001I'd like to call this meeting to order please stand for the pledge I know public notice of this meeting was advertised in the Asbury Park Press on January 14th 2025 a notice was provided to Central jersey.com on January 9th 2025 notice has been posted in accordance with the opic public meetings Act of 1975 chapter 231 effective January 16th 1976 in the board office 370 Broad Street copy of this notice is also on file in the office of the burrow clerk members of the public wishing to address the board of education on both agenda and non-agenda items must State their name address and are requested to limit their comments to 5 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
002open to Citizens for the purpose of addressing agenda and non-agenda items issues raised by members of the public might require review and investigation and may or may not be responded to by the board or superintendent during the meeting all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate the board asks that members of the public be cous and mindful of All rights of individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and staff have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of New Jersey the board Bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by any member of the public this meeting is being tape recorded for the purpose of Board review
003F reference and to assist in preparation of the minutes QR codes are available at each board meeting to access the agenda roll call please Mrs abrahamson here Miss Cunningham here Mr vopos here miss Grabowski here Mr Housman here miss kahim Mr stall here Mr Staley here Mrs thus Mrs Van hton de Cor thank you uh our first thing up tonight will be our student representative Dena Muhammad good evening I'm Dina Muhammad the student Board of Education representative for Keyport high school we are nearing the end of the school year planning so many incredible and Hands-On activities for starters we have the students of the month freshman Jamie Cortez and Alisa Franco sophomores Riley KY and Emma Voss Juniors Isabella asaco and Stephanie Bernardino seniors Khloe stall and Enzo dimar keep up the amazing work a
004huge congratulations to Mrs Cowan and Miss rasos for achieving staff members of the month Keyport High School's winter sports are wrapping up and preparation for spring Sports is starting boys volleyball have won their first scrimmage against Christian Calvary taking all three sets great job boys and good luck for the rest of the season the competition cheerleading team recently competed at the state champion ships and made history by placing third in their division this is the first time in over 10 years that keeport has placed at the cheerleading States congratulations to our cheerleaders and our coach the first boys baseball game is home Monday March 31st versus Perth Amboy vog Tech as always our clubs are working hard to meet all their goals the Keyport high school student government is currently holding a logo designed contest
005seeking a bold modern take on our Red Raider mascot our red and white colors and iconic K logo remain we want a design that embodies the spirit strength and tradition of the Red Raider the deadline for all submissions will be March 21st the winner will will receive a $100 Amazon gift card drama club has exciting news Mean Girls has come to a Bittersweet and successful end however there's no word from the basy until the conclusion of the musical theater season a spring trip will be planned to see a Broadway show Key Club is running a community service project where we create cards for kids and hospitals and send them to organizations to distribute the National Honor Society held a Chipotle fundraiser and we raised over $332 the money will be used for induction supplies graduation
006tassels and honor cords induction will be held sometime in May students will be invited to apply for admission after third marking period greens are finalized the literary magazine club is collecting written work photography and artwork for this year's literary magazine the TV production Club had a meeting where they organized the studio assisted the Green Team and edited a variety of videos Mean Girls was posted on YouTube on March 14th the next alumni Spotlight interview will be with Chris patrio class of 2009 the yearbook Club recently took senior superlative photos and Club pictures they are hard at work with constructing this year's yearbook Keyport high school has a wonderful prevention and alliances club we are always looking for new members to join the next meeting will be tomorrow Thursday March 20th during academic support class updates
007the class of 2025 is excited to announce that prom is slowly approaching prom will be at the sapphire Grand in Woodbridge New Jersey on May 16th from 7: to 11:00 p.m. tickets will be sold on March 31st and April 1st for $110 all prom paperwork is due at the time you give in your money if you need a prom packet please make sure that you see Mrs machia as soon as possible the class of 2026 is planning our senior trip and it's going incredibly well senior trip deposits for our crews were due March 14th with signed forms and the class of 2026 crushed it there are 46 paid participants that signed up and we are currently waiting final approval High School news if you're interested in taking the SAT held here at Keyport make sure
008to register through score for April 3rd thank you all for having me tonight thank you to the wonderful and hardworking board members we can't wait to see what the rest of the school year has in store thank you once again thank you Dena uh so we have three presentations this evening our first one will be student of the month Mr f good evening everybody thank you for coming out I want this time to congratulate these hardworking students that receive student in the month I want to congratulate the parents as well for your hard work and guidance um we're going to call you up um and you're going to stay up here with me and Dr sooya Okay Sophia Garcia Cortez Aaron D Silva Alexandra Lopez Mariano yelon Velasquez ODed Gonzalez Ortiz Veronica fistler [Applause] Scarlet
009Ramirez Maron Liam Valencia Annabelle [Applause] van congratulations Thomas zosi Dante bacon Emma vea evalene congratulations Benjamin [Applause] Masterson Bianca Charles and aiel oando congratulations everybody we're going to take a picture real quick if you want a picture [Applause] congratulations to all of our students of the month um if everyone would like to today we are going to have our robotics Club presentation next otherwise you could feel free to leave if you would like at this time but our robotics Club please come up it's your turn that's hello um my name is Matthew oos I'm the president of Robotics Club very excited to be here hello I'm Colin Ponto of the robotics Club Anthony Leon of robotic Club nice to be back cook of the robotics Club great to be here I'm Miss Creek I'm the
010adviser for the robotics club and thank you for having us with um vex's robot progam uh Rob got options get uh a whole kit to build yourself but you have four different options you could choose from uh you have base spot which is um what we have here it's a uh simple robot that only has two Motors um and it's pretty simple and then we have uh clot which is a robotic uh which is a robot with uh two wheel drive and has the ability to grab stuff with um robotic claw and then our third robot is the Catapult ball uh bot which can uh using two Motors can throw uh objects away and then we have last bot which is speed bot which we do have a modified one vex's website provides us with
011PDFs and slideshows to help us build the robots and these are just a few of the materials that's definitely not all the materials there are the brackets on the right side the control panel there in the middle Motors Wheels axles and much more other parts so it does offer that byep designs which is basically like um I don't know if you've ever built Lego they have instructions instructional manuals and this one is just the basic design but we do allow for like Innovation you know if people want to tweak it a certain way we're not going to stop them this this one over here is modified and you know it's just important having fun and if you want to create a functional robot they do have the stepbystep PDF on Vex this is during a
012design process um number one is defining the problem and how you want to solve it two is making observations of what the problem is and how to solve it three is forming a hypothesis or five for number one uh we defined that we wanted to make spot go faster and then for number two we observed that four Motors would make it make it go faster then three we DEC we decided to put four Motors onto the speed bot and then number four we uh tested it to see how fast go with three motors and then four Motors and number five we concluded that with four Motors it these are some of our uh these are our different designs that we have and here's a lot of our other club members shown here that did not
013uh come tonight challenges that we uh had on uh the screen were supposed to be representing the original which was the two Motors and then the second video would have been with three motors and last would be with four Motors so I will be showing you uh what the speed bot looks like with uh four Motors for no problem um in our final slide we brought up that we are looking to um set up a class trip at Brookdale we're trying to contact their robotics program to see if get them a day over there to see what it's like at that college level um and now um if there's anybody who would like to try any of the yes any of the kids who would like to try the robot um Matthew is going to
014come around if any of you are interested in testing it does anyone want to try it Mr photoplus what you wants to try it right here I don't want to get in a car with you Mr phis it'll actually like push the soccer ball you want to get it to do a wheelie like to ask a Caitlyn can I ask you a question um guys we just have a couple of questions Mike told him not to Mr wers told him not to yeah you could take he's trying to listen Mr sty go ahead so a question for for you um how is the experience different diff working with like a physical object versus things you may have done an online simulation games how is that experience different what did you learn from it so I
015I didn't uh I'm I'm speaking from my personal experience I've never been too good with anything technical or mechanical myself and I thought it was my senior year I thought I'd Tred something new someone's Miss craigin she's my home room teacher she said come try Robotics and I said why not it's my senior year working on something Hands-On I find personally significantly better than talking about a concept robotics club without the fund would just be would just be crash.com we would only be talking theorizing learning but without it being Hands-On it's nowhere near as fun and I've there are a lot of students in our club that have never done a club never done anything for the school and they're joining and honestly I think it's due to miss craige's Charming personality that invites other
016students to come try new things she's also head of Green Team and again I've seen a lot of students that have never lifted a finger for this school enjoy themselves in miss both of Miss Craig's clubs good to hear any other questions you guys you want to share the presentation with those links I'll send it out to the board thank you you guys did a great job thank you thank you thank you for having us okay our last presentation for this evening is going to be the 2025 2026 school budget presentation Mr aola good evening so two weeks ago we presented uh preliminary numbers 526 budget tonight we are going to uh approve adopt uh budget for for the county uh but again as I stated uh two weeks ago final approval from this board
017to budget will take place at the May 7th me so tenative budget that we submit to the county they can review it on their end uh but there'll still be about a six week uh period or so where we can make adjustments if we need to make adjustments and so I'm not going to I'm not going to spend a lot of time on the same uh numbers because they haven't is there a little larger like view maybe slideshow from beginning thank you okay um so we're allowed to raise the taxes as everyone by 2% uh or sometimes you're able to go a little bit above 2% uh with certain things that allow you to make adjustments for for instance uh in this case uh one of the areas you can make an adjustment is with
018health insurance rates and our health insurance rates are going up nine and a half percent uh which sounds extremely high it is very high but it's it's much less than uh state benefits plan is uh scheduled to go up all all the general tremendously so uh we are able to put extra 87% uh into the budget adjustment for health insurance uh our tuition revenue is down uhing less money from has to do with less students and also a refund for years our state aid is down slightly uh $140,000 2.41% uh that prominantly uh the factors that go into that are are mostly our enrollment and our makeup of our enrollment our reserves were going to be looking to use a lot of reserves in this budget uh uh $500,000 in tuition Reserve 400,000 in maintenance
019Reserve 60,000 in change in capital and we're going to be making use of a large amount of fund balance uh plus dollars and our miscellaneous and Enterprise revenues uh we are increasing to 200,000 uh again that has more of a result of interest rates uh going up then Appropriations are we have regular instruction down special education down 671 wish that we actually wish that we pay for uh our students going elsewhere is has increased uh by 4.85% as I mentioned last time that is mostly from an mouth County vocational programs they they rais their rates uh substantially our added District students are uh private school special education students uh that number is actually uh down slate uh operation of Maintenance and we're we're looking to uh cut 150,000 from the maintenance budget benefits you see
020increasing 6% and that benefits numers all comprehensive that I said nine and a half% health that that six% overall is including things like uh Dental uh Vision Social Security contributions that is 2.4% Administrative cost down 6 % curricular activities down 20,000 Athletics down 10% Health up support 9 Improvement of instructional Services 12% Transportation as I mentioned the last meeting has finally flattened out uh Rising exponentially over the years predicting a slight upcoming year and capital outlay u down subst only looking to project over later slide I know you guys heard abouten State 800 times I won't go into that again again at the end of the show if anyone has any questions book goes into State eight I'd be happy to answer those questions uh but again the biggest Factor going State how many residents
021you have enrolled in a and what their characteristics specialed our resident enrollment over six last six years have gone from 133 students 55 that is a significant see real significance coming within this last year uh dropping 33 and a half students 7 uh to 750 did an analysis of that for whatever reason uh numbers appear to be a large percent as that drop appears to be at the middle school level uh you know very well be uh eighth grade class uh a larger eighth grade class leaving and a smaller grade class the biggest number percent was what we collect from excuse me the Union Beach wish we collect you that has been uh some years going up some years going down 2023 it's down about a million dollars 2.8 million 2324 next year 1. uh
022that 1.8 is inclusive of a $700,000 refund uh for the 2324 school year as we mentioned that had to do Union Beach had funded a contract for any more students actually sent us uh insurance rates not just Health prescription that's on substantially uh all insurance rates Property and Casualty workers comp familiar with going on the whole insurance industry it's leak as I mentioned uh personally at home I got a letter from Progressive my home insurance saying want to raise they agressive applied with raise the rate by some czy 100% or something and uh they say because of insurance companies required to notify you in advance making application so I only bring that point up to to say that and in all the meetings we go to as during the wartin has been beat up and
023is passing that on Transportation costs historical have been skyrocketing over a period of year it's leveling off within last fund balance use in the budget uh using more and more uh now we are going to less and less fund balance as uh move forward short version of that for anyone who curious is uh in those heavy years we were able to build up fund balance mostly by making use of the co various covid grants that uh that were out there uh we were able to take that covid money pay for a number of things left us with balances balances we knew were going to needan years such as three-year-old and fouryear old program uh last year 1.5 million same about 0,000 L but big thing here on this slid is again uh went from2 to
024double that Capital project or wireless network and local access network not things I totally but I know that uh our equipment's outdated and our licensing for uh various equipment it's a part of that is expiring to about a ,000 excuse me project that's G cost about20 and something thousand rate uh is going to pay for 200 and change by you see the capital serve withdrawal of 60,000 that service these are the bonds that we borrowed to when the referendum was passed to do air condition proof and or the security and various other projects uh waterproof on that our payment is relatively flat for this up coming year last year cost taxpayers 579 here will cost 578 um bonds will expire in did the projects at a they came our projects were completed with 1.5 million
025left uh because of that we have giving a $250,000 credit back to taxpayers over a six-year uh period as of 30th unbalance on those uh on the reference million and these are same forecasted tax increase I showed at the last Mee uh be looking to raise taxes to 11 which is 2.87% ratables burrow have gone up 88.9% so the home average home was valued at 48,000 last year sorry uh 2425 2526 devaluation home is 4631 an increase of 10% how that impact taxes annual tax on an average home8 increase of $192 uh a decrease in The Debt Service because that payment uh going down by 14 because the uh increase in the home values you see that payment going up $3 total payment tax payment for the school uh we're showing on average going from
0264620 under 196 uh do in which is now that's the end of the presentation as it was uh from two weeks ago since then major major major developments uh the we found out Friday afternoon they still haven't sent us application or a formal memo yet County sent out an email and these are this is straight from the email I received coming out with tax levy incentive Aid programs available to not vocation qualify district below adequacy Levy below the local share remember well below adequacy low adequacy for being Frugal that's the uh so they're saying if you're one of these districts that are below adequacy and your local fair share and if you the local fair share what they feel taxpayers the burrow the towns should be kicking in for taxes that Gap went up to
027three million with the so saying we're being underfunded by over million tax now of course tax payers aren't uh but as far as the funding formula state they're saying um that were underfunded by three million locally taxes and spending uh because of our budget spending uh less so those districts that are in that unique situation we I don't know how I believe there's three uh so it's about half there 600 districts St in New Jersey about half the Jersey are in this situation we going to be able to file an application uh which will be a combination of an increase in the you'll be able to go over 2% want to go over two uh and for up until you that adequacy budget us uh but the state will give you an in incentive of
0285% for doing this so if we increased taxes by $200,000 state would kick in $10,000 extra 5% so uh but the states capping off their a at million dollar uh at a million dollars we're never never going to get near that number so they also sent this along with theil I'm sorry for hard for you small but what it says is the pre-budget year tax levy 11.3 million the local fair share of local 15 7,575 uh we're spending an adequacy spending of 16.9 million with an adequacy threshold of 19.3 million so they're saying if we wanted to we can raise the taxes by 2384 uh obviously not going to be on board with raising the taxes million but know the next question is going to be uh well what kind of increase what to taxpayers
029what's it mean to our program so understand this is just uh us taking a stab at the numbers not having any document don't hold us don't hold me to these numbers I try to I try to create uh numbers together I'm not positive that this is the program will roll out I'm trying to trying to process what they sent in that email see what it might look like so if if I'm reading it correctly oh I'm Sor I want to share this I believe this is happening because they need to they recognize throughout the state that many districts are being underfunded locally I think this is an opportunity to decrease that Gap uh and I they haven't said but I've been led to believe that it might be like a one time chance to close
030that Gap uh so I do think it's important that we look to close the gap the best that we can I don't we know what to get years of of talking about what that Gap has done to our budget how it's affected our programming this is our only chance to do it we' want to do something I don't we don't know that this may ever happen again so that Top Line there is what prior to Friday what we were looking at 87% Swit was the maximum amount we could raise going to impact taxpayers by hypothetically if board made a decision to raise taxes 5% uh we then would have a a tax down of 11.9 the total increase in Levy from what it was would be 5,000 which is only 242,000 above 2.87% and it's
031at that number where I believe the 5% will start kicking in state so at that number the 12 big deal right 12 extra dollar but the total revenue increase includ 5 so short version is look to the left you see at what percent if we were to raise it uh what that would do to uh the taxes on the right up to a maximum of would be have the ability 20% get us to that 2.3 m ion that were short but that would come at my projections are $930 a year so what needs what I believe will happen is you'll approve this budget tonight at 2.87% increase then information will come out in the next week or so and we'll get applic discussions will need to be had far as uh what kind of increases
032or adjustments looking for and how that would IMPACT program I have question Mr rle I just want to comment and state that you know he did it very eloquently I think Friday and Saturday morning we received the information as such and we're there are 20 districts to Mammoth County 300 in the state that are under adequacy and under local fair share so when we talked he and I to try to be continue to be as transparent as we've always been with the finances of the District will'll have to consider all the reductions that we've spoken to um with what the board decides that they want to do in this situation um I do know that like I said we're one of 20 um in the MTH County area that um are really working on a
033very tight budget in terms of our cost per pupil and our local fair share so what they call to be under adequacy we'll get the information and we'll present it to you we're pretty much uh assuming Tony am I correct that we're going to have an application of some sort it's not that it's all right so the state always releases their information like this after hours on a Friday no it really they do that by Design I guess they want you to absorb it and they with the questions it always comes out Friday about five o'clock which this email uh came across um I Tonight is the last March 19th the last day budget so after tonight I'll I'll submit it formally reason I'm I'm saying that is I think they want to see all
034the county budgets I think they want to see all the budgets get approved my guess before they break out applications throw everyone get dizzy so I would imagine my guess is tomorrow or Friday probably see this but they're going to have to come up with up soon have two in April and then first May is voting final have to be and one would wonder why it's not given from the beginning like at the very last moment we received the information for this budget that he presented that you think would only reduce us 3% so it's always it's quite a balancing act and one thing again I say that has done quite well throughout the years is we're extremely transparent there are no surprises 2% is 2% that that is what it is and I am
035not him but it is basic math for $260,000 a year you're not raising all of your funds for electric gas all all just the essential items never not even to P the program and instructional um needs that we have so when we get this information he and I will reach out to the board and schedule two meetings where we can break you into five and five so this way you get all of the information you need to after we get it so we don't know any more than anybody else does at this time but we again we didn't want to not say anything and wanted the public to see it on record as well any questions hey Tony I just have one it's just curiosity big off you guys took a look at how we're
036looking behind them what far as the numbers drop our biggest drop was Middle School how to our elementary grade numers wise uh tomorrow I gota look down feel like we're down maybe uh I don't know maybe eight students at could well you could see an increase in R really what the biggest thing for us is get increasing that three and four year old registration and building that from the from the bottom up to keep those kids in there and I think Mr W said to me a seniors next year that might the be the biggest class he's had at 120 127 something that we haven't hit that high in in many many years so it it does matter sometimes as popul out any other questions yeah I have one question um whatever percent we decide
037ultimately did that become the new base so prior so absolutely sub years are based on that new higher the that's the key that's so yeah it it closes the Gap whatever we choose it closes that percent of the Gap per as you've heard us say for past few years that local fair share we're down a million we're down a million there's no way to get it um and correct me because CU I'm not him but that's my thought process why they're doing this because they're saying that in the in the funding formula that your local fair share you know you're undercharged if you are underserved there but you have no way of getting that so that's why I think they're stressing to to districts that are eligible to do it so that you're not at
038that point anymore any other questions thank you Mr I'm sorry yeah just uh Tony I guess just more of a com like you you commented that um you you think that maybe this is a oneshot a oneshot deal and I It just strikes me as well that puts extra pressure on board so right ignore that I said that because I have no proof of that at the moment that's your but I'm saying it's it's yeah but if anything comes out anything formal make sure I get that right but I'm just saying because you commented on it you know it's it's possible right that that it is a oneshot deal um I'm just saying it my my reaction is well um the U rational approach would be commenting to have districts have time over years to
039be able to close the gap rather than I'm just commenting right I know I'm just saying would make sense to be able to close a gap over five years uh rather than hopefully you know maybe it turns out that way but we have to we have to also consider that it may be our one shot you know and that may well we have to I'm just saying that's there's a turnover in there's a turnover uh at the governor's which mean and there's going to be a turnover and which means uh we a time they've been saying the funding formula is going to have to get looked at heavily so funding formula changes maybe we don't even have uh that Gap so I mean I don't know what the future I just know what the future
040looks like if they keep normally exactly as it is and they and with the same Gap that that we have thank you Mr POA uh president's remarks we would like to welcome back our uni Beach representative Mrs vanh Hatton we're very happy to have you back um eighth grade dialogue we went to it was very nice to attend Jalissa SoDo was our student um representative she did a great job and thank you to the robotics club tonight they did a great job with their presentation uh Dr saboya communication no additional communication public part public participation on agenda items uh superintendant report droya okay uh the fourth and fifth grade team secured free busing and student tickets for the count basy so we're great to see them getting out there exciting plays that along with align
041with our cka curriculum Green Team from both buildings are to submitting their last climate awareness trip or going on their last uh climate awareness trip to jenkinson teachers are using their April PSC meetings to cl to craft climate lessons on the sustainable submission coming up um on the 20th the green teams will be heading to Mom University that's tomorrow um for this year's climate CLC partnership good luck to all of them miss mitchko and miss are excited to have the teen Arts face festival later this month at Brookdale our AI team is hard at work also with the creation of our AI handbook and plan um the doe released the njpa cut scores for the class of 20 2026 to graduation ready nich each student must achieve a score of 725 on English and mathematic
042components of this assessment um Brookdale has added kebort School District as a late addition to the Esports pathway initiative this is backed by the state funding managed through the New Jersey Council of County colleges so they're going to be um including about $3,000 in there for us for travel expenses to attend eort production workshops thanks to that capacity this robotics presentation might fit right in line with that um we're also in the pre-award revision of the climate change education and resilience continuation Grant the amount of 15,000 this will allow us to run our summer lab weeks which we're extremely excited about in our initiatives for the next academic school year um we opened up a conversation with ker learning to support AI Grant initiatives um we'll be going to the state along with Miss White
043and Mr Waters to meet with the other 10 districts that are getting the AI Grant I gave you some Personnel updates I also gave you all of our students of the month for February and our teachers of the month um the kpsd climate Grant bimonthly update out Miss manganelli does a phenomenal job on that so please take a look at that hyperlink uh we also have the student and staff basketball game our g&t screening is going on our KCs uh career fair is uh set up for April 10th um our njpa testing and access testing for L's is MLS is all complete um you know thank you to Mr Waters and the team for just stressing to the children um and the students that it is a one measurement but that it's important to give
044everybody you know to do their best job as they can um then we have students that are going to be at the uh educators of New Jersey momth County Art Exhibit this weekend so I'm going to go visit that I think it's on Saturday I mean on Sunday at the Eastern branch of the mom County Library um also Samantha Heming for our literal Society came to teach our eighth graders about Dunes grass dun grasses and their benefits um the students on March 13th with Asbury Park to transplant that um and and and I'm not going to take the Thunder out of this other thing Mr Staley will absolutely speak to that because we got a little present in our tax bill our water bills this month um then eighth grade students in workking Period 3
045have been working and learning about food insecurity they wrote directed filmed and edited a commercial to promote the serial box Drive they also went shopping with a fictional family and budget they worked in teams to use shopping curriculars Circ ERS online to our websites and my plate to assist them in creating budgets and weekly menus for various families that's that was very very solid learning experience in fact when we were collecting for serial boxes at Stop and Shop a couple of weekends ago people donated actual cash and students went in and had to budget how many boxes they could buy and for what kind so that was I love those Life Learning experiences um students are now creating educational slides about food insecurities share with uh staff who for a book read that will happen
046all next week during period 6 on March 20th as I previously we're going to present um at the climate Workshop in at Brookdale uh there were two new incidences of HIV reported at Central and one at KHS since we met on the 5th the first incident at KCs was confirmed and the other one is still being investigated the incident at KJS is also still being investigated uh the women's leadership conference was on March 13th from 4:30 to 8:30 it was at the uh restaurant 618 in Freehold thank you to everyone who attended that um Mr Kowski was an honor to have you there as well um and we did do our female administrators but we also had Miss magelli and Mrs White because they are strong instructional leaders in the district um the serial challenge
047link is there we did went from 1100 to 2300 boxes so thank you to everyone um I spoke about the fish fry and I expect Miss uh Cunningham to buy all of the rest of my tickets for that event um the two 2425 calendar that is a hot conversation um fingers crossed we have nothing to impact the uh calendar in terms of snow in the next couple of weeks so I will um be producing information for the community on Monday's update just to let everyone know that on the 15th of April I'd like to have the board take action on modifying the calendar what we plan on doing is using the 22nd which is a Thursday before Memorial Day for professional development for staff and the others day would um the 23rd would be a
048day off for the entire District so for students that would mean a five-day weekend for Memorial Day and for staff it would mean a 4-day weekend because we do not want to move graduation from where that is um due to so many people having plans for those days um so I will communicate that out uh I said I also asked the board if you can consider uh a board meeting change for the June 25th meeting so if you would let me know um if either one of those days or um most beneficial we'll go with uh mam president can get that information decide which they we meet uh on the this evening actually the ka's meeting but they will be voting on the contract next week I did just send out the salary guides to
049the negotiations Committee of the board this evening so please take a look at that and Mr crout did say that uh oh goodness sorry that somebody from the law firm may have a specialty in just looking at those guys as well to give us some feedback okay um today we met as a policy group we looked at the 9,000 Series and policy 0164 to to get the order of our meetings uh accurate on that board policy uh community-wise we had a lot going on the I love Keyport taste to Keyport days coming our students will have all of their artwork on exhibits throughout all of the the buildings downtown so it's really exciting the kids love to do that um then the United Way also asked us to be in one of their promotional videos
050because of our our our strong collaboration with them in the VNA all the services that we use so um hopefully you'll see that soon um finance and Facilities Mr rapola spoke to in depth uh about the impact of the budget that we could have that was also in the superintendent report for you we have uh been notified yesterday that we can do a walkthrough of the prek playground um tomorrow morning at 8: a.m. it's my hope that we do um a quick ribbon cutting on Friday hopefully at 4:00 um if any board members can attend I know that um myself and along with a couple of board members are attending the women in leadership uh event at uh New Jersey school boards so we could have some of the after school kids in the after
051Care Program come out but we would like to try to do a ribbon cutting um the goal being in a short planning time that we want all those kids on that playground so if anybody is around at 4:00 on Friday please reach shot to me directly there's a lot of uh upcoming events listed um one of the things I am highlighting because it it's a very important one is the fifth grade science fair that's next week I'm going to be out of the district but I want to make sure that all the board members who want to attend can do that and I don't know if I have the wax museum on here so I'm going to take a look it's on the 10th okay oh I wasn't looking up then oh yeah oh no
052I it's the fourth that's okay because I don't know that I see it on here it's not it's not so I'm going to get that right on there and um I will update this report and share it with all of you 9 to 10 thank you thank you Dr saoa Mr aola board secretary buildings and grounds and finance I have nothing additional to report uh we need a motion for 81 to 107 second my M second roll call this is abrahamson yes M Cunningham yes Mr vopos yes Mrs Grabowski yes Mr Housman yes Mr stall yes Mr Staley yes Miss manhon um thank you pass thank you Dr sooya curriculum Personnel policy okay under curriculum the Bold items are the senior trip which is 11.9 but that does need to be corrected Mr um Rola
053to March 1st it's February 22nd to March 1st um 118 was that I'm sorry um was the an additional trip for the drama club in bold uh there's also the approval 1110 for the collaboration with Brookdale that I spoke to underneath Personnel there's a world cultures resignation um and approval of a new adviser um also there's the Miss Oxley as the dual enrollment coordinator paid through that the grant there's a um Aid a former alumni who will be joining us um upon Miss manelli's uh resignation and then we're extending Miss Ruben hr's Middle School EA Le for for a few weeks so we need a motion for 8 uh 111 to 126 second call Mrs abrahamson yes Cunningham yes Mr vopos Miss Kowski yes Mr Housman yes Mr stall yes Mr stale yes SP hen
054yes thank you madam presid yes uh old business Mr s whole business yes oh yes I have two things um um last week I attended the um Central School band concert um it was I think what I would say is that when you walk into the cafeteria Auditorium there in Central School like the visual was look up at the stage full of student music each with their instruments dressed in black and like wow um 35 St Mr Right is uh um yeah um and he did a good job obviously Enthusiast um students from fourth grade through um he described 're just at the beginning of this adventure they even described how most of the kids are just learning how to read music they critically reference this B flat band staple and he took to the
055kit looks at the kids say how many of you have learned how to read music by through FL um band thing so it was just and they played three songs and that was it uh but that was good because they did it well and it was just um his enthusiasm and just seeing the students up there like a beautiful thing and they mentioned that there's going to be another concert in the spring that's going to involve some high school and chorus so I think there's something big coming but it was just very so I was really glad to be there the second thing is that those of you who still get things by mail in the water bill came out a day or two ago was this um flyer on native plants and um so
056the sponsors were the Keyport environmental uh commission and and that this document about bad plants and good plants was created by the eighth grade student team from Keyport Public School climate grp so I thought really very nice so happy happy to uh did it make the blow of the double uh water bill better big he looked great so thank you well it worked because I boarded some plants today and actually did includ ones that they said that one customer that's just a big huge coup for our kids to get out to every resident I think that that's some of the good stuff uh new business I will business um I reached out to um our field dra Jersey boards um I was just curious our about our C board certification um earned our board certification
057on March 1st 2022 earned the Carol El Larson certification on 1213 2023 um if you look in the online the system shows um that our Carol El Larson expires on 12325 but I was told that it goes by the board certification so it is actually March 1st 2026 need 16 credits to that we currently only have one and a half another half by March 1st 20 definitely doable but we're just G to have to really it um we are going to be doing some stuff I believe at the next meeting so if between now and then there's any topics that you would like us to look into to have a session on please let us know um we are already in the process of scheduling something about confidentiality which unfortunately we uh a law update
058thank you any other new business uh public participation on non-agenda items motion the meet second second um all in favor I