001Okay, ready. Call the meeting to order. Roll call, please. Mr. Aamando, present. Miss Bali. Mr. Archello, present. Miss Einelo, present. Mr. Lurentino, present. Miss Roloff, yes. Miss Torbick, present. Miss Traverso, here. Misselli, present. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. [Music] Hi Mark. 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 231975. Um Mrs. Vietti I'll wait till Wednesday. Okay Mr. Karate I'll wait till Wednesday. But if the board members have any questions on um any referendum project as we're we're kind
002of nearing its end. Kage school is getting um completed now that has power. They're working on next uh couple weeks that all should be coming together and then the furniture and so forth. The you know field is being used a few more items with that. But um a few projects over the summer but everything's coming to to an end with the referendum. Is there anything that the board has questions on or needs further information? Um, you can ask tonight or let me know. Oh, through the chair. A question. I just thought you guys pulled everything out, but cool. Is you guys going to be redoing everything or? Yes. But right now, we're looking to also do the um roof. So, we want to want to we're going to rip the roof off. We don't want
003to put new shrubs in and everything. So, we'll wait till that gets done. And then we're looking to also do the um parking lot. Nice. So, we'll try doing stages, but we kind of got held up with PSNG with getting power. So, they kind of put us back for several things and it was like a a big circle. Nothing could get done without that power and was holding up other stuff. And so, it looks like we're moving forward now. Will will the county help with the parking lot or No, you read my will the town help with the parking lot? The county will county help with the parking lot. I you have you have a name I could reach out to? I can get you a name. All right. Give me Okay. Okay. Doesn't hurt
004to try. Yeah, absolutely. Okay, thank you. Okay. Oops. Went too far. Sorry, guys. Okay. So, board action items. Does anyone have any questions? Point. Oh, is that uh B2425.49. That's the HIP self-grades report that we just um participated in HIPP training. This is one of those items I am to report on. Keep in mind it is from last school year 2023 to 2024. And each school does have an anti-bullying specialist. It's the school counselor in our K to6 buildings. Um MS also does Washington school. And then here is Miss Alivera for our middle school high school. The anti-bullying coordinator for our district is Mr. Osborne, our high school vice principal. And what this is is the ABS that which would be the school counselor and the principal. They go through this rubric and they self-grade
005their building as to various items such as HI programs, HI trainings, um curriculum and instruction on HIP, HIP personnel, HI reporting, and then they go through the rubric and give themselves a grade. So, the highest grade that you can receive or earn is a 78. So, Franklin School scored themselves at 67. Nope, that's not true. Franklin School scored themselves a 71. Smith School 73, Middle School, High School 71, Long Memorial 71. Washington School is always our lowest, our preschool building, and that was a 49, which means our district grade is a 67. And 050 is the school security drill statement of insurance. That is the statement of assurance that every single building has done one fire drill and one other drill per month. Thank you. We can't have more. Thank you. Does anybody have any
006questions? Okay. So, um, education and curriculum. Any questions? The field trips are two that occurred during Memorial Day weekend, the parade, our marching band and color guard in the Memorial Day parades. And 181 is our sale program to visit Lifetime. Any other questions? Okay. Budget and finance. Any questions, concern? I'll go down a few of these. I didn't get a chance to um give you guys details, so I'll, you know, point out if you have any questions, but I'll just run down real quick. The first few 133 through 136 are uh you know routine financial items and workshops. Any questions on those? Actually, I'll share. So, for the workshops, um South Berg and Jointure, they hosted a workshop for power professionals and we did have three of our power professionals attend. Um it was this
007past week and I see there is uh one of our kindergarten teachers is attending a kindergarten workshop and our speech pathologist is attending one on autistic social communication. And myself and Mrs. Vansfield. We are going to attend a county session on summer. No, on summer science. It's called the summer science institute. I am not attending a workshop on summer. I promise. It's on science instruction because generally speaking across the county, our state science scores are low. Um, in our district specifically, it was very low. So, this science institute is to support the Bergen County school districts with increasing their science scores. So, Mrs. Mansfield offered to attend with me and then we will turn key to the others. Thank you. So continuing 137 is a state requirement to set the um amounts for 2526 for
008those services. Again, they have you put these on there, but if you're going to exceed them, like you'll see when I get to one item um going down that we had the architect because all the referendum projects, he exceeds his amount. So, we adjust the amount. So, I don't know what this really does. 138 the meal prices for 2526. Are there a question? No. 139 are rooms that we have been using um in the schools. I think one might be added to long school. These are rooms where uh instructional um services are going on simultaneously in in the same room. So it's a classroom has a divider. It's not two rooms that are, you know, shared by the teachers at different periods. So there's requirements to put down to the county and they approve them.
009140 is the tax levy payment schedule to the town. 141 allows my office to pay bills after this June 11th meeting through our August meeting and then all the bills will be put on that August meeting for board approval. 142 is a parent contract for transportation 143 chair. Why is it per dam? That's just the way we had set that one. That was their request and we did it. It works out the same way as if we did some annual contract. Um 143 is a resolution, another state requirement that they make us uh pretty much list every contract that was awarded over the past school year that we plan to either renew, award, or permit them to expire. Again, I don't know why this is needed, but another requirement that we have to put on
010the meeting. 144, that's transferring interest earned in the referendum and other capital funds to the general fund. 144 is continuation in our school health benefit program with the state of New Jersey. 146 is supplies we order through a co-op educational data services. These are mostly routine supplies that um like classroom supplies and things like that that they go out to bid for us and we purchase through those vendors. 147 is all the list of all the co-ops we use. 148 is uh for the year- end audit. Any unexpended uh balances for revenues and appropriations uh can get transferred into the capital reserve or maintenance reserve accounts for future projects. 149 is what I was stating before where the amount because of mostly referendum projects, some other capital projects that the architect's fees were um higher
011than was um put on the agenda last year. 150. We're still working on quotes for a lot of the projects, so I'm going to try to list as many as I could for Wednesday. If not, I'll talk about it later, but we're going to have to have another special meeting. So, some of this might get moved to that meeting. is um could be could become part of 152. It's all part of a budgeted tech um lease that we did in the budget. So, right now we're ordering Chromebooks on 152. We ordered our Chromebooks for next year and interactive displays to complete uh all our classroom interactive display units and there might be funds available to um to get wireless access points. So I might be combining those two into one item. 153 is a rate
012federal grant uh that we qualified for that according to these costs here, we're going to pay 50% of the amounts for networking equipment and network wiring. 154 is a list of uh food service balances that we're going to be cancelling after we reviewed them with the schools and and and so forth. 156 and 157 are financial reports for May. I'm just waiting for the treasur to finish up his report, and I should have that by Wednesday. 158 is a two-year agreement with Delta Dental uh for a 2% increase. And 159 is very long, but it covers a lot of purchases that we're going to be financing over a five-year period. covers uh maintenance equipment, vehicles, and then our scoreboards and signs, awning, and display monitors for Cooler School. So, there's a lot of stuff on
013there. Um through the chair, why are we getting an electric van? Um because we have to replace one of our vans and we decided to get electric vehicles instead of gas vehicles. We're going to try it out. Do we have an electric charging station? We're going to be getting that as well. And if that goes well, we'll get more. For the most part, the mains vehicles just ride around town. They don't go too far. Maybe to a Home Depot, but they're not like I'm not looking to get school buses yet because I don't know if their performance is there yet for the longer trips. When they perfected, then we'll we'll get those, but that's down the road. And the last one is um change order decrease the we didn't use the allowance in the Washington
014roof gutter project. So that goes back into the referendum. Any I know it's a lot of stuff but any questions again some items may get pulled off or moved to our next meeting which I'll talk about later. Thank you very much. Does anybody have any questions on any of this? Hello. Um, does that include like the outlets for this electrical vehicle or No, that's not what I just asked. We're going to be adding that. Oh, sorry. I didn't We don't have again that'll be might hopefully that could be for the next meeting, but that would have been listed here. We're working on getting uh quotes for that, but we would be installing a a charging station. we're looking at to see where it would go because we're going to be moving like the maintenance area
015to by, you know, by the scoreboard area. Should it be over there? Should it be by the high school? So, we're just working out that because that'll that'll uh that'll have an effect on the cost. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. So, facility fac Yeah, facilities and operations. Do we have any questions? um through the through the chair on the school uh the facility use report. Is there no requests because there's no link? Uh we'll have to check that but it might get linked up by if there's any we'll link up the report by Wednesday. Thank you. The others are to use our school district buses. Um the music association always typically attends a Broadway show um within their summer arts academy program. Alphabest will do some field trips and Saddle Brook Police Department. They are
016running their junior police academy again. They came and they spoke to our seventh graders and kind of talked up the program and they are looking to use our buses again to do their little field trips that they have. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. So, we have no policy. We have no negotiations. Personnel. Okay. So, we have two resignations. One's a teacher at the middle school high school. One's a power professional. There's three leaves of absences. And then for the appointments currently, there's a revision. Number one's a revision um to an evening custodian. Number two is a middle school, high school English special education teacher. Number three, four, five, six, seven, and eight. Those are our students that we use for summer for summer assistants. Some of them will be clerical assistants and some will be
017custodial assistants. Number nine is a school nurse for Long Memorial School. Number 10 is a school nurse for the middle school high school. Number 11 is an elementary teacher for Franklin School. Number 12 is an elementary teacher for Franklin School. Number 13, I interviewed this morning, elementary special education teacher. She will be at Long Memorial School. She actually just finished her student teaching with us at Long Memorial School. Number 14 I interviewed today as well for IT level one support starting in the summer, starting in July. I am already scheduled to interview several other people on Wednesday. So there might be some additions to this agenda on Wednesday. Then we have 089 are the stipens. Again, the revision for the evening custodian with the stipen that's part of the contract. Number three, the district head
018nurse and district transportation coordinator. It just says TBD to be determined. Um we we will have those names by Wednesday. Then you'll see the assistant cross country coach, assistant girls soccer coach, um interviewed him today actually. And then you'll see an assistants and volunteer football coaches. So I actually interviewed them all today and they we they started their paperwork so that way they can start in the summer. I think August 10th or August 11th is the first official day. Number 13 is head boys basketball coach. I interviewed him as well. He's currently subs with us through ESS. Um, and he um he lives in town and he has a lot he has high school basketball coaching experience. Numbers 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. Those are our summer hours for our middle school, high school counselors.
019Part of our budget is we increase those hours from 30 to 60 to allow them time in the summer. And the hope is that they'll be more accomplished over the summer. and less confusion when our students start with their schedules in September. And number 19, we rescending um our middle school counselor as anti-bullying specialist. He was not technically the anti-bullying specialists. As I mentioned before, Miss Alivero is the middle school high school anti-bullying specialist and has been doing all the hip reports or investigations. Questions on that before I continue? Yes. Through the chair, if I may. Okay. one. Going back to number 13, you said this person is is student teaching right now? No. Okay. She was a student teacher. Oh, wait. Number 13. I'm I'm going back to the hires. Yes. She completed her
020student teaching with us this past this school year, current school year. Okay. How is she on step three then? Why is she being That's our first step. Remember, we we consolidated our steps. That is our first step. That is your first So, yes. As a reminder, the step number does not correspond with the years of experience because we condense our 28 steps to 21 steps. We didn't want to re number them. They're reumbered at 2627 at the 2026 and 2027 school year. That's why you'll see the salary guide has them all reumbered 1 to 21. And within the contract, there's a movement guide that shows me if you're hired at step three, the next year you go to step two. Oh, that's very confusing. That would drive me nuts. Okay. Um my next then question
021hold on. So in this for the summer hours the hope is that there would be less scheduling issues in high school for when they come in and the schedules don't aren't cohesive. Correct. Correct. Okay. So when will the students get their schedule? I don't have that exact I can get that for you. Okay. Because if they're going to spend all of these hours and they're not getting it until the end of August, it's a moot point. No, they've received their schedules earlier. Earlier. Okay. All right. As long as I'm they're getting it earlier so that they can actually No. And then once they receive their schedule, there's always revisions that need to be made. Yeah. Okay. Very good. All right. Thank you. Any other questions on what I've covered so far? Okay. 2425.90. That's where
022I'm at, right? Um, renewal of non-tenured custodial maintenance staff stipens. 0.91 is tenur administrative staff 91. The first one salary is scratched out. Is there a reason? I don't believe Mr. Karate provided the salary to my office yet. It'll be it'll be fixed by Wednesday. Um, no. I just forgot to do that one. Come on, Ray. It was pointed out to me and I forgot to do it. Sorry. Okay, that was Let's see. 0.91. 0.92 is tenure teaching staff. 0.93 is tenure custodial maintenance staff. 0.94 tenure non-bargaining unit staff. The non-bargaining unit staff would be the directors and central office personnel. 0 n5 tenur administrative assistance staff. 0 n6 is summer curriculum writing staff. 0 n7 are the hourly positions such as our lunch aids and clergical aids. N8 are the stipen positions for next
023school year. Let me just open that up for a second. I love that word. Those are so what we did um as you know we created a Google site for our staff and all of our co-curricular procedures and processes that follow our policy are on the Google site and every principal is responsible for conducting an evaluation of each of these co-curriculars and we are sitting with them to review it. So but they there is a formal evaluation completed on each of these. Okay. 0.99 are our power professionals for next school year. 100 is Mr. Karate, business administrator, approving the contract. I feel like we've done that like three times. book oceans yet. Point 101. I make a motion to table that. 101 permits me as superintendent to appoint any remaining vacancies throughout the summer and
024then those will be listed on the August board of education agenda. 102 is a student. She started her clinical practice. She did clinical practice one in the spring and now she'll do clinical practice two in the fall. That's the student clinical practice one is when you observe, you do your field observations. Clinical practice 2 is when you do your student teaching. 103 is um a Bergen Community College student needing to complete three hours of a special education teacher and she's doing that in June. She's waiting for board of ed approval. Does anybody have any other questions? Okay. Um, does anybody want to do any of their reports tonight or are we waiting? Wait till Wednesday. Okay. Is that for the le li le li le li le li le li le li le li le
025li le li le li leazison reports also committee reports for all of them we're waiting. Okay, well that was easy. Uh correspondence old business, new business. Just just wondering what I mentioned before about a special meeting. We'll talk about it more in uh close session because it determines uh the evaluation and everything, but it looks like we're going to have to have another meeting and we're possibly looking at June 18th. And uh we can go over it more later, but if you could tell me later if you can make June 18th and how early uh you can make that evening would work. And I'll say it again on Wednesday, but many of us did attend a dinner by New Jersey honored hosted by New Jersey school boards um to celebrate Sylvia with 10 years of
026service and Haley receiving the new board member boardsmanship certificate, Mrs. Traverso and Miss Zadelli. So, thank you to them and all of our board members for their service. And our Hall of Fame nomination page is up and running. It is linked to our main website. Thank you. Does anybody want to speak tonight? Nobody's getting up, right? Okay, good. Okay. Do I have to have to open and close? Can I have a motion to open the meeting to the public? Second. Thank you. Can I have a motion to close the meeting to the public? Second. Thank you. Um, okay. So, we're going to go into close. So, I have to read this one, right? Okay. No, that's for speaking here. Okay. Whereas the board of education must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in
027a public meeting and whereas these subjects are within the expectations to the open public meetings act and are permitted to be discussed in close session pursuant to NJSA 104-12B and whereas the board of education intends to discuss matters as follows HIP cases personnel. Is there another one? Um the superintendent evaluation, a long-term suspension, and this one a property issue. Whereas the length of the closed session is estimated to be approximately 30 minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall reconvene and action will not be taken. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education will recess into close session for only the afor subjects, and be it further resolved that the board of education hereby declares that its discussion of the afor subjects will be made public at a time when the
028public's interest in disclosure is greater than any privacy or governmental interest being protected from disclosure in accordance with the open public meetings act. Okay. Can I have a motion to adjourn? All in favor? Opposed? Thank you.