001Board of Education will be held in the buer media center at 700 p.m. adquate notice for this meeting has been mailed to the ASB Park Press filed with the Municipal Court of kber and posted on the district website and posted inside the office of the B strike act inside the office of Kingsburg Board of Education 100 pound replace in kingburg New Jersey January 11th 2025 if you look around we have several exit uh in case of emergency the closest exit may be behind you do we have a roll call please Mrs Clayton I should we late Mrs friselle Miss Karan here Mr manowski here Mr kitchen here Mr cook here Mr hwk here miss F here Miss Ryan here please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge ofg to the flag of the United States
002of America and to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all all right uh take a a slight um pause for a second to introduce our new board of education member this is cther Ryan she's going to be sworn in sir did you do the honors are you holding B no take your um raise your right hand and you that okay mhm Cather Ryan do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution that I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the state of New Jersey and the state of New Jersey and I will bear true faith and Allegiance and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the saying to the same and to the government and to
003the government established in the United States and in this state and in this under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I I name again Catherine Ryan do Solly swear do solemly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office for the office of a member of a board of education of a member of the Board of Education and that I am not disqualified and I am not disqualified as a voter as a voter pursuant to pursuant to rs19 4-1 RS 1941 and nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime nor disqualified conviction to of a crime or offenses or offenses listed under the statutes listed under the statute and that I
004will faithfully and I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties perform all the duties of that office of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God take congratulations thank you all right moving forward our student representative reports from the high school we have Megan Al and Paige Brown from the buer school we have lopin fol and Jessica M who wants go first Matthew go hey guys I'm Megan CL president of the senior this is Paige he's a secretary um we have already had a ton of excitement at Kingsburg High School for the month of March and it's far from over our High School Musical Evil Dead the musical was a massive success playing a
005soldout audience the 7th and the eth of March featuring an incredible talented cast from The High School drama club and one special guest performer from Boulder drama club the production was thrilled and entertaining enter entertaining with a mix of horror humor and high energy performances the audience was the audience response was overwhelming with positivity laughter cheers and sing rations proving how much they love the show congratulations to the entire cast crew production team for putting on an un Unforgettable performance the week following the incredible musical we had backtack events this past Thursday Miss leak and the senior class hosted their third March Madness Tournament a total of 13 teams both boys and girls put their skill level to the test in a 3b3 basketball competition the winners go against the teachers in the final match
006up congratulations to asan young aishan young Milan morz Gabriella Clans J javelli creso gorges and Lindsay Rivera for being the top girl and boy team in the whole tournament as well as defeating the teachers in the final match this annual event has become a favorite for our school and we can't than teachers enough for always putting themselves out there to play ref or be a spectator the night following March Venice was our annual designer bingo bag Bingo and gift auction which was a huge success and brought in a lot of money for all classes at kinger High School spring sports are now in full swing trials for last week and scrimmages are now ready to begin the flag football team had an exciting day this past Saturday where they got to work on their skills
007alongside players from the New York Giants trly a meor memorable experience the 2025 Kingsburg high school and buer middle school Esports team began their competitions this month competing in the Marvel Rivals rocket League Super Smash Bros and valerant the Titans are off to a great season with a comp a competitive games lots of laps and an epic amount of postmatch pizza parties with a good number of slots being filled by Middle School players the Titans look for to building a dominant team for the Long Haul now for upcoming events on Monday March 24th at 6:30 pm our National Honor Society will be IND inducting its newest members a huge congratulations to Giana Champion jayen arz Laura Bonz J cres fores Gabriella Clans bomb and Gavin Clans bomb such a huge accomplishment on March 26th from
0084: to 8:00 p.m. the school will be hosting an urban air fundraiser event we would love to see everyone out there for this fun evening finally it's time for ticket sales to begin for this year's Junior Andor prom which will be held May 22nd at windows on the water and seab tickets will officially go on sale on March 31st and now to wrap up our upcoming events we are turning this over to jayen for some very big Key Club news good evening everyone I'm excited to share that Key Club is hosting our first ever flood Drive in partnership with the New York New Jersey flood Center this will take place on Saturday May 3rd from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Kingsburg High School cafeteria for those who may not know Key Club is
009a student L organization dedicated the service and Leadership our mission is to improve our community by organizing and participating in volunteer efforts from fundraising for local causes to Hands-On projects that make a difference this blood drive is an important way for us to directly impact lives in need every donation can save up to three lives and we're proud to offer this opportunity to help those in our community appointments are encouraged and you can schedule one using the QR code but Walkins are always welcome we hope to see you there helping us make a real difference thank you from the Fier school we have Lin folks and Jessica l the eighth grade student Ava Tucker was selected to represent the Joseph or buer middle school at the animal Mammoth County School boards Association dialogue for program
010on March 11th she did an outstanding job sharing her Reflections and experiences in the middle school we are all very proud of her also on March 11 our school held an induction ceremony for the new members of National Junior Honor Society there were seven students from the seventh grade who qualified to be included in our chapter Catalina Clayton Ava Flores Skyler lavy miabella Lawrence clag Chase Preston Autumn rberg and poo toar vadera PR parents and guests also attended the ceremony and were afforded the opportunity to take lots of pictures at the conclusion last week there were signups for this year's vure baseball and softball teams the teams were very anxious to begin their first game and look forward to a wonderful season the E gaming Club continues to be an enthusiastic group of students who
011are making this new club a big success both the world cultural club and the National Junior Honor Society will be participating in our town St Patrick's Day Parade Merck Lions Ramirez a member of our drama club participated in the Kingsburg High School play evil death the weekend of March 7th and 8th he put on a very energetic portrayal of the character Jake today the seventh and eighth grade students attended the embly presented by the behavioral health group on the topic of beyond the hyp last week the eighth graders made their selections for the class po 2025 the winning students were posted on the hallway bullettin board for all to see and will have their pictures taken in the coming days that will be included in the 2025 year book the week of March 7th was
012R Across America the gifted and talented students decided to add a little extra to this week and called it spirit week they Incorporated suggestions of clothing to wear that ordinated to the popular doctor book titles such as Monday wear animal print for the book If I ran to the zoo and on the other day wear green socks for the book ring Eggs and Ham Flyers were posted around the school indicating suggestions on clothing for the for the individual book titles so that our sixth seventh and eighth graders could participate and have a chance to win the prize B buers Titans of the month were sixth grade Benjamin kitchen and Sophia Brier seventh grade Zachary Demar and Autumn redber and 8ighth grade Alexander Nunes and Nicole m a few weeks ago the entire student body took
013a linol Form B test in Elon maass these students received the highest scores on the test for sixth grade in ela Sophia Brier breny Rodriguez Amanda creso borz and sixth grade in math Sophia fero and Landon Gordon seventh grade in ela thank you santania Chase Preston kayin hertha AA Flores James Linder and James L seventh grade ma Matthew mosus Jason stinky and Chase Preston 8th grade Nei Ashley Bley AEL Koo Abigail Brier Jessica L and Aubrey Brown eth grade in math Jessica l so Josiah Rios and sopia roas PS thank you thank you any committee reports yes Mr cook thank you Mr President uh earlier this evening we had our financial meeting and the primary topic was the tenative budget that we have before us uh it's no easy task but the Administration has tally
014uh utilized grants shared services and rebates to help bring the costs down and obviously Alize the budget for everyone uh once it goes to the county after tonight it will be approved by them and then the next meeting will be Pres thank you Mr anybody else all right um so we're going to open up the comments and questions related to the board agenda items only if you any comments or questions you just come forward state your name see any we're close that there'll be no executive session tonight we got approved the minutes for last month uh February 18th and February 18th can I get a motion please second roll call vote Mrs Clayton Miss callah Moran yes Mr mowy yes Mr kitchen I also abstain Mr cook yes Mr Hof yes M rora yes M
015Ryan superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items under personnel number one retirement number two termination of employment number three nonprofessional Employment Number Four transfer of professional staff number five leave of absence Medical number six leave of absence family number seven substitute teachers PR Professionals for the district number eight additional prep hours number nine Central detention number 10 keensburg Early Learning Center bus AIDS number 11 keensburg Early Learning Center home visits number 12 Wilson Reading teachers number 13 curriculum writing and math number 14 professional development costing 15 50 or above I please have a motion to accept the superintendent report I'll make that motion any questions see no questions sir Mrs clayon yeah M Karan yes Mr M yes sir abstain on FL the second name now thank you Mr kchen yes Mr
016cook yes Mr Hof yes M Ferraro yes M Ryan yeah under General number 15 corrective action plan number 16 2324 interm qac placement letter and scores number 17 Kingsburg School District annual calendar revision number 18 Kingsburg School District annual calendar for 2526 number 19 acceptance of donation Kingsburg ear Learning Center number 20 disposal of unusable outdated broken furniture and equipment for the district number 21 in state class trips can I get a motion to accept U recommendation for the general we have two came first came first okay uh any questions I have a question on 17 is that for our snow days that are adjusted yes so we didn't use our emergency days so those are emergency days yes and in next year's calendar if you look at the bottom in the little smaller writing
017we pricked the days that we would get back so if we don't use our days next year we already will know in advance which days we're going to back and then as always can we on number 17 can we please send that Home Depot number 19 19 yeah thank you yes thank you that's all I have sir roll call Mrs Clayton yes M Kelly herar yes Mr mckowski yes Mr Kitchen yes Mr cook yes Mr hu yes Mr R yes Mr Ryan yes and addendum items A1 District HIV report 2425 and A2 curriculum writing mathematics for Kingsburg High School I please get a a motion to accept the addend items please I'll make that motion Mr cook second I'll second it Mr any questions no see no questions Mrs Clayton yes M Kell yes Mr
018manowski yes Mr pit yes Mr cook yes Mr H yes M feraro yes m r yes School business administrator board secretary report board secretary's monthly certification certifies that no it has been overextended and that's funds are available to meet the district's Financial Obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year payroll certifications for February 14th and February 28th the superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items number one receipt and acceptance of February's board secretary's report number two approved appropriation transfers number three approv bills list number four approves 2425 home instruction five approve M vento tuition 2425 number six approv valuation contract for 21st century C program 2526 number seven approve resolution for member participation in The Cooperative pricing system that's Mo number eight approval for head data member participation in the educational Cooper
019pricing system for 25 through 27 number nine approve the fiscal year 25 6 10 budget number 10 includes a preschool expansion aid for 2526 number 11 approved the freear 25 New Jersey child assault prevention Grant number 12 approve 10 arm Asset Management program and number 13 approve tuition cost for the 256 school year I please sched motion to accept the business report any questions yes Mr President I have a question for number six is there something specific that they're looking for to approve yearly running center or is this just number six I yeah the evaluation contract that is just mandatory that's for like half so that's the after school program so it's a mandatory okay I was just curious to do something that okay thank you any any other questions all right see no other
020questions sir call yes yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr H yes Mr F yes yes I'll now open to the public for any questions or comment related to the additional contents please come forward state your name see no one coming forward and I'll close that motion from the committee members I said I would start on this side so Mr kitchen how are you welcome very good thank you W was a little late but no I just want to thank everybody for coming it's nice to see so many people here please you know want people to come here bring your issues here and I just want toat congratulate Mr R again on being appointed and I know you'll do great things and I look forward to working with you thank you thank you Mr kitchen Mrs
021Ryan um I just uh want to congratulate the drama club and the uh Honor Society students from both the high school and cure I think that's a great thing very impressed with the Key Club I was in Key Club when I was in high school then they kind of got rid of it so I think it's great that they brought that back Mr gr oh yes I agree with everything that Kathy said and I also like to congratulate the girls basketball team the boys wrestling boys on the wrestling team they all did a great job I'm very proud of them Mrs Clayton congratulations CIA was not here last congratulations also to the junior National Honor Society um it's always a sweet um iny I cry everybody knows I cry um and uh just yeah spring
022sports are upon us uh we had our first permish today the first m one it was it was a tough one but just it's the first one so we should be out good thank you sir you're welcome Mr cook thank you Mr President I just want to touch on what some of our other members have mentioned tonight is that you know you tell you hear the Key Club you hear our Sports and these are all achievements of our students and really the success of Kingsburg School District so so everybody thank you for allowing those success to keep moving forward the day in and day out um and the last thing is also is about the budget again is job it's not easy God bless you and it's not uh it's a thankless job and I
023know the lot of utility cost insurance costs they all went up and I know that you really have been going on undertaking with this so thank you for all the hard work going towards that thank you Kim yes i' like to say congratulations to the students you're really doing a great job you're embracing you're bringing New Opportunities you know you're doing so much of everything so you're you're having all your student body find something that they like you know you see the teamwork with the girls basketball team they talk about the wrestling there's so many good things going on and it's nice to see congratulating each other or when you're down you're patting them on the back and saying you could do it most importantly I think inviting us to the prom meets a lot
024to share your special evening you know we love seeing you all dressed up and feeling good and having a great time because these are good memories that you have and you know no one could take the memories of your time at K our high school and always be proud because we're proud to to say thank you thank you Senator um I'd only like to make it clear that while Miss Ryan um was sworn tonight ceremonially she was sworn previously and had an opportunity to review all the package um of what was voted on tonight so anyone that would think that um she just got sworn and voted on no she she was sworn in um by the board secretary previously and um given the opportunity to review everything for tonight's meeting and think that was
025important and a belated happy St Patrick's Day to everyone um and that's it for me I do have a question Senator were you the a board attorney when Mrs Ryan's mother or Uncle sat on there both you were yes and Grand and Grand Bo ever had a different attorney I kind of thought he came with the building pretty much before this building was built um I just want to congratulate Mr ranelli on her retirement um I hope that Multicultural night stays I know my daughter is going to be devastated when she hears the news um just on the budget touching on what um what Ken just said Mr cook just said um I know it is a lot of hard work uh you'll notice that in in our business administrator report we go into uh
026cooperatives and grants we're constantly looking at other sources of money besides the state aid that's constantly getting cut or staying even and the uh the other option which is to continue to raise taxes so we're always trying to find other money and other means to be able to give all the resources that we can um I do want to say congratulations everybody on the musical I was able to attend that it it was a great job as usual I went to the Saturday show I understand that there were some minor changes depending on which show you went to and and uh that made it interesting you uh we had a little bit of a Wonder emergency in cuso so I do want to thank everybody who was involved in in taking care of that earlier
027this week I understand that it was uh it was a lot to come into on Monday morning uh and you know we were able to keep everything open students going to class me with minor changes and being able to roll with the punches and make that happen um reing Across America was a big success um over 300 people attended I can tell you it was a success because uh in an emergency we had to order 15 more pizzas and they said we the board didn't do that it was part of the Teachers Association but in the the since we were a number of us were reading um we got to see that they were trying to feed over 300 people who attended and and uh it was great to see so many people there um
028and I think that's it thank you very much thank you and thank you for everyone coming out and thank you for all my board members for your positive feedback unfortunately I'm going to have to repeat some of the same things but I have a couple other ones uh good luck and retirement I do enjoy multi culture it's one of um but I actually enjoy read cross America better that's one of my favorite times maybe because there's pictures in the books and everything and but that's just me Father the time had a dance unfortunately I was unable to make it but the pictures online and speaking to people that's truly an amazing event Sports our wrestling team that was mentioned before our basketball team for those who don't know Mr Ferraro was voted coach of the
029year does he coach Friday this week do you allar game yes he is he does one of the four selected coaches from the county yes as coach of the year and for those you don't know his fabulous assistant may be related to me um the play was amazing Absolut absolutely amazing I have no talent in my body I can't sing in a shower I can't even hold the sa the alphabet right but for those kids to get up there truly truly amazing job especially the gentleman from M grade who played Jake yes yes and then I don't shop at the emart anymore but um Bingo was outstanding unfortunately I had a previous event but my wife when I come home that night my counter was full with all kind of winnings so she actually you
030know the budget team thank you it's an amazing job and people don't understand what things just thank you thank you for we're doing it a job that some people are going to like some people going to hate but at the end of the day we have to educate our our kids and I I truly commen you the main team again did not stand J com into something and seeing where does it start how do we get to fix in a short time frame there is going to be a blood drive I'll make my who where is he I'll make my appointment as soon as I get to my phone okay I can give two batches of platelets cuz I'm a little chubby so that's a fact that's a fact the blood the parade I heard
031people there's going to be a parade on the 29th there's going to be a float where the some of the Board of Education members are more than welcome to March Matt Banner we need the banner where you to watch with us the Honor Society um it's always excited to see faces like I said when they read their names we have two um people sit up here that their children going to be one was abducted we be honored on Monday unfortunately I'm at a class I can't be there that's one of the things I like to do too when they honor the teachers who brought them there um Esports do you understand that you have like 35 kids on the Esports team that's amazing I I again I can play sports I I'm pretty good at
032that not so much golf but everything else so good luck to those and good luck to our season and then just a shout out to Woodbridge uh school system we'll probably hear about that tomorrow but um due to security everything was uh handled the way it's supposed to be and that's all I have so thank you I'm sorry no we're good my wife is sick I don't want to with that being said I please have a a motion to uh if we have there motion a second second we'll send you back here in April than e e for