001to stand for the pledge. Public notice of this meeting was advertised in the Asbury Park Press on January 14th, 2025 and notice was provided to central jersey.com on January 9th, 2025. Notice has been posted in accordance to the open public meetings act of 1975 chapter 231 effective January 16th 1976 in the board office 370 Broad Street. A copy of this notice is also on file in the office of the burough clerk. Members of the public wishing to address the board of education on both agenda and non-aggenda items must state their name, address, and were requested to limit their comments to five minutes when it appears the public comment portion of the meeting may exceed 30 minutes in duration. The public participation portion of the meeting is open to citizens for the purpose of addressing agenda
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003minutes. QR codes are available at each board meeting to access the agenda. Mr. Raola, roll call, please. Mrs. Abrahamson here. Miss Cunningham here. Mr. Fatopoulos here. Miss Grabowski here. Mr. Houseman here. Miss Kane here. Mr. Stall here. Mr. Staley here. Mrs. Teas here. Mrs. Vanhen here. We have a quorum. Uh thank you. Uh this evening we do have our student representative. So, Miss Dina Muhammad will give us an update on the high school. Good evening. I'm the student board of education representative for Keeport High School. My name is Dina Muhammad. We are quickly approaching the last week of school. With the last school day and graduation coming up, Keport High School is doing all we can to make the end of the school year extremely memorable. Keport High School's spring sports have all been wrapped
004up. Congratulations to all of our athletes and to our graduating athletes. Keyport Sports won't be the same without all of you. The baseball team wants you to come out to Count Bassy Theater Fields on Monday, June 9th. Well, that actually passed, but um that was at 6 p.m. and senior Derek Ferm was represented and he was the keyboard baseball face. So, the team got together this Sunday and it was great. So, congratulations to the boys baseball team. As always, our clubs are working hard to meet all of their goals. The Key Club did a walk to visit with the crossing guards and provided them with treats as a way to thank them for all of their help this year. The National Honor Society assisted officer at the central school with the fifth grade lead graduation.
005NHS also held their annual induction ceremony on June 3rd where we inducted nine new members and honored our graduating seniors as well as assisted with the preK through fifth grade field day at the central school. The yearbook club is looking for new members for the upcoming school year. Members responsibilities include, but are not limited to editing, building, and designing pages, taking candid photos, and more. Now, we're moving on to the class updates. The class of 2026 is doing a dine to donate on June 25th at Casa Calaveras in Middletown. In addition, Urban Air Day will be on July 16th. Make sure to come out and support the junior class. The freshman class has a few upcoming fundraisers. There will be a Rita's fundraiser from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A car wash was held on
006June 8th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. And there is a breakfast bake sale through June 12th to the 17th before and during home room. Thank you all for having me tonight. Thank you to the board members for guiding us through an extremely successful and productive school year. We are thankful for all you do for our district. Thank you once again. Thank you, Miss Muhammad. Uh so this evening we will have a presentation um for volunteers, teacher and educational specialist of the year and our retirey recognition, Mr. Waters, Mr. Flynn, Dr. Seavoya. Good evening everybody. Thank you for coming out. Uh this is an important night to recognize hardworking volunteers. I could speak for the central school, myself, how important it is to our school with a prek to 8 building. We have a lot
007of Hey Brendon, how are you? I haven't seen you in a long time. Sorry. Um, uh, we have a lot of volunteers that help us with the little ones. Um, it's so important because, uh, we need extra help. Um, so we're so thankful. There's an amazing programs through these volunteer programs and we want to recognize them tonight. Uh, I'm going to start off with the reading buddies. Um, they come and read to our first grade every Friday. Uh, they're fantastic. Uh, bring up Carol Kelsey Kajeski, Libby Marowitz, and Jean Burwiller. [Applause] We have read across America. Uh we have parents come in, community members come in, board members come in to to read to our children. Uh this is all throughout our school. Um we do want to recognize Kimberly Humphrey. Yep. Yep. Business administrator
008from the burrow. Come on up. You're going to frame this in your office down there. Uh he's behind me. Joe Stali. [Applause] Carly Hicks. Yep. Also behind me, Ruth Grabowski, Rebecca Fish, Becky Fish. Thank you very much. Kristen Wrathman, [Applause] Wrath Bun. We had our early childhood advisory council, Mary Remhof and Hyroll Patel. Come on up. We have a special education parent advisory. Uh, she's also behind me. Caitlyn Cunningham. Hamal, you're going to have to come up again for the drama club. Our drama club. Hamali Patel. Also with the drama club, George Zilberman. Carrie Zilberman, Tyler Robinson, our KCS schoolwide committee. Also behind me, Jennifer Teas and Ruth Gowski. Serel White I saw here as well. Please come up for schoolwide. Okay, good evening everyone. Um, volunteering is amazing for our community and for our
009students and how we benefit from it. Uh unfortunately as we get into the high school age, it's not common for our kids to be like, "Yeah, I want mommy and daddy to help out." So it does die down a little bit, but we are so fortunate that we do have a lot of people that still volunteer and really tell their kids to mind their own business. Okay. Um but I do appreciate everything that you've done for us. So uh football volunteer is Ezra Hill. [Applause] Um another volunteer for athletics. So you see him all over the fields. That's Mr. John Dean [Applause] for helping out with Keyport High School drama. Liz Dineigan. Um, and and all the Browns. Uh, let's see. We have We have Carl, we have Chris, we have Felicia. [Applause] Um, also
010for KHS drama, we got a lot of volunteers for drama. Uh, Jillian Johnson, I know I saw you in the crowd. Yep. Wait, wait, wait. Uh, Naen and Billy Clifton. [Applause] another KHS drama volunteer, Socrates Hernandez. [Applause] Uh Patty Shipley, another KHS drama. I don't see Miss Shipley. And uh this is I don't mean to laugh, but this is a new parent organization that I guess morphed into something this year because of this special trip that our current juniors are going on ne next year. So we now have this newly formed class of 26 parent club sort of but um really the parents have been amazing and Miss O'Brien, Miss Sharon O'Brien um certificate for you and everything that you're doing behind the scenes to help raise money. [Applause] Okay, so we have to call
011up Miss Nardone because she is a volunteer for the Red Rider Parent Club and for the Keyport Education Foundation. So, come on up. and you're not going to leave me when I'm selling raffle tickets at stop and shop at you know that that you're in on the KF members not all of them could make it uh this evening they were here last night as well for the um awards banquet but just to let everybody know as both gentlemen uh spoke to we're all about giving back and it's huge that this is what we are the kids know it we know it that's just what we do for each other here so if we don't say it often enough we do thank you um for everything that you do for the kids um of Keport and
012I have one additional certificate. Actually, I have a couple here, but uh Mrs. Lawson, I call her Natalie Lawson because that's her maiden name and Miss Cameron knows her as Natalie Smith. So, she goes, "Well, who are these two people?" I'm like, "They're the same." So, I always like to call her out because she is just like Miss Manelli. She's everywhere. Um they're just staples of what we do here. So, I will be uh delivering all of these to them. But the last volunteer certificate that I have is for our serial challenge of 3,500 boxes this year. That was no fool. We were outside of Stop and Shop then, too. But Mr. Leti Budair. [Applause] Okay. Next, I want to recognize our educational specialist of the year. So, I have the pleasure of recognizing someone
013who means so much to the Central School, our support specialist, Miss Kristen Corsali. [Applause] She's so important. Number one, Kristen's here every day for us. She's here tonight as well. Does not. Um, and that's all I have. Thank you. I'm just messing with you. I just like to mess with her a little bit. That's not it. You do a lot more than just showing up. But showing up is important. I learned that in college early. That's pretty important. Um Okay. So, you do so much and I our our conversations on a daily basis are so quick and fast and we're always interacting. Uh but we don't sit down and talk much because we don't have time to. Um, so let me just talk about all the things that you do. Uh, you support all our
014students. You're reliable, compassionate, you're always focused on what's best for our students. Um, you work side by side with our teachers, jump in with families who need support, and somehow find a way to teach, guide, connect with just about everybody in Keyport Central School. Uh, you do this with kindness, patience, and a smile. sometimes or most times. Um, but what makes you really special is just how you make our students feel. Your office is a safe place where kids know that they are welcome whether they're working through a tough moment or just need a break. Kristen has a way of making them feel safe, heard, and important. Plus, she has really cool games that the kids get to go play. There's one game I like a lot. Anytime I've been in there, it's like this
015icebreaker game. It's like a little baby hammer, but it's plastic. It's not a hammer. Yeah, it's like an icebreaker. Huh? Yeah. You know what I'm talking about, right? All right. Well, all right. Sorry. I didn't My parents didn't buy that for me. Um, they told me to go outside like I grew up at a time. That's what you did. Uh, but anyway, this icebreaker game when anytime I walk in there, the kids just love smashing it. They're supposed to play it and just take out one at a time, but they just love smashing it and starting over. and you're very patient with our children. I I thank you for everything you do. Uh we're lucky to have you and I am happy that you are here tonight so we could celebrate you because you are
016always usually in school like a secondary B. You need to get the limelight. Congratulations Kristen Corsali. [Applause] Oxley, this is Oxy. Can we get that icebreaking game because we we need that, please. Okay. Um, you're going to hear from me for a little bit tonight. Um, got to give out a bunch of awards here, but Okay. Uh tonight uh for the Keyboard High School Educational Support Professional of the Year, um we're going to celebrate Mrs. Stacy Oxley. Hi, Stacey. Um Stacy is one of two in our guidance department counselors. Uh they work really hard with our students on the daily. And um I'm I'm really happy for Stacy to be recognized for what she does. Uh she is committed to our kids. She consistently goes above and beyond and she really wants what's best for
017our kids. Um, from getting our kids into college, applying for colleges, teaching them how to use whatever system we use to get them college or career ready, whatever it is, she's always with our students and making sure there is a plan in place. And let me tell you, kid will not go through her part of the alphabet without a plan in place because she hawks them. But she means well. Okay. Um, anybody that knows Stacy can say she's a little bit demanding, okay? But she holds high standards and we definitely benefit from them. She does push our students because she sees their immense potential and wants them to reach it. But beneath that firm exterior, Stacy, we know there's a genuine warmth that shines because you love our kids. There are times that Stacy and
018I may butttheads, but we always come out smiling and like, "Wow, can you believe we just had those discussions behind closed doors?" But that's a great working team. And I'd be lost without you, Stace. You know, you've been here longer than me. Um, you really are dedicated to your job and to our students and it means the world to me and to Miss Pearson and obviously Dr. Seavoya and our board. Um there's no doubt that you always have our students best interest at heart and um you know watching you this time of year means the world to me because I see you hunting them down and making sure we have a plan to say graduation night this is where you're going. Um but thank you for everything and this is welld deserved. Please come on
019up. Oh, sorry. You want You got to get one with Kristen. The one that says Stacy Oxley. That's huge. Yeah. Got it. Thank you. [Applause] Okay, moving on to our teacher of the year at Keyport High School. Uh, Mr. Steve Bower. This one is definitely a first for me and it's because as a former physical education teacher myself, I've never recognized one getting the teacher of the year award. And um Steve, you really keep our profession going in the right direction. So I thank you. You take your job serious and you are amazing at what you do in the gym and in the health classroom. Um you're not just an outstanding teacher, you're a role model, a positive influence. You're someone that our students and athletes look up to every single day. Your impact is
020felt across the entire community from the gym to the hallways. I can confidently say that your approach to physical education is amongst the most forward thinking I've ever seen. Uh you have the personality and ability to motivate all of your students and athletes, but your impact extends way beyond just the gym. Um as a teacher, you're also a fantastic coach and you've coached many sports here, but as of late um as our volleyball uh coach, your commitment, expertise has been amazing. Uh and another kudo to you that you were named coach of the year for your division. So congratulations on that as well. and everything that I've watched from your days as an assistant football coach, a uh you know, the volleyball head coach, the wrestling head coach, you do have this ability to lead
021your your athletes and your students and inspire and that's just you you have it all. So, thank you. Um beyond the classroom and the court, Steve also plays a piv pivotal role in our entire school as a very active member of our INRS team. Uh he's a mentor to our students and he doesn't just assist the students, he also provides invaluable support to our teachers, helping us all navigate the needs of every learner that we have. Steve, your dedication, intelligence, leadership, and care for our students make you an extraordinary educator. And thank you, and this is welld deserved. Come on up. [Applause] Okay, I think this is my last one. Suzanne, hi. These every year, I say this every year because I just feel like I'm getting older and older with this. When you guys
022start leaving me, it gets so hard. I think because I'm jealous. But no, no, no. I um Suzanne, I was digging with your friends and trying to figure out things to say and then I read your passage in the yearbook. I don't know if you got a chance to read it. Um but you might sound familiar because it really sums everything up. But for those of you that don't know Miss McCully, uh she is retiring after 32 years. Correct? Is it 32 years? Wow. Mrs. McCully, part of her career was served at the central school and at the high school. Um, mainly the high school though, right? Because you've been in the high school ever since I've been here. Okay. Um, you're leaving an indelible mark on your students and colleagues. Your favorite part of
023teaching is getting to know the kids and helping them discover new things. It really speaks to the heart of your commitment and passion. Mrs. McCully works as a special education teacher and her work was not only about academic instruction but also about building confidence and empowering her students to believe in their own pro uh potential. Over the years, Mrs. McCully taught more than 20 different subjects in the high school. And I could truly attest to that because every summer I would get either a text, a stop by visit, and I would get the I want to teach this next year, but I understand if I have to teach this, but I'll teach wherever you need me. But that's that's Suzanne. Okay. Um, as Sam Suzanne, as you step into retirement, you may miss the classroom
024and the joy of teaching, but the memories you've created with your students will forever hold a special place in your heart. Looking ahead, I know Suzanne is excited to spend time traveling and enjoying the company of her family um and and your friends. And though your love for teaching will always remain, um the countless wonderful memories of her time at Keeport will undoubtedly encomp ac accompany her into the next chapter of her life. Suzanne, you know, there's only so many words I could speak to your dedication to our kids. And you really are that person that will do anything for our students. Um somebody that I you don't even take days off. Like it's it's crazy. Like you I'm like, don't you have time to use before you retire? But I mean, God bless you.
025You are such a kind person. I know the staff is going to miss you. You've been a tremendous mentor to our young teachers and I really appreciate that. And I know you've made some amazing relationships here that you will keep forever and you truly will be missed. And congratulations and I'm still jealous. Okay, come on up. Oh, you have that. Congratulations to all of our volunteers, our educators, our specialists of the year. Um, our recognition portion of the meeting is over. So, if you would like to leave, you are able to, but if you wish to stay for the rest of the meeting, you can as well. Did you get Mr. Waters? Did you get the picture that you guys wanted with the educators? Did you get the pictures? Get the picture. Okay. So, we're
026going to continue with the meeting then. Uh, president's remarks. Congratulations to our teachers of the year and educational professionals of the year. Congratulations to our retiring teachers. Uh, field day last Friday was great. All of the students had a great time and the peer leaders were amazing with the little kids. The senior awards dinner last week was great to um it was a way to celebrate our student athletes and have them recognized by their coaches for their hard work and dedication to their teams. Last night, our seniors were recognized with scholarships and awards. The community members that funded the donations gave over $50,000 to our senior class of 2025. Uh Dr. Seavoya communication. No communication this evening. Public participation on agenda items. Uh Dr. Seavoya superintendent report. Okay. Uh there are several things just to
027report briefly out on out. Um the ann the central school annual school plan has been submitted. Uh thank you to all the committee members helping uh develop those goals and the action plan is linked there as well. We're doing a lot of curriculum development. Uh so there's you'll see uh many a folder actually uh I'll give you the log on to Atlas or I'll put them in a folder and you can review all of them prior to the August approval. Um just to let you know that Brookdale did reach out to us and they're piloting their foundational math uh program with us. So uh interested students will take Brookdale's placement test in the math department will design a course specifically for us. If students attend Brookdale after graduation, they will allow them to go directly
028into credit bearing courses. So to me, this is very much a win-win in regards to wanting to increase our mouth our math uh scores and as well as provide these students with the edge of entering into college. Uh we are we received the funding of for the optimal comprehensive focus screeners which is the focus grant of $2,000. Uh Miss White and I participated in an AI panel last week at school boards on the 6th which was wonderful. It was very nice to work with a variety of colleagues and see what they were doing with AI as well. Um this is a huge one. This just happened uh this afternoon or actually uh last night. Keyport has been placed in the pre-awward process for the NJ DOE advanced placement and international balora course expansion. The amount
029of $50,000. We got it. And that is amazing. Amazing. This was a highly competitive grant with only four awards in districts our size from zero to 3,000. Uh the grant will allow Kport High School to expand our AP course offerings and equitable a oh my goodness sorry and increase equitable access for underrepresented students. Uh we will be able to train teachers. We'll be able to offer Saturday courses and and preparation with them and again expose as much of our student body to AP as as we can. So this is a huge huge accomplishment and um the team you know Mr. uh Pearson, Mr. Waters, myself but Mrs. wait the grant writer. She's on a tear and I I just want to knock on wood because we are cruising along with any grant that we're writing
030these days. So that is a wonderful wonderful thing and a huge accompl accomplishment. Um KHS is sending three boys to represent us at the American Legion Boy State this year. The academic awards as Miss Cunningham spoke to were spectacular. for the senior awards. Uh the amount of money that went out last night. I saw some surprise even board members faces and it was one of the hardest things to do to hold that and not even um be able to share. But there was I think Mr. Waters said approximately $50,000 of local scholarships. Miss Gahes uh company gave out awards as well. Everybody here is just it's just an amazing thing to be a part of this process and and be here with all of you. Uh there was one new incident of HIV reported at
031central since we met last week and that's going to be invest that's being investigated. As previously communicated in May, Mr. Flynn will be forming a new PTO. Uh the letter went out this week. I hope everybody saw that. Uh we're going to work together to create a new 501c. Whatever it is that we need to do, we're very excited about it. Oh, I did ask skip the play. The KHS is doing the uh the disaster the musical. So looking forward to that one. and the elementary school central school has not selected theirs yet. Um, the Earth Angels Foundation uh on behalf of Detective Corporal Timothy W. Kelly Jr. donated $1,000 towards lunch balances which was very well received by some parents. They were very appreciative. Uh, Mrs. Fleming continues to just impress me on a
032daily basis. the students, the National Junior Honor Societies, uh they were recognized at Brookdale this week, uh on on Sunday, as well as all of their artwork was in for the garden walk. Uh so again, the National Junior Honor Society is extremely impressive. Uh on June 6th, we received a litigation update from John Crroo in regards to Redbank Regional. The ruling from the judge was that RBR does not have control over how many regular or special education students apply. She found that overall while the action of Union Beach is sending its students to Redbank appears to have negative impacts on the students remaining in Keyboard. She concludes that keyport's argument is with Union Beach, not Redbank. Our case against Union Beach and Henry Hudson remains pending. In regards to HH Hudson, the demonstration that our
033course of studies is not sufficiently different from what Keyport offers. In regards to UB, the argument continues to be the violation of the send receive relationship and board council will give us a uh legal update to put on our website. Uh you have the second reading of the AI policy and there's lots going on this week um within now and next Wednesday for graduations. So please just um click yes that you're attending and we'll make sure that everything is there. Thank you Dr. Seavoya. Mr. Rapola, board secretary, buildings and grounds and finance. Good evening. Sorry, I thought this was on. 10 9 10 and 1011 are all motions. Uh at the June meeting, you are allowed to uh make a motion to put money into reserves u when you close out the year. Now, we
034won't know our numbers. uh year close out, you know, probably in some years it's been November, uh some years October, some years January. Uh but you need to uh make these motions at the June meeting in order to have the ability to make deposits into these accounts. So these numbers are obviously high. like I don't we're definitely not going to be depositing $2 million into capital reserve and $800,000 into maintenance. Uh but these motions are here every year that allow the ability and we make some decisions once we know what our numbers are. We have the motion set up that allow us to make those uh transfers. 1012 we're approving tuition rates for next year. Those are simply rates that get kicked out of the budget software by the various grade bands. U these are
035tuition rates, but they are not the uh final audited rates that will come out uh at the end of a school year uh once we see what our expenses actually were for a year. So these numbers are higher than when they will eventually get audited, which is about a year and a half uh down the road. 1013 is our contract with Union Beach uh for 2526. From 10:14 to 1023 are all more professional service contracts. 10:24 is approving u stay at the U Atlantic City uh workshop in October. Um 1026 is approving our student accident insurance which that was uh the insurance stayed flat for the year flat rate so that was a good thing. Um 10:34, I'm sorry, 10:32 through 10:34 are more professional service contracts. 10:35, we're approving lunch and breakfast prices for
036next year. That's a 20 a 20 cent increase for lunch. uh a 40 cent increase for breakfast. Uh we are still well well well well below all the other districts in the area. Um I want to draw your attention to 1039 where we need to approve a revised part of the budget, the prek budget. Um there is a change in the carryover amount that we're uh carrying over. So we were forced to uh we needed to approve a new motion. Again, um it's just a minor difference. Um and later, you know, at I I know we're not going to jump ahead to 13, but in section 13 are all the annual motions uh that we approve at the year end every year that sets up our various uh things that are needed for next year
037such as approval of depositing uh the uh chart of accounts, the board policies, petty cash, the organ organizational chart. So all the annual uh things that get approved in June take place in a special section 13 called annual resolutions that we'll be approving also this evening. So u Miss Cunningham at this time 1 to 1039. Thank you Mr. Pola. I need a motion for 8.1 to 10.39 second. Uh any questions? Uh May 21st. That was the I'm sorry. I missed the move. Uh it was Mr. Stall and Miss um Abrahamson. Thank you. Any questions? Roll call, please. Mrs. Abrahamson. Yes. Miss Cunningham? Yes. Mr. Fopoulos? Yes. Scowski? Yes. Mr. Houseman? I abstain in a meeting from May what I was absent for other miss I abstain from 10:22 and 1023 and yes on the others
038Mr. Stall abstain on 10.32 yes on everything else Mr. Staley yes Mrs. Yes, Miss Van Hound anything from central school and prek and yes on everything else. Thank you. M thank you Dr. Seavoya. Curriculum personnel annual resolutions and policy. Okay, there there's nothing new under curriculum. Underneath personnel you have the coaching and uh the extracurriculars 12 13 14 15 16. Um and after that we have a a leave replacement. Hold on. I lost my place. Okay. At 1220 is a leave um a leave for somebody having a baby. Congratulations to them. We do the employee number now, so I won't share who it is. Uh there's nothing new underneath policy and Mr. Rapola spoke to 13. Thank you. I need a motion for 11.1 to 14.1. Thank it. Second. Second. Any questions? Roll call, please.
039Mrs. Abrahamson. Yes. Miss Cunningham? Yes. Mr. Fopoulos? Yes. Miss Kowski? Yes. Mr. Houseman? Yes. Miss Caheen? I abstain from 13.31 and yes on the others. Mr. Stall. Yes. Mr. Staley. Yes. Mrs. Teas. Yes. Senhound. I abstain from anything from prek to central and then yes on everything from high school. Okay. Motions pass. Thank you. Uh old business. New business. Um I do have one thing for new business. I did put the goals in for our board self evaluation. So, you should be able to go on now and complete that. So, please just double check that it is really there and up for you guys. Um, and if we could have it done um by the end of June, so that gives us about a little over two weeks, that would be great. Any other new
040business? Uh, public participation on agenda and non-aggenda items. Okay. Um, be it resolved by the keeper board of education as per chapter 231 PL19751811 that hereby determine that it is necessary to meet in executive session on June 11th to discuss personnel. Um, may I have a mot to close session? Second. Second. All in favor?