001Good evening everyone. We would like to call the meeting to order and welcome everyone. Mr. Ganella, please. >> Yes. This meeting is being held in accordance with the schedule of meetings adopted at the organizational meeting held on January 6, 2025. Adequate notice of this special meeting of Kenn of Education has been provided to the home news tribune the star ledger and local source on January 16, 2025. A copy has been filed with Kennorth Pro clerk posted in the board office that Kennorth bur hall brilliant Harding schools as is provided by the open public meetings act. >> Thank you. Please rise and join us in the salute to the flag 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
002for all. >> Mr. Ganell, can we please have roll call? >> Yes. >> Biner >> here. >> Concoli. >> David >> here. >> Ferrari >> here. >> Ather >> here. >> Hardina >> here. >> Lead. >> Yes. >> Bichi >> here. >> Zimmerman >> here. >> We have quum. >> Thank you. At this time, we'll move on to the superintendent's reports, presentations, and discussion. Superintendent. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. Uh it's a pleasure to be here. I'm excited to uh start the school year in just a couple weeks. Um but first I have two presentations to review with you and then several announcements. Um first is going to be our um AIDS scores and um let me start off by saying that I'm very proud of the work that we've done as a district to
003increase the support of our multilingual learners uh which is called MLS for short. Uh this is students formerly known as ELELLL or ESL. Over the past few years, the number of multilingual learners that we educate continues to grow in our district. In 232 24, we provide instruction to 81 students. Uh last year in 2425, that number rose to 93. So we're having, you know, continuing to rise in our numbers of ELELLL students or MLS. Um currently 6% of our population is part of the ESL program. Um I want to thank our ESL teachers, Mr. Hopper, Miss Botino, Miss Tropiano, and Miss Anelo, who work with the special population of students whose familiarity and fluency with the English language spans a wide range of proficiency levels. Know that some of these students can speak very well
004but struggle to write. Um, others can understand really well but struggle to speak and still others come to school on the first day or in the middle of the school year sometimes with no familiarity with English at all. So kudos to our ESL teachers for not just providing strong language instruction but also for supporting our ML population in multiple ways beyond the academic. Additionally, uh in addition to our ESL teachers, all of our teachers work really hard to support our multilingual learners. Uh whether you're a kindergarten teacher or um you know who has a non-speaking student, non-English-speaking student join the class in October or you're a high school US history teacher, differentiating instruction for a student who doesn't speak English is very difficult. Um so kudos to our teachers for uh all their efforts tonight.
005Uh what you see here are the um WEDA access scores for those 93 students who were tested. Um the WEDA access test is given each winter that measures proficiency levels in reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Students are scored on a one through six basis. Uh the score is necessary for a student to exit out of ESL and that score is a 4.5. So when you get a 4.5 or above, you exit out of the ESL program or it's one of the factors that leads to exiting out of the program. Um the exit is also based on other academic performance data, teacher input and other factors. Um if you look at the data, um you can see um you know the numbers right there for each grade level. Um there's an average score along with the
006number of students in each grade. It is important to note, you don't want to look at those average scores and think, "Oh, goodness, why aren't we at 4.5?" These stu our students coming in with all different ability levels at any point during the year. So, there's no um critique of the district or the teachers or the students in terms of what their score is. Um, in fact, if you have a six, you probably shouldn't be in ESL. Um, so you might you shouldn't. Um so those scores uh are are pretty average for you know what we see every year. Um students are you know working towards those proficiencies in those uh four areas. >> Mr. Mr. Also, I just wanted to say just for people who maybe don't understand the scores of the ESL students
007and scores that often times um it reflects just the complication and the difficulties in the grammatical structure of the difference of the languages. The students may be able to u participate in class discussions fully, but when it comes down to the grammatical structure and testing in black and white just the fact that their verbage is placed differently than the English verbage becomes a problem. I know I've had a number of sections ESL students and that is um something that they struggled with. >> Yeah. >> So you know people looking at it and thinking these kids are in class and can't even speak or communicate. That's not the case. It's just the differences in the languages that cause them problems when it comes down to Thank you. Appreciate that. Yeah. Um, as a district, we continue
008to grow in this area. A couple years ago, we added an ESL teacher at Brerley. Uh, so we have two at Brley, two at Harding. Um, we are focused on uh, SCOP training, which is basically we're making a lot of effort to train our general education teachers. Our our ESL teachers are very strong and doing good work. U, we need to do more work with our general education teachers. uh you know that that social studies teacher or that math teacher who has a student who doesn't speak English in his or her classroom, how to differentiate, how to adjust the curriculum to best serve those students needs is what we're working on. Uh we're also at Harding working on grouping um the students differently moving forward u to best serve our uh MLS moving forward. >>
009Does anyone have any other questions about um this slide? Good job. Um just just to kind of clarify of these 93 students I would a large percentage of them be Spanish speaking students who correct >> yeah that was kind of my question related what do we do for if you have a kid from that speaks Italian I mean do they have the same type of >> education and support and everything else or whatever >> yeah biggest population is Spanish absolutely second biggest is Portuguese >> um but no matter what language you speak when you enter the ESL program, you're receiving the same language instruction with the ESL. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Other questions. >> So, just to follow up then, so as you were mentioning the regular um not the regular but the other
010teachers that are not ESL teachers that there is a a path of you can't sit there and say that this I don't understand this person's language. It's that we are going to teach them English through that. >> Absolutely. >> So there so a teacher could not come back and say I I have a problem. These kids can't. >> No. No. Our teachers don't do that. >> No. just yeah but yes they work very closely with the ESL teachers for support uh and that's why as a district we were trying to support those teachers better moving forward with our sign up training >> but yeah no no teachers >> right I was not accusing teachers I just >> I've been in other districts where that is not >> yes >> um the next bit of data
011is our SSDs report which I do this twice a year so there's a report that comes out in January also one in the summer. Um, so twice a year I report out the data of the student safety data system which tallies all the incidents, programs, and trainings associated with ensuring a safe school environment for all of our students. This first slide shows you the incidents of violence, vandalism, substance use, weapons, HIV confirmed and HIV unconfirmed reports, as well as uh incidents that lead to suspensions. that bottom bar. Um, and you'll notice that it increased last year at number 37. Uh, so there's been an uptick in that. Uh, there's a reason for this. Uh, at both Harding and Breley this past school year, we saw an increase in what we label as negative student interpersonal
012behaviors. Um, students in conflict with each other. This data is emerging in two different places. It's here in the SSDS report um with that bar at the bottom with that number 37 there which shows a pretty big increase from previous years. Um also we gave a survey to our teachers, our parents and our students back in May and June. Um was called the New Jersey School Climate Improvement Survey. Um and we administered this survey. It's interesting that the biggest area of concern flagged by this survey was the student interpersonal behaviors. Essentially, it's students being unkind to each other in the form of name calling, racial slurs, general inappropriate behavior, pushing, kicking, those types of things. Uh we've seen an uptick in that. Um my administrative team has been thinking about this a lot over the
013summer. We're going to be working with our school climate teams in the fall and we're going to be presenting the data of our school climate improvement survey to our faculties at faculty meetings in the fall as well as to the board and to the public in the fall as well. Um what we think um is that there's I think this is the result of what I'm calling the Tik Tok social media effect where foul language, inappropriate behavior, and hate speech are fairly normalized unfortunately and young people are exposed to content and material to mature for their age. Um, they're seeing so much scroll across their screens. That becomes normal and then they go online and these things become even more normal as they're texting and whatnot messaging and then it bleeds over into the cafeteria
014or the playground or the hallway and the gym and then the classroom. And we're seeing that happen and it is not unique to Kendallorth. It's everywhere. Um, but we're seeing what I'm calling this Tik Tok social media effect where just exposed to this material that people maybe weren't exposed to long ago. Um, so that's a concern. Um, and while the second thing that I want to share with you is that while we never want to see the data grow in this area, I think it is important to note that our educators and our school leaders take action when these instances are occurring in our schools. And I think that's one of the silver linings to this data is that this demonstrates that people respond when students or parents bring things to our attention, we take
015action, there are consequences for poor behavior. Um, so yes, there's an uptick, but we're responding to that uptick. Uh, the data demonstrates that there are consequences or choices in appropriate behavior and that inappropriate behavior um that demeans a peer or classmate is not tolerated in our schools. Um, so what are we doing about this though? Uh, I'm looking forward to the split of the middle school, frankly, from the high school, uh, as well as the split of sixth grade away from harding into the middle school. I think we'll be able to better isolate trends in negative student interpersonal behaviors. And with the introduction of a middle school principal who focuses solely on middle school issues where a lot of this happens, uh we're in much better position to target those negative student interpersonal behaviors moving
016forward. So, I appreciate the board's support of hiring a middle school principal because I really do think that person, Miss Pavlech, will be able to truly isolate some of those negative behaviors, many of which happen in those grades sixth and eth. They happen elsewhere, of course, uh, but there's a bulk of it happening at the middle school age where students are being exposed to social media for the first times, and they might not have the brain development yet to deal with what they're seeing, and they don't know how to respond uh to their peers. Um already Miss Pavle is introducing middle school advisory uh in the new middle school where teachers and students will have opportunities throughout the year to focus on character education. This is an extension of the Harding Soore program as well
017as second step hawk of the month hawk assemblies that have been introduced at Harding that reinforce positive behaviors uh at the elementary school. So, we're seeing that continue now up into the middle school and I'm really excited for that because I think we'll see improvement in these areas and we'll see better um data coming out in the future. Additionally, our school climate teams will be sifting through the data of the New Jersey school climate improvement survey that I mentioned a moment ago. The school climate teams uh for the first time will have this data to use to implement targeted programming. They've been meeting over the past several years, but they never had any data to grapple with. And I think the survey that we administered in May June is going to be really helpful for
018them to really target. And that survey came out of Ruckers University. And that group of people were able to work with uh in terms of how to set goals based on this data that best serves the school climate of our buildings. So I'm excited for that to launch uh this fall as well. Any questions about this slide before we move forward? >> I just have a question. as a um >> as a parent of a first ever graduating uh the middle school in June, she will be um is there anything to do to kind of inform the parents because my generation as the parents did not have Tik Tok. So is there something that you know the parents could be aware of? >> Um or an outreach to the parents of showing them you know.
019>> Yeah, I think we can do more education of our parents for sure. Um, I would like to sometimes the genie out of the bottle when you give your kid a phone at a certain age and it's it's getting parents to to join together I think is the key and getting parents to commit to each other that we're not going to give our children a phone until this age or this grade and we're not going to give our children access to social media until this grade or this age. That's a piece of the issue. So, I think doing more education for parents like that would be helpful. Um, it's hard as a parent um to not give your kids those things that every other kid has. You don't want to be the only parent. You
020don't want your kid >> Well, especially with this the our current middle school kids are were in a spot where as a parent you were kind of forced. It's the only way to interact when they were in first, second, and third grade because of co >> Yeah. >> You know that that you know and that's what we're see those kids now are are middle schoolers, >> right? I think well so one thing for the board and the public to be aware of is at the middle school cell phones are now no longer allowed. >> That's great. >> Um we don't want to see them not at lunch, not in the hallway, not in the bathroom, nowhere. Um and what I would what I want to see is that move forward into the high school as
021the middle schoolers currently move forward to the high school. So that's what I'm >> I love that idea. >> And then I think along with that we can educate the parents to tell them why this exists in the schools because this is what's happening. This is and I think honestly our parents know that but it's like how do you stop it? No one knows how to stop it and so I think we parents and school have to join together to stop it >> because it's it's hurting our children. >> It's great. This is really good things. >> Other thoughts or questions about the first slide? >> Is there any repeats from 23 to 24 the same people? >> Yes, big chunk. >> Um it's a good question. Um I wouldn't say a big chunk. There
022are a few repeats in there. Um yes, which we have. Um interesting the state has enacted especially for HIVs. If you're a repeat HIV, the school district now has to implement additional measures to assist that child who's the aggressor in an HIV. You have to do more. We have to do more for that child to intervene if we identify that person as a VP person and that we have seen that. Yes. And we have the same penalty for alleged but not you know people just lying about this incident. I mean, I always was the position of if the person is going to come here and accuse a kid of doing something bad or bullying or name calling and it's not legitimate that the person >> Oh, yeah. Definitely >> should have the same penalty as
023the person if they really committed the bullying. >> With AI, it's very difficult these days to identify what's fake and what's real. Um because people will I mean that's principle I would not know this. They would hand you social media messages that have been doctorred. Um we've had that. So it is difficult but yes I just want to make sure it's always in place. >> The penalties are very stiff for any type of um allegation that comes forth that's fraudulent. >> Okay good. >> The second slide for the SSDS um report mandates that we report out restraints programs and trainings. So you see that our programs are increasing and our trainings are you know relatively stable over time. restraints also had a big uptick and I just want to explain that that's due to um
024some key individuals at the elementary school level um who were who were not identified with special needs and now are being identified with special needs and so our teachers um you know identify who these students are right away and then we spend time with our special education department our BCBA working to identify how to support these children better in the meime time. Sometimes that is a struggle um because we're working with the parent, sometimes not working with the parent to find the best supports for the child and uh sometimes that requires a restraint in the classroom setting or in the hallway. So that's specific to Harding. Any questions about this slide? >> All good. >> All right. So then on to some general announcements. Uh just regarding our construction. Um, if you note, Mr. Ganella
025is not giving an update uh because we have nothing else to say. No. Um, we're we're in fantastic shape. I'm really proud of our district. I'm really proud of um, you know, our custodial staff, our secretaries, our maintenance crew, Mr. Canella, like people have worked really hard to get our buildings ready for the opening on September 8th. It's really exciting. U, it looks fantastic. I can't wait to show it off to the public. I can't wait for back to school nights. I can't wait for tours. We're going to have a grand opening of the middle school on September 8th in the evening. There's so many wonderful things happening. So, just um it's great. Um last week, M, Mr. Ganell, a number of staff members did a quality assurance review of the new wing. We basically
026scrutinized every nook and cranny of that building and identified anything that we thought was not up to snuff uh by putting little pieces of painters tape all over the place. We had our rep from Legacy joining us taking notes, and so they're spending the next week making sure everything looks perfect. Um, our middle school classrooms are not quite ready for teachers to return, but they will be next week. Um, so it'll be a quick turnaround, but um, I think everyone kind of expected that. Um, a note about Harding teachers. Wow. Um, the building looks fantastic. We could open Harding tomorrow. um those classrooms, they they did a phenomenal job and it's just great to see so much energy and excitement coming from our Hardy teachers. The building is ready. A huge thank you to all
027of our 12-month employees as well. As I said, um we're ready to start the school year and excited for that. Um Brley has some clean up to do uh but we'll be ready um on September 8th. A reminder to all parents and students that school for everyone starts on the 8th. That the first day of school is an early dismissal day. So, uh, that's for both buildings, all three buildings, excuse me, early dismissal day on the 8th. Also, the principles have been sending updates to families throughout the summer with supply lists, orientation dates, information on Chromebook distributions, etc. All buildings will be releasing student schedules this week via Genesis. Um, so please check that and you'll get an email when that happens. If you're checking, um, please continue to check email for the latest updates
028from myself. You'll see a lot of communication over the next two weeks. Uh there will also be um the first Friday folder will be distributed Friday, September 12th. And I just want to remind people who are submitting materials to the Friday folder, please make sure Miss Kazimento has your PDF materials by Thursday morning so she can turn that around in time for Friday. In Brillley news, the school counselors ran a successful camp college program two weeks ago. This was the fifth consecutive year running the program. We had close to 40 students working on their college applications and their college essays. So, it was great to see our seniors, our rising seniors in the school building getting ready for the fall. Uh, great feedback from those who uh participated. So, kudos to our school counselors. Um,
029also already, hard to believe, but this Thursday at 6 PM is our first Brley Bears football game. Uh, the 28th, I think it is. Uh, we take on Wallington at home. Uh, so please come out and enjoy our first football game of the season. Uh, our cheer team, our soccer team, uh, our band and, uh, They've all been practicing, so it's going to be a great fall season. Finally, tomorrow the leadership team is participating in our annual leadership team retreat. Um, and in general, there's just a fantastic atmosphere throughout the district. It really is a great energy. Um, that that excitement, energy that happens at the start of a school year is here and present. It's wonderful to feel. Um, so it's going to be a wonderful year and I can't wait to welcome everyone
030back. Um, finally, I'm looking forward to launching strategic planning this fall. Also, as a reminder, we're looking for community involvement. I encourage all stakeholders to consider contributing your voice and thoughts as we design our strategic plan for the next five years. The first strategic planning meeting is October 8th at 6:30 p.m. and then there's one November 12th and one December 3rd. So, I encourage everyone to um think about participating and contribute to your That's all for my report. Thank you for your time. >> Anyone have questions? >> I just have one for Vince. I think Ryan asked on um communications with the finance committee about a punch list. Is that what you guys did? >> Um we did we did more of a aesthetic punch list. The the architects are doing a separate punch list.
031The multiple engineers are doing a separate punch list. Uh and then our construction managers also doing a punch list. So there's multiple punch lists. Um so but you know we found a lot of things that they might not have found. Um >> you know you go through six people who six or seven >> seven of us who you know were just like like really looking at things you know so we found a lot. >> Did we address the wood stripping behind that front desk? >> It's not fixed but it's the list. >> Okay. >> So the second question lots of green tape all over it. So the the question is when you brought up Chromebooks, I mean with during negotiations um last year with the um secretaries and aids, there was an issue with um
032giving the the Chromebooks to one of the secretaries and she was kind of deal with all the issues. Do we put anything in place where that's not happening anymore? That may have happened at the end of last year or the end of this year. I'm not sure. >> Yeah, we we streamlined our uh acceptance of a device process in the main office. So a secretary still accepts a device from a student, but that now has a form. The student fills out the form. >> The secretary simply takes the form, takes the device, puts it in a box, and now the IT department comes. So it's not the responsibility of the secretary to to fix a computer. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. D >> questions. >> Yeah, I guess it's might be more for Vince um
033or maybe for Jeremy. So is there anything of significance ing that maybe the finance and facilities committee could get a tour over there of things that have been improved upon, you know, since last year because, you know, we always get a tour of this building, but I thought we spent a significant amount of money over there and we never tour what's being done over there. So, I'd like to do that. Yeah, sure. Possible. >> Sure. Yeah. Maybe maybe we have our we have our meeting u for our next meeting. Maybe we'll switch that to a Wednesday night and we'll do We'll start. We'll do it over there. >> The committee meeting can meet there. Yeah. >> Yeah. Okay. >> That's a good idea. >> Yeah. It's great. >> It's a good point. And they they've
034had significant improvements over there as well. Um >> Auditorium is fantastic. Playgrounds. We got the preschool classrooms coming up. >> STEM room is new. >> Yeah. For sure. Any questions? >> Thank you. Superintendent Dies will now move on to report of committee review resolutions and board discussion. Mr. Lady, finance facility negotiations. >> Hi, good evening. Um, the final the final weeks of summer have been busy and the team is uh preparing um for the start of the school year. Mr. Ganell and Mr. Davies have advised that we are in excellent shape for the return of the students on September 8th. transportation, cafeteria services, facility preparations are coming together and um we expect a smooth opening operationally u from an operational standpoint. Um it's all I have on that tonight. Um the facilities and finance um
035resolutions include approval of various reports, plans, contracts to ensure that we're fully um positioned for the start of the school year. Um since there were this is not a a really end of the month report um there was no financials to review and to report out on thank goodness for once. Um and that's really I there's 10 resolutions I recommend approval of each for the facilities and finances. >> Thank you. Anyone have questions about resolutions? >> Okay. Up next Mr. Hther. Personnel and management. >> Thank you. There are nine resolutions tonight. Uh resolution 11 is the acceptance of res resignation of a classroom aid. Resolution 12 is the approval to hire a human resources secretary. Resolution 13 is a leave replacement. Resolution 14 is the approval of 20 school year 2526 par profofessional lunch aids.
036Resolution 15 approves change in salaries um for um for staff who have completed required courses and submitted their verifications. Uh resolution 15 sorry 16 that was 15. Resolution 16 is the approval of additional teaching sections for school year 2526. Resolution 17 is the approval of a transfer of a staff member. Resolution 18 is the approval of co-curricular stipend positions for the 256 school year. And last but not least, resolution 19 is the approval of substitute staff. And that is it. >> Anyone with questions about any of the motions for personnel and management? >> Just with number 12, is it necessary to have a secretary specifically for that person's position? we don't have enough secretaries that they could handle the duties that would be handled. >> So um yes it is necessary. Um we as you
037know reduced our administrative uh staff. Um, and in that transition, we've moved and created the new position of a human resources director. >> And having that director have that person who supporting all of the paperwork that comes along with the hiring, the background checks, the certifications, all of those things uh was deemed an essential piece of that new role uh for that new administrator. >> Okay. Anyone any other questions? Personnel manager. Okay, I don't see any motions for curriculum instruction. So, we will now move on to old business. Any old business? As always, like to remind David had raised his hand. >> I'm sorry. >> Yeah. Well, I mean, you could have gone. That's fine. Um, question I guess again for probably Vince um and maybe Jeremy. I know that we talked about having the
038student handbook updated for in my terms abusing the facilities. Um did that happen? >> It did. Yeah, it's already happened. So all the uh student handbooks that each of the buildings Harding Middle School and high school have been updated to include specifically talking about driving motorbikes across the turf >> um you know littering things like that. And then each of the principles is having the grade level assemblies at the beginning of the year. And that's a piece that's embedded into their presentation to all the kids. Trying to also like promote pride in your school district, pride in your town, in your community, not just, you know, the punishment if this happens, but like, hey, take care of things. If you see something, pick it up. >> We also worked with our athletic teams um in
039terms of, you know, this is your home, this field, this is your space. um when you get there, if you see that there's litter, the team is now picking it up and as they leave, they're also check checking it out and picking it up. So, there's been some efforts made in that department, specifically the teams to take on more of like a prideful feel for their home. >> Yeah. And and that's great. Um, I started to walk the track the last few weeks and so I'm obviously observing a lot of stuff and one of the things I guess again more to Vince is I know there's a sign when you come in to the facilities or the field from 14th Street. In my opinion, the sign has a lot of stuff on it and then
040there's one line about, you know, not having bikes, you know, strollers, whatever. And it's difficult to see. So quite frankly, I think we need signs. >> There's good, if I could, but we're already in the process of putting signs on each one of the entrances to the track. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay. The track is That's what I was going to say. >> The track is our concern. It's not so much the the the ashvault. >> People are going to put bring their strollers and bikes and stuff like so once they So, we are going to have entrance and we're actually going to be locking the larger gates >> um um and forcing people to go to the the two or three smaller gates to go onto the track. Um so and there specific sign
041nothing with wheels basically. Um bikes, scooters, rollerblades, roller skates, motorized bikes, anything. So >> yeah. No, that's that's fantastic. That was obviously going to be my recommendation because you walk by that and people are coming in from different areas. They're not going to see that. But >> you know there's a lot of offenders. You know, as I was walking the other night, you know, there was a two two women, a little girl who was with the the two women. She's climbing the fence. I mean, and they're just ignoring it. Meanwhile, there's two little boys riding their bikes who were also with the two women. So, I I confronted them in a nice way and just said, you know, like, you know, that there's no bikes. They said, first of all, you shouldn't be climbing on
042a fence, you get hurt, and in addition, you know that there's no bikes allowed on the track. So, they they were nice. They said, Thank you. And you know they stop the behavior. But right >> it would be better if we have signs. I don't want to confront them. >> I've I've confronted quite a few students and asked them to take their bikes off and each time you know they say we're sorry. I said you know why we're doing this. Actually Angela just did it today. Another another another kid was out there and yeah we probably using the you know hurting this the turf. Exactly. So they get it. They but now once the principles hopefully send that message it will be understood that there's could be some consequences. >> Yeah. I mean, if you
043do the um you know, whatever audi in the auditorium the and let the kids know that that's fantastic. >> Parents can be responsible for the damage, right? >> Correct. >> Got to emphasize that also. >> That's a good point. Yeah. >> Let the parents know, hey, if you're paying for it, >> million dollars. We want it tomorrow. >> Sell your house. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, Greg. Um old business. We just want to continue to remind everyone to please check our websites, Instagrams, social media pages for information. If you have any questions, everything should be on the website and then the Friday folders coming back will be helpful for all the parents to get the appropriate information and reach out to your building level principles if you have concerns um and need support.
044>> Evan, old business. >> Sure. >> Um where are we any updates since two weeks ago on the preschool program, but we're still out there? >> Yes, thank you for that reminder. So, we're having a preschool uh Zoom uh this Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. Mr. Bubnowski sent an email out today to all the people who've registered for preschool. Um whether you're on the waiting list or um have a seat for sure. Uh he sent an email out to all preschool parents saying um to talk through the logistics of how preschool is going to look and all the ins and outs of it. Uh so that Zoom is happening this Wednesday. Um so thank you for that reminder. Anyone else business? Business. Just like to wish everybody a great opening of schools. It's a lot of
045work. We've been working really hard. Everyone, there's too many people to name in the school community. Put a lot of effort into going back to school. It's a very exciting time and um we hope that people and students are excited and the board wants everyone to have a great year and we're going to continue to support those efforts for the students and team members. Okay. Any other new business comments? >> Okay. We're now going to open up the meeting to the public for comment. Can I have a motion, please? >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. David, seconded by Mr. Ferrero. All those in favor of opening the meeting to the public, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Mr. Ganella. >> Yes. Public uh comment is
046will now be accepted. The board of education sets a limit to for the public to speak at board meetings to five minutes per person unless prior permission has been granted by the board of education for extended time pursuant to BOE policy uh bylaw 0167. Please be reminded that while members of the board of the public may speak on personnel matters during public comment, the board of education is legally prohibited from discussing individual personnel issues in public session unless the employee at issue has requested a public discussion. Board's role is set uh the board's role is to set policy and ensure the effective operations of our schools. While personnel recommendations are the exclusive responsibility of the superintendent of schools, the board reviews um and acts on those recommendations in accordance with state law and district policy
047but does not uh initiate, manage or uh individual staffing decisions. >> Thank you. Is there any public that wishes to comment at this time? >> No. Okay. Thank you. Uh seeing none, can I have a motion to close? >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. David, seconded by Mr. Viner. All those in favor of closing and meeting the public, please say I. >> Opposed? Eyes have it. Motion carries. Mr. Ganella, can we please have a roll call of resolutions? >> There are uh 19 resolutions on this evening's agenda. Do any of those need to be voted on separately? Okay. This is for resolutions then 1 through 19 on the agenda. >> Biner. >> Yes. Crinkley, I'm sorry. Biner, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. >> Ferrara, >> yes. >> Haber, >> yes. >> Lady, >>
048yes. >> Zimmerman, >> yes. >> Kenichi, >> yes. >> Motions carry unanimously. >> Okay. Thank you. Do we have a need to go into close executive session? >> Okay. At this time, we'd like to thank everyone for coming and ask for a motion to adjurnn. Please move. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Ferrer, seconded by Mr. David. All those in favor of adjourning, please say I. I opposed. Eyes have it. Motion's carried. We are now adjourned. Thank you so much for attending. >> I look too relaxed.