001Order. Mrs. Walker, would you lead us in the flag salute? Sunshine Law Statement. All requirements of the open public meetings act have been met for this meeting of the board of education of the bureau of Ordal. Notice of this meeting was filed with the record of town news and all persons requesting such notice. Mrs. Norian, would you read the mission statement? The Oridel Public School District is dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of educational excellence through comprehensive innovative curriculum and instruction. The district is committed to providing opportunities for social, emotional, and academic discovery to foster curiosity, courage, and character. Our goal is to prepare our students to become lifelong learners who are self-directed, resilient, productive, responsible citizens. Thank you. Roll call. On the roll, Mr. Delg Greco here. Mr. Dariion will not be here. Mrs. Downey
002here. Mrs. Moran here. Mr. Nutan here. Mrs. Walker here. Mr. Walsh here. Mrs. Norian here. Mrs. Nichols here. Um, at this time we'll open to the public for agenda items only. Can you just turn the mic on? Thank you. Hi, Rosemary Catalo, president of the OEA. Um, as this is teachers appreciation week. Um, as we celebrate it, we would like to take a moment during this meeting to recognize and celebrate a very special group of educators, those who are being recommended for tenure at Oredell Public School. We hope that this recognition becomes the beginning of a meaning meaningful new tradition at OPS. These dedicated teachers joined our school community during a time when many educators were hesitant to enter classrooms, a time marked by uncertainty and fear. Despite the challenges, they chose to show up
003to teach and to support our students when it was needed most. Their unwavering commitment to excellence and to the well-being of every child at OPS has been and continues to be truly unparalleled. We are grateful for their service, their passion, and their positive impact on our school community. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Uh I just wanted to speak about some of those uh of our colleagues that we were talking about and exemplify some of the things that we have experienced working with them. Um, so Kristen Collins came to us from Virginia bravely stepping into big shoes and she's more than filled them with heart and passion and vision. She's given the program into something grown the program into something truly special and uniquely her own. Uh, Maria Constandinu, who I work closely and personally
004with in third grade and has become a good friend as well. Uh she came to us with experience teaching art um and third grade and she's brought boundless curiosity and joy into her classroom. She creates a space where students and teachers learn together making every day a celebration of growth and creativity. Uh Michelle Hos who came to us from Rididgewood and began her journey at OPS teaching on Zoom while her students were in the classroom. A true test of creativity and resilience. Since then, she's continued to find inventive and meaningful ways to reach and inspire every learner that she meets. Alexandria Palada has truly done it all here in OPS. Once a student, then a sub, and then an aid and a leave replacement. Always leading with her heart and a deep love for her
005alma mada. Her journey is a testament to her dedication. And we're so proud to see her thrive as a full-time educator in the very halls that shaped her. Erin Rezaber has brought her nationwide teaching experience to OB ops, enriching our school with energy, talent, and an incredible love of music. From leading the unforgettable first grade musical that some of you had the pleasure of being in the audience to watch today to getting sixth graders dancing and third graders playing recorders, Mrs. Reza Beater has truly transformed the sound and spirit of OPS. Tara Schlesinger brings a lifelong passion for art and a rich journey that's taken her from Japan to New York to our own suburban classrooms. From kindergarten clay creations to next year's PTA funded pottery wheels, she's built a vibrant hands-on program where students
006never stop creating. And thanks to her, our hallways are filled with their beautiful artwork celebrating creativity and at every turn. And Kate Windrum started as an aid here at OPS. She learned the ropes and embraced the opportunity to grow in her second career. Her journey then took her to Hoboken and back to OPS to make an even bigger impact. Now as a teacher of fourth and fifth graders, Kate continues to inspire and challenge her students, instilling a love of reading and writing in each one. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Pisa. Anyone [Applause] else? Okay, not seeing any. We'll move forward. Um, we will move to the superintendent report. Good evening. Today was an exciting day at OPS as our staff was treated to a breakfast in recognition of teacher appreciation week sponsored by this board
007of education. From then the day continued as our fifth and sixth graders continued with NJSLA testing. Right from there, our first graders marched down the hallway presenting their musical performance entitled Nuts, which taught about the circle of life. Today's performance was a joint effort between our first grade teachers and Mrs. Reyer. We'll see an additional collaborative performance for our kindergarteners later in the year. Music is about to take over OPS even more as our fifth and sixth graders will perform Spongebob Jr. May 15th, 16th, and 17th. If you are a board member and would like a seat reserved for you, please let Mr. Butcher or me know. Art will also be in the air on May 20th when we invite you to our annual art show in the NPR and I will send you a
008reminder prior to that. Moving to outside of the building. Um, I'm going to take a little bit of Mr. Aelly's thunder tonight. Um, you will notice we have some new seeds sprouting and Mr. Warner gives me a daily update because I got a little confused and thought the old grass was the new seed and he had to explain to me that new seed doesn't sprout overnight. Um, we also have been in constant contact with our landscaper about the progress because we want to make sure that our sprinklers and the rain are working collaboratively. The rain of the past two days has also shown that our patchwork on the basketball court is working and we will move forward with sealing the court at the end of the month. As a final rem reminder, our next board
009meeting is a big one as we will recognize retiring staff staff members for achieving OPS anniversaries, including one staff member who will recognize her 30 years and also her retirement to OPS. And we will also recognize our educator of the year. Our newsletter will go out next week. The board will get a copy of it on Friday. I'll ask for any revisions by Monday as it will go to the press on Monday. That newsletter will announce to the community and invite them to celebrate our staff along with us. And that concludes my report. Thank you, Mr. Aya Pell. Yes. Uh at this time, I'd like to present the 202526 uh budget, but I'm going to do it from standing up this year as opposed to last year. So, I did it sitting down last year
010and I felt uncomfortable. So, now I got my there's an actual audience this year. So, now I have my back to most of you. I apologize. Um, so we start off here with it's sort of a combination of myself and Miss Bosius on that. As you know, I don't talk about the numbers. I talk about the story behind the numbers. So, I always like to start by sharing and our newsletter will do the same thing what our budget helped us accomplish during the 2024 25 school year or what I like to call our points of pride. So, we continue to maintain a cycle of new Chromebooks for every first grader and fourth grader every year. As you know, we've revised our math and language arts curriculum in grades K through six and also implemented a
011new resource in grades four through five in professional development to help that resource be implemented in the classroom. In terms of our operational improvements, we upgra upgraded our door sensors to link with our cameras. So now there is an alert system that if a door is kept open for too long based on how that specific door has been set up, it will send an email to the main office and that email will include a video of what made that door stay open too long. We added eight additional cameras. We integrated a new guest management system and I promise you Mr. Nel, we are still working on a new stand for that system and we've installed a new server. With regards to buildings and grounds, we renovated three staircases. We replaced 20 exhaust vans, three sections
012of roofing, and began what I'm calling my new passion project, a multi-year grass maintenance project because, as Jim Alro will tell you if you speak to the superintendent of Riverdale, I'm very envious of their grass. So, we also repainted all our student bathrooms, replaced the mirrors, and updated the lighting in them. And All of that is important. Making sure that we're doing things to ensure that our learners are engaged in the classroom. We purchased additional robotics materials and 3D printers. We installed six new BenQ interactive learning panels. And I can confidently say they are being used every single day. And we integrated a sixth grade advisory period based on some feedback we received from parents that as we moved to a departmentalized model in sixth grade they were losing that attachment to a teacher that
013home room. So we built that in as well and arranged for some professional development from coach stroker to support that and some funding to write curriculum for it as well. So at this point I just like to give a quick overview of what the budget process is. Um you know we assess the district's needs always trying to meet this new the needs of the students. Uh it's a year-long process. It's I always say when one budget season sort of ends the new school year starts and you're already starting to think about the next budget. Um, so it's a continuous process, but we do have steps where you meet with the finance committee, you wait until the state gives you aid notice, and then you may have money, you may not get money. Uh, that's always
014a kind of precarious time. You don't know what what way it's going to go. Uh, and then you wait and submit budgets and you wait for approvals before you could get started on what am I going to present. Um, and so here's where we're at right now with the final budget presentation and the hearing. One thing I'm just going to add to Mr. Ayapelli, you may have read in the uh news last year that there was a cap put on lost losing state funding by 3%. We were one of those districts that benefited from that. We were scheduled to lose more than 3% of our state funding. So, it's the school funding formula. It's, you know, as soon as they passed it, most people thought it was already out of date. Um it's complex. It's
015difficult to explain sometimes because of the two major impacts and factors are property values and income of district's residents. That really has a large uh impact on the budget and what your aid can be. And they which makes it even more difficult to explain and try to figure out is that the state has these multipliers that they use with regards to those and how much that's going to apply to each district. But the state that's not a constant. The state decides the multipliers. So that could change yeartoyear. So if you look at what Orodel has thought that they could support, you know, we're not going to get really any more than what we're given now because property values have increased dramatically. In the last assessment, they're up over 22%. Uh the incomes in the community
016have risen. So that is going to impact our aid and it's going We lost 3% this year, could have lost more. Um, so it's tough because you don't know with those multipliers. I think I don't know how they do it. They don't say how they do it. Um, but you do know that that's becoming a bigger and bigger factor. You do have your enrollment adjustments and you do we don't have many we don't have any low income that qualify. So, we're in a tough place because the state is now it's more before, but it's really just pushed everything on to the taxpayers. And so, here's the enrollment. This is based on our ASSA. It's our application for state school aid. Uh the state, you do the application, but they don't necessarily use it other than
017get your numbers of students. So we were at this past October 823 resident students. That includes students within the building of OPS and our special ed students we send outside. So if you use what the state says the there is a baseline of $13,946 for elementary school students. That's what they start at. That's what they would say. This is what OPS would get if we went with what the state said is their base number. So that would be over 11 million. In reality, we get about $1,224 a student and it's a million7. And that's down from last year. And that aid is really not even derived from the formula per se because the formula has what they call equalization aid. It's the difference between what they believe the district can afford and where's your budget
018based on the number of students. What they believe Orodel could afford is significantly more than our budget. So our real aid is what they call categorical aid. It's that we have special ed students, they give you x amount of dollars for special ed. You have transportation of special ed students, you get some x amount of dollars for special ed. They have security aid. They give x amount of dollars per student. That's just a flat rate for everyone. They don't use any of the funding formula for that. So that's where we're really impacted is that ours will always be in this sort of milliondoll area because of how the formulas developed and used. So, right off the bat, you see the tax levy top line 14,233 670 nearly 88% of the budget. Um, take miscellaneous revenue
019that the district will generate and nearly 88% of our budget is from the community from Oidell. We do have our state aid. We do receive some extraordinary aid, but that number is never guaranteed. It's always subject to the state budget having money to fund extraordinary aid. You could submit extraordinary aid based on your special needs students. That's $500,000, but you are only going to get a fraction of that because the state pool of money pretty much stays the same. Cost keeps rising. So the pie keeps getting our slice keeps getting smaller. From our audit, the board decided to use $200,000 to offset taxes. If that was not included, that would be even $200,000 more for the levy for our capital projects. Those will all be funded from prior year reserves. That's a half a million
020dollars. And to do routine maintenance, we will use 150,000. So we do where we can use shared services to help reduce costs. Uh we do it. Region five is a big help because they coordinate our transportation of out of school out of uh district placements for special ed nursing and the related services the behaviorist the nurses the onboard on bus nurses. Um, those costs are significant and there's lots of moving parts to what Region 5 does and they're a major help in helping us coordinate and also help us safe because they can pull students on a bus route as opposed to if we were just busing, we might just have one student on that bus. Bergen County Technical Schools, we have Ramy here. he's uh on site with us but they also supply a lot
021of other support in our infrastructure back infrastructure and backbone of our admin uh technology. We use ED data for our school supplies. Teachers, they know ED data. They submitted their orders. And again, it's a consortium of many districts. So, you save on your school supplies. Same thing with our electric and gas, our utilities. The commodity piece is through ACES. There's over 400 entities in ACES throughout the state. Again, pooling to try to reduce costs. Uh we still have PSEG costs because PSE&G is responsible for getting everything into the building. All we're doing is buying the generation wherever that commodity is that goes through their lines and through their pipes. Ed service commission Bergen County uh bids. We use state contracts where appropriate and our insurance. We are part of Nesbig and there are 42 districts
022and this is not our health but this is our property liability, equipment, auto, environmental, professional liability, workers comp. So that once again is we get better pricing as with 40 other districts as opposed to a standalone. So what's the budget? You know, what are the percentages? What are the appropriations? Special ed is still the top line uh over $4,470,000. That includes students within the building and students outside the building. That includes transporting those students. That includes their aids, their nurses, their RBTs, those are the registered behavior technicians and behaviorists that are in the building and outside the building. General education, as it says, that's everything other than special education within OPS. Employee benefits, it's not just health benefits, that's workers compensation, that's pension payments for uh non-certificated staff. That's social security for non-certificated staff. The
023FICA portion uh for non-certificated staff is paid by the board. the uh certificated staff portion you get reimbursed by the state of New Jersey operation maintenance of facility district admin that's actually three different components of our district that would be the superintendent and the board office uh and the BOE plus the business office plus the admin piece of the technology and as we just move down we have basic skills improvement of instruction and so it gets as you see smaller. Um, so that's where the money is being spent. That 528,360 500,000 will actually be towards projects. The 28,360 is money that's deducted from our state aid and that's the school development authority assessment. So the state, if you've ever used funds from the school, like we have a ROD grant, that's school development authority. They
024have gone back and assessed districts for using that. So you get the aid, you use the money, and now they're taking it back a little bit by little every year by charging us $28,360. Mr. So yeah, that's another way. And Miss Boosez does a great job with this. I can't take any credit for any of the layout, graphics. I do none of that. I'm just numbers and occasionally she does let me write something, but for the most part I'm just the numbers side. So if you do see a grammatical error goes over there, except for one slide. Okay. So what's in the 2526 budget? Um we're very excited to will adding two staff members to ops in this budget. One will be that um sometimes when people move in, you hope that they're going to
025move into the district across all of your grades and sometimes all of a sudden everyone moves into the same grade. So based on some spring uh registrance in third grade and some people who have already registered for fourth grade next year, we will be adding an additional fourth grade classroom teacher moving from five sections in fourth grade to six sections in fourth grade. We will also be hiring an additional educational support professional. That person may be a special education teacher, maybe an intervention teacher and we are working on our master schedule right now and that would tell us exactly the type of employee that we We continue to put funds aside for our math professional development as we've spoken about again and again. That is our area where growth needs to happen. We are maintaining
026our kindergarten aids and this is an area where that's normal to us. That is not normal to other districts in Bergen County, Essex County. Um but it is something that we have seen the value of and we are working to continue that in the budget. Our updated curriculum purchases as you heard Nous times we implemented um imply Desmos in grades four through five this year with the plan to bring that down to grades K through three and have a consistent math primary resource from kindergarten through fifth grade starting next year. We will continue to support our STEM integration activities primarily because as I talk about again and again, our job as an elementary school is for students to leave this building engaged learners, not compliant learners. Engaged learners, students who are passionate and excited. And
027our steam integration is one way that happens. If you are a first grade parent, you're going to get a very special gift this weekend. And it was truly a art Spanish project that is pretty exciting. We just need to get them out of the building and home in one piece. And this year we tried two different math platforms. We used Happy Numbers in grades K through three and Legends of Learning in the upper grades, but we will be moving based off our research this year and and looking at our student growth to happy numbers in grades K through five next year. In terms of technology, we are equipped. We are updating some access points. As I share, I'm really happy with the implementation of the BenQ boards this year. So, we do have additional BQ
028boards in next year's budget to support installing them in grades of four. And we've been using Goardian in grades five through six this year, and we will be moving that down to fourth grade as well. Buildings and grounds. Um, we learned something really important last year. Our custodial gives it 100%. Painting isn't necessarily their area of strength. And so we will be bringing in um some painters this summer to do the hallways. They are the same painters that did our bathrooms this past year, some hallways and some of our classrooms so that our custodial staff can really focus on some other things. And uh we will of course continue to do some security upgrades. We continually look at our property um to see where are our Do we have any blind spots that need to
029be addressed? Are there other things that we need to add? So, capital projects uh for this coming up. Uh so, we're finally getting our Airdale HVAC unit. This is the project that's funded. This is eight classrooms. This is the project that's funded. 40% of it is a regular operating district or ROD grant. We're finally able to get that work done this summer. Uh but in addition to that, we're looking to replace rooftop units as they reach end of life. So the kindergarten rooftop unit would be first on that list. We have as a district applied to PSEG's direct install program. So there's a possibility that we'll only pay 20% of the total project cost and that balance could be interest free over 60 months. The problem is PSCG has been flooded. We are at the
030head of the line, but they have not released their funding yet. They haven't released anything. So, I'm hoping I've been contacting there's only one contractor in the county that is responsible for this project. Um, he's anxious to get this going also. He can't get anything other than we hope by June we're going to be releasing numbers. So, that's where we stand with that. And as we shared previously, Mr. so on top of the direct infail program that he actually called our um architect about it and told him about it where usually that happens um in the opposite order but we got we were the first ones to reach out to the so this year the tax levy as you could see that is not a typo on the debt service it's a zero dollars the
031district is for the first time in a long time is debtree uh this is just general operating costs Um the board and the finance committee did a I think a great job developing this budget. This was not an easy budget. Um there were lots of dialogues, lots of communication, lots of questions, lots of I need to get back to you because I don't always know those answers right away. Um but I think it's a sound budget. I think it's a meets the needs of the children and with respect to the taxpayer and I think that's also important. Um, so what does that mean to the taxpayer? So right now assessed values have gone up significantly, but that's everyone. It's not just one section of the town. They reassess the entire town uh or burrow of
032Oridel. So right now the average assessed value is $792,000. So if we look at the tax, it's about $146. That's about a little over 3% estimated. We don't know yet because it still needs to be included with the burrow and our tax. While it's separate, we don't know how to exactly come about that increase just because of that increase in assessed value. There's a factor that needs to be included that they don't really give us to make it easy in a presentation. So, we're just going to look at average last year to average this year. And so we're looking at about $146. So at this time questions for Mr. Any questions? I have a question. Sure. Um, state aid, how much did it go down this year? Do you know? 3%. 3% of a million.
033Yeah. Okay. And what do we have to use that state aid for? Is it specifically designated for anything or it just goes into our bottom line? It just goes into our bottom line. They do not say, "So the portion that's done for like the x amount of dollars for special education student is not for special education. It's just to support the bottom line. So that million dollars is not designated or earmarked for anything specifically. You may not know this off the top of your head. was going to actually email you when I had emailed you during the week questions, but in the superintendent's office purchase surf services services, what is that? Do you know off the top of your head? If you don't, it's fine. Not right off the top of my head. It's like
03433,000 or something. Do you know what it is? That's actually the board portion of the insurance. So board liability services. Yeah, that would be there because there's a board portion for environmental. There's a board. That's what it is. Uh I don't know. It doesn't matter. We can look at it. Yeah, we can look at it. Any other questions from the board? Mr. Walsh, you have a question? Yeah, it's not a question, but I'm just surprised that we got to 16 million 251,000. That's what the uh that's that's a total budget that we're going out for, right? Right. That's a total budget, but the portion that's funded by the taxes is just the general portion. So none of the maintenance, not I mean none of the uh capital reserve. So there's that's why it's greater. The
035tax p the tax levy is the 14 million 233, right? The rest of it is state aid and also partially it's partially that 16 million is money we're pulling out that we've already put aside for capital projects. We're just taking our money out of our own account. So, well, I can I can just go back in time and I think when I started out, we were paying $8 million. Probably less. So, it's pretty good after 30 something years. Probably less. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of complaints. This is Orodel. Uh but uh I think we're doing a good job with $16 million. Also, I just want to highlight, you already spoke about it, but um when Mr. Illy and I were talking about how to present the budget for the tax assessment,
036you know, we really don't know yet because the tax assessors gave us a number and they put everything in together, the high school, the town, like you can't pull out your factor. So really what we what we did to get this number is we took the average assessment from last year the average assessment last year and then we just took school tax last year and really upped to 3.19% which is what we're going up. So we don't know how the town is going to do but it really I mean I believe it should be around that. We should check the numbers when they come from the town but that's how we got it. It's not based on because it was kind of odd this year the way they got it from the significant because the
037home values increased so significantly. It's not like you compare one year to the last year like it might change by a couple of percent. This time around it was you know 23%. And you can't just because if we did it if the board presented it as 23% that increase we would actually show our taxes because our tax rate would actually go down. We would actually be showing a decrease but that would not be true. And just because your assessment goes up 23% doesn't mean your taxes go up correct%. Correct. Because the rate has actually gone down and it would look like if we if we just did it on dollar to dollar year over year it would actually show a negative year but that's not true. Any questions from here Mrs. Walker? So people are
038claiming or you hear people talk our taxes have gone up so significantly over the past couple of years that it's because of the school taxes and and that doesn't seem to be the case with us in that we're only charging 2.1% right. Well, this year it's about 3.9, we think, but we have to remember school tax. Also, there's the regional high school. 3.19. Not 3.9. Yeah, 3.19. But there's also the regional high school, which we have no control. So, when people talk about the school tax, they are I don't know know if they're necessarily talking about OPS or they talking about OPS in the regional high school because that's a large portion of this. That's a bigger portion than we are. Um I I think the problem is that often people don't realize that if
039they don't have children in this, you know, outside the OPS that it's OPS's fault, so to speak. Any other questions on this side? Good job, Mr. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I wanted to thank the finance committee. Mr. Darian, the chair is not here. Mr. Delg Greco and Mr. Walsh um put in a lot of hours. And thank you to Mr. drive P because it was a great job and next year again we're going to ask for our Excel spreadsheets. It's okay. Which we are now I know what to expect but yeah it's all right. Thank you. It was very good process. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I I do have a question. Yeah. Go ahead. Do we foresee any issues with the Airdales coming in on time? As of right now? No. No. We are
040slated. They're supposed to be here right around when school ends. So we're not even going to that. The units are supposed to be here by school. this year. Yeah, we are ahead of the PL, ahead of the game because we already had our pre-construction meeting. We are now just waiting for school to end and to get going. I I appreciate your due diligence on not only the paperwork, but following through with all that stuff. So, thank you, Mr. You're welcome. Okay, moving on to minutes. We have review of April 9th. Um, any questions or comments, please email Mr. Ayapelli. Um, and we have approval of the March 12th and March 26 minutes. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion. Second by Mr. Delg Greco. Any questions? Call the question on the role. Mr.
041Delg Greco. Yes. Mrs. Downey. Yes. Mr. Dariion is no not here. Mrs. Moran, yes. Mr. Nutland, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mrs. Norian, yes. Mrs. Nichols, yes. Committee reports. Uh, Mrs. Norian, would you take a administrative items? Certainly. Um, we have a proclamation. Do you want me to read the whole proclamation? Okay. Proclamation declaring May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as teacher appreciation week. Proclamation declaring May 5th through 9th, 2025 as teacher appreciation week at Oriel Public School. Whereas teachers are our nation's heroes who motivate and inspire young minds and enable students to achieve extraordinary things. And whereas teachers keep American democracy alive by laying the foundation for good citizenship and mold future citizens through guidance and education. And whereas teachers fill many roles as listeners, explorers, role models, motivators, and mentors and
042open students minds to ideas, knowledge, and dreams. And whereas teachers continue to influence us long after our school days are over. And whereas New Jersey and in particular Oridel boasts some of the best teachers in the country who care about each student's education and upbringing, teaching them skills that will help them make our communities better. And whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons, evaluating progress, counseling and coaching students, and performing community service. And now therefore, be it resolved that the Oridel Public School proclaims May 5th through the 9th, 2025 to be teacher appreciation week. And be it further resolved that the Oridel Board of Education recognizes and commends all of Oriel's teachers and educators with appreciation for their contributions to the lives of our students. And be it further resolved that the Orido Board of
043Education strongly encourages all members of our community to join with it in personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and devotion to their work. And I make that motion. Have a second. And whereas I will second it. Any questions or comments? Call the question on the role. Mr. Delg Greco. Yes, Mr. Darian. Absent Mrs. Downey. Yes, Mrs. Moran. Yes, Mr. Nutland. Yes, Mrs. Walker. Yes, Mr. Walsh. Yes, Mrs. Norian. Yes, Mrs. Nichols. Yes. Buildings and Grounds. Mr. Delgreco. Yes. I'd like to bring up uh B1 use of facilities. um you know the uh project graduation or wreck you know the art show and softball practices also if we need one we should probably schedule a building buildings and grounds meeting soon I guess with all the summer projects and everything else coming on
044and now we're out of budget hopefully so second by Mrs. Norian beach you're sorry it's all right second by Mrs. Norian, any questions? Call the question on the role. Mr. Delg Greco, yes. Mr. Darion is absent. Mrs. Downey, yes. Mrs. Moran, yes. Mr. Nutland, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mrs. Norian, yes. Mrs. Nichols, yes. Curriculum, Mrs. Norian. Uh, yes. I believe we need to set up a meeting as well. Um hopefully we'll do that in the near future. Um but I in in the interim we will I'd like to present uh approval of field trip C1. I'll second. Sorry, Mr. Walsh beat you with the second. Any qu any questions on curriculum? Call the question on the roll. Mr. Delgreco. Yes. Mrs. Downey. Yes. Mrs. Moran. Yes. Mr. Nutland. Yes. Mrs. Walker. Yes.
045Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mrs. Norian. Yes. Mrs. Nichols. Yes. Uh, finance. Mr. Darien is not here. Mr. Delgo, would you take finance? Certainly. Um, like to present D1 all the way through. Let's see here. D13. I'll second it. Second by Mr. Walsh. Any questions? Quick. I I have a question. Sorry. The uh world language the uh grant I guess we applied for and received the grant. Is that what D6 is? Yeah. Okay. Um that actually is a PTA grant. Okay. Um, it's a revision of a previous item where the vendor we were supposed to use, which was an Irish step dancing troop, they fell through. So, we reached out to a different one. So, it's just revising that item. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Call the question on the roll. Mr. Delg Greco. Yes. Mrs.
046Downey. Yes. Mrs. Norian. Mrs. Moran. Yes. Mr. Nutlin, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mrs. Norian, yes. Mrs. Nichols, yes. Delegate report. Any report, Mr. Wolf? Nothing to report. All right. Um, do we know when the next delegate meeting is? Is there one? Okay. Uh, personnel, Mrs. Walker. Thank you. We haven't had a meeting in the past two weeks, but I would like to present F1. I'll second it. Second by Mr. Walsh. Any questions? Call the question. On the roll. Mr. Delgreco. Yes. Mrs. Downey. Yes. Mrs. Moran. Yes. Mr. Nutan. Abstain. Mrs. Walker. Yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mrs. Norian, yes. Mrs. Nichols, abstain. Policy. Mr. Nutland. Yes. I'd like to uh present G1. I'll second it. Second by Mr. Walsh. Any questions? Call the question. On the roll. Mr. Delg Greco. Yes. Mrs. Downey?
047Yes. Mrs. Moran? Yes. Mr. Nutler, yes. Mrs. Walker, yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mrs. Norian, yes. Mrs. Nichols, yes. Public relations, Mrs. Downey. We probably need a meeting. My website's up. The website's up. And do you want to talk about your coffee? Um, yeah, sure. So, um, President Nichols, Mrs. Paulie and I hosted a parent coffee. I think it was last Wednesday. Um, we had about we had about 24 people sign up. We had about uh 14 people I think in attendance. And I thought it was a really productive conversation. And really the goal of it was to say these are all the topics you want to talk about and we can't talk about them all in one coffee especially because we need to have the right personnel at them. So, we're not necessarily going to
048have President Nichols at a coffee about report cards, but it's a good thing to have her at a coffee about safety and security. Um, so we talked about moving them forward and we had some really good feedback from parents. One that was really helpful for me was as we have not just launched the website, we've also launched an app and that app has push notifications and a parent suggested putting together kind of a one-page sheet that says these are the types of things are going to get pushed through the app. These are the types of things that you're going to get a text about because we are in information overload and we need some ways to have some clear structures. Um, you don't really need a text about spirit day, but I don't mind pushing
049it through the app. So, those are things that we're going to start working on putting a sheet together. We um also um are working on a chain of command document that will also go on the website. I have a How many parents came? 14. Two left early. Two left early. Couldn't take it. But but we were here. Um we started at 7 and we ended around 10:15. Wow. So it was a good discussion. I thought it was they were very thoughtful questions and the parents were very interested I thought. So I thought it went really well. Uh before we open up to the anything else for public relations, Mr. Delgreo? Yeah. I just wanted to commend the um everybody on the work on the website and the app. You know, as a technologist, it's clean,
050it's great, it's easy, there's information's use, and thank you for all the uh push notifications, the emails, the phone calls to just verify that, you know, there's I think five different methods that you used, but it was funny sitting on a couch and my phone, all the phones ringing at the same time. Uh but thank you for that because in this day and age with what's going on, it's good to ensure that communications is working. And one of the things that I am planning to do this spring is um do an a website survey. Um sometimes when people come to me and say something like if you put something on the website about how and when you're going to communicate that would be a clear transparent way to um state expectations. So people aren't saying
051you didn't do they kind of know this is how we're going to do it. So, one of the things that I will be reaching out to all parents and staff in the community um this spring and saying what's missing, what's difficult. So, for example, a staff member came to me and when they were opening up um Gmail, it was not opening up in a separate window. So, it was replacing the website. Until you use the website and go through that, you don't realize that's an issue. So, we will be providing all stakeholders an opportunity to give us some feedback on how to make it better over the summer. Okay. So, before moving to open to the public, I just want to go back to delegate report because Miss Boozios just looked up the um I
052think it's May 10th. Is it in person or is it I have the email. It's in person. I think it's in person. May 15th. Where is it? Do we know? It's where it usually is down in Is it down there? No, it's it's not Trenton. It's at that community college in Mercer County. Is that this weekend? This Saturday. Okay. So, maybe uh Mr. Illy, could you reach out to Mr. Walsh and Mrs. Norian to see if anyone's going to attend? But you don't have to, but he'll just call with the details and then you guys can decide what you want to do. Um, you're closer down there. At this time, we'll open to the public. Community college. I'm sorry. Happy to have you back. Not seeing any. We'll move to old or new business. Any
053older new business? Mrs. Walker. Um, I just wanted to say we had a lovely, well, I think we did um, breakfast this morning, bagel breakfast for all of our wonderful teachers. Um, I see some heads shaking. It was so nice. Everybody appreciated it and they really uh, enjoyed themselves and I have to thank Miss Bosios. She really had the table set up. It made my life very easy. And then cleaning up, I was scooted out very quickly. So, um, she was very, very organized and the custodians were great. So, it was a great feeling and I'm glad you guys enjoyed it because we were very proud to have you here. Thank you. And Mr. Delgreo came too, right? You were there, too. Oh, yes. And so, I have to ask, were the bagels sliced this
054year? Were the bagels sliced? Yes. Okay. Because last year they were not sliced and I'm the one who orders them and I put it in. I haven't received. This year I went and I I would say I yelled at them, but I'm like, if they're not sliced, we're not taking them. So I I was worried they weren't going to be sliced. I'm like, we don't have time. And when I got there 7:00, we go to the best. Very good. All right. Good. Thank you for all your help, too, because you're without you, it wouldn't happen. Um, any other older new business? I was going to ask about our HBAC units, but you've put that in the budget report. So, do we have any idea when we're going to hear back? They're not the direct install.
055He's hoping June. I mean, he's as anxious as we There's only one contractor who's going to do this for the whole city. That's the response. They coordinate it. Oh, county. But they everything goes through them. Okay. Um, if not seeing any other old new business, we do need to go back into our close session because we're not done. So, if someone would make a motion, I'll second. That's quick. Who was it? Who was it? Who was it? Okay. So, who made the motion? Mrs. Norian. Did anyone second it? Mr. Nutland. Roll call. On the roll. Mr. Delg Greco. Yes, Mrs. Downey. Yes, Mrs. Moran. Yes, Mr. Nutland. Yes, Mrs. Walker. Yes, Mr. Walsh. Yes, Mrs. Norian. Yes, Mrs. Nichols. Yes. Uh, no action will be taken when we're coming out. So, we don't know how
056long we'll be in there, but there'll be no action taken. Thank you for coming.