001of strength club advisor. That's a a group to a new group. Marilyn, you get to pick up support. Okay. Okay. Okay. No, I that's what I thought it was. Good evening everybody. Tonight's meeting, board of education agenda. It's a special meeting of August 13, 2015. Thank you for coming. Um Please silence or turn off your cell phones and note the locations of the emergency exits. And as I said, I'd like to call the meeting to order at 7:34. If we could just have a minute or a moment of silence for staff members and families that may have lost a loved one of late. And if we could stand for the flag salute, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
002under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. In accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act, a public notice of this meeting has been sent to board members, all district schools, the Herald News, the trends, the record, AI, West Milford, the messenger, West Milford town hall, the county superintendent's office, the board attorney, and cable vision of Warwick and posted in the administration building. Copies of the board meeting calendar resolution were provided to all local media, town hall, township library, and all district schools. Roll call. Mrs. Francisco, please. Mr. Babbett here. Mr. Bailey, Mr. De Mr. Drew, Mr. Foody present. Mrs. Keappy here. Ms. O'Brien here. Mr. Robbins. Mrs. Schultz here. You have a quum. Thank you. I need a motion for the executive session resolution. Please. like to make a motion to
003approve the following resolution. Resolve that the board go into an executive session at 9:00 p.m. for approximately 60 minutes for the purpose of discussing personnel negotiations. It's a matter of attorney client privilege. Second. That executive session minutes will not be released till such time as the privilege or confidentiality is no longer applicable. All in favor? Any oppose? Thank you. Superintendent report. Mr. Rashika. Okay, just a couple of um things we want to talk about is basically as you know um we are doing a considerable amount of construction going on within the district and uh everything seems to be moving in the right direction. Um and uh I can say that the science rooms I know for sure are in a good place and everything else as I said is moving along. So we should be
004good for September 1st. Get in there. Uh one of the things I'd like to share with the board uh tonight too is that I will give this out later on. There's a committee called the Highlands Family Success Center. Um they're doing a community uh breakfast for information uh this coming Tuesday. Unfortunately, I cannot attend, but uh I'm going to ask that our director of curriculum and perhaps some of our board members would like to go. It's at 10:00 a.m. and I will give you the information. But what's good about this is it's actually a a committee of folks who are trying to uh do some good things and a lot of it has to do with some of the families that need assistance and even some of our students. So, I thought it'd be a
005good idea for the uh board of education, myself and and Dan to be in a collaborative fashion to get together and hear some of their concerns and we'll work together and certainly we can rely on each other to move ahead. So, Mrs. Santos is the lady who's heading this up and again I will share this information with you. Um, just as an update for hiring, um, I think I interviewed so far 17 or 18 uh people uh coming into the district. uh some are for people who have left and some are for people um that retired. So um we have made a lot of progress over the past few weeks, hence uh the special meeting tonight so that we're not doing an abundance of new appointments at the next meeting. So uh but that's pretty
006much where we are. So we're moving ahead. Uh summer programs are now complete. Anything that we're running ESY and so forth is all over. And uh so there's just a lot of work going on in schools cleaning up and getting ready for the start of the school year. So that's it. Thank you, Mrs. Francisco. Special reports and correspondence. Have nothing to report. Thank you. And uh there's not a legal report this evening as well. So we'll move on to president's report. I did send out an email to the township board of ed committee members yesterday with regard to an upcoming tentative meeting and right now only one member is present which is Eningga and Kevin you're the alternate. I only received a response from Eningga. So, I'm hoping that um I get responses from some
007of the other board members, although I think we Kevin, would you be available for either of those days? Because I believe Mr. De's still away on business. Uh what were the days? I haven't checked. Wednesday, next Wednesday or Thursday? 19th. 19th or 20th? 18th and 19th. One of those nights. Uh 18th. I know I can't. 19th. 19th and 29th I will be around. Thank you. Okay. So the 19th or the 20th and the time was tentative also. 6 7:30 I can. Yeah. Anything after 5 I can pretty much make it. And you're still Yeah. Just keep me posted on the times. I'll get back to you on the definite time and location. It'll probably be over at town hall. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Petitions and requests. Petitioners who have requested to speak prior
008to meeting will first with 5 minutes for petitioner for a period of 30 minutes and then time permitting. Other petitions and requests limited to 5 minutes per petitioner will be allowed until the 30 minute period transpires. Petitioners speaking during petitions and requests are asked to address topics listed for special action in the agenda. All speakers are asked to give their full name, spell their last name, and provide their address. Speakers may not use the names of students during petitions and requests. Would anybody like to come up and speak? [Music] Doris Arson 19 Bareford uh chair of the Township of West Milford Health Advisory Board. I don't know what's on your agenda, but I'd like uh an over brief overview of what's being done in your schools. Um possibly starting with fourth grade about drug street
009drug education. That seems to be uh perhaps the most serious uh health problem that can be dealt with. Uh thank you. Thank you. Would anybody else like to come up and speak? Seeing none, move to close petitions and requests. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Thank you. I need a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Please note there is a hand carry under education item number two. And I believe that your agendas are marked with postit pulled under 19 page seven under 19. There's two names. Yeah. Just so you know, the only reason why they're being pulled is I had a question as to um if the appointments of 6 or whatever the case may be is correct and the Dr. Gen wasn't available today. So I I want to play it
010safe and make sure we have the right uh the right appointment there. So we'll wait till next time. I'd like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented, including the hand hand carry and the two uh item two people that were pulled under number 19 of personnel. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Mrs. Kempy, would you mind moving education? Um, under education, I would like to move item number one, please. Second. Discussion seeing none. Roll call. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Mrs. Keeping. Yes. Mr. Babbett. Yes. Mrs. Schulz. Yes. [Music] Item number two. Sorry. Okay. Um, under education, I would like to move item number two. Second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Abstain from Mr. Foody. Yes. M. Keepy. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Miss
011Schulz. Yep. Yes, Mr. Drew. Yes. Thank you. But that was discussed in uh education committee. Thank you, Mrs. Keepy. Mrs. O'Brien, personnel, student affairs. I'd like to move items number one through 22. Again, reiterating the two um two changes under number 19. Um the two people that were pulled for this particular I need a second first. Second. All in favor? I mean any discussion? Mr. I'd like I'd like to pull 21 for Senate vote please. Do I need to uh make a No motion on that? Okay. Any other discussion? So, we're moving items 1 through 22 uh 1 through 20 and 22 and 22. Right. Okay. Any discussion on those? Roll call. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Foody, yes. Mrs. Kempy, yes. Mr. Bab, yes. Mrs. Schultz, yes. I'd like to move items
012item number 21, please. Need a second. Second discussion. Uh, board members might not be aware, but uh, Mr. Deo was out in the off out in the audience. Um, so I just I wanted to thank him personally for for joining the West Milford School District. And for the rest of the board members who might not have had the chance to meet him, he's the gentleman up in the front row there. And I just want to again say thank you. He will be part of the West Milford staff once we vote on this. That's right. So without further ado, roll call, please. So right. Absolutely. Yes. Welcome aboard, Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Mr. Kempy? Yes. Mr. Babbot? Yes. Mr. Schulz? Yes. Okay. Um, I would just like to thank Mr. Foody for sitting in
013on the committee along with all the other committee members to um help facilitate the hiring of a new upper Greenwood Lake principal, Mr. Deo. Welcome. And um I appreciate that. Thank you very much. That concludes personnel student affairs for this evening. Thank you. You're welcome. Would you like to uh say a few words? Yeah, sure. Uh just want to say that Mr. Deo is coming out of uh spent last three years as an assistant principal and has a varied background uh even beyond that point. Uh he will be coming up from Cherry Hill. So, if anyone has an apartment for rent or a a perhaps something you want to sell, he will be in the market shortly. So, we want to welcome Mr. Deo and I'm just going to introduce him once again. Uh, Steven
014Deo, thank you very much and thank you to the board for giving me this opportunity. I'm so excited to be here. Um, it is going to be a transition for me as I now become a member of this great community. But I guarantee you that I will work very hard and give you my absolute best to serve the parents, the staff, the students of this great community. Again, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming me into your family and uh, God bless. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Budget and finance. Mr. Drew, would you mind moving the items under budget and finance this evening? I can't see any reason not to move them all. So, I move items one through five under uh budget and finance at this time. Any discussion? Mr.
015Foody. On number five, um it says to access Orange and Rockland utilities for our usage. We didn't supply EMIX with billing for the last 12 months or they only needed the most current bills. They just Okay. And it was only for Orange and Robin. Okay. But they also have to go and confirm everything with orange with orange and part of the difficulty is the fact that we were part of the ASUS bids that went out. So some suppliers need a form uh a waiver form signed off on otherwise they won't be able to take part in the auction. Okay. They have to basic we have to basically acknowledge that we're releasing um their their bids um to to ac I'm also I'm just glad that we're doing this. It's another opportunity for us to save
016money for the for the district. Um just wish we could have done it a little sooner but we're doing it which is the important thing. Mrs. Francisco, how much did you say the savings? They're estimating about $48,000 a year. That's significant. Thank you. Any other discussion with regards to one through five budget and finance? Roll call, please. Miss O'Brien, yes. Mr. Drew, yes. Mr. Foody, yes. Mrs. Keepy, yes. Mr. Battle, yes. Mrs. Schulz, yes. Thank you for that, Mr. Drew. Um, executive session. Need a motion. I'd like to make a motion at, depending on what time you're looking at here, I see 7:47 p.m. 7:50. Okay. Um, to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing personnel negotiations and matter of attorney client privilege. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? We're not voting
017on anything, right? And we're not having a second session of petitions or requests. Not on special meeting. Okay. So then we will adjourn from executive session. So I need a motion To adjourn from executive session. Make the motion. I make the motion we adjourn from executive session. and I second it. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Okay. Thank you very much. [Music] Yeah. So, we're going to go into executive session and then the meeting will end from there. [Music] We're back from executive session to sending letters to each other. All in favor alphabet with English meeting is officially adjourned. 8:40 p.m. Thank you very much for coming everybody. That was want to know 17 minutes 33 seconds of recorded time. Spell me. Hey. Hey. Hey.