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002Hey, heat. [Music] This would have Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat up here. Heat. Heat. [Music] Call the meeting to order. Please stand for the children involved. I allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. This meeting is in compliance with the open public meeting law and has been duly advertised in the newspaper as an official meeting. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Mr. Walsh. Here. Mr. McCarron, present. Mrs. Rivera, present. Mrs. Baroas, present. Mrs. Gordella, present. Mrs. Cass, present. I need a motion for approval of the agendum with addendums. Motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mr. McCarron? Yes. Mrs. Rivera. Yes. Mrs. Baroas. Yes. Mrs. Gardella. Yes. Mrs.
003Cass. Yes. I now turn the I now turn the meeting over to Mrs. Permilly for her superintendence report. Thank you, Mrs. Cass. Uh so uh I'm excited because tonight um even though not required, Colin, our board rep, has come back to say hello to everybody and to do a short little review of the end of the school year for Memorial. So so kind of you. We're so happy to see you and uh why don't you come and give us a a little bit of a summary of the end of the year. Good evening, Mrs. Permilly, members of the central administration staff and board of education members. Thank you as always for the opportunity to speak on behalf of Jackson Memorial High School. I'll keep tonight's speech brief. School officially ended on Monday, but before we
004settle into summer, I wanted to say a few final things as we wrap up the year. First and foremost, congratulations to the graduating class of 2025 from both Jackson Memorial and Jackson Liberty. Your hard work, perseverance, and leadership have left a lasting legacy. From the classroom to the stage, the field, and beyond, you've represented your schools with integrity and heart. We celebrate your accomplishments and wish you nothing but success as you take your next steps into the future. Graduation this year came with an unexpected change. Due to weather, the ceremony had to be moved into the auditorium on short notice. While it wasn't the outdoor celebration many had hoped for, our students, staff, graduates achievements and the excitement of a fresh start in September, wishing everyone a safe, restful, and inspiring summer. Thank you. Restful
005and inspiring summer. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Colin. Looking forward to seeing you next year and probably will see you over the summer bit too, I think. Thank you again for um coming on your personal time to do that. It means a lot to us. Before I continue with my superintendence report, I would just ask um if I could have everybody stand for a moment of silence for Mr. SC Sergeant who has passed away. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. He is he was a town councilman and a former board member. Just take a moment. Okay, thank you. Again, our thoughts and prayers are with his family. So, as Colin mentioned, the close of the year was, uh, marked by many ceremonies, fun events, uh, carnivals in some of our schools, end of
006year, you know, field days, trips, and lots of other activities. The moving up ceremonies that were held for both fourth and fifth graders this year, as there are both um, those grade levels will be going to new schools. the eighth grade promotion ceremonies that uh there was absolutely no nothing on the radar for the weather that day and we did go outside. Um and unfortunately towards the end of both ceremonies at Gats and McAuliff, uh we got quite wet. Um but memories were made, memories were made, promotions were done. Um and then the high school ceremonies were both indoors as well. Um and I I believe that those were were very intimate uh ceremonies. Uh they were very nice, beautiful tributes to both of the schools um and to the last uh graduating classes of
007those schools. And as uh Colin mentioned, we're moving forward uh and united and we'll talk more about that in a minute. Uh we also held the honoring of McAuliffe events. there uh were well attended, bittersweet of course. Uh many staff, past staff attended, something that the uh teachers and Miss Phillips had arranged that afternoon. Um as did a lot of alumni um came that evening as well. And there were just so many hugs and kisses and memories shared. Um including um one alumni who returned um meteorologist Dan Zero, if you're familiar with him, who shared how his experience with Wake Up McAuliffe inspired him towards pursuing a career that he currently has as meteorologist just on the um on 101.5. Um and he as as other speakers emphasized that it's that night they emphasized that
008it is the people who make the Jackson School District special. Um yes, we will miss the buildings, but it's the people who help to carry on that legacy. It was it was a nice honoring. They did open the time capsule as well and there's some interesting things in there um from you know the 1990s. um some Jolly Ranchers. It's interesting, some old report cards and things like that. Um and if you're interested, you can see we've posted some of that on our Facebook page. Um I do tonight want to provide the board and the community with a just a brief summary of an update on our goals for the 2425 school year. Uh the board has seen this information. Um so I'm just going to give a quick overview. Um, as you know, a major
009goal that we had this school year was the strategic planning. That was goal one. Um, and we had worked all year long on that plan. We, um, you know, we created that strategic redistricting restructuring committee. We worked for five months, several meetings a month, um involved community members, uh staff, made the recommendation, accomplished the timeline, um and really, you know, made that recommendation um in a timely fashion, uh so that we could be prepared for September. Um we've transferred 450 staff members thus far to address that restructuring plan. Uh we have prepared packing plans, moving plans. In fact, this week the moving has started. Uh Mr. Beginsky, Mr. Bruno, um and our facility staff and um our administrative staff have all been busy this uh past few days moving uh our 12-month employees offices. Lots
010of moving happening and uh we'll begin shortly after that getting all of the boxes out of classrooms and to the right buildings. In fact, I think this building was just about done right today, which is phenomenal. So, we're actually ahead of schedule there. Um and kudos to everybody involved. So um you know with that goal I feel that we have met that goal. We did a lot of other things related to that as well. For example um our trailers right? If you remember in the fall we closed all of the trailers for students. Um and so now we moved them all back into the building. And then we also have now removed all of those trailers with the exception of Gats. We're preparing those now. But all the elementary school trailers are gone. um and
011we will not have students in them any longer because they're no longer here. So, in goal two, it was health, safety, and connection. Um trailers were a piece of that, right? We knew that they were not really the best suited for our students anymore. We um just some things that we have done in these areas are inclusive of our security checklists, doing all of the drills that that are required. um our mandated monthly drills. Um we purchased new radios and a repeater that's being put on. We have shared service with the township so that the radios are more effective, more consistent um for emergency purposes. So we're in a better place for that. Um, in regards to the social emotional of of the health, um, we did, um, you know, have a celebration for Rosenour
012too and the closing of that and we did offer extra, um, orientations and some transition time for staff through that process as well. Um, we have the mental health grant um, and have been working there. We have interns um, who are able to help with additional counseling. We've continued to strengthen already a strong threat assessment process. Uh used a depression screener to scan um and to see if there's any students who are in need for parents who wanted that to happen. Um you know we have had a we had a lot of health fairs, mental health fairs, drug fairs, presentations, um remediations, formalizing a more um formal process for remediations of behaviors and hip violations. Um, and like I said, a lot of presentations such as drug and alcohol we had at Gats McAuliffe in
013both high schools this year. So, there's a lot of things to meet those goals, that goal for our health and safety. And goal three, academic growth and rigor. Um, we were able to um have new adoptions in our K8 literacy and our 612 math programs. That was all implemented this year with a professional development behind it. Um that included um some increase and some shifting around of a better alignment of assessments to be able to inform instruction that would also help with um following through with uh better support for standardized testing. Uh used title one and title four funds a lot to you um for middle school students to stay after school for academic support. Um, additionally, we use Title One and the New Jersey Impact tutoring money to offer tutoring for third and fourth
014graders to help um increase their skill set as well and focused on professional development for differentiation in the classroom. Um, some of the other things that were done in the areas of academic support and there's a many many other things I'm just pulling out a few things. Uh, we partnered with Big Brothers and Big Sisters. Um, so our high school students were offered the opportunity to partner um and work with many different positions in the health care field and really get to learn about the health care field and see if it's something that they would be interested in. And that was through grant money through Big Brothers and Big Sisters. We had the trade fair, Mr. Palumbo. Again, it was fabulous. Thank you for that. Um, and we did a lot of um other things
015to focus in on authentic assessment in our high school classrooms. Um and I do also want to mention um with everything that happened in the fall, we also expanded our preschool um annex. So now that we had 11 classrooms there and it is a wonderful program here in this building and we were able to expand that and enrich that program as well. Goal number four was finance facilities and transportation. Um, and as everybody here on the board knows, we've been advocating hard and we continue to advocate hard for a more equitable funding formula for Jackson. So, it meets our unique needs here. All of that was done. We have the advocacy committee um that uh Miss Gardella um chairs and they've been busy that committee working to advocate as well. Uh we have researched a
016lot of grants as I mentioned before. We have the mental health grant, the big brother and sisters grant, recreation grants, and in a few minutes, um you're going to hear from Dr. Godleski about a cops grant that we just applied for. Um we have planned and planned and planned and tweaked again um the possibility of going out for referendum because of the um the debt coming off. Um and so we continue to evolve that and make have discussion with that with our board committee and we'll continue that work. um transition. Um we transitioned to an upgraded software for transportation and that was all complete and really helped better um facilitate our kids on and off the bus this school year for safety purposes as well. Um and facility rental space. We've expanded that um and
017being able to bring in a little bit more revenue in using our our uh facilities that way. And then finally, goal number five, homeschool connection and human resources. um did prepare um and all on the back end. We are ready to um begin rolling out a new web page um put a little pause on it for the end of the school year when we thought we were going to roll it out because we are having restructuring a new um whole new structure of our school district. So, we will roll it out in the fall and work with our staff so that their class pages get put up and then we'll um launch that new website for everybody and it will be easil easy to use. Um, but it made sense to get everything ready and
018then pause it until we were absolutely ready for community engagement. You've heard some of the things that we've talked about. I' I've talked about before the strategic planning committee, the surveys we've put out around strategic planning, our you see it on the agenda often, our parent nights that we run through our title funds, um, our Mclliff celebration and honoring that school, our Rosenour celebration. Um, we held several PTN uh, presidents meetings this year as well. Um, and we encourage during strategic planning that anybody with any questions or concerns email us. Um, and then we created the Q&A document for um, for our um, community as well and gave updates at every single board meeting of the process um, and where we were at in the process of restructuring. So again, that's just a sampling of
019some of the things that we did to meet the goals that were established at the onset of this school year. Um we did also although not it wasn't a goal but we also did on top of everything have what we call um in the state of New Jersey for schools QAC monitoring it is state monitoring and that is a big process of data that we have to collect share with the department of ed in several several areas uh score ourselves and then the department of ed reviews that and they also come in for a day and monitor ask questions for some of the data. So that whole process was done this year as well. Um which is incredible on top of everything else that we did and we're awaiting their scores. We'll let you know
020when we do have them. So that is a summary of the goals. We will begin setting goals um with the admin team um next month when we work together um to come together collectively to set goals and as you can imagine that will be very much around uniting our students, our staff and moving forward as one united um school district. So with that, as we begin moving forward, um I think it's a good time now to pivot and talk about um the school year setting those goals and most one of the things that I've been asked out about a lot lately is so uh we you gave a survey about the mascot for the Jackson Township High School, but you haven't told us what the results were. So um we wanted to let every school
021have its opportunity to honor its closing. um it's change and for our seniors and our eighth graders and our students to have an opportunity to really um close out the school that way before we moved forward with any big announcements for next school year. So um tonight and the board you might want to turn around so that you can see this. Um I am prepared to share with you the results. So um obviously this isn't you know one of the many next decisions that have to be made. We still have a lot of other things and decisions that will be announced through the summer about restructuring, but this one was, as we had said before, um the colors were selected, the name was selected, you see that there. Um and the mascot was selected to
022be a Jaguar. Um and so moving forward, there is going to be a new Jag in town. Um, and I want to thank our um, talented graphic art teachers um, in both of the the high schools who work together to brainstorm these ideas. Um, we offer two beautiful options to our students and our staff um, to vote in grades 8 through 12. Um, and so they all voted. You see the two options uh, version A and version B that uh, people had to vote on and we reviewed all the responses. So, um, couldn't go wrong with either one of them. They were both wonderful, um, representations of of a good, strong mascot for our high school. You'll see here a collection of all of the responses of both schools was, um, 65 to 35. Um,
02365 being representing um, version aversion. I almost slipped. Um and as you see further data u broken down you can see how each one of the schools responded. So overwhelmingly um you know one color being red was represented more um in favor of which mascot would be selected. So um let's show you the new Jag in town. This will be the new Jag. It's exciting. Um, I think it's a it's a wonderful um representation of of the schools. Um, and it's a strong mascot as well, which I I think is important. Um, so and you saw the the results. So, um, it's exciting. So, the graphic art teachers, they're continuing just to tweak some things, make it camera ready, make the versions clean and cut so that they can be replicated. Um, and, um, working
024with Miss Irwin on all of that. We'll be creating a style guide that gives users every possible um variation of the logo for the use in all sorts of things for printing the background, what materials it works best on, the different shapes, the logo, you know, on a banner size versus a smaller size document or uh clothing. Um so that will be in the next week or so. U fine-tuning that and then we'll get it out to everybody so that it can be um printed and replicated. I know um Mr. Mr. Bnol is eager to get his hands on it. Um, but I told him he's got to wait just a little bit longer. But we did want to announce uh the winner of that survey, which is option B. Again, a nice strong I
025think uh mascot for our district. [Applause] So before I close out my superintendent report, I did mention um a cops grant that is on the agenda for approval for submission. Um Dr. Gleski is going to she worked with some folks on that and she's just going to give you a quick overview on what that grant's about. Sure. Thank you, Miss Permeli. So, the COPS Grant and more specifically the SVP portion of the COPS grant which stands for school violence prevention program is an annual grant uh that offers school districts quite a bit of money to enhance the safety and security of their schools. Uh so um some members of our staff worked uh Mr. Blair and Mr. Pajoski our uh director of security worked to create a list of what our needs are for camera
026upgrades specifically for our high school. And we really zoned in on the fact that we'll have one of the largest high schools in New Jersey. So to have upgraded cameras that have um better quality in pictures uh so when you zoom in the pixelation doesn't take away the accuracy uh was something that we thought was really important. There's lots and lots of cameras across all of our schools. Uh but as we have more and more students better angles are always a good thing. So uh we've submitted a grant for over $200,000 to provide us with uh camera upgrades for our buildings and hopefully we get it. It's um obviously it's it's sought after by a lot of school districts and other um state agencies, but we will hear by the end of September. We should
027hear by September 30th. Okay. Thank you very much. So, in closing, I just want to wish everybody um a safe summer. Um right now, please stay cool. We will be here um moving, setting up schools, preparing uh setting goals and preparing to welcome staff and students in September and we will be ready for our new um United School District. So um thank you. I conclude my superintendent report. Um standing committee reports. Mr. McCarron, do you have a report? Yes. for buildings and grounds. Uh some capital improvements. Switlick room 25 HVAC. The relay fuses and wiring were repaired. Memorial elevator hydraulic seal was replaced. Johnson room 401 HVAC blower motor replaced. Crawford Rodriguez cooling tower HVAC fan shaft and bearing assembly was replaced. Memorial fire pump house relay switch and well tank replaced by electricians. and
028Elm's water tank, the alarm replaced with new unit by electricians. Thank you. Um, for budget, I might as well put this in budget and finance, I said I would do the uh lunch balances, the unpaid lunch balances uh each month. So, last month, if you recall, it was 146,000. It is down to 134,000. So, still high, but um looking better. So, again, we accept any donations. Um we we do appreciate that. Um there are no no other reports. Um ad hoc committee policy will be meeting in July. Scholarship uh Mr. Walsh, do you have anything to say about scholarship night? Scholarship night went well. $153,000 was distributed. Uh just do a little commercial here for those scholars. Please submit your uh invoices for your college so you can get your money. We don't want to
029hold on to it. Thank you. Uh state and county school board representative Mrs. Rivera. Nothing to report. Okay. Um advocacy committee. Mrs. Gardella. Nothing to report. And I believe um that's it. I need a motion for approval of policy. Second reading adoption. Motion. Second discussion. Uh Tina, um we usually have discussion after the superintendent speaks. If we have questions, can we ask that or No. Okay. That's not question policy uh discussion roll call. Dr. Osman, yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mr. McCarron, yes. Mrs. Rivera, yes. Mrs. Mrs. Baroas. Yes. Mrs. Gardella. Yes. Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion for approval of the minutes. The closed session meeting May 21st, 2025, and the official board meeting May 21st, 2025. Business meeting. Motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Dr. Osben? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Mr. McCarron? Yes. Mrs.
030Rivera? Yes. Mrs. Barus? Yes, Mrs. Gardella. Yes, Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion for approval of the bill list. Motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Yes. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mr. McCarron. Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mrs. Baroas? Yes. Mrs. Cardella? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. I need a motion for approval of the treasurers and board secretaries reports. Motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Mr. McCarron? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mrs. Baroas? Yes. Mrs. Gordella? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. I need a motion to open the public forum on agenda items only. We will hold another public forum during this meeting for other questions. This public forum will be for questions on the agenda only. Motion second. Please sign in and state your name and whether or not you are a Jackson resident.
031Each person is allowed a maximum of three minutes to speak. No person may speak more than once on the topic until all others have been heard. Seeing no one come forward, I need a motion to close public forum. Motion. All in favor? Second. I He said second. I need a motion to move public to move finance. Motion. Second. Discussion. Uh yes, I had some questions on finance number 12. The um two-way radios. Is that for the entire district or is that for specific Yeah. So, so that's a radio project to replace all of the radios on all of our school buses. Okay. So, we they are currently an analog radio from the '90s and so they're going to be a digital radio. It's a major upgrade and we had a shared service agreement also for
032approval that the township also approved to allow us to put and pay for a repeater on top of a cell tower. Um, so it's going to give us tremendous uh reception and communication for our Yeah, I recall you telling us I didn't realize that was the two areas and that's the that's the that's the vendor that's doing the project. Um, I also had a question on 13 for New Jersey Power and Light. Um, is that like estimated cost with the new rates or Yeah. So, when we approve the co-ops, when the board approves the co-ops, um, what we do is for the vendors, we put an estimated maximum spending limit. it kind of puts a guard rail up so that if uh if we get closer to that uh maximum, we come back to the
033board to try to raise that up. So there's, you know, as the year goes by, uh sometimes we use a vendor uh for something that we didn't expect to use them for. And so it might it get might get closer to that that maximum limit. And the ones that you see there, what was it? 13 um all of those um estimated spending amounts, we had originally approved them in last June for a lower amount. And as we got closer to that spending max, that's why they're back on here with a higher limit. So these are for last year, not for this year, or is it like a June to June thing? So it overlaps. You approved the the co-op the the agreement with the co-ops to use them every year. And then it's really an
034internal measure for us to spend the maximum spending amount and and we kind of look at it and say, how much do you think we do we think we're going to spend with that vendor this year? And uh and then as things progress, if it changes and we need to we come back to the board and look to increase the maximum spending amount. I just want to I wanted to um just piggyback on that because uh Dan uh Mr. Beginsky had given me an excellent explanation when we first started doing this is that sometimes we end up not using vendors we thought we would use and use more of one other vendor which is why we need to increase this for those specific vendors because there's more than just these vendors. Right. Right. Right. Right.
035So, these are more of the ones that we ended up using more of and not and not using other ones. Yeah, generally we get the best pricing from the the state contracts or the co-ops. So, it's actually a good thing that you see us using the co-op more because in general, you know, that's we're getting we're getting the best price and that's what it's all about. Um, my next question was on 14. I see that there was a lot of playground maintenance, installs, inspections from different vendors. Was this prior contracts that we approved for um playground upgrades? So, we did a lot of playground work with the preschools. Um and the the vendor for that would be Ben Schaefer and and Corby Associates. And so, because we got closer to that maximum this year, we
036we we raised the these were all these were approved last June, but we we're just increasing the maximum based on on our usage this year. We built the preschool annex playground and also did some other u preschool um preschool related playground upgrades. Does preschool funds pay for that or it's out of the general? Yeah, preschool funds did. Yep. Okay. There are there also a couple new couple of new vendors on there under that particular one. uh Whirl Corporation did is going to do some of our track repairs and also um a grant funded a local recreation improvement grant project to refurbish the rebound wall over at the tennis courts here. And so they're going to be doing that. Um so so so playground doesn't necessarily mean jungle gym, right? It's the vendor. It's the totality
037of what they of that vendor does. But that vendor for Corby and Ben Schaefer primarily it was the it was the playground construction. Then finance number four 24 there was like options that had to be picked three options. Who picks those Mr. Beginsky and I had a conversation about it. We did. This is the um insurance. Yes. So for our liability insurance, we we belong to u a joint insurance fund. Um and so if you have a if you have a good year from a claims perspective, they they basically will will refund you uh x amount of dollars based on the claims and what we paid out and the claims that that that we had. So for this year, um that turned out to be this year or was this is this year? Yep. Oh,
038it's not 1920. Uh nope. It's It's based on it's this year. Okay. Yep. So $94,697 and they give you a couple of options. They could say you could put it towards next year's to lower next year's insurance premium. They'll give you a a check for it. Last year we had around the same number we took it as a check. This year we're going to apply it to to reduce next year's premium. I did have a question. What are we going to see with um finance 19? Do you have it outlined? I I skipped over but I had to post it. Finance 19. Um I'm so loud. I Finance 19 the vendor site one. Yeah. So site one um that's where we do most of our purchasing of grass seed. What are we seating? Where are
039we seating? All of our athletic fields. All of what? Athletic fields. Yeah. Yep. Memorial. Uh every all everywhere we have uh intercolastic sports. So this year it was the two high schools and the two middle schools. Next year it'll be uh Liberty High School and and the Jackson Town Jackson Middle School. Anybody else? I have one question. Okay. With all these consortiums and everything we're in, we we go out and buy our own food. We're not in a consortium for food. That's number 23. was my question as well. Are we are we getting like a different vendor or something or is that a typical thing we see this time of year? I couldn't remember. Yeah. So, so primarily it's through uh national co-ops that we get our our our food service food from, but they're
040constantly they're in a a penny business. They're constantly looking for um better deals on on food prices. And whether that be dairy or, you know, for milk prices or or or purchasing produce, you they're constantly uh in various co-ops both nationally at the state level looking for what what how they can do it the cheapest. So So you're not going shopping? Yeah. insurance fiscal year that was uh being refunded. They can't possibly give you a refund in the current year because these claims can come in years later. Some of the statutes of limitations for joint insurance fund for liability type issues can take two or three years to be filed. So, they're looking back to 1920 and saying, "We're going to make $500,000 of our remaining surplus available as a refund." So that's what it
041is a 1920 refund on the joint assurance fund not the current year 2019 2020 20 2020 20 yeah okay it's like any other discussion but it was interested in school we good roll call Dr. Osman yes Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mr. McCarron. Yes. Mrs. Rivera. Yes. Mrs. Baroas. Yes. Mrs. Gordella. Yes. Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion to move facilities. Motion. Second. Discussion. Sorry, I have another question. Um, on the document, uh, the addendum document 1A, the food pantry. It's great that we're going to have it here. just had some questions. Um I'm just going to say them and then you can respond. Um is there going to be food storage in these rooms? How will like pestilence be monitored? Are we in a contract? Did we give them expectations? Like how's that going to
042work? Take it. Sure. Um yes to all of that. And we have um we'll have a set schedule that uh Mr. Vacancy has been working on with them as well. Um so it's not going to be a full-time thing. and it will be after hours as well. And when we met with them, this is to be focused in on our students and families that we serve in our school district. Those are the people that will be tapping into that portion of the food pantry. The rest of the food pantry services are farmed out to a different different area. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other discussion? Roll call, Dr. Osman. Yes, Mr. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mr. McCarron. Yes. Mrs. Rivera. Yes. Mrs. Baroas. Yes. Mrs. Gardella. Yes. Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion to move
043programs. Motion. Second. Discussion. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Yes. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Mr. McCarron. Yes. Mrs. Rivera. Yes. Mrs. Baroas. Yes, Mrs. Gardella. I've seen 5B3 and 10G. Yes. Everything else. Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion to move students. Motion. Second. Discussion. I have a question about number 10. Um, it says that we would be sending people to Burlington County Special Service School District not to exceed $100,000. What kinds of things do they do there that we would be using for $100,000 or up to? So, when we um use Burlington, when we use any kind of service um commission, a lot of times it's for uh services that the student needs in their IEP um and they may offer a specific uh service that is at a better price or meets the need of that
044student. In this case, this looks to me like this is a placement for services. They probably have a placement that a student needs. And so in the case that we may need that service, it's being put on the agenda for that. I'm just going to turn to uh Miss Carney and confirm that I am accurate. No. Okay. Then please come to the mic and answer that question. Is it? Can you hear me? Oh, yeah. Okay. Who asked that question? Oh, yes. So, if we're going to send them somewhere, that's going to be on our student list where we're sending to an out of district. This particular uh motion is for the vendor Burlington County Special Services provides us service here in the district and they're providing us a teacher of the deaf um some orientation
045and mobility and possibly a teacher of the visually impaired as needed, but definitely the teacher of the deaf. Okay, that's what I thought. a little specific there. Yes. And the that person did replace an actual employee. We did once have a teacher of the deaf, but she did retire last school year and we didn't replace her. We using an agency. We actually couldn't get a replacement. There are not too many out there anymore. Thank you, Miss Carney. You're welcome. Any other discussion? In general, are these contractual numbers or policy or state policy? Does the state set these rates or are they each individual contracted? Yeah, it's it's the the service provider that sets their rates and then we this is the time of the year where we just approve all of these in case we
046may need them. We don't al often use all of them, but they are available and that way we don't have to slow down a service that a student may need um because it hasn't been board approved yet. So that's why we have all of them on the agenda tonight. So these aren't set rates that all the districts follow. These are contracted. Sometimes depending um on you'll see sometimes we set the rate for something but in most of these cases these are these organizations or commissions or uh service providers that set their rates. Thank you. You're welcome. So this is you know looking at the agenda and reading this it it just seems like a lot of money going out like a lot of money for these services which are expensive. So you're saying that you're
047just budgeting for them. If you use them then they're there where you could send them out. If you don't use them do you roll that money? like does that get rolled over to the next year or because I know sometimes there's a lot of rules with how we could spend money but it just seems like a lot. So the services providers here are not necessarily all used and we don't roll anything over to the following year. That's why they're approved every year. So it's only based on student needs at the time. We budget um what we feel is going to be necessary based on how we and again Miss Carney if you want to come to the mic to explain how you budget but it's based on our current student population and what we anticipate
048them needing um and that's how we set our our budget for that for the service providers. So you want to give a little bit more detail about that? Sure. So if you were to add that up you'd say oh my god we're spending well more than we maybe even have. So, no, we but we have to anticipate and we never know like there'll be nursing agencies on there, but then they don't have a nurse for us. So, we then have to go to nurse nursing agency B. Um teacher, there are probably three or four people on there that are teacher of the deaf service, teacher of the visually impaired, psychiatrists, a neurologists, you know, and so no, but Mr. and his office monitor those numbers very carefully with my office and we look to see
049uh where money will come out as like the year progresses like okay we're well ahead here or or not ahead there just projections yeah it when I looked at it I was like it's a lot of money all projected and based on the kids we have now tomorrow a student that needs a nurse could move in and readjust all of that and so that's why you'll see during the year that sometimes we have to add to a a somebody who was already previously approved and we're updating that um amount of money. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Roll call. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Mr. McCarron? Yes. Mrs. River? Yes. Mrs. Baroas? Yes. Mrs. Gardella? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. I need a motion to move personnel. Aina made first. Motion second. So, um before we
050move all personnel, I'd like to make a motion to postpone to a future meeting number 20 A through N. Could you say that? Did everybody hear that? No. Um, Miss Barus made a motion to postpone to a future meeting the vote on item number 20, including all the subp parts. Correct. A through N. A through N as in Nancy. So, we're going to vote on the motion to postpone first, assuming it gets a second, which it hasn't yet. Second. Seconded. Discussion. This is just a vote on the motion to postpone. All A through N. Yep. A through N. Roll call. Dr. This is just to be clear, this is just a vote to postpone this item, not on correct not on personnel. Just if if we're postponing this particular number. It's hard to hear you.
051So this is just I just want to make sure I have it right. This is just for number 20 A through N. Postponing until the next meeting. A through N. Well, she she didn't say until the next meeting. Just till a future meeting. I think she said until a future meeting. Correct me if I'm wrong. Is that correct? That's correct. To a future meeting. We didn't put an end date on it. At least the motion didn't. So that's been seconded. I have to put You don't have to put an end date on it. Okay. Okay. So the vote roll Dr. Rosman just voting on 20 voting to to postpone the vote for number 20 items A through N to a future meeting A through through N I believe A through N. Yes. The whole the
052whole thing. Yeah. It's spring season. The whole thing. I am going to abstain on 20. She she abstained. Abstain. Okay. Mr. Walsh. No. Mr. McCarron. No. Thanks. Mrs. Rivera. Yes. Mrs. Baroas. Yes. That was a yes. It was a yes. Yes. Mrs. Gordella. No. Mrs. Cass. No. Motion did not carry. Now we go back to the main motion including number 20. Which has already been seconded. I think we're in discussion. I guess Miss Cass ask I guess if there's any further discussion any further discussion on personnel. Roll call. Dr. Osman. Yes. Yes. So, I am voting yes for everything except as I said 20 abstaining and 19 abstaining. and I'm abstaining from voting on any items 19 all and 20 all. The reason I'm going to abstain is because we have all received a communication
053that if true is concerning to me and should sway our decision on who we are appointing to these positions. when our administration becomes aware of information that should be considered pertinent to the recommendations of specific staff members that I believe that we have an ethical obligation to make sure that we investigate those reports before we make any votes. So I now am questioning the overall procedure of how we go about things. And so for this reason I am abstaining from all of 19 and all of 20. Everything else is a yes. Mr. Walsh, yes. Mr. McCarron, yes. Mrs. Rivera, I have to abstain from um 19 and 20. Yes to everything else. Mrs. Baroas. Number one, um document J number 285. I abstain. Uh, yes to everything and I'm abstaining from 20. Abstaining from what?
054I said 20. 20. Mrs. Gardella. Abstain from 38. Yes. To everything else. Abstaining from which number again? Sorry. 38. 38. Mrs. Cass. Yes. I need a motion to open public forum on any topic pertaining to the board of education. Motion. Second. Please sign in and state your name and whether or not you are a Jackson resident. Each person is allowed a maximum of three minutes to speak. No person may speak more than once on the topic until all others have been heard. Hi. Uh, my name is Michelle and I'm a Jackson resident. My children have been part of the Jackson district since kindergarten and will be attending fifth and sixth grade next year. I'm here today with a somewhat unique issue regarding high-erforming students in the district. My son John is a high-erforming, highly capable
055student, and I have concerns about the lack of offerings for advanced students in Jackson. After years of expressing frustration with the stagnation at school, we decided to homeschool John for the second half of his fourth grade year. He continued to learn and returned to Elms for fifth grade, hoping things would be better. Fifth grade offered advanced math, which condensed the fifth and sixth grade coursework into one year. John breezed through the math curriculum with a near-perfect score. Although math class only lasted one hour of the day, John expressed great relief in being surrounded by eager, talented students who did not cause the behavioral distractions he endured in his home room. In attending the JT56 open house, I learned that the district is eliminating fifth grade advanced math. Further, any student who is formerly in advanced
056math will be repeating the sixth grade coursework that they have already learned. It is beyond frustrating that John will spend his entire sixth grade year reviewing what he successfully completed in the second half of fifth grade. Additionally, my daughter Emily scored a perfect 850 of 850 on her most recent NJSLA math assessment. and due to the elim elimination of fifth grade math, she will have reduced opportunities available to her. Overall, I have found the curriculum lacking flexibility for highly capable students. I'm told differentiation within the classroom and win are meant to address this matter. However, I'm not seeing these programs working for my children. While it sounds nice in theory, teachers candidly expressed that high achieving students do not get the attention they deserve as so much time is devoted to students struggling with the
057coursework disruptions, language barriers, and so on. Due to this, we continue to heavily supplement our children's learning at home. We have friends and family that live throughout New Jersey and in other states, towns large and small, and all of them have gifted and talent talented programs by this age. Please help me understand Jackson's reluctance to allow higher performing students to share classes with their intellectual peers and encouraging them to realize their full potential. These students have already been identified with approximately 500 students per grade advanced class math and beyond could easily be formed with minimal effort or budgetary impact. I kindly ask for you to reconsider the decisions related to fifth and sixth grade advanced math programs and provide a curriculum that does not repeat for the top students who have already learned the material
058and have capabilities to move at a faster pace. Please also consider additional advanced classes for high performing students so that frustration and boredom does not erode their love of learning. Thank you. Anyone else? Hi, good evening. I'm Stephanie Ruchcci. I belong um in Jackson. My students attend, my children attend school here. I'm just call I'm just asking about the sports boards in the gym. We have amazing athletes. We've made major accolades for Jackson Memorial and we are hoping that the consideration has been made to move all of the boards that recognize all of their accolades back to over to Liberty so that we can continue to one update them because some of them are behind and two just to make sure that our students feel welcomed while they're over there that they're being recognized for
059all their accomplishments. Um, and also on behalf of the Jackson Wrestling Boys and Girls team, if you need volunteers to help you do that, we'll offer our um, assistance, families will come in and help you do that this summer. Thank you. Anyone else? Seeing no one come forward, I need a motion to close public forum. Motion. All in favor? I um board comments. Oh, sure. Sure. Yes. So, I just um I I don't like to talk about individual students, so I don't want to have that conversation, but um I do want you to know that it is something that we are looking at um and we'll reach out to you to talk a little bit more. So, um before you leave, I mean, I do believe I have your phone number. Um but I just
060want to confirm and I'll follow up with you tomorrow on your concerns. Um and we'll talk together with the assistant superintendent about what the plan is moving forward. Okay. Thank you for sharing your concerns. Um in regards to the sports awards, yep, absolutely. We're looking to do some planning. We want to make sure everything is acknowledged, continues to be acknowledged, and our kids see it. So, and thank you for um offering to volunteer. So, more to come on that soon. Thank you. Thank you. Uh board comments. We'll start down. And uh Mr. Walsh, uh I was happy to see esports coming around. A lot of schools have it. Uh I got one thing that I uh have going around Ocean County and in Mammoth County. There is a lot of schools. Manchester, the Tom's River
061schools, the vocational school on 571 out there. They have caution lights on the main roads in front of their buildings that flash when students are coming into school and when they're leaving school. Okay. I think we need to brooach either the township or the county depending upon who can construct those to put them up. Okay. So that on Hope Road and in front of some of the other schools that we have, okay, there's a little bit more uh warning for the people driving on those roads to slow down. Will they? I don't know. But a little caution doesn't hurt. Thank you. Have a good summer. Just want to wish everybody uh a safe summer and congratulations to our 2025 graduates. Thank you. Congratulations to all of our graduates. We're all very proud of you. Remember
062where you come from and hopefully in years to come. We'll see you doing great things and hopefully you'll be back in town to give back to the town that gave you so much. Congratulations. I want to thank everyone for coming out this evening and view live stream. Congratulations to all the graduates and much success on your next endeavors. Everyone have a wonderful summer. Um uh congratulations to all the graduates. It was uh really nice to get to so many ceremonies. Um thank you to Colin for uh doing another an end of the year uh speech. It's always nice to hear the end of the year updates and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone um in September and I hope everyone has a nice summer. I want to concur with everyone. Congratulations to the graduates. U
063Mr. Walsh. I think that's a fabulous idea. Um maybe traffic safety heard you. I think they've heard that a couple times and you know, maybe public aid's a great way. So, it was a nice nice idea. Um I hope everybody has a great summer and hopefully you'll tune in with us for the next few months. I just uh same thing. I want to wish uh congratulations to all of our graduates. Um I I think it's great. I think it's wonderful. I attended the two high school graduations. So, um it was wonderful. And in addition, I want to congratulate our superintendent. She was named superintendent of the year. Oh, wow. We don't get to vote on that. However, I think that if we did, I think that we would all concur that it is welld deserved
064and it has been uh it's been your most challenging year. I think you've had quite a few. But this one I think uh tops the cake and so congratulations. Um with that I need a motion to adjurnn. Motion, a acclamation. I I