001regular board of education meeting for the Winsow Township Board of Education say July 11th, 2025. Public notice of this meeting was given to all board members and associates in a notice dated 1 to 2025. Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided specifying the time, place, and manner in which this meeting is being conducted. was advertised in the current post, posted in all schools, the administration office, the municipal building, the library, Bud Dougall Center, Edgewood Acres, Elmtown, and the Winslow Township post offices. Mission statement. The mission of the Winslow Township School District, a large, diverse, and growing community, is to educate all students to become independent, lifelong learners, critical thinkers, and caring and confident members of their community. The district in partnership with the community and in a climate of cooperation and
002mutual respect will provide an academic environment which values excellent and diversity and encourages students to strive for personal excellence and assist them in acquiring knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to contribute positively to a rapidly changing world. Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, here. Miss Dreen, here. Miss Glaude, present. Miss Margin, present. Mr. McManis present. Miss Peterson present. Miss Fitz present. Mr. Thomas present. And Mr. Shaw present. We have a quorum. Can we all stand for the pledge pledge of allegiance please? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 2024 2025 district goals. Student achievement continue to implement best practices for delivering instruction to students. This shall include conduct weekly administrative walkthroughs to monitor
003teaching and learning. Consistently review student assessment data to guide and re redirect teaching. Continue to provide supplemental activities i.e. tutoring enrichment periods to address student deficiencies. benchmark assessment for ninth grade math, language, and arts. And number two, create a safe and positive learning environment for students and staff. Strictly enforce the district's students code of conduct. Focus on upper elementary school students to modify students behavior and early grades. Reinforce positive behavior in specific and a genuine way. Approach discipline with care, respect, and the desire to see the good in all students. And number three, increase parent, caregiver, and community engagement in education. Provide opportunities for two-way communication with district stakeholders. Continue with communication consortium. focus on refining our communication methods and messages to better market our schools. Continue with our public relations with the community. Thank
004you, Mr. Thomas. Dr. Awards and presentations. Yes. Uh Mr. President, members of the board and community, we have two presentations this evening. We'd like to start with Mr. Tion Davis, our director of human resources, who will give us a 23 23 district and school brie report. Mr. Davis, good evening everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Tonight I'm here to report that on May 8th, 2025, the New Jersey Department of Ed accepted and approved the 2023 2024 school self assessment for determining grades under the anti-bullium rights act. Enclosed in your folders, you will see the official copy which shows our school board scores which range anywhere from 73 to 78 points. This is down a total of 78 points. Board members, if you recall back in the fall, I presented out a um report to the schools
005day and went to the department of ed and this is the official report that you have in your folders. Our district grade was a 76 out of 78 based on all the schools. The following narrative along with our 23 24 schools has has been updated, I'm sorry, to both the district as well as each school's website. And it reads the following narrative. Beginning with September 2011 through 2012 school year, our school district has conscientiously implemented the requirements found in the anti-bullying bill of rights act by establishing and implementing various programs, approaches, initiatives to address harassment, intimidation, and bullying. Since the implementation of the anti-bullying bill of rights act, our school district has made progress in addressing and improving harassment, intimidation, and bullying and the school climate and culture by creating school and districtbased initiatives utilizing
006the my K12 software system for reporting and tracking incidents and providing ongoing training to staff and students. While completing the self assessment for the 2324 school year, we learned that a school district has demonstrated strengths in the following areas. providing ongoing training for staff and students on HIV related information, implementing programs and approaches to address HIV prevention and intervention, and conducting and completing investigations within the 10day time frame. As a district, we are committed to addressing HIV related incidents as they are reported in an effort to provide a safe and conducive learning environment for all students. So, that information is on the district as well as each school's website along with the official report. Any questions of me at this time? Thank you, Mr. O. Second presentation is uh by Miss Taim Lang. She is
007the district's athletic director. Uh prior to Mrs. Lane beginning. Uh I would like to inform the board and the community that I did meet with Miss Lane and Miss Lane shared with me um records from many of our uh athletic programs that had very very little success uh to the point where it's become somewhat embarrassing not only for our young people uh but for the school and their uh their parents. So I asked Miss Lane because I support her recommendation. I asked Miss Lane if she would come and share this information uh with the school board and the community so that they can see and hear some of the things that are going on uh with those athletic programs so they can get uh gather better understanding of why this recommendation is being made. Now,
008Miss Lane, before you begin, do you want us to move? Yes, I would appreciate. Thank you. [Music] Good evening everyone. My name is Kashi Lane. I'm the athletic director. Um I'm going to be doing a presentation on moving from the Olympic Conference to the Cape Atlantic League Conference. So, why are we here? We're here today because our current conference is no longer serving our student athletes. We do have a duty to reassess to asssure that we are positioning our students to be successful. In my presentation, I'm planning to show you the growing concerns for competitive balance, the safety and morale that is at stake. We're going to evaluate our current conference and then I'm going to propose a strategic conference transition. I did provide booklets to all of the board members to follow, but I'll
009also follow up here. The current conference that we're in is called the Olympic Conference. We pay 3,800 a year to participate in this conference. There's two divisions and each division is realigned every two years. The divisions are the schools are grouped into divisions based off of their school size. There there are mandatory crossover games and the conference schedule makes up about 20 to 80% of our entire schedule. Football is not in the Olympic conference. So football will not be impacted by this transition and West Jersey football league conference. I created a summary of how our teams have been doing against the Olympic conference for the for four years. So the 2021 2122 22 23 and so forth. And as you can see every team has been struggling. This chart shows the wins versus the loss
010against Olympic Conference teams only. I did not include football because they're not in the Olympic Conference. I also did not include track because track is the only team that's able to compete in the Olympic Conference. Not only is track competing in the Olympic I mean dominating the Olympic Conference, they're also dominating all the schools in the state. So, I didn't um put them in these charts. If you look at the last column, the yellow column, it shows four years of conference records. So, for example, field hockey for those four years, they won zero games and they lost 22 games. Girls soccer won four games and they lost 42 games. Boys soccer won three games and they lost 41 games and so forth. In essence, if you look at the bottom, the last row that's red,
011overall as a school, we won 94 games. However, we lost 463 games against Olympic Conference schools for the past four years. This is one of the reasons why I did not include track. This is the results from the state championship from about two to three weeks ago. Both our boys and our girls won the state champion um the state championship. Not only did they win, they dominated. The girls nearly tripled the points of second place. and the boys as well. So no matter where track will be, they will still dominate. They are all Americans and their times is their times and they're ranked nationally. So it doesn't matter what league that we're in for track, which is why I didn't I'm not including them in this data. I also want to let you know that
012I'm using clear data to build urgency and eliminate speculation. So everything that I present tonight is all evidence-based. This is our current year record against our Olympic Conference teams. Once again, I didn't include track, but for the fall, we only won five games, and in the winter, in the spring, so forth. But as a total school, we won 14 games against Olympic Conference teams and we lost 112 games. So, just to show you how demoralizing it has been and the embarrassment that some of our athletes are enduring, most of our teams when we play the Olympic Conference games this year, these are scores against the teams um the Olympic Conference teams, they don't even score a run, a goal. Um, for wrestling, we're we're not really scoring uh beating a match. And for girls tennis,
013we didn't win no matches. For volleyballs, we didn't win no matches. For softball, we didn't every team that we played, our girls did not score one home run at all against any of the teams that we played that were Olympic Conference teams. Our baseball team had two games that the Empires caught during second inning because they were in the inning for an hour and a half and they couldn't get out of the game and that never happens. [Music] Our boys lacrosse team, they had five games that they had to forfeit because they don't have enough players because they started out with eight players and by May six of the players were hurt. In the conference, we currently have several teams on full well on partial exemptions. We just was granted a full exemption for baseball
014and softball that's going to start the 20 start this upcoming year. And then girls basketball, the divisions will be realigned, which means that as of the 26 27 school year, we're going to need to um apply for a full exemption. Would you explain what exemption means? Yes. Um a partial exemption means that we only have to play the schools that's in our division. So we don't have to play the mandatory crossover games. So with the partial exemption, we probably will have about 50 to 60% of the gains against Olympic conference teams. If you're on a versus having 60 to 80% with no exemption. If you're on a full exemption, then you do not have to play any of the conference games and you get to create your own schedule. However, with the full exemption, you
015do not have the opportunity to nominate any of your players for the Allconference or Allstar uh events. However, our players don't get picked anyway. Just to give you an example, last week, girls lacrosse had their meeting, their end of the season meeting and their goalie had more saves than the other goalies that was nominated for um first team all conference. However, they did not pick our goalie because we didn't win the game. But her stats was just as good as some of the um athletes that were selected. And this happens all the time. Our athletes are rarely selected. Boys basketball actually won their division and we only had one person selected on first team all conference. So they they don't select our athletes anywhere. Any other questions? Thank you. [Music] So if we continue on
016this path stand in the Olympic conference in my opinion as the athletic director we need to reassess where we are currently. The Olympic conference is not the right fit for us at this time. Stand in the conference will continue to weaken our student athlete experience. Athletics is supposed to be a an event of pride. It's supposed to bring out joy in the best of people. It shouldn't bring out tears and embarrassment. And our athletes have been suffering and being embarrassed for the past I went back five to six years, but I can go back up to 10 years and the data will still be the same. So for me this does go beyond scores. The scores are horrible but most importantly this is an emotional and c the cultural effects that I am very concerned
017about as well as the safety for our athletes. So the the real impacts that we're having, we're having fewer students try out um for certain teams because now they believe that why should I try out? The team don't win. Um I'm not going to make a difference. We have coaches that are struggling to maintain um motivation. We have many parents that are question questioning our schedules. Why are we playing these teams, the Olympic Conference teams specifically? Um, we are at risk of losing some of our programs due to athletes getting hurt and the coaches not being able to maintain that motivation to finish and to play even though they're being embarrassed and humiliated. We have um student athletes that are accepting this losing mentality, which is something I don't never want any student to experience
018or to think that it's okay to lose. We are losing our inbuilding athlete recruitment. So we do have one team that during triyouts we had about 70 athletes come out and try out but we can only keep about 50. So 15 to 20 athletes were cut and I met with those athletes and I tried to encourage them to join the other teams that we struggling um to have athletes on and they basically told me no why would I be on the team they don't win I'm not going to make a difference so we can't even recruit within our building to support our other teams I conducted a survey with all our coaches and I asked them a few questions. One of the questions were, "Do you think that our teams are competitively matched with the
019teams in the Cape Atlantic Conference?" And as you can see, 85% said yes. Do you think that our teams are competitively matched to the teams in the Olympic Conference? And as you can see, over 80% said no. Please describe your overall experience for our student athletes while competing in Olympic conference. These are coaches responses. Humiliating, horrible, challenging, significantly outmatched. It's difficult to compete in the Olympic Conference. Dating back to 2010, the wrestling team has only won 12 conference games. So dating back 14 years ago, they have only won 12 conference games. My team has never won a conference game. I also asked the coaches what do they perceive as some challenges. These were the three main challenges that they thought. Will they be able to schedule games against the Olympic conference teams if we move?
020Yes, we can schedule against the teams we want and we can pick and choose how many games that we schedule against them. Will it be ex excessive travel time more than to the Olympic conference? No. The next slide I created a commute comparison and I'll go over that. However, the results of the comparison it's about a five minute difference in between the conferences. So the but depending on the vision that you're in and the how it can actually be less and I'll explain that in the next slide. And then last um concern was well what if we don't win and we move to the next conference. So for the past two years I've been scheduling crossconference games with the C conference and these games have been our most competitive games and successful for our athletes.
021And these are also the games that our coaches are asking me to schedule. At the end of each season, I have a post-season meeting with every coach and I ask them, "What teams do you want to play and what teams do you want to avoid?" And they all want to play teams in the C the K conference and they all are asking me for exemptions and to avoid the teams in the Olympic conference. I also have a few examples. One example is with girls basketball. Their overall record was 11 and 14. However, their conference record was 0 and3. So, they played 13 conference games and they lost every single conference game. Out of the 11 games that they won, eight of them was against teams in the C uh conference. And this there are several
022examples with other sports where they are more competitive. They're winnable games against college teams. So this is the commute comparison that I created. The top is the division that we're currently in in the Olympic Conference. I don't know if you guys can see that, but the average commute time for us to those schools is about 42 minutes. In the cow conference, as you can see, they realign their divisions every year. So depending on how and they base their realignment on your record, how you did. So you are put in a division with schools with similar records. And depending on the school your your division, you're only playing against the schools that are in your division. And this is a sample below of three different divisions where one division the average time can be 33 minutes
023which is less than the time travel to the Olympic conference games. And then in another division the average time can be about 44 minutes which is a little bit more but depending on the the division that you're in it can be maybe five or five minutes less. There's it's not a significant um difference in the commute time. The great thing also about the Kyle conference is that they do have many teams that are close that are like 15 20 minutes away. However, they do have two or three teams that are 50 minutes away. But most parents that I've talked to, they rather travel an extra five or 10 minutes if the game is going to be competitive. [Music] transition benefits. If we were to trans transition sorry to the C conference, changing conference isn't just
024about wins or losses. It's about restoring balance, boosting participation, and creating a thriving educationalbased athletic environment for all of our student athletes. The Kyle conference is a better aligned conference that will reset and foster reset expectations for us and foster a healthier athletic environment for all of our student athletes. The reason that I chose the decided that the Kyle conference will be the best fit for us is because I did a conference analysis. There are three other conferences in our area that we could potentially join. The Colonial Conference has 12 schools in there, but those schools are group one and group two schools. They're very small. They will not accept us in that um conference because we are a group three school. We have 1,200 plus athletes. The tri county is another conference. They realign
025their divisions every two years. Their divisions is based on your school sides and they have mandatory crossover games. Their bylaws is pretty much the exact same Olympic conference. So we'll be in the same position as we now and that wouldn't be a good fit. However, the C conference they realign their divisions every year and their divisions is based off of strength of practice. So, you're always going to be in a division with light competition. The fees for the C conference is only $1,000 a year versus the Olympic conference fees is 3,800. So, the fees are cheaper as well. the transition map. This move has been intentional, strategic, and centered around one goal is to give our athletes, our student athletes, the best athletic environment. As the athletic director, my philosophy is creating an educationalbased athletics
026that is focused on our student athletes. I'm committed to supporting all of my student athletes and with your support I aim to finalize this move for all of our teams to compete to be competing in the CO conference as of the 26 27th school. Are there any questions? Yes. um for the PAL conference. Um how are the scholarships in that in that division for um student athletes? Is it is it basically nearly the same for the kids? So they still have an opportunity to get um athletic scholarships? Yes. All that does not change. Yes. Uh Dr. No, I um if there were no other questions, I just wanted to say that um I had been observing this situation for quite some time. Um in the earlier years, there were individuals who just refused to leave
027the Olympic conference because of history and previous years, the connectivity community. But I think at this point over 10 year period, our youngsters have been embarrassed uh so badly competing in those sports that were identified today. Um I don't think that we can continue to put our young people in that situation. We just cannot do it. I'm thinking as Mrs. Uh Lane had mentioned the morale factor and now we're getting to the point where young people just refuse to go out to the program because they believe that we cannot win and why should they be a part of a losing program. Um but I think it's more important that we look at where these young people are today, not historically where our children are today and what is in their best interest. And that's why
028I support uh Mrs. Lane's recommendation and I asked her of course to come here before the board so that you'll know in which direction uh we are aiming because we believe athletically, athletically, excuse me, academically that this is in the best interest of our young people and u hopefully you will also get her support. Thank you for supporting our the future of our athletes and just remember that the biggest winners in this move will be our student athletes. Thank you. Thank you for joining a [Music] This is it's the administration's decision. Just if there's no comments. Yeah, I I think the process would be um at this point if there's no objection from the board and Dr. So T doesn't need specific authority to proceed, but maybe some encouragement or some some words of comment.
029Certainly. Um I I applaud the athletic director for uh approaching the board and doing the research and presentation was phenomenal. I would just ask that we keep this uh like on a probationary period. There's no real guarantee that we go down to the other conference that we're going to win. Now, I don't want to get in a a habit of because we're losing, we need to readjust the whole arrangement. So, I would just ask that we monitor this progress and see where we at in two years to see if it's working in the best interest of our students or not. Okay. Um, yes, I would like to um piggy back off that a little bit. Um, but to the athletic director, I would like to thank you and Dr. Potitan administration for looking into this
030and doing a deep dive because the morale of our students is important and the athletic department for most kids keeping them busy helps them produce a ac academically as well. So I appreciate you for taking the time to doing your research and and making a better suit and finding a better program for our athletes so they can be more successful. And since you did confirm with me that it has no bearing on athletic um scholarships coming from our school, that even makes it even gravier because it it will boost the morale in our school and we need that in Winslow Township. So, thank you very much. Um before we move on and I just want to thank you because I remember a few years ago when I was the athletic committee chairperson and we had
031the same conversation w with the former athletic director and he absolutely did not want to even hear it. So thank you very much for and Dr. Poti for both moving on this and making this happen because this will make the partition participation numbers come and those students come out in droves. So this is definitely a positive thing for Winslow. we'll start seeing more more student athletes and it'll be a very very positive thing for our student athletes. So thank you Dr. Potit. Thank you Miss Lane. Mr. Mr. President just just mentioned the statement and again I also enjoined with the other board members their comments with regards to this presentation and it's been an awakening I believe for many of us and um it reminds me of a quote that I recently read that said
032that great schools and programs are built not just by students but by those of us who remember being a student. Thank you, Mrs. Bits, for saying that, Dr. Port. I look forward to seeing how this progresses and moving into that new conference. Hopefully, I um think that Mrs. Lane and Mr. Mela will continue to do the things necessary for our children to be successful. Um, winning begets winning and winning is something that is important for our children. Um, I've witnessed some of the embarrassments of our kids after a terrible, terrible loss over the years and I don't think we as adults will uh should continue to put our children in a situation such as that. So, it will be closely monitored. uh by Mrs. Lane and Mela and over the two-year period we will come
033back and provide you with an update as to where we are uh as far as student athletics is concerned. Thank you. Moving on to correspondence. Um Mr. President, we have none this evening. Can I have a motion to approve the following board meeting minutes um from our regular meeting May 28th open session and May 28th close session. I move to approve the meeting for the board of education res open and close. Second that motion. Any questions? U Mr. President, was that Mr. McMahon? Yes. Okay. Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Drean, yes. Miss Claude, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Mr. Mcmanis, yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pittz, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. The motion has carried. Moving on to board committee reports at the committee report. Mr. Thomas, no report at this
034time. Uh, citizens advisory committee. Uh, Miss Martin. Yes. M. Thank you, Mr. Martin. Members of the board. Um, so the citizens advisory committee met June 5th, 2025 at 6:30 in this very building. Uh, in attendance were myself, Mr. Enzulli, Miss Harman, Miss McKenzie, and M. Thomas. Absent were Miss Vega, Miss Hogan, Miss Crooks, Mr. Chester, Mr. Moss, Mr. Lamola, Miss Hoffman, and Mr. board leazison, Miss Martin, and Miss Blog present. Uh Chrissy reported to the group that Rowan will be holding a photo shoot next week at the high school. Past graduates, current students, teachers, and administrators will be included. I believe that's in your agenda for this evening. So, sorry if I stole your phone there, Dr. Put. Um we discussed parental participation. Um it was brought to the group's attention that not all schools
035were allowing parents to attend field days. Um we also discussed graduation security um because of the unsatisfactory conduct of the crowd attending. A suggestion was made by the group that additional police presence would be available and keep visitors off the field and deal with those attendees who may be disruptive. Many parents have voiced their concerns about this over the last year. Uh perhaps a limited number of tickets should be distri distributed for each graduation. Obviously not a suggestion for this year as we are so very close to graduation. Um I was also going to make a recommendation to the board that we create additional hall of fame groups at the high school level to include theater, arts, band and a separate group for academic success. Um hopefully this will be voted on and I do
036have a recommendation for that when I'm done my meeting minutes. Um we also asked whether superintendent awards were occurring this year. Um, I'm also going to present a recommendation about the HSA. Uh, let's see because we discussed how HSA involvement has declined and we agree that the incentives for being involved more directly in the HSAs uh for school has been seen by many parents as not being worth it to not having access to the school and to their students, which ultimately is why many parents volunteer. um and also the bandwidth of HSA members to communicate effectively with parents and caregivers. Um also of note, a recent post on Facebook which offered free tuition to students enrolling in a particular medical college which is Einstein Medical Center um was discussed to the group and we wanted
037to put it in the minutes to bring attention to it. Um we did decide to meet over the summer. We'll be holding our July meeting on July 10th on Zoom and in August we will come back to our regularly scheduled meeting. So before I read the recommendations, are there any comments or questions? Mr. Evvis, with regards to your report, has um is it written out? Is it in narrative form at all or is it just verbal? No, I did email um probably this afternoon which is probably why it's not in your board packets, but I sent Okay, you did send. Okay, thank you, Miss Mark. Okay. So, in the future, is there a possibility that when the CAC meetings are minutes are done, can you do it prior to the date of the meeting so
038that we have an opportunity to get a copy of them so we can go along with your notes as you read them? Absolutely. Thank you. Miss Davis, were they emailed today to Miss Sherman? Yes. Miss Sherman is off today. That's probably what because usually we would grab them and copy it, but yeah. Or if you send them to Miss um Sherman and myself, you know, usually one or the others here, then I would have gotten them. I was wondering what normally she emails back because she's so appreciative when I actually get them in before the board meeting. So, I'll have a moving up ceremony. So, she's not here. Okay. And al also I think uh having a hall of fame for each discipline is an excellent idea. I just want to point out that the
039original hall of fame that we did last year was ran by the booster club and really had no really affiliation with the board and no premise. So if I would vote for anyone or any nonprofit or any other club that will come and and create that actual aspect of having a hall of fame for not just the athletics but but every other discipline comments question do do I I believe one uh the music uh performing arts have their own like sort of booster. No they don't. I thought they did. Parents are part of the if we're representing part of the drama club that goes right through the school. Okay. There's nothing outside of the school. And Dr. Proi, if we're going to do something of that sort with a hall of fame for anything of
040like a performing arts or academic hall of fame, we would have to have time to look into it before we can even act on any recommendation of that sort, wouldn't we? I mean there should be some process uh but it's doable. I don't think it's something that can't be done. It's just a matter of putting some procedures in place like how do you become a candidate for that particular hall of fame. So you have to set some criteria and you know for example for coral music you should have at least been on all South Jersey, all state or all eastern and the drama section you know band put something in place so that you can have a selection process. Okay. Once you create that with the assistance of whomever else you want to involve then
041it's just a matter of implementing it. So So Mr. president it seems like in take listening to what Dr. says it would seem that the policy committee I think would be the best committee that would could um uh take that over and set up procedures for that. So are we saying that the board is going to take over the hall of fame process? No no no what we're saying is that the policy committee is going to um discuss it and put forth to the board policies procedure. That's what we're saying. Okay. Okay. Superintendent awards was mentioned and yes, we continue to give out superintendent awards. Uh for those of you who were at the senior awards night, we presented superintendent awards at senior awards night. Um Friday I will be presenting superintendent awards to the
042sixth graders. We decided to provide and distribute these awards in the presence of their peers as well as their parents. um so that those individuals will know who's receiving those awards. Um and then of course uh Tuesday will be school six and then at middle school uh moving up ceremony uh as we did last year we'll be presenting superintendent awards uh to those young people again in the presence of their peers as well as the parents. So that has continued and we will uh continue to make that a part of those um ceremonies in the presence of their parents uh as well as their peers. It has been well received in the past couple years and anything in regards to parents attending buildings and that's not being equitable across across all schools. Well, not necessarily.
043That has been a building level decision. um that hasn't been something that uh I've had to uh get involved in or to delegate. I think one of the concerns that the building principles has raised was just the safety factor. Um how do we manage and maintain safety when you have people outside? Some people will do it right and come through the school and get registered in. Some may just want to come and since it's open field, whatever. So I think that was one of the concerns that the building principles raised but it hasn't been uh something that we have said all schools must allow parents and to participate. This has been the building levels decision as you well know some schools have allowed parents to participate some have not uh for particular reason but it
044hasn't been something that we have said across the board you cannot or you may it's been a building decision. All right. And with that being said, I would encourage any parent who has an issue to please reach out to their building principles to let their feelings known on that. Um, so I think you guys kind of rendered my first recommendation. I was going to ask for the board to motion and vote on the exploration of both an academic and performing arts hall of fame. I don't know if a vote and a motion is required for that, Mr. Long, but criteria. Yeah. Well, we're we need to develop the criteria as Dr. Pit said. So, and Mrs. Pit said she would take that on in developing a policy for that. Um, so that's how we're going
045to start that. So, that helped your first recommendation. Yep. Uh second recommendation uh was to recommend that the district Facebook page help promote individual school HSA meetings and events that individual schools administration send out robocalls, texts, and/or emails beginning in the 2526 school year in order to bolster parent caregiver involvement in our HSAs, which in turn would help increase community supports. [Music] I don't think that's a problem. I think if uh the president of any of the HSAs had asked the building principal for support, that wouldn't have been a problem. I don't know whether or not that has ever been requested of a building principle, but I do know that the building principles would be more than happy uh to support the HSAs because they benefit, meaning the students in the school benefit from the
046HSAs. So, I think it's just a matter of of the presidents or the officers of the HSA sitting with the building principles and putting together a plan as to how they would like to proceed uh for next school year. So, I don't anticipate that being a problem at all, Mrs. Ne. Okay, that was all that I had. Thank you very much. Thank you. Moving on to the education committee of meeting Mr. President minutes are 49. Okay. Um marketing committee Mr. McManis. Yes. Um we had a um meeting on May 30th. The minutes are also question. Yes. With regard to to Mr. McManis. Mr. McManis with regards to the marketing committee uh with the upcoming uh Junth. Yes. Is it safe to um to to know that the the board will have a table at that
047event? Correct. And um with regards to that uh do we know exactly uh for the hours of the event who will be covering that table? Um my intention was and we had talked uh at the committee um Miss Glaude, myself and Mr. Thomas and we were going to leave it out to the individual members of the board to set up a schedule where they could uh volunteer for lack of a better term at any given time. I myself wanted to be there for the majority of the day unless I get kicked out. That's a joke. Oh, so so what you're saying is that for board members um who are going to be able to be present that we should contact you, contact each other. Yeah, you can give uh we can I know Miss Law
048has taken the mantle for that for that particular day. So it might be best for uh us to if you can't get a hold of Miss Glo for sure myself. Okay. Well, before everyone leaves today, I'll just have a sign a signup sheet so everyone can know tonight what time they're going to come out there and sit at the board of education table so we have it more organized and planned. All right. Are you going to do blocks at block timing at all or just tell me what time you can be? The event is from 2 to 7. So, we're going to be there at 7 a.m. to set the table up. We're not expecting anyone to come at 7, but at 2 o'clock, that's when we expect people to start showing up to sitting
049at the table. And just on that other point, uh Miss Claude, um I reached out to Dr. Potit and Dr. Potit um our um M Sherman the um the M. Oh, thank you. Sorry about that. Um will be providing the uh the necessary equipment that we had asked. Just want to remind the board that for Junth that we do have a banner for that day and um so um that um Miss Peterson did uh last year and she did a great great job. So we'll be bringing that super. I I also requested for that day uh uh Dr. that we could get maybe four or five things from the pin relays to be demand the table um just so show the winning spirit of what we are doing if that's possible. Are you afraid the
050trophies? Yeah. Or or the plaque. I I would like to get maybe one or two of them big plaques. Um I'm going to uh we'll sign them off to you, Mr. uh but you'll have to uh give us a deposit. Not I'll uh speak with Mr. and uh see if we can have the coaches to provide you with few of those trophies, Mr. Thomas. That that would be perfect. Now, uh Mr. Thomas and Mr. McMadness, all the um materials that you requested, we can identify and provide. Mr. Thomas, of course, I've provided you with some of that handout information that you and Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Um the only thing uh we are not sure of is the um I think you asked for some play plastic places pl I kind
051of kind of that's what pen black penlay black oh these okay we got it now okay all right okay uh Dr. Yes, I I'm assuming that because uh the Penillies has been in existence for many years and Junth is the historical component and we're a education facility, a teachable moment. Do you have history on the number of plaques and what years we received? I'm because I like to make it historical because we're a learning institution. Mrs. Peterson and I will grant you the opportunity to go to the high school. I will do that. But I think that you need to set the tone. I'll do it. No. And and I'm not being facitious because we're talking way back. I I agree. And I know some of the ones that have won a lot. Yes. Because
052at this point truly at this point um everybody at the high school I mean right now it is so busy with everybody preparing for graduation all those kinds of things. uh will allow you to communicate with um either Miss Lane or Miss Mela to find out how you can do that because right now I can't commit anyone to that and have it to you in that bit of time because it is a lot truly it would be quite a bit to try to historically u if it's not already in place and I'm not sure it is because I I'm not sure but the plots are in the trophy cases cases and the cases are it it in the hallway in the hallways, right? And I think we've tried to make it numerical. Okay. So easier,
053but it's it's quite a bit, Mrs. P. Okay. It's not hard, but I think that's something that shows a history of where Edgewood Winsow has come from or where we have been, which really reemphasizes the need for us moving to a different platform conference just historical And that's it. Any any other questions about the marketing committee? What did you say? Did you say operation? Not yet. Oh, one more question. So, we're not doing um Chisahur Day, which is this Saturday, am I correct? We we are not. Okay. All right. Okay. Moving on to operations committee. Mr. Red, we had a meeting today at 5:00 pm. Mrs. Bole, would we have the minutes? Mrs. Bole, uh, we do not have the minutes. We because our meeting was at 5. Why not Mrs. Boil? She's so so
054good at what you do. Now, that was a joke cuz you're so brave. We do have the agenda, but we'll turn around and supply the minutes at the next meeting. Okay. Is that okay? That's fine. All right. Mrs. Piss, Policy Committee. Policy Committee, Mr. president will be uh held our next meeting will be on July 9th um at approximately 6 p.m. just before our July board meeting. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Thomas. The two township committees. No report at this time. Okay. And I have no report from the planning board. So I move on to the superintendent report. Can I have a motion to approve the superintendent report as it's recommended by for approval by the superintendent? Mr. President, before you make that motion, there are two items that we're going to table. Okay. It's
055item 15 on page four and item 16 on page four. Can I have a motion to table items number 15 and 16 on page four of the superintendent report? Make a motion to table number 15 and number 16 on page four under the superintendent report. Second man to second that. All in favor? Going back to can I get a motion to approve the superintendence report um beginning on page three and ending on the middle or the yeah middle page five um as the superintendent recommends it for approval. I to accept the superintendent's recommendation for approval beginning on page three and moving through to page five excluding number 15 and number 16. Second that. Any questions? Yes. I have a question for um on page four item 18 for the varsity tutors. um do we already
056have the ch the students selected that will be participating in this program and do we have any kind of way that we're going to be measuring how this um works for the students and on their progress over the summer? Um do you know whether or not they've selected the young people already because I know we have this program already. We already have the program. it is an extension of what we already have and so this it's we are primarily targeting uh the students at um five six and the middle school so the rest of the student it's an online program but we are primarily looking for grades um grades four five six seven and eight and have the have the parents has been notified for the students that um that are going to be in
057the program already because this starts on June the 23rd. I know that and as I said this is an extension. So um I can't tell you whether or not the parents have been notified but I can get back to you and let you know whether or not those students have been identified and if the parents have been notified. Um thank you. Any other questions? I have a question. public. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Um if there's no other questions, uh roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Dre, yes. Miss Claude, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Mr. McManic, yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pits, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. Motion has carried. Can I have a motion to approve the business administrator board secretaries report beginning on the middle of page five and moving all the
058way to the end of page 13 as it's recommended for approval? I move to accept the business administrator board secretary report that begins on page middle of page five and continues through to page the bottom of page 13. I have a second. Uh I would second that. Any questions? Yes. Okay. Um I just want to make a public comment really more than anything else. Uh I want to congratulate and thank Dr. Caramo, Dr. Davis, um, Miss Bole, the board members that were involved in negotiations, and our, of course, our counterparts that were involved in the negotiations. Uh, it been said to me that this is the first time in some 14 years that the uh, the contract negotiation before it expired. Yeah. Yeah. So, I just want to personally thank everybody for a job well
059done. I was told not to include you. That's a joke. And our esteemed counselor. Thank you, sir. I don't have to beg for compliments. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Dre, yes. Miss Claude, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Mr. Mr. McManis. Yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pitts, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. The motion has carried. Moving on to section section C of the business administrator report secretaries um report. Can I have a motion for approval on that as it's recommended for approval? Um, on page 14, I move that the business administrator board secretary re recommends the approval of the following services on page 14, number one, school physician, all grade levels, letter A and B. Second. I second that motion. Any questions? All right, there's
060no questions. Roll call. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Drean, yes. Miss Claude, yes. Miss Margin, yes. Mr. McManis, yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pittz, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. The motion has carried. Moving on to the personnel report. And I have a motion to approve the personnel report as the superintendent recommends it for approval. I move that the personnel report be recommending. I recommend that the super I'm sorry. I move that the superintendent's recommendations are approval of the following actions letter A one through seven on page 15 and 16. Oh wait 17. Do we have a second? I'll second a motion to approve the personnel report superintendent attendance recommendations approval of the following actions page 15 uh through page 17 inclusive. Any questions? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Clark. Yes. Miss Dre? Yes. Miss
061Glo? Yes. Miss Martin? Yes. Mr. McMannon? Yes. Miss Peterson? Yes. Miss P. Yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. The motion has carried. Moving on to our addendum. Everybody can take a look at the addendum for a minute. So, everybody's ready. And I have a motion to approve the board secretaries report um from page one all the way through page nine. in at the middle of page nine as it's recommended for approval by the board secretary and board administrator. I move to accept the business administrator secretary recommendations proposal beginning on page one and going through to page n. We have a second second that motion. Any questions? All right. Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Dreaden, yes. Miss Glaude, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Mr. McManis, yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pitts, yes. Mr.
062Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. Motion has carried. Moving on to the superintendent report on the addendum. And I have a motion to approve the superintendent report as is recommended for approval by the superintendent um from the middle of page nine through the bottom of page nine. I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendations beginning on page nine and ending on. Can I have a second? Second that. Any questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Dreaden? Yes. Miss Lloyd? Yes. Miss Martin? Yes. Mr. McManis? Yes. Miss Peterson? Yes. Miss Pit? Yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. Motion has carried. Can I have a motion to approve the personnel report as it's recommended for approval by the superintendent on the add agendum? I move that the personnel report be accepted on page 10
063on page 10. Sec. Can I have a second? Please second that motion to approve the personnel report superintendent recommendation following changes that are all listed on page six. Any questions? Roll call, please. Mr. Clark, yes. Miss Dre, yes. Miss Glow, yes. Miss Martin, yes. Mr. McManis, yes. Miss Peterson, yes. Miss Pigs, yes. Mr. Thomas, yes. And Mr. Shaw, yes. The motion has carried. Moving on to open public uh records act requests. M. Yes. Uh Mr. President, between May 23rd, 2025 and June 5th, 2025, we received and responded to uh two open public records act. The first one came in from Nicole Quinoni from Eastern Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters and she requested documents related to purchase order 305947 from the Gillespie Group Inc. and they wanted copies of the bills and change orders submitted
064by the vendor to the district, invoices with proof of payment to the vendor by the district, and all certified payroll records submitted to the district related to the purchase order, whether they be from vendors or subcontractors. Those documents were compiled and uh sent. The second one was from uh Samantha Bodin, the Cooper Health System. They want she wanted a copy of the fully executed agreement between Andrea McCoy, MD of Cape Regional Physician Associates and the Winslow Township Board of Education for the year 202425. Um, and the rest of that doesn't need to be there. It was uh those records were compiled and sent as well. Thank you, Miss Boy. Moving on toformational items. Dr. petite. Yes. U Mr. President, members of the board and community, um I have a few um information items. U members
065of the board, if you look in your brown folders, I have provided you with a list of 24 25 school year accomplishments. Um, this of course was uh asked to leave by the marketing committee and I felt it was important that the full board have an opportunity to see this information prior to it being disseminated possibly at the next community event which is probably if I'm not please correct me if I'm in incorrect at Junth provided. Well, anyway, uh uh ladies and gentlemen, I would like to say the 2425 uh school year and the class of 2025, they've had a banner year. This has been one of the most productive and accomplished classes we've ever had in the history of Winsor County School District and uh if you would just look briefly at the accomplishments.
066Um, I also provided you, ladies and gentlemen, a list of the colleges and universities in which our young people will be attending. That is also in that brown folder. Um, as we've done in the past, more than half of our students in the class of 2025 will be attending a college or university upon graduation. Many of those young people also will be going into the armed forces and into the job force. I salute a Tori and this year is nationally recognized as an advanced placement scholar award recipient by the college board. She also received equestri scholarship award which matched uh students with some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country. Uh she'll be attending the University of Pennsylvania. Uh, with that being said, we have had five students over the past four
067years accepted into the University of Pennsylvania. Uh, this year we have 18 high school students receive the New Jersey State Seal of Biteracy for Spanish and English. That's the highest number we've ever had at one time. This year we also had u uh one of our students received the bio literacy for French and English and that is our first in quite some time. Um the honor school award for our student government. Uh this is given by the New Jersey Association of Student Councils. Our school will be receiving that award. We have a national honor socibe finalist scholarship award winner for $3,200 uh dollars. We have a merit scholar which is a tremendous accomplishment uh for us and we'll uh get that destination probably in September um once that young person is identified. And as you
068can see, um, we're talking about 1.3 million students, uh, took the test and 50,000 are selected for designation. 16 will be 16,000 will be semi-finalist. We're hoping that our student will be a semi- finalist or commended. Uh we have one student um who scored 1,510 out of the possible 1,520 points on the PSAT. Tremendous accomplishment uh for our students. Uh ladies and gentlemen uh athletically and I broke it down academics, athletics and they arts. Athletically this is the first time in our history we have five state championships in the same year and many of these state championship teams have broken records that have been in place for over 40 years. Uh these young people have done tremendous tremendous in our area. Um basketball team is on the rise. our middle school boys and girls won
069at the 4x1 champions at the 10 relays. And as a result of our track and field accomplishments, Coach Brown has been again named South Jersey Track Coaches Association winner coach of the year and spring coach of the year. Uh, in the arts, as most of you already know, the drama club through the cappies awards, we got best musical for 2025, best female vocalist, best set design, best stage crew, and uh we've all so went to uh the teen arts festival advancement, a musical performance um which was music and theater. They received advanced rating in all of the categories of the competition. Our orchestra numbers re receive advance ratings in every category. Our vocal music again this year we had students selected all South Jersey, all state and all eastern regional. I'm quite sure some of
070these young people will be on that hall of fame wall once it's put in place. Our band of course a color guard region one class A champions. our band. Uh, Atlantic Coast Championship was seventh overall and our color guard was ranked second and Percussion was ranked third of all the schools that uh compete across the state as well as Eastern Region. We had one student uh Daniel Asa who won first place with C-SPAN student documentary competition for the Eastern Region of the United States. Not to mention our TV production program for this one particular documentary piece by piece. Uh I did not list all of the awards this year and I will not read all the ones we have uh listed here. Uh but they won one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
07110 awards that are listed. Very accomplished TV production program. In our elementary schools, we had a couple young people from our school, too, who won the art. Uh, at the elementary category for the mental health art contest, we got a first and a third. School facilities, of course, we opened our first early childhood education center in Chiselhurst. and districtwide of course um settling the WTA and WTAAA contract in four months not only first for the district. Uh we normally go two years into contract negotiations before that is done. So um it's been a banner year for us here in Winslow and the class of has a lot to a lot and of course the colleges and universities uh we've broken it down so that uh we've listed the college on one side and the number
072of students that will be attending that college and um this is an impressive list again uh of our young people going on not only to many of the colleges of the state of New Jersey, um many of the H.B.CU, and then again some of the most prestigious colleges and universities in the country. So, our young people continue uh to do this school district in the community uh well in representing us. Uh the last item I have is just for information purposes. Friday is the moving up ceremony at school 5. Um, Monday is the moving up ceremony at school 6, uh, which is June 16th, as well as, uh, the middle school moving up ceremony is June 16th at 6 PM. School 5 and 6 will start at 9:30 a.m. And of course, the high school
073graduation is Tuesday, June 17th at 6:00 p.m. Uh, we would love to be outside. Yes. Weather permitting. Weather permitting. If not, we'll be inside. Uh but we're hoping and praying that uh we'll uh be able to have that graduation ceremony outside. Uh but we will plan uh to be inside if necessary. Uh that concludes my information items, ladies and gentlemen, for this evening. I will address any questions you may have at this time. Dr. With regards to um the high school graduation on Tuesday, board members are to be Yes. No later than 5:30 here. Uh at the administration building, we will bust you over to the high school. Uh we'll be in the same location. Uh the room is set up the same location as last year. Um but if you're not aware where that
074is, if you come on the bus, we'll direct you uh to that location. um in the new extension of the building. All right. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? If not and moving up there for the for the for the ninth graders is when Monday. Yes. At what time for the middle school 8th grade 6 o' Anyone else have information items? Moving on to old business. Anybody have anything for old business? The only thing I have for old business is please everybody remember to complete your evaluations. Um we need to get them done so that way we can meet our July 1 deadline to stay in compliance with our uh uh with our um work guidelines. Um and then now moving on to new business. Any new new business? All right. For if nobody has any
075new business, I have new business. Um I sent out an email to everybody about the board retreat. Um I asked for two possible choices for Saturdays in July and August. I know Dr. Potit got back to me with August 9th and 16th. If those dates can work for everybody, we can use those two dates as our starting point. If not, you know, we just let me know. Um, but we'll try to use those dates. Um, if we get time to look at that one more time and then get back with you. Okay. I the there was they start off at June July 19th and 26th and then uh it's August 2nd 9th and 16th because August 30th is Labor Day weekend because I have to get back to our field service rep with the with
076the date. All right. There's no additional new business. We will move on to public comments. Mr. Wong. Thank you, sir. The Winslow Township Board of Education highly values the input of citizens and 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 school board meetings and offer comment and to ensure that the board conduct the important business of the district, we ask that the speakers follow the guidelines for making public comment. Please note that the board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience who wish to make comment. We'd ask that you kindly uh respect the following procedures. One, all members of the public attending schoolboard meetings must treat each other
077and the board with respect. Two, please state your full name and town of residents. Three, please limit your comments to four minutes. Four, in the event we're unable to answer your questions, please provide your name, address, and telephone number, and preferably email address where you can be contacted and your questions will be answered within a reasonable time frame. And 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, Mr. Shaw. And I have a motion to move into public comments. Motion to move into public comments. Can I have a second? Second the motion to move into public comments. All in favor? Antwanette Johnson. [Music] Good evening everyone. U my name is Antonette Johnson and I'm Robert Johnson's wife.
078I was actually going to give this on behalf of him. He's actually sitting in the back but since my name is on the list I will continue with my comments. Um first of all I am very impressed. This is my first board meeting with the meeting. Very impressed with these accomplishments of the school district. Um I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and um this is I've been in Winswood for the last 13 years with my husband. We reside in uh Portland, New Jersey. I wanted to take a minute to just speak on something that holds a great meaning to my husband and to myself. And it's not just it's not just about today, but it's about our generations to come. And that is the power of legacy and and the importance of creating monuments and
079naming buildings after those who have made lasting contributions to our society. You see, I think all of the accomplishments that you listed today, Dr. Patit, are a direct result of the people who have come before those students. And I do think it's important that when we're thinking about naming buildings, a field, any public space after someone, that we're doing it um in a place um that it means more than just about putting a name on a building. We are telling a story. We are preserving a legacy and we are reminding young people that greatness has walked among them. And that way they too can leave their mark on the world. And I do think that's important for them to see. Monuments and memorials also reflect our values. They are the anchors in our communities that
080ground us in our history, celebrate our heroes and inspire our future. And whether it's a coach who mentored you for gener for generations of students, a teacher who shaped the minds far beyond the classroom, or a local leader who fought for justice and support um opportunities for others, honoring those individuals is not just about nostalgia. It's also about truth, recognition, and gratitude. In a world that hope moves very quickly, and there are a lot of things happening in our world today, it's easy to forget the shoulders that we stand on. But we uh we should be uh naming public spaces after those who have shaped our schools, our neighborhoods, and our lives. We ensure that we will never forget them and that they will never stop others will never stop striving for excellence because of
081the path that they help build. And when it comes to Winslow, my husband is my husband's um he grew up here. Um he knows this and and I'm learning this that there's such a rich history here that deserves to be honored and displayed. And so I do implore the board to start today. Let us commit to uplifting the legacies of those who made things so strong because honoring the past, we are building a brighter future. And with that, we are supporting um the field being named after Dennis Mitchell and also Russell Bates. Thank you for listening. Um, Fox. Yes. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Good evening. Yes. and my oldest will be 44 this year. I've been at this for a while. Um, good evening again everyone. How are you? I too am pleasantly impressed
082with what I heard um at this meeting. I do come out from time to time. I have um older children that transit transited from Catholic school into the high school here. one came to retrieve her child that went on to graduate with honors from Rowan University. So I'm familiar very familiar with Winslow um Township School. My oldest child that came through and my 32 my 44 year old and my 32 year old are veterans. One went straight from high school. Well, both of them went straight from high school. One went into the army and my youngest daughter went into the Air Force and they did exceedingly well. Okay. Then I have one that's going to graduate on Tuesday and then another one that's going to be promoted to the ninth grade. Um, in any regard,
083um, in any regard, I have one question and then I'll address while I'm here. I just this varsity tutors. Is that for sports or what is that academic tutoring? So, I'm not familiar. They did they they did say one of the schools that one of my grandchildren attend. How do I get more information? Where would I find building information about it? The building principal. Okay. Thank you for that. All right. So I am here um on a different note and to make a suggestion. So this is my granddaughter who attends school number five, Tasha Fox. And four of her please sit four of her other children that I was I stood in for my 38-year daughter due to unfortunate mental health issues lost her way 16 years ago. So this is my second attempt on
084motherhood because I had legally adopted all of them. Okay. From birth and the oldest one is 15. In any reg and the youngest one is four. In any regard there was a situation over at school number five involving involving a $50 bill. Okay. I had my birthday's May 2nd and then there's Mother's Day. So, I have six adult children and 18 grandchildren. So, I was gifted a whole bunch of nice things. Without my permission, Tasha took a $50 bill that my mother, whoever gets a a card from my mother, my 80year-old mother, we know what's going to be in it. If you've been good, she says thank you, but so I got mine. In any regard, without my permission, she helped herself. and she's a special education student that came through the preschool handicap program
085and has a fullblown IEP. Okay. She took it to the school, a $50 bill and was allowed to put it on the meal plan. No, no staff, no um no one in that cafeteria. It didn't draw a red flag to say, "Honey, honey, here's the" Because there's so many of them, they qualify for re free lunch. So, no one in that um cafeteria took any This is the print out. Took any time. It says free, free, free, free. Then you see your $50. took the time to say, "Sweetie, let me double check and see if this is okay because this is not usual." Okay. So, they allowed her to put the $50 on the plan. And I want to say as well, I'm a seasoned again mother. I gave you this back history. Grandmother and
086a greatg grandmother to a 20month year old. So, I'm not new to this. There's a my, it's called my meal time, you know, app that you would add money on, you know, for your student in that way. I don't know any of us that would send a fifth grader, not alone, a fifth grader that is in special education to school with a $50 bill to put money. Ma'am, I'm just saying I want my I went through the the steps, okay? And I printed it out. They said that I was going to get back the four minutes. Okay. But I'm here because I went through the chain of command. I'm retired from the state of New Jersey. So, I know chain of command. I'm They said I had to come to the school board meeting. Here's
087the print out of the email to get the remainder money back. minutes are your port minutes are up and we got to keep the meeting. Okay. Who can address that? I'm going to get the money back, Mr. Shaw, or a portion of this money. I had a conversation with Mrs. Foxworth. She had called the office. I uh told her that I would have to go back to the source. So, I had a conversation with the food service director and um I was given the information that they shared with me. I called Mrs. Foxworth back. Mrs. Foxworth and I disagreed on that information. So, here we are. And not just that, here's a print out of the email that Colleen Lynch said I had to come before the school board meeting, which is this to get
088at least the remainder $2530 back. It says it right here as David. This is her email to me dated right May 21st, right? What um Mrs. uh Lilich the food service director when she says school board she was pretty much meaning school administration which is we considered school board in this building so I addressed the uh issue and at this point I don't think it's appropriate for me to go into details in the public meeting absolutely cannot do right about this but um I am aware of it and I tried to resolve it uh but again Mrs. Fox do have the opportunity and the right to go above my head. So, I'm assuming that's why she's she's I'm just following the advice on the email. It says that she spent the rest. I get it.
089There's $2530 and please come to the township meeting uh uh um and request the the remainder of the money. And that's what I'm doing. That's all. U Mrs. Mrs. Foxworth. Yes, sir. I offered to give you the remainder of the money and you said you wasn't going to accept that. With all due respect, Dr. Putit, I'm not going to go back and forth either, right? I had conversations the school, Dr. Carter said that shouldn't have happened then. So, Dex said this, Colleen's over it. You said that. I'm requesting the remainder of that money to be sent back. you will. And going forward, I would ask that the staff in that cafeteria be more mindful because normally we don't get change back of a $50 bill. Someone went to the bank, my 80 year old mother,
090to gift that to me because I was a good girl. Mrs. All right. Thank you, sir. Mr. I respect that money back. We will refund you the money that was not spent. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Bye. Thank you, M. Valerie Bailey and pick ma'am. Could you speak into the mic because we're I'm having trouble hearing you. Sorry. That's okay. Can you hear me now? I can. Okay. Good evening everyone. My name is Valerie Bailey. I'm a resc and I am here in support of the main of the field for the base mental field. This young lady so eloquently introduced um uh why it's necessary to honor legacy. But um I wanted to give you some concrete readings to honor Curtis. Um given the time rest, I'm just going to go through some of
091uh Mr. Bait's achievements and some of Mr. Dime's achievements so that we'll have factual information and evidence when you start to review your review and make your decision. So for Mr. debate. He was the Edwood coach since 1969 through um 2000 and through the two um for more than 30 decades, three decades. He um made history in 1978 becoming the first black coach to be named South's attractive field coach. He was the four-time Courier Post Coach of the Year, four-time Philadelphia Enquir Coach of the Year, Ninth National Coach of the Year, Boyce Honorary Coach at the Pin Relays, recipient of the Woodberry Relay Silver Anniversary Awards. Um, lifetime achievements, he has been a Rotarian for since 2001, leading the community. Um, he was on the U township committee for 28 years. He is in four
092hall of fames. The Union County Hall of Fame, lower county regional Edward Hall of Fame, South Jersey track coaches Hall of Fame, New Jersey State Coaches Hall of Fame. He is he co was the coach for the Olympian Dennis Mitchell who we are recommending also carry that name of that field. Um as you all know u Mr. Mitchell was an Olympian in 1984. He gold medalled in the 4x100, silver medal in the 4x100 relay and a bronze medalist in 100 meter dash. He has a living legacy. He because he is now an Olympic coach and he has 12 Olympians that will represent the United States in the upcoming Olympics. Um why now? Why should we name the field now? Because as lady indicated, legacy is important. History is important. Um most noteworthy is what our
093esteemed um superintendent shared with us today. We are constantly perpetually growing the legacy for Williams love and every opportunity that we get to put a stamp on it, we should take that opportunity. It's very important that as we stand 10 toes down, that we recognize folks who have contributed to our community, not only athletically, but as a community um representative and building the character of young people. So, I thank you for your time and I wish um both of these gentlemen would be considered for the naming of that track. Mr. Mr. Harold Smith everybody doing um I'm also here about the name of the field. I have a different um perspective of the name. I kind of feel personally that um it should be named the one individual because throughout my year through Edwood and
094working through Winslow there's been a number of people who help kids who dedicate their life to helping kids and um it would be an injustice to name the field to just one or two individuals when it because many many people who helped their young people out and still doing today. So personally um I got the name Mr. Ronald Hopson back in my Edward days. He was the biggest leader of sending young kids to college. I mean he was incredible. Then going forward there was so many great football players made it to the NFL. so many great people did so many great things and then um even today you got a Shenica Brown who's still doing great things and not just winning like coach Bill Belton not they're not just winning but what they doing to
095our young kids the way they are working with our young kids I see them in the hallways I see how the the young track girls I see how the young football players I see the respect they have in the hallways and the things that they do is untouchable I mean, it's amazing how I go to track meets and I'm sitting in the stands and parents from other schools are saying their kids are so humble. How what are y'all doing at WZ? I had my Windzo gear on. What are y'all doing? I'm like our coaches. We have coaches who are that cares. Mr. Hopson, one of the p people that genuinely cared about us. He cared about me and my family. Um, and I see that through these coaches today. I see a cat law who
096works in our community and working with young I go over the house and I see working with these young kids I'm like wow and I know Mr. the house still here today. I know he'd be proud because to me it started with him with the Timmy Robinson, Leroy Smith, all the great athletes that came through who would just he cared for the kids and that's where he left his impact is what that's what he left with me. It's not about winning, losing the wars you get. It's about how do you take care of these kids. So my thing is if we gonna name let's honor everyone who was involved somehow find something to name to honor everybody. Doing one or two people is just not doing justice to what all the other people have done.
097Thank you [Music] Mr. President. That concludes those that have signed up to speak. Is there anybody on hold this time? Not at this time. So that concludes those that have signed up for public comments. And I have a motion to adjourn public comments. Motion to adjourn public comments. Second. The motion to adjurnn public comments. All in favor? I favor. We do have a executive session. Uh so in accordance with the requirements of the open public meetings act, there's nine exceptions under the law that permit us to enter into executive session. We'll be doing so today, June 11th, 2025 at approximately 8:40 p.m. The items upon which we will be entering will be item number one, student discipline, which by law are u matters of privacy that need to be uh conducted in close session. The
098authority for that is at 18A 37-1 at SEC. Draw your attention to that. And I would anticipate that we would be in the executive session approximately 45 minutes. Okay. Um, can I have a motion to move into executive session? Motion to move into executive session. Mr. Clark. Yes. Missing. Yes. Miss Floyd. Yes. Miss Martin? Yes. Mr. McManis? Yes. Miss Peterson? Yes. Miss P? Yes. Mr. Thomas? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Yes. Motion has carried. Miss Got her teacher voice on. [Music]