001I would like to call this meeting to order this is a regular session of the boot CH board of education help for the purpose of transacting appropriate board business in compliance with chapter 231 of 1975 notice of this meeting was advertised in Mar del record copies of the agenda of this meeting were abruptly posted and available to the public Mr B here Mr Brer here Mrs Cabana Mr Chen Mr hermy here Mr Johnson here Mrs McBride Mr Mills here also president Mr fi superintendent principal I see our student representative Christopher we have a for thank you please stand first thing we have toight on the agenda is the 20 2526 T budget and Mr Murray anybody has the binders from last year we can recycle we Supply I will next time when we do the
002public he I'll do I'll do the slide so basically what I'll do I'll go through um and then at the back of it like we do in each year there a line item if you prefer if you want to go through that or we could just that we get to it uh so basically we pres no not presting and this will be on the website tomorrow but if there are any typos anything I'll tweak it and put it up on the website tomorrow the governor's budget message was on the 25th we received State a figures I'll get into that a little later uh tonight we're asking for the tenative budget to be approved has to be submitted by the deadline to the county superintendent by March 19th um she has to re review it and
003as I mentioned earlier in finance we met earlier that U the county business administrator is between two counties so she's rev Dowing it on 65 budget so basically when we approve it and we get it down there that gets on the pile so quicker we can get quicker they can red do it and then uh by the 21st they have to respond and our public hearing is on the 30th so a lot has to happen between that tonight and and the 19th for submission and then the 2st before we have a public here so you know I won't read through everything but each budget that we create always follow District goals and budgetary goals you know I won't read through those you can read those they're on our agendas every meeting considerations in the budget
004development we know that the tax levy we have limited revenues so the tax levy is about 90% of our budget State another six um we have limited revenues from tuition for a prek program that's about 4% and the rest comes budget fund balance and some miscellaneous Revenue so the other on the expense side we have to consider that salaries benefits are more than 50% of the budget out of District tuition for Mount lakes and special ed at a district about 33% of the budget and then you can see some of the other clols buing and the rest so the the other category makes up a very small portion of the budget the larger amounts are obviously this category mention uh with the assumptions we have a little bit fewer fewer students going to Mountain Lakes
005although the tuition per student has increased we're looking to send about $45,000 L there so we saved a little bit there we got additional 57,000 in state8 we're at the 2% cap as I'll show later that's about 297,000 of new money and uh you know on the other side of the expense side we're anticipating about 10 to 12% um benefits negotiating salaries that's unknown at this point and administrative limits are impacted by enrollment we discuss later and we have no anticipated retirements again some of the Cost Containment measures in order to to bring a budget in continually have to look at Cost saving measures things that we can do coopertive purchasing to save save dollars save resources and we also share Services over the years that have help have helped us save continuously the enrollment
006hasn't changed that you've seen from pre previous presentations we're projecting 412 students at RBS page eight slide eight you've seen this all before it just shows a history of the enrollment di for a little bit starting to decline back up again um add of District placements we have preschool IND District placements and so forth Staffing on page nine has not changed we're anticipating the same number of full-time equivalents page 10 some of the things that are included among other things we have uh replacements for Chromebooks and knock books that is an annual replacement for a technology plan replacing and I guess I found out today or discussed today that at grade five you'll get a Chromebook carry through to the G grade at the end of that they they may still be useful they can
007go down to the lower grade so as we replace these they're not just grown out they're used um but we do have a schedule this is part of it textbooks so one last stay with one job all the way when they when they get to the fifth grade you could generally you know CH you still return them every oh the yeah they'll return but I mean that's assigned to a student so okay it's not like you know one and done you're keeping it for that particular okay so they have to care for them and you know we have cases for them so it does protect it but again their their devices like you have there they break um the textbooks u in unison with our replacement plan um it's a three-year digital digital now but
008you still have worklooks that they they have to ship out each year so we're looking to replace replace the K to8 VAP and Ela for a pre-year digital license 44,000 so that's included in the budget so again those expenses each year we do budget for Tex replacement we talked about the roof here's a here's a picture of what's being proposed which is this Wing down here for this Summer covers from fish tank nurses office all the way down to the parking lot door then you can see some of the other ones that have done so we've done about $1.5 million in group uh this past year 2024 summer we did not do any because we thought it would be the referendum and now um hopefully if that's the next step we could do the rest
009of the RO either referendum or stay with this plan as we're doing that so basically the tax levy of the glance we're at the 2% as I mentioned one year current year 14.8 million proposing 15.1 and U as I mentioned every year you have tax levy adjustments that you can the districts are allowed to go above the 2% cap which you have to qualify for in our case the health care cost from one year to the next qualified US for about $117,000 to go above that 2% I'll explain a little more later Bank cap is if I've generated this year or if you generated the last couple of years do not use it they say in the subsequent years you can use it and then it it falls off so you have three years to
010use it so what I'm telling you here is that we have the ability to raise up to 2.58% we chosen not to do it you know we can live within the 2% and if you look at the next slide although we've had adjustments that were available to us we've had back app year after year we've chosen not to use it so I think it's just prudent on our district part the Board of Education part too try to try to live within that 2% 14 state aid history just give you a 10e history of where we are we dipped for a little bit now it's starting to De climb and as Mr Chen said in our finance meeting really is you know based on the number of students the more students you have in there divide
011by the the aid obviously your cost per people go up it's the same as the M Comm of the C really adjustment for that e based enrollment is really not the best way to approach it uh just the revenues it shows you where our revenues are the majority really is local tax levy state aid is the next and then fund balance which is you know a r r day fund and then we also have a withdrawal from capital reserve for the roof project which does not impact the taxes on the expense side the budget that you're going to be approving tonight is uh the general fund budget a total budget but the general fund portion is 17.4 million and 115 special Revenue the reason you see a dip number one we didn't qualify final One
012funds uh for next year so we want that funding Federal funding and also when State ask us to put a budget together they they ask us to budget at 80% of the current years's funding not saying that we'll receive anything this but they want you to just be prepared in case there are so I'm budgeting for something low next year right so the overall approval for tonight will be 17.6 and again just showing your operating history so we've been um you know maintaining lower year-to-year differences the only little blips in there come in the years that infused capital reserve so again an operating budget history you can see that n increases year and year the only times we see the larger ones are from influx of capital Z and again when you when you bring
013money out of your capital reserve you can raise your budget up but it doesn't impact that sort of Cash Money of the bank pay for cash profit and then uh you hear a lot about administrative spending year to year we struggle but this year they made some adjustments in the regional limits you have to stay below any a and a and big so in our case $443 below $443 below Regional limit and $446 below the the current years adjusted limit lower the they they actually raised it a little bit they raised a little bit so really as your enrollment goes up you have more children to divide up among your administrative costs and you can administr cost of things to operate your insurance it's not only salaries I I'm a firm believer that the original
014intent plus to to keep administrative salary but they included a lot of other things copy insurance paper for the cop things like that insurance that really the operates need to operate a district but kind of an unfair grouping of dolls didn't need those to operate but it was a way that they can administrate spending and the last would be um so the budget we're proposing if you look at the estimated taxes 2024 taxes on the average home to the estimated for 2025 the year-to-year difference on the average home so that is the bud just summarize by saying we're in very good shape there are some variabl unknowns at this time we negotiating teacher salary staff salary um we don't have all the numbers in yet for the for the U health benefits or the insurance
015so that could change you know hopefully it's on target but we're in pretty good shape financially as far as you know anything that might happen unless we have some large families moving in that putting a budget that Mr Fai can carry out the education program to replacing techs techology one each each well again that's in the special editor but I think you want me to turn that let me turn that off we lost approximately 77,000 in this year and last year I was just now the the ti can you hear from here the title one money is about 21,000 so that that's based on the number of specialized children that P in title the CATE you know um the categories specialed children in that qualify for certain services and I guess as our population in
016that area M we would qualify based on the enrollment of the children but also the other decrease is that we have to budget at 80% State tells us budget at 80% of what you receive this year so that's also contributing to the decrease so about $21,000 of Title One funds we're not going to be there next year so I had to incorp some of those things software packages that that are used in the education program have to be in the budget which I had move the budget so that was about 21,000 that I now have to bring back into the budget that was previously John um next question so for the um it's really I mean sort of have Reser couple of the past few years remov so is there a plan to replenish that
017over the years each year whatever you don't whatever you don't spend in the budget again a budget is just that it's a you're estimating what you think you're going to spend if you can conserve the budget of funds left over either goes towards next year's budget of fund balance because in your rainy day or you putting the capital reserve each year we've been fortunate enough to have money going into there we built up capital reserve in the amount of 2li going to use almost a million dollars coming out and then we certainly can't replenish what we're taking out now but little by little you keep it in there to do to use local funds Capal profit and the only time you bring it out that budet approve bring it out and again so if you
018have the expenditure side your Revenue it's not really Revenue bring it out in the bank to pay for it so it doesn't factor into taxes out of curiosity can you move funds from the budget and fund balance the capital reserve or no I they usually that that's different one one is unreserved fund balance no I know you wanted there a project I'm just saying hypothetically if there a big project you wanted to do and you needed a little bit of money could you the money I know there different purposes but are they un to transfer well you would you would pull it you had budget time you could pull you would you pull it out so instead of the 281,000 we using of budget fund balance you pull out more okay from that oh okay
019but but that it has a cap of 2% so you can only keep 2% unreserved fund Bal so you're able to accumulate in capital reserve up to your 5year facility plan and 5year facility plan has about $10 million in project so we can potentially we don't have the financial statute to do that but you can put up to $10 million in our Capital so answer your question yes you can do it but you do it as bun time yeah and you can only you can only keep up 2% in there so it's a smaller but so you have to pull it out for boiler that goes down something that emergency have to pull it out you get special dispensation do that question as well page 11 regarding yeah have about 2 million so in the
020when we did the referendum you had you had 40% of St this is all loc um but again you want to leave it in there for future years other things right so my question I guess is it would wouldn't it be great to get the completed earlier than later I would other things Park a lot I might have to do other things and can you just why these two sections for 2025 versus the we looked at the larger section and ones were that were mostly Pro problematic in our in our longterm plan and that was the wing that we're constantly having repairs and I got to call 20 whatever is 28 is the so the the upper gym I know that's been an issue but up until this you know this past we've been able
021to mitigate any of those small leaks this past winter with the with the freezing temperatures and what what happens with the roof is you get a pin hole water gets in there then it freezes it expands and as soon as you get that fall we had cans all over that was unexpected at most we've had two three four um the difference between that roof and the flat roof the flat roof has all kinds of tapered insulations going toward Trin that roof is actually pissed so even when the roofer was up there they do the most recent repairs said and there's a gutter system so you have water running off so it's because of the snow build up and the freezing and then the thought it just opened up okay that's the upper G so I've
022been watching it very carefully we have a wood floor you know it's used for gym class and used for sport so um you know it's at the point where definitely needs to be we're mitigating it right now think we handle it all that would be the next again classroom space I mean gym you can kind of move you know weather ni to go outside but classroom you can't get technology in there you know I appreciate that we're doing part with the children you know like versus the gym you know like over the educ you know again it's a it only happens when generally when you have B CU When there's water running off it's just going past whatever a bubble might be and hopefully we'll have another referendum and maybe we'll get 40% off ofil
023committees going to be meeting uh in in early April and we going be talking about longterm thank you and then the last Fe I didn't get to it but again you have it uh I give it to you every year it's the line item so every line item in the budget is show two different ways the first report shows it sequentially you can see it a year to year by different areas and then in the second grouping I'll do it by the fourth set of Digit object code so it lumps like accounts together so you can see the salaries lump together can see year to year changes in particular area so um again you it's your choice you can go through it or you can take it home take a look at it call me
024email me question but basically it's uh like I said everything that Mr fi needs that to carry the the ucational program through funded we not wanting for anything uh teachers have always been very good about the I even have to call them up for email you sure you have enough in there that you know and we'll discuss that um I've been situations where it's like use it or lose it all a sudden you know buying P chalk they use for years just to not lose their budg we don't work we work with what you need let's build a budget and I just want to make sure that they thought about it any questions um I actually have question slide um there there has been a an increase in the amount of approximately 576 and, in
025the amount of stage eight that we got last year compared to this year they have to say initially I thought it was first but it's just no that's the that's the total amount from year to year so you know I I was originally building a budget at status quo year increase because we were hearing this the first thing that came out the St but race for a 3% no more than a 3% so it was either from zero to 3% I've had colleagues in M County that lost hundreds of thousands of dollar fortune that whatever minor increase will take yeah not completely no possibly s not completely but they had a reduction and this amount how would you say it compers to previous years um meaning is this a drop no the last two years
026we've been very fortunate we've got a little bit extra this this is probably the lar I think was about 29,000 I think 29,000 last year they gave us an addition so we haven't lost any we held harmless for many years the total G and then you see disparity to year and really the she she's looking at the slide that has right because it's based on the number of students so if you have more students divided up you're going to have a higher number per so questions good thank you thank you um sorry hi everybody so the school play passing through of foot loose did an excellent job with their performance shout out to cast crew Everybody who worked on the production happy to see myself was amazing I want to congratulate Deca SAA chisin Nick
027soda Gabby Ramirez Sophia sherbo Ethan W for their Atlantic City Summit and they made it to finals be competing in Orlando uh senior bowling night will be taken March 23rd Mark period ends on March 28th and then now we'll go into fourth Mark period and then I want also the E gr mixer happened last Friday between M Lake Rock Valley I happen to be there uh I was helping out um with that shout out to miss Suarez miss urina and miss Chandra along with parents volunteers for making that happen most importantly I want to give a shout out to Rockway Valley's own Mrs fidella uh who is there helping out very great to see her umat up and that's really what I have for now thank you very not to see everybody with that we
028have ordinances motion number one motion please a second com discussion questions on the adoption of board business motion number one all those in favor say I I anyone oppos say no any extensions and that brings us to the business all right great thank you very much uh we had a bowling event on Sunday February 23rd with be at Foundation Bing event it was a wonderful time together where we brought all the kids together from all different grade models I'd like to ask everybody to our website and check out our first podcast with Dr Brad seagull it's posted on my uh my link and we did have another joint Community presentation between myself and Dr seagull just this past Monday on March 10th at Wildwood Elementary School the title of the program was the empathetic child
029Ed by about 20 ke so we had a great turnout about 30 people signed up and uh 20 or 20 something people turned out and we had very good and robust conversation so TKE and I have for our next uh joint presentation uh I'd also like to invite everybody to join us on Friday March 14th for RVs skating night at M aren and that my report great thank you very much and with that had a chance to see the nurses report the student attendance report and the staff attendance report that brings us to com Mr evening thank you very much I'd like to say congratulations to our two uh 2025 county level award winners uh Piper hos is the recipient of the Morris County School Board Association unsung hero award uh the moris county unsung
030hero heroes are students who have made a lasting impact through their unique and outstanding contributions to their schools and communities their their efforts often overlooked by tradition student recognition programs are vital to making our schools and communi SL and it's these unique and outstanding contributions that this Bo aims to honor and celebrate also Marco Sarah he is the recipient of the Mars County superintend Association leadership award recipient of this award the student whose academic extracurricular and Community leadership has had a positive impact on the school environment and serves as a role model for others next congratulations the fourth grade teachers of Mrs valdino Dr s and Mr sammon on this year's outstanding wax museum show and presentations it's clear how much work both teachers and students put into this project and what makes it such
031brenal favor next thank you to the H School Association and Mrs Cooper for arranging our try comings in alter through the day uh for grades prek through rep his presentations for each grade were fascinating his illustration workshop with fourth grade really got our juices fun and I believe you can see some of his work right there with some with some of the kids many thanks to the Ed foundation for sponsoring the read it fine again this year and to Mrs Fox as well for arranging the guest Meers in our school lots of greeing took place the week of March 3rd the eighth grade cats and the hats did their Dr suit's Duty in Stellar fashion which were Mena Vera meta a and Hudson the seventh graders had an outstanding trip to New York City to
032see The Outsiders on Broadway earlier this mon once again thanks to the foundation for their suppor iness having read and studied the book in the first Mark period the students were well equipped to compare and contrast the book and the play and a spotlight on student work for February uh Spotlight on student work is the exe work by students in preschool to third grade displayed in the lobby on a monly basis for kindergarten recognition goes to hun hress Charlotte Brown banac theia pad Jackson ly and Myra SAR first grade Sor leev and Dylan wers second grade Addison shandelle Brady person L Alum and Byron Martz n m and third grade andar and Mia saan and next is the Flying high in fourth grade February congratulations this is a certificate that's awarded each month to recognize
033students who display a variety of outstanding character and their achievements within the classroom students recognizer Caleb castano cin centino and Charlie Burke Ava Becker and julianes Julian Ben andna Johan and finally the Falcons of the month for January Falcons of the month are students that exhibit a dedication to learning leadership skills great attitude and strong character trades who promote a positive School climate for fifth grade Vanessa Galloway sixth grade berri iner seventh grade Annabelle Lum and eighth grade H Yoshi thank you very much great thank you Mr thank you and BR us the correspondence wanted with all have a chance to read and that brings us to V concession number one the first public comment Peri will be limited to agenda items only the second public comment perod will be open the topic please be
034mindful that public comment perat are available to enable the public to give comments and feedback to the board personal matters they the operations are not appropriate subjects for board meetings these can always be most effectively resolved with the appropriate staff members or misses according to the chain concept questions may be directed to appropriate SCH person through email please St your name address for the record and all comments will anyone from on reports St M Lort education all right um just for clarity I was unable to attend the last meeting but I did watch the video so I'll give you what I could from the video without having in front of me so um Steve poer the mountain lake Bard attorney provided an in depth ethics overview uh went very deep I think it was an
035hour long when I video to overall all things ethics in board so was very um Dr Riley the Mountain lak business administrator reviewed the preliminary budget just as Mr Murray has um I did was hard because I didn't have the presentation in front of me and I trying to kind of listen but I did pick up that they have slight deduction they a um all of the things seem to be relatively um very similar to last year I didn't he anything that um Steve po also provided update to the community on the ongoing effort to Turf the area affectionally known as the pit not as you probably heard about this um it's he's talked about the documentation that's been put through they working with the burrow U there is a title search that is on
036goinging or the title start back many years so they' got to figure out who owns what piece of their land they look do that he also mentioned that uh previously they had committed to finishing that project by December but they did um get sort of an extension knowing that they still have to they talked to the state and they said look we have um um bids to put out paperwork to put through so I think they have to use all the funds by December of 2026 they're very committed to doing it I they just um it's the area between PR cliff and uh that like brassy muddy area between the high school track if you will walk around the u r Cliff that's okay but I think the issue is borrow owns half and the
037school owns half so they're trying to get borrow for those that aren't aware to sort of see the half of the land to the school um Dr herel provided a curriculum update uh 2025 26 year that moving to a one toone device they're going to use PR we do um all students will now have the same device I don't think they had that in place before um grade the high school the whole year 2025 26 everybody whole High School just High School not just the high school moving the pros um M Lake's mathematics placement process they they took a look at uh they looking at the criteria and just making sure I think they have a set criteria and the acceleration pathway and into it different ways um whether you place it or you get
038classes to help Place yourself into it and place it um know looking at make sure they're aligned with RBS you did mention that on there and that that tracking starts in grade six 67 all8 um the prior clip program studies the big thing there is they're looking to a revision on the stock market course that they have but I think they need some more approvals in place so they're putting out but they want to kind of that uh Mrs Forman provided facilities update a little bit of field uh they're going to close out the auditorium process finish that the updates that there they're looking some kitchen orders they had some change orders with the kitchen I guess they were doing some cracking and epoxy issues they coming back R against that um and I guess
039to an updates the high school girls locker room Le about 400 squ feet um that they had a quote but it many years ago so I think they have quote um the willto path is now poly open uh the late Drive vest fuel that we to redo bids are in costing and funding is being discussed for that um and they're looking at Partnerships I get a chance to question what that was but they're looking to update scoreboard um at the main tur which apparently is 44 years old I guess reference supposed to last 15 years so it's a bit old so says there's 90 minutes left in quarter on told like besides the spaz out so we're looking to read that um and they're looking at prioritizing the long range the next meeting is on
040Monday all Happ thank you very much and that BR us to the New Jersey school boards Association uh only update is that there'll be a virtual spring conference in May 30th um couldn't quite tell what the post going be thank you and that brings us to Mar County School boards Association let see we I can tell you the 2025 Mar County Heroes meeting and ceremony will be on April 2 at high school and folks last years before so highly recommend it I believe it's April it oh you said all okay we can yeah this have I think you also go on the same you sign up for conf go on the oh yeah I did we get but I did I didn't know if that was announced so I didn't want to great that we
041bring to the Educational Services Commission of Mars County they met just before this meeting at 6:30 uh of note they approved their their 2025 2026 budget foring year and otherwise routine business and next is Township special education advisory grou and of course a lot march5 I'm like you say St uh parents and valuable Insight right students and resources following day March 26 7.m under Library add dist [Music] thank you very much great great thank you very much and that brings us to the food Education Foundation I'm HS and each say kind of overlock a little right now both of the play next and next we already so I mean I talk to that that is March 21st through the 23rd there is a book fair next week as well March 19th to the 21st there's
042a family skating night this Friday Mr mentioned already and that's it right now is that Foundation or HSA so I mean this is HSA okay thank you Foundation yeah the Ed Foundation is next meeting I believe is March 20th okay great thank you thank you and that brings us to Township committee uh Christine's not here I don't think I was just looking through my phone to see if iil I don't think there's a report to give tonight and finally the bo cat Green Team so the cat green team hosted an educational session with the it's called warak with the e river Watershed action committee and we um live streamed it had nice participation um some online some new Township community members were there as well and it was just it's it was fascinating and um
043they touched on all the different watersheds that are small portion of it goes through um Bo Township but um our water is rockward River T tiny tiny little pie tiny little piece yeah but um but they so it was very um educational for us is we are working on our own Municipal Water story for assist action and we're still working towards the green Fair on June 4th great thank you very much and that brings us to facilities Transportation I believe their meeting soon April 4th yes April 4th and with that we have a motion so least motion number one move is there a second second any questions comments or discussion and if not the questions on the adoption of facilities motion number one all those in favor say I I anyone oppos say no any
044extensions that brings us to iance motions one through eight I just have one change I I just realized that the Ting the budget has has to be a roll call V so at the end still a roll call oh okay and finance committee met just before the board meeting and Mr Murray went over the presentation that you saw earlier and and ask questions and with that have a motion forance motions through I'll move just a second second there any questions comments or discussion all right uh I actually don't have a question on on number seven would you please elaborate on that section and provide that that actually is a nursing service nuring service finance best choice so when they do uh when they do field trips just field trips yeah for field trips when they
045have you have to have a nurse go on those we don't have the Staffing or the substitute nurses to do that so we have inside nursing Serv stays here and right somebody has to be here or your vice versa one goes on the trip one has to stay here the pool is shallow as far as nures are concerned agency but sometimes the nurol go on the trip specificy and thenur any questions comments or discussion um just on the same I was just curious so if our if our nurses stick do we also use the service to staff the school have to be AC yeah if you have to if you can't you can't you don't have a sub available yeah oh so do we have like other special sub Staffing sub subes subes this is
046only a especially when you know one's on a trip and one's here then you don't have availability a lot of times they'll they'll Sub in different districts not available thank you and other questions comments or discussion can I just make one more comment oh absolutely in the event this happen before when a u when a child has an allery for example and we can't get a nurse sometimes inv a parent to be present or say it's not it's not deal you know don't need NE pen or anything like that so we can get sometimes that way sometimes great that would be up to the medical professional make that decision yeah sometimes staff members do get trained for application that also count myself then I would have to go on the trip not that thank any
047other questions comments or discussion and if not this a roll yes questions on the adoption of Finance motions what R it is a roll call Mrs B Mr Brer yes Mrs Herman yes Mr Johnson yes Mr midds yes this is no Wick yes fa thank you and that brings us to Personnel a personel committe recently y we met on March 4th we discussed um maternity leave position uh medical leave for a pair of professional so there's job opening there for short term we spoke about the sore program structure we spoke about the special ed Department structure and then the positive impact of maintaining state aid on our budget Anda great thank you and with that I have a motion for personal motions one and two no is there a second any other questions comments or
048discussion we say discu you st thank any other questions comments or discussion and if not the questions on the adoption of personal motions 1 and two this Mr yes Mr BR yes Mrs hery yes Johnson yes Mr Mill yes no great thank you and that brings us to the program I apologize was there anyone else there briefly Library uh yeah we met on March 10th on Monday morning uh we discuss possible uh changes and alterations to map programming have grades um to increase L lakes and also just to find um better solutions for students across all abilities um I believe there MTH STS L administrators and teachers this week for discuss um we discussed the calendar which approve tonight um we discussed that um Michelle lwood from all in education be coming to the training
049dis and Co teing and there'll be a Warris County Juvenile prosecutor uh coming to meet with students discuss saity of tax great thank you and with that may have a motion for program motions one and two is the recycl second any other questions comments or discussion have some questions on sure um so where there where it's marked like with a diagonal what is that that indicate a half day yes I believe that there's uh that's not the legend the legend all right and then can you can you explain um so we have it says so they'll be half days on June 17th 18th and 19th yes okay yes uh those days are should be blue because the legend like to light blue right indicates an early dismissal I did the slashes there in addition to
050the blue so the updated calendar would have that indicated okay thank you and so I see there's three emergency Clos dayses correct and we've changed that from we had five previously last year yes um sh why um just based on the feedback that I've gotten from just talking with parents this survey talking with teachers a lot of people said that five was too much three seems to be the sweet spot that was that was really the only reason why and and how did this uh I mean I know we it's not easy to match up with Mountain Lakes but were we able to coordinate with professional development or all of it yeah the uh the see except for the beginning of the year and in the summer uh only early or the the delayed opening
051the delayed openings are all in line as well as the full day on November 4th which is election day I removed that full day for professional development from Martin for and the 19th so that will be a District closed day like other districts have just like Mountain Lakes and my personal philosophy is that Martin Luther King was such a substantial figure in our in our country and I think that we need to um spend time with our family and Comm commemorate that that time and all those advances for our country so in that respect we need to do full day for professional development and what better way to do than to relay it with mountain laks and have cross curricular activities Andis types of professional involment vertical articulation and and horizontal articulation between the two
052districts okay that sounds great um thenit I'm just so I'm just looking that week in November it's so there's like it's half day I think that's that's not the calendar the stolder is not the one have the one that you sent to the program on the yeah I asked I'm just looking at the what in our folder so oh I think yeah it's okay get updated all right uh I will send that out to you so you have Cy and it'll have the right colors and the right numbers uh the reason why we have to change that as you know they have to consecutive days for the par teacher conferences so we moved it from the week of the 3 to the week of the 10 by 12th the 13th any other questions great thank
053you any other questions comments or discussion believe we have motion to the program wanted to right great okay that the questions on the adoption of program motions one and two the stud I can all in favor say I I anyone to CL say no any extensions that us to policy policy daily event I didn't think to prepar for that but policy committee did meet um we do have some policies for first reading and I believe all of these are first one um is based on a sample policy with some slight modifications um it's there's a sample policy that IT addresses um athletic athletic events and we've expanded it to including School EVS so if it's like a play or you know anything at the school basically that's one 12. yeah the first one spectator Cod
054of contuct so these all first read yes is there us on the first read through appr yeah or not motion this off yeah there's no motion yeah this there was a motion I it was removed yes so I'm just try remember and then so yes spectator code of conduct the saf policy School boards just covered athletic events and it was expanded to include all school events so there's like wording in there you know beyond coaches you know all that you to you know just sort of change the Le to address all School ads and then the other policies were all re reopt with no changes from the prior policies they're um just basically ring along as as they were before no changes yes no changes yes yes and with that if there's any questions or
055comments um I guess reach out to Christine between this meeting and the second reading and me thank you for here so that um governance I don't think met but we um we should be between this meeting the next just so you know there's spot right now on the B on discussion yes thank you for the government thank you and that we're the Open Session number two the second public comment period will be open today topic please be mindful that public comment periods are available to enable the public to give comments and feedback to the board personal matters and day-to-day operations about appropriate subjects board meetings these can always be most effective resolved with the appropriate staff members or administrators according to the champ concept questions may be directed to the appropriate School personel through email
056please state your name and address for the record all comment five minutes anyone from the phone there no is there any old business come before the board was there any any discussion about um no taking or distribution commit doing that kind of guidance um I guess actually that be something the government is can continue discussing I think um yeah I know we've had some stuff some things that are being uploaded know somewhat quickly at times and other um so yeah we're try to get that consistent and flowing as it were time there anyon we couldn't couldn't put up a do that not you just can't comment on so there's no reason why we can't put notes on page you just we can't have a discussion right well I don't think that would be yeah like
057I before the meeting I go through and see if anybody's updated yeah yesterday we talked about Gover commit just trying to find a consistent place for all that you should be like like shared folders for each Community or and the use Google sometimes is most of them are not dropped in the committee folders like when I uploaded I throw it in to be honest with you and when you look by date you put I put it right in the the drive the day after the meeting so you where the Personnel one is in there right oh in the okay in the share drive under your committee um no the the committee olders it doesn't look like they've been used in over a year or so no so yeah person4 so where do you put just
058on the main dri so this be something we can yeah absolutely drive only drive um if you modify it by date like the agenda's there first and then anything has been uploaded you mean shared with me yeah shared with everyone I think we need the bottom line is we all need to get at the same page on where we're putting things and actually putting things for example thear new I emailed that I didn't put it drive oh okay now went to the drive yeah you just what to do and where to play there's some Google issues too we just have to get our I mean I'm willing to take this on but would it help to create a template so you know like okay this is Personnel this is how you label the committee um
059tag like you put program curriculum you want to dat it a certain way most of these are dated the same way and they look the same way so that way when you look through them you have you know we've had a template in the past are you talking about within the notes or the drive because I mean there has honestly the last three years St for put this Grace has done it consistently right and so it's and there's certain folders for the Committees but I also think outside the committee the the drives a mess there's stuff and it really needs a full scale cleanup that's just a long term absolutely it's hard to B point it's hard to share with me or you probably do just hard to find hard to find quick last modified
060because then you get like the last $20 it's important I mean that's how I I would never know to look so the other thing is to send an email saying it's on that gets cumbersome you're going to get a lot of email live I think you can share within theu to the document that you edited it and then you get an alert like you can do that if you create a Google doc right but that's what you have to figure I mean I'm I'm used to like Windows like with you know where there's just like you go somewhere there's a folder you know but Google is kind of interesting where it's like shared with me shared there's all these different levels and it's like where and and I always find myself trying to navigate around
061it so it's like a Google to me like there's you know a Google thing but once we overcome the Google thing there is also people thinks some committee chairs but sometimes are not timely i w mention any names of me so well I think it's useful to use the structure we all have yeah useful to use already then there's like the where we thought of I think I don't know if they set those up so like like you know it gets kind of interesting in Google it's like wee created them Le share this share them happens you know don't like Le not they away like we should probably think about who everybody editor who should be the owner where should they who should really own those and then you know share from there you know
062there like strange things like that to consider too okay but right now like you we got them all in place I'm sure we can move them to that b but yeah I don't you so that's something we have to look at it is interesting had a LED discussion I think govern about that recent meetings and one more thought are the documents in thisare Drive public reachable committee knows possibly us so that's why you can't just rattle notes have that like anyone and we you know any any the commit chairs that are putting notes out there are aware things tricking can you just educate me real quickly because when I go under my drive and I go under the committee so where are you finding the committee step folders because under my committee step folders the
063data I have is 2021 I don't have Drive Shar Drive folders and it says last modifi 2021 by most but if you go to like let's say you go to Pal if you go inside and January that was like create date of the folder not like b h got it okay yeah so we'll work on that some more for sure no then don't be sorry that's a good thing because it does need to be you know then once you get all the stuff in the right folders then you get start picking G like there's many years of stuff is there nameing convention for the file names you know because that can be all over one person can say March 13th 2025 committee notes and another person might put you know a year first you can
064be messy so so once we Master any in one place that's another thing to do I've uploaded the calendar just copy it drive everywh I mean and just for the other thing I've been trying to do was go in the committee notes fer because I know that we all have access to it there's an important documents and so like our board evaluation the Strategic plan and like you know things that we should all know great so that's see that's Stu a project for the Govern committee um let's see any other says to come before the board um I guess just that I can bring up that Charlene um um was not able to make it this evening but she can make it to our April next April meeting whatever that is end of April first
065first meeting first yes first meeting middle of April yes and should also come L to that's our public here yes um so that so new business that come before the board new but just real quick to whoever still have the financial disclosures I was trying not I saw reaction here we got their in first I always we appreciate your diplomacy whoever I think I have two left um um okay if there's no other new business um we do have going to close session so we have a motion to enter to Executive session to discuss issues the more confidentiality as permitted in the open public meetings act chapter 231 ofos of 1975 these matters may or may not be made public when the board Rec convenience made public plan the confidential the subject is no longer
066wared we're going to uh discuss student matters and also BTA residency student residency and then also briefly BTA negotiation system update and with that and there will be no action taken what we Recon other than Jal meeting and with that may have any motion please please a second all those in favor say I I for those in our audience thank you very much for coming have a great month see you soon okay is 9:39 p.m we just um return from our closed session there is no other board action we have a motion to adjourn motion is there a second second all those in favor say I thank you very much we'll see you next month