nominee for the recipient of the Bergen Records Charlie Scholarship Award. award for our high school NFT porch for this young lady. I saw her in the guidance office after I had learned that she had won this award and uh I asked her if she got free Wendy's for a period of time as a result of this. She told me no, but it's a very nice recognition. Anyway, um recipient of the Wendy's High School Heisman Award is Tessinko. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] This young man was uh named to one of our
037selected uh uh postseason football teams and recognitions, the New Jersey Super 100 team for football, Nick Lisa. Following two young ladies were recognized as recipients of the Patterson Oldtimes Athletic Association Awards and the Bill Salah Memorial Award for basketball. Belle [Applause] and the Darlene Dunda Memorial Award for softball paper. [Applause] members of the Carson family are here this evening. I know and I wish Mr. person is here to be able to uh join me to speak about the uh Rotary Youth Leadership Award conference. The Riolet Conference every year takes place and uh we work hand in hand with the Rotary and as a proud West Rotarian, I'm very pleased to be a part of that and to recognize these students who will be attending the conference uh and they are Jacqueline Wilhelm, Mr. the corn
038Alex person. [Music] [Applause] These two young ladies will be headed to New Jersey girls state program sponsored by our American Legion. Unfortunately, they aren't unable to be here this evening. Uh but they are Megan Hogan and Christina Palino. And on the American Legion boy state side, as a proud boy state alum, uh I am pleased to announce the students who are attending this year's program as chosen by our Legion and that is Eric Larson and Anthony Seville. [Applause] We were very uh active uh this school year uh in in our industrial arts uh program and uh really putting forward our our STEM efforts and our uh our efforts efforts to help our students engage in a maker culture. And this student uh was a winner of a statewide contest uh the New Jersey Makers Day
039Buildte 3D Design Challenge and her name is Celeste Lane. This student is being recognized for her selection to attend the tri-state leadership conference for teen girls the revolution uh with a full scholarship uh provided by f funding finding the fabulous Morgan Yeah. [Applause] He's a student that has been uh very involved locally uh and and in our school as well uh in various uh environmental causes. uh and she is tonight being recognized as a Borla scholar and county and state representative at the national agricience youth summit. Rebecca Burn. This is it. Number 59. Bummer. All right. Um, so uh this young man each and every year the uh national merit uh scholarship is is announced. It is uh affiliated college award. It it is related to the PSAT that students take at the high school.
040Um and students that do exceptionally well on that test are recognized. Uh just so you have an idea of the scale of this uh this is this recognizes the top 5% of all the students who took the PSAT at the same at the same time that he did and that was around the country 1.5 million students. So this is a quite a recognition and honor and Jordan Sherella [Applause] That concludes the awards portion of uh tonight's meeting. So before we uh go on, I'd like to take a 10-minute recess with water and cookies over on the side. And uh congratulations to all the recipients this evening. Yeah. [Music] Oh, the nice red backdrop. First of all, congratulations. Great things that are going on at school. I was wondering if um as a parenting Tony, anything
041else on superintendent report? Uh, does does he want to is he going to give his last one? Final. Okay. Good evening. Um, so I I talked about this in the last board meeting a little bit, but I just want to thank you again for this amazing opportunity. I've really had fun with it. Um, it's given me some great experience and insight into how government works even on a small scale and um, it's been my pleasure to serve. And truthfully, graduation is bittersweet. I don't know what I'm going to do. Um, but I hope to see all of you at graduation the ceremony and uh, thank you so much. Thanks, Matthew. Um, we enjoyed it immensely and we wish you all the best. As I said many times, um, we know you're going to be very
042successful and when you are successful, please come back to West Mford and say hello or stay here. Okay. Um uh what I just like to mention is that uh today this morning uh there was a wonderful ceremony over at Marshall Hill School. Mr. McCormack had a time capsule that was buried 10 years ago uh right on flag day and um they uncovered that today. They actually had one of the parents does a lot of work over at the school hand with the Bobcat and uh dug it up. They were able to locate the spot. They dug that one up and then they had students actually showed up from 10 years ago. I think the oldest one there might have been 22. Um so it was good to see them come back and everybody was outside.
043It was just a wonderful wonderful thing to read the articles and see the articles that were inside the time capsule and they are planting or I should say uh burying another one that is from 2016 to 2026 but the original one is also being rearied. So, in 10 years, uh, the two of them will come up. So, that's good. Also, uh, as far as Marshall Hill, I also want to mention that next Monday at 9:00 a.m., um, they have a beautiful purple leaf plum tree in the front of the building that was, uh, planted in me memory of our former board member. In memory of Valley McGinness. And we're going to do a a plaque presentation uh, next Monday morning. So, if you're available, that will take place in Washington at 9:00 a.m. for this
044thing there. And also the reminder for graduation, high school graduation will be Monday evening, June 20th, right up on Field and followed the next evening on the 21st, right at the high school in the gym for Macken School. So, uh, we look forward to seeing everyone there. And just a reminder, next week's board meeting is on Wednesday, not Tuesday. two places at one time. So, we haven't perfected that yet. So, just a couple of reminders and thank you. Great. Barbara, board secretaries report. Okay, thank you. Um, president's report. I really have nothing to report except hopefully the majority of the board we can get up there to the graduation ceremony at both the high school and the middle school next week. Um hope to see all of you there. Um that's it. We'll move on
045to 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 requests limited to 5 minutes per petitioner will be allowed until the 30 minutes period transpires. All speakers are asked to give their full name, spell their last name, and provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Do we have anybody this wants to speak? We have two. Mr. Sidowitz. Okay. Uh which Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Try. Let's or the other one. Let's do this one here. Is it working? Yeah, it's working. Oh, okay. Hello, my name is Michael Gillan. G I L L E N uh 315 WY and I am an
046employee of the West M board of education. Some of you may remember I spoke last month and I touched on the hiring and application process uh with the board and I voiced my concern that I felt there was a little unfairness and especially um there's a lot of employees who would have put their time in and maybe not have received interviews um over the years. I was one of those. Um I I spoke about how I applied for a position at Maple Road School. Uh, I'm sorry, the uh Macman Middle School. Um, I did not receive an interview even though I had mailed in a letter, heard nothing, went to the office, handd delivered a letter. Um, then I was told I didn't meet the deadline, so I did not get an interview, but I
047had a letter in the mail um stating how my skills and all my work are very appreciated by the board. And um after going through all the candidates um I did not uh meet the criteria. Um it was a tough decision. It it was states in the letter and there is a candidate who um will be read off at the June 22nd meeting. Um I don't want to start rumors or anything but people talk and I do hear things and also I am an employee so I do hear stuff. Um there is a candidate who um apparently is uh fresh out of high school, 19 years old. Um so on the candidate who's been here 10 years, highly recommend it. I always have letters of recommendation and there are other people who interviewed for that
048position who do have more time. Um I would like to put my phone number on the record which is 9732487434. Um because I think maybe I deserve an explanation how somebody who does not have any experience working in the school system could be a candidate who is going to be selected for a position when there are many people out there who are more qualified. And you know again not to touch on rumors but um this person may have a friend who who works in the board office. If I don't get the position, I'm not going to be hurt because there could be somebody more qualified. But we can't be as the biggest employer of West M, we can't have backdoor interviews, applications, and I really, you know, I don't think because somebody is related or
049has a friend that works somewhere that they get a position over somebody else. That's all. Thank you. Sidewoods. Can somebody provide me a sofas? Um, well, 694 short drive. Um, I wanted to kind of go into the summer with just saying thank yous and congratulations and other things. First off, Mr. I think it's safe to say that the word interim is has been given a new definition. So I want to say congratulations to you and I really I wish you uh the best in your future and hopefully a happy retirement sometime soon. Try that. Um, I wanted I know that uh limited on the the schools of character principles and such, but I'm happy to see that so many schools are on board with National School of Character and there's only a couple more and
050then you have the whole school system. So, you know, that great work should keep going. Uh, congratulations to Miss Novak on being nominated to director of education and I will try to utilize Google Sheets more than uh Excel. uh the board just in in preparing for my candidacy last year and reading through 2010 and beyond, this is a civil board and it's great that even though there are differing points of view that you can and be colleagues with each other. So, you know, do your best as you I know you are in your hearts and the school system will be great. Mrs. Ryan, you could absolutely tell when somebody loves their work and they love the students that they see pass through their system. And there are people that do have passion to what they
051do in teaching, but to seek the love and absolute care and concern for those students. I I have an assistant scout pastor that still tells me about the day he took him to the hospital when he split his head open. That's true. Uh, I know Mr. Citro is not here, but it's far cry from his eighth grade science class. And I want to give him a congratulations. And lastly, I'd like to thank Mrs. Francisco for for honoring her word for answering any question that I had. Sometimes I didn't like the answer, but then there were times where I was opened up to understanding the system and you helped treat your word as a professional. I wanted to say thank you. So to everybody, have a great summer and congratulations to everyone. Thank you. You're welcome.
052Thank you so much. I thought you were going to make Mrs. Ryan cry again. I don't have any tissues to give her. She has a big uh would anybody else like to speak? See like close petition. Thank you. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you. Um, go ahead, Mr. Deber. Uh, I just want to say I'm a little bit disturbed. I don't like hearing stuff about backdoor deals and and other rumors if if they're not true. It doesn't put West Wolf in a good light. It doesn't make anybody feel good about that. Um, you know, these things that were brought up, uh, they're very disturbing and, um, you know, I don't like to see the negativity spread. If something is true, then then it it indeed needs to be looked into, but, uh, to
053spread rumors and negativity is not good for us and not good for the town, and uh, I don't appreciate that. Thank you, Mr. De. Um, I need a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Thank you, Marilyn and Debbie. Uh any discussion? We have three items that we're moving. Two under budget finance and one under education. No discussion. No, I I do. Under budget and finance number one. Well, I mean, we'll discuss it, but any any you don't want to pull or agenda. Yeah, this is the agenda. We only got three things on the agenda. Three items. Well, try. That's right. All right. Um, so all in favor of adopting the agenda as presented, I thank you. Any opposed? Thank you. We do have
054a motion that we'll need to go back into executive session to discuss personnel, student matters, and matters of attorney client privilege. Um, 950. It's Yeah. 950. 9:16. Okay. Um, so we'll it's it's 9:16 now. I guess we'll make that motion for That's an hour. 9:45. Okay. Need a second on that? Um, yes. Second. Thank you. Welcome. All in favor? I opposed. Okay. Make a further motion to extend the meeting time from 10 to 10:30. Second. Yeah, we'll probably Well, yeah, go ahead. All in favor? I Any opposed? Mr. Two opposed. Yeah, we don't need to go. I I'm hoping not. I'm hoping not. So, it's only Hey, let's move it on. Go ahead. We won't need to go. Well, I I was just about to say, Mr. Drew, take it from here. But you kept
055going. So Mr. Drew, would you introduce the two items for I'm going to do these separately. Okay. So item one says the recommendation of superintendent to authorize the business administrative procure professional development services in the areas of English lang language arts and mathematics for competition contracting process. And my question about that is that's the first I've seen that. Second discussion. Second. Thank you, mayor. Discuss it. Discussion. Now you discuss. Now you can ask that question. Mr. What are we doing? You're discussing it. What is it? We we have discussed it numerous times, just not in this particular language. We uh I've presented at the ed committee numerous times over the years. not years, sorry. Over I'm tired. I apologize. Um over this school year about um extensive professional development K8 for writer workshop and also
056um in our efforts for you want to stop. You got it. Yeah. Okay. So in the the language on this now is is the um the process in which we can receive bids from vendors has to be approved in this in this process. Now this is professional development for teachers. Correct. And it has this motion has the business administrator procuring professional development. What I mean there's input by the department supervisors and correct the Mrs. Sharon West and Mrs. Deborah Gratina are going to be uh part of the process with me as well as um you know other members that we have not yet selected for in our panel. Once we receive the bids through the business department, then we will um meet and discuss and and go with the best suited for that process motion
057to get all the criteria is developed by the education side. All right. Everything has to go through. So you develop the criteria, you get the bids and you give it back to them, right? Okay. That didn't sound like it didn't sound it doesn't sound like that in record. when we get to look at the amount before we finally we have to we have to approve the contracts. All right. And the rale reason for this is because we're using federal funds and so they have a whole bit more procurement process. It's under title one funds. Okay. All right. Then I would like to make a motion to change the language to just add the word bids after the word procure professional development services bids. Well in the areas because proposal it's not really a bid. All
058right. Proposals proposals. That's fine for me because then otherwise it sounds like you're just it's a blank check. It looks like a blank check the way it's written. So we should add the word proposals then. That's obviously not a blind check and it'll come back. I need a second for that if anybody likes it. Sorry. Yeah. Any discussion on the motion? The prop the amendment to the motion proposals. Please just let me get it out. Um any discussion on that? She any discussion on the on the change to the the uh motion the original motion recommendation. Okay. No discussion. Can we have a vote on it then please? Voice. A voice vote. Okay. I. All in favor? No. Any opposed? Yes. Okay. So abstain. You're abstaining. So one, two, three, four, five. Are you saying?
059Yeah, it No, I didn'tain Debbie abstain. So the motion carries then to change the the amendment. Now we vote on the original original motion, Steve. Um, so no further discussion. Okay, roll call, please, Barbara, on item one under business, budget and finance. keeping them separately. Yeah, he he said he wanted to do it separately. Um, Schultz, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Mrs. Dwer, yes. Mrs. O'Brien, yes. Mr. De, yes. Mr. Yes. Wow. Okay. Item number two, Steve. Like to move item number two. Second. Any discussion? See? I'm sorry again. I'm confused about what this is. Okay. Is this Mike? Okay. Um, can I see this? Yeah, we we um based on Yeah, it's not. We submitted our um comprehensive equity plan a few months ago. We received it. We were one of the few uh districts
060in the county that received approval at that point in time. Uh upon review at the state level, there were some policies that were um off in in some of their language across the state and they put out a um basically a statement to all districts for their corrective for their comprehensive equity plans that these policies are not in compliance. So in order to fulfill the process, we have to step one is get a get a corrective action plan approved by the board. So then I can work to um work with you actually to update policy numbers and and make sure that we have everything in place going forward. Thank you very much. Okay. Roll call, please. Parker. Mr. Schultz. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. Dwer, yes. Mr. O'Brien, yes. Mr. De, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr.
061Foody. Yes. Education. Okay. I'd like to move item one under education. Well, second, but it should be done after. Don't call my name. Well, no. You're supposed to say that this is going to be done after executive session. This is going to be done after session. Um, so it is excuse me. It is 9:23. Um, Jamie, you want to make a motion to go into executive session? I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session 923. Second. All right. And that will be to discuss personnel student matters and matters of attorney client privilege. Um said we had the second. All in favor? I uh did we give a time limit? About 30 minutes will be in executive session. That's what we have on the on the sheet. So um and then we'll vote
062on the HID matters when we get back. So all in favor? No. And no nobody is opposed. Nope. and we'll go back to executive session back. Okay. And Miss Dwire. Okay. Would you would you move item number one under education, please? I'd like to move item number one. We have the incident reports E4, M6, and H14. Second. Thank you. Okay. Discussion. None. Okay. Roll call, please. Mrs. Schultz, yes. Mrs. Dwire, yes. Mr. Bryant. Yes. Mr. Deain. Mr. Hubert. Yes. Mr. Uh, yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. I'm sorry. I didn't want to just to make sure it gets on there. Wow. Howdy. Mischief was right. All right. Um, so that motion passed. Yes. Um, I need a motion for adjournment. Marilyn, motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I I Okay. This meeting is officially adjourned. We
063shall see you at graduation on Monday. So, it's your motion. Yeah. No. Second. Good night. Hey, I'll see everybody.