001the Board of Education recognizes the value of public comment on matters of interest to school Community individuals wishing to speak must State their name and Municipality of residents comments are limited to three Administration but an individual may speak a second time after all others who wish to speak on the topic have been heard all statements should be directed to the board president and no participant May address or question board members individually all speakers are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of others whose legal rights may be affected please note while it is not the board's intention to stifle comment on matters of legitimate concern the public should be aware that if their statements violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or invasion
002of privacy they may face personal liability to the injured party if speakers are uncertain of the legal ramifications of their comments the board urges them to seek guidance beforehand from their own legal adviser and I just want to say somebody that was always on the other side of this that it is sometimes hard to keep track of your notes making eye contact and the time so I was going to give you all um like a 30 second heads up when you're getting close to three minutes is there any comments oh I'm sorry okay good evening most of this applies to probably the new policy as well so I'm just going to I'm sorry we we do leave your name and Anthony aine myself and others have appealed to you as the adults in the room
003and Gatekeepers to resin 5756 yet issues surrounding the policy have become contentious and misconstrued so I want to review some of those reasons you have been employed to act this policy is not mandatory attempts to fix the problematic statements and ambiguity would be met with a lawsuit the courts have ruled in favor of the right to abolish and a federal court upheld that ruling whether conservative or liberal you should take this opportunity to push back against government overreach or you will lose your local autonomy and discretion because the reality of affirming feelings based gender choices is child in danger because affirming gender experimentation and expression without question is answer pathetical to state law requiring schools to stress abstinence because we should not be lying to kids about something contrary to basic science the natural world
004around us and what is clearly stated in our Bibles because there is no possible way to change a person's genetic makeup the fundamental basis of gender affirming gender fluidity is absurd because these kids deserve the truth from those entrusted with their educ ation most actually know the truth intuitively because we are made in the image and likeness of our creator yet they are being encouraged to embrace a world of make belief because this policy is not age appropriate for K through 12 you need to stop the over sexualization of our children in school they may not realize it but they did not come up with these ideas on their own they are being fed social media talk [Music] to help protect children from the explosive rise in stvs if gender identity based on feelings is
005affirmed without question how can you expect adolesence to abstain from sexual experimentation to prevent further alienation of those children struggling through adolescence this policy actually creates a basis for resentment to prevent contributing to an environment of a in and giving attention to Young impressionable kids being misled and encouraged on a path that most will greatly regret this 30 seconds to refocus attention on the appropriate role of and function of public education and to avoid legal Jeopardy also keep in mind that none of the cheerleaders and enablers of this fantasy world will be around in a few short years when these kids graduate when Stark reality said in and he or she realized they cannot reclaim their childhood or heal the damage emotional or physical please represent the citizens who voted you into office and repeal
0065756 and I might add any Replacements that don't really address the the problem in the poliy thank you thank you very [Applause] much hi my name is Kim Lenley I am from oldridge and I'm a former special education teacher so um good evening and I thank you once again for taking the time the consideration to resend this suggested complex issue of 5756 this particular school policy has many facets that cannot be discussed in a short period of time everyone I believe is concerned with the academic instruction and safety of each student in the school district policy 5756 affects all students and all parents that are within the school district as a former special educ education teacher as I mentioned last time the Dynamics of a teacher parent relationship will be broken especially trust students have
007been done Studies have been done which prove how vital the role the teacher and parent relationship have Upon A Student Success trust and clear lines of communication need to be open and remain open for the benefit of the student articles have been written which depict the impact of the teachers parent relation relationship some examples are as follows how parents and teachers can work together for the child's benefit by Amanda Morin building parent teacher Relationships by American Federation of teachers and the importance of parent teacher relationships a family lab by Elizabeth OB and how to communicate with parents effectively by Jennifer bz these articles highlight the areas which is students benefit some provide tips on how the teacher can build these relationships and why their relationships is important one main reason to having an active clear
008line of communication built on trust is that the student is more likely to academically benefit I would like to review some of the key topics from how to communicate the effectively by Jennifer Rando when a teacher has a good relationship with parent parents it will make their job easier it has been study the student we more likely them there show more positive increase in math and reading reduce absenteeism and student students more engaged in learning and the teacher that would be able to focus more on academics than behavior of 5 which 57 56 will la policy 57 30 seconds 5 756 allows a student to discuss their gender identity identify with their teacher and the other school staff without the parents consent and allows the student to decide when to allow the parents to be
009notified a teacher will be having two folders on the students with without the parents knowledge to name a couple of what 5756 policy pertains to this is a significant since the open lines of communication will be broken the elementary teachers value their teachers opinion as well as their parents these parties play significant role in your lives 5756 request confusion of who to believe especially by the parents man have to cour values ma'am thank you thank you so much for your time and I just have something to give you that okay docents thank you so thank you Dr Brown I reside in aine uh last time I stood before you I came with research and numbers about the risks of our that our lgbtq youth face today I'm going to speak from the heart I'm the
010mom of two beautiful children who just happened to be transgender and yes being transgender is real changing ing the language of policy 5950 to include the word parents significantly changes the people involved in the initial discussion if a child discloses that they are transgender this forces the district to out a transgender child to their parent without first Consulting professionals and legal counsel as a facilitator for two support groups for parents of lgbtq Youth I have learned that parents are often the last people that LGBT youth come to parents are supposed to love their children no matter what unfortunately that isn't always the case kids can be afraid of losing their parents' love when they come out they can be afraid of being told it's just a phase there are only two genders they can be
011afraid of being sent to conversion therapy of being cut off financially as soon as legally allowed being afraid of being disowned teachers counselors principls are not not promoting transitions or telling children that they are trans and they are certainly not prescribing meds they are listening to and supporting their students they are guiding our youth to discover themselves academically creatively and socially I'm a madaan graduate I'm a proud husky Matan has always embraced celebrated and protected the diversity of our student body no matter the race religion gender or sexuality of the person next to you they were first and foremost a Husky and they belonged here I ask of you to vote to protect our trans Youth and reinforce that they are huskies and they deserve to belong and be accepted for who they are and
012allow them to follow their journey in their own time and not force them to disclose before they are ready thank you hi G Simon I'm from Cliffwood um I didn't have anything prepared well want to say is that I agree with everything that was just said because I do believe that in a public school our main goal is educating all of the students and however they come to us that is how they are supposed to be taken that is how they are to be celebrated and that is how they are to be educated we don't get to choose as if it's not my kid I I don't get to choose for them I don't even get to choose for them when they are my kid um I have to accept them as they are yes
013I gave birth to them yes I helped them to build a life but that is so that they can take their own mind and go forth in the world and make their own decisions and Impressions and do what they need to do I don't have the right to tell somebody else's child how to be and I don't don't think that we can do that okay life is changing we all are learning and we just need to accept that and figure out how to continue to educate students we don't get to decide if you're girly enough or boyish enough or whatever it's just simply students and that's all we need to be concerned about thanks Jennifer would a business owner in mwan and a resident of Morganville Thank you new board members and returning board members
014um you were chosen because you're fair-minded because you can discern what's the best for the kids and we thank you for that and because of that I see that you're trying to abolish 5756 and do something different we don't know what the different is so I'm going to talk about why I think uh 5756 should be abolished um it only applies to a full percentage of the kids it's discriminatory it shouldn't be compared to special needs children and their rights as they are classified after a series of testing with gender identity that differs that differs from birth gender there is no medical or mental health diagnosis required for this category have special rights um there's already 20 Page anti-bullying policy in place that includes harassment intimidation and bullying when motiv motivated because of gender identity
015or expression parents should be not left should not be left in the dark I realize the policy does not disallow par rental advisement but it should not be discretionary it is very normal for a child not to want their parents to know what they are doing outside the home particularly in adolescence children should not be making the rules about parental involvement the schools have students for time the teachers are wonderful but their expertise is in teaching not psychology parents know what is best for their children and raising them emotionally is ultimately their responsibility schools are for the three Rs the goal of education is to prepare children to enter careers to be productive citizens of society it is not designed as a self help or counseling session we cannot feel ourselves through life following our
016feelings or following our heart may be culturally popular but is not good advice our hearts can be selfish our hearts can be deceptive and our feelings do not always point to what is best for us feelings change and feelings are not always good for the health and the welfare of the child kids go through phases adolescence is a time for kids it's a trying Time for Kids there's awkwardness there is a need for fitting in to be accepted it's so much harder for kids today they hear things that are not ready to handle emotionally or intellectually they are negatively influenced in so many ways by social media more than ever they need parental and adult Direction and boundaries let's not further complicate their lives and confuse the facts by affirming gender confusion and contributing to
017the rise in the Mental Health crisis of our youth statistics show that the longer a child child identifies other than their first gender the hard it will be for our children to reverse that um let's not open our children life changing decisions that will cause irreversible damage that's my alarm on my phone it was it's 3 minutes I be there the 30 second before okay thank you for listening let's not go down a slippery slope thank you hi my name is Katie Williams I'm a mwan resident I'm a New York City public school teacher I just think that there seems to be a lot of confusion about how this policy trickles into curriculum and everyday life for a student and teacher um I work in one of the most liberal school districts in the nation
018and we don't have these discussions on a daily basis I also think that we here everybody here are concerned parents um and in every school district acrosser America the ones showing up about the policy who are worried are not necessarily the representation of all of the parents in the district I personally have a very difficult time getting in touch with parents and I think that we're concerned because we're involved with our kids but that's not necessarily the case all the time um if a child comes to me and says something about you know their gender identity I'm going to the counselor the counselor is taking it from there because they are the professional I'm a teacher I'm not going to reach out to the parents and say they told me this today because that's not
019my position it's not part of our curriculum and nine times out of 10 if a child told me that and they were nervous couldn't tell their parents I wouldn't say anything because if they're nervous there's a reason kids are resilient and they are observant and they give us background without um always just saying it out loud uh we need to follow their lead um so that we can continue to have an accepting place and I I just think that everybody needs to understand that this is not a constant part of the school day on any grade level um I worry about who doesn't have a snack I worry about who doesn't have pencils I worry about whose parents couldn't find their winter coat on the coldest day of the school year and I can't get
020phone calls back and I know I'm in New York and I know it's different but it's only 20 minutes away it's not that different I don't talk about gender identity I I we teach the children to be accepting of 30 seconds those are the words we use accepting of all that's it the kids are not talking about this constantly all day every day it is not part of our daily life accept it that's all it is thank you are there any more comments seeing none move on respond to coms that well it be more that you would want to direct it to me but you can come up and speak again uh again it's Beth Brown I reside in Aber I just just wanted to respond to a couple of points that I had heard
021from uh those who oppose me um the first one is someone was speaking about the genetics of gender um and I guess the Simplicity of either being XX or XY and more recent research has shown that there is a lot more variability in our genetics than simply XY and xx there are people who are xxy xxxy uh there are people who are uh XXX it's a lot more complicated than we were taught in freshman biology um someone spoke about uh their religion only believing in two genders and that may be true in Christianity however there are other religions and cultures that do believe in what are called two-spirited people um and I do believe I I wish I read my Old Testament better and remembered it better I do remember though an example of um
022somebody in the Old Testament who did change genders um in order to support a newborn child um someone else spoke about regret rates of um transition um and I can I don't have it on me at the moment but I can provide to you the research article um I regret rates for transition are less than 10% I believe the number is 8% um the regret rate for total neighbor PL bement 30% just like to put that out there thank you you can also speak for a second time be few minutes second I just want to correspond when you're talking about students you can't compare elementary students to Middle School to also high school so an elementary student they they they they value your elementary teacher with their parents so it's not the same thing same
023thing and they are easily guided depending on the instruction and as I said before with the brain the personality development is not to like 25 to 30 and then your um hormones and everything that forms your identity and your personality things at 13 so you're you're wavering and as a teacher as far as running to the parent If the child says they feel like a boy or a girl you have to constantly observe you know the child Behavior how they're coming in it's part of your job and with the bullying that was mentioned before that also is a main thing as far as anybody's feelings so all this is the foundation is already there you know and teaching that was my my reason of why I want to do it to be inspired inspired children
024especially diverse Learners and then as far as I'm being able to participate in board meetings I was running around going to school teaching coming to home taking care of my kids thinking everything was okay but I was wrong I should have been taking part of the Board of Education meetings in my district where my children went I should have but they didn't but now I'm here and other parents too so I just want to thank you for your time again and and you're just very nice thank you very much take [Music] care oh um there is there's more public comment oh sorry Mr Finley good evening Dan PNY a uh because of the time constraint I didn't have a chance to say I do appreciate each one of you and your obvious efforts I know
025that it was mentioned uh you know previously by Mrs scy that you were working on a a revisions that addressed some of the the language and some of the you know some of the concerns uh people have about what was in the policy and and how that is problematic for kids and parents um so I really appreciate that I don't know what's in that this 5720 it makes me nervous but or 57 5950 excuse me but um I I just hope and pray that um you know that that we really do some soul searching and and are honest about what really the core issues are and and how we need to prevent uh strain from what the proper role of parents in school it are so that we can um help these kids through what's
026becoming an even more difficult WR of Passage um as they grw up and go through school thank you very much is there any more public comments I think there's probably more than one board member that wishes to speak but I don't this to well just speak as yourself yeah so um I just wanted to clarify because I think there is confusion um in terms of what's been done how you know uh as Mr had said you know we've been talking about sorry um we've been talking about this for at least six months potentially longer um we've had very in-depth conversations as a board we've listened to um numerous rounds of public comment we've gotten emails for respondents that we've also read through we really um talk this through as a team we had people on
027all sides of this um up here on the board so we really tried to work together um as a team to come up with something that we felt like worked well for our district um I don't know if it's clear and and that's why I just wanted to talk it through what's in this document is so basically we talk we took pieces that we thought would work well here and what we felt is that PK through so preschool through fifth grade is a young age and if those children um should self-identify as transgender um then a discussion would happen first with the principle depending on how that goes um then consult with I know we just added in the parent piece but but did think that as a board that having the parent involved preschool
028through 5ifth grade was important based on the age of the children 6 through 12 um essentially follows what we are currently doing in District which is um there is a um student support plan that the schools do use what we found and correct me if I'm wrong it's essentially the older grades um we haven't had um any questions come up in the elementary grades it's being the older grades so there is a student support plan that is is pretty in depth we've had an opportunity to see that I I personally really like that plan because as I go through it you really hits every aspect of that child's life when they are here in school or on school ground or participating in athletics or any of that it's very very individ yes it's it's very
029individualized for each student we've even talked about you know as kids are younger and it's even built in here that the accommodations of those kids 6 through 12 um can be made available for kids PK TI five it may need to be telled slightly um because it's so specific for the older grades currently because as I said we we haven't had it come up in the younger grades um so we really did try to F obviously follow the law make sure we were following the law but at the same time follow what we were doing in District that is working for us so and duv tailing on that just clarifying also since sounds like the majority of folks don't have the uh the the policy in front of them fair enough it's it's on it's
030on our website but it's kind of hard to find as most things are on our website no offense guys but um the uh did want to note with that one that I'm so sorry I just said that um but that the um the prek through five um accommodations that Mrs scy was talking about would be a parent request um just to just to clarify with that um where the the accommodations with the the older grades uh there's there's an encouragement to speak with parents and um uh the involvement of uh principal or and and their designes on counseling the student to speak with their parents um just wanted to clarify that anybody else have anything to say oh yes I'm sorry [Music] sorry okay does anybody else wish to speak while [Music] Mrs if anyone
031does any research on me online you will find that I've been working in the transgender committee for over 15 years and I just want everyone to know that we have been through so much passionate honest conversation as a board I want to reiterate that we compromised on this and I've heard the audience say I know as someone who has been working with countless numberb of transgender people that this is real and when they are affirmed for who they are the light of their life comes on finally and who they are able to be as students and people in the community is breathtaking and wonderful I do want to acknowledge that one of the places where I compromised is the people who voted for me knowing my background in the lgbtq plus Community would not expect
032me to say yes to a piece that would say parents and K five my best friend as a child who at five knew that they were a boy even though they were a girl at Birth they had been dressing as a boy acting as a boy and now is successfully an eighth grader where no one knows that they were born as birth as if they not that child is able to thrive so I just want you to know that I care more about having a policy in place that takes care of our children and if that means having 5950 with that word parent in it for PID through five especially when so many parents have come speaking that this is what we want that's a compromise I'm willing to make because what I know also
033is the children who make that decision at that age are doing it with their parents and those are the parents who are coming forward and we don't need to employ the policy because the students come with their parents and say this is what we want so I'm saying all of this just so you know that even someone who is so passionate about taking care of transgender people I agree with this change because I want our students to all be protected and I really sincerely thank everyone on this board who's worked with me and listened to me and I thank you and I look forward to taking care of our kids in many other ways in addition to this yes I would like to thank the Lord also we um like I said earlier we have
034taken a lot of time to come together we've listen to all the other comments we've listen to our own personal comments um and stories and experiences and um to come up with 5950 um and again yes it has been a comprom and we are um we are all on different sides of the um the aisle here up here um so we have compromised and thank you for recognizing that L that K5 I agree with you 100% um that you know the parents would not have been excluded from that conversation at such a young age take through five I mean what toddler while they're experiencing things are right next to their parent or Guardian experiencing those things so um I appreciate everybody for taking a minute before I know I think I upset the atam C
035but I appreciate everybody for taking a minute um to think about including parents in that paragraph and thank you all for doing that um however I also would like to that I don't believe a sixth grader or seventh grader or even eighth grader may be able to make um that affirmation of themselves as transgender also and would also probably need some guidance as well so yes p through five I appreciate that but I Cann um I do not think that you know a minor should be without should be the parent should be excluded [Music] from the conversation with a minor child in any situation regarding that minor um I would like to say that I love the teachers in this district and I don't think any teacher is out to rat out a child and
036by any means I think our teachers Foster excellent relationships with our students and I love that our students feel comfortable with our teachers and our Administration I think that's phenomenal but I don't think that the teacher is the substitute for the parent so that being said um you know we'll vote on policy 5950 and I want to just again than for and the administration and the public for all the time and thank you yeah I I also wanted to say thank you very much for the honest open discussions that we've had um we I think we've learned a lot I think we've been open to hearing different points of view so I appreciate that as well personal experiences um when I was born in my sole priority and responsibility to to the students of this
037District not to voters unfortunately for voters that's not how it works my responsibility is National students so there are some Impressions um that I wanted to clear up some of which have been brought up tonight um there are Impressions that um you know there's a feeling of fear phobia uninformed uneducated um none of that is is true as far as concerned um I only myself um I I don't think that any teachers are trying to S students in any One Direction or another and I also don't think that um you know there there's been all kinds of comments about you know teaching gender choices I I don't think that's happening in this in this District um I really have a lot of faith in our teachers that they're focusing on educating our children I'm sure
038are having discussions as they come up as appropriate um the idea that we're not celebrating individual students I think is a is kind of a mistake and impression um and I also think that there's a a really fine line that people are missing about the difference between the L the G and the B which refers to sexuality and the T which refers to gender um and I don't think it's the same outing a student who is LGB um because you're not really asking for different accommodations to be made in that case it's just a sexual orientation versus transgender which really requires a lot of differences um in accommodation so um I do appreciate the opportunity to create a policy that aligns with the needs of the district the concerns of the community the differences of
039opinion among the board members we really did a lot of great hard work over many many late hours um the policy still puts the district in a difficult position of keeping some parents Guardians in the dark about how their students identify at school um I just as a parent and as a board member I disagree with that um and painting all parents as some sort of people monsters that are just going to you know lash out at their kids for for coming to them with such a sensitive topic that everybody is now aware of it's not like we're you know even 5 years years ago and this wasn't a topic of discussion um everywhere so I think parents are are becoming more educated and I do think they need to be in the loop on
040this like they are with every other decision accommodation medication Tylenol can't have to get a parents permission to give tyol um and I I think I was inappropriate before when I locally um agreed with one of the public comments so wrong place but I'm going to say it here I have a message message for students um which was stated by one of the public comments there is no right or wrong way to be a boy and there is no right or wrong way to be a girl do not let anyone make you feel that you're not enough exactly the way you are thank you am I thank just comment oh thank you [Music] um sorry so again backing I agree with everything everybody said as far as um time I know we've talked about this
041before I appreciate it I was impressed um with this board on how we work together um because I've seen a lot of meetings not go well um in the past so I'm very grateful for that um um but with that being said where I get hung up is um we're here we're here um for all the kids so to me in my mind you know there's an umbrella and it's over the district and everybody under there um is our responsibility staff children um obviously uh their wellbeing while being fiscally responsible we follow policy um I I get hung up on separating kids into categories because I think the whole point is that everybody needs to be one and so when you start creating and this we've talked about when you start creating a policy for
042this group and then that group and but what about this group and like so in my mind it's very simple I took an oath um and basically every decision I make and this is from Dr mik said to me many rooms ago if every decision you make is based on the child then the decision becomes easy because that's your for that's what our focus is um so I too have complete confidence in our staff and our admin and I know for a fact regardless of school day time or whatever if a child needs something regardless of what it is and they come to an adult in our district somebody will take care of them or get them to somebody who needs to then take care of them um I've seen it myself my kids my
043friends kids my nieces my my nephews are here endless cin staff 100% all the time and I would be amazed if you told me something else um we and and as Mrs Hoy said we have a plan a gender identity plan so if the child comes forward it is critiqued to fit with that child needs which is awesome um every kid is different every child is different every need is different that created from our uh Administration in the older grades and kudos to them for saying hey you know we don't really have anything specific let's let's create something and it was an amazing document and I we were we loved it um unfortunately the state from the GetGo but from Co at least minimally on um has put so much responsibility on districts just in
044general um we're we're being told to make decisions um on stuff that they have not made a decision on and so they hand it down to us and we're supposed to figure it out because there's never any clear guidance and then we're met with threats um we're met with lawsuits we're met with oh we're going to pull your state aid or oh we're going to sue you um meanwhile in my eyes our jobs are only to educate these kids we are getting involved in places we do not belong we have these kids for 6 hours it is exhausting all of these things that we need to get involved in um the governor put down brief counseling that's coming down the pipe great let's add that into the day I mean it's just just it's it's
045unbelievable to me what we're supposed to accomplish in 6 hours on top of Education I personally I just want to get back to basics I want to get over this policy talk I want to do what we do every single day in this district is take care of the kids these guys I've been with for 12 years um I sleep at night knowing they're taking care of our families and I'm sorry I'm getting emotional but this means a lot to me these guys are the best um I just want to be here for the kids we're here to educate the kids that is it every kid gets the same rights same education we love them all they look different they act different who cares when they're in these buildings for 6 hours it's an education
046um and I just all of this noise it's got to stop just has to stop kids need to be kids tomor is sorry Nellie is snow day um go out play in the snow like go slay riding be normal be kids just do what kids do um and and then everything else will fall into place so that's all I have to say with my hands going and my Italian I'm sorry that did anybody else want to comment I know had another no it's all covered it's all been covered okay does anybody else okay I need to keep track of where we're at um motion I don't even know what we're doing anymore on like there was a motion that we had earlier and a motion to abolish okay all right myad okay I'm just going
047to list tonight's event so you know what you're all voting on than okay so we're going to take action on curriculum and instruction special services personnel with the walk-in item policy let's review policy so you already have taken action on the motion to strike the sentence the boa with the sixth grade done the next part is to add the parents for 5950 and then to abolish 5756 as well as approve the finance agenda and that would be all the things you were taking action on parents they already took action yeah we did okay strike the parent part but everything else we're add 5950 yeah it's on resoling yeah okay can we do that as a single Vote or are we doing each of the agenda separately we want to do everying curricul instruction you can
048individually make different motions throughout okay just just so everybody hears it so you can you can make individual when you you vote Yes or no you can clarify um within so we're going to motion it all with one right and then if there's something you want to switch just say'll note it roll going on we've already motion yep Miss files do you agree to all items yes so not Miss Martinez uh no I I do not agree to [Music] 5950 I would like to I agree with appealing I I agree with adding the verbage but I personally cannot agree with 5950 and I'm also abstaining from Personnel um sorry I oh it's right uh number three admin with P I'm abstaining from that section okay so no for the policy 5950 and then number three
049you're abstaining and everything else is a yes correct thank you so noted Mr mcover you have a question no I thought you raised your hand no no I [Music] just no for p 5950 and yes for the rest of the agenda for this evening so noted Mr Monon yes for all understood Miss SC I just have a question if I say yes to everything and I would not want to abolish 5756 if 5950 is not accepted is there a way for me to do that can I say no to be abolished sure okay great so I'm saying yes to 5950 yes to I'm saying yes to everything except resending [Music] 5756 okay no to resending 5756 yes to the rest so so noted Miss Bell Okay so um I'm voting toal 5756 so that's yes
050and then I'm voting no to 5950 and I'm vo yes to 5250 so everything else I guess is yes okay so the only no is 5950 everything else is yes yes so no D Miss War yes to everything except 5950 so that's a now for 15 [Music] minutes so noted Mrs yes sir m p yes [Music] sir [Music] okay so [Music] 5950 test yes and 5756 is abolished abolished [Music] okay so 5950 policy 5950 that's on the agenda passes 5756 is abolished okay um sorry I'm trying to find my agenda uh is there uh any new [Music] business yes um so I just had one thing I wanted to say last night was the um High School husy experience um for seventh and eighth graders and um I thought they did a fantastic job job
051um they presented the new Pathways um which is essentially the new Academy structure which um the rest of the students and parents will hear about shortly um but I wanted to thank um Mr Wells all the administration over there um the staff um they did a great job presenting everything and the students because the students were great they had Civic leaders doing tours the chorus was there the band was there performing they had so many student um different athletic clubs um different clubs that the kids were presenting to other students that came by to get the kids excited so I personally thought it was they did a fantastic J so great um I had one um and then other people can too um the uh for the last gosh not not quite a year we've
052we we started having a board Facebook page and um Mrs scy has been the the keeper of it first as as board president now as board vice president it's a fair amount of work and so um I don't actually know if I I I can't remember I spoke with with M Rubin about this is whether we need to vote on this but uh wanted to advise Andor ask for a vote um to have the responsibility move to miss wari um who uh has some expertise in this this field and um to relieve the pressure especially with Mrs Coy heading up the contract negotiations right now um should that be a vote no okay all right well there you go okay wait can I just say I would love to do that thank you very much
053and thank you andette for kicking on and thank you very much Mrs War um okay I would like to say that in the last four or five years I haven't had a worry about a snow day and um I and Nelly and I have been talking about it a lot the last few days I'm just happy that Nelly will be able to sleep tonight um because uh we were discussing she how many times do you get up during the night and check out the window and I'm sitting there I'm saying holy smokes I I I look out the window all the time so uh sleep well T is there other new business I just want to say congratulations to Mrs SC for losing in Facebook page you're just dropping things like great hey negotiations I
054know only kidding she does a lot of work but I'm glad for her you'll have more done um just one thing in the vein of the Facebook page and Communications out to um the district um we I did want to address the website if there's any information about working with the vendor to improve the look I mean I I just had staff member um asked me the other day about how why is it so hard to find things because she's trying to tell the parents where to go for certain information and it's so deep down several layers and um just hoping we can really streamline the website make it more user friendly make it searchable archive old information maybe make sure it's updated so when it's time that prom contracts are due that's like right
055on the high school page up top and front center things like that can a board M do that I'm sorry would actually do that no right no it's um District employees the so we're in the process we will be switching over from Blackboard to um final I think it's called um Final Cut final site um so that'll we will start off with the committee working in March and training will begin uh in the springtime that was discussed this morning actually Lindsay and I discussed that um with technology director so then we will have a fresh new um web page for the fall Sor one absolutely do we have a committee yet is the pr committee formulated because I know that always she always you know we're got to be very proactive with the prom committee
056so that's something we can get on our wheelous to make sure we're spearing or some somebody coming us I I will report back out next board meeting talk to Mr great thank you yes I just have a request for something keep in mind um my phone call for the 90 minute delay didn't come in until 10:15 at night which I assume I am not the only one and that is really W for the par Community to start making BS for children in the morning so if we could please make that decision earlier I think the community would be very grateful for [Music] that this the first part of your St that I first my call for the delayed opening at 10:15 at night and that's a late time to make K to the next morning
057I thought that was on the early side thank thank you I I remember getting the calls at 1:00 a.m. sometimes I wasn't commenting because there's always different um perspectives um so some parents want it the night before some prefer it the morning so I've kind of come to the um conclusion that I'm not going to get everybody 100% happy so um the you know in terms of making the decision my focus going to what Miss Martinez says is ensuring that um the students and the staff around drive to school safely and we can dismiss um safely making sure the buildings are clean so and there but there was an um there was a tech glitch glitch on that second call um so we're aware of that thank you if if I may just comment for
058all of us people who are of my age do we all remember when we used to hear the fire alarms 6 a.m. 6 a.m. remember um listening for the fire department at 6:00 a.m. and doing the dance so yes that's for us full those of us done in southy would listen to 1060 radio to listen for their school number um is there is there anything any other new business um I and old business I skipped it again um is there any old business okay um you have to do an exact session so be it resolve that a closed session be convened for the purpose of discussing privacy personnel and attorney client matters the subject matter of these discussions will be disclosed to the public when the reason for confidentiality subsides although the board cannot guarantee
059that the length of the executive session is estimated to be 30 minutes 30 minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall reconvene and proceed with business action will not take place I need a motion and second to enter executive session second all in favor thank you