001That's what we were just discussing. Starting starting a meeting and then getting back to him. Sure. When it comes time to super Yeah, that's fine. You know, you're the president. You can No, I'm kind of asking. Oh, I think that's fine if he's not here. Unless you Yeah, it's all the way over there now. I see here and there. Kevin, you think we're okay? Oh, yeah. I see. Nichollet wants to stay here. Yeah. Right. Good evening everybody. Mr. Rashik is going to be a little bit late. He's at a band awards dinner and um he's he's visiting there and said he would be back here shortly. So, we're going to start and then when he comes, we can just backtrack and have him speak about the superintendent's report once we get set with the tape.
002[Applause] Start recording. Are you ready? Okay. Okay. Good evening everybody. I'd like to officially call the meeting to order at 7:34. It's a board of education regular meeting May 26, 2015. Please silence or turn off your cell phones and note the locations of the emergency exits. Um, I'd like to have a moment of silence for those staff members who have recently lost loved ones and also in remembrance of Memorial Day. Uh, if we could have a moment of silence for remembering the people who lost their lives. serving in the armed forces. If we could stand for the flag salute 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
003public's meetings act, a public notice of this meeting has been sent to board members, all district schools, the Herald news, the trends, the record, AIM West Milford, the messenger, West Milford town hall, and 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, please. Mr. Babbett, here. Mr. Bailey, Mr. De here. Mr. Drew. Mr. Foody. Present. Mrs. Key here. Mrs. O'Brien here. Mr. Robbins. Mrs. Schultz. Thank you. Oh, here. I'm sorry. Everyone, sorry. Resolve that the board go into executive session at 9:00 p.m. for approximately 60 minutes for the purpose of discussing negotiations, student matters, personnel, HMBBS, the director of education search, and matters
004of attorney client privilege. The executive session minutes will not be released until such time as the privilege of confidentiality is no longer applicable. Like to make a motion to approve the that following resolution. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Marilyn Port of privilege. Mr. De. Hey. I just wanted to uh thank everybody for being understanding concerning my schedule. There are some meetings that I've missed. We all know that being in this elected position takes a lot of hard work. There are always new challenges to face in the school world. I'm wholly committed just as we all are to seeing the success of the district and the children who attend it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. De. As I previously mentioned, Mr. Rashika is at a band awards dinner and he'll be here shortly. But
005in the meantime, Nichollet is here and um do you have a report for us? Yes. Um good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you all enjoyed the long weekend and we're able to celebrate Memorial Day with your families. Um, as you all know, the academic year is coming to a close and that always means a lot of testing, awards ceremonies. Thank you. And charity events and that's especially true at the high school. So, first on May 17th, the TV uh science department seniors held the annual cable thawn to raise funds for project graduation for our graduating class. I would like to thank several administrators including Mr. Hustler, Mr. Rashika and three of our very own board members for attending and showing their support. We really appreciated it. Sadly, we raised less than half of what
006um seniors normally raise. So, currently there is an online donation link on the wmtps.org homepage and I believe raffle tickets are being sold by the PTSO. So, um a big thank you to our PTSO for everything they're doing to ensure that this is still happening because it's really important for uh drug and alcohol-f free recreation that night. Um, for guidance news, this week ends a long month of state and national testing. AP testing was administered by our counselors from May 3rd to May 15th. And today, New Jersey biology testing was began, oh, sorry, began um for sophomores and freshman in biology this year. Uh, our counselors have also been really instrumental in making sure seniors are aware of their community scholarship opportunities. The recipients of those scholarships will be alerted on June 10th, which is
007our uh community scholarship award dinner. Student council has been very busy this month, most recently in helping orchestrate the recognition ceremony for um Memorial Day this past Monday, which was attended by five vet veterans from our local VFW. Uh the program was held in the front parking lot with our concert choir singing the national anthem and three student speakers. Uh preschool students sang a patriotic song followed by a presentation of a wreath and a playing of echo taps. Also, the student council dedicated a $600 check to the wounded warriors project for our local veterans. Uh next, student c student council will be orchestrating um Highlander Day this Friday, which is an event in school which allows clubs, sports, and student volunteer groups to raise money for their respective causes whilst exemplifying Highlander Pride. Speaking of
008Highlander Pride, it isn't an exaggeration to say that award season is in full spring. uh full swing, sorry, at the high school, which began with the annual art honor society induction on Wednesday, May 13th. On the following Monday, the annual distinguished scholars night was held in which the top 15 students based on GPA were announced from each grade. The ceremony culminated with departmental awards for high achieving seniors. On the following Wednesday, the 20th, a record number of students were inducted into MUA alphatheta, our math honor society in an an event held by supervisor Mrs. Gratina and math teacher Mr. for Ryan Hshab. Two honor society induction events are happening tomorrow night and Thursday night actually, which are the Foreign Language Honor Society and the National Honor Society inductions, respectively. A big thanks to all those
009teachers, guidance staff, and administrators who not only attend these events, but speak at them. Speaking of teachers, Miss Becker from Ash Aua and Mr. Balkin from the high school were nominated by their colleagues throughout the district for the new New Jersey Council for Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award. U Mr. Beielen as well as Mrs. Meetaf, Miss Mock, and Miss McCort will be visiting third grade classrooms throughout the district in order to prepare them with content on immigration for their trip to Ellis Island. As for music and the arts, both the choir and the band held their annual spring concerts earlier this month. At the band concert, uh, choir and wind ensemble actually teamed up to sing with an adult choir under the, uh, direction of supervisor Mr. Barnau and to sing a song
010together, which was pretty special. Um, our award-winning jazz band will have a free annual concert. will have their free annual concert at Macin on the evening on Monday, June 1st. And TV Science after airing a preview and school recently will hold its first ever um after school film festival this Friday also May 29th at 7 p.m. Um as many of you know and as many of you will be participating in the Relay of Life of the Highlands will be taking place this weekend. Praying that the weather is nice because it's such a huge event. Um it's starting at 2 p.m. on Saturday, lasting till 5:00 a.m. the next day. and it's a huge undertaking involving a countless number of our students, teachers, and parents. So, even if you're not planning on staying the night, it
011would be great if you could just come up um maybe buy some food from the vendors in Tent City um and even just walk a few laps in honor of the fight against cancer. Similarly, this Friday at 3 p.m. there will be a coaches versus cancer event at the high school in the form of a volleyball tournament which can be attended by anyone in the town. If you are a student, a teacher, or a coach, there is still time for you to make a team if you have not already done so. Lastly, there are se there are several important senior events being held at the high school in the upcoming weeks with the closest being teacher turnaround on Tuesday, June 2nd. Next to senior promma on Thursday, June 4th at Mayfair Farms. Those attending, especially
012underassmen, are reminded that they need written parental consent to leave early. And similarly, in order to walk at graduation, you need to attend the following Monday, June 8th. Uh, finally, graduation is being held up at the Turf Field on Thursday, June 25th at 6:45 p.m. So, save the day for that. Um, that's it for me this year, actually, because next month my replacement will be coming in. Um, but thank you so much for uh allowing me to serve as student representative. I really appreciated it. So, thank you for your time. Thank you, Nichollet. We really appreciate having you today as student liaison and giving us updates because they were always very thorough. Thank you. Thank you. You will be missed. Thank you very much. On on top of that, I'd like to wish you good
013luck at Princeton. Thank you. All right. Move on to special reports and correspondence. This is Francisco. The U minutes from April 21st and April 28th are um available for your review and consideration. Like to make a motion to approve the following minutes. April 21st workshop special action meeting, April 21st executive session, April 28th regular public budget hearing meeting, and April 28th executive. Second. Second. All in favor? I I any opposed? Yep. Legal report will be done in discussing executive session. President's report. I'm sorry. That's all right. Um, I know I've brought this up in the past and I'm going to I'm going to keep bringing it up and until this board is informed, but last month we approved a bill. I didn't, but the board did approved a bill for 20 over $24,000 for Schwarz,
014Simon Edelstein. Um, this month that's almost $14,000. Um, and when I see bills of that magnitude, when I compare it to Mr. Rosel's of, you know, 3 4,000, it um it concerns me um and especially um in light of one of our transfers tonight that we're settling, you know, a a suit against the district. Um, I really want to start getting legal reports. I mean, that's one of the things we're supposed to do is make sure the district is wellrun and approving bills without having a clear understanding of what's in those bills, an explanation from one of our attorneys. Um, I just I I can't approve the bills. But more importantly, when we have an attorney bills and we're transferring money into our legal account and where's the, you know, where's the end? Um, so
015I again I ask the uh the board to um ask for legal reports from our other attorney. Thanks. Welcome. Anybody have anything else to add? I know we get our legal reports in executive session and any bill that comes across our way, we have every opportunity to ask for clarification prior to the meeting. So, I'm not sure. I mean legal reports Marilyn um are part of part of our bylaws that we have a legal report on our agenda and and we've had this conversation. We have and a lot of it can't be is and I know it's can't be discussed out in public but we certainly can get a report as to what's going on. Joe certainly does that and if one attorney can then both attorneys can thank you. Petitions and requests. Petitioners request
016president's report. Um I really don't have anything except for um negotiations which we can discuss. We will be discussing in executive session. And Mr. Rashik is here. Hello. We kind of started without you. We were at a dinner for the band. Yes. No doggy bag for us. I don't know if you're ready to give your report or if you'd like me to just start with petitions and requests and go back to you. Yeah, if you don't mind, that would be good. Thank you. Petitions and requests. Petitioners who have requested to speak prior to the meeting will first with five minutes for each petitioner for a period of 30 minutes and then time permitting. Other petitions and requests limited to five minutes per petitioner will be allowed until 30 minute period transpires. Petitioners speaking during petitions
017and 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 or requests. Do anybody like to speak? Seeing none, move to close. Second. All in favor? Any opposed. Petitions and requests are closed. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay. Sorry for the delay. Um was at the dinner for the marching band. Stopped by there for a little bit to congratulate them on a very successful uh season. And moving ahead, uh just wanted to inform you not much has changed since last week, but some of the uh past and upcoming events. We did have the art honor society which took place um on May 13th. Uh it's
018that time of year when everybody's being acknowledged for all the wonderful work they do. Uh last week on the 20th, there was the West Milford uh chapter of Mu Alpha Theta, which was for math. Um and tomorrow night, we have the World Language Honor Society. uh taking place at 6:30 p.m. at the high school. And on Thursday night is the National Honor Society taking place at the high school as well. Uh and then we move into next week. Um and we will have the prom I believe is next Friday, June 4, next sorry, next Thursday, June 4th. That'll be taking place. As far as testing at this point, um I'm happy to say that the AP testing and everything uh to do with end of year testing with attached to park is all complete. Uh
019the only thing going on right now is the bio testing uh which I think finishes tomorrow and also the NJS for fourth graders and eighth graders which will take place over the next two days. Uh anything after that is makeup testing. So that's pretty much where we are at this time and that's all I have to report. Thank you. Great. Thank you very much. I need a motion to approve the agenda as presented. I'd like to make a motion to adopt the agenda as presented. Second. I have a couple of uh corrections updates. Okay. on page five in the PI section. That should be number nine, not number eight. And one additional PI was added that will be discussed on uh page six number nine. Mr. Padavani has uh changed his resignation date to August
02031st, 2015. What date? August 31st. Okay. And then on page 10, [Applause] um, under personnel, I believe that, um, there's a plus sign under Julia Maguire and it should be a one and not a plus sign for a footnote. Thank you. [Applause] Now, uh we'll adopt it with those amendments. And so, um all in favor I. Any opposed? Thank you. Education. Mrs. Keep would you mind doing that? I would like to make a motion to approve items 1 through 8 under education. Any discussion? Roll call. Wait a minute. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Deber. Yes. Mr. Drew. Uh, no. To item two. Yes. for the remainder. Mr. Foody. Um, it slipped my I I actually wanted to discuss the the Spanish books, but um I'm going to vote no on number two and yes to everything
021else. Miss Key, yes. Mr. Babbot, yes. Mr. Bailey, yes. Mr. shorts. Yes. Okay. And item number nine will be voted on after executive session. Thank you. This is Ryan. Personnel student affairs. I would like to move items 1 through 39 and personnel with number 40 is a hand. You're moving through 39. Yes. 40. You said you're moving to 39 and then add 40. Okay. So, you're at 140. Second. Second. Any discussion? Call Miss O'Brien? Yes. Mr. Deber? Yes. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Mrs. Key? Yes. Mr. Babbett? Yes. Mr. Bailey? Yes, Mrs. Schultz. Yes. That concludes personnel procedures. Budget and finance. Mr. Bailey, like to move items number one through 18 under budget and finance, please. Second. Any discussion? Um, I have I have a question and then an explanation. On 9 and 10,
022the lunch menu that stayed the same. I just want to make sure that stayed the same from this year to next year price-wise. No, it gone up. It's gone up. Okay. Um and could you explain item number 11, Barbara? CC Productions. CC Productions um is a point of service system that we have for the middle school and the high school. It's a cash register system that records all of the um lunches that get um bought by students. It's a way of eliminating having to hand out lunch tickets. Yep. Um and we have a support agreement because they have to roll the system every year and they also provide any updates to the software. Okay. Any other questions? on items six and seven. Might I understand in each case that we're paying that amount to transport
023one student to attend school outside of our district. Correct. Yes. instead of being um we don't nor well sometimes we transport our out of this district students um but parental contracts are allowed and um we engaged in parental contracts for a number of years so yes Mr. less expensive than if we had a driver. I can believe that. Am I required to vote for those? You're not required to vote for anything. My only comment here is over the years I've spent hundreds of thousands of miles on my cars to drive my kids to soccer, football, swimming, music lessons, um good grief, all sorts of things. And I I I'm just concerned about spending that kind of money on a parent to drive a kid to something out of district. Are do you know are these
024programs that we're now going to bring inside the district? You know, these are these are students who have been placed at these schools or the um by their IEP teams due to the nature of their disability and they're the only student one the student I know number seven has unique issues that cannot be transported on one of our buses and so it's not parents do extracurricular this is the only way to allow the student to implement his IEP during the school day. And so the in order to the option of having a singular bus with a driver and an aid and transport the student would be far more expensive than than this situation and those are that that's so we negotiated with the parents to do the transporting in either of these cases or these
025programs that we're looking to bring back in district. No, I think the nature of the disabilities of these students preclude that. Thank you for answering that. And the transportation is required by the IEP. Yes, Mr. Yeah, I was just you just answered the question. I was wondering if it was required. It is. Yeah. Anybody else have any questions? I see by the number of days we have 215 216 days. So their IEP goes through through the summer. That includes the month of July usually. Okay. Okay. Anybody else? Please, Mr. Foody. Um, no. On 9 and 10. Um, yeah. and number 12. Yes. On the remainder of those 1 through 18, Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mrs. O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Key. Yes. Mr. Babbett. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Like to move item
026number 19 under budget and finance. Please. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mrs. Kempy. Yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mr. Foody? No. Mr. Babbett? Yes. Mr. Bailey? Yes. Mrs. Schulz? Yes. Like to move item number 20 under budget and finance. Please. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Kempy. Yes. Mr. De. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Babett. Yes. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Schultz. Yes. I'd like to move item number 21 under budget and finance. Please. Second. Discussion. Mr. D. I noticed as I went through these that there was a transfer $764 for a wheel balancing machine. Uh most everything else that I've seen here is something that we approved at one point or discussed in prior meetings and I don't remember that topic ever coming up. Yeah. Um
027we the wheel balancer has been giving them a problem and so um I asked them to get a price on getting a new one. So we haven't bought it yet. I believe that it's in the works. We have purchase order that's ready to go out. Isn't that the kind of thing that the board should have approved before we did it? Not necessarily. This is the cost of doing business because we have a transportation depot. We have um inspections that are starting this week. The state comes in for the inspections. We need to have the equipment necessary in order to perform the inspections. And I mean, Mr. De, so the the wheel balancer is unserviceable. That's what you guys have determined. That's why we're buying a new one. I think it's the original one. Yeah. So,
028it's it's unable to be repaired. So, and we need it. So, we're asking for it. Yeah, we do have we have um a number of buses that are being inspected. We have all our fleet plus we have um Kimlan and I think uh Butler also understood. We need the tooling to do the right job. I understand that. I was just making sure that we're not spend you know it's it's a unit that's unserviceable. We need to purchase the tooling to continue servicing the buses where keep everything up to um this is for the transportation garage. Yes. Did they get more than one price, Barbara? I believe they have they usually do get more than one price. Okay. Yeah. And this was obviously the lowest. Yes. Okay. Any other discussion? Yes. Roll call. Miss O'Brien. Yes.
029Mr. Deber. Yes. Mr. Drew? No. Mr. Foody? No. Mrs. Keepy. Yes. Mr. Babbot. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Schulz. Yes. Like to move items 22 and 23 under budget and finance. Please. Second. Discussion. Roll call. M. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes, Mrs. Key. Yes, Mr. Babett. Yes, Mr. Bailey. Yes, Mrs. Schulz. Yes. I'd like to move item number 24 under budget and finance, please. Second. Discussion. Roll. Sorry, Mr. Drew. Um I want to move this along and I understand the urgency of this. Uh we had discussed briefly using um a technique uh with an electronic grid to make sure that this can be repaired in the future. But I didn't see that in any of the specification documents. Is there some way to make sure that we get that
030added in as an option? If you look at the resolution, the backup material, alternate number one was actually the leak detection system and that can be awarded at a later time. This project is not going to start until September. So, it could be discussed at our June budget and finance meeting and then it could be um alternate number two one could be awarded at at a later date. You just to clarify the uh it the bids have to be held for 60 days by the contractor. So we have 60 days from the date of the opening which was the 20th to award whatever alternates we want. So today if approved the board would award the actual roof plus alternate two which was recommended by the architect. Then they have to hold the price for alternate
031number one um for 60 days. So we would have another meeting to discuss the pros and cons of that and decide if the board wants to go forward on that. So that's a really a board decision but I think according to the architect Rich is moving right quicker uh at least for the actual roof plus alternate too. I understand the timeliness. Um let me ask though one of my concerns here I mean clearly in my mind we have no choice. We need to do this. We've got to fix the roofs. I'd like to make sure we're not doing it again. And I've sort of heard that we've repaired the roofs several times in the last decade. Do you have any idea of what roofs we've made some attempt to repair? And and I'm sorry. What
032roofs have we made some attempt to repair in the last decade? At which at which schools? I've only been here the last five years, four years. I know we've had some repairs at the high school when the roof got blown off. We've had some repairs at McMan School. Um, more are needed in order just to get through next year if we're, you know, in even if we have a successful referendum, we have to do some work on the roofs prior to that in order to prevent them from getting worse. Um, Marshall Hill roof has been replaced. Um, I think there's been some intermittent repairs at Paradise Null and Maple Road School, but their roofs are relatively new. Um, I think UGL has a pretty good roof. I I don't recall having any issues up there.
033the biggest problem we have up there with the fan units, you know, the ventilated ventilating that's going on. Um, so I think that it's normal to have some roof repairs. We have to maintain the um Oh, yeah. the flashing and we have to, you know, that's been a big part of the problems that we've experienced. Some of the flashing has needed to be repaired around the uh rooftop units and also some of the um the sides where it's starts to separate. But um I I don't believe that there's any kind of maintenance problem on the roofs in the past. Any other questions, Mr. Foody? Um, one on on the documents that we received here and I read these same thing in the documents from Marshall Hill roof replacement and the una unallocated allowance. Is that
034standard in the board of education world? because I don't ever do anything like that out out in the real world where we, you know, say, "Oh, I'm going to give you I'm tacking $35,000 on a job just in case something comes up and I can tap into it." That's it is standard and and I understand that if we don't use it, we get it back at the end. So, but it's actually part of the bid base bid. So, it's not on top of the base bid. It's built in. It's part of it's absolutely. could end up costing the board 692 plus the alternate minus the 37,500 if it's not used. That's really more of a cushion just in case when you do renovations at home build in 10% or whatever it is. Understood. Understood. But
035that's the reason that's built in is because we can't then later on uh amend the contract or the bid specifications because we'd have already awarded the project. So here the architect has determined that it's possible that $37,000 could come up in uh issues or whatnot that they might need the money for. So rather rather than do it later, it's easier to build it into the base bid and and then just refund it at the end. Right. I've you know that's very standard in school construction. Um thank you. I'm still going. What kind of roof, Barbara, are we putting on? Because I understand it was an asphalt roof with tar that was done at Marshall Hill. Asphalt? No, it's a Is it rubber? The EPDM roof? Mhm. Okay. Right. Somebody said that it was that it
036was stinky and it was tar and I maybe could have been the glue, but uh the glue was some kind of a there was some kind of odor that um you know I think it was there was this one area that had to be changed over the front door because of the um rain barrel. Okay. um they they weren't able to use the water from the rain barrel if if it was torn roof. Yeah. So they had to they had to change whatever it was and when they installed it there was um one day of of odor. Okay. But it was an EDPM roof. It we did hear the same rumors and we we did check on that uh to make sure that it was wrong. We heard that during a meeting one night and
037we're concerned about it. Yeah. No, cuz you you're that type of money, you're done in 5 years with an with an asphalt roof. You're going to Well, I do believe the manufacturer has provided a a 10-year warranty, but realize that in order to maintain the warranty, you also have to have it serviced on a regular basis. Somebody has to come out to check it to make sure that there's no breaches in in the in the roof. That's the only way you're going to maintain your warranty. Yeah. Now, uh Mr. Drew you had asked a question u with regards to maintenance. Um can Mr. Sandby set something up where in the fall time he goes around and inspects every roof that we have in the district for because that's when that's when the problems occur when
038the seam is slightly lifted and then you get the winter and the cold temperatures kind of separate the seams a little more. I think that we would need to bring a professional in. I don't believe that he I know that when we have issues, we do have uh some of our maintenance people that do walk on the roofs and they'll cloth the areas, but with our newer roofs once our we couldn't do that. No, I I understood, but that way we would have to bring in the manufacturer that would come under a service contract, right? Yeah, we have Well, I don't believe we're going to do a service contract. I think that there's a warranty provision with a service contract that the manufacturer provides. Okay. But we were going to we're going to have to
039have somebody come in to do the inspections. Could Could Mr. No, but could Mr. Sanvi be necessarily he could be trained? Couple of our our maintenance people in order to do that. Okay. because we are using the same type of roof in a number of areas and it would behoove us to have um someone who knows how to do minor repairs and who's authorized by the manufacturer. Yep. Okay. Quick question. Quick question. We're going to spend $719,000 repairing roofs and then we're going to ask for $8 million to replace the roofs. This is only one building. This is a replacement as well. This is only West School. this building here. We need a referendum to do the high school and the middle school. This is a replacement. It's a new roof. So, they're taking off
040the old roof and putting new one. It's not a repair. Okay. It's a replacement. Yeah. This will be replaced and then it should be good for 20 years. Perfect. You and I won't have this conversation again. The objective is to have three three new roofs uh in place. Understood. And and we're going to talk about the high school MCAP in executive session. Yes. Okay. Any other questions? Roll call. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Mr. Deber. Yes. Mr. Drew. Yes. Mr. Foody. Uh, yes. Mrs. Steppy. Yes. Mr. Babbett. Yes. Mr. Bailey. Yes. Mrs. Schultz. Yes. Special committees leaison reports parks and recreation Mr. Robbins is not here Mr. Buy safety uh we are having a meeting on Thursday of this week so I will be reporting at our next scheduled meeting. Thank you. Superintendent John. Um I was
041not available for the last meeting last week. I don't know. Um, so I apologize. I have nothing to record this. Okay, that's okay. Thank you. Do you have some information or Yeah. Uh, a couple of things that came up at the meeting were, um, you know, we're looking at the aftermath of the winter. So, we were looking at some of the, uh, parking lot areas and roadways that need repair that are on our list to take care of. Uh, there's also some concerns. Uh I think in some places uh speed bumps have been removed that we want to put back in place along with some signage by the high school with arrows pointing in front of the auditorium area so that the traffic does remain in one direction because that's becoming an issue there. Uh
042also a missing chain at I think it was Marshall Hill School. Uh, and we also discussed uh moving forward with putting, we have to check with the town first, but possibly moving forward with the clothing bin at Marshall Hill uh for a yearly fundraiser for uh the PTO. Um, and so that's pretty much what we were looking at. We're also looking at the uh class sizes, which I think we're in a good place. We should be in a good place with that. Uh, looking at the number of students in each one of the classes. And uh, pretty much I think that was it. There's some other concerns. I don't have those notes with me unfortunately, but those are the things that stick out in my mind. So, thank you. Thank you. State County School Boards
043Association. Mrs. O'Brien. Nothing to report at this time. Thank you, Mr. Foody. New Jersey school boards. Nothing to report at this time. Mr. Drew, legislative. Um, I I don't know whether this has passed both houses. Somebody may know, but the cap on the superintendent, I believe, is has passed. Um, there was, interestingly, there was a bill submitted passed by the Senate that will require school districts to provide a book for every child registered for a class. Um, hasn't passed both houses yet. Text textbooks. Thank you. Just technology oversight, Mrs. Keepy. Um, right now we um I was told that um districtwide we were going to add 300 Chromebooks, but it's been such so successful that teachers have been purchasing them, too. And we're up to 530 Chromebooks now in the district. Um, and all submissions
044are approved. Uh but we're still waiting on the rate before moving forward with the wireless. Thank you. Uh West Milford Education Foundation. This is O'Brien. Uh we had a meeting on May 18th. Um it is tenative that we will have a taste of the Highlands in spring 2016. I'll let you know more details when I receive them. Good news. We've received a few more volunteers that will help at the takes the highlands because it's a very major undertaking with, you know, a small group of people. Um, the honor a teacher program will be happening in June. The PTA's PTO's are helping us get that uh going which is most appreciative. We tal we talked about promoting the foundation at back to school night and at meetings with the local PTA, PTO's and PTSOs. Um to
045those that are out in the audience, there will be a grant application for the 19 2015 2016 school year. I will keep uh everybody posted as well as it'll be advertised on our website and on Facebook. And you can also do it on the town uh television station. Thank you for reminding me. Thank you. Thank you. Uh township board of education joint committee. Um, I guess I can report on that. Do you mind need to pass this over? Do you want to report? I can. I have something to say about that. Okay. Just uh I touched base with Mrs. Likenberg, Councilwoman Lienberg about the softball game that's coming up. Um, thank you for the email reminder. I sent out uh another email which I'll discuss. Uh hopefully we can recruit some some other people for
046the game. That's it. Um, I just wanted to mention, do I have to pass this doing a report? Not really, but just we did have a um joint committee meeting with the town council uh with regards to the upcoming referendum. We wanted to give the council members um a heads up on the repairs that were needed on the roofs in our school um the high school in Makipin. And um they did discuss with us um the scare the fair school funding act and the town council was passing a resolution with regard to that and we have done the same this evening. So um overall I think it was a good meeting and uh we'll have more information to come once we're set with our plans on and the schematics on the um referendum. You don't
047need to pass that just so you know when you're making a comment on an agenda item of personal belief or thought. So if you're reporting as a committee on board business, you're okay. Okay. So thank you. Um do we have any old business? Seeing none, move to close old business. Second. All in favor? How about any new business? Mr. Brooden, Dr. Brooden, I just wanted to tell the board that Dr. Elizabeth Mcuade, supervisor of special services, gave birth to a little girl on Saturday. Uh, baby and mom are doing fine, six weeks early. But, uh, the good news is everybody's fine and I just wanted everybody to know that. And, uh, she'll be in touch pretty soon, I guess, and sending pictures, but I just didn't want anybody to know that. names Monica Lynn McQuade
048a report is that her rough tough policeman husband is now a puddle of baby's gone that's on television that thank you for letting us know that's great anybody else for uh new business seeing none moves to close new business second all in favor I petitions and requests. Petitioners who have requested to speak prior to the meeting will be first with five minutes for each petitioner for 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. 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? Mr. Gonzalez. Edwin Gonzalez, um, Pine Cliff
049Lake, West Mel for 77. In regards to Project Graduation, um, Miss Forbes is working on the final editing of it. Hopefully by tomorrow I get it. It will air at 11:00 a.m. and possibly between 9 and 10 p.m. as well for a second run. I'm also going to syndicate the video on our connect server which is a networking server and I'm going to reach out to other stations throughout the state um possibly the country depending there's I know there stations there as far as New Hampshire and there um to see if they would like to also pull the video and play it on their station. That would be the cable thon. Yes. Okay. Um that's it. Yeah. Just want to say thank you for that. Uh there was some communication between Edward and myself and
050then I reached out to Mrs. Romeo uh who's pretty much running the show with uh Miss Conland as well. Uh and I did give them permission to leave the um PayPal site up on a district website until June 15th. So uh people will have the opportunity when they're watching to either send in a hard copy check or make a payment on PayPal for a donation. So that's good. Thank you, Edward. You're welcome. Thank you. And if they were to make a check, it would be made out to West Milford Township High School Project Graduation. And I think it's PTS organization. That is their organization, but I thought it went to Yeah, I will. We will double check on that. Is that set up as a nonprofit? Yes, it is. BTSO. Yes. Suggestion to them maybe.
051And I don't know, Joe. Um, is this new business because we're on petitions and requests right now. Okay. All right. Sorry. Yes. Um, Kirsten Copala, CO P126 Ridge Road. Um, I do want to thank the board and the superintendent for their considerations regarding class sizes. And I don't know if I'm allowed to do this. Can I Are we getting our three sections of first grade? Is fifth remaining the same? Yes. Thank you very much. Should all should remain the same. Thank you. Thank you. Would anybody else like to come up and speak during petitions and requests? Could I just jump in real quick? When I made a donation for the cable, I made it out to the high school. So, I don't know. And they cashed it. So, it it worked. So, I don't know
052if there's any in legalities. I just want to add that in. Thank you. So, I need a motion to close. Sorry. Does anybody else want to come up and speak during petitions and requests? Okay. I'd like to make a motion to close petitions and requests. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Executive session. At 8:23, I'd like to make a motion to go into executive session for the purpose of discussing negotiation, student matters, personnel, Hibbs, the director of education, director of education, sir, and matters of attorney client privilege. Second. All in favor? I I oppose. The board has the board has the right to come back and take action. And take action. All in favor of session. All right. So, we're going to go into session. We're going to go in that room because it's
053cooler. This little room over here. They're set up as a nonprofit. My thought was Marilyn, you'd almost be guaranteed 2500 customers. Couldn't the the the senior class do like a Christmas So crazy. I got to believe that every Oh my gosh. We're back from executive session. It's 9:42 p.m. and I guess we're going to pick up on um personnel uh education item number nine. We're on page five. This is Kathy. I'd like to make a motion to approve item number nine is hip cases. Uh hip case age 28 2015 age 29 is un unsubstantiated. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Sure. Yes. Mr. De standing right now. It's just the HIVs. Yes. Did you want to vote or Yes. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Which one? You want to vote or you're voting? A little more now.
054Sure. Thank you. Yes. Mr. Foody. Yes. Mrs. Key. Yes, Mr. Bit. Yes, Mr. Sh. Yes. Okay, I need a motion to adjourn. Oh, yeah. Oh my goodness. That's right. Thank you, Barbara. That's kind of a big deal. We have a hand carry. Um, under budget and finance item number three, Mr. 24. 24. Hand carry number three. Sorry. Item number 24. Mr. Drew, would you like to read that? Um, budget and finance transportation operations. Uh, recommendation of the superintendent to award a contract of sentinino architects red banks New Jersey for pre-referendum and referendum services as outlined in their proposal. I move that. Any discussion? Roll call. Miss O'Brien. Yes. Mr. De? Yes. Mr. Drew? Yes. Mr. Foody? Yes. Mrs. Heavy? Yes. Mr. B? Yes. Mr. Short? Yes. Thank you for doing that. And now I need
055a motion to adjourn at 9:44. I would like to make a motion to adjourn our meeting at 9:44 p.m. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Thank you for coming. Our meeting is officially adjourned at 9:44 p.m. When you start jumping around, that's it. Thank you. Very warm. I'm