001like to open up the meeting to the public. We had a technical concern we worked through. We've already done the pledge and we've already uh read the open public meeting statement and took our roll call. At this time, we will now have the receiving of the minutes and committee notes of the secretary from July 14, 2025, finance and facilities committee meeting and July 14, 2025 regular board of education meetings. Can I please have a motion to accept the minutes and the committee notes of the secretary? >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Ferrer, seconded by Mr. Biner. All those in favor, please say I. >> Oppose. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Mr. Mr. Ganella, do we have any public correspondence? >> Yes, we have a couple items. We have a candidate list for the November
0024th, 2025 school board election and we have a letter dated July 24th from U. Executive County Superintendent Daryl Palm Mary to Mr. Davies regarding the 202526 remote instruction plan. >> Okay, thank you. Can I please have a motion to accept the monthly correspondence? >> So move. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Haber, seconded by Mr. Ferrer. All those in favor of accepting the monthly correspondence, please say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Eyes have it. Motion carries. Thank you very much. We will now move on to superintendent reports and presentations. Superintendent Davies. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. Uh I'm excited tonight. We normally don't have a student spotlight in the summer, but we do tonight. And Mr. Bubnowski is here to recognize Kyle Nicholas uh and his accomplishments of achieving the Eagle Scout and his
003work on the Eagle Scout project. So, Mr. Bonowski. >> Good evening everyone. It is my pleasure to be here tonight um because Kyle chose to do his Eagle Scout project at Harding School. Um in order to become an Eagle Scout, you need to do a service project that exhibits your leadership. So, um Kyle certainly did that. And without further ado, I'm going to allow him to come up here and share with you what he did for his Eagle Scout project. Kyle Nicholas from Troop 83. [Applause] >> Good afternoon everybody. Um I have I made a poster. So my Eagle Scout project, I'm sure many of you have seen it just by driving by ele the elementary school. It's a bike repair station. So it's this blue um repair station with a uh bike pump on
004the side. And the reason I chose this project, which I think is the most important reason uh part of the project is because I was also a student at elementary school and I grew up in this town and I was always riding my bike around town and I always thought, oh, like if I broke broke a piece of my bike, I would always uh need my dad to come help me fix it or I need to go back and fix it or have to walk home with the with a broken bike or just no air in my tires. And I thought that this would be a great project because I see a lot of kids riding around town, especially the fair is happening right now. A lot of kids are riding their bikes to the
005fair. And um I thought it'd be a great project to allow these kids to learn their independence and also just fix their bikes without having um all this trouble of going home and all that kind of stuff and just allow kids a lot more opportunity of uh independence. So, my project came in, uh, three steps. I want to just walk you through it so you have got so you guys have an idea of what I actually did. So, uh, step one was obviously planning it out. I planned out a lot with Mr. Bnowski and we figured out the spot we wanted to put it and I figured out um, the supplies I would need. And then when we actually came together and started uh, making the project, we had to dig out all we had
006to excavate the uh, the land. So dig out the grass and all the dirt and make a frame for the uh for this concrete slab. Then pour we poured all the concrete or we poured all the uh the gravel and we put a a wire mesh so it could hold the uh concrete more uh stable so it wouldn't be moving around in the in the grass and wouldn't be able to stick to something. So then we poured the concrete and we had a lot of people came out which was great. And then uh next came smoothing and cleaning. We wanted to make sure we left the land because as scouts we learned to leave stuff better than we as we left as we found it. So we uh wanted to make sure we cleaned everything
007up, make sure we cleaned all the tools out um and cleaned all the dirt and every all the debris we uh we uh created with by digging out everything. Um and then just covering it and drying it, which uh was like the longest process I would say. It just it took a few days and we couldn't do any work that day. Um and then after it all dried, we were able to beautify it. We planted uh grass and put top soil. So because as we dug everything out, we uh we defaced kind of the land around it. So we wanted to fix that up and leave it better. So we planted grass and uh put tops soil on top of it. And then the last part was just installing the bike repair station and the
008uh pump, which all came out very well. And I'm uh I'm glad to help the community and to provide this uh for all the students and all the people in town. >> Thank you all. Thank you. >> Thank you. Kyle did a great job presenting. Um, Troop 83 here in town of Kennallorth have a a history of producing many Eagle Scouts every year, which is a pretty grand accomplishment considering only about four to six% of all scouts get to the rank of Eagle Scout. And I feel like every year, Troop 83 um produces two or three Eagle Scouts a year, which is a pretty grand accomplishment. And now Kyle joins those ranks. Uh as in my tenure at Harding School, I have had the fortune opportunity to work with three different Eagle Scouts that did
009Eagle Scout projects on the property. We had um seating area around the playground, which is still there. We have the PA planter around the the Harding sign, which is there. And now we have our bike uh repair station. So uh Kyle, in recognition of your Eagle Scout service project, I want to thank you for your leadership and uh your commitment uh to scouting. And I want to present you with this. [Applause] >> Uh thank you, Mr. Bubnowski. Kyle, thank you very much for your work to support our community and to support the youth. Um can you just real quick um tell us a little bit about yourself? You went to Harding. Um where did you end up and and where you headed next? If you could just um share with that with the board. >>
010Yeah, of course. Um so I grew up in town obviously. Um I came up through elementary school here, uh middle school, and then I left uh to go to um UCDS, so I didn't go to high school here, but I went middle school and elementary school here. Um I've been through Boy Scouts my entire life. My brother started Boy Scouts when he was uh young. So I was even in it when I wasn't officially a Cub Scout, but I was still doing all this stuff. My dad was my then leader. Um so uh that's kind of just ran in the family doing Boy Scouts, which was really great. So I've been through it my whole entire life. So it's nice to be here and uh presenting as an Eagle Scout because I've been there uh
011right from the beginning and now I'm all the way up here. Um, and uh, yeah, so later I'm going to a college next year. I'm going to Louisiana State University. I'm going to study marketing. Um, and my goal um, just in life in general is to make my the start my own business, which I intend to use my marketing degree to uh, start a franchise and branch off and start my own business and uh, hopefully make something myself that way. That's my plans. Yeah. >> Wonderful. I appreciate you sharing that with us. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh Mr. Bubnowski, would you mind posing for a picture with Kyle? Um thank you very much. And we'll just if you actually wouldn't move the uh podium aside and >> thank you very much. Thank you
012again, Kyle. Appreciate all your work. >> Congratulations. >> Yes, congratulations, too. Um, next up we have uh Miss Hipel here uh as our director of curriculum and Miss Hypel is going to be presenting to us the um standardized test scores specifically for NJ GPA. >> Thank you. >> scores >> you want to >> Oh yes, >> thank you. >> You can stay, but you're more than welcome. Thank you. >> Um so we have our NJ GPA results as well as our AP scores. Um, and just so that everyone is aware, we also have NJSLA scores, which we just recently received from the state, so we don't have that information out yet. That'll be a separate presentation coming out in probably September. >> Jeremy just stole my first slide, which was tonight's focus is the two
013spring assessments for NJPA, which is the graduation readiness assessment for ELA and math, um, and our AP results. In September, we will return with our NJSLA and WEDA scores to complete the year's assessment picture. Um, all right. So, we will jump right in. Um, the overview of the GPA. This is the same like we just said, it's the readiness in ELA and math for all of our students. Our 11th grade students take this test every spring. Um, here are the results of the percentages of students who are graduation ready versus not graduation ready. You can take a peek. um 80% in ELA are graduation ready and 47% in math are graduation ready. That being said, we want to remind you that NJGPA is only one piece of the data towards graduation. When you take the
014other options for graduation ready, such as the PSAT and the SAT scores, which are also qualifiers, there's an additional 22 students ready in math, which brings us up past 62% for our students, and an additional 10 in ELA, which brings us up past 86% um graduation ready, and that we haven't even counted in yet the SAT scores. So, that's just a piece of the picture. We want to make sure that that's clear. Um this is the state comparison. So across all of New Jersey, the average scaled scores are on the top and then on the bottom are the repeated graduation ready percentages um of the state versus the Kennallorth district. um we are very close to the state average in ELA and for math as noted we are a little lower but also to build
015a fuller picture only 58% of students in the whole state are graduation ready in math we as a team see this as a part of a larger picture with some of these assessments this is the NJ GPA across time um some years cohorts traditionally are a little stronger or a little weaker um in testing than others and this is one of those years. Um we continue to work towards steady improvement across all of the cohorts. If I move too quickly and somebody wants me to pause, just please let me know. >> Um when students do not pass the NJGPA, like I said, there's other options for qualifiers of how for the state of New Jersey they become graduation ready. So we give them the option number one to retake the NJGPA in the fall. Um
016and that will also take a whole bunch of students will qualify there and then they can be enrolled in our portfolio class and when our students go through our portfolio class um we have one of the teachers here they all pass um and graduate if they are wanting to graduate through that. So we have multiple pathways for all of our students to become graduation ready. The next two slides disagregate the results by subgroup. Um, this is to help us pinpoint where we can look at some of our strengths and gaps and where to direct some extra supports and resources to ensure equity and growth. So, here's one. I know it's so small. Um, I'm happy to uh give you um you guys can take a look at this if you want to in another um
017way. So, this is just um all the different subgroups for ELA and then this was math. So again, we look at it to see are there any particular groups that we need to put some more focus around. Um so obviously we look at these results again we take this in conjunction with all of our other tests. Um but we know that this year we're continuing to prioritize math preK to 12 through various curriculum updates through instructional shifts and hoping for some strong parent relationships. Um some examples we have up here of other things we're doing. We're launching the new math program in elementary and middle school to strengthen some of the foundational skills to ensure the kids are ready as they move through our whole program. We're extending time on literacy and math. There's a
018double ELA period in six, seven, and eight, and there's an extended math period in grades six, and seven, which is going to help us in our new math program to allow time for differentiated workstations. Um, in high school math, we're continuing to use the reveal program and we're making sure to align our pre and post assessments and using this data um to take a look at again where we can support our students. And we provide targeted professional development. A group of our students um our teachers are going to conquer math again this year. A group of our high school student uh teachers are eager to go, which is exciting. >> And Miss Ciple, before we get to >> Oh, sorry. Yep. It jumped right to APs. Uh just a note too um I think for
019the board to know and for the public to know that our teachers are partnering with us with this data in ways u that maybe we haven't in the past and I'm I'm excited for that. Um a couple of them are here tonight um that have been working with us to look at data and I think um I want the board to know that we're as a as a full team um shining a light on this data to try to you know make the most of it and try to utilize the data as best we can to improve instruction. Um, so it's it feels good to have um strong partnerships between administrators and teachers. >> I won't embarrass the teachers who, but it just happened to be that two um two teachers emailed me today and
020they a picture of them sitting by the pool going through one of the new math program books like just to show me like, yay, we're getting so excited. So there's a lot of buzz, there's a lot of positivity, and I think we are moving um I know we are moving uh in a great direction. So that's it for NJGPA. >> Just one quick question that we talked about. So we know what our our teams are doing and we've talked about the parental component. >> Where are we with that and what parental support we're offering and what is kind of our dates action plan, right? Because that was something we talked about that we need to help um create those opportunities for beyond the school day to help the parents with their kids at home. So,
021um, as you guys know, I've done a ton of research on parent engagement and trying to make some shifts. One of the biggest thing that has come out of all of the research is no matter what research says about what works with parent engagement, there is no one-sizefits-all. It must fit our community. So one of the very very very first things we're doing at the elementary school and at the middle school when we launch the new programs are we are asking the parents what do you need from us? I can see from research like some things that work in with different populations and with different places but I need to know from our community and our parents what do you want from me? Do you want monthly meetings? Do you want teachers to be presenting?
022Do you want to learn the strategies? Do you want to learn the games? Um, you know, a lot of the research is showing what's happened is that we are still teaching our children differently than our generations of parents learned math, right? And so there's this huge sort of disconnection with how we're teaching kids math in school and then we when the, you know, children go home, the conversations that they're having with their parents. And so I really want to make sure that parents feel supported and that they have the tools that if they choose to support their children at home that they can. Also built into the new math programs because of this and knowing how important parent partnerships are. There are things built in. There's videos, there's recaps, there's all sorts of different things
023that used to not be in math programs now to help connect the parents in. So they will be hearing a lot from us about opportunities. I can't say exactly what other than we will give them the opportunities that they ask for and we'll throw a lot at them this year what exactly it looks like. Um that letter is going home I think in August with the survey and so I'll find out um and start you know planning the exact steps but there will be um >> yeah we also want to engage like we um at Harding Elementary School specifically we had a successful spooky story night last year in which Miss Hyple um the students went off and read with some of our first responders in classrooms. It was a great event and Miss Hyple
024did a tutorial with parents in the cafeteria. We want to replicate that in some capacity for um math um so that students are engaged. There's basically free babysitting involved because you know parents have a lot going on. uh we just want to bring the kids out and the parents out so that there's opportunities >> and those are some of the roadblocks we've talked about right do people will people be more likely to come if we are saying bring your children will provide child care are they more likely to come in the evening in the morning and go late to work if they're working so um or all of the above do we should we videotape everything and send it out and just the whole gamut so a lot of thought is going into it um
025and that will all be solidified in the beginning of the year. Can >> of course >> um this is for um board or uh superintendent Davids. How long has um pathway one been the NJ uh GPA? >> Which one was pathway one? Hold on. >> NJ has NJ GPA >> been the the test? >> I think it was in 2019. >> So not the point I'm trying to make is not a long time. >> No, it's a fairly new >> It's a fairly new test. you're going to see lower result in any fairly new >> test started in that time releasing it only to 11th graders as the exit exam but they change it all the time right and so >> you know it is an exit exam but it hasn't been around that >>
026that's why they state allows that retake >> for the test >> fence can you go back I think it's the previous slide had the 23 20 yeah that one >> well that's because that was after >> the number for 2023 >> such a high number is because of postcoid 76%. >> Yeah. >> And there's no data. We don't have data for 2022 or 2021 because of >> COVID. >> So you're you're basically talking about that's the reason >> that's basically our starting point is 2023. >> Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Anybody else have questions? was 2023 that was 2022. >> It it did count in 2023. >> This year it did count. >> There was that 2022 I think. >> Right. So it was hard for not being accountable for two years to then shifting
027back for them from the learning model from home to now re-engage them and also having them sit for a test, you know. So there's a lot of factors along which everybody I think feels uh across the board from the state, not just us. >> Yeah. Okay. Um so now we wanted to talk about and celebrate some of the AP scores and some things that um have happened. This is obviously another piece of the data. Um, so as you guys know, but just in case anyone does know, the AP courses, advanced placement courses are college level courses where we expose students to the rigor of college work um, while potentially enabling that enabling them to gain some college college credit or course placement in their colleges while they're still in high school. So that's what an
028AP course is. Brley offered last year 13 AP courses. We had 11 teachers um, teaching them. And if you take a look here, every year since we have been working on our AP since 2021, um we have some great scores to highlight that 94% of our students last year received a score of a three or above. This is wonderful thing to celebrate. Um and some other highlights of success are obviously across the past few years the average scores continue to rise across the courses. more students that is happening because more students are getting fours and fives. Um we have really high expectations for students enrolling in APs and we're making sure that the students that are in the APs have the prerequisites and the knowledge and skills and really want to be successful in these
029courses. Um, and our teachers do continue to engage in readings around APs and AP summer institutes and um, get together to continue to make sure that these courses are bringing the level of rigor for our students that we want uh, to prepare them for the test um, so that they can get the credit. Anecdotally, I I'll add to I've received two emails this summer from parents of of recent graduates who have said that their children are entering college basically as sophomores >> um because of their work in the AP program in high school at David Brley um that they've been basically able to bypass a lot of the prerec courses um because of their AP scores being what they are, fours and fives. Uh so when you have passing scores and um we've now moved
030into a place where we're really doing well with 94% of our students um achieving uh a passing score that's really beneficial and it translates into dollars um literally if you're a collegebound student because you can get rid of some of those prerec courses and um advance yourself quicker in college. So, just for the public to know that, I think it's important. A lot of folks who have elementary school children might not know what AP is, advanced placement, college board. Those are terms that are a little foreign, but it it does pay off to work hard throughout elementary school, middle school, and into high school because that can set you up for success in college. So, >> and next year we're bringing back AP Bio um which is something that a lot of students had showed
031um you know an interest in um as kids are continuing to be interested in the sciences as you know we're adding a couple courses too. So there's a couple math too that students across the board have been doing well in I'll share which just came out this week. So it's like a good if students want to take it right you can give them the course and they're performing well on it. The college board released a lot about that. So it would be good. >> Great. Any questions about either of our spring assessments? or >> I can't answer that because I have all the charts and the tracking. >> Yes. I'm just curious to have >> we have added a couple new courses across the years, right? AP research. Um, we have also the other part
032of that that bullet where it says the high expectations for students enrolling in APs. Some of the feedback, you know, we had received from some of the teachers was um, you know, we want children to push themselves and want to be in APS, but we have to make sure the children are ready for that level of work. If we're also saying to the teachers, we want you to be increasing the rigor, right, to make sure that these kids are successful, we have to make sure they have the prerequisites and the skills in order to be successful in some ways. So, I think it's sort of been um, you know, working together. >> Absolutely. There might be some of that, but I think one of the things that I'm proud about with that 94% is our
033our enrollment in AP has remained consistent. >> So, it's not like we're telling kids not to do it and our scores are rising. >> Right. Right. Right. Right. >> They're Yeah. Uh we can do a little bit deeper of a dive but we are seeing yeah we are seeing the scores rise in specific courses taught by the Other questions for >> Missid I don't necessarily need the slides but I didn't want to see it's too small spending time on the um slides detail breakdown. >> Yeah we can send that to >> Y I'll send that to the board tomorrow. >> Right. Anyone have any questions >> for Sam? >> No questions. Okay. Thank you, Sam. >> Thank you. >> Um, all right. Uh, next in our presentation uh list is Mr. Ganella with the latest
034referendum projects update. Um, just so that the public knows, I'm very thrilled to use that word, thrilled where we are, uh, with our timeline. Um, you know, whenever you have a construction project, you're worried about being on time. And we have the start of school coming up. Uh, students report on September 8th, teachers report on September 3rd. Uh, we will be ready, and that's, uh, very relieving for me to say, and also exciting, uh, that we're going to be ready for the start of the school year. U,, we just took a tour of the facility with the full board. Um, and Mr. Gell is going to provide us with the latest, uh, updates. >> Okay. Uh good evening everyone. Um closing in on the uh possibly it'll probably do a September version of this and
035that's it uh until we decide what to do uh with other projects. So uh there will be some more things to to consider. Um so addition um other than uh a door we have the glazing is complete. The mechanical electrical plumbing other than the connection to the labs lab equipment the that is complete. Um uh painting other than the final coning uh is complete. Floor installation in that section of the building is complete. The metal panning installation I know they were working on it this weekend. Uh we did have contractors, multiple trades in here on both Saturday and Sunday this past week. So that was nice to see. And the final cleaning is in progress and will continue to be in progress. Uh furniture for uh various sections of the building uh the new addition
036will be uh on site this week. Uh starting tomorrow, we'll start receiving some of those items um including the uh uh the multi-purpose room um furniture, which will be cafeteria tables. Uh so in there, the uh air handling unit uh duct installation uh is installed, and I think we we saw that on our tour. That's pretty cool to see those big uh giant duct systems hanging off the ceiling. Uh light fixtures are complete. The window installation is complete. Uh, and the gym floor is brand spanking nice and clean and very bright. It's a very nice inviting space. If anyone had been in the black gym prior to this, it was not a very inviting uh space. Uh, functional, yes, but not very inviting. I think this uh definitely has transformed it into a very uh
037uh open and inviting uh space that the middle schoolers will uh not only have gym in uh but and but gather in the morning and have their lunch in as well. Uh and then in the lobby uh we put some um wood grill and the baffle system. Baffl system is takes care of some of the uh sound uh deadening in that space. Uh we did have a reception for the teacher of the year here in June. Um retirees actually in June. No, teacher of the year is in there, right? And it was a little noisy. And now you could see that with the baffles, it's a very completely very completely different type of uh uh environment. And with, you know, several hundred kids moving through that space uh on a daily basis, you're going to
038need some sound deadening uh uh components there. um area D and uh B the auditoriums uh the cloud installation um uh has been complete. Uh that really made the room really pop I think. Um it not only does have an aesthetic appeal to it but it does also have the same impact on the acoustics as well. uh flooring in the middle school. Um the current uh middle school on the second floor, the abatement uh was complete and the flooring installation in the classrooms is complete and they're now working on the hallways. Uh and that will be complete probably by the end of this week. I can see them not they might want to push off to the weekend just so they're by themselves. Uh which is a possibility, but they were up there doing work
039uh this today as well. uh ceiling ceiling grid installation in the classrooms is uh in progress as well as the light installation uh and the doors uh into the hallway for the new classrooms is also complete. So we are moving quite rapidly to completion um uh and you can see here some of the um um pictures that we'll have uh for for us to review. Uh you can see the top uh leftand corner is the facade of the uh new new addition. Uh things that are missing there are the sunscreens which are going to be several weeks possibly even months out uh due to uh manufacturing delays. Uh the soccer field obviously is not to the condition that we want to see it in. Um and we've been working with the contractor to try to
040rectify that uh uh uh issue. You can see the uh name of David Burley is prominently displayed on the uh uh entryway there. Um the next picture is one of the science labs um with its polished concrete floor uh and its new uh new uh uh lab tables. Uh another picture on the bottom is another picture of the full facade um showing the both the first and the second floor additions. Um, next picture is one of the uh science lab prep rooms. The next is the STEM room on the second floor. Uh, and those rooms look very different even today. So, these were taken last week. You know, even as you go through these classrooms this week, they're very look very different. There's no debris throughout them and they're nice and clean. Um, there's a
041picture of the back gym. the first two pictures up and down on the uh uh left side of the screen. Um I threw in there the new prek K uh playground at Harding School. That's along uh 18th Street there. Um that just started uh was put in last week. Um they still have to come back and do the surfacing and put a couple more uh adjacent uh components to the the playground, but that looked like a fun space. I took a look at it today. Mr. Baski, did you see it? >> You going to have fun out there? Are you going to have fun out there? >> Good. Uh, next picture is uh one of the renovated classrooms. So, this was one of the rooms that we took a larger classroom on the second floor.
042Most likely, this was a science lab that we cut in half uh to allow for another uh double the amount of u middle school classrooms that we have up there. Um and with the new flooring um new walls and the ceiling grid is in place but without ceiling tile and lighting. Uh then you come down to the um middle uh bottom row. That's the lobby with the acoustical panel and the wood grill going up. It's pretty much done. They need to do come back and do some punch work uh uh items on that. Literally they were in there today finishing that up. Uh and then the next picture is the brand new hallway with its luxury vinyl tile uh on the second floor in the middle school. Um that will run throughout the old edition
043of the um high school of the middle school second floor. Uh cost breakdowns. Um we are uh project number one's 100% complete. The HVAC project we are uh finalizing punch list items there. There's still about 230,000 outstanding there. The addition project, we still have about 31 uh or 3.2 million there. We're about 82% complete there. Uh and don't forget this is there's about a month delay here on the pay apps to where the actual progress is. Um so we're much much closer to uh more than 82% at this point. Uh auditorium seating is 100%. uh lab um the labs are um uh going quite well as well. Those those are the lab tables, the lab um uh cabinetry along the walls uh as well as the art room. So, uh that's about it. I think
044hope you enjoyed the tour. Um you know, there's still work to be done. Uh we still got to get in there with do our quality control inspections. um manufacturers have to come out take a look at uh make sure everything was done to warranty specifications. So uh whether it be roofing or windows or something like that where you know we want those warranties bees in warranties to be intact. So we have to come back and make sure that things are properly installed so we maintain those warranties. So um plus all the little little nicks here or there have to be addressed as well. So anyone have any questions? No. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Ganella. Um, again, very exciting stuff. I'm really, really happy with where things are, and I think the community
045is going to enjoy um seeing their support come to fruition. The kids are going to have a a wonderful experience in all of our spaces from Harding up to to the high school. And um just an exciting time for our district. So, so thank you. Just a reminder that we're going to be doing a um grand opening of the middle school wing on September 8th in the evening. That's the first day of school. So, we thought it'd be a good evening to do a grand opening. So, all are invited to that. A couple other things uh in my superintendence report. Um excited to welcome back Maline Pavleek. She's the new principal of the middle school. Uh she came back from maternity leave last week, so it's good to have her back. uh she reached out
046to our parent community. So hopefully all of our parents checked their email from the middle school. She also reached out to our faculty um introducing herself as the new principal. So that was exciting. Uh fall sports started today with football and cheer. So we're already there um turning the corner in the summer to the fall. Um soccer starts next week. Uh also camp college that everyone knows uh which is a program our school counselors offer to our rising seniors. Camp College starts tomorrow. It's an opportunity for our seniors to come in to school early and get a head start on all the applications and all the stuff they have to do for college admissions. So, we have over 30 students coming tomorrow and Wednesday. Um, and lastly, the uh carnival is ongoing. It's great to
047partner with the community. The uh fire department and the rescue squad have their um carnival in our parking lot. So, it's great to see that action going on. So, I encourage everyone to attend. Um board in your um packet are the typical uh paperwork uh the enrollment report, the residency report, the HIB report. There's not much going on with student discipline in July. There's not much going on with HIVs in July. There's none to report. Resolution number 26 uh on the agenda is the HIB um resolution. You're basically approving in resolution 26 that there were no investigations in June because there were none. Uh so that concludes my report. If you have any questions, please let me know. Otherwise, thank you very much. >> On new registration, so he's 26 new registrations and then 14
048out. So that's like a net 12. But is that 15 I mean the 15 for um pre-registration. Is that included in the new registrations for 26 or >> you're talking about the plus 15 under 3F? >> Yeah, >> that is because of the prek program. So, we had a lottery uh for those who registered. Um they're not going to be starting the school year in September, but we have them in a 26 come from all the grades in the district or where it says new registrations 26. Am I reading that correct? >> Yeah, those are students who are moving >> moving into town. So, so we're a net 12 kids. Okay. >> Yeah. As of as of this day, I guarantee I guarantee you there's going to be more kids transferring out than from now
049from here on. More out than in. >> More out than in probably because that usually doesn't happen. Usually I have to well not complaint the question I asked in September is always, >> you know, suddenly we get a burst of kids coming in here after, you know, September, you know, in September. Um I always ask for residency checks on those, but okay. So we're in net 12 so far. Are you think we're going to lose kids coming out or >> just just the way just the way the uh transfer process works in the state >> people register >> and part of the registration process. So so like these 26 people registered and if they have never been part of a school district before >> uh or if they are currently in a school district that
050they come and register here and then we request a transfer card. >> Okay. Gotcha. And that could take, you know, especially this time of year, usually if it's the school year, it's a pretty quick process. But summer, they're not as Sometimes the office isn't there or whatever. So, I would say there's a little bit of a lag time there, but I might be wrong. You know, you never know. >> Okay, I'm good. Thank you. >> Anyone else have any questions on the HIV or enrollment report? >> Thank you. At this time we will now move on to finance and facilities review of committees uh resolutions of board discussion. Up first >> um preparations for our annual audit continue with the order scheduled to be in the district on the week of 25th August 25th. The
051classrooms are rapidly being cleaned and will be ready for the new year. We don't anticipate any delays. Um the finance committee met on July 14th and we discussed the the following top um topics. then supplied the minutes for you in your packet. Um there's an additional $750,000 in aid designated for site improvements only only. Um status of the facility projects including change orders, potential plaques and um potential plaques commemorating um David Brley use of the facilities and fees by outside organizations. That's policy number 7510. the agreement between the bureau and the board for the class three um CEO um which is resolution number 27 policy and regulations number um 5111 eligibility of non-resident resident students coupled with the tuition rates which is resolution number nine um a few other resolutions resolution seven approves the administration
052of the preschool expansion grant as outlined by Mr. Davies 8 approves the waiver submission to Department of Education for the kindergarten um toilet rooms. Um moving on, I I reviewed all the financials as always. I perused them. The financials are in order. Um I looked at the bill list. That's all proper with no outliers. There's no line item transfers that were over a $5,000 cap. Um just a few other ones. The payments to cont the contract payments. Um, the bills do match with the work was that was performed. Um, and that's basically all I have. Um, I do have a question. You mentioned something about the preschool grant. Um, that the but the 40%. So, I understand if I read it right that it's only for >> the 40% is only for facilities, correct? Or
053is that the overall program? I don't >> the overall program. So, we learned recently that the the PEA grant um the state has implemented cost sharing program for all new applicants, which we would be a new applicant. Uh so, they're only funding 40% of the grant. Uh which is causing us to go back to the drawing board and um determine what our ability to to do this is. >> Okay. >> Um we we're committed to it. uh we think it's that important, you know, as a district to offer prek, okay, >> to our families. Um but we need to go and um talk with these outside providers that we've forged relationships with because this now changes the dynamic with these outside. >> So, do we need a a finance committee meeting to kind of go
054over this in the future or you guys just got to come up with a plan? >> We will. Um we need to this is new information to us. So, but yeah, we will >> trying to fund this for another 60%. It's not going to be easy. I I don't for us um it's shocking that the state says you're going to get it 100% and all of a sudden reduce it by 60%. >> And I think the disappointing piece of it that I mean the whole thing's disappointing but even more so is that it happened after budget season. Yes. >> Um you know if we had known we could have maybe operated slightly differently but yeah. So the second question I have and this is probably so if we accept the state money does are we
055just >> are any kids from any town or in the county ability to come here for our prek or it's just strictly >> it's our prek district some things you take state money and then that forces you to take kids in from other areas >> programs okay thank you that's all I have >> but on that point if I could what it does is require if you do take their money you have to follow their their protocol on how things are done. So their 100% model included a whole lot of things that we would never even consider doing. >> Okay. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, that's a little different. >> So the question is do can we do it >> I don't want I don't want to say cheaper just better I think and more
056efficient I think I think I think the state model is very burdensome. Okay. Uh and I don't know why it why it was done that way. You know, I mean the state does like to generate employment. Um so maybe it was to to to generate employment um or provide services pro provide services to out of district providers possibly but if we do certain things. So we need to really go back as Jeremy said go back to the board and look at it. >> Disappointing. May I ask one more thing on state money or is not allowed as a finance come in finance? >> During the budget process, we asked our state representatives about an increase in the choice kids and I know they originally kind of gave us no. >> I don't know if that
057was a final answer because that would really help our money situation. >> Yeah. Um bringing allowing us to have the choice for the sixth grade now that the middle school is there is is >> would be great, >> right? I know that. But say it's still they put the kibash on it. I may use that still. Okay. >> I believe uh >> choice did >> it was a hard no. >> Choice did, but you never know. We could always know or just the maybe now. >> It was definitely a hard no from the choice the the department of education >> folks at the state said no. >> But whether our legislators have any influence in that, that's a possibility. >> Okay. Maybe we could write some letters or something. >> Okay. Sorry. Thank you. >>
058Anyone else questions? Okay. Thank you very much. Next we have uh personnel and management. Mr. Haven, >> thank you. There are 11 res uh resolutions tonight. Uh resolution 11 is a res acceptance of a resignation. Resolution 12 is the approval for hiring middle school science teacher. Resolution 13 are the approval for 2526 school year and lunchroom aids and par profofessional aids. Resolution 14 is the approval of lead teacher stipens. Resolution 15 is the approval of co-curricular stipen positions for the 2526 school year. Uh resolution 16 are the approval of athletic stipend positions for the 2526 school year. Resolution 17 is the approval of a volunteer football coach. Resolution 18 is approval of before and afterare staff. Uh resolution 19 is the approval of appointments for the 2526 school year. Resolution 20 is the approval of
059pavement of unused sick days. And resolution 21 is the approval of the LDTC consultant. That's it. >> Anyone have questions for Mr. Hood? >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. Haber. We now have curriculum and instruction. Mr. Ferrer. >> Good evening. Um there's five resolutions. Uh resolution 22 approves upcoming school year programs of study for each of the three schools. Resolution 23 approves the student uh parent handbooks for Harding um the middle school and the high school. Resolution 24 is the approval of the uh Stron evaluation system. The district is entering its third year using the Stron metal model to evaluate teachers, educational specialists and school leadership. The strong model has enhanced the feedback and dialogue between administrator and staff members. Uh resolution 25 is the adoption of revised and new curriculum for the upcoming school year.
060There are six new courses for approval. Five of which push our district forward in areas of STEM such as engineering design 1 and 3D printing. The other 17 uh curriculum are revisions most mostly K through 8 math curriculum based on new math standards. And resolution 26 is the HIP report for June. And that is all. >> Any questions? >> Okay. Thank you. Um we also have the additional which was already mentioned I believe resolution 27. Do you want me to read that or it's for a um uh agreement between the Kennorth Board of Education and the Bureau of Council for a Class 3 special law enforcement agreement for 2526. We'll now move on to old business. Any old business? We would like to just continue to remind the public and to the families, please look
061on our website, look at our social media, read the updates, anything that you have, especially if we open new schools. It's very, very helpful um to get any information if school opens up. Any new business? No. Okay. We'll now move on to public comment. And I please have a motion to open up the meeting to the public. >> So, move second. >> Second. >> Okay. Uh, who made the first one? I'm sorry. I didn't hear. Motion made by Mr. Ferrer, seconded by Mr. David. All those in favor of opening the meeting to the public, please say I. >> Opposed? I have it. Motion carry, Mr. Ganella. >> Uh, public uh comment will now be accepted. The board of education sets a limit for public to speak at the board meeting to five minutes per person
062unless prior permission has been granted by the board of education to extend time pursuant to BOE policy 0167. Please be reminded that while members 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 uh at issue has requested a public discussion. The board's role is to set policy and ensure effective operation of our schools. While personnel recommendations are the exclusive responsibility of superintendent schools, the board reviews and acts on those recommendations in accordance with state law and district policy but does not initiate or manage individual stashing decisions. >> Okay. Thank you. Is there any public who would like to speak at this time? >> No. >> Make a motion to close the public. >> Okay. >>
063Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Habith, seconded by Mr. Houdina. All those in favor of closing the meeting to the public, please say I. I >> opposed. Eyes have it. Motions carry. The meeting is now closed to the public for comment. Mr. Ganella, are we ready to roll a vote on roll for resolutions? >> Yes, we have 27 resolutions or 28, right? Uh on the 27 >> on the agenda. >> Um >> 27. Sorry, >> there is a there is a 28th one, but we're not voting on that one right now. >> Uh 27 this is for resolutions 1 through 27 on the agenda. Do any of those need to be voted on separately? No. Okay. Uh, Biner, >> yes. >> Uh, David, >> yes. >> Ferrara, >> yes. >> Ather? >> Yes. >> Herd?
064>> Yes. >> Lead? >> Yes. >> Zimmerman? >> Yes. >> And Panichi? >> Yes. >> Motions carry unanimously. >> Perfect. Do we have a need to go into close executive session? >> Yes, we do. >> Okay. Can I please have a motion to go into close session? >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Davis, seconded by Mr. Farah. All those in favor of going into close executive session, please say I. I >> opposed. Eyes have it. Motion carried. Mr. Ganella be it resolved by the board of education. The board of education meet in private session which public um which the public um shall be excluded discuss topics of PSA negotiations attorney climate privilege and potential litigation which private discussions being held pursuant to section 7B and aid open public meetings act. Matters under discussion will
065be disclosed to the public as soon as final decisions are made and voted upon. >> Um, Biner, >> yes. >> David, >> yes. >> Ferrar, >> yes. >> Haber, >> yes. >> Hardina, >> yes. >> Zimmerman, >> yes. >> Penichi, >> yes. >> We are in close session. >> Thank you guys.