001Okay. Um, no. Okay, we're just going to go in order, right? Okay, great. So, uh, we're going to open up with our student representative comments. Uh, Sophia and Juliana are here. This, I imagine, is the last one for the year. And are we going to be seeing you again next year? I I guess you lost that bet and you're back. All right, we're happy to have you. So, thank you. Okay, so this month's student achievements are as follows. Congratulations to Jason Zang, a junior who was awarded the Wensler Medal by the Wensler Polytenic Institute. This prestigious award has been awarded since 1916 to one student in any given high school and is designed to recognize the students strength and success in the fields of mathematics and science. Medalists to apply are admitted to and enroll
002at RPI are awarded a scholarship worth $40,000 per year. We are happy to announce that the Wong Hills physics team placed fourth and the chemistry team placed fifth in the state science league competition. The following students earned individual awards. Matthew Attilla in biology, Ethan Chiway, Emily Wang, and Rebecca Lubec in chemistry. In addition, Jason Zang earned a gold medal, scoring in the top 10% of students taking the F equals MA exam. Matthew Ailla was also chosen to represent Wong Hills for the Walksman Students Scholars Program 2025 Summer Institute. Jason Cien and Matthew Attilla isolated a novel DNA sequence from duckweed and researched the expression of the gene theosulfate sulfur transferase in plants and animals. Using modeling software, they created a 3D representation of the protein and they will be presenting their findings at Ruckers University.
003Leah Uggan was nominated by the C Central Jersey Marquee for a student achievement award. Leah was nominated for her role as a hair and makeup artist in the Adams family musical at Watching Hills. She attended a marquee award ceremony on May 19th. This year, schools nominated 680 students to participate in the 2025 NCTTE achievement awards in writing contest. Judges evaluated each piece of writing for expression of ideas, language use, and unique perspective and voice. Congratulations to our five students who received the following distinctions. Victoria Famoso, first class. Tori Schiffman, superior. Maya Omar, superior. Christine Lee, superior. and Tanya Miholtra superior. Alex Keert, an alumnist from the class of 2023, is graduating from Ruckers University at 18 and is the youngest member of the class of 2025. He is now headed to the University of Wisconsin
004on a full scholarship for a PhD program in AI. Alex graduated from Wong Hills in just three years and simultaneously earned two associate degrees at RBCC before enrolling in Ruckers. Moving on to our school events. Project ALS hosted their final event to raise money for the ALS project, a talent show on April 30th. The club is donating $2,000 to the ALS project as a result of efforts this year. The Red Cross Club is donating $2,500 to the Red Cross this year as a culmination of all the fundraising that they did throughout the year. We are thrilled to announce the successful conclusion of our annual spring arts events held from May 1st through June 4th, 2025. It was a month filled with many events, incredible talent, creativity, and community spirit. The events included the jazz concert
005on May 1st, scripting Q showcase cabaret one act plays on May 15th, dance ensemble performance on May 16th, spring chorus concert and ensembles on May 20th, instrumental concert on May 22nd, culinary and music production showcase and visual arts opening reception on May 27th. And the senior solo event will conclude the spring arts season on June 4th. And for our athletic update, come out to cheer on the softball team tomorrow, June 4th, as the topseated Lady Warriors host the number four seated Bridgewwater Lady Panthers at 400 p.m. in the NJSIAA sectional quarterfinals game. And finally, congratulations and best of luck to Antonio Giuliano of the track and field team for placing second overall in the NJSIAA group 4 meet this weekend in the discus event. His impressive discus throw of 169 ft 6 in is also
006a new school record. Antonio will move on to represent Wong Hills and the NJSIAA track and field meet of champions tomorrow. And that is it. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Mr. President. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. I just could you repeat again about the student that is graduating from Ruckers because I think that there was so much information that was there. I'm like, wait, I need to hear that again. No, no, no, no. You're good. No, you can. No, turn it on. No. On. Yeah. Yeah. On. Turn it on. Okay. Um, so Alex Gert, an alumnist from the class of 2023, is graduating from Ruckers at 18 and is the youngest member of the class of 2025. He is headed to the University of Wisconsin on a full scholarship for a PhD program in AI.
007Alex graduated from Wong Hills in just three years and simultaneously earned two associates degrees at RVCC before enrolling in Ruckers. Wow. I need his phone number. Have a job for him. That's incredible. If I need a tutor, that's that's that's Congratulations to him. That's amazing. Excellent. Uh Dr. JW, I think you have a few things you'd like to say. I do. And actually, before I get to that, I want to just highlight because I don't have a formal report on here tonight, but I want to highlight the really amazing career day that we hosted last week. Uh, perhaps Mr. Ger will be able to come and join in our next one. So, we started this a few years ago and the event has only grown. And so, I want to give credit to the army
008of people that made this happen. Uh, I asked Mr. Sabino, he and and uh Miss Wiznooki, his assistant, really um oversaw the the planning of the entire thing, but they had quite a team of people helping. So, I asked him for a write up so that I wouldn't miss anyone. So, this was held last week on Thursday, May 29th. We had approximately a hundred community participants in gym 56 um who shared valuable career insights with our students. School counselors Tara Miles and Rob Carminini hosted a dynamic career day panel presentation in our pack for 10th and 11th graders featuring professionals from diverse fields including uh we had uh Giana Fortonado from talent resources Dr. Phil Tedeski uh and molecular he he is in molecular biology drug discovery amuninovant I believe is the company uh that's
009actually and a lot of these people the way we get them he happens to be one of our staff members brother-in-laws the person from talent resources um he the uh somebody from there spoke at a recent conference I was at and I went up to ask them afterward if they'd have somebody that would come speak to our students uh we had somebody from Warren Pediatric Associates who's one of our parents Dr. Vasavi Periq. Trish Gianakis, she's an artist, a professor, and an Emmy award winner. Tama Goff, she is an athletic trainer. Emma Gaffne, she was actually one of our student board reps uh that sat at our table a few years back back. She's a W watching Hills graduate from 2018, currently working for Deote. A huge thank you to the WHRHS PTO for their
010invaluable support and to our wonderful community supporters for their generous donations that helped make the day a success. Uh, Forest Lodge provided some catering. Uh, NJ4S statewide student support services also gave a donation for this event. Uh, Yellas in Warren, Pmptonian Food Services, and Haiti's Bakery in South Planefield um was actually donated. That's one of our staff members, Timothy Leong, uh, his family's uh, bakery. Our student volunteers from the peer leaders, Be the Change, and our photography clubs played a crucial role in making the day run smoothly, assisting with various aspects of the event. And it was planned and coordinated by our Wong Hills counseling department. I want to make sure I did not forget anyone. I think Oh, hold on. A couple more people. Uh, uh, Miss Wiznooki from the school counseling department. Amanda
011Bennell, our culinary arts teacher, she she secured local business donations and helped plan our food purchases. Um, we had food in gym one two for all of the vendors so that they could take a break because they were here for um, a good portion of the day. uh Pete Ponzio uh he developed CAD the CAD design for the event space layout. Amita Ziki and Diane Marin Ty Ball Lindseay Healey they are um some of our teacher aids and our care students they created custom welcome signs name tags and other career day printed materials for the event. BNG security and our vice principles they provided on-site support all day and helped set up for the event. Um, Anita Bick provided foundational support by sharing concepts from last year's successful career today which was turned over to
012our counseling department. Um, and uh, the staff for peer peer leaders in be the change, Shelley Letington, Rebecca Brown, Lauren Krueger, and Greg Krueger. So, you can see Mr. Sabino sent it to me and then realized he kept missing folks. It was it was such a cool event. Uh, I don't know if you want to speak to it at all because you participated in it. Um, but we had something for everyone in terms of career interest. So, and I even got to hang out with Nikita a little bit, the um Warren K9. So, that was my highlight of the day. Uh, but it was it was a really really um special day for the students. And you know, one of the pieces of board feedback that has come out over the years is to try
013and have really a a gamut of options for the students from trades to um you know uh professional uh related professions to vocations um to other experiences. And so, you know, we had everything there from um you know, uh home services to um accountants to food services to um personally owned businesses by our alum. And what was nice too was there are a number of our alum that participated. Um so that's a network that's been growing and then they end up making connections with our students who can then um end up having internships and we actually did um add to our list of possible internships for our senior work experience. Um, so we're for our structured learning experience for our 12th grade students. So we're looking to expand that as well. So it's just it
014was it was a really cool event. Tim got to go down and and take a look at it too. Um, so anyway, thank you to all who participated and and thank you to the board for your support with that. Okay, now we get to go ahead. Well, I'm going to interrupt for one second. Uh, great day coming up next Thursday. We have Oh, what's that? What's that? Glad you asked. Uh, June 12th, Thursday, 10 o'clock or so. Yes, we have our graduation. Uh weather right now looks great. And we will have the jumbo. Are you serious? I know. I jinxed it, right? That's okay. We're taking that out of the minutes. Don't touch the money. Uh but we'll have the jumbotron working that night, that day, I should say. And hopefully that's a prelude to
015what could be here in the future on a permanent basis. Tim denied all those requests, but their new We'll have your jumbotron. will be there. Okay. I'm looking to have it for graduation. For graduation, but it could be a prelude to fulltime. Uh yes. So, next Thursday. So, we're excited about that, which means there's only a few more days of school. So, I'm sure all the students are happy about that. And I wish uh all the teachers and students down there are a little upset. I sense it. We have a couple meetings over the summer. You're more than welcome to attend. Uh and we wish everyone a good summer. Okay, now we can move on. So now I get to do some very special recognition and I will actually go up to the turn to
016do this. So, first I am going to just uh thank our two student representatives, Juliana Santos and Sophie Lamb. This is the end of your second year uh serving as our student board representatives. And I think we've all really enjoyed getting to know you, seeing you every every few weeks. You do a really nice job uh with the student reports and and adding some of your own uh color and and some additions to it. And I really enjoy getting to know you. Um, it's really nice that every time I see you in the hallway, it's another smiling face that that I get to see that of students that I know. Um, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what you will do as seniors. So, this is just a little token of appreciation from the
017board members and Mr. Size and myself and Miss Carol. And now we get to celebrate our uh a retiring staff member and a retiring board member. So, and actually, so Miss Anie Vanderfleet, will you please step up here? Yes. I'm going to make you stand up here while I read this. So, thank you so much for coming. I it's going to be weird not seeing your you in the office every single day when I when I come by. So, you've been a a a foundation there for my entire time here. Um and that office can get crazy, especially this time of year when students may be leaving school at various times for various reasons, especially our 12th grade students. Um so, you always handle that very deafly and um patiently. So, we appreciate that. Uh
018so without further ado, this proclamation regarding An Marie Gretto Vanderfleet shall be read at the public meeting of the Wong Hills Regional High School Board of Education on June 3rd, 2025. Whereas Anarie Gretto Vanderfleet was first employed by Wong Hills Regional High School in August 2008 and served as a highly competent substitute and whereas due to her superior skills has served our school district as attendance secretary since September 2010. And whereas she has been a highly effective professional whose trustworthiness, commitment, and institutional knowledge have been the cornerstones of her career at Wong Hills. And whereas over the last 17 years, she has earned the respect and admiration of others for her empathy, thoughtfulness, and emotional intelligence. And whereas she has been a loyal employee, hard worker, friend to many, and a valued member of our
019Wong Hills family. And whereas in one of her more important responsibilities as an attendance secretary, she was known by the students, staff, and parents for her attention to detail, her pleasant demeanor, and her strong work ethic. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Watch Hills Board of Education extends its heartfelt gratitude for Anie Gretto Vanderfleet's 17 years of dedicated service and devotion to our school and wishes her a happy and healthy retirement as she pursues her passions, travels, and whatever adventures lie ahead. [Applause] Thank you everybody for having me here for as long as I've been here and I appreciate the opportunity. Thank you. That front office is not an easy job. So I I there's really a lot of things going on all at once and so I tremendously appreciate all your service to
020our students to help the school run smoothly. So thank you so much. Next we have a board member who has given us many years of service. So Miss Susan Over if you will come up here please. You may be one of the few board members whose son preceded you on our board. He he talked about it being so cool that his mom wanted to do it. Uh okay. So, uh this pro I can't believe when we were putting this together how long you've been on the board and how many things you've been a part of as a board member. Uh and you've always been tremendously supportive of the students, of the staff, of the administration, of me. Um and so I'm really going to miss having you on the board. And you came to school
021events. You you I think I don't think you missed a new teacher lunchon. Maybe one year. Yeah, I think you were there every single year. So, who's not here tonight, uh, due to being ill, which she's going to be very upset about. U, but you really made your made such a tremendous effort to be at school events after Jed was out of here. Um, you were certainly here when he was here, but you continued coming to support the teachers and the students long after that, and it was noticed and and really appreciated. So this proclamation regarding Susan Ober shall be read at the public meeting of the Wong Hills Regional High School Board of Education on June 3rd, 2025. Whereas Susan Ober has served the Wong Hills Regional High School District as an outstanding board
022member for seven years. And whereas since her appointment in 2019, she has served on many committees during her tenure, sharing her expertise and insights in the areas of operations, education, and personnel, and served with distinction as the chair of the personnel and education committees. She has also served on the strategic plan, shared services, regionalization, and negotiations ad hoc committees. She has represented the board on the education council and served as a delegate for the New Jersey School Boards Association and representative for the Somerset County School Boards Association. She has also served as the board liaison for Long Hill Township and the PTO. Through the committees, she shared her extensive knowledge, expertise, and insights to foster creativity, growth, and success for our students. And whereas she has worked tirelessly for our students with her every decision
023oriented toward giving students the best possible academic, athletic, and co-curricular experience, she proudly worked towards student enrichment in the arts, world language, science, and many other programs. And whereas she has continuously supported the hiring of outstanding administrators, teachers, guidance counselors, and support staff. She was instrumental in passing two referendums and has been a part of many developments at WHRHS, including the renovation of the learning commons and interior alterations. And whereas during her tenure, she was instrumental in helping our district navigate the challenges presented by the pandemic, successfully keeping our school open during the 2020 2021 school year. It's hard to believe that that all happened. Now therefore, be it resolved that the Wong Hills Regional High School Board of Education extends its heartfelt gratitude for Susan Ober's seven years of service and devotion to our
024school and wishes her the very best and continued success in her future [Applause] endeavors. Wants a picture of you with your certificate. So, thank you so much. And um it's funny you talk about all the things and all I I've been reflecting and thinking about all the people and that's really what what I'm taking away and um there's many that I want to thank. Um, starting with you, Liz, I came to a board meeting in 2018 with Jed and it was a very contentious meeting and um, Jed and I were just absolutely blown away with how you could command a room of insanity and people screaming at each other. And, you know, he and I looked at each other like, "What was that? And who is that?" And she's amazing. and he told me you
025saw him in the hall the next day and talked to him and then the next thing you know he was a a board rep and I decided to run for the board and so really you were what inspired me. So, thank you so much. Um, Tim, you gave me such a warm welcome when I joined the board and uh you overwhelmed me with all the training and all of all of the many many things I had to learn. And um but I still remember the um advice you gave me at that initial meeting which was you mentioned two people who were my colleagues on the board and you said just watch them and do what they do and I did and um I don't know how this school is going to live without you um
026when you retire but I know that there is a successor that's been named and if I had a piece of advice to give him it would be just watch Tim and do what he does. Um, I had some words to say for Nicole and I'm sorry she's not here, but I'm gonna call her. Uh, Michael, you I don't know how you've managed to lead such a varied group of personalities and craziness, but uh you you've you've been able to get consensus and I don't know how you do it, but um I appreciate it. I admire you for it and thank you so much for all the support you've shown me. Um Janine and Heather, I don't know what I would would have done without your um camaraderie with me on the board and I do
027hope that our friendship will survive my resignation because that has become so important to me. Um Sophie and Juliana, I always looked forward to the meetings. I always loved catching eyes with you and I I think you're amazing. Um, Bob, I think I will miss you most of all. I You were there. You sat next to me. You showed me the way when I first was on the board. I didn't know what was going on. You told, you know, you pointed, you told me what I could vote on, what I shouldn't vote on. You uh I just followed your lead and you've never led me astray. I think um your dedication, commitment is unparalleled. I um if if I had anything to do over, I would have made sure to nominate you for board member
028of the year at MJSBA because you deserve it. There's nobody like you and thank you for all that you do. Um and finally, I want to thank the teachers and um you've been such a um you play such an important role in the um lives of our students. and I know you did in the life of my son and uh there are so many teachers that I would like to thank individually but they I think they know who they are but I will probably call them as well. Um, one of my proudest moments was being endorsed by the teachers association this year when I ran for reelection. And with that came a very generous uh grant to help with my um election expenses, which I really didn't have much because I was running unopposed, but
029um so I didn't really have much. So I I've had this money burning a hole and um trying to decide what to do with it. And so, um, I decided to round it up and I don't quite have enough to endow a late bus because that's what I really would have wanted, but I do have enough to help with some expenses uh for some programs that will be run by the GSA and the diversity club. So, I have some checks that I would like to hand [Applause] If I may just take a couple minutes, Susan, thank you. Um, the proclamation that was read uh was great. I only wish half of that will be said when I'm gone. I'm sure that'll be limited if Liz is the writer of it. Uh, but we as board
030members and Susan certainly as well, I don't want to say we're necessarily taken for granted, but people don't fully appreciate what we do and what we go through. It may look like fun and games at time, but there's a lot of work that goes on. There's a lot of behind the-scenes work, a lot of committee work, a lot of discussion, a lot of hard decisions that have to be made. you know, we we talk about all the time, certainly with respect to the finances and the give and take and the struggles that we go through and Susan again on her seven years, uh she dealt with that. She dealt with that greatly. She was involved in uh again as mentioned a boatload of the committees, she was right in there. She was fighting for what
031she felt strongly for. She certainly mentioned the late bus which again that was a tough decision that we had to basically act this year but she was a tireless advocate certainly for the students and for the teachers and really for the community in general and uh I certainly appreciate that and she's certainly a role model with regard to uh a leader a leader in the community. So, I certainly thank you and uh I'm not sure what town you move to, but I'm sure you certainly I think in another year once you have have a year of residency, you can uh run for office in that uh community, which is what I did. I waited the year and then all of a sudden I'm on this board as well. And uh you know, so it certainly
032is appreciative that you give back your time and your goodwill with respect to that. So, I thank you and uh good luck in your future. Thank you. Okay. Shall we move on to committee reports unless there's something else? I just wanted to let everyone know there are some delicious treats over there. So, please help yourself and you're welcome to stay for the meeting. You're welcome to go if you might have something better to do. Hard to believe, but or and you are welcome to take some cupcakes with you as well, but just please leave two for Quinn. [Laughter] I promise him. Okay. One of each be great. Okay. Um, ready for committees? We're ready. Okay. Great. All right. Education committee. Hi. Good evening. Welcome. We're going to meet. Hi. Thank you. Congratulations to um I'm
033going to just miss the last name. I'm so sorry. But Anna Maria, the attendance officer, because my daughter is Amory, and we've had this whole discussion about this and how she didn't like her name. My daughter thinks she has an old lady name. And it was just hysterical of all the correspondents. So, God bless you and enjoy and thank you so much. Um, to Susan, thank you for your service. God bless you. Good luck. Have some fun. Um, so, education committee. Oh, ladies, thank you. Good job. um education committee. We met May 27th, 3:15. Um Mrs. Potter was there, Mr. Morrison, Dr. Jwitt, Mrs. Failen, Mr. Labbera, sorry, Dr. Labbera, Mr. Sabino, and Mr. Maluso. Um it was really the Mr. Maluso show. It was like an AI demo. Um he provided a demonstration on
034multiple applications of AI. He actually would have his screen up for us. It was it was really cool. Um he gave examples of coding, website creation, research and uh how you can use AI as a study tool. Uh he introduced notebook LM and Google Canvas and the various ways that can be used by students, staff and teachers. Um he also I had in my notes that he he mentioned about Microsoft copilot for teachers but um he still thinks the notebook LM and Google Google Canvas were a little um more user friendly. Um and then following that we had a brief discussion on obviously establishing guidelines and expectations for AI for use both by stat students and staff um and how it's like you're we're never going to be done with it and it's always moving
035and we're going to always be chasing the whole AI thing. Um but it was really cool to see it in action live with him um manipulating his computer and seeing on screen. So thank you for all that and looking forward for the next big thing I guess in AI. Yeah. Uh Mr. President, I'm sorry. Just on a related note, uh this Friday the New Jersey School Boards Association is hosting um a dayong uh series of presentations on AI and education. Um, so I'll be going to that session on Friday, you know, following up on what we learned from the education committee. Uh, and be when when I return, we'll share all the information that I gained from that for the board. But it's covering, you know, stuff related to our faculty members, stuff related to
036our students, stuff related to administration, stuff related to uh, you know, managing uh, uh, electricity and things of that nature, you know, using AI. So, um, I'm sure there's going to be a boatload of information that will come out of that that I'll make sure that we share, you know, with the full board. Thank you. That'd be great. AI is here to stay and then some. Yes, I do. So, the personnel committee met on May 28th at 3:30 via Zoom. President was myself, William Mayor, Katherryn Lei, Heather Trumpour, Dr. Jwitt, Tim Sty, and Nicole Carroll. And the first item on the agenda was the professional learning communities PLC fair. Miss Carroll shared with the comm community the committee that the faculty presented one of the two professional learning community fairs on Wednesday, May 28th with
037the second fair to take place on Wednesday, June 4th. Uh teachers work in small groups throughout the school year to focus on a problem of practice related to teaching, learning, and assessments. These small groups are known as professional learning communities or PLC's. At the PLC fair, groups present their work to their colleagues. And the second item on the agenda that we can share is the update on the hiring of 2526 school year. Um action to be taken on this meeting June 3rd as well as next meeting June 17th and further action to be to be determined. Um, Miss Cairo shared with the committee that the vacancies for the 2526 school year include a school nurse, special education teacher, part-time 10month secretary, um, a leave replacement special education teacher, a leave replacement art teacher, and a
038leave replacement chemistry teacher. Interviews continue next week for the school nurse, special education teacher vacancy, and the part-time secretary position. The leave replacement positions are expected to be challenging to fill, but contingency plans are being put into place if the district needs to assign a 0.2 coverage for these classes with existing faculty. Both of these security aid positions have been filled for the 2526 school year. And that is all we have to share. Operations. That's me. You just do everything because I saw your name first. I was like, "Wait a second. Does it make sense?" Operations. We met yesterday morning uh June 2nd. In attendance was Mr. Morrison, Miss Prasa, myself, Dr. Jwitt, Mr. Snowden, and Mr. Styes. Uh, the first thing we discussed was the proposed sidewalk an update. Uh, Mr. Sy provided an
039update on the sidewalk that had been proposed along Sterling Avenue for the residents who live in the new development across the street from Woodland School. The comment the consensus has been that uh it's not our responsibility, but really the responsibility of the town. He shared that there may be federal grant money available to help with the cost and he spoke with the business administrator for the K through8 in Warren to let them know we are not moving forward with the project. We did have some additional committee discussion on that. The construction update by Mr. Snowden talked about all the ongoing projects and gave us um update on each one and there's several. The chillers are 95% complete and they're up and running. There's two pumps that are needed to be worked on and a short
040punch list of items that need to be addressed. The SAC office, which is the former nurs's office, construction will begin June 5th. Was that tomorrow? This week, June 5th, uh, with the demo of the current space and he's scheduled to have a meeting with the contractor June 10th. Um, and we'll have additional updates after that meeting. rooftop units. Uh we had replacement of the units over the superintendent suite in the business office will begin over the summer with an anticipated completion date of August 15th and we're going to have additional details on that after the meeting with the contractor today. Uh the only delay could be caused by the availability of the units. The Dansancy Memorial, we've received an updated quote from the contractor. Samples have been received for the wall and selection will be
041made by the administration. The final construction update is the design lab wall which is the quote green wall outside the design lab which will be replaced. The nearest samples have been received and they'll be be reviewed and once a selection has been made uh replacement will begin. The final thing we discussed was the use of facilities policy update. Mr. Sai explained we have a need to update the existing policy. It's been over 10 years since the policy has been updated. So, we discussed the breakdown of the different groups and what groups fit into each of the categories in that policy. Mr. Sai Sai shared that the uh watching hills coaches who run summer camps are considered group three which gives the administration some discretion in determining the costs. He said the administration and the board
042always saw these camps as feeder programs for the high school teams, so they were charged a lower fee and also shared that some of the board members were concerned since these camps were quote for profit and were charging fees, so they were actually making money by hosting the camps. Mr. Sty discussed the fee rates associated with the event and said that they need to be reviewed in order to cover the costs that the district is incurring. Mr. Morrison, we talked about um comparative studies to see what other districts were charging in the same uh types of groups and Dr. Jwitt has responded she has spoken with other districts and the responses really vary depending on who you speak with. He suggested the groups that benefit our students, future students or community should be given priority
043and fees should not be charged for this benefiting of the students. And Mr. Sty clarified that since our staff was already on site during the summer months that the district is not really incurring additional expenses which helps keep those costs down. We had additional committee discussion and on agenda items which we'll be talking tonight we discussed a few items um they will be on our agenda for approval on June 17th. versus the use of temporary space and that is the forms for the various spaces throughout the building that we have for the cafeteria eating areas and the county is needed for approval each year for renewal. Uh AC ab custodial contract and Mr. Sty pointed out this resolution is to renew our current contract with ACB for custodial services. The increase of 2.5% is tied
044to the index rate. And on transportation services, Mr. Size discussed the renewal of the student transportation costs contracts. He said that they're able to cut two routes for the 25 to 26 school year and provided uh Mr. St provided details for the cooperative purchases that were on agenda for approval. One is a K Cabota utility vehicle with attachments. And this item was originally in the 2526 budget, but it had been removed due to budget cuts. Um, it is an item that would enable ground crews to access areas that they're unable to get to by truck. And Mr. Snowden also provided rational for the purchase of this piece of equipment. Security improvements. We he provided an overview of the phase one and phase two of the security improvements plan and maintenance agreements. Mr. Sty briefly discussed
045the renewal of the maintenance agreements. Uh we also discussed the need for the NJ DOE approval for the replacement of the condensate tank and we had additional committee discussion and we ended yesterday at 9:37 a.m. Any other comments or questions? I just Yeah. No, thanks. It was great. I mean, operations always has a lot going on. Uh I'm not sure if we mentioned that the last meeting, but Heather and I, with regard to the sidewalk project, Heather and I met with uh must have been 10 other people. Tim was there, somebody from our building ground, uh the police from Warren, uh K through eight representatives, the principal, and whoever. So there were about 10 of us who met outside to see exactly what the issue was and walk the issue and uh again obviously there
046was a discussion and I guess coming out of committee is a recommendation to do nothing or you know follow exactly what you're saying here uh and the other comment I have because I know this has come up on a number of occasions with respect to the summer camps and there's some issues uh behind that but it appears at this time the recommendation from the committee is to uh not change anything. Um but I would imagine it's an ongoing discussion. Yeah, it the the recommendation of the committee is I'm going to go back and make some adjustments to the policy including numbers because the committee felt that we should look at the fees that are being charged and raise those and then there's some expenses that for example maintenance workers those numbers are low uh they
047were done 10 years ago so they really need to be increased so that was and I'm going to come back to the committee with recommendations ations and the committee will review the policy again. Okay, that wasn't 100% clear to me, right? Sorry. But okay, so that so the view is that we're going to address this and you're going to come back with additional we're it it's a it's a work in progress. We're going to come back to the committee with suggestions. Perfect. Great. And if anyone else has any issues because I know several board members have expressed concerns with respect to it, uh directed either to Heather or to Tim and we can try to incorporate so we can balance um those needs, our needs and the student needs. Okay. Anything else with respect to
048this? Okay. I But of course, I don't see a finance report in my packet, but that's okay. It's it's um because it's not in there because that one was last week. It's online. Oh, I'm sorry. So uh for the finance committee, the finance committee met on May 20th uh in attendance for Mr. Galla, Miss Lee, uh myself, Miss Prosa, Dr. Jwitt, and Mr. Sty. Uh first topic was year-end reserves. Uh Mr. Sty spoke about the annual resolution that will be on the agenda on June 17th. Uh regarding the year-end reserve, he explained that the numbers will be higher as they are not to exceed numbers. Uh Mr. exercise discussed uh the need to increase the amount that is allocated for tuition reserves. Uh after reviewing the numbers, we expect the incoming freshmen uh compared to
049the graduating class for Greenbrook enrollment to drop by about 20 students. Uh that uh that drop will be about $400,000 less in tuition revenue. Uh and Mr. Sty pointed out that there may still be two to three years of declining enrollment for Greenbrook. uh which is why we want to look at that as it relates to the reserves. Um we did talk about the performing arts center rental income. Uh he reviewed the income expenses for this p for this current school year and the district's on track to net about $125,000 from pack rentals. Um during our meeting it was discussed the difficulties of scheduling school events while also accommodating the requests from outside conversations feeling the members of the committee felt that we really should be prioritizing the use of the facility for our students
050first uh and then trying to accommodate the outside um organizations. Um Mr. size replied that we typically try to work around school events before uh offering dates to external CL clients, but it it it's been a challenge and it's only getting more challenging. So, um and uh Miss Prosa commented on the advantages of having Reynolds to local community members. uh as we discussed that the performing arts center was uh was was built and supported largely because of the uh the contribution that it can make to the community and its availability to the community members. So that's something that we want to certainly keep in mind. Uh we discussed the athletic uh and athletic cost study. Uh Mr. size shared the information that was compiling compiled showing the costs associated with each athletic team and discussed
051some of the variables that make costs either increase or decreased. Um he acknowledged not shockingly uh that football is the highest overall cost per program. However, they also have the highest number of participants. Uh Mr. size said if you compare the expenses based on the number of athletes um in football when you look at the per per student expenditure that they are u in line with some of the other sports. Uh he also pointed out that ice hockey has the highest per athlete cost due to um a the number of players that are on the the team but b the rental to you know rent the u the ice facility for the team. Uh we also discussed the Dansancy memorial design um which was covered also in the operations committee. Uh we're looking forward to
052having that installed by the fall and having some sort of celebratory event uh to dedicate that in in docu Mr. Dansy's memory. Uh we also uh talked about some purchases. There are some few a few large purchases that will be on the agenda including the security update upgrades um which was discussed with operations committee. He also discussed the need to replace the condensate uh tank in the south boil boiler room. Uh the cost to completely replace the tank would be about half a million dollars. Um but we're looking to uh do a temporary fix replacement as opposed to a full replacement. And I believe that'll be on the agenda for June 17th. So that's in your review items today. Um and then I just want to close by also congratulate congratulating Miss Ober uh for
053her tenure on the board. Um I like to say that there are two kinds of board members. There are show ponies and workh horses. Uh and you were definitely a workhorse. You put in the you put in the hard work. You you did your homework. You studied. You listened. you learned uh and you became an important contributor to the success of this district and certainly wish you well and and actually would encourage you to run in your new community because I think you'd be an asset to them there as well. So, thank you for your service. Any questions from the finance committee or any comments from finance committee members? I'll have a comment if I may because I know the question was brought up. Why did we even look at the cost of the sports?
054And uh so this was something that I had brought up probably four, five, six months ago because there had been some discussion with respect to why do we pay for certain things and why don't we pay for certain things. So I said, well, it's important to find out what we're actually paying for to start with, what the per student cost is. And so this way everyone has a sense of where money is going. And this way, if people are saying, well, you know, say football is $123 ahead and hockey is $700 ahead. Well, then people can then make a decision. Well, is that fair? Should we paying five times for hockey or three times for baseball or two times for volleyball or one time for uh field hockey or whatever it may be? So at
055least we know the facts because we talk about a bunch of things anecdotally but without the facts you know it's hard to really tell and of course I think at that time I had thrown out the voucher system uh with respect to maybe that's a fair way to address how we spend our money and how each student would be treated fairly. uh not that we're looking to do that now, but it's certainly it's important to know what we're actually spending because we certainly talk about that with our teachers. We certainly uh with regard to the buses and that's why the late buses were knocked out because we looked at what the cost of the late bus was and we looked at the number of students that were using it and we said this doesn't necessarily
056make financial sense. So it's important not that we're looking to make any take specific action but without the facts without the knowledge you're operating in the dark. So I thought that was important and um uh the next step that we're going to do that I've command that I've requested is to look at the per p per person per pupil cost of almost everything we do here which is what the per pupil cost is for a teacher the per pupil cost for whether it's uh uh maintenance per pupil cost of uh you know electricity and other utilities ities, the per pupil cost of the guidance department, per pupil cost of special ed, per pupil cost for whatever things. So, we have a a true understanding because we know that we spend about 27,000 or whatever it
057is for the students in a whole. But I think it's important that we see what makes up that 27,000. So when we're looking, you know, whether it's cutting costs or amplifying costs, where do the true expenses are in healthcare, stuff like that, I mean, we seem to know what's going on, but we don't know all the numbers. And when you see the numbers, I think it's shocking where amounts are going to because we again we look at the staff and representing 60 70 well 80% when you focus on the you know uh uh salaries and u healthcare um it's a big number but when you look at what you know perhaps what a true teacher cost per student it's not as big as what you know we think was 27 but you look at the
058numbers probably closer to six or $7,000. Uh so it's a big difference. So those are things that, you know, I'm going to try to look through and look at and I'm sure uh uh that's probably the first project I'll give to Bill to do. Tim, you're off the hook. So you know, it's just warn him. After he starts we put that data into AI, it should be able to parcel. I I'm sure we have all the information, but that's the reason why I had asked those questions. So, and and again, I appreciate all the work of the finance committee. I know that at this the first year we we've had the finance committee for a while and you know, we broke it out of the operations and there's a lot going on and I think
059it's important that we separate the two because uh even though there's some overlap and a lot of you know, even personnel obviously has overlap with finance everything tied together but it's important to separate the things. So I appreciate the extra work that the administration has to go through as well as uh the board members. So thank you. And Mr. President, I think that the other thing just to point out particularly for the the members of the community, you know, we had mentioned that this was a difficult budget process that we went through. Um there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty out there right now. uh everything that's going on, you know, whether it's tariffs, uh whether it's cuts to uh certain programs, all of these things have trickle down effects that impact the finances of
060this building. Um and so, you know, we are going to have to be very vigilant as we move into the next budgeting cycle. Uh because as things become apparent to us, as they become clearer, uh there are certainly going to be some financial challenges ahead. So, um, this is not I'm I'm not trying to, uh, raise alarm bells loudly. I just want the public to be aware of the amount of uncertainty that's being created out there. Also creates uncertainty for how we can operate this building and this district. And we're going to have to be very, very uh uh careful as we consider the budget going in for the next year. Um, and so it's just kind of an an early indicator for everyone that there are going to be some challenges ahead in this
061next fiscal year. Okay. Janine, would you like to give the strategic plan report? Sure. Um, strategic plan committee met yesterday at 4 pm. In attendance were Lisa Deaggio, Bob Marson, Carol Prasa, Dr. JW Nicole Caro and Timothy Sty. I spaced this meeting out so I was not in attendance. I have two inerson meetings. I think that I must have met my threshold. So I will relay the information. Um Dr. Dwart reviewed the proposed timeline for the process as well as the draft core team list. A leader a letter will go out this week announcing the strategic planning process is kicking off. The internal data gathering phase will begin this summer with a stakeholder feedback session scheduled for Wednesday, September 3rd from 6:30 to 8:30. Additional data gathering will occur after this and will include the
062administration of surveys. Five core team planning sessions will be scheduled from September to November in the evening. The target date for board approval of strategic plan goals is our December 9th board meeting. The core team list includes spots for administrators, teachers, counselors, a student. Is that a student? Just one. Okay. Parents, non-parent residents, and board members. Currently, two spots are slotted for board members. Miss Prosa expressed that she would like to see more board members on the core team. The committee had a brief discussion. As opinions differed, the committee will bring this to the full board for discussion. Meeting was adjourned at 4:25. [Music] certainly want to have discussion with regard to the number of core members but before we anyone have any questions before we address that issue okay I I I just Liz
063if you can just explain again the process and what I mean by that is we go through this process that's mentioned but after this process is done and that group provides a recommendation what does the board then do with that recommendation. I know we ultimately approve it, but the question really is do we have the option or the opportunity to tweak their recommendations? How does that work? And then we'll discuss the course. Yes. And I I guess Mr. Morrison is the only board uh Miss Potter, you were here for the last strategic plan development as well. So yes, so you've been through and and we actually um went through different processes for each of them, different planning processes. Um the first one there were I think we had two board members on that core planning
064team. The second one we actually did not have board members. We um had a we utilized surveys and data but actually had um a very small core team of administration that then worked with the facilitator and then um presented the board had multiple presentations on the goals and we made some adjustments when it got to the board level. So it'd be similar with this where we have the core team that um you know will utilize all of the the feedback and the surveys um and you know all of the information from everything from the you know the hopefully some of the information from the feasibility um the shared services and regionalization feasibility study and the demographic study um student assessment data the survey feedback we have our New Jersey school climate initiative surveys that we've
065been administering for four years now so we have some very reliable data from that and that actually the facilitators will review before they um develop their surveys because we don't need to be duplicative since we have a lot of information that is already included in those. Um so it's all of that information that the core team is utilizing to then develop goals um goals and objectives but the board is the final arbiter you know so to speak of those goals and objectives. So a presentation will be made to the board. Um and then you know if adjustments need to be made they can be made. Um and then from that point then it becomes an internal process where the staff which is um you know teaching staff, counselors, administrators will then develop the action items
066to actually um the implementation plans for the goals and objectives. God bless you. thought you were just calling me like it's Michael to you, but okay. All right. So, um again, the re the initial recommendation is two pe two board members on the core. I know Carol wants we can't have more than four obviously. I guess when we fully constitute 10, we theoretically could have five. So, uh, you know, we certainly can discuss it, state the pros and cons, and perhaps we just vote on it and do it democratically, whatever anybody wants. What was the total number of people currently suggested on that core committee? There's about 27 spots. Okay. Um well and the if you look at so um I included in here and you actually have a hard copy in your folder on
067behind the minutes it has just a one pager um from the facilitator of the the um what will happen during those five sessions and then if you look at the next page it has all the slots filled out there. Um and that's because you do want representation from special services from counseling from the uh STEM related subjects from the humanities related subjects. um you know we want to have teachers on there, we want to have parents on there. So you you try to get all you know all the members but then what they do is they'll divide that core team up into five focus groups for the five key areas you're looking at um in the strategic plan. So there'll be subgroups um and again you know we can certainly um pair this back. This
068is you know kind of the good number that the facilitators find works well u because you have to remember too even though you're you're going to give you know we're going to give everyone the dates ahead of time. I'm sure that things come up and so you're not going to have the full team at every meeting. So, it's good to have um you know more than you need on the focus groups. So, that's the the the plan is depending on the number of board members and the number of parents and residents. U my goal is and this is what we've done in the past is we've balanced it out to make sure we have representation from each town. So, we do take that into account. I um You ready for me? I'm sorry, Katherine. Are
069you finished? I apologize. Microphone, please. Sorry. So, does that mean you'll have one parent and one non-parent from each town? Well, so right now the we have two board member slots on here and then six like four parent slots and two non-parent resident slots. So the plan would be to of those eight make sure there's two from each town. So whatever wherever the board members are from um then I'll make sure you know that the other six fill in so that there's two from each town. That's that's generally you know what we've tried to balance out in the past. Yeah. Go ahead. Um I I just think our representation on the committee uh should be much more active and I think that uh well as you say right now it would be four and then
070it would become a full board again maybe five but I think we should be active all the way through it much more so than the plan is exists or we've done in the past why because it's our plan. It's just that simple. It's our plan. and it's our strategy for how to move forward. So, we should be very much more involved in it. Just to be clear, so when you say it's our plan, it's you you truly believe it's the board's plan. That's what you're saying. Yes. Okay. It's our job. To some extent doesn't um just somebody brought up the point that not everyone can make that meeting. So, it does make sense to have more than two because most likely the board members, not all four, would make every meeting. Although, that being said,
071I can't imagine how you run a meeting with this many people and get input from the public. I I I just I'm just going to put it out there just that's a hard row. That's all it it's been very effective in the past. Okay. That's how we I mean there were variations of the theme but that's how you know I was in a room with uh Miss Failen and I think there I don't know how many people were at the vote for that meeting at the 30 people yeah at least you know and it was again with facilitators and then you know people breaking out into the smaller groups that they have here you know I I certainly think that that that has worked I think you know part of the challenge is um you
072know when you bring the bring folks together you you and Carol I certainly understand your your point and and I and there's you know I I see a lot of validity in in what you're saying the the it's a little bit of a balancing act between you know making sure what we want to do is make sure the community has their say right that the people have their input. So, as a board member when I've participated in it's been as much listening, it's actually been more listening than anything unless there was something that would pop up that, you know, got me excited that I wanted to, you know, certainly weigh in on. And I think that the I think that we can I think we can find the right balance as long as the board
073members approach it the right way where we're allowing the folks. We we don't want to intimidate people from not speaking their mind because they're concerned that uh of the people that they're making comments in front of, right? And there's there's there's always that that exists. I'm not saying that's a reason not to include more board members. I'm just saying that's something that we need to be thoughtful about if we add more board members that we make sure that there's not um this factor where people are intimidated because they have half of the board, you know, sitting at at at the uh at a particular meeting, you know. So, that said, I'm I'm okay with adding some some board members, but I think we we should have some pretty, you know, some reasonable ground rules so
074folks know, you know, how to engage. But I I and I think the other thing is we've got more board members that want to be engaged, which I think is actually a good thing. Um, and so in order to accommodate the folks that want to participate, you know, if we add two more slots, I wouldn't I wouldn't I' try not to delete any other slot, but I think having two more would be reasonable. would have in your in your um experience would it be safe to assume that those board members or any board members are really there to listen more than anything else? That's what it seems to me. Yeah. I mean that's really we they're not really engaging. Yeah. I mean they again mostly I think the idea is to mostly listen. That's but
075you're also part of the process. So if there's something that comes up that you really want to weigh in on, you know, you know, from your own personal experience, you know, by all means, you know, the the board member should feel free to weigh in. It just it's just a balancing act of, you know, making sure that board members are not dominating the discussion as opposed to allowing the teachers, the community members, the other parents to really weigh in because then what we can do as a board, we take that feedback in to then help shape the direction that we're going in. though and I I think there's a way to do it without it without it being disruptive. We just have to be intentional. I think that's almost my role there too because it's
076you know which is the reason I'm not the facilitator and the board's not the facilitator of the process because if you know you know if the teachers are trying to give feedback and well I'm their the ultimate you know evaluator and it's hard they're going to think well you it's gonna you know it's already done if we're the ones doing most of the talking. So I I would say, you know, in the past that's kind of been my role as well is to really listen to all the feedback because then it helps us shape our conversations. I mean, we still talk about the feedback from that very first session about the trusted adult piece because that hit those of us that were there um in terms of hearing that. It's it's really very valuable to
077hear directly from the staff and the parents and the the students. Um so it's it's a valuable experience in that. Um I have a question uh and a a couple comments. Is it possible to rotate members out if we were only going to go with two, which I'm not I'm not opposed to more, but is that if if I'm just wondering why their recommendation is two they so this is what they do is they give me a template and you know it so it's that's what was in it. But he also said you know it's really up to the board in terms of how you want to balance the the um core team. So they make recommendations but it's certainly you know the board is the one overseeing the process. So if the board wants
078you know a person to rotate to kind of have just almost like you know a liazison and and you know to listen um you know I think that's certainly up to the board to decide. Um my comment is if we were going to have more than two it shouldn't be more than four. It shouldn't be more than any other component. If there's four parents, there should not be more than four board members. It just makes sense. Yeah. Whatever. However it is, right? And if the and if it works, the board members are a member of each town. I guess that makes sense. Um or the idea of just like I said, if rotating people out, that way everybody gets a chance to participate, whoever wants to. Um yes, I like your suggestion of either rotating
079if we're two. Um but I would thinking if we're adding more had we have had a discussion about how each town is so different it should be one representative from each town that is really listening and understanding because then the towns I feel have a buy in you know if we have you know the only two members and they're both from Warren or they're both from Wong I think the other towns they don't feel as connected or it's really part of them. I think having one from each town would be beneficial. I agree with you, Heather. One from each town because you're right, each town is pretty different. Do you want I mean, this is just a thought, but do you want any board members who are interested in being on the core team to
080reach out to you like they would for a committee, but then you at least get an idea of how many there are that want to participate? Dang, you you at least know you only don't have more than eight. So, right there. I'm not looking to be on it. Let Bill go. And then Lisa, um just aside, apart from the uh the board representative, I see one high school student. I just wonder if that's a little bit low in number. We can add more. I was thinking that's why I said that right. Yeah, we Yeah, I'm I again this is that's why I I gave this out to you. So what I'll do too because I'll take what we're talking about and I'll talk to the consultant and say okay just in terms of your experience
081with doing these is there a magic number of the committee and a magic number of students versus staff. You know the other thing that I in terms of the um number of teachers who you can see that I I wanted to make sure that we have a um a CST member and a counselor on here as well. Um, so that's why I actually listed those. Um, I didn't just put teacher for those because I I think it's important that we have the different roles as part of this. Um, so you know, and again with the students too, that could be good because they could have a conflict. So, um, I think in the past we either probably had that first time, I can't remember. I think maybe we had two students on there. That was
082so long ago already when we did. I can look I have actually my file so I could look back. Well, there may have been two on the committee. I thought that we had a lot that participated in some of those meetings. Well, we had some focus groups and things with the students. That's what Yes. So, we did those. Um, but in terms of that core team meeting, I think we had two students there. Plus, the other thing is if we put a second student, the other they might feel a little less intimidated by being in a room full of adults if they have. So, we want to have more of a student. Okay. And I was just making a note. Yeah. the high school student that's I was concerned there's only one but then I
083would say if you want to do the same thing to get a full breath like you would I would think so you would put let's say a freshman from Warren a sophomore from watchbrook 11th grader a Gillette 12th grader so you're getting your span of your four-year experience and then also hitting all four districts the other thing to remember about this though too at just so this we want the student voice but I don't know that you need a lot of students on because you're developing the goals and the um you know and the objectives and not that the the students in feedback is valuable, but I don't know that they're going to really be part of crafting it. So I I just don't know that that many students is necessary for this part of
084the process because we're going to be getting their input in a lot of other ways. They're the easiest group for us to actually get feedback from. Um because the other piece is in between these we have the principal advisory group. We can actually kind of touch base with them and say, "Hey, can we get your feedback on this?" that's like we could get it for. So just to keep that in mind because it is a K for them they the the students that are going to want to be involved in this are the students that are probably involved in everything and so just having them commit to another that you know so just but they're so they are our easiest group. Yeah, they're our easiest group to get direct feedback from because they're a crow.
085They're a captive audience. So, so is there um and and that's good to know that there's there are feedback mechanisms for all the different stakeholder groups. So, I think that that part of it is important. You know, I don't and and maybe it's just because of the the structure of this forum. I don't I don't see how our athletics or our co-curriculars or extracurriculars are represented here and I don't know if there's a way to do that because that is such an important aspect of our community. So what I pro so in terms of that what I would do in terms of so my I have letters that I'm draft that the facilitator kind of has templates and I'm um you know revising them to send out to the staff to say hey we're starting
086the process um it's going to kick off in the fall. Here's what's going to happen with the core team meetings. I'm going to talk to the association leadership and and basically say to in the letter if you're interested either reach out to me or reach out to the uh WHR rea leadership so that we can see who's interested and the plan would be for these teachers we obviously you know want ones who oversee co-curriculars oversee athletics so that it doesn't need to be a separate coach but it's a teacher who also may coach a you know a major sport or a teacher who oversees um a co-curricular um and also obviously we're looking to cover different departments um because if we don't have you like for the in terms of looking at the supervisors. So,
087for example, if let's say I have the um science supervisor on here instead of the the math, although I think I listed that separately just because Mike does assessment, but so for humanities, let's say I have the English supervisor and not the social studies or arts supervisor. I'd make sure that for the teachers, one is from the arts department, one is from the social studies department. So, you kind of try and make it so that you have coverage for all the different disciplines and and hit all the areas, which is why in the letter I say you everyone who volunteers may not get selected because we try and balance it out. I I would love to have that problem actually of having too many people. Um and then I'd keep that list because there's going
088to be implementation teams. So there'll be opportunities further down the road. But that's what we've tried to do in the past whenever we're creating something like this is kind of okay, you check which boxes but from your from the things you oversee. You happen to uh you know advise the jazz band, coach field hockey, oversee all school council, and you teach English. Okay, great. you know, we have so like the so that's what we kind of will try and that's what I'll I can actually do kind of when we make up the list is all of the areas of responsibility that folks oversee and see if there's anything we're missing. Just real quick to Bob's comment, it does seem like um the athletics there's I'm going to guess about a 20% population uh uh participation.
089I can ask the athletic director if you want that. Yeah, I was going to suggest this is the point of this. This is great. this is really really helpful. Um, is there also a uh is there does the co-curricular on the the math and the debate and the English or that side? Just to keep that to your point. Yep. That sounds Liz or Dr. JW that sounds like an topic for our ed council meeting on Thursday. Yeah. Yep. Absolutely. Okay. No, this is really helpful because I know too putting this together, I even have made, you know, that's why that's why I love Google Docs because you can keep changing it. Um, because I've been adding rows and, you know, columns as I realize there's certain people I'm missing. Um, and then the other thing
090too, you know, again, because it's an evening commitment, I'm, you know, some folks who may want to do it may have conflict. So, they'll be, you know, kind of playing around with that, but the plan would be to try get most of this in place so that in the fall we can kick it off. So try and finalize the staff um you know towards the end of the school year over the summer you know very beginning of the year so that we can get get moving on it and as you look at this list if you see anything else missing um please reach out to me and let me know. So it sounds like we answered okay question let me just clarify one thing. It looks like there's there's three options on the floor right
091now as I hear them. Option one as Carol has presented it was only the board members four or five board members write the plan and there's no that's not what she that's not what she said participate okay then I no she's just looking for participation does anyone have an issue of going to four members so I suggest that we do that with regard to the board uh Katherine that means you're And then so you don't have to ask me. You got it. Wait, wait, wait. Everyone else, are we saying that director and somebody from other I'm going to add them to the what I'm going to do is revise the list. Well, all all of this I'll have another meeting with the strategic plan committee. As much as we try to avoid uh committee meetings
092over the summer, you know, this one because we're going to be doing some work on it, we'll we'll reconvene with this. Um, but I'll make some revisions to this, touch base with the consultant, too. And if he has any feedback on suggestions um to tweak it anymore, then I'll reconvene with the strategic planning committee. You know, we have our board meeting on the 17th. Um, so, you know, this can still be it can be a working document. And it doesn't mean too that even if we finalize the list, so to speak, in September, we realize, oh, we we missed a key position or a key, you know, group that we're not representing. So, that's also what's helpful with the stakeholder feedback session that we're doing. um because something might come out at that where we
093realize, oh, we need a representative from such and such a group that we didn't think about. Um so, you know, there's certainly more room for that. Okay, great. Thank you everyone. That was good. Uh first first opportunity for public comment. F first public comment period will be limited to agenda items for this meeting only. The second public comment period will be open to any topic. All comments are limited to five minutes. If anyone has a comment, please come on up. Okay, seeing none, that closes the first round of public comment. Uh, do we have any board discussion for future action? Mr. President, I'd like to move items A1 through A3. Second. Okay. Any comments or discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Deagio. Mr. Galla. Yes. Miss Lee, Mr. Mayor, yes. Mr. Morrison, yes. Miss Potter, yes.
094Mr. Proa, Mr. Trump, yes. Mr. Burnberg, yes. Motions carry. Mr. President, I'd like to move item B1. Second. Any comments or discussion? Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Nagio. Yes. Mr. Galla, yes. Lee, yes. Mayor checkek, yes. Morrison, yes. Mr. Potter, yes. Yes. Trumper, yes. And Mr. Bernberg, yes. Motion carries. Mr. President, I'd like to move items C1 through C28. Second. Any discussion with regard to those items? Any of those items? Seeing none, roll call vote, please. Mr. Mio, yes. Sley, check. Yes. Mr. Morrison, yes. Mr. Potter, yes. Mr. Prosa, yes. Mr. Trump, yes. And Mr. Bernberg, yes. Motions carry. Uh, Mr. President, I'd like to move items D1 through D6. Second. Any discussion with regard to those items? Just uh Sorry. Just want to call out D4 uh $7,000 donation from the Ernst Wussell Foundation
095to be used for educational purposes through the award of two student scholarships. So, we thank them for their generosity and also for the donation of $4,000 from the Christopher and Engracia Memorial Organization to be used for the purposes to award two student scholarships. We thank them for their generosity. Absolutely. Thank you. Always appreciated. Uh, roll call. Mr. Deaggio, yes. Mr. Gall, yes. M Lee Marichek, yes. Morrison, yes. Potter, yes. Mr. Pasa, yes. Mr. Trump, yes. And Mr. Burn, yes. Motions carry. Uh, this is the second opportunity for public comment. Again, this is an opportunity for any matter. Do we have any comment? Okay, seeing none, um, is there any other business before we No one's leaving. We have executive session still, but Lisa, go ahead. I I forgot to during the call out C27. Uh,
096congratulations, Mr. Aquavia, good luck, good health. Yes. And um thank you for uh teaching teaching me about books and reading lists and and having some faith. Um and I could his lecturing voice, his speaking voice is marvelous. I could sit and listen to him for hours lecture. So um happy retirement. We wish him the best. Absolutely. Uh Mr. President. Yes. Since I I will not be here next year, I do want to uh thank first of all of our student reps are great. They've been great over the years. Um when I look at our students and I worry about the future, I look at you two and I don't worry about anything because the way you conduct yourselves is so professional and so patient. Um I'm just so impressed with the way you guys are
097and I know you're going to do well. Just Yeah. If I was your age at a board meeting, I'd have been terrified and then I would have been bored. You still are. But uh the way you are you describing yourself now or if you're a kid, but I'm so I'm so grateful that you guys were on our board and I'm I'm just I think that you guys have a bright future ahead. Thank you. Do we have any close session? We do. Okay. So again, uh we had executive session earlier. We were not able to finish everything that we uh wanted to accomplish. Uh in the interest of not delaying the public part of the meeting, uh we adjourn and we're going to go back into executive session. Uh and again, there's not going to be
098any action taken. And as soon as that executive session is over, we're going to adjourn the meeting. So, um, there's not going to be a reason to stay around. So, can I get a motion to go back and Okay, all those in favor? Great. We're back in executive session. Thank you. Thank you for sticking it out. Will I see you at graduation? Will you be particip?