001I saw Testing, testing, testing. Everybody ready? >> Assuming this is coiled, we're good to go. >> Good evening everybody. Welcome to the Quinsley Township Board of Education regular board meeting for Wednesday night, September uh 24th, 2025. Public notice of this meeting was given to all board members and associates in a notice dated January 9th, 2025. Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided specifying the time, the place and manner in which this meeting is being conducted. It was advertised in the Courier Post, posted in all schools, the administration office, municipal building, the library, Bud Dubal Center, Edgewood Acres, Elmtown, and the Winslow Township Post offices. Our mission statement, the mission of the Winsslow Township School District, a large, diverse, and growing community, is to educate all students to become independent, lifelong learners,
002critical thinkers, and caring and confident members of in of their community. The district in partnership with with their community and in a climate of cooperation and mutual respect will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity, encourages students to strive for personal excellence, and assists them in acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to contribute positively to a rapidly changing world. Roll call, please. >> Here. present. >> Miss Martin. >> Um, Miss Martin is absent. >> Annis >> here. >> Miss Peterson will not be here tonight. >> Thank you. Miss Pit >> present. >> Thomas >> Presidente. >> Shaw >> present. >> Have a qual. Can we please stand for the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. >> Republic stands one nation under God, liberty
003and justice. >> Mr. Thomas, 2025 district goals. Number one, student achievement. Continue to implement researchbased best practices for delivering instruction and accilerating learning for all students, including all subgroups. This shall include conduct weekly administrative walkthrough to monitor teaching and learning, utilize the district diagnostics assessment platform, to analyze student data, to inform and guide instruction, to monitor and track measurable growth in ELA and mathematics in grades 1 through nine. to implement creative ways to accelerate student learning by providing additional supports throughout and beyond the school day. Number two, promote a positive environment for students and staff. Enforce the code of conduct to ensure safety for the students and staff in compliance with district policies. Incorporate social emotional learning opportunities for students to celebrate positive behaviors. Develop strategies for students with significant behaviors to reduce the interruption
004of instructional time, decrease negative actions, and improve school attendance. And number three, increase stakeholder engagement. Explore and expand innovative opportunities to increase a parent communications. Create parent learning opportunities with a focus on how to support their child's learning. Continue to share accomplishments of window students in all student activities. >> Thank you, Mr. Thomas. Moving on to awards and presentations. Mr. Peas, I believe I uh do a presentation. >> Yes. >> Miss Clement, can you help me out? Oh, you >> pick a card. Any card. Pick a card. Any card >> like this already. >> Bottom of the deck. Dan, >> we can do that, too. Good evening everyone. >> Good evening. >> And uh thank you for your time tonight. Uh thank you for the board for the sacrifices that you make to be here
005and to serve our community. Uh thank you for the uh audience that you know sacrifice time from their family to be here tonight and uh to work with us and also to the administrative staff and our IT department and uh our custodial staff that's here to uh make this uh meeting happen. But I gave you a card. I gave you a card. And every person has a card. Uh and that card is going to represent the game that we play. The game of education that we play, the game of life that we play. And we're going to talk about certain games that we play with cards. Some card games like spades, you have teammates. Peuckle, you have teammates. And then there's some games like Texas Holdem where you're an individual. And in most cases when
006you play these games, those three specifically, there's no folding your cards. You don't turn your cards back in and say, "I want a new deck." And what this represents for this district, whatever walks through these doors, whatever employees that are assigned and approved, that's the cards we play to win. I represent the card that the board selected to represent this district as the interim superintendent. And this is the card that the board has to play to win. At this point, I signed a contract. There's no turning back. So, it's important that we play these cards to win. Some of our cards, you may look at the card in spades and you see the two of hearts and you may think, "Oh, that's not a very powerful card." But in spades, it's a powerful card. Some
007may have a joker in their hand. Some jokers, we discard them from the deck, but in spades, again, you have the big joker, the little joker, and that card holds a lot of power. So no matter how we perceive someone, they may look like a joker, they may act like a joker, but the bottom line, you don't know how much power that individual may have. So that individual requires our respect. No matter what card you may have in your hand, I will treat you with the same amount of respect as I would treat these board members, as the board members treat me, and how we should treat every individual in this district, from parents to staff, teachers, administrators, bus drivers, cafeteria aids, vendors. We must treat them with respect. It's important that we do that.
008And lastly, before I get into my report, in these games when we have teammates, our success relies on each other. And Peanuckle, I can't rub somebody's head if my partner doesn't have the right cards to assist my hand if my hand is strong. So, I need my partner's support. Same thing with spades. I want to get that elusive Boston. It's important that my partner has some cards to help me. But then there's times when in Texas hold them I got to play my cards to win individually and I need to do my job. So it's important that we work together. I am only as good as the people that surround me. My administrators are only as good as their departments. So it's important that we work together. This team up front right here I rely
009on to guide me, but they allow me to do a job. That's what it's supposed to be like. So, it's important that we have good conversations. It's important that we respect each other's opinions and differences, but it's more important that we find solutions to solve our problems. So, with that, I am happy to be here. I'm excited to be here and I appreciate all that you do for this community and let's continue to do great things in Winslow. Thank you. So in my report just quickly some updates since I've been here. I know there's been some discussion about the technology audit. We have a schedule in place September 29th and September 30th. We will be interviewing our teachers and our administrators and conducting wireless surveys to get more information about our connectivity uh concerns that
010the community may have and also to make sure that we are prepared for our testing windows and testing seasons that may be quickly approaching. Uh, also in my first couple of weeks, I've made time to visit with as many school buildings as possible, and I'm continuing to make those visits by participating in their faculty meetings and also just doing tours. I am also meeting with all the department heads, uh, just to name a few, Dr. Ricardi and the special ed department, Miss Pinoch, buildings and grounds, Miss Wall, transportation, the curriculum team, uh, Mr. Nevett from the WTA. So, I continue to uh make my rounds to introduce myself to the team and to listen to uh some of the concerns and hear some of the great things that they're doing already here in Winsow Township.
011On October 29th, our young people, the 11th graders at the high school high school will be taking the PSATs. Uh also, New Jersey Department of Education has selected our district to participate in a special education program uh for monitoring. So, we'll go through that process and we'll work with the New Jersey DOE to uh get us through that process. In regard to another topic that came up uh before I got started, and I think it's important that we understand there's a plan uh being worked out, the lunch balances. I understand that a significant amount of money was uh paid by the district to cover those balances. And right now we're looking at making sure our parents are receiving the proper communication to know that if they have an outstanding banning balance that they should uh
012uh make arrangements with the uh the buildings to have those balances paid. So we'll send out our emails. Uh we'll also make sure that parents are informed about free and reduced forms if they haven't already filled them forms out and also we'll look at other ways of communication to make sure that our parents are aware of any outstanding balances. We've conducted all of our back to school nights. Opening of school was very successful. In a meeting coming up in October, board meeting in October, we look to honor our men, our boys track coach, uh, Coach Curtis Custous. Also would like to congratulate uh, one of our students, Crystal, and I'm going to butcher this last name. I apologize. I can't even get it out. Miss uh Clement, did I get it close? Close. Okay. So,
013it's young lady, 11th grader. She is uh a semi- finalist for the 2026 National Merit Scholarship Competition. So, I look forward to meeting this young lady and uh learning how to pronounce her name properly uh when I get a chance to meet her. Also, I'd like to congratulate Dr. Pamela Cooper Cooper for her article in the uh Ham Hamilton Gazette uh supporting the child living with slow processing speed. Awesome article. And also, I'd like to end with the traumatic loss coalition with support from uh virtual health will be sending counselors over to school one to continue to support our staff and our students who are still possibly uh uh struggling with the loss of a colleague from school one. And virtual virtual health's pet partner uh pet therapy program will be visiting the school as
014well. So, we'll have uh counselors and therapy dogs there to support our our students and our staff as they deal to uh overcome the the grief of losing a staff member. So, that concludes my report and thank you very much. >> Thank you very president. May I have a motion to approve the following board meeting minutes from our regular board meeting from September 10th, 2025 open and close sess session. >> Mr. President, I move that we approve the following uh board minutes of our regular board of education meeting which took place September 10th, open and close session. >> Second. >> Any questions? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dredden, >> yes. >> Miss Glaude, >> I approve the open session. I don't approve the close session. >> Mr. McManis. >> Yes.
015>> Miss Pitts. >> Yes. >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes. and Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Motion has. >> Moving on. The board committee reports. Mr. Thomas, that's the other committee. >> Yes, I do. I'd like to start off with the marching band on September 20th, 2025. The Winsow Township marching band placed first at the week 2 competition held at Washington Township. Let's give our band for getting into the winning spirit. But actually, they've been winning for years. Their legacy continues. Let's give them some praise on what they've done. The band continues its legacy of excellence, showcasing precision, showmanship, and represent the district with pride. Our boys soccer had a game today. Their record stands at 1 and three. Our volleyball team are fighting hard and playing hard and their record stands at 0 and4. Now,
016our football team stands at a record at 2 and2, but the Max Prep New Jersey football rankings for 2025 for our Winslow Township is ranked number five in the state, and that's number one in public school and fifth in all schools. So, all the schools above our football team are private schools. So, we're ranked right up. In fact, by playing that type of company and being out in the in in other communities, they they people are asking the question, is Winslow Township Pride? That seems like the type of aura that we play. Next game is at Millville at 1:00. And also I'd like to talk about the Winsor elite football presence continues to shine with a youth football league dominated a local competition and building future talent for our district. The program enjoys strong backing
017from the community with spirit support at every level. Also, our own head coach Bill Belton has been selected as the Philadelphia Eagles High School Coach of the Week. He will be honored at the Lincoln Financial Field during week 18 against the Commanders as coach of the week. And I say that uh also they nominated him after a big loss. So sometimes I know we was talking about other issues and I'm going to bring it up in new business about you know some of our conferences going down into another level because we was doing a lot of losing but sometimes things can be learned in losing efforts as well. And that concludes my uh report for this week there. Mr. President, thank you. >> I have to add I would like to add to the athletic
018committee report. Um the Winsor elite football team is at Danio Park tomorrow. um Friday night at 6 PM. They'll be having a pet rally because the season starts on Sunday. So, anyone in the community who's interested in coming out and seeing our feeder program that's happening at Donio Park, please come out. We have college coaches already coming to our field, just observing our little kids down there in the youth facilities. So, it starts at this age. We don't want to just start um pumping them up once they get in high school or college or the NFL. we want to start cheering them on when they're at the the level where we can make sure they are sustainably educated wise and also um athletically wise. So come out and join the Winslow elite football team at
019Donio Park at six o'clock on Friday and enjoy the little pep rally that we're going to offer to the children. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Thomas and Miss Claude. Um >> I see Miss Neva out there. Since Miss Martin isn't here tonight, do you have anything for the citizen citizens advisory committee? Okay. Thank you. Um, anybody from the education committee? Um, no, no report. >> No, our education committee was canceled. Um, waiting for the new date. >> Okay. Mr. McManus, marketing committee. >> Marketing committee. Uh, we did not have a meeting since the last time. We do have one scheduled for Saturday over at the McManis Palace. All kinds of fresh goodies will be served. Um, but there is a there is a note to be made is that October 4th we have an
020upcoming event uh board will be represented over at the fall festival Miller's Farm. >> Yes. >> Love it. Um, operations committee. >> Yes, Mr. President. Um, Miss Bole will read the minutes. >> Okay. >> The operations committee met on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025 at 5:30. Attendance were Miss Dreaden, the committee chair, Mr. Shaw, the board president. Also in attendance were Boil and Mr. And the f following items were discussed. IC high school HVAC upgrade land associates. That's our architects are handling. Uh we've scheduled a meeting on Friday, September 26, 100 p.m. to review that high school project, middle school HVAC project, and some other projects. um going to go back to the budgeted capital projects and some other capital projects that EI associates were our architects in the prior year and they were approved to
021continue with the projects that they had started. So they'll be with us as well. Recently learned that EI has assigned Michael Wazny to manage our district projects. Mr. Wazny and Ruth Scallio, I'm going to just cover my mouth of EI met on September 17th with Milleon Moore and Colleen Lilith of Sedexo, Mock and Miss Lane, the athletic director and the following projects were discussed. HVAC upgrades at school five and six. The district has received approval from the DOE five project. the school six project we had already um a schedule was developed to get both of these projects out to bid fall with an award date of November 12th, 2025. So excited about that. Other capital projects that were in the 2425 budget, a roof replacement at the administration building AOE approval. We're going to discuss
022the project with land, see if they can um pick it up and move with it. We also have a partial placement at the high school awing approval on that project as well and we're going to discuss moving that project forward possibly the construction of a pole barn for athletics at the high school from do. Mr. Wnney presented a a page turn on this project allowing Miss Lane, athletic director, the opportunity if her input, a bid schedule was presented with date 12th. Again, other projects that we currently in the middle of middle school main office project is right on time for us to turn the heat on. The vendor LGB will be installing loop balancing Friday, September 26. EI will then come in and inspect the work and develop a punch list for this vendor to
023also have upgrades to the serving lines at the high school cafeteria. Now, EI developed a a schematic designed to upgrade the serving line at that in the cafeteria. Lilith and her district manager, Mr. Wars Adexo, plan to determine if the equipment was needs. After reviewing the plan, they requested that a couple of of the items be omitted and this upgrade will be charged to service fund. So hopefully won't be hearing about having too much money. And our outstanding lunch balances, uncollected lunch balances, 14,855 is in the food service fund for meals that were served, but we haven't compensated. We are aggressively working together to get those balances. Meeting adjourned at 609 and our next meeting is scheduled for October 21st, 2025. >> Thank you, Miss Bole. Can I ask a question, Miss Bole? For the
024uh figure that you gave the the figure that you gave for $14,000, was that um um school year to date? >> That's year to this is as of September 17th >> and that's from the beginning of the school year. So >> yes, >> and also I have a question too. So we do we have a estimated time of delivery for the pole barn at all? >> I couldn't hear you, Mr. >> I'm just looking for a time of completion for the pole barn. >> Oh, for the pole barn? >> Yes. >> Um I I don't know. I don't think he gave us but that pole barn as long as the ground not frozen that can continue can work through and as long you know we have to have miss uh lane's approval and of course
025Mr. P um that's outside it's not going to impact um education I think as long as the weather holds out they might be able to get some of that project moving and done. Okay. >> But if all else fails, it'll be next summer and >> I know it's just I just know it's been a long project. >> Any other questions? >> Policy committee. Miss Pittz. >> Um Mr. President, the policy committee consisting of um Mr. Dr. Dion Davis, who is the director of human resources, uh board members Michael Clark and Wanda Claude and myself, we met um inhouse today just before the board meeting and there were several policies that we did review and um these policies will be presented to the board uh at an um so that they will have an opportunity to
026read through them and so that we can actually at our next board meeting which I believe is October 8th we can ask for discussion and then hopefully a first reading. And so the policies that we reviewed and um considered this evening was um the first policy was abolished and that's policy 1648 and that dealt with the recordkeeping for healthc care settings and school buildings and that came into being as a result of COVID 19 and so therefore that particular policy has been abolished. The next policies that we did review and um and you also as board members will get an opportunity. Policy number 0173 that dealt with duties of public school accountant. It was revised and it is mandated. Policy number 0174 which dealt with legal services. It was revised and it is mandated. Policy
027number 0177 that deals with professional services. It's been revised and it is mandated. Policy and regulation number 1570 revised. It dealt with it. It deals with internal controls. It's mandated and it's been revised. Policy and regulation number 6111 that deals with special education Medicaid initiative and the acronym is semi program. It's been revised and it is mandated. Policy and regulation number 6220 which deals with budget preparation. It's um mandated and it's been revised. And then policy number 1636.01 which is new and it deals with the notification of promotions, new job and transfer opportunities. And again uh these particular policies will be be um distributed to board members so that they can have an opportunity to read and review and so that we can discuss and hopefully uh put on put up for first reading at
028our first meeting in October. >> Thank you Mrs. B. In addition to that, we also reviewed um three of the policies that the CAC asked us about uh at last meeting. And those policies, those policies were um school volunteers, school volunteers, school visitors, and and I had it right. school volunteers, school visitors and um yeah, school volunteer. Yes, what we did with what we did um review uh was the 9150 which dealt with school visitors and 9140 which deals with the citizens advisory committee. Thank you, Miss Gord. And 9180 which deals with school volunteers. We will address that at our next um policy committee meeting. And that concludes my my report. Mr. President, thank you very much, Mrs. Spitz. Moving on to Mr. Thomas with the Township Economic Development Council and the Municipal Drug Alliance.
029>> Yes. Uh Mr. President, we didn't have the meeting, but I would like to take this time to thank you and our new interim superintendent for coming out to the township municipal building uh the other night and in the open arms and start the collaboration of working together and and and uniting Winslow. I know that was your push to make that happen and I just want to thank you publicly and Mr. Peas for showing up for that event. >> And if I could add to that, Mr. Thomas, I know that Mayor Lawrence have made it a point to let us know that the education committee for the township will uh actually be a lot moreed. I don't maybe that's a poor choice of words, but that that was uh glad to see that they was
030reciprocal in the um >> yeah, I believe they they even set a date for their first meeting October 1st for the educational committee township. Good. Well, >> congratulations on that president and uh interim superintendent On on that note, I do want to guess the education committee. They would like to um meet up with the be a part of that meeting um with the township's education committee. >> M >> of course we would. >> I think Martin let Miss uh Martin >> and Mr. Clark is present say yes if you would like to attend the meeting as well. Um, let us know. No. >> Yes. >> Miss Peterson and Miss Martin. I >> was gonna say >> I'll let Miss Peterson and Miss Martin know about the meeting and see if they're willing to go. I
031definitely would love to be there. >> All right. Um, as far as the township planning board, our meeting uh this past Thursday was cancelled. So our next meeting is um in October. I forget the exact date. Um but at our next board meeting, I will make sure I give the date of the next planning board meeting and I will have an update at our second uh meeting in October. >> Okay. And Mr. President, with regards to the planning board, um there's been some questions and I think we may have discussed this before. There is there is a development um that is being um the construction is underway in the Cichlville section in the 100 block of Cichlville Road just across the road from the Builtmore Apartments and we believe that it is a restaurant but
032questions are being asked what is the name of the restaurant it seems >> and I'm in the process of getting that for >> okay thank you ma'am thank you Mr. Sure. Thank you. >> Moving on to the super. Oh, well, while while he's ducking in the back, I forgot to introduce our ward one committeeman, Mr. Brandon Glickus. Thank you for attending tonight. Um, moving on to our superintendence report. Um, can I have a motion to approve our superintendent report from the top of page three to the bottom of page seven? >> Mr. President, I move that we approve the superintendence report as it appears at the top of page three and continues to the bottom of page seven. >> Denon second. >> Any questions? >> Just one. Um on page uh 7 uh B uh
033the principal's update the HIB report I noticed there was exactly one case that that's correct and that would I would have to assume would be a rather remarkable thing to happen is that we're down to the one case >> that was reported so >> going to stick with that number. >> I'm sorry. >> That's what was reported. So that's what we're going to stick with. That would be a a significant reduction from last year. >> Are you asking me that? Um >> uh I guess probably I I know Mr. Davis uh uh shares a lot of the HIV reporting, but I I know last our last meeting that we had had, we had gone through an HIV report that you had um um had said was dramatically less than it had been in prior years.
034And that's it would seem to be following that trend at this point. Would I would that be a fair assumption? Yeah. All right. Uh, >> but I believe this report only covers two weeks, >> correct? >> So, it's 15 days. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> Question. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Clark. >> Mhm. >> Yes. >> Miss Dredden? >> Yes. >> Miss Gloyd? >> Yes. >> Mr. McManis? Yes, >> Miss Pittz. >> Yes, >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes, >> and Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> The motion has >> Moving on to our business administrator board secretaries report. Can I have a motion to approve our business administrator board secretaries report as it's uh up for approval? >> Mr. President, I move that we approve the business administrator board
035secretaries report as it appears at the beginning of the top of page eight and then it continues through to the bottom of page 14. >> Read and second. >> Yeah, Mr. President. >> Yeah. Any any questions? >> Yeah. I would move that number 19 be tabled for executive session. >> What page? >> I'm sorry. Uh page 13, number 19 down at the bottom of the page. >> Yeah. Uh well, we would do a motion. We would The motion to table would take priority over the other motion. So, is there a motion to table item 19? >> Yeah. Can I have a motion to table item 19 on page 13 of the business administrator board secretaries report? >> Mr. President, a motion to uh table item 19. Um page 13, item 19. and second. >> Any
036questions? >> Um, all right. Uh, roll call, please. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dreaden, >> yes. >> Miss Claude, >> yes. >> McManis, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> abstain. >> And Mr. Sure. >> Yes. >> Motion is carried. >> Then we move on to the balance of the report and approval of that. Sir >> absent 19. >> Okay. So can I have a motion to approve the business administrator board secretaries report from the top of page A to the bottom of page 14 as it's recommended for approval. um m with a uh minus item 19 on page 13. >> Mr. President, I move that we approve the business administrator board secretaries report absent on page 13 number 19 but beginning at page eight and continuing through to
037the bottom of page 14. >> Ready and second. Any questions? >> All right. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dreaden, >> yes. >> Miss Claude, >> yes. >> McManis, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> And Mr. Shaw, >> yes. Motion has >> just want to congratulate um Miss Clement on her being our 504 officer, the issuing officer for work papers, the health designate, and school safety specialist safety designate. I can see you're overwhelmed with those appointments. >> Moving on to the personnel section. >> Sorry. Um, may I have a motion to approve the personnel section from the top of page 15 to the middle of page 19 as the superintendent recommends it for approval. >> Mr. President, I move that we approve the personnel
038report as it begins at the top of page 15 and continues through to the bottom of page 19. >> Read and second. >> Any questions? >> Yes, I I do have a question. page uh 15. Number one, just a little background on how we uh came about uh who who Miss who who this young lady is. How did how many applications do we have? How do we how do we how did we get here? >> So, there were over 16 applications, Mr. Davis and Miss Clement vetted and through those application interviews took place uh Dr. Ferguson uh was the uh person selected based on her credentials and her experience and her ability to uh come into our district and help guide us in curriculum. >> Did I hear you say she's a doctor? >> Yes.
039>> All right. Thank you very much. appreciate it. >> Um Um Mr. Peace, I was wondering uh were you involved at all in this process? >> I was not. >> Mr. President, I uh would move to table um this item for um discussion in executive session. >> Did she start? >> Yeah. Yes. >> No, we haven't. >> We haven't riced her in order to be able to talk about it. You can table it to the next meeting. >> Okay. >> But she has not been the the good doctor has not been provided what we refer to as a rice totus. >> Okay. >> Which is says it's aimed after a case. anytime we're going to discuss any any employee um in that capacity, we need to provide them advanced notice that we intend to do
040that at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting. >> Okay. >> So, you can table it completely, but you can't table it to go back into close session because we haven't provided that notice. >> Fair enough. I would um make a motion that we would table this until next meeting. Have a second. >> And this is motion. >> What's the full motion? >> Full motion table until the next meeting. >> That's the motion to table this until the next meeting. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, Mr. President, I move that we table um under the personnel report page letter um A1 until the next meeting. and second. >> Can we have a roll call on this, please? >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dredden, >> yes. Miss Claude, >> no. >> Mr. McManis. >>
041Yes. To table it. Correct. >> Miss Peterson, >> absent. Miss Pitts, >> no. Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> And Mr. Shaw, >> no. >> Motion is >> sorry. >> Motion. I have one, >> three. I have four. Yes. >> Four. Yes. Get to table. Three. No. To table. Mrs. Bole. I believe that will pass. >> Four. Yes to table. Three. No, not to table. If carried is table, right? Yep. Going back to the >> I just have an Are we still on the personnel report? >> Yeah, we're going to go back to the reg the regular personnel report and >> carry it on without the item number. uh one on or a1. >> Okay. Bo, you go to entertain a question. I have a question. >> Okay. My question um is about what appears on
042page 19. Just a brief question. Number 15 was it's the education job fair. Talks about the education job fair. Mhm. >> And I know that one of the board's um goals was to um going forward to connect um a little bit stronger with the um Winsow Township um um committee. Now I see that um this this is a job fair, but now the township is also having a job fair as you know. Yeah, I was going to bring that up during the information, our new business, >> but I was just wondering if indeed we were in any way considering uh being a part of that. I know it's it's it's a brief notice because this particular the township's job fair takes place Saturday from 10 until 12, but my question was would uh are we
043considering it or would we considering or will we just um consider that next time around >> with the shortage of uh educators? we would consider any job fairs. Um, had I known about that one sooner, I definitely would have put it on the agenda. But >> since I didn't know about it, it didn't show up on the agenda. >> Okay. >> But in the future, if the the township has a a job fair that uh we can participate in, I think it's uh important that we definitely uh have a table there. >> Thank you, Mr. Peace. >> Have the dates I think for next year already. >> Okay. >> Every quarter. >> I'll get the things. >> I have the dates already for next year. All right. Still the motion was made already. Correct. Okay.
044Men, did you second it? >> Yes. >> All right. And questions. All right. Um, can we have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Miss Gord. >> Um, yes. But I want to abstain from um item on number page 15. Page 15 item number four. [Music] >> Thank you, Miss McManis. Yes, >> Miss Pittz. >> Yes, >> Mr. Thomas. >> Yes, >> and Mr. Shaw. >> Yes. >> Motion is >> um we have no addendum tonight. Uh so moving on to open public record acts request. Miss Bole. >> Uh none for this. >> Um Mr. Peas, do we have anyformational items? >> No. >> M >> any >> Oh, I'm sorry. I I just have one information that I would like to just share with the board. Just a friendly reminder. Um
045I just would just like to take a few minutes to remind us as board members because remember we are team Winslow and we're here to make each other better and better. So I'd like to take a few minutes to remind all board members of how we must conduct ourselves during our meetings with the understanding that certainly we are all residents of this community. However, once we sit in session and are called to order, we are public officials at an official public board meeting and are guided by certain state and district policies that include policy number 0146 that deals with board member authority, policy number 0164 that deals with conduct at board meetings, and policy number 0167 that deals with com the uh comments at board meetings. This statement has been issued to inform some and
046remind others. Thank you. In addition, Mr. um Mr. President, with regards to the um CAC, I know that the last meeting that there was a question about procedures and policies and we we mentioned that at our policy meeting tonight and it's it's important that everyone knows that while we certainly do 9140 have the policy on citizens advisory committee, we do have procedures and guidelines both of which can be found on our website. So uh just as a um a preemptive statement now the uh citizen advisory committee in keeping with the way in which we have conducted it in the past we will be advertising for those who are interested uh you will have the avail the um opportunity uh to complete a brief um really well we'll call it call it a a brief application
047um that will be um publicized uh beginning from October 1st through November 30th. And I will speak again about that at our next board meeting. >> Thank you, Mrs. Spitz. Um there any uh moreformational items? Old business? Mr. President, did did did our student >> I'm getting ready to go to that now. Moving on to new business. I would like to introduce our student representative and normally I would do this at the U committee reports but I took it off by accident so I apologize for that. So I would like to introduce our high school representative Miss Cherish Hazelden. Um, I would like to report that our back to school night was a success. Uh, parents and students have attended. Um, the signups for the PSATs has opened as far as Monday, September 22nd. Uh,
048this Friday, September 26th, everyone will take their um, ID pictures with Laura Studios. Um, our spirit week begins October 14th through October 17th, which October 17th is our homecoming dance. Uh, we would like to raise the school spirit at the athletic events by creating a student section section strictly dedicated for our students which involve no parents to um not cause any confusion. Um, [Music] our college readiness night is October 28th. And um, also special shout out to Mr. Curtis Custous who was acknowledged as coach of the year for winter track. And that concludes my student representative report. Thank you. >> Yay. >> Thank you very much. And again, I'm sorry for missing you in the committee reports. >> You're good. Thank you. >> Do we have any other new business, >> Mr. President? I I
049do. It's kind of new. It's new, but I it probably new to Mr. Peas. I just want to make uh ask Mr. piece to I know he wasn't here when we came to the conclusion that some of our athletic teams are going to be pushing back to a kind of like a slider conference and we uh asked them to when this happens to keep us informed the when this is happening and the progress of how it's going. I would just ask Mr. pleased to check with the athletic department to to keep us up to date on the process of moving several teams back into lower conference whatever reasons because we want to monitor that situation and just make sure that how how valid that decision was. >> Definitely I will definitely reach out to uh
050Miss Lane and find out how the conference is realigning and make sure that uh I have some answers for you. >> Thank you sir. I have some new business, Mr. President, if I may. Yes. >> So, um I hate losing. I'm really competitive in cards, so I want to play Crazy Eights. And my other point of order um would be I see that there's a particular covered package in front of one of our board members, Mr. McManis. I was just curious as to what that might contain. I think in the interest of safety, I should ask you in public, >> counselor, you and I have had this discussion before. You know that my wife is um, shall we say, sympathetic to your affinity for her chocolate chip cookies. >> Oh, that just added 15 minutes
051onto the close session. >> Oh, >> thank you. >> Um, anybody else? >> Yes. Um, Rubies and Pearls is a um girls organization here in Winsow Township. Um they're having a catilian on October the 26th. If anyone is interested in buying tickets, please let me know and I'll connect you with Miss McKenzie. It's like um if you don't know what a catillion is, it's when we gather youth, boys and girls, and we teach them about etacy and we teach them about self-respect. We teach them about respect for adults and respect for their environment. So, um we've been working on this for nearly a year now with the youth in their in our community. And listen, I had to almost drag my one grandson to do it because he's like, I don't want to dag on
052dance the walls, but I had to explain to him that just being an athlete and just being a student, when you have something like a catilian on your resume, it really looks good and it shows people that you can be a gentleman. So, come out and see the young young girls and boys from Winslow Township. Um, I will have more information at the next board meeting if anyone is interested, but if you're interested in tickets, please see me and I'll give you Mrs. Mackenzie's telephone number. She'd be more than happy to tell you how to buy your tickets for it. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss. And this weekend at the Bud Dubal Center, the township will have their job fair. There will be countless uh beers on uh at tables, trades, the nurses, the
053there's bill uh posters all posted all around the miss uh Winslow Township um with the venders uh that are going to be there. Um, so please go out if you're looking for a new career change or you're a young uh person that's looking for a career. Please go out, check it out. I know it's usually heavily attended and it's a great opportunity to find find a great career. Yeah. From 10 10 to 12. So, and usually some of I know some of the uh some of them will stay a little bit later to talk to you. Please, this this is my first one I won't be attending because I'll be away, but I I know uh who I work for will have somebody there in my place. So, great opportunity to get in with some
054great opportunities. >> And Mr. Shaw, and who who would you be working for? >> Uh Carpenters Local 255. So, shameless plug. >> Great great opportunity for the trades. >> Shameless plug is right. Um, else for business? All right, we will move on to public comments. >> Thank you, Mr. President. The Winslow Township Board of Education highly values the input of citizens in making the important decisions that affect the children of our community. We believe in the rights of citizens to observe board meetings. To ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to attend board meetings and offer comment and to ensure that the board can conduct the important business of the district, we ask that the speakers follow the guidelines for making public comment. The board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience
055who wish to make comment. We'd ask that you kindly respect the following procedures. One, all members of the public attending schoolboard meetings must treat each other and the board with respect. Two, please state your full name and town of residents. Three, uh, please limit your comments to four minutes. Four, in the event we're unable to answer your question, um, please provide your name, address, telephone number, and hopefully email address or you can be contacted and your question will be answered within a reasonable time frame. Lastly, individuals offering citizen comment are not permitted to make personal attacks on any district employee, board member, other testifier, or member of the public. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. Um, well, do we have anybody that signed up for public comments tonight? >> Oh, can I can I please
056have a motion to open public comments? >> Mr. President, I move that we uh open public comments. >> Oh man, I am off my game tonight. I have a motion to open public comments. >> Motion. Uh I move that we open um the meeting to public comments. >> Read and second. >> Now, can I have a voice vote for public comments to open? >> All in favor? >> I do. We have >> sign president. Um we have Benjamin. I think it's Yes, sir. >> So, I'm Benjamin Matthews. I live in Winsel Township in the Berlin side of Winsel Township. I just have two quick questions. Uh, the first one has to do with the district goals. It mentions in that uh that there will be weekly administrative walkthroughs to observe teachers. I'm just curious what
057indicators uh will administration be looking for in those walkthroughs for teacher moves and stuff like that. >> In in fairness to Mr. piece who's been with us about a week plus. Um those goals were established this summer with a board meeting at a retreat, an all day retreat that was led by uh now retired assistant superintendent Dr. Caramo. So I'm not sure that I know from speaking with the board and from stick speaking with Dr. Caramo and Dr. potit before her that the intent was uh essentially is to get into the schools and observe the teachers and interact with the teachers to have a better understanding of what's going on with inside each building. So I'm not sure Mr. piece was not a part of that conversation and this being his first meeting um I
058haven't had a chance to brief him on that yet or any of the goals that I don't think the board president has either but I can tell you that was the intent more interaction from the administration in the classrooms. >> Thank you. And then my second question, I'd also like to ask the board for its thoughts on the ethical implications of sitting board members blatantly violating Winsow Township Municipal Code, specifically code, excuse me, chapter 294-129L-2 by displaying campaign material on public property much earlier than the 30-day limit prior to election day as required by municipal code. So I will answer that question as well by saying we're not going to answer that question but understand that you have raised it. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. I'd like to uh Mr. Long, sorry. I'd
059like to add to uh your response as far as some of the indicators. Uh I know uh myself, Miss Clement and I have talked to uh the principles about some of the things that we're looking for in walkthroughs. There are several pilots and new curriculums that are uh implemented in the district and we're looking to make sure that those items are being followed through and also, you know, with the hopes of our curriculum uh director coming in to really guide us through that process and to coach up our teachers to make sure that they're meeting the uh expectations of the the curriculum that we purchased. Yes, Abigail Murphy. >> Take your time. >> Hello, I'm Abigail Murphy. I live in Cichlerville. Um Debbiey's not here, so you now get me. You're back with me now.
060Um, I'm really here to bring to your attention, in case it was missed, and I apologize, I did miss the first 10 minutes of the meeting, um, that our winning marching band has won not one but two first place um, competitions against others, just to be clear. Um, because sometimes they are alone, I'll be honest. Um, not only did they win, they won with twothirds of their program. They've only learned and drilled the first two songs. They just finished the show this week. You're finishing it this week, right? And their next competition is this coming Saturday over at Williamstown High School. They are performing at 6:30. And it would be phenomenal if we as a Winsoke winning community could support them and bring our cowbells and scream and hoot and holler like the other bands
061that get um cheering squads to really show our true um appreciation for their hard work and dedication all summer. Um they are doing the show called Out There. And I'll be honest with you, it's probably the best show we've done since my girls have been in band uh in marching band. The kids love it and they're truly showing that this could be the year for us. This could be our Atlantic Coast Championship winning performance. Secondly, I just wanted to bring up, you know, I know there's been a lot of conversation um about the presentation that uh AD Lane presented at the end of the school year last year about switching conferences and she presented quite well the reasons of present of why we needed to kind of switch conferences. And if you ever really want
062to see those reasons, join, go to a four:00 game where the field hockey team is playing number one um playing Camden Catholic or Bishop Eustace or Paul V 6 where they've got D1 scholarship athletes on their teams and you see these kids come out and win and lose 150. not, you know, and and I appreciate the hard work and the kids are busting their butts, but that is what's going on with our other sports teams, not because of lack of effort, but because they're playing teams that are state ranked, that are getting D1 scholarships, and we aren't just able to compete at that level at this time with 15 or 16 girls. Um, thank you. >> I have one question for you. You said the um band competition is at Williamstown High School at 6:30
063on Saturday. This Saturday? >> This coming Saturday? Yes. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you so much. >> Is there anybody on Zoom at this time? Um Mr. President, that concludes those that have signed up to speak to I have three names. I'm in Willis. >> Thank you. >> Sorry, Mr. Willis. That was an oversight. >> That's all right. My name is Tristan Willis. I live in Sicklerville. Uh my daughter just started Winslow Township School 4 uh in kindergarten and we had contacted the Department of Transportation prior to the school year starting. Uh they informed us that we would receive information for our bus route. Uh we lived about a mile away from the school. Nothing came. Uh but for about a week before school started, I contacted the Department of Ed of Transportation. They told me
064that there was nothing that can be done and my daughter will not be allowed on any bus. I've spoken with the school principal, the uh the vice principal as well as the assistant superintendent as well. Uh they have all told me under no circumstances will my daughter will be allowed on the bus because they live within a two-mile radius. Uh my wife is blind and my father has dementia who we take who lives with us and we take care of him. I've been informed by all three parties to come to the board of education and find out how to obtain a medical uh chit, if you will, uh in order to have my daughter get get on the bus. There is a bus that stops 15 ft from my house that picks up my next
065door neighbors who are not on any kind of IEPs. Um not sure how they're able to get on the bus. I'm not asking for a new route to be created. I'm just asking for a medical exemption or a medical chit in order to allow my daughter to be on that bus. It takes my wife 45 minutes to walk one way. Four times a day. Once there, once back. Once there, once back. Trying to figure out what the policy and procedure is for this. >> I definitely will look into and uh give you a call and have an answer for you. >> Yeah. And just to add, just as a quick note as well, um there was a I believe a judge that just opened up uh to allow it to go to court for a
066family in Middleton, New Jersey that has the exact same situation as myself. I don't want to go the route any way, shape, or form. Like I said, it's 15 ft and no route needs to be created. And I have no excuse me, no problem showing medical, you know, medical history, blunt force trauma for my wife from our accident a few years ago, father's dementia, everything. But yeah, if you like to get with me afterwards, take my information, I'm more than happy to provide it. Thank you, >> sir. And I will uh look into that uh on behalf of our sup uh interim superintendent and um assistant superintendent. I what you're referring to is is courtesy busing. It doesn't occur in most, if not all, towns because of the expense. state law doesn't require districts to
067um bus those within two miles of a particular school and then I think if you do you need to do it for all and it would be a tremendous expense on the district. What I don't know and which I think first of all I want to thank you for the respect that you've shown the board and the manner in which you've approached the issue. So that is that is appreciated by the board. I can tell you that um whether there are exceptions that can be made I will look into that confer with our interim superintendent. I'm sure he will get back to you. >> I I can excuse me. So sorry I can certainly add that when I did speak with the Department of Transportation as well. She did inform me that I'm sorry the
068young lady on the phone did inform me there are 66 walkers. 63 of them are currently taking the school bus in our area. They are all listed as special education. I've spoken with my next door neighbor who gets on the bus. I know them very well. their children are not special education. They're not listed as as such. I've spoken with 10 other people that take that bus as well and their parents, none of which are special education. Somewhere down the line, someone isn't telling the truth somewhere. And if there's 63 kids that are taking that bus that are all listed as special ed for 66 in in the area, that number is extremely high. I can tell you it has nothing to do with untruthfulness or someone being accurate in the information. Um, I'm hearing
069it for the first time now and I don't put out misinformation. So, I will speak with Mr. Peas about the law and um he will be in touch with you. Thank you very much. >> Mr. Willis, could you come and give me your phone number, please? >> Yes, of course. Did you want to do it afterwards or currently? >> Thank you. Mr. President, that I think concludes >> those that have signed up. Just >> there's nobody on Zoom. Okay. I have a motion to adjourn public comments. >> Motion to uh I move that we adjourn public comments. >> I have a second. >> Second. All in favor? >> I moving on to executive session. >> Thank you, Mr. President. In accordance with the requirements of the open public meetings act, we will be adjourning into
070executive session on September 24th, 2025 at 8:10 p.m. Of the nine exceptions under the open public meetings act, which permit the board to enter into executive session, we'll be utilizing number eight, matters involving employment conditions and terms of employment. Uh with respect to item 19 on the board administrator, board secretaries report, I would anticipate that that executive session would last uh no more than 30 minutes and I would uh there may or may not be action taken coming out of executive session. Thank you. Need a motion and a second and a roll call. >> I have a motion to approve going into executive session. >> Mr. President, I move that uh we go into executive session. >> Second. >> Um have a roll call, please. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Dreen, >> yes.
071>> Miss Glaude, >> yes. >> Mr. McManis, >> yes. >> Miss Pittz, >> yes. >> Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> And Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Motion has carried.