001early in the month. It was just too early. Call the meeting to order. Sorry. [Music] Sorry. Sorry. Uh, roll call, please. Oh, it's like really bad. Mr. Amando, present. Miss Blli, present. Mr. Oello, present. Missyello, present. Mr. Florentino present. Miss Roloff here. Miss Torvvic present. Miss Traverso here. Miss Adterelli here. Rise for the pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Not this one. Where's the other one? Don't I have to read the Don't I have to read something? There is. Okay. Sorry. You usually have it here. Okay. No, that's not it. This one. Adequate notice of this meeting has been sent to all members of the board of education
002and to the Bergen record in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act chapter 231 1975. Are we going? We're not doing presentations tonight. You have a presentation tonight. We're doing you going to do that now? What presentation? Okay, that's a you doing. Okay, I'm gonna turn it over for the budget presentation. Okay, if the board members don't mind transitioning over to the chairs, Mr. Kate and myself will present the 2025 2026 budget. Here we go. I left my water in there. I left everything in there. I did too. My food is special. I was like, "No, this is trying to trick me. We don't get presentations on Monday night. This is uh very important stuff. It's at least an hour and a half. Thank you. The Rangers go. Okay. Okay, thank you
003everybody. So, Mr. Karate, our business administrator, and myself, Mrs. Violeti, we're going to present the 2025 2026 proposed budget. Wait, wait, wait. No, we are there. On this slide, you'll see the names of the members of our board of education. The one with asterisks served on our budget committee. There you go. Okay. So, the budget Oh, all right. The slide before said that there was a statute that the budget uh you need to submit a balanced budget. The revenues you have to equal the appropriations. And on the next slide, you'll see that we are at a little over $47 million, and that covers our three funds, our general, special revenue, and debt service funds. Um, the general fund is our operating uh budget. And the budget process begins in November. You know, we're a couple
004months into the new school year and we're building the budget for the following year. So, we give it to the administrators. They're building their end. They get it done around December, turn it over to us, and then in sometime late January or February, we start meeting with the budget committee. In March, we approve the tenth of the budget, submitted all the documentation to the county office, and on April 4th, they approved our budget. And it brings us to tonight. You have to hold a public hearing on the budget. And that's why we'll have an open session just for the public to come and ask questions. Uh we'll adopt the budget on uh Wednesday. This slide just had I'm going to go through it, but this slide defines some of our uh revenue sources, local, state,
005and federal and the different areas that monies can uh come into the district. As I said before, the total budget of $47 million is composed of three funds. The general fund is the bulk of it is our operating fund where all the salaries and benefits are. Then we have a special revenue fund which is where all the federal, state and local grants like the SBEF that where that money flows through and our debt service fund which is our bonds when we do referendums and other financing arrangements. That's where we pay principal and interest like your mortgage. So the three funds, three separate buckets you got to keep all the different monies in. and what the budget committee faces and I think everybody here is the board members have been on the budget committee at one
006time or another. Um most of the budget is is pretty much fixed already. Um once the contracts get settled for salaries and benefits of the bargaining groups um that's the bulk of the of the money. Then you have special ed costs, utilities, insurance, professional services, leasing, financing arrangements. You know, really looking at 95% of the budget. So, there's not much to make cuts from the general fund. Um, our revenue, the district's revenue sources are mostly from tax lev. You'll see in a uh chart I have later on that uh close to almost 90% uh comes from the residents comes from taxes and that is capped at 2% unless you have with mechanisms within your budget for enrollment health uh costs and if you had any bank cap you could exceed that 2% which I'll go
007through which we did. The next the next um area is state aid. Uh we have the state is fully almost fully funding the state aid formula. Uh they capped districts that could go up 6% or or had a decrease of 6%. Luckily we got some more funds but it's not again not fully funded but we're getting close to it. That's our next highest uh revenue source. And then we used from our reserve accounts um that we put money aside uh in June at our June meeting. If there's any balances remaining, we put them into our two other buckets is maintenance reserve for routine maintenance. That's you know regular repairs to the district. And then the capital reserve is for more capital larger expenditures like when you're replacing like um a whole section of windows, replacing
008a roof. Um that's where that money comes from. So that that got added to our budget. We're able to do some more projects. Uh this just states again what I was just what I just said that where income where our money's come from the general fund and then what funds you can use the long range um the capital reserve money and the maintenance reserve uh funds. And this pie chart is a little dark but it shows the uh most of it is tax levy almost 89% state aid like I said before 8.3 of our total budget and the other one which on this year it's what I had before almost 900,000 of coming from reserves. So, but majority of the budget every year is in the high 80s to 90% is from taxes. And on
009the budget side or appropriation side, um as you can see, most of the money um is spent on the classroom instructional support services. That's, you know, guidance, child study team, and all their salaries and benefits. Uh everything that has to do with the students in the classroom. And then the other groups are on the left there, uh broken out This is just a list of all our buildings that we maintain and and one on the left side uh besides our five school buildings. We're going to have next year go on well actually this year but start of the next fiscal year. Uh cooler school which be the board of ed offices now need um well I mean it's got totally renovated now but there's still maintenance and utilities there. So there there's a cost there
010and our fields remain the same. So next two slides go through some of the maintenance projects where I had the money coming from maintenance reserve or capital reserve. These are some of the of the items that we're gathering quotes now and looking to approve. Um we have a lot of things that are districtwide like tile abatement which is in the classroom. There's asbestous tile you know all of it's pretty much intact. We just keep trying to maintain it and also try to remove it. So we do they're called tile abatement products where we remove the asbestous out of the room and get new tiles put in ceiling lighting upgrades uh uh uh high school and long school refinish the gym floors uh we do HVAC concrete repairs uh replace pipes valves and everybody knows know
011making your own repairs in your own house that things are costly. So yes this does add up to be hundreds of thousands of dollars. And the next slide continues the project showing that we're going to renovate some of the larger ones, faculty bathrooms at long school. We've pretty much uh have redone them at all the buildings and we need to do u long school. Also long school, we're going to finally remove the paw print that's on the gym floor and replace it. Uh continue to upgrade water fountains. We're going to upgrade the playgrounds at the elementary schools with equipment and hopefully new play surface or make them all even. stop stop using the u the the rubber mulch and the uh wood mulch. The athletic now that the field's all done, the athletic track um
012is seen some more repairs. So, the company recommended uh putting a a top coat on it. It's not a full replace and and redo. It's just putting a top coat on. It'll be a blue track. What also we're going to add u we look we want to add now they have running zones like these will be three colored running zones and they'll be in our you know blue track with those yellow zones and I think it'll look really good and we're looking to convert um a large area large storage room here for instructional space. We're working on that. It might be cost prohibitive but we have in the budget and if we're able to do it we'll do it. If we can't, we'll, you know, I'll come back to you and explain why. And I'm
013going to turn it over to Miss Vleti. Thank you. Okay. So, these are a sample of items that are included in this proposed budget. The first amplified grade 4. So, a we've had such success in amplified for grades K to three that next school year, we are going to add it to our grade four curriculum as well. We actually we have uh many districts almost I feel like it's almost a district every two weeks that comes to observe our teachers teach the amplified program. Then you'll see some kindergarten tables and chairs. That would be for long school. Our two kindergarten classrooms have mix mismatch tables and chairs. So we're looking to get them new ones as kindergarten is the welcoming to those buildings and Franklin School, one of the classrooms is in need of new
014tables and chairs. Battle of the books. We're going to continue that at the middle school. our media uh library specialist here does a fabulous job with it. So those are the materials for that. One of our buildings, Smith School, is um needs a new conference table and chairs for all their data team meetings that they've been having this school year. High school Spanish curriculum. Apparently it's not curriculum program that should say program. Apparently it's been a couple of years since we've had a solid high school Spanish program that our teachers are able to use as a resource. So that's included for next school year. a new step and repeat at our middle school high school because the one that we currently have is aging instructional materials across the district. iPads. Some of the iPads are
015for, you know, our special education students that require an iPad for communication purposes, but these are actually for our staff to use. So that way we can transition to digital testing um as opposed to using the paper testing for our child study team evaluations. book break subscription that's for the middle school high school and it's an um it's a video subscription where authors will do virtual um meetings with the students virt they'll hold virtual sessions with students classroom rugs easels and bookshelves across our elementary building aviation supplies we're really focusing on um using our drones that we purchase for next school year and with the program that we have the AOPA program they're able our students are able to actually sit for their drone license as well as their pilot license um at the end
016of the program after I believe it's two or three years completely. But we are really excited to continue that program and hoping that our students are um on board so that they they can fly our drones over our buildings and our fields and we can really get some great aerial shots. Whiteboard tables. Some of our many of our classrooms are now transitioning to whiteboard tables so the students can do their work right on you know right on the table or the desk. So this particular one is for Smith school. They started in their small group sections in the back of their classrooms. They started purchasing white whiteboard tables last year. So, we're going to continue that. Increasing summer hours for our high school guidance counselors. We are doubling the number of hours that they're working
017over the summer. And that's because there's so much work that needs to get done in the summer. We're finding that in the fall we're running into a lot of problems. A lot of schedules aren't completed. A lot of changes need to be made. So, the hope is by increasing their summer hours, they're able to connect with our students and our families before the school year starts. And that way we hopefully start off nice and clean. Curriculum writing, we always have to update our curriculum every school year. Our middle school math program, that's because our K to6 uh students have one program and our 9th through 12 students have a program and seventh and eth have been using a completely different program that has a different mentality and mindset to it. So we are going we
018are looking to purchase a middle school math program for our seventh and eighth graders that are in alignment with the other grade levels. a furniture kit for our kiln that's here at the middle school high school. That's Mr. Hill's classroom for the ceramics. A bubble tube and swing. That's for Washington School for our indoor um playground area that we have there for our preschool students. And it's one of those bubble tubes that's sensory oriented and one of those um swings that uh cuddles you. Playground recess toys across our elementary buildings. Continuation of programs. So, these are all programs that we're using, we're finding success with across the district. You'll see them all listed there. Some of them are are are um new electives that we started this year. Our um sports marketing, social media, those
019programs are for those courses. Alex is a math program for our high school that they use an online program. Partial funding of our middle school high school spring musical. Continued funding for extracurricular activities and athletics. We are on a plan for our one-to-one program where we're purchasing new Chromebooks for all fifth and ninth grade students and then recycling the older ones to the younger grades. Upgrading wireless access points and network equipment. So, we're finding um across the district that we were having some slow spots or um some troubled Wi-Fi areas. So, we are going to look to upgrade our entire network across the district and our wireless access points access points and that way we can hopefully with all the increase in technology that we're seeing across our district, this will hopefully help solve the
020problem. Right now, our network closets are somewhat of a mess. And so, our technology department has been working to kind of figure out what goes where and how we can improve our network system across the district. So, we're excited about that. um our COPS grant. I'll talk a little bit more about grants, but we do owe a portion of the COPS grant, which I will talk about later. Continue funding for anti virus backups, licensing, student databases. So, when you have a onetoone initiative and every student has a Chromebook, has a device, you need all these other items that go along with it. So, that's what that is. Upgrades to playgrounds. I'll talk about that with one of our grants. Electric vehicles. Um, I believe we are definitely looking to purchase one maintenance electric vehicle and
021maybe two concrete replacements and repairs definitely along the middle school high school. We're going to continue. We started doing the sidewalk. We're going to continue um a repeat of LMS faculty bathrooms, recoding of the track, awning at Smith School. So that way at the front of Smith School, everyone is aware that that's the main entrance and painting of the exterior walls at Smith. All right, new staffing for next school year. a full-time special education teacher at the middle school high school. This is going to be for both our MD program here at the middle school high school because we are growing and in not next school year but the following school year will need to start an 18 to 21 program but it's also going to be to teach some LLD classrooms as well classes
022here in this building as well. A full-time special education teacher at the elementary building that's to satisfy the requirements per our students IEPs. high school math teacher. That's because math has not been historically our strong point here in Saddlebrook. So, we are looking we're looking for a high school math teacher and that way we can really focus on um smaller class sizes and then also dividing algebra 1 into two parts like part A and part B and really having our students have a strong foundational skill set as they move forward. And middle school world language teacher. We currently only have one world language teacher, Spanish teacher for our middle school, seventh and eighth grades. And our current seventh graders, I believe one of the grade levels, I believe it's seventh, they get pulled out of
023PE to have Spanish a couple of times a week as opposed to sitting for a semester or a school year. So that's what that position will enable us to accomplish. And then also as our students enter high school, they'd be able theoretic theoretically to begin Spanish too and then end with AP Spanish theoretically. Back to you. So, all this stuff comes with a price tag. Yeah. Why don't we get all the bad parts? I get all the Tony gets all the fun parts of the budget. So, again, with the back to the general fund, you know, it's a large number, 6.89. However, in there was those transfer from reserve. So, that that makes it higher as well. So, it equates to a school tax levy of 2.88. and the calendar year is 3.42. So what
024that equates to an average house next year or this year be assessed at $473,300 is projected to increase $277 or 76 more per day for the average house. And we're back to So Mr. Mr. Kate and myself were speaking about how we do apply for grants every school year and we don't really talk enough about them. So we wanted to take a moment to share with our community all the works that we do with grants. So to start with we have our federal title grants. So we have title one, two, three and four. Title one is for our school buildings that qualify based on free and reduced lunch numbers. And those funds are used to enhance your basic instruction to supplement. You can't take the place of anything but you can supplement. Then we have
025um title two is for uh professional development for teachers to in the instructional side of our programs. Title three is for our multilingual learners, our English language learners and their their instruction and development. And title four is for well-rounded student performance and academic growth. So it's like a general um overall title funds that we're able to use for our buildings. our cops grant that we did receive. This is what we are currently using. We purchased um addition or we're going to purchase additional cameras with it. We have purchased door access. Those were recently installed and new intercoms at each of our buildings were recently installed. We are also looking to purchase a an updated PA system for the middle school high school. We're getting quotes for that as part of this grant. Visitor management system.
026So, we did have the iPads have been delivered and those are going to be installed soon where every visitor has to scan their ID, does a quick background check before they're able to enter the building. And what else is in my cops grant? Let me think for a second. Um, and additional cameras as needed um across the district. So, that's something that we're looking to we've been working with our principles walking around the buildings to see if there's any blind spots or where additional cameras might be needed. Sites grant the acronym is there. you can see what it stands for. That's what Mrs. Collie and Mrs. Hannenburg were speaking about. That is an um tech inclusive technology. Those are the communication devices that our special education students utilize to be able to communicate. So, it's
027a grant that we received. It's over several years. I believe it's four years that we're working with this organization and they're going to provide professional development to our teachers. And then we have our rod grants. That's what we use to purchase um or to upgrade our boiler systems in each of our buildings. and we pay a percentage of that teacher climate and culture grant. That's what Mrs. Dabona spoke about that she applied for. It's competitive grant. Um we had it this school year and we're actually also qualify for next school year as well. They just informed us. So this school year we're able to purchase monitors, wireless mice, and um standing desks for our teachers and a docking station as well. We have committees that Mrs. De bonus leads with our teachers and we're looking
028to see how to use the funds best for next school year. Environmental grant um from recycling utilities authority. So Smith school received this grant. They purchased recycling cans on wheels so it's easier for our students to go around the building site. Um they purchase signs like falcons recycle with you know all pride symbols um falcon symbols around and they are purchased materials for one of those plastic cap art projects that's going to be posted outside in their outside nature area their classroom area local recreation improvement grant. Mr. Kra and myself actually applied for that one and we received 81,000 or we're going to be receiving $81,000 and that is going to go towards funding our the renovation of our K to6 playgrounds along with what is budgeted for through maintenance uh capital reserve maintenance reserve
029capital reserve NJIP New Jersey inclusion project systemic change grant we actually applied for this last school year did not get it Mrs. Coley applies for this. So, she applied again for this school year. And what it does is you work with this organization to provide the least restrictive environment for our special education students. So, they work with our staff for co co-eing purposes, having our students stay in the general educa having our special education students stay in the general education classroom environment wherever possible. And they provide the the training for our staff to be successful. And then things to celebrate from this past school year. So I do get the fun stuff. Our turf field and lights. So we are proud to share that the goal is for next week start using our turf field
030and lights. They the rain this over the you know last the next couple of days are holding us up a little bit. The fencing is being completed as we speak. The visitor bleachers have been put in and the grounds have been cleared. Much of the grounds have been cleared and they're going to be hydro seating quite soon. Washington school has been renovated. I forget how long ago. It seems like ages ago, but that was this past school year that we're able to utilize the classrooms upstairs for Washington School and Coolage School as well as still currently being worked on. Flooring at the middle school high school. It seems like years ago, but we we did the we redid the flooring, the tiles with the SB um to brighten up and design our middle school high
031school. The media center at Smith School, that floor was retiled along with the, you know, the drop ceiling and lights were completed. So that way we kind of spruced up the media center at Smith School. Uh here in this building, there's a new staff bathroom upstairs. So that way our staff members do not have to walk all the way down here to use the restroom. Closet and cafeteria that's here in this building as well for storage for food service. We did the crosswalks in front of the middle school high school. It's probably one of the proudest things that we did that we're proud of because our students are actually using it. So they're parking in the lots, they're parking on the street. We have the crossing guard there and everyone is utilizing that crosswalk walk
032that is right in the center and walking into our building. We started exemplary falcons at our board of ed meetings to honor our high school students. Washington has they started a monthly stars newsletter that has been been shared out with their parents. We also had the centennial c celebration this past school year. We did youth mental health first aid at our parent partnership nights. Very wellreceived by our uh parents that participated in that program. two, three of our buildings maybe have falcon desk sensory rooms for our students who will utilize them. We started those two clubs, FBLA and DECA business clubs here at the high school and they went on several trips already so far this year. Work-based learning is what Mrs. McCarthy spoke about last school at last board meeting for our special education
033students that have reached the age of 16 to start their vocational training. We are starting we're looking to start an athletic hall of fame. We actually have our meeting tomorrow night at 7 o'clock here at the middle school high school media center to discuss moving forward with our athletic hall of fame and we've improved in our chronic absenteeism and NJSLA numbers as part of our district goals and we definitely have shown improvement. I will get those numbers out to the community but we're really excited about that. I will say our principles have worked very hard on those items. We spoke about amplify visits our seal of by literacy. 30 students taken past our seal of by literacy. Last year we had 13. So that's a huge increase in our numbers. Our high school guidance department
034started their monthly newsletters to our parents and hopefully that is beneficial to our families to let them know what's happening across our district. We're continuing with teen mental health first aid. That's our grade 10 students. We're doing it every year. We have certified staff who are able to instruct in this program and it teaches our 10th graders what to do if they're concerned about a pier kindergarten screenings. Hellos is a program that Mrs. Dabonis spearheaded and it's for new students that arrive in the middle of the school year and they they get assigned a peer buddy. they get a tour of the building and it just kind of formalized so that way we're making sure that when our students start mid year they're not lost and they have support. We uh we did a lot
035of common assessment work at the high school with our departments and this is the first year our kindergarten classes did a community field trip where they visited the firehouse, the police station, the library um to learn more about their community. We had formal vertical and horizontal articulation meetings this year. Again, this was our director of curriculum and instruction, Mrs. De bonus three times per year she met with those grade levels to allow them time to speak to one another about their instruction about the students about what's working and what's not working. Um Amplify was a success in K to 3. That's why we're moving it up to grade four. We had a new math program this school year in K to 6 that our teachers seem to be very happy with. Our middle school high
036school Miss Olivera, Miss O, our uh tier 2 counselor here, she created a mental health and wellness web page as a resource for our students and families. We're celebrating instant decision days here at the high school. And we have new verata cameras and security access door access controls that I spoke about. And that is the end of our budget presentation. Any questions? Any questions from the board now? Public will open up in a couple minutes. I have a question. Um, special ed, I don't need to know the price tag, but how many are out of district? I didn't see that. I paying attention in your appropriation of what? Yeah, that's not broken down in the PowerPoint. I think I have it in the um in the advertise on the advertised budget there is breaks down
037the uh our enrollment and you can see from I think it has two prior years the current year and and year before I could show you that. No, that's for another day. That's for another day. That's for another day. Not today. I didn't hear what you said. The first mumbling. Are we having a ribbon cutting ceremony for the field? We are look aiming for fall. So for our fall season, we will be planning a ceremony, some type of ceremony. So thank you for all the work you did committee resto question comment. We raised taxes roughly 3.4% like $23 a month. I'm just wondering looking forward if that last referendum where we wanted the middle school to be built what the actual number would be because my guess is it's not going to be much higher
038than what it is here. So we can kind of remember this information back in 2025. Here's what it was. Here's what it would have been. So when we go forward for the next one, hopefully sometime in the future, we can give people actual numbers so they can see the minimal effect and the benefit they're going to get. I really think we missed the vote on that one, which I don't think would have been much higher. But great job. Everything's good. Thank you. is that something that you guess those were um we we had the numbers when we were when we were going out for the referendum back then how much it would cost the average house. Now in this tax impact is the general fund the operating budget but also the debt service. So the
039debt service number is lower because we were able to achieve um savings from interest earnings. So that made the impact less. So they give you projections when it went out in what was that December of 2022? Yeah, December of 22. Um, I don't have that right in front of me, but we did have what what the average cost would be on that amount of money with the building in there. And then, you know, they're not they're trying to predict how much you're going to make in interest and stuff that would go back to the taxpayers, but we had actual we had we had a decent um amount come in which reduced the uh impact. I could get I mean, I could I could get it for you. It's not going to affect this budget, but
040I could get it for you. Good to know for people who are paying attention to reality coming out of your pocket. Yeah, it I mean, right, it was definitely it was definitely less than what we were um what we were projecting. I mean, I it's the two because one got defeated, so I'm looking at March of 23, but it was definitely different. Definitely less than what was actually said. You'd have to project a lot of it. It's just it's it's not actual numbers. So, um because it was a lot higher. I think we were at 40ome. Can't remember now. I used remember a lot better years ago. Okay, then at this time we will transition back to our seats. Thank you. Oh, sorry. All right. Well, it's not text messages, so How you doing? Say
041again. Yeah, it's major. It can be verified. There's a Is it still raining? It's that up just as I got. All right. [Laughter] Why? No, I don't. Okay. Where are we? on. Can I uh have a motion to open um to the public for the budget only? Motion. Second, please. Is there a second? Thank you. All in favor? Opposed? You respectfully decline. Okay. Seeing as there are none. Motion. Second. Can I have a motion to close? Mike motion. Second. Mike motion and Sylvia second. All in favor? I. Thank you. All opposed. Nobody. Okay. Um, we're not doing reports, right? Cuz you guys don't want to do reports tonight, right? Save them for Wednesday. Okay. No reports agenda items. Okay. I have to go over here for Okay. So, does anyone have any questions regarding the
042board action items? Okay, seeing none, no questions. You don't have anything to say? Okay. Education and curriculum for the field trips. We have our fourth through sixth graders. are going to come here to this athlet to our new athletic field at the middle school high school for their field day. So we are doing something different this school year. Our um K to3 students are going to have field day at their in their at their building at their own fields and our upper grade students will be able to assist. Our fourth through sixth grade students are all going to come here and they're going to compete against one another. Um and our thought is to build school pride, have them uh add up, you know, calculate points, add them up and and kind of see who
043like, you know, who's going to win. So, our PE teachers have worked really hard on this and they have all the events planned and we're excited for that. So, that's one of our field trips. The other one is our MD classroom at Franklin visiting the firehouse and then our middle school high school going to our elementary schools to promote marching marching band color guard and the coralers to our sixth grade students. 53 is a new student and this is the program that the student was attending. Um so we're going to continue with that program. [Applause] Okay. Any questions? Budget and finance. Mr. Verso. Yeah, if you want ask. Anybody have any questions? I just went over if you want. I know I put some updates on the uh the budget notes, but if you want
044to just go down because there's a lot of stuff on here. Used to be uh you know May was our reorganization meeting. Um we do some of that action in January. This is the rest of it that gets us ready for the uh school year 256 July 1. So from like 10 well I guess you could start from 108 [Music] um through 120 120 121 are all annual approvals. There's a lot of professionals in there too. Their proposals are attached all within budgeted funds. Any questions on those? So, the chair, is this the uh Ray, is this what I was just asking about the shared cost, what it would be to rent? Is that in here? Uh, not yet. Okay. All right. So, 122 is uh just let me update you on that. I I
045there is a report attached here. So the food service management uh company proposals we're required every 5 years to officially go out for proposals. So it's per state regulations they have it all formatted. Uh an ad goes in the newspaper and then the companies call up for the proposal or the specs and there's also bidding services that will reach out to whoever signed up with them. So it went out to three food service management company that asked for it and also went to one bidding service and only one um food service management company returned a proposal on the due date and it was Ptonian. So this whole proposal is is based on that. So again, three asked for it, including Pmptonian, and only one responded, and that's our current provider, and I'm recommending that they
046be um approved for this year, next year. 123 is the parent organizations. 124 is the budget we just reviewed with all the fund totals and um amounts that we um like the enrollment down towards the end the enrollment health cost and bank cap that will increase the uh taxes all for the to support the budget. This is all required information that needs to be in there. 125 is to replace all the fencing around the track and but also around the the current athletic uh facility, the whole field. Uh the fences were um falling apart and needed to get replaced. Uh 126 and 127 go kind of go hand in hand. So 126 was the company that did all the work on the field and part of their work was because the long jump and the
047high jump are included in the field part. they needed to redo them or put the concrete and track surface in. So, we're able to do is um Field Turf, who actually installed the the actual artificial turf field, also has a contract to do um the recoding of the athletic track surfaces. So, Dakota says, "Okay, we're not going to do that. We're going to give you $55,000 back on the contract." So, we're able to add that to field turf. So the base number there is 287 which is to do the the whole six lane track and then 37,103 is to do the long jump and and I'm sorry POV areas. The total cost is 324 but we're getting back 55,000 from Dakota. So again this all falls within the budget amount we just did. 128 is
048five items that we need to dispose of that are no longer needed in the facility department. and three are obsolete and broken and two we're going to try to uh sell and get some money for them. 129 we just opened bids for solid waste removal because that increased uh a lot. We made some changes to our container sizes and so forth. So we just did a bid. It's going to be actually for three years and then I can renew it for another two. Um I'm currently reviewing the uh bids with the attorney and I think everything will be in place. So, probably tomorrow I'll have these uh numbers inserted in all the blanks. And 130 is our school physician renewal. Any questions on those items? You can ask, do we decide where we're putting The
049fence is replaced here on the athletic. Yes. The the one around the the track is in the same spot. We're not moving it back. We're just keeping it where it is. Yes. Okay. Any other one is, you know, more along our property lines or where we can put the field, but pretty much where the fence was. We moved it in a little bit. Drew the chair. I have a question. The other company, who were the other companies who with Ponian? Um the name is Met um Mets Neutraserve is like is one company and the other one was a company Southwest Foods. They're out of Arizona and actually they're the ones that came in for the there's actually a tour of the facilities here, the kitchen area. And actually it was Pmptonian and this Southwest Food
050Service came in to uh view the area, but they didn't submit a bid. But again, they're they're based out of uh Arizona. Okay. Interesting. Any other questions? Okay. Uh, facilities and operations through the chair. Oh, Michael. Oh, on um F2425.10. Is there any way we can all go through that and see what needs to be raised because uh just because of the cost of what we put into the to the buildings and the fields the insuranceances I feel like they're a little low but I is that something we could discuss? Well, just remember that on after the u the three salary ones, the rest of them four through 15, that's the rate for every four hours of use. The only one that has a full day rate is the auditorium $800. So if you want
051to use say the athletic field it's for the whole day, you know, eight hours is $1,400, not seven. So yes, we can the facility the facility um uh committee, we looked at this a while ago, but we could I mean we could look at it again at our next meeting and and see if they need to be increased. We don't have a a huge uh requests. We are getting a few for the auditorium. A couple dance studios have have used our facilities. You know, once one does, then the other one sees it and they start renting. But we're not a large auditorium. It's 500 seats here, so we don't draw the large crowds. Um there's other schools that have larger auditoriums than we do. So, you know, it's hard to be in the business of
052renting out our facilities. I really don't even like doing the few that we do because it's just wear and tear in the buildings and the buildings don't get a chance to rest. But I agree with you. you uh you know put put them put make the possibly make it higher and if they really want to use it then you know they pay the additional costs but we can look at that. Thank you. Wait through the chair to piggy back on that. Who's renting it? Is it our community members like No. No. So it's outside. It's a couple outside right now. It's a couple outside dance studios. I think we're up to two. We even got one for one other day. But two of them have been using the last couple of years. Okay. No field
053uh field requests. It's really wreck. Um once in a while we get a request. Yeah, once in a while we get a request um you know other ones for for this auditorium, but they come back like one the other day came back and they wanted you know uh build a room used for like I think it was like seven or 800 people. I'm like we don't have that. So a lot of times we're using the building or Rex using it. So it's very hard to just rent out through the chair. When these dance groups come in and use the auditorium, does it involve using classrooms? And do we charge them the additional rate for that? Yeah, we see what they're what they're looking for, but yes, they'll use the auditorium, then they have changing rooms
054or they use the chorus room and or band room and whatever, but then we base it based on these uh fees. And they'll pay they'll pay all of that. They pay if they need to use the lighting and sound. They'll pay for a person to uh to use that as well. They have to pay for a a special police officer if they're over a certain number. So, they they do pay. The new uh facility program gives them all all those fees when they're putting it in and we go over with them and and they pay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. So we have nothing under policy uh negotiations uh through the chair. Is this something we can discuss? Uh because I have no idea of what the We're discussing this in close session. Okay.
055Okay. Perfect. Okay. Personnel. Personnel is P2425 I'm sorry. P2425.75 through P2325.85. Um 75 is a resignation of one of our powers that recently actually just recently started um maternity leave 77. So number one is a middle school Spanish teacher for next school year. um over 18 years or I think 18 years experience doing this position in another district and it's actually a little bit of a pay cut. Two as a power professional. There might be several more um by Wednesday because I know I am interviewing a a couple candidates tomorrow. 78 are stipen positions. You see any revisions to our extended school year staff. There's always revisions as people decline late or they sign up late. And then you'll see our coaches. So, head girls soccer coach, tennis, uh, boys soccer coaches, football cheerleading coaches,
056cross country, head volleyball, assistant volleyball, co-assistant volleyball. I should have just said volleyball coaches. And, um, number 13, I believe, was just omitted from the climate and culture committee. So, she's that person is added on. to 0.83 83 is what was reviewed in close session last the over the last couple of months. Um we're going to close for 084 and 085. Okay. Thank you through the chair. On P242578 number seven, I know that she was a competition coach. Are we going to replace that or is it not needed anymore? I'm not sure. Okay. Okay. Does anyone want to do a committee meetings a committee report tonight? Sorry. Or you want to wait till Wednesday? Okay. Any leazison reports for tonight? Wait. Okay. correspondence on it. Old business, new business. Yeah, just one item under old
057business. Last meeting I mentioned that uh under Bergen County School Board's meeting May 29th, they're going to be honoring Miss Traverso, Miss Zadarelli. So, I'll reach out to the board members who whoever I think you could register yourself, but if they didn't, I could register for you. So, I'll send an email out for that. Congratulations. Okay. Any new business? You have new business, too? Yeah. Anybody else go? Anybody else? Mr. K. So, just a couple things of note. Um, one, we're going to need a meeting. I don't know exactly what day yet, but next next two weeks, we have a bid opening for the front um the front renovations part of the referendum um on May 13th. So, I'll need time to review the bid, have the attorney review it. So, I was going to
058look at se the 15th. However, there is a concert that night and then the following week I may be off a day or two. So, I'm trying to figure out what day I could do this. So, um just be look out for emails. I'll send it out if we could maybe have an early meeting. But it won't just be for that bid. We're going to try to line up now that the budget will be approved Wednesday um to line up some of the products to get the contractors scheduled for early summer work. So, I'd like to get some of them done as well. So, we're not waiting to the June meeting. Uh next one is that Miss Vietti is completing her evaluation and you'll probably receive an email shortly. So, be on the lookout for
059that. We're going to try to hopefully get that all completed before the end of May so we're ready to do a summary in June and give it to her so we're not doing it that has to be done by June 30th and Wednesday I don't know looked iffy then it looks good about if I can maybe if the board wants to come here a little earlier before the 7 o'clock meeting between the 6 and and 6:45 and meet me out in the back field I could give you a quick uh peak of the area. Yes. I'll send an email out Wednesday. Wednesday. Sounds like fun. Yeah. If it's not raining, we can go look at it quick before the meeting. Okay. That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Um do we need to open
060to the public? Okay. We're not we're not to do that. Okay. Um so we're going into closed motion. Second. I I have to read the statement because we're going into close session. Whereas the board of education must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in a public meeting and whereas these subjects are within the exceptions 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. Am I saying what it is? No. Right. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry guys. Um, do I have to say the whole thing? Just say personnel. Personnel. Okay. So, it's personnel. Sorry guys. Um, whereas the length of the closed session is estimated to be 30 minutes after which the public meeting
061of 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 afore subjects will be made public at the time when the public'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. Motion second. Okay. Can I have a motion? Motion. There you go. Got it. All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you very much. Thank you. I wish I could. I haven't been around in seven years. Of course.