001[Music] He said, "I might not. [Music] Good evening everyone. Welcome. Can you all please stand for the pledge? America standy andice for all. >> Actually, we're going to ask everyone to remain standing for the singing of the National Honor. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we held at the twilight last gleaming, who brought stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight for the ramp parts we watched were so gallently streaming and the rockets red the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangled batter yet. Or the land of the brave and the home of the bre. [Applause] Okay, welcome everybody. Um, filling in for Christine Sarnney today who couldn't make it. So, um, we're just
002going to get started because we have a lot of wonderful students to recognize tonight. Good evening everyone. Welcome and thank you for coming and joining us today in person. And for those of you who are watching online, as Miss Sach said, we have a wonderful uh presentation for you tonight of awards for students who have done great work in the district and we are so proud. So before we begin, let's give a round of applause to all the students here today. [Applause] So the plan for tonight is let's do a little round of district. We have great things happening all over Salem. We'll do our student recognitions really highlighting the great work of our students. And then we'll get to the business items with committee reports and things of that nature. After the uh presentations
003and after the awards, we'll invite the students to um head home so they can continue to do their homework and other obligations. But when you get an award, you'll see the black staircase over there. If your name is colored, you'll come up the black staircase, get your award, get a picture in front of that great screen, and then you'll head to the left and down the back the other way. So, that's the progression of how we'll do it when students. So, let's get started. Uh, first off, we just want to recognize that Sable High School had a wonderful homecoming on September 20th, September 20th. The annual high school homecoming brought the community together in the celebration of school spirit and tradition. The library parade featured students, colorful banners and creative floats and cheers from families
004and residents along the streets. And we also had some great soccer and football activities throughout the evening. Want to congratulate all of our students and families who took place in the strides color run. The fifth annual strides color run was a huge success on a beautiful Saturday morning supporting the strides program which bolstered the mental health and physical wellness of our students. He helped culminate in a strong sense of community and a number of local organizations participated in this vibrant celebration as well. And it was just great to watch kids having fun running and giving a build. I want to congratulate our Lincoln Avenue Elementary students who participated in the annual self-esteem walk coordinated by the SEAL committee with help from the high school peers the PPS department. We boosted confidence. Students went from station
005to station. Each high school student led a station in a whole host of mental wellness and fun outside activities. So, thank you to our peer leaders and to our high school staff as well. I want to congratulate our students after Sunrise Drive. Every Friday is book club cafe day and Miss Phillip and Miss Nor's class. Each third grade traveler reads a book, stamps their reading passport, and creates a tab tabletop exhibit. They then share their project with fellow travelers exploring setting news books together. I just want to compliment all three elementary schools have different types of reading programs. This is one of them. It just gets kids excited about reading. We also had a motivational speaker come to all three elementary schools and our middle school, Mr. David Flood. Uh he visited those schools delivering
006a powerful message on inclusivity and acceptance. Students were inspired to embrace his three key challenges. Look on the inside, family to adults, and no one eats alone. Fostering kindness, gratitude, and a sense of belonging throughout our community. And this is the caring that goes into the learning that is part of our sable schools. Also at Cherry Avenue, we have a little um activity going on there where they were families enjoyed fresh air and physical activity by walking or biking to school as part of a special event. The day was made more memorable with a visit from the Southern County Police Department and their facility dog Hamilton. And Hamilton was the absolute biggest hit of the day histori. >> And I just want to give a shout out to that police officer, George Fis. is a
007community member and uh a great student. >> Yeah. And he brings Hamilton to many school events and it's always a thrill for the kids. >> All right. Um at Sable High School, we had a hosted an annual college fair. We do that at the Connect School District, giving students the opportunity to connect with representatives from a wide range of colleges and universities. I was told we had over 87 colleges and universities scheduled to attend and uh it was a valuable event exploring future academic and career paths held at the high school. So, congratulations to our high school guests department for organizing that and putting that together as and I'm going to pass it over to Miss Dress who's going to tell us about our recent parent university. I just wanted to acknowledge six wonderful speakers
008that we brought in on Tuesday, October 14th. We have Mr. Joe Salomon from Long Island Coalition Against Bullying. Miss Kugan from Inspiring Wellness who did an anxiety and mindfulness workshop. We had Officer Muger who is a um Suffach County Community Relations police officer, Katie Mercer from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Dr. Zachary Jacobs from um Stony Brook University who did something on disordered eating, Stephen Hill from Speak Soiety, who talked about drug and alcohol addiction. So we have these six presenters and we have parents come in and rotate. they could choose two presentations. It was a very informative night. Um, we got good feedback. Parents said they would be interested in a round two. And I just also want to mention that Joe Satamone from Live Cab, he pushes in and speaks with our
009students. Officer Muger is going to push in and speak with students in our elementary and middle school on the dangers of social media. and then also Stephen Hill who was recently um at our high school and he spoke with our sophomores and then broke out into small groups. So we support our students and then we love to give the opportunity to parents to come in at night and offer these resources but a huge thank you to these community partners. >> Thank you Miss Mers and we do a number of things in the district to educate parents and help support them and raising children. Some are related and some are just related to curriculum. So I'll turn over to Mr. Y and talk about an opportunity coming up in the coming days. >> Thank you. Um
010yeah, another opportunity for families to come out and learn uh this time about uh academics, instruction, and curriculum is through a speaker who is a worldwide renowned educator um uh Paul Anderson from the wonder of science. Uh many of our students have seen his science videos helping them learn um and has been working with our teachers for um over a year now. and by the time he's finished with his visit in October, he'll have met any um secondary science and elementary teacher um to help create new curricula for um the nextG in science standards which represents a real transformation in the way science is uh taught and learned. Um and it's really exciting. It's really inspiring and it's it would be worth uh worthwhile to come on out on at 6:30 uh next week on
011Wednesday. >> And I think it's really exciting the work we've done. U you know, Sable has always had a robust science program, but it's really flourished in the last couple years in K5 with our steam program and then also in the secondary schools at the middle school and high school with the next generation science center. So if you want to learn all about those exciting things happening in our schools in relationship to science curriculum, this is the workshop for you. I also want to do a shout out before we start celebrating students that we often talk about our teachers and our uh and our and our students doing great work. Our administrators also are hard at work. This is a couple of shots from a from an afterchool meeting with the admin team where we
012focus on uh instructional leadership. And I think one of the important things in a thriving learning environment is when your administrative team uh works after hours to really kind of develop their leadership skills and push and promote each other's work in their buildings. We do this so that we can align our work for kids because we know when we work prek through 12 together, the outcomes for students are stronger. And these are the outcomes we're looking for for our students. Independent learners, caring citizens, communicators, collaborators, critical thinkers, and joyful learners. These are the outcomes that you as parents told us was important to you in a survey from three years ago. So we made this our mission to have a prek12 program that ensures that this is happening at every level. So our principles are
013working on that. And then of course, how does their own building goals, whether it's core at the high school, path at the middle school, back to basics at Cherry, um Lincoln learns at Lincoln, or the Sunrise Drive core values relate to those district values to make sure that every student we have, preK through 12 is aiming for the same things that make them prepared for for the world they're ahead. So, it's exciting work and I just want to thank our admin team. Can I just uh jump in? I thought that was a good segue. Uh I I do think that we'd be remiss if if we forgot to mention that um the Long Island Coalition Against uh Bullying every year uh honors people. They call them the Long Island School of Hero Awards. And if
014you paid attention to anything that was up on the on the uh screen tonight, you'll know that Miss Mress has a lot to do with a lot of that stuff. She's been someone that uh anyone in the community can reach out to anytime with any problems and and she can handle almost anything for us. I know she shies away from taking credit a lot of times, but uh this year the the Long Island Coalition Against Bullying is giving her one the Long Island School Hero Award. So, I think it's important that she's acknowledged and we give her a round of applause. [Applause] All right, so we've kind of talked about what we've been up to around the district and now it's time to celebrate our students. So the first group is going to be called
015up. First one to speak about you and then we'll call you up is the girl scout troop 539 five. Sorry I was looking at it backwards. >> Good evening everyone. I'm very honored and proud to recognize a special group of young ladies who make up Girl Scout Troop 559 for their role in helping to design, construct, and then contribute to the establishment of our Sable store, which helps Sable families in need on a daily basis. So, before we meet the girls and call them up, a little background on this troop. This group has been together since the girls were in kindergarten back in 2020. They had one meeting and then unfortunately were shut down by CO, but that did not deter them. Under the leadership of Miss Jacqueline Rose and Miss Danielle Riolo, they stuck
016together. They persisted. They had Zoom meetings in first grade. Materials were dropped off to each girl's house prior to meetings that they could do crafts together and other activities on Zoom. And now, proudly, they are in their seventh year together. The girls of troop 559 have always had a strong desire and interest in helping others and this innate motivation that they possess is how their journey began with the Sable Store. So before I discuss specifics of exact exactly what they did, I want to invite the girls up so that we can see them when we talk about their incredible contribution. So I'm going to read all their names first and then we can give them a really big round of of applause once everyone is up here. So I'd like to invite up Elelliana Bakis,
017Leila Dilva, come on up girls. Casey Bralto, Charlotte McDonald, Kora Matinez, Liliana Percel, and Faith Rose. [Applause] So, let's talk a little bit, girls. We're very proud of you and we want to tell the whole community what you did. Okay. So, in the spring of last year, some of our wonderful social workers had sent a flyer home to all stable families explaining the purpose behind the stable stores. It was to create a dignified space where our families could come and receive support and help with the essentials that all of us need. Miss Rose, one of the troop leaders, saw the flyer in her child's backpack, and she decided to discuss this new initiative with the troop. And from then on, the girls were committed to the cause. They reached out to Miss Charardullo, one of
018our social workers, offered to volunteer their time, not only to build the shells with help from some dads, grandpas, other family members. I hope I didn't miss anybody. But once also those shelves were constructed, the girls spent afternoons into early evenings at district office painting the shelves with inspiring and positive messages in order to make the families feel special and welcome. I had the unique privilege of being with them, watching them work. They took extreme pride in what they were doing. They were able to explain to me why this work was so important. And a few afternoons, I have to say, I had to kick them out because they did not want to leave. And even the moms would come and try to pick them up to go to lacrosse or other practices, and they
019wanted to stay with us at district office. It was truly heartwarming to see. After the shelves were built and decorated, they were not done. In the following weeks, they put together hygiene and toiletry bags and stocked the shelves with them. And those bags have proved to be a much needed necessity for so many girls. You are to be commended for your service to your school community and for your leadership to your younger peers in the troop. The benefits of your work will be felt for years to come. And certainly I can tell you you have put smiles on the faces of many families. And your contributions do not go unnoticed. And I just want to say this was a true team effort. So thank you also to Mr. Rose, Mr. Turman, Mr. Braltto, and Mr.
020Dilva, and to Danny Castellano, who is our director of facilities, who helped hang the shelves and stock them. So great job, girls. [Applause] I'm just going to take a moment to read the citation. Uh it says the sale board education wishes to honor these young women for their contribution to the construction of the stable store which serves families in need. We would like to applaud you for your efforts and dedication to your school community. We wish you continued success in all your activities. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. And now I would like to invite up Miss Bricker, our high school principal, and she is going to acknowledge some of our AP scholars, our musicians, and some of our art students. Miss Bricker. [Applause] >> Good evening. Good evening. Um, I'd also like to introduce our assistant
021principal, Mr. Hart, who will be assisting with um, the citations this evening. Um, it's a pleasure to be here tonight to celebrate the achievements of so many of our students. I'd like to extend my gratitude to the board of education for this opportunity. Before I begin, I would like to acknowledge that these accomplishments are made possible by the incredible commitment of our students along with the unwavering support of their teachers and families. First, I'd like to recognize an exceptionally talented group of musicians. Before I call them up, I want to mention that some of these students may not be with us tonight because they are currently performing in Beetlejuice at the CM Performing Arts Center. And Miss Van Boxel is is there supporting them. These students from our high school have been selected as all
022state musicians, an outstanding achievement that reflects their hard work, talent, and passion for music. Ava Helba, Symphony Orchestra. Please come up. [Applause] James Regan, Symphonic Band, [Applause] Aaron Sack, Symphonic Band, [Applause] [Music] Alternate Ball State musicians are Grady Davis, chorus, [Applause] William Mitchell, bands, jazz ensemble. [Applause] In addition, The following 10 students have been selected as Miss Kane all county musicians. Please hold your applause until the end and please come up as your name is called. Grady Davis chorus. Matthew Degraph chorus. Ava Helba orchestra. Applause and Elelliana Lee chorus. Samari, chorus. William Mitchell, band. James Regan band. Ella Ryan band. Zachary Sanchez chorus. And Aaron Saxs band. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] We are proud to recognize senior Gabrielle Avario for her outstanding achievement in the fine arts. Gabby received a virtual visitor's choice award in the
0232025 Long Island's Best Young Artist Exhibition hosted by the Hexure Museum of Art, one of Long Island's most prestigious student art shows. Her piece Tripophobia is a visually striking and thought-provoking work that explores texture, repetition, and perception. Out of hundreds of entries, our artwork was not only chosen for this jury exhibition exhibit, but also captured the attention and votes of viewers across the region. Congratulations, Gabby, on this [Applause] [Music] Okay, our next category of recognition is the AP Scholar Award. The AP Scholar Award is granted to students who receive scores of three or higher on three or more AP exams. Last year, 83 students earned this distinction. Tonight, we will recognize 40 of them. The other 43 graduated in June. Please hold your applause until all names have been read. And please come up as
024I call your name. Joseph Albertelli, Kylie Aierro, McKenna Bench, Sophia Buffardi, Ryan Cameron, Garrett Clark, Karen Coin, Grace Cullen, Caitlyn Cunningham, Hannah Desidario, Olivia Dimone, Brady Dolan, John Dolan, Amelia Dosy, >> Mariana Duffy, Morgan Farrell, Caroline Foots, Richard Fontinetta, Ava Helpa, >> Kaylee Hillary, pause for a second, Kylie Kazinski, Jack Lanowitz, Kieran Lquist, Gabriella Matone, Jill Martin, Kate Mcavanagh, Maline McInness, Tessa, Alexandra Ra minikino, Shelby Munchaz, Max Person, Chloe Graduates, Carly Rucker, Martha, Mia Shuddy, Isabelle Steer, Nathaniel Strit, Ella Trauma, Tranma Unatur, and Anna Wilson. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you. [Applause] Okay, the AP Scholar with Honor Award is next up. This award is random students who received an average score of at least 3.25 on AP exams taken and scores of three or higher on four or more of these exams. Last year,
02529 students were distinction, 10 of whom have graduated, and 19 we are proud to recognize here tonight. Um, please come up as your name is called and please hold your applause until all names have been read. Gabriella Venetti, Emma Burns, Alana Carpenter, Emily Deserio, Katarina Sutra, Allison Fontino, Madison Han, Annabella Hart, Leighton Hester, Megan Langowitz, Kiara McCormack, Seda Mccor, Gia Pisani, Noah Rubenstein, Ella Ryan, Julia Sack, Ava Shuy, Sarah Stewart, and Dylan Walsh. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] Our next award is the AP Scholar with Distinction Award. This award is granted to students who receive an average score of at least 3.5 on all AP exams taken and scores of three or higher on five or more of these exams. 58 students earned this distinction, 22 of whom we are proud to honor this evening. Once again,
026please come up. I call your name and please hold your applause until the entire group has been ready. Anthony R27 [Applause] very hard. I know. I know. Megan Brady, Carly Kangalloi, Ian Chandreak, Abigail Dean Saul, Piper Dapoli, Santino Dalmo, Braden Hos, Wesley Jones, Brett Lahan, >> Shane Ne, Samantha Rampula, James Rean, [Music] Benjamin Richard, William, [Music] Kenneth Ruff, McKenzie, Braden Skellyy, Jessica Smith, Emily Tesky, and Jake Williams. Now, congratulations. [Applause] Come on. Let's go. All [Applause] right, two more categories. Now, I'd like to recognize the recipients of the AP Seminar and Research Certificate, which is awarded to students who earn scores of three or higher in both AP Seminar and AP Research. Please come up as I call your name. Carly Kangalloi, Emily Deserio, Kaylee Hillary, and Seda Mupor. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]
027And lastly, the following six students have earned an AP capstone diploma, which means that they have earned scores of three or higher in AP seminar and AP research and on four additional AP exams. Please come up as I call your name. Abigail Dean Saul, Wesley Jones, James Rean, Julia Sack, McKenzie Trudy, and Sarah Stewart. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations everyone. Thank you. So I take a moment to congratulate all of our students. We're so proud of you. You're working so hard doing some great work. If you would like to stay for our regular meeting, please do. But if you have to get home and do important things that you with your colleagues tomorrow, please stay close to Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hi everyone. Yeah. [Music] [Laughter] Okay, thank you very much. Take one more moment to
028let the last people get out the back and then we'll continue on with our business meeting. There will be awards at the end for those who stay. >> Okay, let me I have two more parts this morning then I'll go back over to you. Okay, so we had two committees that met this week and last week. Uh there were committees we created last year. One was the budget advisory committee and one is the policy advisory committee. Those committees are a mixture of staff, administrators and parents who advise the group and then that advice goes to the board for their consideration. So I'm going to hand over to Mr. Martell who's going to just share a little update about the budget committee today and then Aola who's going to update us quickly on the policies. >>
029Okay. Thank you Dr. Uh so we did have the first uh budget advisory committee today uh who went really well and we had a good discussion about the whole budget process. Uh we will be meeting monthly so members will gain insight into how the budget is put together and they can help communicate that information to the staff and the public as well as providing feedback to the district on budget issues. I look forward to continue working. Thank you. Any questions from Mr. tells us about the advisor. >> Great. And Miss on the policy advisory committee which you met last week. >> Okay. >> So the policy committee met for the first time and it is uh it comprises uh some very focused meticulous members who I think are going to be very good at their
030job. Um and um the role of this committee is advisory in nature. It is to take any policies that either NISBO recommends for update based on regulation or law changes um or policies that come to our attention as a result of um an any member of our learning community bringing it to our attention as a need for review. Um, we'll research, we'll discuss, we'll compare against uh prior policy. Um, and we'll work together to create wording that the board can either accept, reject, or modify for after it's been proposed. Um, we'll run it by council before we do so. Um, and um, we will meet at at this point we're planning on meeting every other month and we'll see how that goes. uh we've spent some time establishing sort of the norms and the practices
031uh for this group and I think it's going to be very successful. >> Great. Any questions or comments? >> No, I just thought even though um I couldn't attend. I had a game that day, but um I did send all my notes to Mr. And I think it's important because as you read through some of those policies and policy manuals and masses, you realize some of this antiquated and completely outdated and and needs to be updated especially when it comes down to uh laws that are constantly changing and evolving as we go through. So I think it's an important process. We'd like to be part of it. So I think I think it's a good move by Great. So that concludes the superintendent report. I hand it back over to >> Thanks Dr. Paris. Um,
032so before we get into correspondence, um, I just wanted to mention after listening to Miss Maggress and Miss Burgerer speak about um, all our students, almost all of them have left, but um, I would like to say that, uh, they really do tie into all their accomplishments really do tie into our student outcomes. if you read through them um with regard to being independent learners and caring citizens, everything that um Musberger spoke to really um was really exemplified in those students. So, I'm happy to see that that's um really they're really driving with their screens. Um so, getting on to the agenda, we have correspondence. Uh, let's see. We had um an email from well, first we're going to say we had an email from a parent complimenting a teacher at Lincoln Avenue, which was
033really nice. Uh, we had an email from a community member requesting a foil and we had an email from a senior class president who's up here earlier um with a question of booster. >> Yeah. So, one of the questions that they've asked and I think Anthony asked earlier last week was can the class of 2026 or any class for that matter use a card swipe at the sales booths when they're selling products and like the football games. Uh because sometimes people don't have cash with them and if they could swipe their card or use Apple Pay, they would be able to do it. They may make more money. Um we've been looking into that. There's some issues with authors wanting to make sure that there's a tracking process. So, it might not be that system,
034but we might have to have other workarounds, but we're going to look into it and we're going to try to, you know, see what can happen. But right now, the answer is no. But we're going to keep looking for for possibilities. >> And we want to try to get it done as quick as we can to maximize it because we only have I think three three more home games. >> Yeah. >> And playoffs. So hopefully we'll have two two home playoff games. So we're looking at like five games. So because I think that's important. That's probably revenue that they count on year after year. So, >> and with regard to that letter, um, I did, she's not here anymore, but I wanted to say how well written it was. Very professional. Um, and she even
035said Gabriel Gabriel Bario even said, um, we're really looking into this for future classes, which was, you know, really nice. Um, so that was really nice to to read. Um, all right. So, Dr. Ferris, you finished up your report already. Did you have anything to say about those facilities report? Okay. So, moving on to board event discussion. Um, we have possible revenue opportunities. We're going to go over that. >> Sure. So, um, I had a meeting uh earlier last week. One of the trustees had connected us with a dance studio and they were interested in renting this space uh for weekend dancing uh competitions. I guess these are very involved events that would require not only this space but the gym space, the foyer, the cafeteria and they would pay money to the district to
036rent these spaces on weekends. And this particular room is pretty empty on the weekends and it could be a really great revenue opportunity for the district. So we've asked them to put together a proposal and they'll be doing that as well. We also had a were reached out to by the future stars program which is a summer camp program. They run sports programs but also uh by classroom programs during the summer. They want to they love our middle school location. It's right off the highway and they want to know if they can make a partnership where they run their camps here and that would be another revenue opportunity. So, as long as the board is all right with it, we kind of express the door. Um, because we do want to increase our revenues. If
037we're trying to decrease our expenses, set up meetings with those groups and try to see if they reach a contract for you. Board is okay with that and would like to pursue that. Great. So we will set up those meetings and I'll get back in touch with you next week. >> Just with the uh sports team as long as the existing boosters and coordinates >> and again we're not agreeing to anything. We have to talk to the groups but we we want to be flexible and you know I talked to Dr. Cox and uh it's really important that we continue to support our booster camps. So they couldn't come and hop. They'd have to be at different times when our booster camps were not ready. So, we'll definitely have that as part of our conversation.
038>> I even think with the with the um anticipated revenue that we could factor in percentages to each athletic program. So, if let's let's say it did cut into um a baseball camp or something and baseball camps uh you know annual camp revenue was you know 15% less or 20% less. We could we could possibly factor that in where the athletic program or some of that money gets diverted to athletics but the specific teams that run those camps so that we make sure that everybody's being taken care of across the board and we can mitigate the losses as well. >> Yeah. Any contract we enter you have to obviously we want to protect our boosters because they support our schools and our students in various ways. >> You know as an example we run a
039baseball camp it's worth one or two weeks. Um, if they run a baseball camp, it should be different. >> Baseball player can do both. >> Yep. >> I'm looking forward to hearing more about that. Um, okay. So, we have the claims audit report. Does anybody have a comment or a question? Okay. Um, all right. We're now to the public comment session with regard to agenda items. Do we have anybody who would like to speak? Sure. Okay. Um, okay. So, just a reminder, all those school related comments can be made during the public comment. Other school related topics at the end of the meeting. Um, all right. So, without further ado, I just like to go through recommended actions starting with 8.01 01 through 9.12. >> All in favor? All right, that's fine. So, can we
040do 8.0123? >> I have a motion. >> Motion. >> Any discussion? All in favor? Motion passes. Thank you. Um, now if we move on to mine up numbers here 10.01 to 11.02 [Music] motion first time second. Any discussion? All in favor? Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. And now we're to upcoming dates for October 22nd. We have the the parent university, the wonder of science from 6:30 to 7:30 here at the middle school. November 4th is superintendent conference day. So the schools will be closed for students that day. And November 6th is our next workshop meeting starting at 7:30. Do we know where that's going to be at the >> is always at central office. Okay. Um >> just want to clarify moving forward all of the workshop meetings which are kind of designed for discussion
041are going to take place at the central office really and all of the business meetings are going to take place here in there's any question posted of course but that's okay so now we're on to our next public comment session where we can discuss any topics not held just to the agenda. Do we have anybody who'd like to speak? Okay, thank you. >> Okay, so um can I get a motion to adjourn the meeting? I guess that's it. >> Motion does. >> All right. Any discussion? >> All right. All in favor? Okay. Motion passes have right now. [Music]