001[Music] there's uh good evening everyone um before i call the meeting to order i want to make sure that we're all aware of the mass mandate and that all of our masks when they are worn um are over our noses and properly worn um i will not start the meeting until we i will wait goodbye something [Music] okay [Music] we're waiting um hey let's go to executive session yes thank you can you stop the broadcast until we're ready to begin the public should see this don't stop the public district board of ed meeting on tuesday november 23rd 2021 is now called to order in accordance with the requirements of the open public meeting act njsa 10-4-6 adequate notice of this meeting has been provided by submission of notice of time date location or instructions for
002remote access to the hundred and democrat the star ledger on check on january 21st 2021 and subsequently re-advertised on july 22nd 2021 notice and to the extent known the agenda of this meeting has been posted at the north london high school and voorhees high school and provided for the municipal clerks of bethlehem clinton clinton township franklin township leigh hardner borough hampton borough highbridge borough lebanon borough lebanon township two cherry township and union township as well as all other interested parties and posted on the district website fire exits are located in the direction indicated if alerted to fire please move in a common orderly fashion to the nearest smoke-free exit at this time i ask that you silence on your cell phone please be advised that in accordance with executive order 251 school masks or face
003masks are to be worn indoors in all school buildings the order applies to all after-school activities events and meetings held inside including four-to-bed meetings we ask for your cooperation to remain masked throughout the meeting so the board can connect the business in an orderly fashion in accordance with board policy zero one six one the board may call a recess or adjourn this meeting at any time if necessary such as non-compliance with the mass requirements miss hoffman uh here mr kirchberger here ms mclaughlin here mr melek yeah miss celino yeah mr straight miss fiato yeah thank you all right [Music] second let me just clarify the movement and the second that is uh to take the agenda out of order and to move into executive sessions thank you so i'd like to oh do we need
004a roll call we can do a voicemail uh all in favor to discuss matters falling under categories four seven and eight as reflected in the attached resolution the word expects to be an executive session for approximately an hour upon that return we will move back to public sessions different we're an example thank you and a second to uh return from executive sessions attention all right can i have a call for a motion and a second to approve agenda item 4.1 which would be the meetings from the minute to the meeting of october 26th second any questions roger and dad ladies thank you for your patience um ted um i'd like to have our school board representatives present their uh our school board student representatives present their reports this evening um and uh vanessa um i
005would love if we could start with of course i would like to start off with a huge congratulations to our varsity girls volleyball team girls field hockey and both boys [Applause] they all brought home group three sectional state championships this past weekend the girls volleyball team had a record of 29 games one to two lost the field hockey team had a game of 21 wins to two losses i also want to bring to attention the fellowship of christian athletes club as they started their operation christmas child bringing in 26 gift boxes for children in need we also had our blood drive today which is very successful not just with the student body at north but also with the community i also want to give a huge congratulations to our fall show which was knight chills
006we did very good we sold over 500 tickets we also had an online streaming service um where we could watch on the comfort of our homes i also want to bring to attention that the national thespian honor society is holding a gift wrapping service after the concerts on both december 9th and 16th at 5 30 for the drop off and then pick up would be at 8 30 this would go to support the nation the north hunter and theater organization thank you um bethany do you get there um can you tell us uh can you provide us the report yes i would like to take this time to acknowledge and congratulate the boys high school key club on accumulating around 6 000 pounds of food breaking a school record but most importantly this allows 61
007families in the hunter county area to receive this food in addition all three countries in the hudderson county area received this as well i many people are beyond proud of the work key club has done and thankful for the impact their initiative has made [Applause] i want to remind everyone we still have a mass mandate that doesn't mean that we are excusing not wearing a mask um our next part of our agenda is um to have um miss kathy mantell of miss abashia llp mount arlington new jersey provide us our comprehensive annual financial report for the fiscal year ending june 30th copies of the 2021 audit summary and synopsis are provided at this provided meeting for public review thank you happy to go over the financial highlights of the district's financial report i just want
008to remind you that the actual camper is about 200 pages long and in the essence of time i prepare a financial highlight for you that's about two pages long but it really does include the key information from the report first thing i'd like to say is we'll take a look at the fund balances at june of 20 and june of 21 and they vary and they vary for different reasons and as you can see if they've outlined all of the funds that have been listed the capital reserve account the maintenance the excess surplus unemployment encumbrances and what has been used in the subsequent years budget have all been committed they're restricted and the only unassigned or unrestricted funds are at the bottom of that analysis it's at the end of june of 21. i will
009also talk about two things that happened during the fiscal year ending june 30th and that was that we implemented a new accounting standard it was called gasby 84 had to do with judiciary funds and this year you'll see that unemployment and payroll deductions are included in the general fund and student activity and scholarship funds are included in the special revenue funds they're included in the numbers that i just displayed on the page the other thing is is that the new jersey department of education increased the unassigned fund balance for school districts when the law was signed said that districts could maintain up to four percent as unassigned fund balance but then when the calculations came out to um the auditors they required the four percent so that's why you see 2.880 this year opposed to
0101 million 321. we don't really know why they did that i think it's because that you're in the second year of the pandemic and so at the time that they signed the law i believe they thought there was a lot of things going on and that districts would need to have some reserves for unpre predicted costs so with that the middle of the first page talks about how you generated that change in fund balance over the year you have a few excess revenues the biggest piece comes from what you don't spend on your budget our firm does over 80 school district audits and certainly in this past year a lot of funds weren't utilized because of the change in operations and school programming so that's not unusual and then at the bottom of the page
011i'd just like to highlight to the board how much fund balance you use in your next year's budget and that has been very consistent in the district not easy to maintain that but you do that very well and then on the second page i show you the activity or the transactions that occurred in the capital and maintenance reserve for the year so at the end of the year you have 7.9 almost 8 million dollars in capital reserve that's really important because you have a two percent cap on your budget and you need to be able to fix all of your buildings maintain all of your buildings and so it's very difficult to do that and so the state allows you to put excess reserves or any savings that you have in a given year into
012these reserves for when you need to make repairs to your buildings maintenance and capital and the capital projects funds or funds that you authorize either by rev referendum or it could have been projects from capital reserve and those are there's three open projects and those are the balances of those again pandemic situation in the food service fund all the districts across the state there's no revenue because you're not having full food service where students are coming through the line and paying so revenue is down operating expenses were down and of course you were able to access some federal subsidies so at the end of the year the food service program ended with unrestricted fund balance of seventy four thousand two fifty five and then the last piece of financial information are the district's long-term liabilities
013you have serial bonds payable from projects that have been authorized compensated absences it's the accumulated sick and vacation time that employees have earned as of june 30th of 21. each year you go out for capital leases you have a balance of 2.8 million dollars and then the net pension liability that has been required to be recorded for the past seven years division of pensions prepares all that information and the the liability that's reflected in the district's records are just for pers because the state covers the tpa and that's really financial highlights we have one other thing and let's talk about audit comments so again the audit is comprehensive it's not only a financial statement audit but we also are dictated to look at compliance with new jersey doe regulation and on top of that there's
014yet another aspect to the audit and that is when you receive over 700 or expend over 750 000 of federal and state funds you're subject to a single audit and that's additional compliance requirements district expended 876 000 for federal grants and 7.8 million for state grants so with all of that with all that scrutiny all that compliance testing district has no audit recommendations and then the firm we look at things that might be of interest or to bring to your attention you have another um gatsby that's to be implemented next year it's gatsby 87 on leases and we will as a firm we research that and we notify our clients as to how it's going to impact you before it happens um put an alert out there with the covid federal funding lots of money
015out there several grants that the district receives that the procurement and the rules pertaining to that are going to be very stringent so we're working with administration to make sure that you have the best information and um sick and vacation pay there's been some news about uh towns that may not be following the law and we're just highlighting to each district that make sure you confer with your labor attorney to make sure that you are in compliance with the sick and vacation leave law and then we made one management suggestion as far as updating the capital asset inventory we didn't think it was of such a nature that we would make a recommendation it's just a housekeeping item with that that concludes my report anybody has any questions i'd be happy to answer them okay
016well thank you very much for allowing me to come here and give you the financial highlight and i hope that you and your families have a wonderful thanksgiving thank you i have a call for a motion and a second to approve the receipt and acceptance of the comprehensive annual financial report and the auditor's management report for the fiscal year ending june 30th 2021 as prepared by the district's appointed certified public accounting firm nova scotia llp of mount arlington new jersey yes mr chapman yes mr logo yes mr furbanish miss hints yes miss hoffman yes mr kirschberger yes ms mclaughlin yeah mr milik yes miss selena yeah mr street yeah and miss piano yes thank you okay um move to the chief school administrators report please thank you jessica um first i'd like to extend some
017congratulations and talk about some things that have happened in our district as we mentioned earlier congratulations to all of our sports teams who have now wrapped up their seasons a special congratulations to the following teams who made it to the sectional level were higher worries boys soccer made it through the central jersey group 2 sectional semifinals set a new record for a program of 16 wins in a season boys country was the north two group two sectional champions and jack havelion placed second at the group two meet and seventh at the meet of champions to cap his cross-country career worries girls cross country was the north two group two sectional champions birth hunter and gymnast and freshman jaina kawas placed second on the vault for the central two region north hunter and cheerleading had many
018many big wins during the season but their last one that was the biggest one they stay undefeated at the ridge high school northeast cheer competition with two first place finishes and they were named grand champions for the entire day north hunter and girls cross country was second place at the group three meet and fourth place at bemida champions north hunter and boys cross country is the group three champions as was mentioned uh north korean girls volleyball is also a group three champion and north iron field hockey was a group champion which was the um first group championship in program history at north hunter high school congratulations to all those athletes coaches and job well done [Applause] i do want to remind everyone winter concerts are returning to in-person performances this year north hunter in concerts
019will be on december 9th and 16th and boris concerts will be on december 14th and 16th details are on the school's websites school districts will have an early dismissal tomorrow on november 24th and will be closed for november 25th and 26th for thanksgiving holiday we wish all of our students uh and staff members a fun and relaxing holiday with their families and friends and last but certainly not least i would like to thank both brian hoffman and brian chapman for volunteering their time to be part of the no place for hate committees at each of our schools ryan will participate at four he's and brian will participate at north i know this would be a welcome addition to each school as their participation as board members will increase the effectiveness of this important endeavor also
020as we do continue to have bias incidents at each school i want to remind our students and parents that they should report any bias incidents that affect them or a friend to a trusted adult in a school whether this is a counselor a teacher or someone else the student has a connection with that person can then assist and involve other staff as needed we want to reassert our commitment to providing a safe and secure learning environment for each and every one of our students so then i have um the hip report uh at the last month's meeting there were zero incidences reported to the board so i need a motion and a second to affirm that there were zero incidents [Music] any opposed any extensions and then i have to report that there were three
021incidences um since the last board meeting reported one of them was founded two were unfounded and so you'll be voting to affirm those at the next one and then we have our monthly reports there's any questions um i'd like to report out the official school board election results from november 22nd uh john muellick representing california township was re-elected for a three-year term glenn barbanish representing union township was elected for a three-year term daniel stanton representing clinton township and lebanon borough was elected for a three-year term cara hinz representing highbridge borough in lebanon township was uh reelected for a three-year term and miss ryan hoffman from highbridge lebanon township um will have it has a one-year unexpired term and i would be remiss if i did not um thank rachel mclaughlin for her representation for the
022last three years of service [Applause] december 21st uh 2021 will be our is a regular scheduled board meeting at seven o'clock um as of now uh that meeting is scheduled in the district office i need a motion and a second to approve the 2022 board meeting calendar summer second uh all in favor any opposed extension sorry um i'd like to announce that we do have the appointment of the members of the nominating committee they will be roger will be chairing that committee along with kim celino ryan forgive me um so roger will be cheering ken celino and ryan hoffman will be on the committee i am asking that all board members to submit their nomination forms to the chairperson of the nominating committee and roger will be coordinating those efforts at this time i would
023like to have the school board committees for the month um community relations did not meet this month so i'm going to start with uh curriculum instruction and technology um the curriculum committee met on november 17th members in attendance were rich grown director curriculum rich burjacks um assistant superintendent myself roger strait tim celino brian chapman and jessica actually no jessica wasn't there um there are seven action items tonight that we have on the agenda the first one is two curriculum proposals um there were proposals for adding a advanced statistics class it was noted that there need to be additional options for math for students at this level in addition we'll be proposing an honors reading in music ensembles there is a proposal for next year's 20 22 23 school calendar um the first day of school
024for staff will be august 22nd and 23rd for in-service days and the first day for freshmen will be august 24th with the first day of school being august 25th and the last day of school being tuesday june 13 2023 with a tentative graduation of june 14th 2023 we also reviewed an updated tuition contract with the hunterton county vocational school district um we approved a interesting stem dissertation by mr audi we'll be looking at how students who are particularly geared towards stem careers can benefit from field experiences through the stem club we have also approving home instruction tonight and out of district placements the committee also reviewed mental health and homework as well as pandemic and instructional learning time loss we continue to review our data around how our learning loss has been affected by the
025pandemic one of the proposals that the committee is looking at is potentially seeing if we can look at class sizes in the policy committee i'm going to throw that over to you and also the possible addition of additional math support um for students during this challenging time and with that being said i'm going to make a motion and open up for any comments facilities finance and transportation yes thank you guys um our committee met virtually last monday evening um everybody was there except for jess and um it was a short meeting um first thing we talked about uh we already touched on was the uh the uh the audit that we um received the presentation of this evening so um with no uh formal recommendations from that audit i'd like to congratulate katie and the
026district office you know with the job well done additionally um we talked we were given a esip update on phase one is now complete that includes all the led lighting upgrades and some of the mechanical system upgrades at north hundred in uh as if you may recall we did have an extra for some of the hvac units over the cafeteria in north hunterdon so that since that's now complete some money you'll see is being returned tonight [Music] the cost was reduced from 250 000 to 175 so roughly 74 000 are being returned from that project now that it's complete also phase two is the solar panel installations um as you probably aware the there have been some delays with that some supply chain issues regarding getting some of the components um but we're looking at
027uh we expect to receive materials in december and uh to finish that job uh in my february march time frame other than that we reviewed some agenda items but uh i have nothing else any questions on the board thank thank you brian do you uh did you cover 13-7 uh agenda item 13-7 or is that a different committee let me know thunder curriculum um i think that came in late and it was added to the agenda after that okay so we can address it when the time comes i guess yes if you have a concern before we vote on it absolutely will get up down i just want to i have a question i don't know who's going to answer it but uh are we agreeing to the recommendations that are in there so the
028nurses make are making recommendations about about staffing so you can vote yes on that are we agreeing to those recommendations no what you're agreeing to is that there is that need and that we are addressing it through the ways we that that they recommend addressing so yes you are agreeing there's recommendations it doesn't obligate you to um staff those so so that we're we're asking the administration to address the recommendations either agree with them or not agree with them but work with them to make sure these recommendations are implemented okay they ask for more help so basically um every year that's the same exact we what they're asking for is what we current with the current practices okay so but this has to be approved every year as a compliance measure so this we aren't
029asking for anything more than what we currently do this year which was approved last year at this time for this year okay so the administration feels we're adequately covered on nursing yes okay um the negotiations committee met and the two matters that we addressed will be voted on um later in the meeting uh shelley do you want to give us an update on personnel excuse me the person ultimately met on november 17th 6 30 pm virtually all committee members were in attendance as well as jessica and assistant superintendent dr rich burgess we reviewed the job description and at this time we're not making any recommendations for the job description of the assistant superintendent and uh we also reviewed the personnel agenda and i have questions for showing uh policy and school security yep thanks jess
030uh the policy and school security committee met on november 15th at 5 30. all members were in attendance and we covered a couple of items you'll see on the agenda tonight there are several policies being abolished which were the restart and recovery plan policies so 1648 164802 and 03. they are being replaced with first readings of the road forward policies which are mandatory policies 48 11 and 13 and then 24 25 which is emergency virtual remote construction program and revisions to 57 51 sexual harassment of students policy the 48 11 and 13 they are basically the codifying of um of our implementation of our return to school this year and the requirements that we have uh to manage the covid environment and so this is this is following the road forward plan published by new
031jersey we're currently following these practices and this policy basically catches us up and cut and his mandatory policy codifying what we already have in place the 1648-13 is school employee vaccination requirements again this is policy that's required to implement executive order 253 and then 2425 is emergency virtual or remote instruction program and this codifies our existing in-place virtual and remote instruction plan that was approved by the department of education the discussion on this was making sure that it was understood and clarifying that the county office must approve days that are designated as virtual and the intent is for public health emergencies so it's not a replacement of snow days or you know storm outages that those would still be off school days because lack of electricity and internet would be a hindrance to enacting this
032policy so this this remote emergency virtual remote instruction program is intended to support any future public health emergencies so that's up for first reading as well the sexual harassment of students policy we talked at some length about that there's some substantial mandatory modifications to that policy including implementing a title ix coordinator because we now need to manage sexual harassment um to both the federal law and the new jersey state law so um you know this is a this is a pretty so this is a somewhat substantial revision to the policy but it's a mandatory revision that essentially um aligns our response to both federal and state law as required so that's up for first reading and then there's some there's a revision to policy 1240 which is evaluation of the superintendent this is some cleanup
033language to basically streamline the policy and make it more clear the flow of the evaluation and review process and the timeline for it and and to make it clearer and hopefully more effective so that's a first reading as well we had discussion but no recommendation made on remote participation by board members for board meetings so that's going to be continued to be considered by the policy committee and then we had a discussion about the future viability of the nominating committee and the consensus of the policy committee was that we would continue with the existing policy of having a nominating committee and that was that committee was appointed tonight so that is my report if anybody has any questions i'll be happy to answer them a little bit in the weeds i apologize but for your
03460 16 48 11 the road forward one it says the board considered recommendations outlined in the road forward and then there's like a list of a through f things are those somehow referenced to the road forward document those a through f things you just like or you just it says like for example a1 is vaccination so the what does that mean when the policy considers vaccination you're like deep in the weeds brian i don't know the answer to that i'll stop my head rich do you so so all of those um references appendix is there but all of those appendixes are in the road forward and the road forward plan that we had approved by the county office that's posted on our website so instead of reiterating all that we point back to that i
035believe at the end of it okay um i'll ask you to take a look at that because i don't believe you actually have linked those in a way that i could make sense of them so just take uh that you just take a look at that i don't i see the safe return plan but i don't see the road forward plan linked in there just um as it so since this is the first reading we have an opportunity if we find things after this first reading sure to change and then they can be implemented in a second great recommendation to take a look at that it didn't i didn't understand what was being suggested roger um or brian you probably um put together some thoughts to have for uh by the time with our next
036specific things but what you're bringing up specifically is a link to the full road forward document right thinking that's what this is meaning to point to but it's not obvious it's not any other questions for rob um were there any attendance for activity within the hundred and county vocational school district um our liaison position the new jersey school boards association the county uh school boards association or the county educational services commission you can go first okay the um hunter fling county school boards association had a meeting last week uh the topic was educational wellness um and there was a powerpoint presentation it was very informative and was done by a school board president who's also a social worker i believe in southern new jersey and the takeaway was that to remember as a board that
037we're educational institutions we must always be willing to teach and to learn education is not about what is on a test creating a healthy environment will lead to better outcomes for staff and students most of our wellness goals are not unique to the pandemic although the pandemic allowed for us to actually reevaluate our priorities and change our delivery wellness must be a priority from the top down and receive buy-in to be successful so it was very interesting and i'm going to forward it to the whole board thank you very much i do um well the new jersey school board's delegate we met um this past saturday november 20th virtually and um besides the reports we were reviewing on c's uh the section of 3000 which is business and non-instructional operations in the 4000 series which
038was instructional and support personnel um all of the uh everything was reviewed and proved by the voting delegates and there were no addendum changes so what's in the delegate handbook that you can access is exactly how it was voted on but they also wanted to point out and i participated in uh the virtual workshop this year it was outstanding and um we all were registered for it um and they've opened it up so all of the sessions are available until december 28th they were only going to leave it open for 30 days but now it's open until the end of the year and i would recommend everyone if you have time um do some of the sessions because they were an outstanding uh virtual session this year and that's it any other delegates representatives uh
039good evening we're going to go into public comment now i want to read what's on the agenda we need to make the line we need to make a line along the wall folks okay thank you folks i want to read from the agenda and i want to uh also remind folks about what our policy provides for public comment uh as we indicated last month public comment uh is respected and public comment is encouraged and we want to hear from public uh what you have to say i'm gonna read this statement and i want to make a couple of additional comments right during this portion of the meeting the public is invited to address the board the public is requested to sign the register provided state their name municipality of residence group affiliation if applicable and
040direct their comments to the school board president not to the assembly to the school board presidents while all comments will be considered and a responsibly forthcoming if and when appropriate school board members will not respond to the speakers at the time of their appearance the public comment period will be a maximum of 30 minutes in length unless there are unusual circumstances we extended it at the last meeting i believe to an hour and 15 minutes those appearing will be allocated three minutes to speak no one will be permitted to speak twice until those that have not yet had an opportunity to speak have had a turn you all have heard the comment that civil rights and your civil rights end when somebody else's begin your comments ought to be respectful they can be impassioned we
041know that there are issues that we know you're all out here to to be heard and to hear the board okay and we get that we respect that we also respect their differences of opinion we encourage the speakers to speak politely and pathetically towards one another we also expect there will be no heckling and if there is an absence of decorum we're going to ask law enforcement for assistance and we thank you thank you for following these rules madam president starting this portion of the meeting i'm just going to reiterate what's on the agenda just so that we i think i just read it you just read it okay so we are going to hold to three minutes so please my name is becca thomas i'm a student at voorhees and as some of you
042may know i made a speech at last month's board meeting regarding the attempted banning of books centered around ld lgbtq characters and ideals many of these books were considered to be and labeled as pornography sure there may be some mildly graphic scenes but keep in mind that the books incl including said scenes like juno dawson's this book is gay and alison bechdel's fun home are meant to be informative not erotic in any way being someone who's bisexual myself it breaks my heart to know that we are still facing persecution in something as simple as simple as a collection of books we're hardly represented in books and movies i bet most people probably wouldn't be able to name more than a couple movies with main characters in the lgbtq community but there are countless representations of
043heteronormative characters all around us we have very little representation and the there are people that wish to take away what little we have left i've read and i've conferred with people who have read several of the books that are being considered to be banned and there are the kind of stories that guide someone like me in a way that no hetero book can even in the real world myself and my lgbtq peers face persecution just for being different from being called slurs to being harassed bullied and for some even abused we shouldn't have to have our voices silenced and our opinions cast away just because we don't fit within the cisgender heterosexual normative thomas jefferson stated in the preamble of the declaration of independence that we are all entitled to unalienable rights namely life liberty
044and the pursuit of happiness banning any of these books would break that 250 year old promise which is something that i don't think we want to do we will not be silenced our voices will be heard because we are people and we deserve to be respected as such thank you hi my name is max moore and i'm a transgender student at voorhees with the upcoming vote vote of the banning of the books in our library it's important to look into the past at all of the times books and information has been banned restricted or burned the impacts of banning a book simply for its diverse themes as we've learned in the past are extremely large taking away books in our library for students to access not only breeds a community of intolerance and hate but
045it takes away from the students who need these books the queer and by poc students whose history have been erased one too many times banning one book sends a message a message that says we are okay with fostering a community where students feel excluded and targeted simply for being who they are not only will the removal of these books set a precedent for the kind of actions we tolerate in these schools but it also has the possibility of creating a chain reaction if we ban these books what stops us from allowing other books to be considered for bands what stops us from going down the rabbit hole of banning any book that may challenge our world view many people before me have established that these books do not contain pornography so what is the removal
046protecting students from the only thing it would accomplish is robbing students at the opportunity for them to be exposed to perspectives that may be different from their own i can say for certain that there are books in our school library whose ideas i may disagree with but i firmly believe that they should be available for students to access the library is meant to be a place where different ideas and perspectives come together in one room it's a place for students to access these ideas and make their own judgments by voting to deny the students the opportunity to hear these different perspectives the board will be doing the student body a great disservice the library is not just a place to be exposed to different perspectives for some students the school library is the only place
047where they can access stories that show characters like them the library is a place where students are able to learn that what they are is okay they are not wrong for being who they are the library is the place where accessing healthy representation is possible and from experience i can say that it can help more than anything when it comes to coming terms when it comes to coming to terms with identity taking these books away takes away the opportunity for students to have the realization that there are other people like them it would be taking away the moment when these students understand that it's okay to be who they are taking these books away would not be protecting students it would do the opposite and taking these books away would not be protecting the community
048it would do the opposite thank you [Applause] i'm cindy carter i'm a physician and i'm a resident of hunter county in union township hunter and county is no longer listed as the healthiest county in in new jersey as it used to be one of the main reason is the high teen and young adult suicide rate which is the highest per population in the state suicide is the third leading cause of death among youth ages 15 to 24 and lgbtq youth are more likely to attempt suicide than their peers this does not mean however that lgbtq identity itself is the cause of these challenges rather these high rates are likely due to bias discrimination family rejection and other stressors associated with how they are treated because of their sexual identity or gender identity and expression these
049challenges referred to as microaggressions can contribute to anxiety depression and other mental health challenges as well as to suicide and self-harming behavior even if you do not think your child has lgbtq thoughts or suicidal thoughts if they have a friend that is lgbtq plus or gender non-conforming and attempts or complete suicide then your child is more likely to attempt suicide the more open accepting tolerant and loving we are of our children the less likely they will fear feel devalued bullied and depressed i disagree with banning these five books that show tolerance of lgbtq perspectives nobody's going to clap for me i'm not here to talk about a book i'm here to talk about policies as a school board you have three jobs one is to evaluate the super name oh sorry karen go of highbridge
050new jersey you have three jobs one is to evaluate the superintendent one is to pass the budget and the other one is to enact policy you have a policy that you talked long and hard about at the beginning of this meeting about masks and there are a number of people in this room that are refusing to put up their masks we had staring contests with them at the beginning of the meeting we sat and we waited to see if they were going to put up their mess and they have not you should have ended the meeting okay you expect the kids to come to school and keep their masks on i wear a mask for eight hours a day you're all sitting there with either masks there's people out here who aren't weren't there masks
051should have canceled the meeting [Applause] my name is lynn munroe i live in pattenburg union township first i want to thank the board for all of your hard work and i recognize that being on the board is quite a challenge and i know you're all doing the best you can in difficult times i am a lesbian and i have been out for 40 years i have fought for lgbt human rights across the board and intellectual freedom all of those years i am disgusted that we still have to fight against the banning of books discussed but i am not afraid at last month's meeting i meeting i intend to speak but i saw that so many students wanted to speak i didn't want to get in their way and they were amazing what i saw was
052a group of brave young people speaking truth to power and it is truth their truth and my truth i'm just glad that these days more young people have supported and wonderful families here i have listened to the reasons people are objecting to the books both in person and on youtube i am hearing a lot about pornography and graphic sex i have also heard people stating that they don't think the school should be teaching about equity equality the thing that jefferson put in the declaration of independence i read three of the books i want to speak to fun home what i read in phone home was not just a description of a young woman's coming out experience i read references to manuel and marcel proust fit into a context in a way that might inspire students
053to read classic literature i read about heartache and forgiveness and about the compromises we need to make as an adult the kinds of things a young person will face as the end of the world as new adults we need to provide a safe and welcoming space for students outside what is considered to be the majority demographic which is not going to be much longer there must be a quality of access to books about the experiences of all people of all races all sexual orientations and all gender identities our student body consists of these people from all these demographics we need to meet the students where they are we need to do this to support all the students for the students who are bullied on a daily basis for the race or the lgbt status for
054their allies who get bullied for being their friends if there are concerns about sexual content then decisions need to be made equally across all groups and any committee formed for this purpose needs to contain people on both sides of this issue not a committee that just caters to a small portion of district residents thank you for your attention tonight and for taking the time to receive input on this important matter [Applause] nicole gallo in lebanon township i would like to ask the board and administration and the librarian to apologize to the lgbtq students in our district it is shameful that you orchestrate it and falsify that the books were attacked on them obscene and sexually explicit pictures and content do not belong in the high school library to request to remove the books is to
055protect all students including the lgbtq the request was not to remove all the lgbtq books only a select few that cross over the criminal criminal threshold any book regardless of genre that violates state and federal laws has no place in our school the lgbt community was victimized by you and not the parent supporting the removal gaslighting is a term that is used to describe a person who effectively puts forth a false narrative that leads another person or a group of people to doubt their own perceptions and become distressed this was done to distract and hide the truth that you allowed pedophilia to our school library the board biasly opened last month's meeting thanking the community for all the emails and letters that were received in support of the books and the lgbt school community however
056there was no mention in august by the board of all the emails and letters that were received against the mass mandates instead the board showed their unprofessionalism by being disorganized rude and passive-aggressive there were over 60 parents and students in attendance to show support of medical freedom there was no mention or support or letters and emails that received from the parents in support of the medical freedom instead the president and vice president staged in opposition using the president's daughter and the vice president's husband to incite the crowd then an hiv was filed on a student who disagreed with her daughter's public let the records show that this board is biased the hypocrisy gets worse the board attorney lectured the crowd last month as he explained our first amendment right of freedom of speech does this
057free speech only support one side or both sides why did the board president file an hiv against a student for exercising his first amendment right should the speaker who oppose the books file an hi for us speakers who oppose the books should we file an hiv against a board because they show their support and bias against the opposition of the removal of the books publicly the unethical behavior of the school board is evident to all to close as a taxpayer i would like the board to address mr bender has been absent from every board meeting that i've been at we pay his salary and expect him to do his job if he cannot handle this environment then he should be removed [Applause] victoria chebanko oxford the debates of the founding fathers of the constitutional convention
058were well documented in journals and diaries most notably the federalist papers and the anti-federalist papers which i'm sure have been removed from the school library to make room for more pedophilic and pornographic literature within these debates and journals these courageous men outlined their plan for the public education system its purpose was to teach in this order love of god love of country and love of family the northwest ordinance of 1787 further stated that religion morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind schools and the means of education shall be forever be encouraged thomas jefferson himself had a plan of public education to be to help people understand and maintain their rights and exercise with intelligence their part in our self-government it is no surprise that the current education system does
059everything possible to bastardize this man to completely delegitimize his messages they do not want these children to know their rights because when they know them they will not know when they're being taken away today's public schools are no longer that the public has no control over what goes on within their walls despite electing officials to represent them today's schools are government schools the people running them care nothing about the emotional well-being of the children nothing about family values and only about creating a population of perpetual victims and oppressors to further divide our country today's schools are government indoctrination camps that the foolish send their children to every day so the children can learn to hate god hate their country hate their families and ultimately end up hating themselves the nation's youth is being done hold
060on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold on hold hold on hold on please please please there's there's not folks we'll shut it down there's not gonna be heckling guys we'll take a recess there's not going to be heckling there's not going to be snickering please okay the other speakers the other speakers weren't interrupted please show respect [Music] ma'am please there are exemptions to the executive order which i am in compliance with thank you folks we're not we're not gonna do you want us to recess please damn continue thank you this nation's youth is being fed this indoctrination under the guise of inclusion and diversity to the point where they lack the primary education to understand the difference between tyranny and anarchy the public education system has become an endless leech on taxpayers
061with very little productive results for our country our country is being destroyed from within by an army of children being created and indoctrinated by the very people entrusted to protect them you the board are elected officials of our government and to quote the declaration of independence which is the foundation of the constitution you took an oath to uphold governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the govern you forgot you serve we the people not njea and not murphy code of ethics of the school board members oath of allegiance to the u.s and new jersey constitutions oath of allegiance to the duties of office first and 14th amendments of the constitution and endangering welfare of children these are all the codes that are you and are in violation of by
062allowing these mandates and policies you have proven a dereliction of duty you have proven unfit to perform the job you were elected for and took oath to perform mass mandates and inclusion policies are unconstitutional and you took an oath you are bound by your oath to disregard unconstitutional policies you have failed the parents you have failed the children and you have failed our country you should resign immediately and parents if they do not give up their positions you have a duty to your children to take them remove your children from these indoctrination day camps and force these immoral minions of corruption out of our education system dismantle the school system and rebuild it as our founding fathers intended this is not our only right this is our duty and by the way i'm a heterosexual
063[Applause] good evening valerie rosen bethlehem township i'm a licensed psychotherapist in practice for 10 years and a parent of two kids who are 11 and 14 years old i'm here to speak on the heels of the last board of ed meeting which left a lot to be desired as far as addressing the concerns of parents who want to be sure that their children are receiving education not indoctrination my statement is based on common sense and clinical experience with human behavior psychological and emotional development as board of ed members who are tasked with ensuring the academic success of the students in your community your public servants we were elected by us to act in the best interest of our children and this responsibility comes with allowing us to use our own judgment to make important informed
064decisions on their behalf and you have failed us instead of being our voice you are acting as the foot soldiers of a far overreaching political system that is for too long wage psychological warfare on our kids by sowing the seeds of cultural marxism in their minds and mentally assaulting them with this deluded masking ritual which is very much akin to munch houses by proxy the days where we will sit idly by and allow our entrusted board of end members to participate in this abusive agenda are over enforcement of mass mandates and a doctrine introduction of crt aka social emotional learning into our curriculum is a far cry from carrying out your civic duties i think we're all at the point of knowing that masks are not laws but let's take a look shall we according
065to black's law dictionary 11th edition the definition of a mandate is as follows under roman and civil law a written command given by a principal someone like a governor to an agent specifically a commission or a contract by which one person like a governor requests the mandatory who in this case is the public to perform some service gratuitously which means voluntarily the commission becoming effective once the mandatory the public agrees therefore a mandate only becomes mandatory once you agree to it we do not agree according to the supreme court's decision on the case of miranda versus arizona where rights secured by the constitution are involved there can be no rule making or legislation which would abrogate them this applies to mandates eos or any legislation that tramples on the rights granted to us at birth
066by our lord and savior jesus christ and yes he loves everyone in this room it is not the job of public servants or bureaucrats to teach our children about morals and values that is our job instead of learning the things that will allow them to grow into productive members of society our kids are being taught that they are part victim and part oppressor as a result they can't trust their own judgment and they begin to view the world as an unsafe and chaotic place that will not allow them to thrive they begin to view others as dangerous actors who owe them something and they begin to view themselves as fragmented and purposeless and this is harmful to kids no matter what their race religion gender or sexuality is i've worked with people who talk about
067suffering from white guilt only because someone told them that another white person were possibly related to in the very remote past could have owned slaves [Music] [Applause] um eric laklinko had two kids in north hunterdan high school in adelaide new jersey can you please put your mask up to speed i was just there's no one directly in front of me so it's clear okay no problem no problem i was just i was just socially distanced like that the succeed thing yeah so okay i'll con all right our concern are concerned this is a letter this is an email that i wrote to uh bender he did not respond just like he's not coming his meetings our concern is clear nhv is distributing obscene and illegal content to minors mr mizlant lizvanka informed us uh importantest
068nhv vita took to address our concern by forming a review committee comprised of the staff who are responsible for bringing illegal content into the school policy 9130 states that the board directs the establishment of procedures for the hearing and settlement of requests and complaints that provide a means of resolving them fairly and impartially superintendent shall appoint a committee of professional staff members and community representatives to review the challenge materials against the standards for the nhv policy 9130 makes clear uh 90sp policy 940 makes clear the public complaint complaints which are not resolved by informal discussion are to be reviewed and analyzed in a fair and impartial manner by a committee which the superintendent forms we've reached out to the school directly out of concern for our children the content we object to is blatantly illegal
069as it directly violates state njsa 2c 34-3 and federal law 18 usc 1470 which prohibits the distribution the distribution of c material two minors additionally obscene content directly violates north honduran and voorhees regional high school district technology acceptance use policy which every student and parent must sign annually nhp has taken absolutely no steps to remove this illegal material from our children's reach nhv actually deflected the issue of illegal obscene content by falsely associating sorry content with lgb contact nsp policy 9320 acknowledges the board's custodial responsibility of the children in its charge and a duty to protect those children from persons not associated with the school with the school district how is how is nhv currently protecting our children from persons who are associated with the school district please provide specific including members of the the
070reconsideration committee which you can charge which you are charged with forming what books the committee is reviewing what board established standard the committee is utilizing and when the committee is reviewing these quick this contents in question no response sent on november 5th and i if you and i think jessa mr jessica biota was on this email as well this is abbreviated version the board and liberian's opinion do not supersede state and federal law [Applause] caroline laquinco franklin township north hunter and voorhees policy mandates written parental consent consent for students to watch r-rated movies at school presumably this is because state law in jsa 34. i'm sorry njsa2c 343c he knows it prohibits showing adult content to minors the content within the books which us parents hear we have submitted concerns about extend far beyond an
071r-rated movie why does nhv not apply the same standards for books as it does to movies they're both in the media center even more egregious nhv takes zero steps to even label books with sexual content labeling these books with categories such as humor which one of the books in question is labeled as purposely exposes minors to explicit content purposely we understand that hunter county prosecutor's office is currently investigating the alleged legal content if in the extremely unlikely scenario the prosecutors do not find the material to be illegal i request a list of comparable books which appeal to heterosexual students that are currently in the nhv library as we stated before parents are not aware of any sexually explicit books within nhv without the ldbtq tag which we support we don't want the sexually explicit books
072of any nature nhb claim staff claim this material is educational and imperative to the lgbt student education again in the unlikely event that this material is found to not be illegal the school is explicitly discriminating against the student population which these books do not appeal to providing allegedly necessary educational material to one group of students and not providing similar educational necessary separately material to other students is actionable sexual discrimination is the material obscene or are nhv's policies blatantly sexually discriminatory [Applause] hello uh my name is sarah varga i am a vhs alum class of 2015 and i live in lebanon township all right good evening i first want to thank the members of the board for dedicating their time to serving their community members of school boards are being threatened and maligned across the country
073and i support the safety of our board members my first question is what kind of example are we setting for our students with the way this meeting is being conducted you set the rules and we're taught if you don't follow the rules you get removed from removed from class and reprimanded but here we sit with adults who are acting like petulant children who refuse to wear their masks and you said at the very beginning that they must wear them then there was a standoff and guess what you did you let them win the standoff so what example are you setting if you can't even enforce your own policies your police officers can't even enforce it we're taught to respect the police and that if we just comply we won't get hurt yet here would they
074sit not complying what does that say to your ability to maintain a safe environment for everyone and anyone who enters this your school one of your district-wide goals for last year and this year has been focusing on student mental health and well-being mental health of students has been an ongoing topic in this area as more and more students struggle with depression anxiety and stress you can if you can't maintain an environment where students won't be accosted and yelled at by adult parents then how can you even say you care about their mental health what kind of message do you think you're sending to students where they have to just sit and take verbal abuse for fear that they'll get in trouble for retaliation by the way that happened to me earlier this in the very
075beginning of this meeting and the police officer yelled at me for defending myself against parents yelling at me this conversation is much bigger than book bans it boils down to basic respect and trust you have the power to enforce the policy and you've chosen not to this tells students that policies are based on the enforcer and that they can't trust you or this administration if they don't trust you how do you expect them to come and report to you about incidents of hate bigotry anything you've just proven right here that you can't protect them and by you i mean specifically the system i'm not maligning you guys as individuals but if your policies can't even hold water here how can they possibly hold water in a school also just a reference to those parents claiming
076indoctrination against god we stood up at the beginning of this meeting repeating a pledge of allegiance for to this country under god they spout stuff about jesus christ and god but what happened to religious freedom why do these people get to dictate things in the name of god and jesus christ at a public school that has people in different denominations if these parents actually truly cared about the safety of their students regarding explicit content then they probably should have put twilight catcher in the rye which literally has holden an underage teenager having sexual contact with a prostitute they should have put any shakespeare uh the odyssey those are books taught in our curriculum so if they actually cared they would have done their research [Applause] apparently there's not a setting for me this short um
077hi i'm stephanie yeager i live in bethlehem township the community group evolve officially formed at the completion of the 2018-2019 school year but its members have children who attended a hb as early as 2014 and the alumni members share memories that predate that as the boe knows evolve was formed to advocate for student populations that have been targets of blatant hate or bias our members came together years ago due to the pain experienced by the nhv students they cared for our mission is to improve student climate culture and to amplify the voices of students who have felt unheard and unsafe uh to speak about their experiences here at nhv classrooms should be places where students feel safe and cared for bathrooms locker rooms and halls and buses should be free of messages that tell our
078marginalized populate populations that they don't belong here harassment intimidation and bullying data is artificially low in the district for every one incident that is reported and documented there are many more that are not our boeing administrators need to strive to understand what about the environment is discouraging the reporting and making our students feel that they need to remain silent administrative responses have been inadequate just in the last month students have proudly bragged about being racist bragged about using the n-word without consequence worn confront a flag shirt won a confederate flag shirt in school and flashed the white power symbol we still remain unaware of any steps taken by the superintendent to ensure these types of incidents will not reoccur the lack of action to support the students who are targets of this hate encourages students
079to remain silent when they encounter bias and hate students see and believe nothing will be done if they report it anyway no place for hate groups were formed for both north and vorhees however the program's representatives from the anti-defamation league made abundantly clear that our district's attempts to address hate have fallen short we failed to earn the designation of no place for hate schools while we commend the district for starting the process to address bias it is not being done consistently across buildings or with concern for the marginalized students that it aims to protect nhv has not put students in the driver's seat to build movement towards positive change as the adl recommends in parent advisory and boe meetings evolved members hear unanimous concern for suicide prevention and preserving the mental health of our young
080people and yet nothing has been done that amounts to a change in the district's climate and culture we can't fix a problem we haven't acknowledged fully defined or don't understand in this vein we ask the board and administration to take a few steps back and retain an outside evaluator to perform a comprehensive equity audit what we learned from an independent assessment will help the district allocate resources and take action to address bias and make the schools welcoming for all students we welcome interested students and community members to join evolve thanks to the boe for all the time and energy you volunteer for this work you are appreciated and also i just wanted to thank mr chapman and miss hoffman in the announcement i heard earlier for taking interest and giving additional time to participate in
081the new place for hate groups thank you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] high bridge new jersey thank you board members i appreciate your patience and your diligence the public comments at the last few board meetings focused on a library and for those of you who haven't been in such a facility for a while a library is a forum for free investigation into information and ideas among the principles that guide libraries is the american library association's bill of right which states in article one books and other library resources should be provided for the interest information enlightenment of all people of the community that the library serves and it boils down to a simple idea the library is open to all the students and the staff and to the wide range of interests and topics that appeal to the
082readers our district is fortunate to have such a space maintained by professional librarians in both schools the books in the library are not required reading they are voluntary reading for independent interests and research and if you browse the shelves of the library a world of information will open for you topics on everything from chinese mythology eating disorders african-american authors economics donald trump 60s music lesbian fiction the communist manifesto and even kim kardashian the library really is open and if any of these topics offend you don't read them leave them on the shelf you can find something else to read but what you cannot do is take the books away from the next reader who comes through that door and for example the book that the lgbtq student checks out may help answer questions they don't
083feel comfortable asking out loud yet and that book could be a lifeline literally a lifeline for coping with the isolation of feeling different in a community that shuns you your personal aversion to the topic does not give you the right to restrict others from that information and i get it not every book is fit for every reader but there is a solution for that you have a conversation with your kid about your expectations and your limit and you trust your kid to follow your instructions and if you don't like a book again just don't read it the ala freedom to read statement offers a lot of guidance parents and teachers have a responsibility to help them learn to think critically critically for themselves and these are affirmative responsibilities not to be discharged simply by preventing
084them from reading works and our district board and administrators must uphold their responsibility to prepare our students for life beyond the confines of hunterdon county defend our students freedom to read and oppose the banning of books and please try to keep our libraries open for them thank you [Applause] hi how are you thank you for continuing to be here and listen to us my name is alexa offenhauer and i live in clinton um i was here last month and i was able to talk last month about how i had read the book lawn boy how i had found it to be an excellent choice for young adult readers um today i also want to add um as i was listening i'm not as prepared as some of the other people who are here who spoke
085eloquently our students and and other members of our community i wasn't going to speak but hearing some of the misinformation that i was hearing earlier i had to say something and what i want to say is that there's a conflation going on here talking about race isn't racism and talking about sex isn't pornography and that's what these books are doing and some of the topics are mature which is exactly what high school is supposed to help students become and i know that these students who've read these books know what they're talking about when they say these scenes aren't included included in these books in order to be explicit or in order to excite you in many cases their descriptions of difficult situations that these characters were in because they were lgbtq and so the reason
086that the lgbtq literature is going to include top the topic of sex is that the identity of lgbt q while not limited to the topic of sex includes that topic and so it's absolutely vital that we not pay mind to this idea that these books were only picked out because they were explicit i asked some of the students earlier if they would look up on the school library the book forever by judy bloom to see if it is in fact edmond north hunter in library i figured it would be judy bloom wrote this one young adult book that is you know she wrote children's literature mostly but forever is this basically a book about sex and it is not a book about difficult sex it is a book that is meant to be interesting and
087intriguing to readers about sex it's pretty explicit it's about a young woman who meets a guy they start dating they have sex a bunch of times and then at the end of the book they break up when i was a kid we passed that thing around from all of our houses we stuck it under our bed at our pillow at night like we read it because we needed to learn about this topic and that was actually a pretty safe and good way to learn about it and while i absolutely agree that these books that are being discussed are not just about sex or even really primarily about sex the fact that they do include sex is a reason to keep them in the library not a reason to take them out thank you [Applause] my
088name is mary andrall i'm three stone barn road and i was not intending on speaking this evening but i would like you to know that i am a committed conservative christian and i have raised children in this district and i am proud of who my family has become my children have listened timeless many many times to what i believe to be a very leftist ideology that has left the liberal party and has infiltrated our educational system i am disheartened as a mother and as an american and i was disheartened with what i saw again tonight i have never seen my people so divided i would like you to know that my children have suffered as conservative christians in the school district and i would like you to feel their pain and maybe in the future
089i will share with you some of the things that they wrote as students but i don't want to do that tonight but i want you to know that as a committed christian i believe that jesus christ wants me to walk with all people all people are deemed sinners but it doesn't mean that i have to go and live my life according to what other people choose to do with their lives they are free citizens of the greatest country on earth we were endowed with rights from our creator and those rights came from brilliant men who are now being taken down in our courthouses thomas jefferson was just taken down how pathetic of to do that to a man who was so learned that to him spent hours doing nothing but reading about ancient literature and
090knowing the great works something that should be imparted to our children that we will still not at this time recognize the value of those ancient works and all that john locke and montesquiou we have wonderful history teachers in this district i know we do because i know those men and i believe one woman was also my children had high adoration for those men are trying to impart pride on arch and our children i know they are but we have to bring these children together more i am appalled at what i see in our nation i'm praying for our nation and i will not apologize for having the values that i have that i'm imparting to my children that they're going to show their children what their mother and father gave them my father my husband
091and my father had a lot in common and my daughter sees that and i value that and i'm not apologizing for that that's my value system i'm not ridiculing anyone if people have alternative genders or lifestyles that's their choice i have known gay people all my life and they were the people i knew were very elegant people so i don't really care what anybody thinks here but i know how to treat people nicely and i'm also entitled to my opinion hey let's go mix together uh folks yes thank you we're going to move forward with the meeting everyone i'd really like um if you could if you're exiting the building if you could do so quietly you i'd like to call for a motion in a second to adopt curriculum changes agenda items 11.1 and
09211.2 commencing in the 2022-2023 school year ocean rob dad this is a roll call vote miss bonomi yes mr chapman yeah mr logo yeah jeffer banish yeah miss hints yes miss hoffman yes mr kirchberger yes ms mclaughlin yes mr mielik yes miss celino yeah mr street yeah miss fiano yes i call for a motion and a second to approve agenda items 13.1 through 16.15 someone um is there there's a question on the content for this okay edge cooperative is for what that's a technology consortium so we'll be able to get better competitive quotes for technology items technology software computers um yes information technology correct thank you devices software all right any other discussion on the motion [Music] uh um great to see that the addition of uh voice uh volleyball i'm just questioning is this
093uh replacing a sport or activity previously on schedule c sorry no it's an additional addition any other questions yes jess what did you say the motion was any other questions um voice vote so uh all in favor aye are you okay motion carries so one uh listening to the students report out on the sports and also listening to mr jacks report on the sports i'd like to see if we could possibly go back to recognizing students for academic and athletic recognition we had previously done that prior to the pandemic and now that we're in person i'm suggesting that we go back to that any other older new business well i just got a comment so i spent the last minute or so trying to find this i've told that all the old and new businesses
094listed somewhere in resource materials i can't find it somebody tell me exactly where agenda and resources scroll down to the spreadsheet it's like the sixth thing down called boe action items [Laughter] how am i gonna find it all right anyone else all right seeing none we'll move on um i'm going to call for a motion and a second to approve a giant agenda items 21.1 and 21.2 um including hand carries provided those items include the personnel agenda the executive minutes from october 22nd 2021 and also to include um that we have resolved to approve the settlement of litigation involving student number will be inserted sorry what happened um 202 33524 and resolved to approve settlement of litigation involving student number were resolved to approve the moa with the nhvaa for the period of 21 2021
095to 2024 were resolved to approve an increase in the compensation for certain not affiliated staff in the amount of three percent for the current year will resolve to approve rich purchases acting superintendent upon the terms to be negotiated and set forth and an addendum approved by the eu miss bonomi yes mr chapman yes miss chris logo yes straightforward banish ms hintz yes ms hoffman yes mr kirchberger yes mclaughlin yes to all except n8 dash or dot 3.1 i'm abstaining okay can you repeat the number n 8.3.1 abstain n8.3.2 abstain n a n 8.3.24 no n 8.3.25 no i have n83.1 n83.2 two n83.24 two four and five eight three dot two five and those are all abstentions the first two are upside down the second two are yes miss lino mr street ms fiato yes
096motion carries hi you