LEHSD Board of Education Meeting - June 10th, 2025

001All right. This is to advise the general public that in compliance with the open public meetings act, this the Little Harbor Board of Education meeting was advertised in the Adsbury Park Press, Atlantic City Press, and posted at the office of the board of education located at 307 Road, Little Lake Harbor, New Jersey. Posted at the office of the municipal clerk of Little Lake Harbor. May I have a roll call, please? Mr. Sakone here. Mr. Fichello here. Miss Lawrence here. Mr. Lee here. Dr. Snider here. Miss Barn, [Music] Miss Bert here. Okay. We say the pledge of allegiance. Again, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Resolve that the board of education meet. Oops, sorry. We we already did that. Um, approval of the agenda. I recommend a motion to approve the

002agenda. Can I have a motion? Motion. I have a second. Second. All in favor? Sorry. Motion passes. Motion passes. Approval of minutes. Recommend a motion to accept the following minutes. Motion to approve. Second. Are there any questions on the minutes? Seeing none. All in favor? Any opposed? [Music] Any abstensions? Motion carries. Okay. Public comment number one, agenda items only. The board of education now welcomes the public to comment on the items which are on our agenda tonight. It may not always be possible or appropriate for the board to directly answer questions during the public comment period. Each speaker is allotted a maximum of three minutes to make their statement. No one may speak more than a maximum once on the same topic. You are required to give your name and address before speaking. Please keep

003your comments respectful and non-defamy and maintain the level of decorum appropriate for a public meeting where minors may be in the audience. Would anybody like to speak? [Music] Seeing none, we move on. Umformational items. Does anybody have any questions on the correspondences? Mr. Cole, emergency drills, anything. [Music] All right. And committee reports. Well, not currently meeting on committees. Um so my update would be that the board is going to consider have a presentation next month on the structure of the board either committee of a whole or you know going back to committee structure. Can I can I make a comment? Um just with this book's agenda I think that a a work session would have been helpful with the number of uh new job descriptions. I believe there were 14 new job descriptions and seven

004policies. So, it was a lot and I think it would have been helpful to go through them and discuss them because I definitely have questions when we get to that. I'll I'll mention it. But I think that I I know that I talked to Abby about this and she had suggested maybe not every meeting be a we need a work session, but something like this where it's such a we can't do both though. We have to decide. So, this month we didn't Aby's suggestion. Yeah, we didn't have it set up, but next month we're definitely having two July 1st and I've asked the superintendent to schedule that because we'll do a July 1st to meet on that date anyway to deliver her evaluation. That's a Monday, I believe. Somebody check the date. Tuesday. Tuesday. Sorry.

005That's the deadline for the evaluation. So, we're going to have to since we haven't progressed much in that process, we're going to have to meet in June one more time and July twice. So, we're going to have a work session that July. Any other questions? [Music] Okay. Superintendent report, please. Thank you. [Music] Tonight we are recognizing our staff members who are retiring and those who have served the district for 20 years or more. The fact that many of our staff members remain in one district for a large portion of their careers is a testament to the district and the community. Thank you for your dedication and commitment to the students of Little Harvard. And for those retiring, here's to health and happiness as you enter the next stage of your lives. And to those remaining

006with us, here's to another 20 years or more. Last Friday, I was lucky enough and very proud to attend the sixth grade awards assembly. Mr. Denny shared that there were over $3,000 awarded to our sixth grade students in addition to the number of awards related to positive moral character. However, it is important to reiterate that success is not always measured in awards or certificates, even if even if it feels like it may be. Success is about the effort you put in every day, no matter how small, especially during the challenging times. It's important in shaping the person that you're meant to become. Another grand thank you to everyone who has given their time to our students. And congratulations once again to all of our sixth graders. Continue to make us proud. Our sixth grade promotion

007ceremonies are scheduled for Thursday afternoon evening, June 19th. And I know that Mr. Denny has communicated with families regarding the logistics. We're looking forward to a celebratory environment with a happy and exciting tone. And finally, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, June 18th, 19th, and 20th, our early dismissal days for students with our last day of school being Friday, June 20th. I really can't believe it. I know that personally, um, ending my first year as the proud superintendent of Little Harbor, it's I can't believe it's closing in. It's been a pleasure getting to know people, interacting with our students and staff, and observing truly observing the goings on, the processes and traditions that make this cool community what it is. As we round the corner into summer, a combination of structured and unstructured activities for children over

008the summer provides a nice balance for them to process their learning, relax a bit, and get ready for the next school year. Remember to read, read, read, and read some more. No matter what you're reading, just make sure you read. We're going to do the same thing on our team. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you. And just to back up a little bit, I don't want to take the time off too much, but Christine, the um email that went out June 5th about the dates for our second meeting. I don't think anybody replied as yet, but we do have the second meeting with regards to the evaluation. Everybody knows that, right? And the date choices, and we can talk about this later, are June 12th, the 17th, and the 18th. Put that out

009in email. Okay, we'll talk we'll pick it up in board form, but let's move forward with the meeting. All right, we're on presentations. Student of the month for George J. Mitchell and Prog Elementary. [Music] Good evening. The character trait for the month of May for George Mitchell was responsibility. Our first student of the month is Addison Armona. [Applause] Addison is the kind of This is from the special area teachers. Addison is the kind of student who makes our classroom a brighter place every day. She consistently goes above and beyond, showing responsibility by staying on top of her tasks and helping her classmates without being asked. Her empathy shines through in the way she listens to others, offers a helping hand, and makes sure no one feels left out. And when it comes to matters, Addison

010sets the bar high, always saying please, thank you, and excuse me, making our classroom a more polite and respectful environment. Her kindness and consideration are a model for her peers, and we are so proud to have her in our class. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] and she was our secret. Next, we have Jeeneson from Mrs. Vuchia's class. Mrs. Vetia said, "Every day, Macy demonstrates a strong sense of responsibility. In class, she does her very best, makes good choices, and is committed to her learning. Her classmates depend on her as she always helps them and does her part when working together. Maisy is most definitely a role model to her peers. Congratulations. [Applause] Next we have Kaden Kiblooki McKenzie from the seniors class. [Applause] Miss Jagger said, "Kayen hasn't been a responsible student this school year. He has

011followed classroom rules, helped others, and shown himself responsibility. I'm so proud of you, Kayen. Keep working hard." [Applause] and Thea O'Neal who was also recommended by the special area teachers. Thea has shown incredible growth this year not just academically but in her maturity and emotional development. She approaches approaches challenges with a positive attitude demonstrating resilience and a willingness to learn from her experiences. Thea has become more independent in her work taking responsibility for her actions and decisions. Her ability to interact thoughtfully with her peers has made her a role model within our classrooms. We're so proud of the strides she's made and are excited to see her continue to grow. [Applause] [Music] Are you ready? Yes. [Music] [Applause] Cupcake in the back if they like. [Music] Good evening everyone. We are here to present our

012May students of the month for the Frog Elementary School. And similar to George Mitchell, we had our special area teachers make those selections this month. Our first selection from third grade was selected by Mr. Vet, Miss English, and Mr. Martinez. Grace Feny, come on up, Grace. [Applause] The special area team is thrilled to nominate Grace for student of the month. Grace lights up every classroom she walks into with her sweet character, kind heart, and sense of humor. She's the kind of student who makes good choices even when no one is watching. Whether she's in art, music, PE, or steam, Grace demonstrates being respectful, responsible, and safe. She's the first to lend a helping hand and the last to complain when something does not go her way. Way to go, Grace. We're so lucky to have

013you in our classes. Congratulations. [Applause] All right. All right. Next award winner was nominated by Mr. Paige, our amazing art teacher, and from Mrs. Barrett's room. She's here. Natalie Cruz. Who's Natalie? Make her way down the center aisle. Come on down, Natalie. Natalie Cruz comes to class with sunshine, as we all just saw, and the sunshine is in her eyes every day. She is ready to learn. Natalie loves to be creative, and she comes to the aid of her classmates when they are struggling. Um, whenever you pass her in the hallways, she brightens your day with a smile and hello. The best trait that Natalie displays is that when challenged with an obstacle, she stays positive, asks for help, and soldiers on to success. The world needs more, Natalie Cruises, says Mr. Gage. And that

014is why the Special Area Team is proud to nominate her for student of the month. [Applause] The next selection was made by Mrs. Randall Autumn Busby. Huh? Autumn. Autumn always has a smile on her face. She is one of the most kind and generous students I teach. She brings a ray of sunshine to the room when she comes to my steam class. She's helpful and polite. Autumn works hard and genuinely wants to see her classmates be successful. She is one of my go-to people to help me with things in class and always wants to help. I believe Autumn deserves student of the month because all of these reasons and 100 more. Thank you for being you, Autumn, and congratulations. [Applause] [Music] Our next student to be recognized, this comes from Mrs. Drea, our music teacher,

015from Mr. Schmidt in fifth grade. Aurora Orurora always tries her best in class and is very helpful to all those around her. She truly soaks in the content and offers a cool perspective on the concepts with new ideas or ways to try out a skill. She's patient and understanding with her classmates, making her a great teammate and a great friend. The special area team appreciates Aurora's hard work and creativity. Congratulations, [Applause] [Music] And last but not least from the Frog School, the selection was made by Miss Dangelo, the world language teacher, Kaitlin Zalinski. But here's what they have to say. Special area teachers have chosen Kayn Zalinski from Mrs. Gallagher's class as the sixth grade student of the month for May. Whether in the halls or in the classroom, Kayn exhibits the traits of a

016responsible student who is ready to take on the challenges of middle school. Kayn exhibits good sportsmanship in the competitions and phys her problem solving skills and steam and displays her creativity in the room. Always willing to help her teachers as well as other classmates. Kayn is a role model for younger and older students alike. Congratulations, Kalin, and we can't wait to see how far you will go in the future. So, congratulations [Applause] [Music] Mrs. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I just have to say I'm not sure whose idea the the bookmarks were or the tags instead of the certificates, but what a good idea. I think it's just they're so nice to have. [Music] Now we have our transportation update by Mr. Per. [Music] Parents and families, the meetings want to go on, so you're free to

017go home or stay, whichever you prefer. [Music] the cupcakes. [Music] Okay, Mr. Go ahead. You have the floor. All right. This was just to uh kind of go over some of the things that we did this year, some things that we changed uh and some stuff that we're getting ready to do for uh next school year. [Music] So during a lot of the board meetings uh this term kept getting brought up with the courtesy busing which a lot of people didn't don't understand what courtesy busing is. So what courtesy busing refers to is any student in our district that lives within 2 miles of the school that they go to and it's their front door to the closest door to the school. Uh, and with that, so we looked at the numbers to see if

018we could maybe adjust Kirsty busing and and uh maybe lose a bus or two, but we have 131 students currently within the 0 to 2 miles of their assigned school. But after you take the 131 students, any student that qualifies for free or reduced lunch then automatically qualifies for busing again. So when we did that, it brought the number of students that we could potentially not have to bus to about 80. Um, and then when I looked at the 80 students that we would consider not busing to our schools, you then have to see how they're going to walk to our schools. So we would have to have students walking down 539 or down Frog Pond where there's no sidewalks until you get, you know, pretty good ways down. Um, so that's why this district

019has historically always bus every student in the district because there's just no safe path uh to get them to our schools. Uh, also another thing that we do is every student is assigned u a bus seat. Uh, that also helps with our funding from the state for transportation. And it's also in case a, you know, a child might get drugged into school every day and then come December their parents schedule changes and now they need a seat. we had to make sure we have a C kid that comes to the building. Um, so a lot of questions that I get from teachers and even uh some of our parents is and I was one of them before starting their you get stuck behind a school bus and it feels like they stop every 20 ft

020to pick up a kid. And I get the aggravation of that. But what happens is when we look at routing, we have to make sure that when students are walking to a what you would consider a community bus stop that is safe for them to get there. So if you look at and I live by that over by this way. So if you look at like Center Street by Serest Nursing Home, the shoulders on that road are roughly 13 in, which means if I don't have a bus stop more than once, we would have to have students walking down a narrow path and it's just unsafe for students to do that. So our routing I do go out and look at these routes um on a monthly basis. I speak to the drivers uh when

021I'm at bus duty. So I'm at bus duty usually every day I'm at bus duty. I'm always at Fry on bus duty uh in the afternoon and morning and I'm always at bus duty for the ECC uh for the little guys getting there. Um so when I'm on bus duty, I'm not only looking at what we're doing on the grounds of the schools as far as getting kids in and out of the building, but I do talk to the drivers and kind of ask them how the rout's going because they're out there every day. They'll mention like, hey, if I make a different right turn, I could speed this up. and I go back and I look at the route and see if we can make changes. So, we're always looking to make sure we

022are doing it the best way, most efficient way possible. The state actually scores us, which I feel too, the state scores us when we do our state record on how efficient our busing is. And if we don't meet a certain criteria, it doesn't look good for us and start coming after us for funding. Uh, [Music] next slide. Uh so another expense that the school takes on that a lot of people do not uh may not know a lot about is called Aenlu or AIL you'll see short and a lot of other things. So AL is any student who lives in the Lil Harbor School District but decides to go to a private or choice school um and they're allowed to. So what happens is if they go to a private school um and as long

023as they live and it's no further than 20 miles and that's a strict 20 m. So they are 20.1 they do not qualify 0 to 20. Uh the district is responsible for paying each student that does that $1,177 per year. That is split into two different payments of 5.88 and050. That's not a district amount that we come up with. a state tells us what the amount is. Uh the and what I do is I look at is it cheaper to pay a loo or is it cheaper to do a bus route. So we are looking at bus routes for next year. For an example, Pilgrim Academy students, we have 29 students currently uh which is costing the district about $34,133 to pay people to go to another school. Um, so what we're going to look

024at is if we can get a route for that same amount if or lower, we would then provide a bus and then they would, you know, catch a bus in Little Egg, probably two or three different bus stops and the bus would take them down. Uh, that's our biggest our biggest expense as far as private schools go. We have about I don't know 8 to 10 different schools that children go to, but that seems to be our our biggest one. that we do receive money from the state for that for Aiden lo I believe it's 10 10,000 that's all allocated for historically yes that's about what we take in right and then in July that money can go up so that cost per student is readjusted every July so that 1177 could be higher yeah

025that number can go up uh the district I believe we budget around $50,000 for for anal payments that have to go out and that's if we don't provide bus routes. If we provide a bus route and the students either take the bus or they just drive to school. Um, but something about too, we do have instance where you could have a staff member who works at Pilgrim Academy driving their own child to Pilgrim Academy and we're still paying them $1177 or if they have two to three siblings in the house that all go there every student, you know, they're in the same car, we still pay 11.77 per student. Uh, but this is something that we're looking at. I'm always looking at this to see if we can uh, you know, bring his cost down

026for the uh, for the district. [Music] uh some benefits. So we do have uh district drivers. Uh we own our own mini buses. Um and the benefits are huge with these things. So our preschool program as far as their program goes has to take two field trips per year. So our buses can actually take we do 90% of the field trips for the ECC uh going anywhere from the library uh the police station or up to uh some other businesses that bring the kids up. So when we do a field trip inhouse, if we have to pay any overtime rate, it's roughly 125 per trip. That's not an exact figure. It's about 125. uh versus having a contractor, another bus company do it, which is typically always 550 minimum for 4 hours. Whether that trip

027goes for 1 hour or four, it's 550 for the trip. So, we do try to encourage the ECC teachers to go one at a time because we can then take each class on one of our buses. Uh so, that's kind of what we're always looking at. Our drivers also help offset the cost for out of district transportation, which I have another slide for that, but any student who is put out of district, whether it's um by the state or, you know, unfortunately they lose residency and get put somewhere else, uh we have to by law transport them down to our district. Um so we try to do as much of that as inhouse as possible to save our district as much as possible. And I'll I'll go more into that in our next one. Um,

028also our district drivers are on call. You know, kids come to school and 2 hours in they're sick and need to go home. Uh, either myself or our district drivers are then dispatched to whatever school we need to to bring a sick child home if the parents don't have transportation. You know, if mom or dad can come get them and obviously we try to push that, but if we have to, we'll uh we can bring a student home. Also, we do get incidents where a student gets to a bus stop, nobody's there to get them off the bus and they get brought back to school at 4:30 or 5:00 at night and there's no transportation from parents. We then jump in a bus and bring student back home again if we need to. So, that's

029a lot of what our uh district drivers, myself do on a weekly basis. [Music] All right. So, this is our McKini Pento homeless act. Uh, which some people I didn't know this until I started working at school. So, by law, any student who becomes homeless for any reason, uh, and is put anywhere outside of our our town or district, we have to by law transport them. And there is by law no distance to or no u limit to distance of how we transport. So if a student is an hour and 10 minutes away from here, we have to go either provide transportation for them from a contractor or we try to do it in house. So for 23 and 24, I started halfway through the year. Um but that year we put out roughly $365,000

030to transport homeless or out of district students back into our schools. this year uh implementing some new strategies and having our drivers and you know me adjusting some things. Uh right now as of today, this is not an exact number. As of the board meeting, we're sitting at 122,000, but we are going to incur probably another 30,000 cuz we have not paid May or June's bill yet. So the 122 is just what we've dispersed for payment. that's not exact. Uh but about 30,000 more probably for between May and June will be our final numbers. So roughly um you know by implementing that stuff I was able to save our district just over $200,000 for this year for uh our homeless and out of district transportation costs. And this is something that on a daily basis

031I'm always looking at to see what other options are out there. Uh we'll also if we get two students kind of in the same area, we'll then reach back out and see if we can get them on the same route that we already have coming down here because that'll save our district one or two. So I have a question on that. Um where says school of origin or local area school? Um is this an example of someone moves away? They attended school here, they move away and then wherever their new location is, they become homeless and they still we still have to transport them here or would they go to their local school? So, if a if a student just they move voluntarily and go somewhere, um they can opt to go to that district,

032but if they're claimed homeless, no matter where they go, they go to live with a family member 2 hours away, we still have to transport down here. Now, if they decide to go to that district, then we don't have to. That would be it's not something we can tell them. That's a good question. So if they register in another district then our obligation is gone. But if they're homeless then it's the last district of residence. That's why if it's 2 hours away but they're still considered homeless in Kento then we are the district. And that goes for the whole state. If it's someone else if we get someone else who moves here from somewhere else whose last district was not ours then that district is paying as well. [Music] That's great. Uh, this was some

033other stuff that was brought up during u the board meetings as far as our transportation contracts and renewals. So, the state sets what they call CPI uh consumer price index at 3.57%. So, currently uh our contractor is Durham School bus services. So with all of our routes that we pay for on a yearly basis, the big tier contract that we share with Pine Lance, that number, Durham, the contractor is allowed to raise all the rates 3.57%. Each route can get raised 3.57%. Now, we don't have to accept that. We can say no, we don't want that, but then we would have to go out to a rebid and rebid this entire district. Um, and that's a dice you're rolling because the price could come in less or it could come in double the amount that

034we pay now. There's no way to actually know. Um, so having the CPI, especially with it being this that low this year, typically it's over 5%. This year they made it 3.5. So it's kind of a win for us. We were able to keep our transportation cost, you know, as long as we could. Um because again the rebid process is rebidding the entire district which is something I do look at. I look at the numbers um and kind of see what the best avenue for us is and I'm always making sure that it is financially and operational for the school at the same time. Uh so right now as we do share buses with Pinelands regional they hold the contract or a tier bus system. So in short, what that means is pinance plus one

035and little egg plus one are a shared tier contract. So if that route is $60,000 for that bus to go out, we pay 30, they pay 30. It's the easiest way to explain every route. And it differs from, you know, routes out based on distance and time and everything else. Could you go out the bid and still to see what's out there and still keep the current contract or do you have to choose one or the other? Unfortunately, you got to choose one. Uh, so I'm not even allowed to by law. I can't even call transportation companies and say, "Hey, we pay X amount. Can you beat this? I'm not allowed if it's legal." So, we would have to either say, "Hey, we're good." Or, "Let's see what happens." We can't shop around. There's no

036way it's illegal. I don't agree with it. State agency. Well, you can't talk to other school districts about what they got going on like other people, you know. I mean, I'm you know, I can ask general questions. Some of the districts around us own their own busing. So, Southern Regional Orate, they have their own busing. Uh but I'm not allowed to call XYZ company and say, "Hey, what would you charge us if you did the district?" I mean, I could, but I wouldn't be here. Well, you can say roughly like, hey, what about you guys? You can't say that. Ask that question. Yeah, I can. I mean, we can you could call a district and you guys could maybe do that. It's my understanding that one of the reasons why we didn't ever try was

037cuz when we had the original contract, gas prices were lower and we kind of are locked into that and now gas prices are higher. Is that true or is that No, I mean the routes are so do 3.57%. That's just on every route. It just goes up a little bit. Some routes went up $500. Some routes went up $1,200. Yeah. But what's nice is diesel could go to $15 a gallon next month. Doesn't matter to us. We're paying the same price. Yeah. Just it goes to 5 cents a gallon. We're paying the same price. It doesn't drop for us. Yeah. like we said that okay we're we're going to try to go out and then we try to go out and we don't find anything better than what Durham had for us Durham can go

038okay well we're you had your chance we're now going to raise it up you know additional and so that's kind of you know where we're stuck at cuz what we had years ago was what Murphy [Music] Yeah. So what what she is saying. So right now we pay one almost $2 million not exactly about $2 million to transport to and from school 180 days. If we were to go out to a new bid and Durham is 2 million now and then and we have to take the lowest bid. So if we get bids coming in at three, four, five million, whatever the cheapest one is, we have to go with at that point. So D may not be cheapest at 3 million, but we just increased a million dollars. So rebidding is is a great

039idea. Something I'm we're actively looking at, not pre-bidding, but looking at the cost of transportation, and then hopefully we'll see what happens down. Sorry, one more question on that. What does it cost to have our own fleet if we were would we save money in the long term? Yeah. But to start off each 54 passenger school bus right now is probably 170 to $180,000. So if you sort of build the fleet, which is I'm all for. Uh you got a personal to start up. Then you got to have garage mechanics, drivers with all the benefits. I mean long term we have 34 a year it pays off but we sort of slow how many total losses would that be roughly if we had our 18 to 20 big bosses give or take I'd have to

040look at the routing exact 18 to 20 big ones and then buses all right so this is something else our discipline uh procedures. Kind of switching gears here. Uh is something important for parents and students to remember that the school buses although they don't say no like hardware on them, they are still an extension of our classrooms. So all the same rules that go in the classroom also apply to our school buses. Uh this school year we did implement a lot of new strategies. We had some um staff members and aids riding pig buses to try and curb behaviors or be an extra set of eyes. Um unfortunately we have 29 pig buses and we have 58s to go around. So but with that we did try to implement some new disciplinary actions for this

041school year and then I'm working with our superintendent for next year to try to come up with a zero tolerance uh policy for next school year. might be a little rough in the beginning, but I think it's something for the safety of our students on a bus is necessary. Uh give or take. This year, we're going to be over 1,500 writeups for buses. That's not to say there's 1500 write-ups for, you know, fist fighting. Some of it is they ate and left chips on the floor, but other ones are students not staying in their seats. Seat belts are off, standing on the seats. um we've all done as kids. He time the bumps when you're in the back so you can catch some air and then I watch videos of kids doing front flips. So

042that's stuff that we need to look at and try to uh you know come September really put our foot down. It's for the safety. It's not take the fun away from riding so nobody gets hurt. Under that um you mentioned the Pilgrim Academy and other schools. If somebody gets in trouble in those routes, who does the discipline? The school does that. Whatever they go to does because that's not our student that we're handling every day. We're paying for it. But yeah. Yeah. They discipline them. Yeah. Did you mean if we bust them eventually? If we bust them like those 29 students, if somebody gets in trouble, it's still the school they go to. It's their principles and their admin. We take care of that. All we're doing is we're just doing it cost effective for

043the district. We had nothing to do with the school program. Whatever their school times are, they handle that. We're just instead of paying them to drive their personal cars down there, we're going to ride a bus at, you know, several locations in town. They'll jump on and take the bus down just as if it was a choice. Related to that, is that something that you're going to look further into and report back because I mean, by law, we're we're responsible, right, to either pay and lo or Yeah. So, there's one or two options. Either if if we we can put the bid out. This is something we can put a bid out and if it doesn't work for us, we just only accept the bid. So if we put a bid out and they tell

044us the route is $60,000, but it would only cost us 35 in adaloo. We just paid 35, but it come back at 32,000 for the route. We're going to go a bus route. I know the cheapest option is those 1500 writeups, are they trending up or trending down? So I haven't been here long enough to answer that for you. I could probably guess our principles. It doesn't seem like a lower number than last year. I know that. Um, this school obviously gets more because there's more students in here, but that number 1500 might even be low. It might be close to 2,000 rights. I'm kind of guessing based on what we've currently received so far. We got the final count. It just seems like an area we definitely have to focus on. I agree. [Music]

045the safety especially. So just on that, could you just reiterate the plan that you guys are going to start talking about for next year to address that in plain terms get more harsh on discipline when it comes to uh student behavior. You know, we're going to have to look at behavior, maybe categorize it. A student who is just being loud, obnoxious, probably not going to be suspended for several days off the bus. a student who is walking up and down the aisle while the bus is doing 40 miles an hour. They need to come off the bus and quickly, you know, um it's going to be a strain on the parents, but that's where it starts. I'm a parent. I have four kids in the district and I know I wouldn't want to have to

046drive my kid to school every day. So, I'd be at home telling them, you know, sit and do what you're supposed to do with my bus. So, that's something we have to look into. Now, what about the parents who do not have transportation? because clearly do you live in a district where that is ultimately going to affect attendance as well. My first thought uh they need to make a friend and get their aunt, uncle, grandparent, something, you know, at at some point we have to kind of put our foot down and say either you're safe on a school bus or you're not. And I know it's hard, it's rough, but or we have to look at our district drivers and maybe, you know, then if we have aids on our mini buses, that's another option

047we look at, too. I was going to ask something related to that. Um, which is when you mention a parent doesn't pick up a child and you is it incumbent upon the district to really have to bring that child home? Don't they or somebody else have to come pick up that child? Yeah. So, it's something else that we're looking into as well. Uh, transportation during the school day is what we kind of look at like if a child's sick or you know can't get home. Um, it's even a lot. It's not typical for a district to have to even take home a sick child. I agree. Yeah. It's just something that was kind of done previously. So, we kind Maybe we'll look at our policies in regards to that. And Mike, of the 29 buses

048that are in use, how many of them have cameras? Uh, as far as I know, all 29. Now, they're not shot 4K. You know, some of these videos look like 1980s, you know, videos that we're looking at sometimes, and other ones are crystal clear. That's what makes this one a little bit harder, too, is you can see what's going on. You really can't pinpoint the exact student unless we get the bus drivers know or if we get another student who kind of helps us. So, it's not even really deterrent. The kids know that everything's being recorded or anything. Yes and no. Um, we're trying to figure out a way to show what takes place on these videos. Uh, we do need to look at privacy, too, and not have students faces visible. So, I don't

049know how our IT department can come up with something to blow up faces. So, you can see the actions taking place without obviously seeing the student. Also, we do not have video cameras on our mini buses to date. Currently on our district owned mini buses. We don't that's something we're looking into as well. The district buses were not being used the way I've been using them on a daily or payoff bus. Um so that's something we're looking at grants and stuff to get uh cameras on buses which watches the driver and watches the students and also watches traffic outside you know. So if there's a bus accident we help us now. How many buses do we own currently? Two. I think that's a great idea to work on a safety issue that students need to

050be accountable. Yeah. honestly reserved that the videos are scary. It is it is absolutely unsafe to watch some of these videos. And I've been talking to Mr. Kofer about exactly figuring out a way to show our community exactly what's happening on the buses because it is completely unsafe. And so this is why we're talking about this at this point. The the things about eating potato chips. Okay, that's that's very different than literally jumping over straddling a bus. That is unacceptable behavior and you cannot tolerate it. Thank you for following through on that. Just one more thing. I'm going to apologize now, Chris. But for someone like um Chris, whose children do not ride the bus and I can almost guarantee will not ride the bus ever. Like that's safe to say, right? Um there's no

051way to account for some people whose children will never ride the bus so that we could have a smaller fleet needed or at least maybe give some room on some buses too so that maybe kids aren't on top of each other maybe help that way but at least I'm sure we have certain people that will never their children will never step foot on a school bus and I think we are wasting funds in that way somehow. We do. Um so we could have a transportation waiver form uh but that affects two well affects funding immediately because then we're not reporting as many students in November when I do our state report. Uh but also even if they sign a waiver in September and come November, you know, a job changes and now they have to

052provide we have to provide transportation. We don't have a choice. We have to make sure we have seats available. And and also when we do the when we do the routing, we actually overload the buses as far as the not moving in the software. A 54 passenger bus may actually have a roster of 56 to 57 kids up there because we know some of them are not taking. So we actually do utilize that what we're doing because the district I believe used to have 35 big buses and I believe after co maybe is when they dropped to 29 due to both financial and I don't think have enough drivers to run 35 jobs. So we look at that when we are down and we uh we overload the bus just for rosters two or three

053kids not too many high school level typically does uh 70 kids or 54 passing the bus because you have seniors and juniors driving. So related to that conversation the the folks that drive all the time um I'd like to have a conversation the board and the administration regarding pickup. I I went by George Mitchell and it's just atrocious the way they line up on the road and coming from the park and you know possibly considering after dismissal after the buses get out of the way. So these are all July and August meetings that we're going be having to look at our parent drop off. There's a lot of logistics that go into that. It's not just a matter of saying come pick your student after school. We have to have staff here in the building

054to make sure that when you haveund 100 kids get picked up that somebody's mentioned instructional time that they're missing. [Music] On topic of courtesy busing, I just had a question for our attorney. So, this was one of the main line items I was looking to save some money for on the the budget process. Had over $2 million. Um, hazardous routes kept coming up. All the research that I did on the government website said that the hazardous routes were dictated by what the board decides to be a hazardous route and there's no real state um guideline for what a hazardous route is. Um, is that accurate? um or is there some kind of like dictated X Y and Z roads are hazardous uh routes? My understanding is that's accurate. And then the other one comes to

055free and reduced lunch. Um on the state website, uh there is no guidelines for that. If you are free and reduced lunch, you have to take busing or you have to provide it. Um are you aware of any legislation out there that requires it? I would have to check on that one. off the top of my head for legislation that I can certainly [Music] Thank you, Mr. Cooper. Okay, now we'll move on to our staff retirements and service awards presented by [Applause] [Music] All right, good evening everyone. is an exciting part of the evening where we do get to recognize those staff members with 20 years of service, 25 years of service, and of course the ones who are very jealous of the retirees. Um, just a little housekeeping, we're going to go school by

056school and talk with the 20 years of service. When that particular school staff members are finished, please stay up here for a very quick picture and then we'll move on to the next school. When we do get to the retirees, we do have some guest speakers who would like to come up. So, we'll call you up when it's your turn. First up for 20 years of service, Miss Dang from Prime. [Music] All right, Miss Elizabeth Basque. Come on up. [Applause] Christopher Jumbo [Music] and Diano [Applause] say we'll do one [Applause] Jennifer Bao. [Applause] Oh my goodness. Mary Soden and I [Applause] [Music] [Applause] for the Early Childhood Center. We have Kristen Brenstein. [Applause] Thank you. For the district office, we have Jackie Fres. [Applause] Yeah. All right, that's it. Just 20 years. [Applause] [Music] All

057right, our next group of staff members have hit the 25 year mark. First, we have Miss Don Andrews. [Applause] bigger bag. Congratulations. I know this person is not here, but Lorie Benson, [Applause] Christine B or [Applause] very [Music] [Applause] Deb Formoski [Applause] and Lorie Sal. [Applause] Congratulations. While she's not here this evening, a 25-year-old word is for Gina Hartman, a secretary in the district. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] Yes. Set it down. [Music] [Applause] All right. Next, we have our retirees, but I know there are some staff members here that want to speak about those retirees. First we have is Claire Gallery. Come on up Claire. [Applause] [Music] Good evening members of the board, colleagues, families, and honor guests. Tonight we gathered to celebrate and honor truly exceptional educator Claire Galler who is retiring after 24

058years of dedicated service to our district. For nearly a quarter of a century, Claire has been a guiding light for students, colleagues, and the entire school community. As an English teacher, she has done far more than teach reading and writing. She has inspired young minds to find a voice to think critically and to express themselves with confidence and heart. [Applause] Okay, I'm gonna try not to stumble, my friend. Her journey through the district has not been without its challenges. Um, but true to her nature, she met every one of them with grace and perseverance. She taught from a cart, moved classrooms more time than we can count, worked with different teams, adapted to new curriculum, and embraced each new group of students with fresh energy and unwavering commitment. Claire is not only a dedicated teacher,

059she is also a Polish poet. Her love of language is evident in everything she does. are the thoughtful lessons she crafts to encourage the encouragement um she offers her students to find beauty in their own words. her classroom, wherever it may be located for years. She has always has always been a safe, nurturing space where students um knew that they were seen, heard, and loved. [Applause] Beyond the classroom, she has generously volunteered her time to support school events and activities. Never seeking recognition, but always showing up because she cares deeply about this community. She gives her all for her students, her colleagues, and this district. Her kindness, her dedication, and her unwavering belief in the potential of every child have made a lasting impact that will be felt for years to come. And tonight we

060thank you for your service. We celebrate her many contributions. And most importantly, we wish her joy, peace, and continued inspiration as she begins this new chapter in life. On behalf of the sixth grade team and everyone here, thank you. You have made a difference, and your legacy will live on in every life you've touched. Congratulations on your retirement. [Applause] [Music] Next from the Prague Pond School, we have Mr. Greg Sailor. Come on up, Greg. [Applause] [Music] Okay, I'm gonna try to do this. I don't think I How can I even begin to describe Greg Sailor and the impact he has on he has had on his students over the past 28 years? I simply cannot. What I can tell you is that for the past 14 years, I've had the absolute pleasure of working beside

061him as his co-teer and work wife. Greg began his teaching career with Memorial 1997. He spent four years teaching grades fourth, fifth, 9th, and 10th. In September of 2001, Greg began his career in Little Lake Carver. He has taught fourth grade, fifth grade, and 16 years in sixth grade with 14 of those years with me. There are many names for this great man. The grammar god, grammar police, Mr. Wonderful, King Ruby, King of the Magical Universe of Learning. Each one titled by past students. Greg has truly has a truly unique style of teaching that motivates, inspires, and sparks creativity in every student. Students start the year in September with little ambition to write and an extreme fear of reading their writings aloud. His infectious love of writing penetrates the most fearful soul. By trimester 2,

062students are bringing in props, acting with drama, and wearing accessories to enhance their reading performance. Students have truly unique experiences in our classroom. They become doctors and persuade peeps to have the peep separation surgery. They write in their own language and wear tinfoil hats. They become poets. They write their teachers homework excuse letters from famous people. They become actors reading dialogue sentences. They learn cursive writing. Guest features. Speakers such as Edgar Al Poe and Elvis conduct lessons. They write song lyrics, create a backstory for an escaped gingerbread cookie, compose radio ads for an invented food or beverage. They become food credits of his famous cheddar cheese. And they learn an enormous amount of random facts. All the while with that knowing they learn vocabulary, sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, figurative language, sensory vocabulary, vivid verb, reading

063and writing, fluency, story elements, conflict resolution, theme, narrative, argumentative and persuasive writing, conducting research, and analyzing text. I have such admiration for this man and his true love of teaching. Thank you, Mr. seller for inspiring all of us to write haikus, for spreading humor with cat pictures, soaking us with extensive vocabulary and inspiring students throughout the years. You'll be greatly missed. It's time to chillax, drive off into the sunset, get in your thing, and go hunt some squatch and keep it weird. We will leave the light of learning burning for you. Haiku number 62025. The last day has come. The light of learning now dim. The legend lives on. [Applause] Our next retiree is the wife of Mr. Sailor, Mrs. Lorie Sailor. Come on up, [Applause] congratulations. Now I'm going to read on behalf of

064her work husband, Mr. W. After 31 incredible years of teaching, Lorie Sailor is retiring, and what a legacy she leaves behind. She has been one of the most dedicated and energetic educators our district has ever known. Her passion for science and math was not only evident in her teaching, but also deeply contagious. Whether she was sharing her love of birds and prey, exploring the wonders of weather, or uncovering the secrets of rocks and fossils, Lori brought learning to life for her students. She enriched her classroom by inviting guest speakers who inspired curiosity and excitement in young minds. Gloria is an amazing individual whose impact extends far beyond the classroom. She will be sorely missed by her colleagues, students, and the entire community. I keep congratulations. [Applause] Elite edition, we have Miss Elizabeth Saunders. And Miss

065Fiko is was kind enough to write a few words about this. Come on up. [Music] Liz, when I first started teaching, I was at a gather with four or five new teachers discussing how stressed out we were. Liz was in this group and after a few minutes of listening, she surely chimed in, "Hey, it's not like we're going to war." I knew I knew then and there this was someone who I wanted to emulate. This is exactly what I tried to do. I stole everything I could from her. Any good idea I've ever had was somehow stolen from the summers. The toughest thing I had to imitate was the way she celebrated every day like it was a party. She took her children to the Dynasty Diner when the Eagles won the Super Bowl, had

066a cover band play in her classroom, invited a magician to entertain her students, and greeted each her children with pom poms every Friday. And the list goes on. Anyone who got a chance to interact with Liz on a day-to-day basis was truly blessed. This is especially true for her students. The way she taught should be studied by the finest universities in the country. It would work though. How she did it can't be emulated. Trust me, I tried. [Applause] I'm the shortest. I'm the cutest. They say [Music] [Applause] George J. Mitchell retirees. Kathy Carich. Mrs. Carich has been a cafeteria playground aid in the LA Carver School District for 22 years and is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all of our students. Mrs. Carich is a mentor to new cafeteria playground needs by sharing

067her experience and knowledge. We are so grateful for all she's given to our school community and know she'll be deeply missed. stand. [Applause] [Music] Mrs. Cadidino is an amazing teacher who has dedicated 18 years to the Lai Harbor School District. Mrs. Sidadino has been a classroom teacher and an academic support instructor who looks at the whole child. As a result, her students have grown leaps and bounds academically and socially and emotionally. When Mrs. Cindy was needed back in her second grade classroom this year. She embraced the challenge. Our students are very lucky to have her. Congratulations, Murray. You will be missed. Lyn Cruz. [Applause] We are proud to recognize Mrs. Cruz, our dedicated K to2 ESL teacher, as she retires from our district. Although she has only been with us for a few short years,

068Mrs. Cruz made a lasting impact from the moment she arrived. As an experienced hand educator, she jumped right in to support our multilingual learners and their families with compassion, expertise, and enthusiasm. Her collaborative spirit and wealth of ideas have strengthened our ESL program and positively influenced the way we serve our students. It is clear how much her students adore her and her her warm presence in the classroom will be deeply missed. Mrs. Cruz has been a tremendous asset to our school community and we wish her all the best in her welldeserved retirement. [Applause] Pamela Mason Mrs. Mason had her send off during October board meeting, but I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge the geek and call of the first grade team. I'm so glad that Mrs. Mason was recognized as a Philadelphia Eagles

069all pro teacher before she left. If you didn't know, she's a huge Eagles fan and she referred to a lot of her students. Even though she was leaving, she ensured that her first grade team benefited by receiving her monetary award. We have truly missed Mrs. Mason and hope that she has been enjoying her welldeserved retirement. [Applause] During Mrs. Slick's 21 years in the district, I have had the pleasure of working with her in both the Frog Pond Elementary School and the George Mitchell School. Mrs. Slick works hard to meet the unique needs of each and every student academically, socially, and emotionally. Outside of the classroom, Mrs. Slick is our resident party planner who has planned amazing end of year parties for the staff. Mrs. Slick also proposed great ideas to create a positive cultural climate

070such as holiday door decorating contest and underground spirit days. Our biggest school cheerleader will be missed. We wish her all the best. [Applause] And lastly, Joanne Walton. Joanne Walton retired in October after 42 years of service in the district. Joanne began her career in the transportation office and was soon moved to the George Middle School. During her many years, Joanne was an integral part of the main office team. One of Joannne's most important duties was to ensure that the teachers knew daily how their students were going home. This is an overwhelming and important task. Joanne made it look easy. We have certainly felt her loss in our main office and we are hoping that she is enjoying her retirement. [Applause] Okay, last but not least, preschool. Uh this year we have one retiree and that

071is Mrs. Cheryl Uro. I am absolutely Mrs. Uturo is one of our original members of the early childhood center. She has shared her talents and knowledge with the preschool staff and families for 19 years. Mrs. Tuturo has worked as a preschool instructional coach and in that she has supported our preschool teachers to help them provide a high quality program. Mrs. Tuturo has worked hard to make the ECC what it is today. And we wish Miss Cheryl many years of health and happiness in her retirement. [Applause] Okay, next on the list is Kim Wildfield. He's retired from the school district after [Applause] your gym cuz I know how you love the spotlight in the line. Nice chance to make you feel really uncomfortable. That's why I work on my back always. Exactly. Okay. So, first of

072all, congratulations. 23 years is a long time to work in the business office. Okay. Uh there's nobody even comes close right now who has that many years. And you've done it as a bookkeeper, then to payroll, then back to bookkeeper. So, you've really made an impact. Okay. I was amazed at your accuracy at all times. Okay. And I also have to laugh about you being well, let's put it this way. If we were to look into Webster's dictionary on the perfectionist, it would say Kim Wellfield, right? That would be the first definition. Kim Wellfield as the perfectionist. I also was amused by how sometimes, very rarely, he did make a small error. Not a big one, just a small one of how emotional you did become and how hard on yourself you were over just

073a few pennies. I hope you love to relax in retirement. Is that okay? I also have to point out that rarely rarely did I ever see you leave at 4:00. You were always there past 4:00. Your dedication to this school district, to that business office, was absolutely incredible. And it is and and and certainly uh I am grateful for that and I'm sure everybody else is. Um, the funniest moment I had with you, and we won't go into detail, is when you told the story about green jello. Never mind. He knows. He knows the story. He knows. I figured out. He knows the story. Okay. I know this for a fact. The staff of the business office tell you. I know that you're very well respected around the entire district. You are definitely going to

074be missed by all, but you certainly have earned your retirement. So, congratulations again. [Applause] I'm going to break for five minutes formally. So everybody can get a cupcake and congratulate the uh retirees. [Music] back on session. Right. Should I wait for the last? I would wait for the last if we just wait 30 seconds. and to acknowledge Mrs. Kelly Linenfelzer. Um, sorry, you didn't expect to be. Um, you have been our interim uh, special ed director for two years and I just want to acknowledge um, how grateful we are for what you have done. Um, kind of like Patty. I'm not sure you knew what you were walking into when you came through the doors. You just like, "Oh, Patty said it's great district." Um, and usually I think of an interim as someone that's

075just coming in for temporary amount of time to hold down the fort. But you really did a lot and try to uh institute some new initiatives and make sure we were completely compliant. Um, and so I just want to say how grateful we are for you and you will be. So, thank you very much and whatever path you take next, um that district is going to be very lucky to have you. So, thank you. [Applause] Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you all. [Music] All right, moving on to action items. recommend a motion to approve finance items A through F. Can I have a motion? Motion. Can I have a second? Second. Are there any questions? Okay, seeing none. Roll call, please. Oh, sorry. [Music] That's only a page 3 A to F. This

076starts page three and goes to what? Okay. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Sakone. Yes. Mr. Fichello. Yes. Miss Lawrence? Yes. Mr. Lee? Yes. Dr. Snyder? Yes. Miss Ber? Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Rec. I recommend a motion to approve facilities item A. Can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Okay. Are there any questions? Already happened. Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Sakone. Yes. Mr. Fichello. Yes. Miss Lawrence? Yes. Mr. Leega? Yes, Dr. Snyder. Yes, Miss Ber. Yes. Motion passes. Okay. Recommend a motion to approve school business administrators non-personnel items A through O. Can I have a motion? Motion to approve. Can I have a second? Second. Any questions? Yes. I have a question on I about the loan. Um what this I I understand that this is apparently something that happens in other districts. It's I think

077it's the first time in my time on the board to to see this happen that we need a loan and I is there a connection between this and the amount of surplus that we have. Is that the part of the reason? Because I looked at the payrolls from the last month from May that was certified. I think it was around a little over 2 million. So, um I guess I guess what payment are we waiting for from the state? And do we still have the $300,000 in surplus that we've allotted for the next school year's budget? Yes, we do have the 300,000 that's a lot for next year's budget. We have surplus on top of that that the year will end with. We don't know at this time exactly how much. when you get more

078towards the end of the year, you can make a more a better prediction on that. But this has nothing to do with surplus. It has everything to do with cash flow. Uh we no longer have the er funds which provide us with a lot of excess cash in the bank account. So without that uh if there is a delay in the state aid payment that's almost $600,000 and the superintendent wants to be sure that we don't have an issue with making the payroll uh by not having that extra $600,000 in cash but it has nothing to do with surplus simply just a cash flow. And do we have an interest rate on this loan? Yes, it's 6.03 I believe if I remember correctly. Someone asked about that though. I didn't see an answer to this

079question. Okay. [Music] Okay. I didn't get to say it the first time. Okay. The state pays us back whatever interest costs we have to pay to the bank. The state reimbures the district. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? A roll call, please. Mr. Sakone, yes. Mr. Fichello, yes. Miss Lawrence, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Snder, yes. Miss, yes. Motion carries. Okay, these are superintendent action items. Recommend a motion to approve items A through G. I have a motion. Motion. I have a second. Second. Are there any questions? Yeah. Yes. I unless I missed this on a previous agenda. Um C2, the MTSS coordinators and the MTSS behavior focus. And I did see that there was a because the reason I'm asking is I did see that there was a new job description for an MTSS

080interventionist. So is this something we've had before. And where could I look? I I missed this job description for a coordinator. I only saw it for an interventionist. Is it going to be the similar concept? And I guess my question is, is it going to be under prep time and lunchtime? And how does this coincide with the contract? And maybe this has to be something has to be discussed at a later time. um how does it coincide with the contract since all of those are usually allotted an hourly wage for those type of things for the new contract compared to some stipens especially if it's going to be during the school day. So, it's it definitely is a statement. The job descriptions were updated and the other information I can get to you first in

081the morning. Was your question? Is it a new position or It's not a new position. I saw the new job descriptions for the interventionists. I didn't see it updated for the coordinator. So, I'm asking that's right. Uh the because because it's We have it. Okay. We have people in that position now. That was last year. Interventions are a new position. And that's going to be a stipen position also. Yes. Well, yes, that's what we're And where are those funds coming from? Yes. what what we're once we get our once we get our federal funds that's where they're going to come from that yes so it's contingent on that if we don't receive those federal funds this will not take place [Music] Please, Mr. Sigone. Yes, Mr. Figello. Yes, Miss Lawrence. Yes, Mr. Leega. Yes, Dr.

082Snider. Um, yes on everything except C1. Again, it's not personal. Um, it has to do with regards to discussions regarding the salary. [Music] Mer. Yes. Motion carries. Okay. Recommend a motion to approve superintendent school's non-personnel items A through J. Can I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Any questions? Yeah. Like I'm only one. Um Aby's not here. Yeah, I messed up my um under job descriptions for school business administrator board secretary. I saw that you included that it's required a master's was under your description, but to be a a school business administrator, a masters is not required. It's a CPA or I I didn't write it down, but I looked it up last night. Did it say I I can't recall because we did so many required or preferred? I thought it said required. Okay.

083So, I can go back and look at that. The only thing that changed in that again we've done so many is right. We included technology in there because it that's typically a direct report to the VA and it wasn't in there. Yeah. Yeah, because I think some of them you include Genesis and things like that as a specific program, but that one I um because I think if you're a CPA, I think you'd be qualified to be like that. And usually we have that flexibility. So, and then um again my question is with regards to the MTSS interventionists of how that was going to work. Um because I know like and again maybe contracts are different and maybe Alison, you know, um like if you teach an extra class, it's like a six period. It's

084a six period. That's a little bit different, but this is just going to be a stipen. And how does it compare monetarily? Well, we don't we don't do the extra periods. We we don't do that for that's more of a like high school thing. So, so but the stipend is for the level of work they're going to do. It's it's an appropriate stipend. Do we have a maximum amount that a stipens are allotted for a policy? No, I don't I don't believe so. Like we could give someone a $5,000, you know. I'm not saying that we would. I'm saying that there's no limit though is what I'm asking. Well, the good thing is it's yearly, correct? Has to be yearly approved. We were actually going to discuss that in one of our one of our

085meetings and then we we couldn't. So, we'll I will get you all the information on that. Thank you. Lisa, I have a question in regards to all the revised job descriptions as a whole. Yes. Just as a whole, like um is there a reason now we're looking at that, you know, based on your experience we've seen in other schools that maybe ours weren't as clear? Just wondering in general why are there so many revisions to the job descriptions? Absolutely. Combination of things. Some of it was that they were completely outdated. Some of the things that were outdated, some of the things were not clear at all. Titles that nobody I I couldn't understand what somebody was doing because I didn't understand what the title was. The other thing that they're more consistent across the board.

086And the other thing you're going to see, especially in the ones in central office, a lot of crossraining is in each of the job descriptions because it's it's essential. We need to be able to cross train at those levels. So, it was a combination of all those things. And with the reorganization of central office, it was the perfect time to do it. [Music] Um I know it's for the first read the new policies for the board member and term sending and receiving districts. My qu and there was comments in there about tuition. Does that relate to Bass River? Any any receipt? So, so are we send receive or are they tuition? They are. Well, we received them, but they are tu they are a tuition district based upon the tuition rates. Is that correct? That's

087correct. Because I thought this was in relation to whether or not cuz is it I was told that they would have have to have a certain number of students in our district in order for them to have a seat on our board. Correct. That is correct. Yeah, that is correct. So, and they don't have that number. We I the maximum is not met. Right. Right. Right. But is that what these are referring to? Yes, that's exactly right. And same thing if we send a number of students to other districts, then you have members of this community have a right to sit on that board as well. Okay. Are these stress assessments recommended? [Music] They are they are policy updates. Yes, these these are they're new, right? Like in policy updates, you get new ones and

088you get Oh, from Yes. Okay. And but they're not mandatory, right? They're not mandatory. So that's why I present them and then let the board decide if they want to do it or not. It's first reading. So first reading only. If you don't feel comfortable, you don't have to. And if anybody has any concerns as you can go back and read them, please get them to us because we'll update that for the next week. Right. We also have another month to review to say yes or no. Yes. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Can I have a roll call, please? Mr. Sakone. Yes. Mr. Phill. Yes. Miss Lawrence, yes. Mr. Lee, yes. Dr. Snider, yes. Miss Ber, yes. Except for J one and two. I'm going to abstain just because I'm not familiar enough with the

089policies. Sorry. All motions carry. Okay. All right. Moving on to new business. Is there any new business anybody would like to bring up? I wondered if the board wanted to discuss the uh the new policy regarding Paris. Willingness to do so. Do you need a motion? Well, no, no. I just um just thoughts on that. Are we going to outline what the policy is? There is no policy. Yeah. No, we need to formulate but I'm just getting the willingness like what is your you know what is your wish to to move forward with that? I know we've been discussing it a long time in terms of and if there's a policy committee down the road that might be something for the committee to answer as well. Yes. But if we're born as a whole, we'll

090do it as a whole. We can do it another time. I mean, do you want some feedback on it? Oh, that's what I did. Missed over it. I already approved it. You can still speak in board form, too. We won't Yeah, we won't have a second executive. But what I do need to find out from this board is what meetings work for you in terms of the three dates in June that I gave just so we can wrap up an executive portion uh for the superintendent's evaluation and no action will be taken but this will be a second June meeting. You said the 12th is on the table. 12th to 17th. I go with the 12th. I guess the earlier better for me. What if we haven't completed the evaluation yet? I don't know that

091I can get it done in time and then they they have to formulate it to you. Right. They could turn it around in minutes actually, but can can we finish it in two days? My my son's graduation is on Friday, so I'd really rather not do something this week. Just say um I can do the 18th. Would you say the 18th was 11? Yes. The 18th is a date. Um, and the 17th I think I can do the 18th for 12th, 17th or 18th. I think Abby said the 18th would work for her. Honestly, the 17th is always anything on Tuesday is always the best day for me. Um, if you did on the 18th, I would just have to arrive late if that we can make it later. I just I have an obligation

092from 5 to 6 on that Wednesday. Okay. Um, but I could come after 6. It's hard for me to come before 5. Okay. Is everybody okay with 6 on the 18th? Yes. Yes. For you, John? Yeah. 6 p.m. Yeah, that should be fine. that okay for everybody again. Okay. But to be clear, you did say we're meeting on July 1st too, right? Yes. Because we have to meet with Dr. Antunes in discussion of that evaluation and then we would make that our work session as well if that works out with the administration to make our work session for July. And then we're not meeting with Justin the representative to discuss cow versus committee. Um, I know this board voted on it, but some people are still unsure. They seem to want committees as well as

093the cow. You can't do both. Well, can you have ad hoc committees? I think that's what Abby was interested in. In addition to being cortisol, but ad hoc means once or twice. You know, you don't you don't have them on a regular basis, only as needed. So, you don't have a monthly personnel meeting. In other words, meetings, I'll tell you that. We don't have we won't have that. Yeah. I mean cuz like one week we would have two meetings plus a board meeting. So that would be three meetings a month for most of us. And then I I I just think that if we're all sitting around together um in a workshop, we could all sit look at the policies together and we would have had a good understanding and everyone and we could eliminate

094we could give them feedback right then and there if there were things that wanted to be added. cut down the amount of emails, correspondence, and I think that I personally think a discussion among everyone is productive. That's what the pleasure of the board is. I just want to find that out for sure because it seems like we're you know, we're trying for a mix right now. And is that I'm just asking is that allow like we can kind of form our own hybrid version of the board. No. No. Because that the administration works for two if you want a calf, right? committee of a whole they have to have two full board meetings publicly announced and you have that full session of then they have to have the agenda ready earlier in the month so

095twice right they prepare for the agenda we discuss it it's public as you know and then you have another meeting so it's a lot of preparation you know and then you can't just say oh we want to throw in a committee meeting here or committee meeting there that's also an obligation of the administration that they have to meet with us certain times The whole purpose of a cow is to avoid the community unless you need one personnel wise policy sometimes. But I was under the impression that New Jersey school boards did not recommend personnel committees. They call it human resources. I believe I have the paper but I passed out tonight. I passed out code of ethics for schoolboard members, the board's roles and superintendent's roles just for everybody's edification and while we're doing the

096evaluation process, but yeah, they they define it as human resources. I just looked over that paper. Any other questions before we move on to public comment? Okay, we are at that portion public comment. So, let me just get it right on record. We We did say June 18th, right? Okay. Thank you. Uh, public comment floor is now open to members of the public. The board of education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues. The board requests that each statement made by a participant is limited to three minutes as cited in policy 0167. There is a sign-in sheet located on the podium. Please sign it before you speak. Would anyone like to speak? Yes, sir. [Music] Good evening. My name is uh Matthew Smith. I'm the father of Ron Smith. Uh his stepmother is

097John Smith and his mother is Aaron. Uh John, my wife, is extremely active as we all are in his school, daily life, everyday life. She's very active in the new school classroom does those parties and stuff like that. Uh yesterday afternoon I was excluded from the pizza with the principal. Um while my uh son's mother and my wife attended after I was told by Mr. Nazareth all three of us could not attend. Throughout the year he always preaches that we do what's in the best interest of the child. Best interest of the child. That's all that's all you hear. I don't know how alien one of their parents is within the best interest of the child. Um we explain the court order in the beginning of the year as well. Um so they are very

098aware of the court order. My days are my days. Mother's Days, mother's days. There's no interfering on those days. Uh I'm not sure what credentials Mr. Nazar has of blame disrespect court order to put me in to put me in my place. uh or what's really in the best interest of the child at home. For many children, especially my son, stepparents are more than just spouses. They're biological parents. Uh they are caregivers, mentors, and emotional pillars for all these children. Excluding them from school events can send the message that their role doesn't count, which can be hurtful to both the child and the steparents. By allowing more than two adults per child, we show that our district values all families and removes unnecessary bureaucracy in situations where multiple adults share legal and correctful parenting duties

099and signals that we recognize and respect blended and extended families. Allowing additional parents or guardians to attend events doesn't require major policy overhaul, just flexibility and trust. It can make a major difference in a child's emotional and well-being to have their key supporters present in these important moments, these academic academic achievements. This is not just about stepmoms or stepdads. That's about acknowledging that love, care, and parenting aren't always confined to traditional roles and that our schools can and should reflect understanding we teach our children to involve everyone and respect everyone in the classroom to make sure everyone is invited to birthday parties. So why are they teaching them that this is okay to exclude stepparents? In the beginning of the year, we came in and we were told if you can't invite everybody in the

100class to the birthday party, do not send invites to just one or two. That's exactly what just happened last night when one of the parents was excluded, which was me. No, no child should have to make that decision. I understand logistics can be tough, but again, there there needs to be it's not it's not rocket science. We we got to have flexibility here. We got to allow more than just two parents to be able to come in here when these academic achievements are are met and there has to be some flexibility. Thanks. Thank you for your comments. [Music] Who's 5 months. So, I typically would not think this is the form or this is really the time to speak after a public person speaks. However, in light that my character is attacked and much of

101what I just heard is completely inaccurate, I'm going to give you a different perspective. In our district, we are proud to host many, many events where community members are invited. And depending on what that event is, we do not have room for every parent or every adult that is actively involved in a child's life to attend. It's a matter of space. It's a matter of logistics as the previous speaker said. So those events are certainly open to more than just two adults. Other events are limited for space reasons and other reasons that we have to factor in. When we do have a school event, we do not ignore court orders. We do not ignore the law. What we do say is if it is a school event, we may limit that to two adults and

102then we leave that up to the parents to decide who those two adults were. In no way was any adult excluded. If there is a parent who did not come to the event in question, that was their choice not to attend. Nobody from the school district of Little A Harbor, not myself or any other adult, told any parent, you are not permitted to attend set event. That was the decision of the parents themselves. Now, there are other events where we can welcome more than two adults that are involved in the child's life. I will give you an example of an event where things are limited. Next week, we are going to have the joy of seeing our grade six students off the pipelines. Due to space reasons and logistics, that is not open to every

103parent involved in every grade six students life. We have a limit on how many parents can attend that particular event. Field day, which was a wonderful event, is not open to every single parent. we have a limit for safety reasons and others. So while I respect the previous speaker and we certainly see it differently, I hope that you can also take into my consider my comments into consideration because unfortunately some of what I heard was completely false, inaccurate and really disrespectful to me and the school. [Music] typically don't back and forth. The policy is is not on the same subject. I'm sorry. Okay. So, I have to come back next week. We we will defer to um the administration on this and yes, you can come back. Absolutely. Okay. Okay. Let's move on to board

104forum. Anybody else? I'm sorry. Anybody else in the audience want to speak? I'll see our administration. Couple people here. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Seeing none, moving on to board forum. Anything for the good of the group. I do want to clarify July 1st. Um Dr. Anton, you'll check that out as a work session for us and then executive we would have to write to the superintendent and discuss. No, I'm sorry. It's not meeting in June. We're going to ask that. No, we discuss her evaluation with her July 1st. It's final and it's due, but that doesn't require No, I I I got a little lost there. Did your first meeting to discuss her results of her evaluation? Does that require a rice notice? Yes. Yeah. So, both need a rice notice. Sorry about that.

105Um, okay. So, we have July 18, June 18th, sorry, and July 1st as our first sort of cow month. I mean, as a whole, July 1st, we have to call it a cow every time. Sorry, that's what the New Jersey school board calls it. What would you like to call it? Board is a whole meeting. Call it about [Music] Okay. Um, anybody want to speak? Uh, I'll go first. So, first I want to give uh all of those teachers who retired Oh, you need to Are you Are you on there, Craig? I am on. Yeah. Are you There we go. There you go. So, I want to give all those teachers who retired a huge congratulations. Um, those stories were just great to hear the impact that you have on each and every student um

106that you guys touched. Um, one thing that I did want to talk about is uh, as we heard tonight in the transportation um, uh, uh, speech before, which was a great uh, presentation. Um, I just wanted to see if there was any board appetite, especially at over $2 million um, uh, line item. Uh, if anybody wanted to revisit courtesy busing. Um, so we heard from the board attorney, you don't have to provide to people under two miles. Um the board sets what um what a hazardous route is and uh people free and reduced lunch uh are not necessarily entitled to it under two miles. Um I think can I interject for a second? It kind of cuts us off your nose despite your face because then it lowers our numbers and so then it cuts

107our funding also. Am I correct? So while you'll be saving busing but we'll get less money. Okay. Right after I finish. So, um I just wanted to see if anybody wanted to get maybe some kind of study done to see if we can save any money. Um just because we're taking them off the bus, um then the parents if they would like to elect, they can pay for the uh the busing. Um I'm sure there's different ways to go about it, but I think we can save a substantial amount of money or bring in money um by addressing courtesy busing and then if you have anything to say to that. I I mean I I just I don't know how much a study would cost and I know we did a study for shared services

108and regional, you know, I mean I Well, we did a committee group on transportation. Yes. And it didn't really although I I appreciate his questions because I for one thought that was a a legal requirement for the free and reduced and you bring up a good point that you don't see that in the law. And the other thing is uh with in light of all parents that do transport their own students, but they're saying that if then they say they need a a spot on the bus, then we have to give it. So I don't understand what they really do to help ourselves. I I mean I don't know. I'd like to know the reimbursement rate and stuff like that. Maybe you guys learned that on the transportation committee already. I don't we didn't get

109a lot of feedback on that. I'm not sure by transport uh by reimbursement rate. Uh, so we get state aid state on the bus. Is that correct? Is it substantial? Okay. I I can't remember off the top of my head how much we get per student, but that's easy to figure out because we just take the transportation aid divided by the number of bus riders. I mean, the place to save would probably be the ECC, too, where we do not get we have to provide it out of our own budget. Correct. Yes. So that's where is a good spot to try to save money is on those routes because those we're financially responsible for it. They pay for the education of third and fourth graders mainstream not special ed but we are required to provide

110the transportation. So there's some way to cut those routes. Well I thought we did get reimbured on those Mr. Green. I thought I question this go around. Okay. So, the state used to provide uh all the funding needed to transport all the students in preschool. Um about 3 years ago, they cut back on that and limited the amount that you could spend on transportation. And the balance of it has to be covered by the uh by the district. Is that substantial? Um somewhere around $250,000. Okay. Also, just as an aside, if if we're going to do subscription busing, which is it's have a parent pay for the seat on the bus, it's we're looking at about $400 to $600 per student. So, Mr. Clover said he's got four children. He it'd be depending upon the

111route, $400 4 to $600 per each child that he has for that bus. So, we want to keep that in mind in a district with an almost 50% free and reduced lunch rate, the number of parents who would be able to afford to pay for subscription busing. Just something to keep in mind if we're going to do a study, that's all. Okay. And I don't I don't know if I'm understanding this with this safe route part of it, but so you're saying anybody that lives within two miles, they would not have they'd just have to get to school. I couldn't imagine with the way the roads are and all that traffic in the morning and afternoon of asking kids to walk down the road to get to school where there's no sidewalks and people are

112not people are going into people's driveways from what I've been told to make U-turns and whatnot. I would be I would be a afraid to see what that mess would make. And and for me, you know, taking a 32.5% tax increase and then asking a parent of four children to pay another $2,400 potentially to bus their kids to school. That's I I couldn't do that on top of Well, I think a big part is trying to get our financial ship in order uh for next year. So, we want to do anything we can protect ourselves financially. Uh where can we save money? We're very limited as we know now. Um, it looks like busting over to a million dollar line item. We do have something readily available at our fingertips. I think it's worth exploring.

113Going back to the busing when Mike said that we're talking about the $2 million. I was doing a little bit of math in my head and uh we're talking about $180,000 per bus if we were to purchase a bus at 18 to 20, which would be $3.6 million total roughly. Okay. With that being said, we're gaining an asset over time, which is a bus, a vehicle, part of the school. So, it's something I think I I would personally want to look more into, and I'm not sure if any other board members would want to look into something like that. Maybe Mike could get us a breakdown. Maybe we could do it gradually, talk about it gradually, picking up five, six, seven buses per year. Um, and that would ultimately save us money because we own

114the asset. We're not giving $2 million a year for nothing. So, I just had a conversation with Mike either last week or yesterday, I don't know, whatever it was, about an implementation plan, a 3 to 5year transportation implementation plan to present to the board at the end of the summer, the beginning in or in the fall to talk about doing basically exactly what you're saying. Wouldn't I wouldn't recommend a full fleet for Little Lake Harbor, but an increase in the number of buses that we have, which will also increase some other things. as she said, but exactly. I'm sorry. Well, I was just saying where are you going to put them? Right. All those things. We don't have the land to put them anywhere. There's a lot across the street. You're going to need the

115garage. Yes. I said there's a lot across the street for sale. And what about the field? I mean, that I know that was not really being used. Could that be a possibility? We can look at all of those things a possibility. Sure. But to answer your question, Greg, for myself personally, I would not be interested in cutting courtesy busing. Most mostly because I don't want to be responsible for someone, god forbid, walks home within the two-mile district and and gets into an accident and gets injured. We've already said about people complaining with the parent pickup, you know, now we have kids mixed into that walking. Uh so no, I would not have an appetite for that. Yeah. Cuz also too, I mean, you generally used to have a few kids took busing, they could, you

116know, my kids would be off the corner. I'm two doors down. When my mom was there, she could stand there and see the kids coming from the bus to the house. I mean, asking kids to walk a distance, now you're going to potentially ask parents to have to have, you know, a sitter or ask someone to pick them up from the stop. And I I think, you know, CO is still fresh for a lot of people like trying to figure out child care during those times. And so, um, yeah, I I see Yeah, I see your point there. But the extra busing that we're doing, I think we really have to reel that in a little bit because we're doing things that just out of the kindness of our hearts that it's costing us extra

117money, extra drivers, things like that. I agree. Yeah. So, so parents, you know, need to be aware of that. Um, but I like your idea, Greg, of revisiting and John, maybe just re-evaluating how we can save money. That's a big line item. You said a huge line item. Yep. Yeah. and and going out for bid. I mean, might might be worth taking the risk. I don't know. Definitely gambling on that. You're definitely on I rather I rather gamble on putting assets into just it. Okay. Anything else for the fourth? Well, we can follow up on that. There's an ad hoc committee. We can definitely have an adhoc committee. you know, we want to look into that more and I'm going to look into the policies on transportation just for for the um disciplinary things we're

118looking into. Yeah. So, I could follow up on that, but um so I'll go next. Go ahead. Uh and just because you mentioned that one, uh Mr. Cobbert did a great presentation and one of the things I wanted to throw out there is potentially, you know, every summer we come up with board goals or district goals. Maybe we can look at that 1500 writeup number and make it a goal to reduce that somehow or to really address that issue in particular. I know in the past we've addressed uh special education and having kids integrated in general education. We've looked at uh math scores, reading scores, but it seems issues on the bus keep coming up and they've never really shown a light on it and uh maybe that's now's the time to address that. So,

119just something to think about as far as the writeups on the bus. Great. Um, just a couple other things. Uh, I just want to applaud people like Matt and his uh wife and Ronan's mom. I know them personally, but I know there's a lot of parents out there that want to be involved in their kids' lives. Uh, that they come to the school every chance they get. And I've always had this question over the years. Uh my wife and I, we try to go to a lot of events and sometimes there are uh only two people allowed, you know, two parents and then we go there and there's only like three parents total. And I just want to um in general understand that is it up to the um teacher in the local like in

120the classroom events, is it up to the teacher? If they say, "Hey, whoever wants to come, we can only accept two." Then only three people show up. Are they allowed to open that up to more? I understand the space. Um, but I think a lot of times when I've asked about this, the teacher said, "Well, it's just a hard fast policy. It's two people, two people, two people." So, I'm just throwing that out there. I know it's a district-wide question cuz each building's different. But just in my own personal experience, um, my wife and I both would want to go to event, only one of us could go and then we get there and then we, oh man, we could have went because there's no other adults here. So, that's just something Perhaps RSVP. I

121don't know if they do that here, but RSVP would be nice. Can I ask on that topic, Chris? So, for example, say if there's a classroom party and that event is going to be, let's throw out a time frame, 3 hours, right? Or two hours. Could there be something in place possibly where the parent could switch with the other parent within that time frame? So like you get an hour, you get to go into the bar and enjoy it and then the next parent would come in and uh basically take that next hour. Very good idea. And you know I just say that not to get into the weeds of it but I think there might be some confusion as to who has the authority to make that final decision. Typically it's up to the

122building administrator. Okay. So if that's just clear if teachers do have the flexibility in certain situations then just so that they know that um I do also want to thank everybody with the 20 years plus service. Um you know there's some people retiring as well. No matter how you got here uh you know thank you for all your service. Um I gave a speech recently regarding uh the difference between good teachers and great teachers. And you know, good teachers make sure you want to succeed in school. Great teachers want to make sure you succeed in life. And there was a lot of great teachers that are unfortunately leaving our district for whatever reason. But I just want to say thank you for your service and all the kids that you touched and mentored over the

123years. Um, our district is definitely better for it. And special thank you to Kelly. She uh when she first came on board two years ago, uh she came out to our CPAG special education parent advisory group event in the summer. We had a um sort of like a playd date with all uh the kids uh in the special ed program at the local park. And I remember Kelly came out and introduced herself to all the parents and to the kids. And she didn't have to do that, but she wanted to come out and show that she was 100% committed to our district. and over the past two years, you've shown that you brought your, you know, 25 plus years of experience of special education to our district, and I think you've made it a lot

124better. So, thank you very much. And, uh, Dr. Charles Idler, welcome to our district. Uh, you have big shoes to fill, so I'm hoping you're taking some notes right now as you're sitting next to Kelly. Uh but we do have a very passionate um very passionate group of parents who have kids in special ed special education program. Myself included. Uh my son Matteo has Down syndrome and we um advocate hard for our kids because you know we really care about them and I know this district has a lot of caring parents that will demand the best for our kids. And so I just hope you're prepared for that. Uh it's nothing personal, but we want what's best for our kids and we want to work with you and the district to make sure that they

125get the best education possible. So, but I just wanted to welcome you as well. Thank you. Um Dr. Antunes, you said about read, read, read over the summer. I'm a huge advocate of reading. Um, when my son Matteo first came to the district, we made it a goal since he was 10 months old to read a thousand books to him before kindergarten. There's like a a nonprofit organization called 1,000 books before kindergarten. My wife had found it and by the time our son stepped into kindergarten, we had read over 7,000 books to him. And we really attribute his success early on to reading to him. uh you know, sometimes it's the same book over and over, but it's just that time together and those words being spoken to them over and over that really does

126make a difference. And I think our school and the local library has teamed up to uh offer rewards for kids that participate in that program. It's called 1,000 books before kindergarten. Every time you read like a 100 books, you can print off something and take a picture with your kid and, you know, put on Facebook and celebrate that. And they go all the way up to a thousand. So, that's a really good program. A thousand kids before kindergarten. You know, it's something that parents can strive for. And then finally, Mr. Sailor, I know he's not here anymore, but he uh definitely inspired me to write a haiku for the next meeting. Thank you. Anyone else? Um go. Um, I just wanted to shout out to um Tiffany Middle Coupoop who is uh stepping down at

127the end of the month from the PTO. Um, she I don't know how she does what she does. Um, I've had the fortunate um or the pleasure of working with her where she's done some things for us over at Pinelands with the Wildcat Shack. I always see her out in front of Walmart selling the cookies with the, you know, doing the Girl Scouts. but the things that she's done for this district um and with her, you know, her her crew in in in the organization um just beyond commendable. So, I I really do feel like she deserves a little bit of a shout out before she ends her tenure this month on I believe it's the 30th. Um and then I just wanted to say to congratulations to all the retirees. Um my light at

128the end of the tunnel is getting a little brighter. We're getting there. Um, so very happy for them and for all of those that have had the milestone uh years in the district. And then finally, just wish all the teachers and staff uh nice summer, great summer. Take time to recharge, spend time with your family. Um, try not to think about school until maybe the middle of August. I don't know, never make it past July 15th, but um, yeah, and just everybody have a great summer. Thank you, Alison. Okay. I would also like to thank all of those for years of service. However many years of service you have at the district, it's it takes a lot um to teach and to come in and um the children of today are not the children of

1295 years ago or not the children of yesterday. Um so it's it's definitely um different and we greatly appreciate you. Also, I believe it's Mrs. Yuriro. I believe we used to do the week of a young child back in the day. That's when I started in the district in volunteering. So, I wish her well in her retirement. And Mrs. Saunders, she also made my daughter an Eagles fan, which my husband was not very happy about cuz she was there the year that they got to go to the diner for um the Eagles victory. Um so, I wish her a very happy and joyous uh retirement. As for the teachers that are coming in for summer school, I want to say thank you. Um, it takes a lot to come back after a quick turn around.

130You think, "Okay, I'll have a week or two off. It'll be good. I'll come in refreshed. Speaking from someone who had a week off in between semesters, it goes by really, really fast." And you sometimes you think, "Oh, what was I thinking?" But we very much appreciate you. The kids appreciate you. And speaking as a parent who has had children in the summer program, it's a great program and they really do enjoy what you do. So, thank you and have a wonderful summer. Um, and everyone try to do something on your bucket list. And for those of you, we'll see you back in September. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I did owe the uh congratulations to all the retirees and the people who have served so long in the district. It's truly phenomenal. And I

131just want the teachers to realize that we do appreciate them and we do have their backs in terms of advocating for discipline and advocating for uh classroom management because I don't know that I could do your job what you do on a daily basis especially with the amount of kids in the room. I have a niece who's a fifth grade teacher. She tells me all the time she's mostly managing behaviors. So, you know, we do get it and we're trying to advocate on our end um for the betterment of the schools, betterment of the students. Um maybe some parent education I was thinking of too that might help. Um but we need to support our teachers and and the students. I think that's it. Our next meeting is June 18th and we're not going into

132a second executive. So, can I have a a motion to adjourn? Motion. Second. All in favor? I I