001you. All right, call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Akamando, >> present. >> Miss Barley, Mr. Rachel, >> here. >> Miss Einelo, >> present. >> Mr. Lorentino. >> Miss Roloff >> here. >> Miss Torbick, >> present. >> Miss Traverso >> here. >> Misselli >> here. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Adequate notice of this meeting has been sent to all members of the board of education and to the Bergen record in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act chapter 231 1975. Okay, Mrs. Vetti report. >> Thank you. I do have a lot so bear with me.
002Um I'm sure Mr. Kate is going to be talking more about facilities but just wanted to make everyone aware that our central office is scheduled to be moving over to Coolage hopefully by Friday of this week which is located at 540 Saddle River Road. The directors and tech staff will be coming to our current offices and where the directors have been room 124. It's already started to be converted into an additional classroom here at the middle school high school. The other piece that I'm really excited about is our cafeterias have been repainted and new lighting and now our new cafeteria furniture is scheduled to be delivered also this Friday. So really excited about that. Um our athletic field it is it's getting there. So our home opener is Friday, September 5th at 7 p.m. The
003theme is Falcon Pride. We're hoping to have a nice big student section. We'll do some type of um ceremony beforehand. We've been working on fixing up the press box. We're awaiting arrival of the digital scoreboard. We're getting the gate working in the back in the back of the field for the fob access. The fence has been completed. We cleared out a lot of the old shrubbery and some of the icky stuff that was in the back. The track has been lined and the entrance to the athletic field that's needed to be completed as well after they work on the front entrances of our middle school high school. As far as you'll notice, we don't have student representatives to the board at this time. I will be sending something out the first week of school and
004we'll be interviewing our students and then we hope to have them at our September meeting. Transfer orientation at the middle school high school is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 26th. And our new teacher orientation is Wednesday and Thursday, August 27th and 28th when we have the community bus tour the afternoon of the 28th. And that's always a fun time uh when we take them around our township, point out some highlights, and visit all our school buildings. Our staff does a report back to school the day after Labor Day. They have two professional development days, and then our students have a minimum day on Thursday and a full day on Friday. Our current open positions, the two big the two big ones are middle school science and middle school math special education. So, we are
005actively searching for those two positions. And then we have some Paris and lunches um opening as well. Some reminders that are going to be sent out to parents and some district updates include the following. So, we're going to remind our families that there's no motorized vehicles on school property. We've seen an uptake in um electric uh ebikes and e scooters and things like that. They are not permitted on school property. We are going to continue with having field day for grades four to six at the middle school high school field, taking into consideration all the feedback that we received from our families and staff as well. So, we're looking forward to having that be even better this year. We have our parent partnership nights. They're going, the first one's going to be Tuesday, November 18th.
006And then we have one in March and one in May. Acme has already, they're very generous. They've already sent out emails about providing us with more gift cards. And if anyone has any thoughts or sessions that they wish to have for these parent partnership nights, please send me an email. We are going to send out reminders to our parents and students about our Chromebook policy and the fines associated with losing a charger or a case, etc. And our tech department has started a new tagging process as well with our devices. New for next year in this building is there going to be fob access for the student bathrooms at the middle school high school. So currently the doors are usually chocked open and staff is on duty outside. So this will enable our doors to
007be closed and stay closed. And it also means that every student is going to have to have their ID on them in order to access the restroom. So, our students will be mandated to wear their IDs. Our high school students will have blue lanyards. Our middle school students will continue with the yellow lanyards. Our back to school night dates have already been shared out. So, our principles will follow up with that. We're also going to change up our scholarship banquet. It's going to be a little bit different this coming year. We're not going to have it at a restaurant as our participation rate was declining a little bit. we are going to celebrate all of our senior students with a combination of an awards and a scholarship night here at the middle school high school.
008Um so that kind of eliminates an additional night out for our families of seniors at a very busy time of the year for them. Also the plan right now is for all kindergarten, grade six, and grade 8 promotions and celebrations to be indoor moving forward in our nice airond conditioned gymnasiums that we did not always have. If we need to have an overflow area with live stream, we will do so. And then that allows high school graduation to remain um in a special format outside on our athletic field here. We're also not going to be moving forward with the delayed opening for K to6 for state testing. So this means that our testing in our elementary schools will be spread out a bit more across the month, but it the feedback was it was a
009it was an inconvenience for our families. We wanted to take that into account. The middle school high school will continue to have a delayed opening for their week of state testing. Continuing, we're going to have um no cell phones, AirPods, earbuds, headphones will not be permitted in our classroom. If a teacher sees them out, the teacher will be instructed to take them and bring them to the main office so the student can pick them up at the end of the day. And if the behavior continues, further consequences will occur. Our middle school students will be using their lockers. There'll be no backpacks allowed in the classrooms. They're taking up way too much space in our classrooms here. And there will be drawstring bags will be um acceptable instead. I also wanted to let the community
010know that we created a list of all different holidays through for throughout the school year and it was shared with our principles who will soon share it with their staff. It's impossible for our school to be closed for every holiday. However, we want to be respectful of all of our family celebrations. So, we're sharing these dates out with our teachers so that way they can work with these dates when scheduling their tests and homework and etc. Our parent portal is scheduled to be open next week. During the school year, parents will be able to use the parent portal to enter their child's attendance and upload documentation. If more than one day, then they are to contact either the nurse or the main office, however their school policy um procedures align with. We're also continuing with
011our academic initiative. We need our students present in school. Um absences affect academic performance. It puts strains on the student, parents, and staff with making up work and ultimately hurts our district as a whole. But this also goes for tardies. Five unexcused tardies equate to one unexcused absence. We've had many students with attendance failures um for period one specifically in this building due to the conversion of tardies over to unexcused absences. Um as my father always told me, it never hurts to be 10 minutes early. So we're going to try to pretend our school here starts at 7:50 and then hopefully be able to get here on time. Kindergarten and preschool attendance also count. When you allow your child to stay home because they're tired or don't want to come to school, then that's creates
012a pattern, the start of a pattern for them. I also wanted to let everybody know that North Jersey right now. Vote for sophomore TJ Fallin. Voting remain open for a until August 25th. It's for um our high school football team. I will be sending this out to our parents in the following days and what's looks like it's going to be a very long letter. Thank you. Um, Mr. Croy, businesses report. >> Okay, I gave a detailed report earlier today, but just to summarize for the uh for the public, we have many projects going on around the district. Some are in the general budget for this year and some are still uh referendum projects finishing up. So the over here at the middle school high school, the track was recoded and relined with color exchange zones
013on the front here referendum we're working on. You'll see work being done. That's the front uh canopies and renovations. Uh you should see the steel start getting erected on Thursday and Friday tomorrow and and the next day. Um then they'll start in the back athletic field entrance doing uh a similar project. At all the schools, we had either the uh all the boilers replaced or the um second or backup boiler replaced. So all the boilers will be uh on the newer end versus having like a 1984 and 87 boiler. Um the the oldest one will be 2016. >> You know, some consider that retro. >> Retro. Yeah, >> it was kind of retro. >> Retro. >> Uh again with the referendum, we had uh three schools here, uh Franklin and Long. There were three sections
014of the roof that needed to get uh renovated. Uh the reason we couldn't do them last summer is because we had to remove the solar panels. So, we had to coordinate that with the with the solar company. Um so, that was being done here. So, they remove the panels, the roof gets completed, and then the panels get put back on the roof. At Smith, we're um waiting for the install date for a front uh entrance awning. At Washington School, a couple referendum projects. We had the ceiling and lighting done on the first and second floor as well as three classrooms. That's all completed. And we're waiting for windows uh for the school to get delivered next week and installation to start around the first week in September. That's all the um windows on the front
015of the building. Uh both floors and the sides. And if you want your last pictures of the orange panels, please take them now uh because they will go to blue. Coolage school. fully interior renovations are completed. Uh we had the roof uh replaced that was done. The parking lots repaved and we're looking to move in like Mrs. Violet said on Friday. Um I think that summarizes little project. If anybody has any questions on the board, please let me know. >> Thank you. >> I'm good. >> Oh, I thought you had a question. Okay. So, um Mrs. Mrs. Vett is going to do a presentation for us on uh >> it's going to be super quick. Okay. So, we're mandated to report results of our state testing to the board of education within a specific time
016frame. Um unfortunately in the summer it's difficult to have our testing coordinator and our directive curriculum to attend the meetings due to their schedules. So, we are going to have formal presentations at the September board of ed meeting, but I did share a one summary slide with the board. You do have access to it. This is for the access for ELL's English language learners. We had 70 students tested across grades K through 12. And the access for L's goes by levels. Levels one is level one are students that are entering the country for the first time. And then level six is the highest. In order to test out of ESL, you need to score a 4.5 or higher. So that's all of level six and all of level five and then most of level four.
017And then you are you almost considered like on a watch list for a year where the ELLL teacher does um collaborate with the classroom teacher to make sure the student doesn't fall behind. We did have after this testing we did have a total of 12 students that were exited from our ESL program. >> Well, that was really quick. Thank you. Um does anybody wish to comment on agenda items? Then we'll have to open the right. Okay. Good. Okay. We're going to move right along. Uh for board action items, uh can I have a motion to approve B2526.5 through B2526.11? >> Second. >> I need a motion in a second. >> Both Michaels. >> Okay. >> Most of these are mandated items. We do have our district goals for next school year. We are going to
018continue with our attendance and include tardiness in there because as I mentioned in my updates, our tardies are really affecting our attendance rates. We're also going to implement something that's called instructional rounds to strengthen mathematics instruction. So our math scores are on the lower side this year, this past year. So we are going to put together instructional rounds which is a team of uh v varied individual staff members across the district. You focus on one or two specific math instructional items and then you go into classrooms across the district when they're teaching math for maybe 15 to 20 minutes and you just observe and then you kind of debrief together. You um as objective as you can be put what you observed and then you all work together as a team to figure out what
019our staff and our programs need in or and our students need in order to experience more success in mathematics instruction. sort of like to guide our professional development across um across the district and our family engagement across the district. And the third goal is um again based upon our low science state testing scores, although this was something that definitely was across the county because I attended a county meeting on this. And we are going to have our third goal be to increase our scores on the state assessment um with science. And then you'll also see on there the board um the board goals. So the board goals I don't know if you want to share you want me to share the board goals. >> I don't have them. >> Oh. So um the board goals
020they're going to participate in a minimum of three community events. I'm not going to read the entire I'll just give a quick summary. The second one is to encourage student voice and engagement by having students attend board of education meetings and share presentations that highlight their learning experiences, achievements, and classroom initiatives. And then the third, which I really love, is to host meet and greet events with the community. So, and the board trustees several times throughout the school year. So, those are the goals that are listed for approval. And then everything else here is mandated. The bilingual waiver, what that is is if you have more than 20 students speaking the same language, same foreign language in your district, then you are supposed to be hosting a bilingual program for them in district. What this
021waiver is is that if those 20 students are across grade levels K through 12, it'd be very difficult to implement that program. So that's what the waiver is for. Any questions? >> Okay, seeing none. Roll call, please. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Reverso. >> Yes. >> Miss Otterelli. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aamando. >> Yes. >> Miss Torb. >> Yes. >> Education and curriculum. Mrs. I know. Okay. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. E2526.1 through E2526.14. >> Second. Thank you. >> Okay, so the field trips listed here are the grades four to six taking the bus over to the middle school high school for their field day in the spring. The new staff community bus tour outdoors club here at the middle school high school. They
022have their first trip on here. And then the track team, they go to Six Flags every year. So those are the field trips on here. Next, you'll see the code of conducts. Those have to be approved every year. They are not new. The curriculum has to be approved every year. You'll see down at the bottom math curriculum. You only see one, two, and four because K three, five, and six are still being worked on. So, they should be on September's agenda. All our math curriculum has to be revised um to align with our new math program. The Emma, the memorandum of understanding between the University of Delaware and Saddle Brook High School. That's our entrepreneurship elective here. Um and this allows the dual enrollment so our students can get college credits. Um out of district
023placements has to be approved every year. Our service providers are approved every year. Point 13, the algebra with financial applications. That's a new course that we're looking to host here at the high school. It's for our special education students to allow them to take a more appropriate thirdyear math course. And then.14 is just a list of our special education programs across the district. They are to be approved each year by the board of education. >> Thank you. >> Can I ask a question? What is the math series that we're working with now? >> K to six is now go math. >> Go math. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. >> Yes, Miss Einelo. >> Yes to all, but in E2526.1 the field trips, I'm going to abstain from number one.
024Okay. Miss Roloff, >> yes. >> Mr. Traverso, >> yes. >> Miss Otterelli, >> yes. >> Mr. Akamando, >> yes. >> Miss Torik, >> yes. >> Budget and finance, Mr. Traverso. >> At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. BF2526.1 through BF2526.14. >> Second. Any questions? >> Workshops? >> The workshops are essentially all um fall annual workshops for one one is our art teacher, some of our principles, um one our school nurse and guidance counselor. So, they're um put in to attend their their organization's annual workshop. And then the door access controls is on here. the 0.14 that's the local recreation improvement grant that's going to be used to fund our K to6 playgrounds um which hopefully we'll be able to get done relatively soon any questions >> roll
025call please >> Mr. Ouchello >> yes >> missello >> yes to all but in BF uh 2526.2 I'm going to abstain from check numbers Wait. >> Uh, also did you get them all? >> Yep. >> Okay. Um, so in BF2526.4 from the workshops, I'm going to abstain from item number two and six. Yes to everything else. >> Okay. Thank you, Ms. Rolloff. >> I'm going to abstain from check number and yes to all. >> Okay, Miss Traverso. >> Yes, >> Miss Oreli. >> Yes, >> Mr. Rakcomando. >> Uh, yes to all except for BF2526.2. I'm going to abstain from check number two uh 67243. and Miss Torb. >> Okay. Uh yes to all but BF2526.3 um staining from check number 67136. >> Okay. Um so we have facilities and operations. Mr. Oello >> at the
026recommendation of the superintendent I make a motion to approve the following item F2526.1. Second >> questions. >> Fine. >> Nope. No questions. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Oello. >> Yes. Missello. >> Yes. >> M. Rolloff. >> Yes. >> Mr. Akamando. >> Yes. >> M. Traverso. >> Yes. >> Miss Aarelli. Yes, >> Miss Torvick. >> Yes. >> Okay. Policy. Mrs. Otterelli. >> Okay. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. Approved for first reading of the following policies and regulations. P1.2526.1 all the way to P5440. Nope. Sorry. P164815. >> I have a section now. >> Yeah, why don't you read it now? >> Okay. For the policy committee, there was a meeting on July 29th. There it was a straest update. Many of these policies are mandated as
027they updated the New Jersey administrative code. There's a new student son protection policy that the governor signed into law. This states that students are able to bring sunscreen to school and apply it when outside only they can apply it. Then our current policy states students in graves in grades five and up are permitted to ride their bikes to school. We are recommending changing this to grades four and up. Student achievement and class rank still included quality grade points of which are no longer being used. We use the weighted GPA. So, these are updated to reflect this practice. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> Can we have a second on the motion? >> Yes, I second. >> Okay. >> Got a couple. >> Thank you guys. Roll call, please. >> Yes. Miss Adelli, >> yes.
028>> Mr. Akamando, >> yes. >> Policies. >> M. Miss Torbick. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, we have no negotiations. Um, I'll read this one since personnel. Uh, we have Can I get a motion to approve a P2526.2 motion? >> Let me say all of them. >> That's the last number. >> Sorry, Vic. >> That's okay. Wait, I have to the last page. Sorry. Uh P 2526.8 >> motion. Anybody have any questions? >> Okay. Point two is our resignations um and one retirement from the district. Then we have our leave us absences. So I'm going to go to point four, appointments. Number one was revised because we needed a substitute nurse for our ESY program. So she was added. Then we have some PAR professionals. Number six is an LDTC because our um current one is
029retiring October 1st. Par then we have ABCBA leave replacement. One of our BCBA one of our BCBAS is going on maternity leave. Par number 10 is a nurse for Washington school. Number 11 is elementary ESL teacher for Franklin School. Number 12 is a fullear kindergarten leave replacement. Um, actually this person is here, I see. And she she was one of our Ramapo clinical interns last year. She completed her internship with Miss D over at Long School in kindergarten and now she's going to have the full year leave replacement um if voted for approval um for this coming school year. Number 13 is an evening custodian that after the 90 days per their contract, they're listed. And then we have a lunch aid. I believe that's Franklin's school. another lunch aid at the end and two
030other paras for our stipens. We have our co-ass assistant boys soccer coach. Um Mr. Klein is stepping down from being the high school yearbook adviser and Miss Anderson's going to um step up to the task. And then we have some rescending from our color guard and marching band. So we hired new new ones. Number five, she used to do this several years ago. She got pregnant and now she's coming back. She was very excited to come back. I explained already to the board the um physical forms for the summer, the second shift. They have an assistant girls lacrosse coach and then we're resending that staff member from the React Club, middle school react club because she um resigned from her current position. Point six, we have salary revisions, movement on the guide. Point seven, we're
031continuing with the Ramapo College internship program partnership with Ramapo College because as you can see, it's being quite successful and beneficial to our district. And then point eight is to continue to give me authority to hire over the summer because, as I said, our two big positions right now that are still open are middle school science and middle school math special education. So, I would like to be able to um offer them the job before our September board meeting. >> Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Archello. >> Yes, Miss Einelo. >> Uh, yes to all, but I'm going to abstain in P2526.5, item numbers, 9, and 11. Yes to everything else. >> Okay. Miss Rollolof. >> Yes. Mr. Traverso, >> yes to all except I will abstain from
032P2526.4 number 15. >> Misselli, >> yes. >> Mr. Akamando, >> yes. >> Miss Torbick, >> yes. >> Okay. Um, does anybody have any committee reports? >> Okay. leaison reports probably not summer but >> I'm gonna ask >> you do okay. >> All right. So we received an email today just for the Bergen County School Boards Association the meeting schedule. So in case you didn't see it uh there is one on Monday September 29th. It's a hybrid but it's also going to be located at the Holiday Inn in Hazark Heights. I think that's the one we usually attend. We want to make plans for that. >> Then Thursday, December 4th, and that location is also going to be hybrid. And the location for that meeting is at Eric S. Smith Middle School in Ramsey. Then on
033Thursday, February 12th at 6:45, that is a virtual meeting. And then Thursday, May 28th, 6 PM also hybrid and that will be at Emerald Park Memorial High School. So if we want to make an arrangement for us to go, keep that on our calendars pending on snacks. Thank you. >> Anybody else have any leazison reports? >> Okay. Any correspondents? Any old business? >> I actually do have I guess somewhat of correspondence. So, the township did email me today. Um, the library, if you recall last year, the public library across the street, they were having some issues with some of our students over there. Um, so they were talking about hiring some type of security for an hour or so after school. So, I was talking to Mr. Leico or emailing Mr. do about maybe offering
034that up to one of our staff members to see if one of our staff members would be willing to go there and the library would pay for the staff member. The thought behind it was that um the students know our teachers, the teachers know our students. Um and I'm not sure that's going to happen, but I told Mr. Leico that we could talk about it. So, just so that the board is aware, we are going to have a meeting with the library so that way we can discuss it further. >> Great idea. >> Um there was no old business, right? Any new business? >> New business. >> Yes, sir. >> Um, okay. Um, I'd like Well, first of all, the schools look great. So, thank you to the custodial staff. Um, especially Phil for posting
035it every day on Facebook. >> Um, >> yeah, he's >> the floor is >> Yeah, it looks they look great. Uh, all the work being done looks great. Congratulations to the young lady who just got approved. Um, I don't know if you guys know of Mr. Tony Gate, but he passed away today. >> Sounds familiar. >> So, >> he was he's been in the community a long, long time. Fire department, zoning board, all that fun stuff. >> And, um, to the parents that have kids going away to school, good luck. It's not going to be easy. >> Oh, yours is going away. That's right. >> Uh, and, uh, Welcome back. >> I can't remember. Thank you. Anybody else? >> Okay. Does anybody want to make any comments? >> Nope. Nope. Okay. So, I'm not going
036to open the meeting. >> You want me to open it and close it? >> Okay. Can I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Can I have a motion to close the meeting to the public? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Okay, we are not going into close session again. >> Okay. Can I have a motion to close the meeting? >> Definitely. Motion. >> All All in favor? >> I >> All opposed. Thank you very much, guys. We'll see you in September 7th and 17th.