001Sen and the key folk of New Jersey district is my privilege to congratulate you. We are incredibly proud of you and to see >> [applause] >> Thank you. [bell] picked it like to say thank you. Thank you for the presentation. What a wonderful job by our students. Um this time we're going to take a short break. There's some refreshments over to the this side, my right, and your left. I'm coming. All right, we're going to come back at this time. I'm going to go a little bit out of order. Um, at this time, I'm going to do the presentation of the student representatives. Uh, representing the middle school, we have Angelina and Chase >> Everyone's Mr. Proudly announced the name of the three student. Each certificate and for the week of April the week on
002Monday from 8:45 Monday as the band instrument they play songs like They walked around to show what the entrance looked like and they were able to touch. On Wednesday, April 15th, the sixth grade students attended a class trip to high school. During their visit, students participated in a variety of engaging learning experiences including a planetarian presentation and a study and an office. On Tuesday, April 21st, the seventh and eighth grade students attended a class student of music that is open on campus toward the university ground and enjoy lunch and dining. Both trips created meaningful opportunities for students to explore new environments and engage in fun learning experiences. Our best faithful and social success all the teachers all the teachers children have such fun doing a variety of different activities that teachers has prepared for them.
003They took part in games activities, interviews, contests, and gathered gather for pizza at lunch. A few weeks ago, the seventh grade, Misses These students were fresh and engaged for another students in eighth grade are really looking forward to the first class check coming up in a couple weeks. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. I got a friend with parents to open students dedicating countless hours to rehearsal and production and they are all looking forward to what causes to be incredible performance. The arts very much for a special community and opportunity as a prepared forship online. This experience will allow me to engage with worldrenowned work of art and bring inspiration back. Our yearbook team is currently hosting rapid fundraising featuring a hand. Tickets are $5 each or 5 to $20 with the rapid ending
004on May 15th. This is a great way to support your book while also celebrating school. In the office, we recently celebrated major achievement. On Friday, April 17th, 230 students were recognized at a no contact ice cream party. This event highlighted positive behavior and commitment to our school community and we congratulate all those students on their accomplishment. Additionally, the environmental club NGSA recently hosted their second photo spot. This initiative promotes sustainability and inclusivity, and we are excited to continue grow with plans for more spots next week. We also had the joy of celebrating bringing kids to work day where 37 young visitors joined us for a fun-filled and engaging day at high school. It was wonderful to open our doors and share our community. Finally, our junior and senior students are eagerly anticipating prom country club
005on Thursday, May 21st, 2026. This is always a memorable house and student support. Thank you very much. At this time, we have a presentation from Mr. Bird. Our 2024 25 NJBE HIV final grade. in uh October I come in and we um talked about the self assessments that each school did. Those results are then sent out to the state and the state returns a greater report um in the strength each year. Um but it is on. This is important. >> Max 784. So the eight core elements of self assessment is our programs approaches and our initiatives our trainings improve the policy staff instruction and training programs and instruction school incident reporting procedures investigation procedures and report 63 possible 70 points. That's 81% retaining for our school. >> The individual scores had a 69 grade out
006of 78 for 8% was commendable. Kinsburg had a 67 out of 78 for 86% also. The high school had five out of 78 for 83% of 78 for 67%. >> I'm going to leave this up one by one. without uh this is a break down those eight elements that I stated on how to uh this is the early learning center and then shows the same school um relative to the performance uh indicator. So we did some positive movement especially in our younger seniors. Um our school level incident reports at 92% 9.8 8 perus overall going from 63 to 69 uh six point difference and then we didn't have any um incidents outside of um some of our policy local investigations which I'll go into in a minute. I apologize it's a little hard to see.
007Our reporting procedure um went from 5 to 5.5 investigations went from a 9 to 10 reporting procedures went from four to a six to 14 and again these are all procedural. >> So to go further into that investigate every organization district which would pre-screen and decide based on the um initial information whether an addiction should be run or not. We have a policy we don't do that. Uh we we take every report received. We do a full hint investigation um the determination every hit is on the record. Unfortunately, what that means for us is we are going to have a higher reporting number of kids but not necessarily that we're actually confirmed our percentage should be lower. This helps us with special calls. Um we have transparency process recording investigation. >> So what's working on
008this is um our school reporting procedure is at 92%. Um and again that's well documented. Uh there's different investigations. Um, we do have a policy packet that we use for every single related. Um, and support and then also our personnel are specialists and coordinators, our police. >> Three things that we get better on um in the coming year is training on BOE approved hit policies. uh we scored 75% of that. Um others training programs again 75 and some of our HIV programs that we do with the students we were at 78%. So we first post and publish this report as well as the hip gray report directly from the state um in accordance with the NA going forward trainings that um we'll do our annual HIP policies and hopefully raise some of those uh as
009well as our current related uh concept. so that and then continue our transparent reporting. So I'll be back here in October with our self support of the 256 and then this time again next year. Thank you. Just give me one Good evening. 2026 2027 proposed budget application for next school year. As we go out, this just gives you an indication that we spent a ton of time on budget development because it starts in October and we are still talking about it and then everybody looking for budget spending extra money is that county in 2013 where instead of looking at everything on a tenure basis, you look at it on a yearly basis. And what does that mean? That means they affect your account every single year. And so from the prior to the current year,
010the average value went up almost 41,000. You will see that the school tax rate did drop from the prior year. And it takes a little time on this, but last year the average for taxes 443. Next year we move on for an average. This just gives us a little indication of where property tax lifelong county and people need. So what makes the budget and what does the department of education expect? They expect us to be a priority. They expect us to maintain and protect the foundation that we're secure. They want to ensure that we are providing professional development that will ensure long-term fiscal sustainability as well as the ability to raise standards and expand opportunities for students. And so we do that by all maintaining and protecting our abilities and expanding our opportunity. So what
011about our enrollment, special education mandates, instructional materials, professional development, technology, facilities, extracurricular and professional. So breakdown, most of our reports come from the state and a little over 25 million. Our total projected residents are 44 million Next year our secondary learning source comes from myself that's 1985 and then the other source that is the biggest is our special grants and that's really to specific that's federal grants where next year we're only 75% of what we'll be receiving this year. So hopefully it does look like that is pushing us to 100%. So we are also instead of 75 those figures typically the remaining 3.5 million. One of the things as we go from the tenative budget to to the next public adoption is that we send our budget to the county and they review it and
012access modifications. One of the modifications is that tomorrow putting it into a higher interest rate. So our budget maintenance reserve $10,000. However, yesterday we were Finance there for that 25,000 for capital reserves we anticipated 20,000 expectation closer to 50 this will be interesting receiving from bank not so if you already know what it So how are we going to spend 18.3 million of that is in our school throughout and so we'll see that most of it goes into regular instruction classes very well. We know we just spoke about 3.5 school and then the next is operations and student support facility. One of our very facility support there just like most of the district. We are constantly talking about employee benefits and so that is typically the second budget and it continues to be one for
013users. We still continue and hope that one day other district for transportation whether our total cost is about 22,000 And we are just under our construction. We are only at our continent. One of the most beautiful. So every year they determine that they say okay if you tell you $100 you spend $110 for because everything we used to be $7 million that we were under and through and that we We are first beautiful contin together and something really great. Um, it's beautiful. When we go outside, they take the opportunity to get rid of, you know, really fresh. We had a little bit of fun with the at the school. concrete and all of us right contractor but we kept fighting it working to get it right and then we had one of the things on
014the items and things that are being every single time we see all that for the future and how we're going to continue to leverage. We're going to continue to watch our leaders. We're going to continue to speak to our face that we know that you know why the consumption do If they need anything in this presentation, it's available right department. So he also helping sources not anything foretting needless to say there's several Correct. Yes. bill right now. We know what the outcome is. So they have submitted their request. Hopefully we have that right now. Thank you very much. At this time, are there any committee reports? Thank you. At this time, we'll take public comments and questions regarding the board agenda item only. See no, and we'll close that portion. Board of Education shall conduct
015the closed executive session to the personnel and legal exceptions described by MJS 10-12 for the purposes of discussing legal. It is anticipated that the length of time of this executive session will be 30 minutes and not be taken in public after the executive session. Be it further resolved that the minutes of the executive session will be released in the meeting of confidentiality and MJS 10-12 no longer. All in favor? call meeting to order. Uh at this time I'll take a motion to exe executive session. >> All in favor? >> At this time a motion to approve the minutes. Uh, we have the March 24th, 2026 regular meeting. >> Have a second. >> Mrs. Mr. Suzan, >> yes. >> Mr. Cook, >> yes. Mr. Turn it over to superintendent. >> Superintendent schools recommends positive action on
016the following items under personnel. Number one, elimination of positions. Number two, reemployment of personnel, professional and par profofessionals 2627 for the district. Number three, transfers of person of professional and nonprofessional staff to 26 27 for the district. Number four, leave of absence and turning child care revision. Number five, substitute teachers and par professionals for the district. Number six, permanent school substitute for this year. Number seven, student observation for the district. Number eight, prek to kindergarten transition parent program staff. Number nine, Orton Gillingham comprehensive plus training. Number 10, Wharton going in comprehensive plus training for Caruso. Um they're two separate programs, but they're part of the of the overall program together. Number 11, 25 26 CC club instructors for 6 to 8 at Bulger. Number 12, 2526 CC administration high school. Number 13, 2526 CC student
017support teachers. And number 14, approval of additional instructional time. >> At this time, A motion to uh approve personnel. Second >> I think this time there any questions, comments or concerns from any board members? Yes. On number two, the names in the bottom of Mr. >> Yes. Thank you. Ryan under policy and regulation policy 15 uh number 15 policy second reading alert 234. At this time I entertain a motion to accept the policy. Second questions or concerns that portion >> yes >> Mr. >> Yes. Under general number 16, district HIV report, number 17, community reporting of HIV grades, and number 18, acceptance of donations for early learning centers, 19 instate tests. >> This time I'll a motion for general second. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns for anybody? >> I just have one question.
018Number 19, the KC walking trip. So that's the grades 10, 11, 12. Any other questions? Mr. Hoff, can you make sure that the donation is for us? Mr. >> Yes. >> Just addendum item A1 job. Entertain a motion for the acceptance of Second question. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Merr. School of Business Administrator Board Secretary Superarification for March 26 are available for the remainder of year certifications for March 13 and March 30th. One, receive an acceptance of March 2026 report. Two, approve contest. Three, approve. Four, approve 2526 home instruction. Five, approve bank. Six, approve the submission of fiscal year 27 focus grant. Seven, approve the submission of the fiscal year 27 Bridge continuation grant 8 approved tuition cost for 2627 school year 9 26 27 final public adoption of the budget change after
019public hearing uh I just have to read in the changes that were made to budget after the the hearing uh the two changes that were made were increases to interest revenue to two accounts on the maintenance reserve which you already talked about the tenative budget was 10,000 final budget 25 change was 15. Uh and then the capital reserve interest which was 1050 budgeted at 20 final budget 50 and change at 30. Number 10 attendance at the NJA statement. 11 resolution authorizing legal representation. 12. Approve the acceptance of fiscal year 26 emerging capital maintenance needs grant. 13 approve the acceptance of funds of the bridge grant. 14 acceptance of funds for the focus grant. 15 acceptance of funds for grant 16 acceptance of funds for impact. And 17 acceptance of funds for the This time I'll
020make a motion to accept secretary report. Are there any questions, comments, or concerns? >> I just have one. It's not requested, but I just want to reiterate. So the tax rate for the budget went down because of the home value. Okay. Thank you very much. >> Any other questions? It's time to take Mrs. >> Yes. Mr. Yes. This time I'll open it up to the public for any comments or questions relating to any additional concerns or seeing none. This time I do holding my right That's right. So happy to everybody and congratulations. I just want to say congratulations to also Miss Hudson and Pet as well. It's great to see all the great students fairly large organization. Uh it's really great to see students involved. Also want to thank the administrative staff, everybody involved with
021the budget season. This year was particularly challenging with dates and changes rising costs. So thank you to all of you for the late night for all of us and for the students in the community and the teachers and parents everybody that's part also mentioned that kind of fellow board members NJCA is having their final meeting so thank you Let's see. and Friday decision day. Yes. So on Friday national decision day for college it's May 1st and the students and the staff will will where they plan to go to school. >> Just a couple things echoing what everybody else has already said. I just want to thank the administration for their hard work as well. I realize that I look forward to making decisions. do want to make one of our symphony as well as the
022port 52 students we have less than 400 students in our in our high school 25% 17% I'll give the number but they keep their blood drive awards here so it's great leader. Um, want to thank Dr. Bird for his presentation. I know again people expect that every year just reiterate the schools continue to do what we're supposed to be doing to track that. The memorial is on May 17th. So many coming up. All in favor? I