001[Applause] 7:00 is right right here. Same thing. Okay. Same. Okay. 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. Miss Vietti, anything that you want to start with? I'm going to wait until Wednesday. However, I will share just because it's happening tomorrow night, our third grade annual recorder concert is happening here at the middle school high school auditorium tomorrow evening. That's right. Okay. This one. Sorry. This one. So, this one. So, not you then. We're going to go straight to Please turn. So, so we're going to go here now. Usually, it's you though, isn't it? Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Your name's on the list. So, we're going to
002go through this. Mr. Karate, would you like to add anything moment? Yes, just quick on the referendum. There was a lot of action today on the field. Um, we actually had three different companies out there today doing some Sorry for the mic. Um, doing some work around the field. Then the actual field is the the turf is actually getting uh completed now maybe in the next couple of days. And the company came to install the visitor's side bleachers. Nice. It'll take several weeks. Several weeks. Okay. That's it. That's it. Okay. Let me take a peek here. Agenda items. Okay. All right. We're going to go over our agenda items for for discussion. Give me a moment, please, to glance. Okay, I will cover uh Miss Torbick's items. Board action items B2425.34 through B2425.40. Is there
003any discussion or questions? I'll share. So, we have our Okay, we have the minutes from last month. Then we have um we had six Hibs in close session last month. So, those are listed here. 36 is continuation of the long-term suspension um for a high school student. 37 that's a donation from donor's choose which is an organization that teachers can go on and they put in an item at the hole or a program that they're really interested in having and then anyone could go online and donate um however many amount of money they wish and then when you get to the amount that it costs you receive that donation and you send some photos and a thank you. So that is for the middle that that's for Helen I Smith School's music program and it's
004one of those large xylophones that goes with our ORF program. Then 38 we're mandated to inform our high school students that are approaching 18 years of age um giving them providing them with all information on voting. 39 those are the corrective action plans for chronic absenteeism. We approved the district improvement plan. this was part of it and I was informed that we needed to have a separate motion um agenda item to approve those as well. So that's on there. And then 0.40 is um the VFW post 3484 here in town. They donated once again um $1,000 to go towards our annual sixth grade trip. Thank you. Any questions? Education and curriculum. Missyella. Okay. Um we have E2425.46 through E2425 um 51. Any questions? And there's a list of field trips. So for the field trips,
005we do have the senior class this school year. They are requesting to go to Six Flags Great Adventure for their annual senior day instead of having their senior day here at the high school. So they had um raised enough funds in order to do so. We have a grade two class visiting Tennifly Nature Center, grade one visiting Health Barn, a couple special education student trips. Um we have another service learning club from the middle school high school visiting Washington School. So we've been doing a lot of that this school year. And also they're visiting our sixth graders at each of our K to6 buildings to answer any questions that they may have about the transition to the middle school here. And then hold on, I lost it. We have let's see 050 is um our
006BCBA, one of our behaviorists is out on maternity leave. So this is the leave replacement for that individual. And 0.51 is we had two snow days that we did not use this year. So we had two days to give back. So that's to have the Friday before Memorial Day weekend off and be closed the Tuesday following Memorial Day as well. Can you say that again? We have two snow days to give back that we did not use. So 0.51 is the Friday before Memorial Day and the Tuesday after Memorial Day to have an extended weekend. Thank you. Budget and finance BF2425.92 through BF2425.103. any conversation, comments, or questions on that? I'll just share we have several secretaries in our district that were attending a um a Google for school secretaries and administrative assistance workshops. So,
007I thought it was so great of them to um volunteer to attend this workshop. You'll also see my spring NJSA conference is in the professional development workshops um as well as a couple other workshops. the chair. I'm sorry. I I if we can we backtrack for a second. Sure. Um the corrective action plan I apologize I wasn't focused at that moment. In this corrective action plan you have through INS those what is INS going to do like what is the planning? We create an INRS intervention and referral services. We create an INRS action plan for our students that have a certain number of absences in each building. Intervention. They I don't have one in front of me right now, so I don't want to speak to it, but there there are attendance contracts that the
008parents do come in and they sign at one of those action meetings and they have several interventions in place. Okay. Um, and then there was something else. Uh, that's actually also mandated by the county that they expect an IRS action plan for attendance. Um, there was I have to I had one another question, but right now has come back. I'm not going anywhere. If I could just elaborate on some of the items here. Um yeah, a lot of good things happening with the projects and a lot of um you know besides the referendum funding funding, we also you know rewarded that cops grant which is on number 98 which is uh an addition to um cameras I mean a door access that we approved last month. This is additional work and you're going to see
009more stuff uh coming up where we do additional cameras and door access controls too. Uh 99 is the change order and work I spoke about um at the in the back of the turf field. And 101 is new furniture for both cafeterias here, which we're very excited uh to change that into our blue and gold themes. It'll look really good. And another change order with the window project that's um on its punch list now, but that was a referendum project. We changed the windows here that are easier to open for the staff and also have the blinds inside the windows. So, a lot of good things happening. Um, I said we got the referendum funds, the cops grant, we had -ate funding, which is a federal communication um grant that'll be in next year's budget.
010And also, we just found out we just awarded a um the playground grant we had applied for. We're going to get $81,000 towards our upgrading our playground. So, a lot of good things happening and uh you'll you'll seeing a lot of work done around the district. So, very excited. Well, we have money budgeted in our in our budget which were approved in next um meeting on May 5th. Well, 5th and 7th and uh we had money budgeted there for the playground and this will help us do more. Amazing. Good. So, yeah, we're hoping to do sorry all three elementary schools and also then we're hoping we could finish Washington school too through the chair. Yes. On BF2425.95. Is this the first year we're doing this? Oh, yes. So, this is through NRESC, Northern Regional Educational
011Service Commission. Service Commission. Thank you. Um, and they will actually they run the summer program in our building. So, our teachers can apply to teach the summer program. They're paid they're paid through NRESC. um the students pay to complete the summer school program and then any additional funds like any extra funds that are left over at the end is split 50/50 between us and NRESA. And is it just for our students or are we opening it up to other towns at this point? Because it's our initial year. We're talking about just our students right now. Thank you. Thank you. Do the chair If I could piggy back off that, what grades? We're still talking about it as a leadership team. We're thinking grades students entering grades 7 through 12. Okay. We're thinking anyone else. Just
012remember your question. Well, good. Facilities and operations. Mr. Archello. Facilities and operations uh F2425.8 approve school facility use for May 2025. Any questions? No one. Sana question. No. No one. Okay. Thank you. Policy. Mr. Serelli. Anything? No. Negotiations. Mr. Akamando. Anything? No. Been very quiet. Sounds good. Moving right along. personnel. Mr. Lorentina, we got some P2425.67 through P2325.74. Questions, comments 67 are two resignations. One's an ABA power, one's a teacher here at the middle school high school. Then that's then you see the leaves of absences. Then you see the appointments. Number one is a resend. He never started with us, but he was appointed, but never actually got to the point of starting, so he's rescended. Number two is home instruction. It's of um one of our previous staff members that has since retired, and
013she is looking to work with us as a home instructor. Number three is the list of an of staff to work our extended school year program. Number four is a preschool teacher for for next school year, but we have that one preschool classroom upstairs at Washington School that we have not um utilized yet. So, we're we're looking that's going to be that location. Number five is a music teacher at Franklin School. number five has started in the capacity he's working through ESS um and completing his student teaching and is scheduled to get his c his official certificate in June. So this is for next school year. And number six is a part-time evening custodian. If you don't have it on your agenda, I'm not positive. He we interviewed him today. Um and it's a part-time
014evening position. Then 70 you'll see the stipens number one and two is because one of them's on maternity leave so the remainder of her stipen went to the other individual. Number three is a head football coach and four that head football coach is also going to be the weight room coordinator. And then number five is the stipen that the part-time evening custodian receives for the evening shift. 71 Mr. Osborne here a vice principal here at the high school. He earned his doctorate so he receives a stipen moving forward for that. Congratulations to Mr. Osborne. 72 is a college student to complete speech pathologist observations at Franklin and Smith School. 73 is one of our mandates. It's all the administrative appointments such as who's responsible for 504 um chemical and other items. And then 74 is
015to approve those two give back days for all 12-month staff including members of the administrative staff and central office personnel. Through the chair, I have a question or two. Okay. Um preschool teacher pretty high up on the uh she is currently in another district. She's been working there for it. It matches the number of years of experience that she has. Now remember, our steps are not matched to the number of years of experience. She better be good. You could have filled the position this year. Yeah, but this is for next year. So, you haven't really been through the all the candidates just yet. There are still more out there that you could interview. So, this is nice that we caught her early, but I don't know if that's something that we could afford or others
016may look at as, "Oh, she's just starting and this is what she gets," though that's the usual. And also, this music teacher, is that an additional music teacher or are they or is it replacing someone replacing? which is that was she resigned a couple maybe a month or two agendas ago. Okay, that's all. Anybody else? Yes. Um for the coach, my mic. For the coach, um for the wait room coordinator, is there a certain amount of hours that he has to be there? Is there designated hours that he has to be there like from this time to this time or is it just like whenever? I'll have to check. Okay. Um I can tell you that they they talk about doing the mornings and then also the afternoon. When we met with this coach for
017the interview, he spoke about doing both the offering some mornings and then offering some afternoons as well. And does that go for like practices? is I mean I mean know you're a football coach but that also like for practices is it like certain days and is it in the contract where they have to be there like in the morning for practice in the like practice for weight? No. Well, for football itself, I know besides the weight room activities in the afternoon, but in school because I know that in the past that they've had like um their practices at like 6:00 in the morning sometimes, 6:30 in the morning. I didn't know what I don't know what the schedule is going to be yet for practice. Is there a certain amount of hours is what I'm
018saying as a coach as all as well? You know, not that I know of, but I can check for you. Okay. Um through the chair also for that particular position. Is there a limit for just football or all sports can go in the wait room on that particular time that they are present there? I believe it's all sports. They're able to they're just the person that's responsible for being there. Okay. through the chair on 2325.74. Does that also include maintenance? That's one of the items for us to discuss in close session. Oh, okay. 23257. Anybody else? The custodian or Thank you. custodians. Um reports they get off. Are there any other committee reports that anyone wants to discuss tonight or we can move them on to Wednesday? Wednesday. I'll wait for Wednesday. Wednesday. This side
019too. Wednesday. I myself have to wait till Wednesday. I don't have information yet on long. Um any correspondence, Miss Wlety? Nope. No correspondence. Old business. No old business. Any new business? Anybody in the audience want to speak? No, we're good. Great. Makes my night very easy for my first time doing this. Yeah. Okay. Let me see. Okay. Then we need a motion to close the meeting to the public. Second. All those in favor? I need a motion. We have a motion to close. Don't close. Oh, you did that. No, I didn't do that. Oh, I got to do this first. I'm sorry. I apologize. I have to read this. Why do you have to read it? Nobody wants to talk. Right. Motion to close. Oh, I do. We just did that session. We need to
020say that. You need to move to go into exec and then say we're not going to do any business after I didn't read this. Okay. So, you need a motion to go into closed. You got to read those. Right. I did the motion to move closed. So, now I just got to do this. Gotcha. I apologize. So, we had a motion to go into closed and we had a second and now I'm going to read. Whereas the board of education must discuss matters which are not appropriate for discussion in a public meeting and whereas the subjects are within the exceptions of 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 NJSA 104-12B1 HIV case
021FE23172025 and number two NJSA 10 col 412B 8 personnel. Whereas the length of close session is estimated to be approximately 45 minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall reconvene and actions will not will not be taken. Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of education will recess into close session for only the offoraid subjects, and be it further resolved that the board of education hereby declares that its discussion of the offer of fores said subjects will be made public at a 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. Closed. What? All in favor? All in favor? Okay, it's closed.