001Are we ready? Camera ready? Ready. Okay. Statement is here by made that adequate notice of this meeting was given by the prominent posting of said notice in all district schools and other public places. The mailing and your hand delivery of said notice to the designated newspapers, the Asbury Park Press, the Monalepin Patch, filing with the clerk of Monalepin Township and the clerk of English Shambharo. Just please call the roll. Mr. Ferber? Here. Mr. Green? Here. Mrs. Her? Here. Mr. Cain? Here. Mrs. Lucas? Here. Mrs. Parisi? Here. Mr. Santoro is absent right now. Mr. DeCetti is absent right now. And Dr. Wallace? Here. We have a quorum. Please rise for the flag salute. Good evening everyone. We will jump right into public comment and seeing as there is nobody here from the public to comment, we're
002going to close public comment and move on, move into executive session. Ronnie? Can I have a motion and a second to go into closed session at 7 32 p.m. for the purpose of discussing three items, personnel matter involving employee number 5583, a personnel matter involving employee number 19287, and a student matter involving student number 40718. Motion and a second. Kelly? Second. Was Jamie? All in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? None noted. We're in closed at 7 32. All right. Well, back and open. You want to continue on with the board's information? I'm sorry. I couldn't hear you, Ronnie. You want to just continue on with for the board's information? Yes. No, no. Changes revisions. Actually, you have to do changes revisions. No. Item D, changes and revisions. Okay. Do we have anything else? I'm going to,
003let's see, I have to unlock this. Okay, you have to unlock it. I'm gonna unlock your discretionary as well, okay? Yes. Okay, we do have two read-ins. The first being a settlement agreement and release. NM on behalf of MH versus Menelton English on Board of Education, a former superintendent, former, sorry, former student, not superintendent, 40718, recommend the board approve a settlement agreement and release in the matter involving student number 40718. Further recommended the board authorize the board president and business ministry to execute, same on the behalf of the board. And the other item is under personnel matters and it is recommend the board approve administration's decision on the following unpaid discretionary leave of absence, effective as noted. William Zabatka, security officer, 9-2 to 9-4, approved VS. And that would be that. I'm gonna, those are
004the two read-ins. You're gonna change that, Shana? I can, I can, I can change it. It won't let me. You're editing it, that's why. So that's you're still in. I'm gonna try refreshing just to make sure that that's not gonna hold me up. So we're changing the date. It's still saying it's edited, it's being edited by you. Yeah, it's gonna be a date of 9-2 through 9-5. Or is it, what, that it's, that it's reading 9-5 in the agenda? Or, okay. I know I can't change it because every time I try to go in it says it's being edited by Shana. Now you're not. It's already unlocked. Did you have to change the date, edit it for the date? It's already unlocked. And that's how we start the school year. I mean it's a good
005thing. I mean it's, it's a good program but it obviously doesn't let two people in editing at the same time for good reason. Okay, we're ready. Okay, well protected. Okay, good. We can move on, right? Okay, item E for the board's information. Anybody have anything related to the board secretary's certification? All right, thank you. We'll move on to action items. F administration. Can I have a motion and a second on items F1 through F2, please? I'm sorry? Did I miss them? That's okay. Serena and Ryan. Anything guys? Mr. Ferber? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Mrs. Hurst? Yes. Mr. Keane? Yes. Mrs. Lucas? Yes. Mrs. Parisi? Yes. And Dr. Walls? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second on business items G1 through G10, please? Christine? Oh, now it's okay. Thank you.
006So G1 through G11. Christine and Jamie. Any questions, guys? No questions. Thank you. Mr. Green? Yes. Mrs. Hurst? Yes. Mr. Keane? Yes. Mrs. Lucas? Yes. Mrs. Parisi? Yes. Dr. Wallace? Yes. And Mr. Ferber? Yes. Also, I just wanted to add, I just wanted to say thank you to our MEMS Booster Club for their donation, very generous donation, as well as thank you, Mr. Graham, for your donation as well. And I'm a yes. Motion passes. Moving on to curriculum items H1. Can I have a motion and a second, please, David and Kelly? Anything? Questions? Nope. We're good. Mrs. Hurst? Yes. Mr. Keane? Yes. Mrs. Lucas? Yes. Mrs. Parisi? Yes. Dr. Wallace? Yes. Mr. Ferber? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second on personnel items I1 through I20?
00721. 21. I gotta update it. Christine? Yes. Thank you. And Jamie? Questions? Anyone? No questions. Mr. Keane? Yes. Mrs. Lucas? Yes. Mrs. Parisi? Yes. Dr. Wallace? Yes. Mr. Ferber? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I have a motion and a second on student matters item J1? Serena? David? Anything? No. Mrs. Lucas? Yes. Mrs. Parisi? Yes. Dr. Wallace? Yes. Mr. Ferber? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Mrs. Hurst? Yes. And Mr. Keane? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Well, that concludes the action portion of our meeting. We will move on to new and old, and I will start with Kelly. I have nothing other than to wish everyone a good first week of school. Ryan? Yeah, along the same lines. Most districts today started with staff development, so welcome back staff and students will start later
008in the week, so just want to wish good luck to all the students. I'll also point out it looks like we are opening school on time with minimal impacts by the referendum projects, so I'd just like to compliment our construction team, our architects, the administrative team. I mean really a lot has been going on all summer, even more than the board sees and certainly than what the public sees, but there's been so much going on this summer with the construction and the referendum projects, all really good things, and for months we've been looking at the schedule and following up to make sure we're in good shape for the first day of school, so it's exciting to see that that is coming to fruition and that our students should be starting with minimal disruptions, and hopefully
009if there are any disruptions we communicate those with parents and find a way to get through, so I'm confident we'll be successful and just want to thank the team for that. Thank you. Great, thank you Ryan. Jamie? I'm good, I just wanted the same sentiments, wish everyone a successful school year, also to everyone here that's on the board that teaches, may the odds ever be in your favor, and I guess one brief update, I did get a text from CPAC letting me know that they have confirmed a date for their fall forum, but I don't want to say what that is yet, and they were waiting to get the flyer done, so in case it changes, but that should be coming out as well, so that's, the flyer should be going out and they should
010be solidifying a date. Just to follow up on that, the newsletter should be coming out in a week or two as well. Yes, perfect. Great, thank you. Serena? All I want to say is welcome back to the staff and the students, and I'm wishing you guys a wonderful year, a safe year, and really just enjoy it. Yes, same thing, welcome back everyone. I hope you all have a wonderful and exciting year, and good luck. On the theme of going back to school, and I'm sure Dr. Centura will elaborate, I had the chance to go. Can you not hear me? The mic's not picking up. Hello? There you go. I was just saying on the theme of going back to school, I was able to go to the convocation this morning. I'm sure Dr. Centura will
011elaborate. Dave would usually go, was unable to attend, and I appreciated that he suggested I go in his place. It was a cool experience. I got to speak for a minute or so, and wish all the staff a great year, and I certainly wish all the families out there a great year as well. Thank you. Yeah, and just to follow on everyone else's sentiments, welcome back everybody, and wishing everyone a fantastic start to the school year, to our staff, to our students, our board members as well as we have a few educators on our board, so best of luck to you all. David, thank you for being there today at the convocation. It was great that we had a board representative there, and I heard it was a really nice event, so I'm happy you
012were able to attend, and just want to, again, following Ryan's comments about all the projects related to the referendum, and so much has been going on, that I want to thank everybody who's really worked so hard to keep everything on track and moving forward and making sure our schools would be open on time, and you know, the work continues, and we're far from done, but a lot has happened in a pretty short time, so I think a lot to be proud of, and also thankful for, and I'll say thanks again to our community for the support in helping us get those projects done, and that's all I got. Thank you. So I just want to follow up and welcome everyone back to school, to our staff, and to our students. We did have our convocation
013ceremony this morning. It was really, really nice, so something that's different and special about our district is that we have the district vision days, and we have the district t-shirts with our slogan for the year, and it's just amazing to see 600 people in a room that are all dressed alike, that are here for the common cause, and that that's to make sure that our children have the best education possible, and it's just an amazing experience to be with such a wonderful group of educators. One of the things I told them this morning and one of the things that I really believe is what makes our district truly special is its staff and its staff's dedication to our students, and you look out at this crowd of people, and a lot of faces were here
01410 years ago at my first convocation, but a lot of faces are new, and one thing that hasn't changed is the culture of our districts, the culture of doing what's best for children, working collaboratively, and working as one team, so that is something I'm so grateful for, and I'm grateful for all of our staff that have come back, but I'm also grateful for all of our staff that worked extra hard all summer with the referendum, such as our maintenance staff and our custodial staff, to make sure that our buildings were open with very limited time, so it takes a village and it takes a full team, and that is something that we definitely have here. Our bus drivers have been back doing their mock runs, everyone's back and ready to roll. That being said, the
015referendum, I'll talk a little bit about that, so where are we at? All the paving and stairs have been complete, they're on the punch list. The roofs at Taylor Mills, Wemrock, and Mems may not be completed by the end of day tomorrow. I've asked that they not work over Thursday and Friday due to starting school in the first days. They may resume work on Monday if they cannot get everything done over the weekend. If they resume work on Monday, if there's any kind of noise or anything that disrupts learning, we're going to ask them to stop and go to second shift, but we're going to give it a whirl. They said that it should not disrupt learning, that it'll be quiet. We'll give it a try. Once all of that is done for all the
016roofs, they have to order flashings and stuff, very technical terms, I know. It'll take two weeks for them to order them and then two weeks to install, but that isn't going to be allowed. They just put the, I keep saying it, the nice borders around everything. They're like, yeah, it's more than that. They have to put on the pretty border. That'll also be done as well. Then the last thing is Taylor Mills gets a roof ladder and that can take several months to procure. They have to wait until the whole roof's complete and then they do the measurements. That's where we're at. I know that and with the roof work in some of our buildings, like I know over by the ELC, they're still doing some roof work that may have an odor. We're hoping
017the odor is out by Thursday, but parents will be coming back tomorrow for back to school and for orientation and there may be a slight odor. We're hoping that it dissipates. HVAC at Clark Mills in Milford should be totally complete and cleaned up by the start of school. I know of one classroom right now where all the units were not fitting together, so they're going to do their best to make sure that it's in good shape for Thursday, even if it's not going to be complete. HVAC at MEMS, as we talked about, is not complete. The main gym and the auxiliary gym will be unusable until about 10-1. We're working with that. That work will be done second shift, not when school is in session. The same thing at Pinebrook. Pinebrook, the majority of the
018classrooms will be up and running. The music room and gym will not be usable until about 10-1. There's a few other classrooms that they weren't sure was going to be ready. It looks like that they should be okay. I think the one room that may not be ready, Ms. Suskowitz said she was fine moving forward without having that room ready. We're in pretty good shape there. What I've learned about construction is it's not something you can make happen. No matter how much you try, you're working on someone else's time schedule and someone else's restraints. The HVAC got pushed back because there was a tornado in the Midwest. I hope there was no tornado in the Midwest, but there was, and that's not something we can plan for, right? The roofing with the rain, everything is
019based on things that we cannot plan for. I'm happy to say that overall, we're opening and ready to go. We're nowhere near done. Once all these projects get started, we will start phase two, which will include the fire alarms, the generators, the doors and safety latches, and the ADA upgrades some of the bathrooms. Windows is phase three next summer. All that work will be done during the school year. Almost all of it actually will be done second shift. There's also the addition at MEMS. If you drive by there, the ground is all tore up. It's ready to rock and roll. That's pretty cool. I think this week they were trying to lay in some of the underground piping to have that done before school started last week. We'll get an update on that I think
020next week. I think, too, with the next round of bids that will be awarded in the next month or so, there'll be a little bit more lead time to order some equipment like the HVAC equipment. The turnaround time won't be as tight, so we should be, barring another event like we had, we will still have a little bit more wiggle room with additional time to get the units delivered before they have to be installed. We'll move forward with that in September and October. That's a good point, Ronnie. This time we ordered the stuff in May to start in June due to the fact when the referendum passed and we had the funds. But now we will have a much bigger lead time. Good point. Otherwise, we are ready to open. Everyone's ready to go. We
021can't wait to welcome those children on Thursday morning. I will say one of my favorite places to be on Thursday morning is the ELC. They are absolutely adorable when they get off the bus. Some of them cry, which makes me want to cry. Some of them are laughing or funny, but it's great to be there and see them coming in. That's all I have. In regards to Pinebrook and MEMS, what are they doing in place of gym, like the actual students? They're going to go outside as much as possible, and MEMS has the other gym. They have the third gym, but primarily they're going to try to get outside as many days as possible. They still have to do gym. It'll just maybe be in the classroom or a different location. The locker rooms are
022still accessible, even with the construction. We were over there the other day to look at how we are going to get kids in and keep them separated from the construction. We do have a plan for that as well. The locker rooms are accessible, but we will not be using them during the school day. We will only be using them after school. It's not necessary during the day. Sports, after school. Okay. Anything else, anyone? All right. Can I have a motion and a second to adjourn? Serena? Jamie? Thank you. You're adjourning at 8.53 p.m. All in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? None noted. We're adjourned.