001All right. Let me know. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, Laura, go ahead. We're live. All right. Can everybody hear me? All right. Call to order. This is a This is to advise the general public that in compliance with the open public meetings act, the Lil Harbor Board of Education meeting was advertised in the Asbury Park Press, Atlantic City Press, and posted at the office of the board of education located at 307 Broadon Road, Little Lake Harbor, New Jersey, and posted at the office of the municipal clerk of Little Lake Harbor. Roll call, please. Mr. Sakone, here. Mr. Mr. Fichello. Mr. Fichello. Chris, I think he's frozen. All right. Here. I'm staying here. Okay. Uh, Miss Lawrence here. Mr. Leega here. Dr. Snyder here. Miss Martin here. Miss Ber here. You have quorum. Okay. Um, can we
002recite the pledge of allegiance? Yes, we can. I have a flag in my office ready for this. Okay. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation under God indivisibley and justice for all. Thank you. All right. I recommend a motion to approve the agenda tonight. Uh Laura, did you did you have an amendment that you wanted to make? Well, yes. Yes. I thought the resolution is going to be on there, but yes, I I would like to add the resolution if that's all right uh with my letter to the budget Senate budget committee. Is that okay with everyone? If so, can I have a motion? And would you like me to read the motion? We didn't get that ahead of time. Yeah, I
003sent it to the board members, but just to have it on record. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Resolved that the board of education approve the submission of a letter to the New Jersey State Budget Committee Chair in support of more P funding to public schools. And every And everybody has a co all the board members have a copy of your letter. All right, with that, thank you. Can I have a motion? Motion. I have a second. Second. Second. Are there any questions? Okay. All in favor? Or is that your Robert? I'm sorry. That's okay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Any abstensions? The motion carries. Okay. The floor is now open to the members of the public. The board of education recognizes the value of public comment on educational issues. The board requests that each
004statement made by a participant is limited to three minutes as cited in policy 0167. There is a sign in sheet. Please sign in or please state your name before you speak. And we have access for the public to actually call in. Yes, they do. Okay. Okay. So they're they're admitting people into the meeting who have signed up to speak. Okay. I hope I'm going to be able to hear them. I'll let you know what they say if you can't. Okay. Say it. It's just saying okay. Oh, we can't. Well, we can't do all 200. Okay. So, yeah, apparently there's a lot of people that want to speak and they can't get in. That's I have a neighbor also that said the same thing as Allison. Okay. So, um uh yeah, I thought they could call
005in. Apparently, they're waiting to get in the Zoom. Okay. Okay. Do you have a list of people who were who were trying to get into the Zoom? I don't. I I just had a neighbor text me. I I was on the live version and there is no phone number listed. So, I just went to there from here. You know, I see the closed captions because I have closed captioning in. But there's no phone number posted unless you have a phone number. Even the admin can't get in. message to everyone in the waiting room asking who wants to speak. Oh, okay. We're sending a message to everyone in the waiting room asking who wants to speak because it's it's either an all or nothing. You have to let them all in or or none. So, is
006Amy Easturner first speaker? Can you say that again, Chris? Is Amy Eastburn our first speaker? We don't know yet. Well, she's on the she was admitted as one of the participants. We're asking to see who's who wants to speak and we're going to admit those people in. So, I just got another text saying that people are trying to get in parents and staff members to ask questions, but they can't. Okay. Is the note out there to say if you want to get in, please? Okay. And who's who's did nobody Okay. I'm not sure you can see the chat in the waiting room. Can you Yeah. No, you can't. You can't see the chat. Not in the waiting room. You have to be in to see the chat. So, you either have to start letting people
007in or a plan B. Is there any way you could get the phone number any other way? What's What's he doing? We're just going to let one person at a time. Okay. All right. We're going to let We're going to start letting people in. Okay. Oh, it's there. Please respond to this message if you'd like to make a public. Yes, but I just got a text message saying there's no chat in the waiting room, so they don't see that. Okay. Can he put a chat in the waiting room? But did you You're only talking to us in that chat. The only for us. It It doesn't work that way. They're on the outside. Either you let everybody in or you don't. Which come and look. Come and look. No, there's This is all I see.
008Michelle, would you like to speak? No. Okay, Cindy, can you can you can you let them in just in the chat and like mute them and tell them if they want to chat? You can't mute them all? Okay. Miss Plesi, would you like to speak? Miss Pig, Miss Pacy, would you like to speak? Okay. So, she all right. She's on mute. So, she's a no. Who's next on the list? And Jessica, would you like to speak? Nick, are they unmuted? Because they're showing is muted on my screen. All right. Can you can you unmute the people that you're letting in? They are muting themselves. Oh, they're mute. Okay. So, they're muting themselves. All right, Nick, let them in. If they're if they're if they're muting themselves, then then they can't hear me. So, now they're
009saying they can see the chat box, but there's no Let me see what it wrote. Um, can see chat now, but no response box in order to be able to respond to write something in there. Hey. Um, I'm being bombarded with text messages right now, so I'm just going to try to replay what's going on. People are saying that they were never told it was going to be on YouTube and they can't get in. Um, people are concerned about there being a waiting line of everybody who needs to speak. Um, they're very I My phone has been blowing up constantly now for the last 45 minutes. So, can you state your name? Amy English. And Jacqueline Finnegan was in the in the waiting room. She got booted out. So, we're in a whole group chat
010and we're just trying to figure out what's going on. Parents are on the Facebook page saying that they were never notified that it was going to be on YouTube. They have no way of contacting anybody. So, can this be meeting be adjourned until the tech issues get worked out because there's hundreds of people trying to get in? Yeah, I think we should reschedu. I do think there's too many technical difficulties here. I'm good with that. I I'll also Okay. So, I'm going to just Can somebody make a motion and somebody else second it? Well, can we discuss on what date we're going to be talking about here? Because I thought there was an urgency to have it today and that's why I modified my schedule to be here this evening. We can't have it without
011public comment. So, I appreciate that, but can we decide to do it Thursday? We need a couple I can't do it Thursday. I I can't. Christine Christine, once we make the motion and somebody seconds it, then we can open it up for discussion. Okay. Okay. So, can someone make a motion? I'll motion it. Okay. John Sakone is the first. Yes, I Okay. And and Mr. Leega is the second. What's the motion? Uh the motion is to postpone the to discuss to postpone the meeting and discuss a meeting that can be held uh live. Okay. So, this this discussion is what's a good date for everybody? Oh. Oh, wait. Live. Yes. Because I thought we were going to postpone till Wednesday or Thursday. We could do it virtual. That doesn't work out. Well, that's what that's
012what we're discussing now. I think I don't think we should do virtual. I think live is best. I think there's too many people to consider this virtual. If we have 200 people in the waiting room right now, um I think there's too many questions. Um, and I, you know, I just don't think it's possible. Um, Thursday's a really difficult day for me, but I was under the impression that this had to be done today. Is that not correct that we did not have to approve it by this deadline of today? The county office was encouraging us to do it as soon as possible, but it was not required. So, and I and I'm out of state, so I was hoping to get this done tonight. We'll we'll be able to we'll be able to put
013you in virtually. Laura, can we do next Monday uh live? I can't do Mondays. I have CL night class and I let them out. Next Tuesday. It should be this week. It should be this week. Wednesday possibly. I'm going to fly out to Florida on Thursday. So, Wednesday would work for me. If that's works for that would be this week, but otherwise Tuesday next week would be for me. I can do Wednesday. I'll make myself available for Wednesday. Abby, Abby, you have to be available because I won't be there to run the meeting. Just in case there's any more glitches, I'd like you to run the meeting. 11. I'll make whatever day work that I need to. I'm good for Wednesday, right? Yeah. I'm sorry, guys. I can't be there. But Laura, we can we
014can put you in virtually. That's what I'm saying. I don't Yeah, I don't like to run the meeting virtually, but Well, you won't you won't have to. Abby said that she would take over. Okay. What time on Wednesday? 7 o'clock. Okay. With everybody after six is best for me. Seven is good. The earliest I'd be available is 7. 7:30 would work best for me. Uh but I can make seven work. Okay. So So I'm hearing that we'll res we'll reschedule the meeting for um for March 20 Wednesday, March 26th at 7 p.m. Yes. Yes. That gives the newspapers enough time. Yeah, we we have just under 48 hours. We only have to send it out. We'll we'll send it out right. We'll send it out right now. Email blast and we have to send it
015on our our messenger hopefully for the parents. Yes, we can do that. And and just a reminder, this will be live. Everybody comes to the board of ed comes to the And can I just ask a question? Can we This needs to be in person. Yes, correct. Can can I uh can we accommodate people that were able to attend this evening because it was virtual and possibly allow them to email questions that they would like read and answered at the board meeting? Well, it's for comment. It's for public comment, not necessarily back and forth, but they they can comment certainly. I mean, we used to have it years ago that um you know, the public would send in questions to be addressed at the board meeting. So, it's not a back and forth, but at
016least they can have if they have a question regarding the budget or anything about this that they could have answered that evening. Cuz think about it, when do we ever have 200 people potentially trying to one of our meetings? Don't forget, this is a special meeting. There's going to be another meeting accepting the budget. I appreciate that, but there's a possibility that people want to put their input when they feel that it's still going to be heard before we're finalizing it. That's just me from being a parent in the past. I you guys that's fine, but we don't normally go back and forth with every comment is what I'm saying. Or answer every single question. The board's questions, you know, they're free to ask questions. It's a board meeting, but people public comment, they're free
017to comment on anything they want. Well, could we uh start to populate a list of those individuals that came out tonight that would like to comment, not have a back and forth comment about what they want to comment about, populate that list so that they will get that opportunity. We just go in order. They can reach out and send an email that they would like to have the opportunity to have three minutes to make a comment. Can you put them on a list? Yeah, that they can come to the meeting and and we'll have a list. Well, I just thinking if there's that this many people, it might be organized. We can organize it. It can be organized. Yeah. We can't promise that we read everybody's comments if they're three minutes long. But I mean,
018they can submit commentary for sure. Send We don't We don't have a time length on public comment. We don't have it's not in our policy anywhere that public comment is list limited to an hour and a half limited to two hours are there if people are there for three hours they could be there for three hours so we don't have that having this in advance and potentially answering these questions what I'm saying Christine is that the board doesn't have to read all the public comment they can submit it ahead of time I'm just saying people that want to speak. They let it be known that they would like to speak. So, we have an idea of how many people are planning on speaking. They're going to come and say what they want to say and
019they're given, you know, as Christine's saying, they can there isn't a time limit, but at least they know they're going to get an opportunity by getting their name on the list. Kind of like getting into the club. You know what I mean? But, uh, Allison, every there is a time limit. Three three minutes per person. Every everybody's in the club. Anybody who wants to speak is allowed to speak. There's there's no it's an unlimited amount of time that the board allows for each individual to speak. But understand I think there is there a time limit that we have to end the board meeting on Wednesday. We are starting later and I'm there's no time limit. So we can be there till one o'clock in the morning. I've been I've done it before. I have a
020question though. What if there's just an email address that people that are on here now want to comment? you know, maybe they can't make it Wednesday, but they want to just have their voice heard. Is there an email address that someone can send an email to? Thank you, Chris. That's perfect. You have a district email. That's okay. But we cannot read those. I understand that, Laura, but I want to see what the the public has to say and what their thoughts are. And since they're here already, the very least, after making them wait, we should be able to give them an opportunity to tell us what they're thinking. Anybody can email. But Laura, we're trying. This is a very challenging time and this did not go well for any of us involved this evening and
021I realize some technical things were out of our control. Cindy, no, but I do think that the people that took the time to sign on and waited for us to start, they have a right to be heard by us. Compassion. Saying they don't have a right to be heard. You're saying they don't have a right to be heard. as I'm speaking to make it easy for them if there's a generic email so they don't have to go on the website and look up every one of us. Is there like info at Little Harbor School District? Yeah, we're creating we're creating one right now. We're going to create one right now. We're in the midst of creating one and then you're going to post it in the chat. Yes. Yes. Yes. And then anybody that's on
022here that you know wants to comment or question or you know just like a regular comment correct just send it to that email. Yeah. Just everybody everybody stays on and we're going to post it in the comment being created right now. There is a comment in the chat stating 152 people are currently watching on YouTube. YouTube comments in chat are off. I understand we I don't think they're ever turned on but the comment is in the chat. I don't And I think what Chris and I, and I don't like to speak for other people ever, but um we just value the people that came out tonight um logged on, even if you're comfy sitting on your couch watching it, we really appreciate it and we want you to get your chance email on YouTube. Okay.
023So, we're going to get that email posted on YouTube very shortly. Oh, and in this chat, too. All right, just give us a few minutes. We'll have that. Is there anything else we can do in the meantime or just wait for that? Yeah, we got the meeting time. But but is it 200 people at about 10 hours? Robert, did you hang up on me? Nope, I'm still here. Okay. Okay. So, right now, we're just waiting. We're create getting an email created so that we can post it on YouTube and in the chat so that um everybody can send in a comment or a question via the uh email. All caps. Okay. Go ahead and post it. Okay. Email is about to be posted on YouTube and in the chat. Apologize to the Robert. I'd like
024to apologize to the public for uh this uh technology problem. I guess it is technical difficulty. Yeah. And uh apologize and you know they'll have their chance to be be in person now because of this. Okay. So somebody's asking it to be posted on Facebook. We'll post it on our Facebook website. Okay. Or not website on our Facebook page. Okay. We'll get that posted on the Facebook page, too. Okay, there it is. L E Go ahead, Chris. L E H S D as in school district. B O E as in board of education. Q A at lessd.org. So, I'll repeat that. LH S D B O E QA at lessd.org. Did we get it on the YouTube page yet? There's no chat in YouTube. Okay, we're there's no chat in the YouTube. So, we'll post
025put it on our screen somehow and this way people will see it. You know, use a whiteboard something on Zoom. Drop it in the chat. They're seeing the chat now, too. No, but on YouTube they can't see the chat, can they? Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Oh, if we put it on the a whiteboard or something, then everyone will be able to see it. Uh Amy English said to write on a piece of paper and hold it up. Christine's grabbing paper. Ready? B O E Q. Okay. She's uh uh we're going to put it up on the YouTube right now. There's mine. I don't know if you can see mine. I can't see me. And you might as well put it on the the text message that went out an hour ago about this
026meeting because everyone is probably signing in through there as well. I don't think you can see me, but But there should be a whiteboard application. You can just put the whiteboard up and put it on there. Click. Okay. You could see who's talking and you can see over. Okay. I want to show you our superintendent. There she is. Miss Guski or Gagookski, we can hear you. You need to mute, please. You guys are live. We can hear and see you. Now, Robert, I guess we could talk about this later or now. Um, as you get these emails, how is it going to be distributed to the board? How are we going to get to see all these? Is it going to be aggregated or um I can I can print copies out and send them
027to the board. Why don't we see what we get and then we can determine how best to distribute it. Yeah, however you guys come up with the way to do it. Want to make sure we see it. Okay, it's now up on the uh it's now up on the um YouTube site. Thank you for the whiteboard, AB. You're welcome. Can you make this I do this all day for work. Can I make it bigger? Think so. Anybody that can see that can hit the little plus on the right hand corner of the bottom of the screen. It'll go bigger for them. There she goes. She's got it. [Music] Might your box. Okay, good. Thank you. And they just made a suggestion. Can you please include the email with the announcement, the new the new meeting
028notice and the reminder via Blackboard? So, if we could just make sure that anything that goes out regarding the new meeting has this email and that was from the chat. Yeah. Anywhere we post this will be on there. Anything public Is there is there a Zoom webinar license that we could have gotten here that might have helped us out? No, this was this was it. We got the pro package again. In the past, uh, Greg, what we would do, I don't know if that, uh, we would, um, there would be a number, a phone number, and people would call in on YouTube live, um, and we would pause, give people a chance to call in, and that's how we would answer it and respond to their questions. Um, this is the first time that we've
029ever tried to do it with just Oh, so was that John? Um, the last the last time. This is the first time we've ever tried to do it strictly through Zoom. Well, there were so many people that the president couldn't even get in. So, this was a bad idea, I guess. Well, I don't think in the past we've ever included the Zoom link. We've let We've never done it where we've let people have the Zoom link. This is the first time we've done that. In the past, we've done it where they've watched live and the phone number and the Zoom was just for board members. That's what we did during co Facebook. Amanda in the chat said, "Can you please send us out to all the parents in the community via text and email the
030same way you're notified everyone about the special meeting?" Yes, that's what I said before. Yep. I agree. Yeah. All right. So, what else do we have to do right now? I think we have to adjourn the meeting. I hope that this many people come in person. I know I say this all the time and I know this is um very different circumstances, but uh it'd be really great to see people in person regularly um just to have regular attendance from the community and parents. Um so if you can make the time, please do. Yes. Sorry, just wanted to say that. I'm happy. Yep. Does anybody else want to say anything before we adjourn? I just want to thank everyone for coming out and I do really hope that I get to see everyone's questions um
031if they submit them um and that we have a chance um to address them if you have a question. And I do hope that you also are able to come in public on Wednesday. Um because I do think this is a very important topic and we really do want the public's input and we really want to hear from everyone. Um I do not forget where I came from and I remember being a parent sitting in the audience um as agendas are being passed and people are saying yes. So I very much listen to people when they speak. So, please know that and thank you for coming tonight. Yeah, I just want to say I apologize for the way this uh meeting went. It wasn't our intention to do, you know, all these technical things. Um,
032but we did provide a way for you to have your voice heard. We definitely want to hear uh what you have to say, whether it's via email or if you show up on Wednesday. It's going to be a tough next couple months. Um, and we do want to hear, we want to make sure that you have a voice and that we want to hear the feedback. Um, thank you for joining us tonight and thank you very much for your patience. Thank you, Chris. Okay. Anyone else? I have a motion to adjurnn. Motion. Second. All those in favor? I I I I I Thank you. Good night. We'll see you Wednesday at 7 o'clock. Right. Correct. I thought it was 7:30. No, no. 7 p.m. Chris said that or somebody else said that. Frank said 7:30.
033I think it was better for him. Yeah, we have to do what works for the public and uh also we're expecting a lot of comment. I think the earlier the better. Seven's fine. I would agree. Okay, we're going to close the meeting now. Okay. Good night. Good night. Good night.