001I don't know. In compiance with the open law of New Jersey PL1975 CH231. Adequate notice of this meeting was provided on January 11, 2026 by sending notification to the Aspbury current press on each district school to quote. Please rise for the national anthem. Say you see what proud last night. We were so burst and Please remain standing. We're going to try something new tonight. We're going to have two students from the middle school on video singing God Bless America. But I would love for the entire audience to show our patriotism. I want all join them singing God bless America audience let's go. America. >> What is it? >> For the first time. Not bad. Thank you. Audience. They stand please. One more thing. Good afternoon. Please do. >> What's your name? >> Adrian Arthur. You
002ready? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. Roll call. >> Mr. Here >> I'm here. >> Here >> vice president >> here. and president >> here. >> At this time, I'll turn it over to Dr. McCartney, the administrative report. >> Good good evening everyone. Thank you for coming out tonight as we are here to celebrate a large number of student groups. We have our wrestling team, our girls basketball team, one of our members of our boys uh basketball team, and elementary spelling be students. So, I'd like to begin by calling up Miss Samola and Mr. Levenson who are going to uh highlight our elementary school spelling be uh
003winners and um all and give you some challenges to see how you guys do on the spelling. >> So Mrs. Levenson is our gifted and talented teacher and for the second year in a row she has really spearheaded the scripts national spelling be at our school. Um she's done an amazing job. The students start at classwide spelling bees. Then from classwide they move on to grade level. From grade level we move on to our school championships. Um and today that we have our winners here with us today. I will let Mrs. Leonson take over. >> Thank you. Uh, I just want to highlight how much work these students that are here tonight put in to get this far. They do give a list of words to study. So, it's not like, oh, they're just good
004at spelling. They had to learn these words and they were super committed and I'm super proud of them and I know their parents are super proud of them. So, thank you for this opportunity to highlight the hard work that they did. Um, they gave up recess time to study. That's a big deal. They they beg for recess time to study. Um, so I have the top. Um, it's hard to know what places everybody is because there were a bunch of ties, but our champion AA, can you please spelling and she was determined to win again. However, she had really tough competition this time and it um but honestly it was anyone's game in the top seven which is why the top seven are invited here tonight. Um Ava, Charlotte, and um Natalia tied for second
005place. >> Suchin and Abigail who, by the way, Abigail is a third grader and made it to the top. Fourth place, Cristiana couldn't make it tonight, I think. And um and Maline fifth place also takes them off. Um we thought it would be fun to show you guys uh how hard it got. So if you don't mind, you want to just kind of turn around this way so that you can face everybody. We have one, two, three, four, five, six volunteers to put themselves on the spot. And each of them have chosen a word that they learned that they can spell to give to you to try to spell. Come on, volunteers. >> That's not as impressive because we know you study those words. All right. >> Thank you. Um, you want to give your
006word? By the way, you can ask for attempt to repeat the word. Uh, give you in a sentence. Country of origin. Um, what was the other thing? >> Definition. Okay. Standard spelling equals. Thank you so much for volunteering. >> D. You use it in a sentence, please. The matri met the VIP guests at the door and personally escorted them to their private table. Um, I'm go I'm drawing a blank right now, but I'm going to go M A T R E M A T W M Apostrophe D. >> Wait, wait, one second. One second. I'll figure it out. >> Can you give us the correct spelling? Correct. Spelling to make a D is M A I T R E space D. >> Apostrophe on Abigail. >> Thank you. Prote R O T E G >>
007Your word is petitioner. What is it? >> Oh, I know. A sister. >> The definition is a shop that sells French. >> Can you repeat that, please? >> Um, the definition is a shop that sells French. >> And can you repeat the word again, please? You did a great job. You use your Oh my goodness. Let's see. Pa. >> Repeat the word one more time. my history. >> P A T I S E. >> No, >> the correct spelling is P A T I S R I >> so far I'm one for three. Your word is sasparilla. >> Good luck. X A S P S P O R I L L A. >> That is incorrect. The correct spelling is s a r s a p a r i l. A P A R I
008L. >> Okay, >> she's the winner. SHE all knew all the words. >> Your word is share away is what? Cherrolet. >> Could you use it in a sentence? >> Although the Cherrolet is a French breed, the largest of these cattle populations are in Mexico and the Czech Republic. >> Cherro. Oh, sure. R I L >> question. >> No. C H C H A R I L E I. >> That is incorrect. The correct spelling is uppercase C H A R O L A I S N. And if you're not sure if they're spelling the word correctly, look at the students up here. You can see their faces. It's like >> you got it. All right, let's go. Thank you. >> Your word is Mackie. >> Of course it is. >> Can you stop it?
009>> ETN's grandfather had thrilling stories about being uh part of a band of Mackie Zard and Britney during the war. Joe, did that clear it up to you? Not >> police. >> Say it one more time. Then I'm just a shot. >> M A Q U E Z A or D? >> No. The correct spelling is M A Q U I S A R D S. >> You were close. >> How many words did they go through in the in the final round? They went through the entire like from third to eighth grade words. I don't know how many exactly but unsurprisingly we had to move on to the unstudied list because all of them made it through the study list and they had studied and learn but then they had to kind of start
010from scratch with random words. That's why I say it's anybody's game. It's just like intuition that >> what was the winning word? >> What was it? >> It was I remember I got wrest they did a good job. And how scary is it to get like you guys didn't even want to do it. They had to get up there in front of everybody and put themselves out there and She already she did the online qualifier which is like all of the winners from I don't know how many maybe more than just she did not qualify but she did really well. >> Thank you guys very much for coming in and for uh helping us participate in our own little mini sty up here. I'd like to now call up Mr. Dominic and Mr. Rosettto uh
011to announce to recognize one of our basketball players. All right. So, we're here tonight to honor Zo program for three years. For two years, he's been up on varsity. He has an older brother that is ahead of him that he has trained with. Um, the reason that he is accomplished all that he has accomplished while he was here and he's got a great future is because he did the same training that his brother did. However, he's at least a year ahead of his brother, if not one. I told him last year when he was up in seventh grade and he scored 95 points in one season that his brother had half of that as a seventh grader. And this year as an eighth grader, not only was he a team leader and he could do
012almost anything on the court and he shared the ball a lot and helped build our program and we came away with at least four wins in a very difficult season. Sam set his goal really high. We had two records here. We had a second place for most points in a season and we had a first place. And in gym class, I said, "S, I want you to shoot for 254." He said, "No, I'm going for 315." And and I haven't seen a flag in a while, so great. Thank you. All right. So 315 was what he was shooting for. He blew the doors off that at 367. I just told them the other day, take lots of pictures with this flag because I don't think this flag's ever coming off, but they can stay in
013our trophy case. So, wishing you well in high school, even though I still have you, but for basketball, wish you well in high school. I want you to enjoy the plat tonight. Show it off tonight. Take lots of pictures. CONGRATULATIONS. >> All right, Mr. Z is going to stay up there and we're going to mic up our wrestling coaches, Mr. Conant and Mr. Dachelli, please. Good evening everyone. So, uh, we just want to take some time to recognize our wrestling program. Guys, why don't you all come up? Let's give a round of applause to our wrestling. So, one of the words that we use to describe our program is the word uncommon. I want to just share really quickly about how each one of these boys and girls is is uncommon in the way they
014do things. Number one, the way that they put in work on the wrestling mat. If you've never wrestled before, it is the most physically grueling thing that you could ever do. Four minutes on a wrestling mat is more intense than 90 minutes in other sports. It's so intense. These kids work so hard. Every single one of them every day busting out over a hundred push-ups of practice just exhausted by the end of practice. Two of my sixth graders after the first practice, they're like, "Ouch, I'm I can't feel my arms. I can't feel my legs. I'm so sore." And we said, "That's that's good. It's a good thing." Right? And and it showed. Number two, how are they uncommon? By their conduct in the classroom. We hold our wrestling program to a very high expectation.
015And every single one of these wrestlers every week has an academic contract that's signed by every single one of their teachers uh that says that they're being respectful in the classroom and that they're submitting all of their work. And they know those expectations. And if they don't reach those expectations, uh they they sit out for a match until they reach their goal. Um, I'm I'm pleased to say that every single one of these guys that during the season, not only did they reach their their expectation, but they got comments from their teacher that they're a role model, a model student, going above and beyond. That's exactly what we want to see in our program. And then lastly, it's the way that they represent themselves and the way they represent their community. These guys always have
016sportsmanship that is so beyond uh anything that you'd even expect for a middle schooler. Not once did they argue with the referee. Not once did they throw things. They conduct themselves and represent Milstone so well. Let's give them a round of applause. Keep my part short and sweet. U was just reflecting on what it took to take first place at the uh county tournament. And I wanted to really think about um how we got here. First, the hard work and dedication of these boys and girls. As coach said, they put in relentless hours asking everything that we everything we asked of them. They just pushed forward and put in the hard work. And I'm proud of that. Takes the support of our parents. We appreciate when you show up to matches and things like that,
017you allow the coaching to happen from the coaches. You're just there to support and encourage these wrestlers. It takes a understanding and patient principle with our accountability practices that we have in place, making sure that she supports us in every way possible. And it takes an amazing head coach. This year was bittersweet. This will be the last year I'll be coaching with coach Kazangian, but I am so proud that we were able to take home the first place trophy. Thank you. So, just want to recognize a few things. This season, we finished our regular season with a 7 and1 record, which is phenomenal. As coach said, we placed first place in the Central Jersey tournament. to understand this tournament. Uh it's a 12 school tournament made up of mostly schools in Mercer County. We are
018by far the smallest town that is there. Some people can't find Milstone on a map. Like what's what's Milstone? Well, now they know what Milstone is, right? Because of because of the way these guys work. We placed first place. It's our second time in school history. First time since 2009 that we placed first. It's an amazing accomplishment. And not every single one of these wrestlers was at that tournament, but they're all here because the achievement belongs to all of them because the way that they put in work during the season. We're we're one unit, one family, and it belongs to all of us. So, with that said, I'm going to call uh one of our captains. I'm going to call uh Kate actually, and she's going to get our plaque that's going to be in
019our display case with every single wrestler's name uh recognizing our championship. BER, KATE. I WANTED UH REAL quick to also just recognize our place winners from that tournament. Uh so when I call your name, you just uh step forward, take like a big step forward or give a little wave to to your families. Okay. Placing third place, Philip Jadelka. Also placing third place with an undefeated regular season. Uh an amazing season. one of our captains, Cooper Rudolph. Taking second place with also an undefeated regular season is Adrien Samowski. Also taking second place. She wanted first, so she's obsessed. Is Kate Santario. And these these next three were the winners of our Central Jersey tournament. Um and we're going to call you up here. We have a five for you guys as well that's going to
020be in our display case um for for there to be for many years to come. So uh in first place, this wrestler, uh it was actually his first year wrestling in middle school. I've been trying to get him to wrestle since sixth grade and he wanted nothing to do with it. And then the first year I get him to wrestle, he goes undefeated and wins the tournament. So I was right. She should have wrestled earlier, but that's okay. We got him. wrap it up for Lincoln Thompson. All right, this next wrestler, uh, this is his second year in a row winning the Central Jersey tournament. Um, Dr. Seiko's grandkids won the tournament twice, but no one I don't no one that I know of has done it three times. He has an opportunity to do
021it next year with an undefeated season. That's Aaron Zamowski. And then lastly, uh this this wrestler is one of our captains. Uh sixth grade he came in third place. Seventh grade he came in second place. I told him the first day of practice I said there's only there's only one place for you to be at the end of the season and he did it with an undefeated season. That's Shawn D. >> Thank you everyone. One more round of applause for the wrestling. I'm going to remain up at the front and I would like to call up uh Miss Stoppers, our basketball coach, girls basketball coach, >> and she's coming up with the girls basketball team as well. >> I am. ABSOLUTELY. Hi guys, I'm Sers. I'm a language teacher here at the middle school. I'm
022also the head coach of the girls pharmacy basketball. Uh last year Mr. Medie said, "Hey, are there any players you want to honor?" I was like, "I want to honor all of them." And he's like, "Chris, we don't have time for that." So this year I brought them all because this year for the first time, and I'm not even sure how long, uh my girls went undefeated. So they had this season. So absolutely so incredibly proud of these girls. This is such a special team this year. Uh we started off the season and they were all so excited. They were all so ready to go and they just got better somehow. They started off amazing and they really jilled as a team this year. I really don't recall there was a time where it was
023about me. It was always about we. I needed something. We needed somebody to kind of hang on from shooting and really guard that really good shooter on the other team. They were like, "All right, no problem. Let's go." These girls fought through injuries. I mean, we had two knee injuries. We had our finger injuries. And even then, these girls, I called them my assistant coaches. So, like Molly and Haley, they ended up being out for the season unfortunately with injuries, but they still came to every game. They were on the sideline. Like I said, I called them my assistant coaches because they'd be yelling out things, "Come on, girls, you got this. Oh, watch out for that one." Uh it was just such a team effort that I'm just I'm so proud and I it's
024so bittersweet to say goodbye to so many of my eighth graders, but we are already looking forward to next year. So girls, I am so proud of you and I hope that you guys are very proud of yourselves this year. And then we're so excited we got our flag captain. Our captains can't ask a lot of that. Um the girls had jokingly said last year they were like we can go and see it next year, right? I was like we can try and you guys did it. And it was just such a great team effort. They all brought in so much a lot of the play and travel teams. They were like hey I got this new play. Hey we can incorporate this. So, it was just such a great effort and I'm so proud
025of you guys. So, congratulations on a great team, LADIES. I'm so proud. Okay. So, few uh few more things before we uh move on. I do want to recognize again the hard work of the coaches, the teachers, uh the administrators who supported our students and all their successes. Congratulations again. Two other highlights I want to share before we action items. First, For those of you who might not know, uh, Money Inc., which is an online publication, examined 30 of the New York highest performing school districts across the state. Three school districts in Mley County were recognized as ranked amongst top. uh they were identified as consist consistently demonstrates excellence across various metrics and they disting distinguish themselves with strong test scores, experienced teachers, comprehensive programs and supportive learning environments. I'm excited to share that we
026were ranked 17th out of the 30 top districts in the state. We were overall ranked 152 out of 69 which is the top 25% school district in years. One of the highlights in the report talks about the district emphasizes an inclusive learning environment with an innovative curriculum designed to develop independent self-directed learners. Parents in Milstone benefits from a community that prioritizes integrity, respect, and civic responsibility alongside academic achievement. So, congratulations. And I think tonight is an example that shows our highlights in academics, our highlights in athletics. Uh and then we also uh attended several of us attended the fourth annual New Jersey literacy summit today uh hosted by Amplify which is the vendor who uh we use for our language arts program. The room itself was probably three times the size of the space we're
027in right now school districts from across the state and we were uh awarded at the end of the conference rookie of the year for outstanding first year implementation of our new language arts program. recognized. That's also a testament to our teachers and our administrative team uh in that role. >> Okay. Uh enrollment report uh we have currently 1,137 students uh enrolled kindergarten preschool through uh 8th grade. HIV report we have one claim for the month of January. Zero substantiated. no additional HIV incidents reported in January. Overall for the year, we've had five claims since the month of January. That is all for my job. We have a voice. Uh we need a motion and a second first and then the next motion. Okay, no questions. All in favor? >> Any opposed or extensions? Seeing none,
028motion carries. >> Okay. At this time, turn it over to Mr. Sha for secondary report. >> Thank you, Dr. Siko. You've got the minutes from February 3rd for approval. >> We need a motion. >> Motion to approve. We have Any uh questions or concerns? >> Seeing none motion. All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? >> Okay. Motion did car. >> Uh nothing under old business and under new business. Um, I know that the several of the committees at the board received a preliminary presentation yesterday on a long range facilities plan that district administration has been working with. Um, Mr. Nichols, who's the district architect. So, I'm going to turn the meeting over to Mr. Nichols. All right. Can you hear me everybody? Can you hear me? Okay. >> All right. So, long
029range facility planned 2026. started. We were asked by the board to start work on this during the fall. Um, and so this is really a progress report on what we've done to date. I just wanted to outline visually the process that is involved in long range facility planning for public school districts. It's a kind of it has a lot of different ingredients to it uh that think about distinctly but they also influence each other and that's what this chart is trying to illustrate. So two biggest ingredients are students and infrastructure or building infrastructure and the goal is to try and get those get your infrastructure to support your educational objectives. So, uh on the education side, we have educational program. What are you trying to do? What grade are you servicing? What is your curriculum
030specifically at each grade level? And what kind of facilities does that? Another big input is class size. There are state guidelines for how many students should be in ideal grade level classroom grade level. But that's ultimately important decision about how large you would allow a class size to get meaning how many students teach. So all of that kind of is an input into building capacity. How much how much building do you need to accommodate those students and these programs and parameters like you said an ingredient the other ingredient with students is enrollment projections. We did enrollment projections in 2023 way that it's based on birth data and trends historically in the district. So um we're just getting to the point now where the data is really beginning to reflect the impact of hope and it's
031a little bit unknown. We the consensus of of the committees is that it would be good to do another enrollment projection based on these new variables and to help plan for the future. And that's one of the challenges. We know where we're at now in terms of crowding or not space, but we have to be looking forward to the point where when the kids show up, we're ready for that. That's the kind of enrollment projection input that is a big part of this. All that being said, what our focus up until this point in this cycle of the long range plan has been on the building conditions themselves because even this building and as some of board members know, we worked together now basically 20 years ago building this building which was at the time
032a transformation transformational project for township. And suddenly, shockingly, it's an old. It's not a new building. And there's a lot of a lot of things that buildings, materials, equipment, everything. 20 years is a long time. And anyone who owns a house knows not trying to fix it. It's falling apart. So, work hard to keep up with that. So, our focus this time for this point has been on looking at the infrastructure itself. And really what that partly involves is for me gathering all the data that we have in all different places about all this equipment. What's its life expectancy? What condition is it? And really process it so that we can be proactive. Instead of saying, "Oh, we have a leaky roof day at least." We say, "Well, you know what? that group is 20
033years old shouldn't be that surprised. So it's a way of getting ahead of the curve curve instead of playing catch up or being reactive. Goal is for us to be proactive looking. So the next slide I have a little so what what we've done at at in three ma major buildings in the district there are some minor buildings you have to keep in mind but three schools where on the left is the excerpt of a spreadsheet which we're basically building a database of all this information so that this will habit moving forward to to support decision making and there are firms that do this. You can outsource this data collection if you want but we're doing it basically in house. I think the it's two-edged sword. The sometimes outsourcing with a technological solution can be
034great, but the hard work that goes into putting that together can't be avoided. So sometimes it's still not bad to actually do it a little bit fetish way. Right now we're doing it in Excel but we have a a workbook of of all the building systems in each building getting all this information in one place that will help us move forward. So we start with and what we look at what you see here is basic building data for each site. How old is the building? What's its capacity? square footage of the house and view of the site which is primary school obviously and it's always amazing just looking at this material suggests like what aha moments one of the things just looking at the site reminds me makes us aware that we have issues related
035to vehicular circulation at this building with parent drop of buses, pedestrians, visitors and it's all kind of ironically not in the best sequence possible to make that happen safely. So one possibility in this process is to look at how could we improve this make it safe and before we spend money replacing a lot of asphalt in a situation that doesn't necessarily work well. We can also make some changes that might help us down the road. Baseline situation has changed a lot. We have 20 bus loop spaces at this site. How many buses are we using now? We have many more parents dropping their kids off. That changes the morning routine. Changes the way this is used. We just want to make sure we're looking at future instead of past. Next sheet for the primary school
036just kind of outlines how our second focus which is really on the site itself and and really I always talk about this basically these photographs illustrate we have the front door which is far from parking. It's not used for a lot of purposes. most students entry and exit through the gym door and how to set that up more appropriately is one of the things we should address. The other the other aspects are outdoor amenities, outdoor learning spaces that came along during co there's possibilities there. Another big issue is always accessibility. Disability is good for accessibility, but one of the things, one of the opportunities with accessibility, we'll see this schools is um creating u recreational spaces that can also be handicapped accessible. So, you could do just handicap rounds or you could do a nature
037trail to get you to where where you want to go on the site, handicapped or not. So there are examples of solving problems that also can create opportunities. I think that's all that the next um next slide is going to show a big focus really about the buildings is mechanical equipment heating and cooling especially again 20 years old in this building primary school even older basically 1995 so suddenly years 40 years old. 30 years old. >> No, but in in terms of a lot of this original equipment, it's really tough to replace. The other big issue is the benefit like these boilers, they basically built to last a long time, but and a lot there a lot of schools in New Jersey, I've seen many of them that have boilers 50 years. The other consideration
038is they're not very efficient on an operational basis. So current equipment is much better and there are actually incentive programs available to encourage placement of the equipment. The other issue is availability of repair parts all example of how we need to do proactive. The other big issue we'll see districtwide is control systems for heating and cooling. We have different vendors each both two in the district three major vendors. They software is proprietary. So it's very difficult to match one school to another. And also once you're committed to one of those vendors, you're kind of stuck. So the goal is to do districtwide control system that can very easily operable for remote sites and also open source so that can be upgraded without paying the price to a proprietary. So that's something here. The other the
039other image here besides the boiler is the lower image is this uh at the back of the gym at the primary school where there's this is gym storage but up above is is mechanical but air handlers for heating actually cool. And our goal is to what we've done like we did the cafeteria of that building replaced with a rooftop package unit. So everything is on the roof and we have some space that we can capitalize on. Always these spaces are used for storage but we can improve the storage while we're mechanical. So and that's the kind of synergy that we we look for. What you can see on on the left is just this what I was describing before catalog of what's in the building. What some some equipment has been replaced, some has not.
040And basically everything that has been replaced part same story. This is the primary school. What you see there is a a unit ventilator. These it's kind of old school equipment that it's not even we can't get any subsidy to improve its efficiency because it's inherently efficient. They also make a lot of noise in classrooms. So that it has an impact negative impact on education. So again instead of replacing these with very 40y old technology. The thought is to upgrade to moving on to the cooling systems much more efficient, easy to maintain parts. The other thing you're seeing here issue in all our buildings is is electrical surge protection for the electrical systems. a lot of all the mechanical equipment, not only education, you know, computers and everything else, but all the operating systems on all
041this is equipped. It's not digital and you need to have surge protection because these circuits get knocked out easily. Even even advanced designs had just sur protection for computers quote. Now this this digital stuff is everywhere and we need to have really district. And this uh below the lower right there is is a a backup generator. When the primary school was built, it was the area of refuge for the whole and that backup generator. I don't think anyone knows what it works. I'm not sure. at all probably but um again it's an example of things that are now at the time that they next building is the elementary school unlike the primary school the elementary school is built in three different stages 1958 building on the far right there and and middle piece was built
042in 1990. So three different buildings mashed together. So So it's in some respects it's treated as three. Next uh next this is a site page for the elementary school. One of the one of the issues there is that this 1958 address still used by a lot of students for drop off. It's not anticible. So just making that two little steps. It's not a big deal, but making that accessible would be a important thing for all kinds of special needs students, um, classified students, but also kids that get injured in sports and now crutches. The other the lower I mean the other image is this again this this building also has this front door problem where the front door is very remote that's there probably okay but the lower images show um again side issues related
043to labor and equipment but especially security and fencing. We have a lot of old fencing in the district side fencing replaced and also this building especially but really even at the school there's a big perimeter that's unprotected by any kind of fencing and that security concerns have become proud. We also have animals making their way onto street sites. Great great for a nature class but not always great for so the thought is that's along that perimeter of the elementary school and it really has the so the next the next page has mechanical equipment at the elementary school did replace a lot of the equipment Basically, almost all the equipment in the 1958 that replaced the we added cooling to the gym, replace a lot of rooftop units that were vintage from the mid 80s. And
044there's still some that we haven't replaced. The one in the cafeteria show there. and right. These are images of the typical classroom mechanical system in the elementary school is this call airdale unit. It's a combined heating and cooling and ventilation. Also very noisy, also hard to repair. And we found out actually they they are they were installed when the windows were done in 98 but we can't get them out but we can't get in place with this technology because the doors are also not we have. So yeah, probably get rid of that equipment. But we have we actually have a projected department. We had to replace the doors. They didn't improve it. Anyway, that's the story there. Um, middle school, as I said, suddenly a 20-y old building. Still pretty great, though. I am always
045happy to be back see it in action. I'm very proud of it. And uh beautiful site obviously we can see just from the site plan. We have different vintages of asphalt. Some asphalt need to be approved. Few drainage issues. One of the big issues that have related to pick up and drop off students are picked up at the impact entrance down here and there's a lot of stuff going on with pedestrians and cars queued up so it's not very safe. We at least would have to put the fence and improve the safety so that we don't have people coming by. And once what happens now is So someone's kid gets picked up, then they peel off, head through the parking spaces. So it's not an ideal situation. This site also, I mean, they're great opportunities
046on this site especially, but all of them for this idea of different kinds of outdoor recreation besides team sports. And this is, you know, increasingly recognized as a good thing for whole range of students who might not be doing sports and it also interacts directly with other parts of the curriculum like nature with literature and Henry David the right just a lot of ways of doing outdoor education also address look for opportun for synergy. Anyway, uh and I understand the other thing that's been pointed out and it's true inside buildings and outside also. Middle school kids are a lot older than they used to be in terms of their behavior and personality and social interactions. So a lot of I heard that a lot of middle school kids hang out behind the gym on the
047black. So there would be it would be nice to imagine other kinds of great time opportunities for this age group. Yeah, that satisfying besides you know being on the phones obviously but know it's an example of how we need to think ahead about new initiatives that might helpful for kids at meeting them where they're at instead of vice The other thing here are these out buildings. I think in all of the sites you don't have enough service capacity for the size of district. We have a lot of ad hoc solutions with sheds and equipment stores outside which should be inside. So that's hard to make some sight work that the other big thing here is roofing. You can see in the bottom slide building has about 50% of this white membrane roofing which is still
048holding up pretty well but the asphalt shingles on the sloping needed and the pot is made metal similar to the front entry. So just an example and then next next uh page is vacuum mechanical equipment and see our cascade of five boilers. They're meant to operate in stages so that on a big demand day we had this winter firing most all of them also having some redundancy. 20 years later, we're down to three working on five. We're trying to get parts, keep them going. But again, this is so part of the issue is not only just things breaking down, but the ability to keep things not only physical equipment that also there's a software component of that too. Sometimes they still try to say, "Well, I'm sorry. We're not servicing that vintage of your software
049anymore. replace gymnasium lighting with LEDs, but we should look more extensively at better upgrade than lighting districtwide and it's kind of a shortcut band-aid solution in a lot of cases, not necessarily here, but doing the real LED replacement. What you're seeing in the lower right there is just illustrates how we're hitting the cooling system. Here we have big chiller for cooling cold and those boilers all these things are reaching the end. So and again and back to that same control system issue district control. So that's kind of it on the infrastructure see themes are pretty consistent across the district in terms of this idea we have enough power in most cases what we haven't started to drill into other issues like exterior stuff and that's especially the at the elementary schools on those two buildings.
050We also have windows and doors that we and this is before we get to the fun stuff like media center here idea to make the media center more readable to the way students learn now with laptops devices that's about sitting at a desk and looking stuff up out of a book. So opportunity to update that and make make center more of an active learning resource. I just have one picture here that's couch area. No students in couch area without adults super anyway. But but this even the idea of a computer lab or computer station where they desktop computers where students would sit for time. It's much more can sit anywhere, can go anywhere. It's kind of a moving target. And the last uh bit is goes back to that first diagram some of our next
051steps. As I said at the beginning, revisit the 2023 enrollment data. Yes, we want to have more intense meetings with the building principles about their educational goals and objectives are probably education. The media center is just one of those makers and STEM labs is always hot topic not even new anymore and special ed is always always an important topic both in terms of how students are being served in district but also opportunities to bring students home here even there are cases where you can set choice students special classifications. We're offering specific services here. And then the lower right funding options. Take think of those spreadsheets. We have a lot of needs, very granular information. One of the part of the decision- making is what's the best way to tackle the problem. dispensing as an example.
052Even though it might cost enough to make sense to put in referendum, some of these needs have to be addressed before we can actually have a referendum or have a big project going. So part of the choice, part of the iteration process is figuring out a problem, what's the best way to solve it? Mechanical side, it's not only big money, so big financing, but also what are the incentive programs to help us pay for school. And there are unique funding mechanisms that not new, but they are very established where future savings on the food costs can be capitalized to pay for your equipment up front. You know where the place out chiller something that's going to use half the energy companies that'll happen other yeah obviously some things what's obviously some things like technology have
053scheduled tech people get one meeting with issue with technology. It happens changes so fast borrowing long-term money to buy computers. The good news also is in the county improvement authority, there have been recent legislation that enables some financing for some purposes to be done without going to. If that's possible or unlikely or again maybe the voter would support some things, other things could. But it's a new option that looking at expense and difficulty sometimes getting approved could Finally, you know, last few items. Once all these elements priorities money tie into a plan then it's a matter of actually designing which means hiring consultants get some engineers involved quickly to look at best solutions for these mechanical problems that we have and how to finance it talked about construction. So this is a multi process and
054That's the story. Any questions? >> Okay. >> So, so as I I go through this, >> I'm looking at capacity, >> right? So, all of our buildings are way under capacity as far as students go. Like the middle school says here 6 645 is the capacity but our current enrollment is 364. Um the other two buildings when I look at them the uh elementary school uh looks like capacity is 518. um current enrollment is 363 and then this building um is 550 and our current enrollment is 404. So that would lead me to believe that uh depending on what those enrollment projections end up being okay as far as capacity goes is concerned. Um but then you know as I look at other things that are here um especially like the entrance of I guess
055the primary school and any of the schools where they're not using the main entrances. My concern is that they are not they can be accessed easily as opposed to having a vest vestibule where you have to come in, you have to sign in, you have to be left into the building. Um and and how is that something that will be looked at as far as you know the long range facility plan goes? Um, as a primary school, I'm concerned with the boilers because when I look at the life cycle, they are obsolete. So, I'm assuming that means it's hard to get parts. What happens if there's is a major a major breakdown? Um, and the specific cost to get those addressed um pretty much right away. Um the other things that I wrote down here
056um the the masonry I'm assuming you know all of that. Do we know and I guess Bernie this is a question you know to find out how much of the land space at this building is currently not being utilized. Um just just out of curiosity because I know when this building was originally built um there was to be um a sharing of of um the fields with the town to get them developed and utilized. But that never seemed to happen. it just kind of fell by the wayside to be able to use the space around the outside of of the buildings. Um, are we considering solar panels or are they pretty much past? >> No, that's that's a good point. In fact, when you speak of excess land, I think my I think what happens
057now the ah moment that has been experienced is putting solar panels on the roof isn't always the greatest complicate roof replacement like solar panel. So by having excess turf is good place to put >> okay >> parking solution is you know I mean it's not cheap but lots of districts that have parking with solar pens well a lot of districts I have been passing have been so the um who does the enrollment projections is that somebody we have to hire to do and and when Should they be done? >> We're going to do that right away. We in 93 we just department of ed does a generic one that they use as their default template and if you if you don't want to use their method you have to justify um and I so in
05893 we just did the standard one and it basically showed very sorry >> 2023 sorry Yeah, that was when we did this building. Yeah. 2023. So the things that have come down the pike since then are the the impact of the co-o affordable housing obligations and that that isn't included in what we did and that's a good reason to go even though yeah we could we could get around that but I think a consultant is a good way one of the best things is that they're not seen as a collaborator with your architect who wants to. >> Okay. And then are there still current um square footage per student guidelines as far as the building capacities go? And do our current that's our do our current buildings cover that for any potential increase in student?
059Well, it's a tricky question. First of all, capacity building capacity is a very funible quantity because there are different definitions like the state In the ad litigation, they came up with formulas on square foot per pupil, which was guideline for planning, but also your entitlement for what state aid. If you said if you had unhoused students, which meant your projections are bigger than your capacity, they would give you the x² per pupil. But It's only really one metric and it has limited value in terms of actual plan. You really have to drill to the next level which is how many classrooms do you have? What are they used for? As I said before, how many kids you how many kids do you want as a board in your typical third grade classroom? You could say
060if you're in a growing district, you could say, "Well, we'll just let five more kids in each classroom and might be define educational best practice." But that happens in a lot of places in New Jersey. A lot of urban districts still high 20s, 30s in some. So, so and and that's even the numbers, the capacity numbers here. They somewhat depend on how buildings are listed as being used. So if you have what used to be a regular classroom and now you're using it as a small group room might put that on your registry that would make your capacity to go down. One example is building this shop right here very successful but that took a classroom. So we have to count that as a special lab for students. >> Well, I worry because when the
061primary school was originally built and I was here for that. Um capacity was 880 students when that was first. Then the state came and they adjusted um what that square footage per student was, which was one of the reasons that the board then moved to build this building because they took that 880 capacity and cut it almost in half. And then we had to do something to to be able to house those students even though originally it didn't. So I do worry about the state coming in and saying, "Okay, we're going to increase that that that per student square footage and now what do we do?" And is that something that we need to include for the end result of this service? >> Well, on this educational component and that's why I I show this
062little orange box show this is exactly what I'm talking about here. Curriculum classes that directly impacts building capacity. So you think you say on a square foot per student basis this building has like 140,000 square feet. State says a middle school should have like 125 whatever. So you come up with a fixed capacity and that would ignore how big is your gym? You have two gyms. have you know it's only it's only one little piece of information or heart rate something just one piece of information one of the things happened here and I I agree with you primary school certainly something we had I think back in the day did we have kindergarten at all had half day >> as we go with full day kindergarten that preschool that's been >> although that primary school
063was originally built for uh kindergarten. Um, that's because they put the the the toilets and the sinks and everything. But then what ended up happening was >> when we went out because we were voting on budgets, okay, they passed the referendum in December, but then when April came around to pass the the budget for the full implementation of full day kindergarten, the voters voted it down. So that building has been set up all of these years for full day kindergarten, but because of budgetary constraints and voters voting budgets down, it was never >> Yeah. I I think I mean the reality and again we have I want to drill back into these numbers and really survey. I usually take the plan that prep our parents like which is what's what's this class being used for
064this year changing classes different things some some K. So like you said, what how do we want what do we want to do? We could say, "Okay, why don't we have a ninth grade?" When we first did this building was like, "Well, we're going to bring the high school back eventually share these facilities." But if you if you say, "Okay, we're going to add another grade to this building and you have to rejigle everything. It's all being used." You come up with a different capacity using the same space. That's why it's it's a very nonlinear. It's almost like a chaos theory. These things are all interrelated even though you have to think about them separately and you also have to they are not separate. >> Any other questions Mr. Nichols? Thank you so much. Thank
065you. Now >> thank you Dr. is presentation number two. Um we updated the uh the budget calendar. Um put some uh more definitive dates in here as the calendar was approved by the uh the state. Uh so we checked off the um obviously the things we've accomplished so far. Um again tonight we'll start with tonight. Tonight's budget presentation number two including the long range facilities plan. There are no um facility upgrades or capital improvements in the proposed budget or budget that we're developing. Um we were putting them all into this long range facilities plan for to figure out how to move forward and finance uh those projects. So again budget uh that will be in front of you right now does not include any capital projects a data set for the more um for the
066governor's budget address why that's important um you get um details of the overall state educational budget along with the state budget um two days later uh by statute state aid figures will be released uh so that is March 12th 2026 so we'll know on that today. Um what we get in state aid right now as a placeholder we have had state aid budgeted um and again just uh moving up on online there uh since March um and continuing I'm sorry since February and continuing into March we have been meeting with all departments um and going through line by line with the um budgets that were submitted to the business March 24th. There was this was a revised um meeting date. Um it will be the night that we ask you to adopt the preliminary budget.
067Um that must be submitted to the county superintendent schools by March 22nd. Um we will continue uh from tonight moving forward through the end of April to uh uh continue on going with department and board committee budget discussions. And right now the um public hearing on the budget is scheduled for April 28th. Uh some of the things that we've been working on and budget revisions information um as it comes. This was probably the largest so far. Um when we developed the budget early in uh we're late December, early January, we were anticipating 23% increase in health benefits. Um we continue to shop for lower late uh rates as of um late last week and a followup today. Um we do have a verbal um update and are awaiting official proposals. Um the broker will be
068reducing their commission rate from 2.5 to one and a half percent. Um based on that reduction, the current provider which is Horizon has offered a renewal of 18.71%. And there is the opportunity to move into the SHIP or ASHIP but they're going on. So it is the SHIP uh school health insurance fund. um that is a group of um school districts in the state of New Jersey, typically uh located in central New Jersey um that join forces, have good health experiences and are in the business of sharing exposure for health amongst themselves. What it does is much like our GIF, our joint insurance fund that we're a member of down in Burlington County, um you um typically partner with good performing districts and you share exposures and limit your renewal increases. Um so we will
069be getting details on equal to or better than coverage and we will be asking this board to make a decision um between now and June 30th uh which way they would like to go if that's remaining with the current provider or moving into the um the shift again as part of the budget review and what has came developed since the last um budget presentation. Red Bank Regional, we got confirmation that um only two of our eighth graders will be attending there or have been accepted next year. Um there were six 12th graders going there. So we're down a net of four students. Each one of those students totals about $18,000. So, um, again, in the last month, that developed into a $72,000 increase in the, uh, uh, the budget development. Um, healthcare is noted there,
070um, potentially going from 23 to 15. The department meetings again going line by line. um up every supervisor's budget. Um we potentially reduced uh the overall budget by about $35,000. Wish list items. Um department submitted what they would like to see in next year's budget. Um that amounted to a reduction by removing those wish list items mainly in the curriculum area of about $50,000. Um, again, curriculum wise, technology-wise, uh, software wise, uh, multi-year contracts. I had originally budgeted, um, the contracts in full where we had the options potentially of doing a three-year to fiveyear multi-year contract. Uh, that amounted to about $130,000 um that we could have removed from the proposed budget. Uh we did have a lease um expiring uh that uh recently we've had five-year lease purchases for equipment and buses. We finally
071um in this current school year paid off one of those leases. That payment um which I had a placeholder in when develop developing the budget was removed. It now reflects the actual costs. And so there that's all good news. On the flip side, um early aid um February, not only did we get the tuition numbers, but we also get a bill for staffing related to onetoone aids at the high school. Um this affected us both for this year and next year. um that bill came in almost $200,000 over what was anticipated for the current year, which therefore translated into having to add those costs into next year's budget. Um so that's a negative, the others are positive. Um what that is um one of the benefits although it sounds like a significant increase for us
072those students are staying in the upper um school district whereas if potentially we didn't provide that one to one aid they might be an out of district placement costing significantly more money and also transportation cost for private school placement. So while it is um a high number, it it caught us off guard both this year and next year. Um uh it's something that um will keep those kids in that upper real program. Historically um that number has fluctuated um between 200 and $250,000. um it did creep up to 300,000 and now again uh this year will be around 500,000 and that's what we budgeted for next year. Right now the initial budget um I'm sorry the original presentation of the initial budget included a 2% tax levy state aid and we had an unbalanced budget
073of about $3.2 $2 million. As of today in this presentation tonight with the revisions thus far, um we remain $2.8 million unbalanced. Unbalanced means we either we need reductions in expenses or revenues infused into the budget um to once again balance that budget. It must be balanced um for March 24th. So when we are in front of you on March 24th asking you to approve a tentative budget um that number must be zero. What that means um over the next three weeks um we will um be having significant discussions and recommendations on cuts and any infusion. For instance, if we do in fact get a um a increase in our state aid, that will then re be reflected in the next budget um reducing that $2.8 million as we analyze staff um and potentially reduce
074staffing. Again, that will make that unbalanced budget less. And um we will also um again, we'll be discussing that and present it to you at the next meeting. One of the things I did remove uh from this presentation which we did um have as part of the presentation last time was the healthcare waiver. Um and the healthcare waiver is a moving target as we um presented the budget last um last meeting with a 23% increase. That healthcare waiver was based on that 23% increase. um as we reduced the healthcare waiver, I'm sorry, as we reduced the line items for um that increase of uh healthcare down to 15 um that healthcare waiver um was reduced. As we talk about reductions in staffing, which then um flows into a reduction in benefits, that healthcare waiver will
075be reduced even more. So, it may uh very well be an option for us on the 24th when we ask you to adopt the budget. But again, it's a moving target and I want to take the next three weeks moving forward um to not having that as a guarantee and using that um when we get to to the end if in fact it's there on the 24th. So um just a reminder uh the average home value has increased um year after year. The um last uh for the 26 27 school um for the 26 27 count uh tax year. Um that I believe has a lot to do with the revaluation uh township wide. Um right now history of the general fund tax levy uh in 2024 we increased taxes 2.7%. Last year 4.41% or
0761% and considering if that health benefit waiver goes away, our only ability because we don't have any bank cap or any other ability to increase taxes over the 2% um you see it there. That would mean a $3 increase on average home when you consider and that's for the year $3. When you consider debt service, which is the district's long-term debt, again, this is going to fluctuate with the release of state aid figures because we do get debt service aid. So, um, we try to estimate it each year. We do have declining debt and will be debtree in 30, I'm sorry, 2031. But the amount of taxes needed to be raised to support the long uh the long-term debt of the district uh on the average home will be reduced to $58 um if this
077budget um went forward. Um there's not going to be a significant change in debt service again, but it's going to be a small change. So when you look at the impact over since 2024 on the average home um taxes remain $355 less than what they were in the 2324 school year. Some of the factors um we may very well be limited to a maximum tax of 2%. Again, the only option that we may have is that health benefit waiver. Um, and we'll um have to identify that on the 24th. Uh, we will be working on RFPs for all professional services. Um we are contract contractually obligated to a salary increase 3.55% for the teaching staff and the uh the uh those township educational uh association members. It remains in this budget a estimated energy cost
078of 20%. Um we are meeting with our energy consultant that meeting um unfortunately was scheduled for one of the snow days. So, we are looking at dates to regroup on that. I am also going to take a harder look at our usage this year um because we did significantly increase those lines last year and I want to make sure that um we're not budgeting too much there. So, you might see at the next meeting a slight decrease in our energy uh budget. Again, the estimated healthcare cost increases are 14 to 19 14 to 19% based on uh which uh plan this board chooses and um that service and um is uh decreasing. Just a reminder that our our uh upper prehole tuition line increased by almost $500,000 due to per pupil cost, additional pupils, and
079the an adjustment from pri prior year. And that's all I have for this evening. >> Any questions for B? >> Yeah, I have I have one or two. Have you implemented a budget for the district >> uh since November 1st. Yes. >> Okay. >> One of the things and great point um and Dr. McCardney and I just looked at this the other day as part of um the the department review. You know, if if we were sitting on a lot of money in the buckets, the line buckets um throughout the budget this year, one of the things we would do was um you know, potentially buy stuff that's needed for next year in this year's budget. Um, between last year and this year, our excess surplus decreased by about $400,000. What that means is in
080the 2425 budget, um, we had less money left over than the 2324 budget. When I did a comparison of where we are in this year compared to where we were last year, um we're $400,000 less um to make it through the end of the year than we were last year at this time. So, um this why you potentially do a spending freeze was again for that original reason. um saving money, potentially buying stuff for the following year, and also replenishing your excess surplus. Um that excess surplus as part of the budget prep is a one-time revenue source. So, we have to either come up with that 2.7 million again or find it somewhere else. Um, so I'm concerned again based on where we are $400,000 less this year that in planning the 2728 budget, you're
081going to be in a hole starting the year at $400,000. So um, so yes, we did do implemented study pricing. >> Any other questions? >> So So are you looking at just all levels of staff? not just teaching staff but potential administrative staff, support staff. We've um we've uh met with all departments um all supervisors and have um discussed with everyone districtwide um in those positions the potential of a reduction in STEM and have asked them to um come up with ideas both in stamping and other areas. And then finally, what can you what are the state guidelines for class sizes? We can you get us those numbers for the next meeting? >> Yeah, I wrote that down. I mean, like we looked that in the policy. The policy states that it's up to us
082under the recommendation of the superintendent size >> if you could please. >> I that's all I have for right now. John, >> anybody else? Okay, we're at the point of public comments on agenda item shortly n when is the board going to more seriously look at our numbers of our students? It's been 10, 15, maybe 20 years now of decreasing enrollment in our school system. Uh we can see from census data that the entire town has stopped growing. I understand the complexities that are coming with the color housing and the potential approved buildings that have to come in for those. But our schools are now at 60% capacity based on the January enrollment data. Um, based upon our seventh and eighth grade class, we're going to lose another 50 kids over the next two years
083if our kindergarten stays flat, which it has for a number of years now, which will put us at 57% capacity. So, does our schools have to be half empty before we do something so that the money that we're spending on our kids actually goes through education and not keeping schools half empty and just wasting money? I understand the complexities that have occurred in this town over the last 40 years. I've lived here for 30 of them. I've watched these schools change and we can kind of see a pattern now that the town is stabilized. Yes, we're going to have these color housing come in. Yes, Scooters Corner is going to get 10 more houses, but it's not going to be the same development that we saw in the 90s and the early 2000s. And we
084want to make sure our kids are actually getting an education and we're not just funding empty buildings. >> Anybody else? Okay, moving along. Uh this is Ramos, human resources. >> I would like to move human resources in its entirety. >> We have a second. Have >> Kathy. Any questions? Uh, Mr. Wowi. >> Yes. >> Mr. W. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Skiny. >> Yes. >> Uh, Mr. Jigantino. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cinderella. >> Yes. To everything but number five. I'll abstain. >> Thank you. Um, Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Vice President uh Ramos. >> Yes. >> And President Cena. >> Yes. >> A motion to chair. >> Okay. Education. >> Sean. Just for old business um for the negotiations that the human resources committee especially the negotiations team since we did um approved
085the memorandum of agreement for the administrators. We need to get together and begin development of sales. >> Okay, Mr. Ramos, >> I would like to move education in its entirety. >> Any questions? We have a second. Ron, >> this is a roll call vote. Uh, Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Sigerella, >> yes. >> Mr. Tigantino, >> yes. Mr. Kinsey, >> yes. >> Mrs. Gre, >> yes. >> Mrs. Woff, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Wowski, >> yes. >> Vice President Ramos, >> yes. >> And President, >> yes. >> Mr. Car, >> at this time, Mrs. Wineoff and Mr. Monowski, policy. Mrs. Wankoff. >> Uh, thank you, John. The policy committee met this evening um prior to the meeting. Um you'll see on the agenda that there are uh six seven six um policies that will
086be on here for the first reading. Um and then we have several policies that are going to be abolished. And if you look at those that are being abolished, they are being replaced um by new mandated policies um via stress assessment. >> Any questions? Okay. May we have a motion? >> So I'd like to move um policy uh one and two um at this time. Second restain. >> Um any interest of time? All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed or abstensions? >> See none. Motion carries. >> Okay. The upper freehold uh report. Uh we don't have a video, but I do have a statement from uh the superintendent Marko. He's uh letting everybody know it's read across America week. For those that have high school children, March 5th and March 6th is going to
087be early dismissal. uh student by the name of Addie Meyers uh attended the state and with the representatives Andy Kim with Senator Cory Booker, Representative Donald Norcross and Representative Herf Conway to share her story and to advocate for rear disease legis legislation. Uh Mark says Abby where to go the uh next level record. The Robinsville Alltown hockey team was in the state semis. Brightar Musical was awesome. Uh he wants me to talk about the Allentown High School wrestling and we're looking forward to the students that were here today, fine young men and women. Uh Alltown High School wrestling is improving. Congratulations to the wrestling team who finished third in the districts. And a huge congratulations to our champions medalists. We were on to the regionals which start Friday. District champions Venenzo Valdino, Nate Gettis, Nick
088Aquer. Second place Dominic Valdino, Steven Moore. Third place Dustin Wilson, Anderson Dro Heightstown Allentown Swimming Co-op. Well done, Nikot and Zenia for finishing fifth in the 100 meter breaststroke with time of 1 minute 4 seconds. Allentown High School color guard continues to have one of their best seasons yet. Kudos to everyone for their amazing achievements. FAF FFA week was shortened due to snow, but it doesn't take away the pride that everybody has in FFA. Congratulations on being extraordinary. And he wants to give a shout out to both the AHS basketball teams on a hard-fought season, tough losses in the state state tournament. We are so proud of you. I just want to say kudos to the coaches that we have here because everybody wants to win, but it's how the kids act when they lose
089that's the most important thing. And I've noticed character and integrity. So kudos to the wrestling coaches, basketball coaches, all the coaches. You do a great, wonderful, dynamic job. At this time, I'll go to community engagement. The representatives are not feeling too well tonight and what I want them to do is tell the community what's going to go on in the uh community. So, they asked that they will be here. They told me they will be here next uh meeting and give an update. So, nothing to report at this time other than I know they're watching at home, feel better. Okay, moving on. Finance. But we have the report from uh superintendent in uh Bernie. The finance committee will be meeting with the superintendent and Bernie on a regular basis. Uh we told Dr. McCartney to
090sharpen his pencil, okay, and see what we can do to balance this budget. Um I'd like to move everything in finance if there are no questions. So, we have Kathy and James. Okay. >> Uh, Dr. Se, I'm gonna give you credit. I'm going to give Kathy credit for a second. >> And any questions at this time? >> Uh, seeing none. Uh, Mr. Cart, >> yes. >> Mr. Sigerella, >> yes. >> Mr. Jino, >> yes. >> Mrs. Kinsey, >> yes. >> Uh, Mrs. Ree, >> yes. >> Mrs. Wineoff. >> Uh, yes. It's I refuse myself on anything that has to do with the Woff family scholarship. >> Mr. Wowski, >> yes. >> Vice President Remos, >> yes. >> And President, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> At this time, we'll turn it over to operations. Mr.
091Chino, chair. >> I think Mr. Nichols covered most of it today and we're working with Dr. from and him to move the facilities program ahead and there no no earth shattering news. I want to compliment you because at the uh operations committee meeting Mr. Chucino is very sharp uh he knows his stuff so I have to say that. So keep up the good work sir. At this time, polar comments on any item. Okay, we're not going to go into executive session. So, we have some no boarding dates. March 13th, early dismissal for students. March 24th, BOE meeting and very important one with the budget. April 2nd, early dismissal. April 3rd 10th, students elect recess. With that, motion to adjurnn. James, thanks for coming everybody. >> Guys, it came late. There's a pizza over there if
092anybody's interested.