001Public notice of this meeting was advertised in the Aspberry Park Crest on January 14, 2025 and notice was provided in the central jersey.com on January 9th, 2025. Notice has been posted in accordance with the open public meetings act of chapter 231 effective January 16, 1976 in the board office 370 Broad Street. A copy of this notice is also on file the office of the Bower clerk. Members of the public wishing to address the board of education on both agenda and non-ag agenda items must state their name, address, and are requested to limit their comments to five minutes when it appears the public comment portion of the meeting may exceed 30 minutes in duration. Public participation portion of the meeting is open to the citizens uh open to citizens for the purpose of addressing agenda and
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003minutes. QR codes are available at each board meeting to access the agenda. Roll call. Mrs. Abrahamson here. Miss Cunningham. Mr. Fopoulos here. Mrs. Grabowski, Mr. Houseman here, Miss Cahain, Mr. Stall here, Mr. Saley here, Mrs. Teas here, Mrs. Van Halen, we have a quum. At this time, uh, uh, we will entertain a meeting to make Mr. Staley, uh, board member Staley the presiding member at this meeting. A motion. Second. Second. Roll call. Mr. Abrahamson. Yes. Mr. Fopoulos. Mr. Houseman. Yes. Mr. Stall. Yes. Mr. Staley. Yes. Mrs. Teas. Yes. Motion passes. Good evening everyone. Uh so we're going to start with um no student representative tonight. Uh Dr. Seavoya. Present uh presentation. Students of the month. It's my pleasure to be able to um announce the May students of Central School. So when I call your
004name, if you could come up and stay here to get a picture, a must. Uh for kindergarten, Leila, Marco Valencia Gomez, Lily Hussy, Matthew Garcia Cortez, Jasine Gonzalez, Tobias Sinci. I got one. Oh, you're Lily. Hy. That's okay. There you are, Lily. Got a look. Carter Lecowski, Sophie Armillo, Munos, Vamea Cabanis. Yes. Okay. Eureka Bal Singh. Congratulations. Tanish Patel. Congratulations Kaylee Hope Gillum Guadalupe Reyes Marouin Uriel Garcia got two more Giana Mayorino and Axel. Aloe vera. Got the best ones here. Okay, we'll continue. Uh, no president's remarks. Dr. Seavoya, communications. Oh, no communication. Public uh public participation on agenda items. Superintendent Sen superintendent report. Okay. I I am pleased to announce that we've received final approval for the additional funds for the expanding access to computer science high school course grant bringing our total award
005to 63,714. This grant would significantly enhance our computer science offerings by enabling districts to implement a new cyber security 2 course, extend our popular robotics and esports club, and establish a dedicated network for computer science initiatives. host our summer lab weeks for intensive learning and provide more hands-on applications for all of our programs. Theou for integrated care concepts is on this agenda for this for approval. We were able to uh negotiate a uh cost savings of $20 an hour. So that was great. In addition, the remote instructional plan for 2526. And I did speak to this last week, but it just goes without saying that we're very proud to say that we're one of the four districts in our size to receive the $50,000 advanced placement and international balora course expansion grant. Uh on Thursday,
006June 12th, we had the prek students with their moving up ceremony. The uh slideshow is linked. Uh the PTO has also donated a podium and a sign board uh that are on the agenda for approval. Um the second and fifth grade families were notified of their Kogat results this week. Uh and a special shout out to uh Christ ministeriumsums who asked us to recognize four students that they have a straightforward that did not have I'm so sorry that have not had a straightforward path to graduation and they gave them um a little treat and a Visa gift card. very kind of them to do. We just recognized all the students of the month. We had no additional uh reports of HIV. Um I did recently meet with Amy McNamer who's one of our KCS parents
007who's now going to be overseeing the recreation program this summer. So we were able to work with her and then throughout our collaboration with United Way, we're planning a volunteering opportunity. And if the schedules align, they will be coming on June 26 to work on painting at both buildings. Um, I linked here the murals that are in Central School. I don't know if everybody's been on the top floor. You've seen those murals. They've been up there for longer than I've been here. Um, so what we decided we would do to to honor that is take pictures of them and make a poster, but paint over them and then maybe do some kind of incentive in the September with the um NJ honor society and the student council, something like that. Oh, okay. Oh, are you
008here for the students of the month? Okay, we're just a little late on that one. Um, Miss Melanchonicole has the certificates with her, but if you'd like to come up, I'd like to just recognize who you are so that we can say something very kind because I'm glad you're here. So, who is the uh who is the award winner, Sophia? Yeah. What grade are you? Fourth grade. Yeah. So, we have a certificate for you, but we already uh conducted the ceremony. So, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, but I think we should take a photo. So, we'll take a photo with Dr. Seavoya and we'll get you the certificate. Okay. Okay. Come on forward. Yes. Come forward. Yes. And what is your name? Matthew. And what grade are you in? Second grade. Okay. Congratulations. And another one.
009You have another. Is that it? Okay. Most people just go home. But so also in addition to the uh we're going to take pictures of murals. if we're going to make a a poster size and frame it out, but we're also pondering, there was some conversation about the pictures that are in the second grade. I want to say it's a second grade wing. Does everybody know which ones I'm talking about, the wood around them? Not sure what we want to do with those yet. U maybe if it's time for to put up some new bulletin board, something like that. So, um if you don't see them up right away, it's not because we're negating them, but we just don't want to put them back up until we have a plan. But if they do show
010up to paint, which uh they would be volunteering to do, we want to be able to remove them. Okay. So, I'm thinking that it might be time maybe to do something where we take all those pictures, maybe something similar to the murals or something like that. And then maybe um just I don't know, students of month poster, something such as that. So, that's what I'm thinking. If anybody has any issue with that, please let me know. But um and we'll share with you what we'll do before we do it just to let you know that this opportunity came our way. Um, in addition, let's see, I told you about the uh integrated care. Um, and I do need um another board member to volunteer to do some team building with the admins on Friday for
0111 hour from 10:45 to 11:45. If you're interested, I'd love to have somebody volunteer to hand out an envelope to them. That's all you have to do. It's kind of like an amazing race theme. So, going with that one, Miss Tus. That would be wonderful. So, it would be I will I will Yes, I know exactly what you mean. A Google invite. Yes, I got you. Okay. And then we have heard the weather could not be good for Wednesday. Mr. Waters and Mr. Flynn will probably want to make that call by tomorrow at lunchtime. So this way parents if they have to make any changes, five seats is a lot different than 10 and 15 for others. Um, as Mr. Ftopolis, you know, made point, it is the amount of chairs we set up is
012pretty similar, but it's all the amount of people that can stand and and view it. But the uh the live stream link is going to be active for everybody. Um and believe me, more than anything, we want everybody uh outside because it's just beautiful. But again, safety and and the rain. We just unfortunately um we're not weather people. And it could conceivably take a shift and not be that 60% that doesn't rain. But then you can't have everybody running in with umbrellas either. So, um, if you have any questions, don't hesitate to call me in the morning, but we will make sure that we make that determination and that that is thoroughly communicated. Okay. And that does conclude the report. Dr. Seo, I have a question. You mentioned the coit scores. Could you describe what
013that is and the purpose that it's used for? This assessment is used as the first step in our matrix of G&T screening. Okay. So, as a a reminder, we screen all students as a best practice in grades K 2, 5th, and 9th, but not every district does that. So, those families that um students met that first qualification were notified. And then there's other parts of the house of the matrix that they will have to meet in order to be eligible. Mr. Rapola, board secretary, buildings and grounds and finance. Yeah, Mr. St. I have nothing new to uh report this evening. Be looking to approve 81 to 104. There's only a couple of motions in the finance section. One is the integrated care concepts that uh Dr. Seavoya mentioned in her report. We have a donation
014from the central school PTO. We're approving our insurance uh property casualty uh rates, excuse me, and we have added district student placements uh for next year. And I have a motion for 81 through 10.4. Make a motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Mrs. Abrahamson. Yes. Mr. Vopoulos. Yes. Mr. Houseman, yes. Mr. Stall, yes. Mr. Staley, yes. Mrs. Teas, yes. Motions pass. Dr. Seavoya, curriculum, personnel, and policy. Okay. There are only a few resolutions underneath curriculum, but I think it's important for me to note that in such on 116, you see the establishment of two LLD classrooms, one at the middle school level, one at the uh high school level. um irrelevant of what the tax incentive outcome is, we do need to plan accordingly. So, we have to submit that application for those two um classrooms.
015Dr. Seoya, you remind me what LLD um it's a learning disability. I have a motion for 111 to 116. Take it. Second discussion. Roll call. Mrs. Abrahamson. Yes. Mr. Ratopoulos. Yes. Mr. Houseman? Yes. Mr. Stall? Yes. Mr. Staley? Yes. Mrs. Davis? Yes. Motion pass. Old business. U. Mr. Fortopolis. Have we heard uh from mayor and administrator uh as setting up an articul? I do believe I um I was I interacted with um Miss Humphre and I told her that we needed a meeting in July because um August or September wouldn't wait. We need to talk about the shared services agreements for custodial Cedar Street and for uh the KPD. And have they responded? Um, you know what? I don't believe I have a date a response of a date, but she did interact with me.
016Okay. Anything else with old business? New business, public participation on agenda and non-aggenda items. resolve resolved by the keyboard board of education as per chapter 231PL 1975 that hereby determine that it's necessary to meet an executive session to discuss personnel I don't there's no other session personnel the matters discussed will be made public if and when action confidentiality is no longer longer required an action pursuant to said discussion shall take place only in a public meeting. Length of the meeting thought to be approximately one hour action may be taken upon return to open session and have a motion to adjourn to close session. Thank all in favor I