001This meeting of the MAMA Board of Education is open to members of the public to be physically present. Members of the public that attend will be asked to follow the same procedures as all other visitors to our schools. Those procedures can be found on the agenda page of our website. Additionally, the board meeting will be livereamed for viewing purposes only. Anyone wishing to view the meeting may do so by Zoom. Webinar ID for this meeting is and the required password is 096382. I call this meeting to order. Roll call please. Mr. L. Mr. Copan here. Mr. Evanro here. Mr. Dilva. Mr. Denise here. Mr. Gallow here. Mr. Ugh here. Miss Jansen. Mr. Karski. Dr. Mort here. Adequate notice of the agenda for this meeting has been provided to the Ridgewood News and the record specifying
002that the MA Board of Education will meet on July 9th, 2025 in the administrative offices 60 Ridge Road, MA, New Jersey. Copy was filed with the township clerk. Uh salute to the flag Mr. Gallow. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. We do require a brief executive session in the beginning. So I need a motion to recess to exec. Mr. Gallow, second by Mr. Hughes. About 10 minutes. Okay, thank you very much. We'll be right back. Oh, well, it's five minutes then. It's not my fault. It's good. Um, she was kind of cancerous. She turned on cancerous. Yes. Alex, what you should do is grab one of the agenda
003in that pile just so you have it and then we'll talk about what that looks like. All right. Thanks, buddy. It's all because Yeah. today. Yay. Not graduation or anything. part of the extra service. All right, I need a motion to reconvene to public action meeting. Mr. Hughes, second by Mr. Dallow. All right, let's move on now to agenda questions. Please limit your questions at this time to resolutions under new business on this agenda. As a matter of fairness, you're asked to limit your questions to no more than one and your remarks to no longer than three minutes. If you're here representing a group, please identify yourself, the group, and your position in the group. You're here as an individual. Please provide us your name and address. This section of public participation will be limited
004to 15 minutes. I need a motion to open the meeting to the public. Mr. Coplin, second by Mr. Hughes. We are officially open to the public. Okay, I need a motion to close the meeting to the public. Mr. Hughes, second by Mr. Dallow. Uh, we do not have a MA student representative report this morning. Uh, so let's go to Dr. Turra, superintendent's report. Uh, my report is brief, but I wanted to take a moment just to say congratulations to our graduates and also uh thank both the Rampo Ridge Yamaha High School administrative team and then all those involved. I know Mr. Rosa takes the lead on Ma High School graduation. It was absolutely spectacular as it is every single year. Um it's it's great to celebrate our kids and all the work and also get
005a chance to celebrate our teachers. So, thank you to all involved in the graduations this year. It was wonderful that we had them inside so we didn't have to worry about the heat that other districts had challenges on. Um last uh but not least, this is a perfect time uh to see how our facilities are used over the summer. Um, not only do we have uh safety town and our booster program and our ESY program, there are more educational based opportunities for our kids in the community, they're being utilized. Lenipy Meadows, Betsy Ross, um, Rampo Ridge is going to be used for our police academy, junior police academy. Um, but we also have our wreck programs and various sports programs that are used throughout our district. You know, we talked a lot about our facility
006use throughout throughout the year, but during the summer, we have hundreds, if not thousands of children coming through, utilizing our facilities both academically and athletically. Um, and it's great to see um the work that's being done with the kids and the use of our facilities across all the different buildings, whether it's the high school, whether it's Joyce Kilmer School, Betsy Ross, Lenipe Meadows, Ramapo Ridge. Um, so I just wanted to share that with you. So if you do have time and you're, you know, during the day you want to drive by, you can see all of our fields being used and our facilities being used by our community. It's a it's a great site to see. That's all. Thank you, Dr. Jurro. Um, our business administrator report. Mr. Lamb, do you have a report for
007us? Sure. Just uh very briefly, our business office staff is working hard closing out the 2425 budget, opening up the 2526 budgets. Thank you to them. Uh we're continuing planning on work uh for the referendum with our architects and engineers. Uh we will be uh updating the shared services agreement with the town for the school security officers. Uh we will be renewing the lease with the YMCA uh for buildings for their afterare and child care programs. Uh thank you to Carlos and Fabian and their team. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we are swapping out our copy machines. And again, we're getting newer upgraded copers, and we're saving about $37,000 compared to our old contract. And then Greg Romero and the facilities team are working hard, a lot of summer maintenance on boilers, HBAC, fire alarm system.
008Uh, and there were the two big summer projects, the roof replacement for the high school cafeteria and the freezer in the high school cafeteria as well. So, thank you to everyone. Thank you, Mr. Lamb. Um, our assistant superintendent report, Dr. Fair. Yes. With no audio visual. No, I understand. No, but July 23rd, we we have some things planned. So, um, this morning's report will also be brief. So, as Dr. Doro shared, obviously summer school is in full swing. Um you'll see at your places we have a information sheet related to safety town which ended at the tail end of June at Betsy Ros School. Aron Seaffort and Angela Nosto who coordinate the week have shared the information sheet with uh our families who participated. Uh students learned about sun safety, fire safety, handwashing, pedestrian safety,
009what to do in in an emergency, bus safety, water safety, animal safety, community helpers, and uh playground slashike safety. Uh so we will share some images related to our summer school programs uh at our next board meeting uh later this month. But uh thank you to our staff for making uh summer learning fun for our kids. And the last piece which I've uh shared with all of our board members via email is you'll see on this morning's agenda we have a range of personnel positions uh that we're recommending for appointment to you. Uh I just wanted to thank the board for uh their flexibility um working to fill vacancies uh with the best talent possible especially with regards to those board resolutions indicated on the agenda with an asterisk that we've added in the last
01024 hours. So any remaining hires we plan to have filled for the July 23rd agenda. Thank you very much. Thank you. Um all right. I have just really no president's report either that very brief. Um again congratulations to all our graduates and hope everyone's having a good summer and I would echo uh what Dr. Durro said. Um it just seemed like a very um impressive graduation and uh and this class seems uh seems very impressive too to hear uh their accolades and to hear the speeches etc. Um very very very good stuff. Um all right board committee reports. Do we have any this morning? Uh all right board member remarks. All right. Let's take old business 17 A and B. I need a motion on the floor. Mr. Coplan, second by Mr. Gallow. Mr. Lamb.
011Roll call, please. Mr. Cofflin, yes. Miss Deer, yes. Mr. Gallow. Yes. Mr. Hughes. Abstain. Dr. Morton. Yes. All right. Let's take uh new business 18. Um I I think let's take 18A separately regarding um the um communications for Bishop for the referendum. So let's take 18A. Um motion on the floor Mr. Coplin second by Mr. Hughes. Mr. Lamb. Can we take 18A? Thank you. 18. Mr. Coplin. Yes. Miniro. Yes. Mr. Denise. Yes. Mr. Gallow. Yes. Mr. News. No. Dr. Yes. All right. Now, let's take 18 B through J. Motion on the floor. 18 B through J. Mr. Copan. Second by Mr. Q. 18 B through J. Mr. Cop. Yes. M. Yes. Mr. Denise. Yes. Mr. Gallow. Yes. Mr. Hughes. Yes. Dr. Yes. All right. Now, let's take 19 new business personnel A2W. Uh motion Mr.
012Denise. Thank you. And second by Mr. Hughes. Mr. Cofflin. Yes. Yes. And thank you to all the volunteers. Miniro, yes. Mr. Denise, yes. Mr. Gallow, yes. And welcome all our new staff members to the district. Mr. Yes. Dr. Yes. All right. Public questions or comment. Public participation at board meetings is in accordance with bylaw 0167. At this time, members of the public may ask questions or make a comment on educational issues or school matters of community interest. As a matter of fairness, you're asked to limit your questions to no more than one and your remarks to no longer than three minutes. If you are here representing a group, please identify yourself, the group, and your position in the group. If you are here as an individual, please provide your name and address. I need a
013motion to open the meeting to the public. Mr. Gallow, second by Mr. Coplin. All right. We are officially open to the public. Seeing no one come forth at this time. Motion to close the meeting to the public, Mr. Hughes and second by Mr. Coplin. Uh motion to adjourn, Mr. Hughes and Mr. Coplin. All right. Thank you very much. Great meeting. Have a good day. Not watching.