001foreign [Music] so welcome to the Winslow Township Board of Education regular meeting today is Wednesday March 8th 2023. probably notice of this meeting was given to all board members and Associates in another state of January 30th 2023 adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided to specify the time place and manner in which this meeting is being conducted it was advertised in The Courier Post posted in all schools the administration office the municipal building the library the by double Center okay to an acre Stone Channel and the word Low Township I said this ladies and gentlemen did that mission statement the mission of the Winslow Township School District the large diverse and growing communities is to educate all students to become independent lifelong learners critical thinkers and caring and confident members of
002their Community the district in partnership with the community and in the climate of cooperation and mutual respect we will provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity encourages students to provide encourage them so our students to strive for personal excellence and assist them in acquiring the knowledge skills and attitudes necessary to contribute positively to a rapidly changing oil roll call please recessed procedure here miss Martin president Miss Moore president [Music] thank you foreign [Music] questions in 2022-2023 districts one student union best practice students realizing all available and appropriate instructional mode this shall include me a ensuring articulation at all grade levels throughout the district be focused on Innovation classrooms instructions at all grade levels C ensuring all students have equal access to equipment and resources needed to facilitate to promote student learning in any
003City indeed evaluate evaluation and updating all District programs including outbreak and extracurricular activities e accountability of all District staff to continue to foster a safe and positive School environment that is conducive to teaching and learning a focus on building relationships among staff and families that will result in increased learning more effective instruction one promote communication and feedback opportunities B emphasis on collaboration with all district stakeholders see promote an inclusive diverse and compassionate learning environment three Market our strengths and achievements to all stakeholders to increase capacity for greater parent caregivers Community Support a continue with our public relations marketing plan B continue to work with the granaries advisory committees in the district C focus on refining our communication methods to better Market our school district Awards and presentations Madam President we do not have any more
004locations this evening thank you enough corresponders with the Divinity correspondent at this time Madam President we have no correspondence at this time thank you Ms bull moving now to our ministry board members at this time amazing for a month into approve the minutes from our regular meeting that was held Wednesday February 22 2023 Open Session and our regular meeting held Wednesday February 2023 closing session is there a motion promotions session second moved by missionary second by this floor Ms Moore look at me any comments or questions hearing a real call please sorry madam president I'm getting used to the mic did you Dragon yes Miss Esposito Miss Martin yes Miss Moore yes Miss Nieves yes Mr Thomas yes Miss Peterson yes and Miss Pitts yes the motion has carried thank you now to a Ford
005committee reports if you will notice um our student representative Mr Anthony this evening so we will just uh proceed with our regular committee foreign will give you a report out about operations Community thank you we'll give you reports out of our marketing team uh yes before just hit the white button once I got it thank you you're welcome um the marketing committee met on February 22nd 2023 at 3 pm he is the present where Rebecca Nieves Joseph Thomas Dion Davis and myself our next meeting will be March 22nd at 3 P.M uh Black History Month Disney events coordinated with Miss McCrary to provide information on the district's website and Facebook page about what each school was concentrating on during Black History Month this included curriculum performances and projects women's history month we will research and
006provide information to the district about women who made significant contributions to education town hall meeting the next town hall meeting is scheduled for next week 3 15 23. the topic is mental health and social emotional learning we need to advertise this in many outlets including the district website Facebook next door Community calendars and shooting station and newspapers if you want to fill the room for this important presentation uh Google Analytics is today was recorded on the information we've gathered in response to Ms Nieves request the information provided may be skewed due to the teachers using the website for everything he will check the web pages of the individual schools to try to get a better idea of the traffic generated by parents and other non-staff members we also discuss needing a better way to access
007the data strategic marketing plan we review the existing plan and agreed that overall it is a sound plan that needs to be updated and implemented this will require the assistance of Dr puncheen and the administration we will schedule a meeting in the near future of the diversity equity and inclusion committee Mr Davis reported that the Dei committee would like to collaborate with the marketing committee for rental family day it was suggested that two members from each committee need to discuss this effort that's because we can't all meetings at one time Mr Thomas would like to be one of the representatives of the marketing committee this more will reach out to Ms Thomas to discuss this matter the meeting ended at 401 PM submitted by myself very comprehensive any comments or questions concern On Athletics yes
008our cheerleaders gave a uh our team leaders gave a uh award to the A.D Lisa Steele for national women's day uh also our Winslow Athletic youth 7th grade basketball team wins the state championship they won it last Saturday at Cherokee and that's all you seventh graders who won that Championship are freshmen long jumper was named all South Jersey with 17-3 uh and she was also named uh number one in the 55 meter hurdles at 8.66 not the only freshman Long John where we had another freshman long jumper shakina Walker she was tied with uh uh Miss Brenner for that for that title for number one uh in the ninth grade freshman group for long jumpers uh Dominic Bassey sophomore broke Winslow record of 800 meters at one minute 56 66 seconds and I know that
009record was there since 1995 Hell by a Mr Eric James so he's looking good to break the outdoor record as well instead of 100 meters and we had a Jalen wall he was eighth in the meet the champions of the 55 meter world with a 2.9 with a 9.85 now also the indoor track team their GPA is 2.9 as a team the uh indoor track team is 3.9 GPA as a team and the cheerleaders are 3.0 as a team but it doesn't end there congrats to coach handy in the season is Success Winslow women basketball we had four all-conference players senior hope God went number one first team senior Katrina Skyball if I'm saying the name wrong I apologize second team uh Alexander Jr second team and freshman uh uh l-a-b-r-e-y-a uh second team as
010well and their GPA is 3.2 what's the team one more one more wrestling wrestling 150 150 pounds Xavier Harvey plays second in District 30. Jeremiah Lewis pitched second in District district 30 and then GTA as a team 3.26 and that concludes my information that's good news that's all good news okay thank you uh will there be a report out of our citizens advisory committee oh the report is going to be number one of the members yes good evening my name is Citizens advisory committee uh we held our meeting on March the second the and other citizens advisory Council begin at 7 pm attendees included from the board Rita Martin Esposito from the community it was Martin Thomas Rosemary Hoffman Diane McKenzie Wanda God Caroline Carter to Ms Gregory wake Anthony Mitchell and Carla Ortiz um
011I'm opening up the meeting with the pledge allegiance and Miss Martin addendum because the need to appoint a station care person um discussions were held including American corpse visitor volunteer and have specific breathing programs that benefit our students in the district Sharing kindness to each other in schools and in our community reasons for students unachieved underachievement and how to recognize Solutions Community groups which support students after school and the need to better publicize the schools programs to parents and students in the necessity of really caring the students voices and ideas on how we can foster that connection is by making students and parents by meeting students and parents where they are and asking them um how they to their clinical goals for an open conversation you're in our district Town Hall meetings civil synopsis in
012conjunction with these ideas of student synopsis type thing was discussed for proposals pros and cons were heard by the group and the tentative action players proposal climate benchmarks it was decided by each CAC member we will review newly develop the department of education's culture and climate format and surveyed to determine if the internet will be useful and give them voices to our students the faculty and the community needs that topic will be discussed at the next meeting and then formulating subgroups at the next meeting so that more efficient work could be progressed and more progress within the most people use was discussed and table until the next meeting for the CAC committee and rosemary Hoffman will act as our secretary and there are no formal recommendations of the committee to the board of design and
013thank you for your time so thank you you're welcome very comprehensive with regards to the policy committee there there are no new policies that we would need to discuss at least this month however to the to the members if indeed there should be a need to call a quick policy committee meeting I will certainly inform you board members at this time I'm asking for a motion to approve the student attendance report I'm still on page two that begins at the middle of page two and continues to the top of page six is there a motion promotions [Music] second movements more would there be any further comments or questions hearing on roll call please Miss dreading yes Miss Martin yes Miss Moore yeah yes yes Mr Thomas yes Mr Peterson yes yes thank you Mr moving
014now board members I'm asking for a motion at this time to approve the business administrative board Cemetery reports as it appears in the middle of age six and continues through to the bottom of page nine repair motion motion temporary the Davis administrators for secretaries of course at the beginning on page six and notice removed nine second move by Miss Mary second about this more with the leading further comment for questions yes yes Miss Martin yes Miss Moore uh yes except that abstained from number 11 on page seven second foreign [Music] the question hearing on roll call please yes Miss Martin yes Miss Moore yes Miss yes yes yes thank you now board members to the open public records between the period of February 17 2023 and March 2nd we received several requests the first one
015from coal centered guest from the industry and labor compliance he requested documents related to purchase orders from needy construction PO number 203075 and po205870 for each Humanity uh that the vendors the district paid the vendor and all Certified Payment will record submitted for the first request all of those documents were supplied for the second one 205870 everything was supplied with the exception of change orders there were no change orders to date and there were no certified payroll submitted to date for that foreign social studies and history curriculum or the curriculum curriculum documents were compiled in Supply and we received another report from Melanie Bernie from the education reporter of the Philadelphia Inquirer and she wanted data on in and out of school suspensions for the years of 2223 and also for the high schools specifically
016she was looking for the reason for the suspension and she also wanted those records for 21-22 school year those records were supplied to fulfill that request thank you moving now boys before I go any further I am protocol because I think I saw him come in from there councilman Mr Ray Watkins yeah he was he came in and he left well in his accents moving our board members to informational items chapter 14 yes Madam president members of the boarding Community I have two information um the school district was contacted by the New Jersey Department of Education Office of comprehensive support informing us that we have two schools that are in need of comprehensive or targeted support and Improvement for the 23-24 school years school one identified as a comprehensive support and Improvement where they looked
017at test scores pre-coveted to post covet and they saw that there was no measurable gain as a school so therefore they were identified as a comprehensive support and Improvement School six was identified as a targeted support and Improvement there was a low performing student group and it appears to be the subgroup of two or more races um the state will be providing us with additional information in the weeks to come we still gather information sharing uh information between the two entities uh this is relatively new through this department of comprehensive support school one will receive twenty two thousand dollars and school six will receive ten thousand dollars um and also through the office of comprehensive support one person uh will be assigned to each building and that person will be providing resources as well as
018technical assistance to the staff um we're not sure at this time how that's all going to look we'll be working with the building principles of each building that's one of their their staff and as we get more information we will provide more information uh this does not have anything to do with that Cusack report or the district's outcome so this is something totally different and these Services of course will not begin until the beginning program any questions or at this time my next um information item last but not least and it has been mentioned and advertised for the past month we will be having our second uh town hall meeting next Wednesday uh March 15th uh we're asking everyone to come out and take advantage of the information that will be shared about repair I
019Eva she is a professor from Rome Rowan University mental health of course is the main topic uh not only within the school district but in society and most people don't necessarily understand what social emotional learning is she is an excellent presenter she'll be providing that information to the parents so that they can use some of the techniques that you'll be sharing at home with the children so again we're asking everyone if they have an opportunity to please come out and partake in that town will be not the president that concludes my information for this evening thank you Dr coaches we're moving down to all business and board members at this time I want to remind us about our avoid self-evaluation and you know that we normally should have a discussion and so I would ask
020that you would think about that and let me know exactly when you would like to conduct um that discussion because we at least have time because that has to be done earlier than the end of this calendar year so if you would um just make a decision as to as you begin to do it as as looking forward to when you would want to as a board have a discussion about that board self-evaluation uh also I would like to remind us that as board members we are required to complete our financial disclosure statement that deadline is coming up the deadline is April 30th and I do believe that we all receive that email from Mrs Boyle's office if not somehow this perhaps has been misplaced just the contact with school's office but again board members
021we are required to complete that disclosure statement uh by April 30th with regards to the town hall meeting he's very Dr motive speak about the town hall meeting of board members uh have been asked by our um business administrator that that meeting while it's advertised to begin at seven o'clock if we could change that to 6 30 because there is an issue as it relates to the budget and we are on the deadline and so therefore if we could have that big discussion open up our board meeting at 6 30. have that discussion have that vote and then we can continue with the town hall meeting at 7. um any questions or comments about their board members can have a president would it be possible because the Town Hall has already been advertised at seven
022o'clock right there's no action to be taken right this could be 6 30 will be done prior to seven cents and um that way there will be action taken because presumably because that's absolutely absolutely permitted yeah that is not a problem with that special meeting at 6 30 on that date purposes of reviewing the budget considering I think whatever action may be taken right this is spoiled yeah because we we are currently publicly advertising the board members any question about how that's going to go next one until March 15th everybody's clear well we have a quorum right so other board members available um one other um issue under uh old business we as a board we talked at our last meeting about the spring Musical names we said that we would put an ad in
023the paper and I think that the ad that we're going to put in I know we've got a copy of it but I'll just hold it up and get some questions thanks to Mr Evans because I think she's the one that kind of put this wedding together and I would like to say that yeah this not only is this informative not only is it congratulatory and I think those are this is a great time to take advantage of this opportunity so when you see the um program you'll see the boys you can see this yes yes yes you see the whole it's um add in that booklet okay one last item board members with regards to um whole business the and now there's one minute we talked about the New Jersey public relations Association and
024about having a speaker to come in so that we could consider whether or not we would want to take advantage of that service as it relates to our being able to get this word out about what we do and I believe that we all can see some information from this the others and at this time board members are masking because the scheduling conflicts that some of the speakers have I'm going to add before he talked to complete it's just at all possible that we could have that speaker in perhaps the first meeting in April is that yes is it possible that we would be able to affect uh speaker to come in um to do a presentation doctor yes we we have already contacted the speaker okay and we have made arrangements to have her
025zoomed into this office okay excuse me into this conference room and we'll be able to interact with that individual during that time so the first meeting date was good for us okay thank you Dr Phillips board members would there be any other old business that we would care to discuss at this time she's the one that's doing the presentation she did send me a PDF of information that's kind of like standard information I'll be sending that out to the board members so if there's any other additional questions that you may want to prepare them okay thank you thank you moving now board members would there be any and that's the whole business any new business that you would care to discuss at this time Dr OT I just have a question um board members did
026you receive tickets for the play in your grandfolders tonight yes yes oh okay since you mentioned the playhouse much better than I am at that sort of thing so I just wanted to make sure okay thank you thank you moving now again board members any additional uh Madam president I believe I do have some information on items that I want to make sure that the uh parents and the youth are well aware of as informational items okay okay just to remind everybody Municipal leadership scholarship that's all due by the February temperature think about doing that make sure you get that in okay excuse me Mr Thomas could you just repeat that a little slower Louis bag the second future Municipal leader scholarship competition okay uh application you're doing attempt so if you're thinking about doing
027that get that in uh we also Winslow Thompson but also having a job fair on April 1st so many high school seniors that are interested or looking to start a new career I know they will have the Board of Elections there they will have Winslow Township Police Department fire department good opportunity for some of our youths to go there and see what job skills will be available upon their graduation also on the 25th there's an Easter egg hunt for if you want to go and bringing you to your kids or your family because it's at Calabrese Memorial Park uh and once again that's a good opportunity and on March 22nd there's the future Chef national competition right here in the middle school at 5 PM before the school for anybody want to come and taste
028test I will be a uh get a guest judge and that'll be on March 22nd right here in Middle School uh future competition that's all for my informational action items that includes that you can now move to our Public House thank you madam president public comments the Winslow Township Board of Education highly values the input of citizens in making important decisions that affect the children of our community we believe in the rights of citizens to observe more babies to ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to attend school board meetings and offer citizen comment and to ensure that the board can conduct the important business of the district if you ask the speakers follow the guidelines for making public comments the board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience who wish to
029make comment please respect the following procedures one all members of the public attending school board meetings must treat each other in the board with respect two please state your name full name and address three please limit your comments to four minutes four an event we're unable to answer your question please submit your name address and telephone number where you can be contacted your questions will be answered within a reasonable time frame five individuals offering citizens comment are not permitted to make personal attacks on any District employee board member or other testifier or member of thank you board members at this time I'm asking for a motion to approve our entering into public comments promotion to approve entering into public comments second move on Miss vievements more all in favor thank you Mr Boyle Mr Dave
030wren good evening this is Pitts Ms Peterson miss dreading Miss Esposito Miss Martin Ms Moore Miss Nieves Mr Thomas Dr potee Miss McCoy Boyle Dr carcamo Mr Davis and Mr long and I'm Shaniah sharp is very disappointed that she is not here tonight as she sits in my first period AP government class and she would have the opportunity to create Mr Ren tonight my name is Dave bread and I am the President of the Winslow Township Education Association the Winslow Township Education Association is the collective bargaining agent for 581 bus drivers bus mechanics secretaries and certified staff during the 2019-2020 and 2020 2021 school years we work under less than ideal conditions during the coveted pandemic members had to learn new technologies and new techniques to complete jobs that for years we may certainly have
031complained to our colleagues friends and family but needless to say we rolled up our certainties and got to work and got the job done as my wife watched me internet interact virtually with my students she was amazed at all the hard work I was doing as a retired teacher she certainly was a good judge with the amount of work I was doing I was only one member there were almost 600 others working just as hard as myself or even harder our current contract expired June 30th 2022. we're working nine months 244 days under an expired contract almost half of the membership have not received a raise since September 1st 2021 almost one and a half years ago during this time the members of the Winslow Township Education Association have faced an inflation rate of six
032percent Wallace has to look at the price of eggs to see the impact on our pockets and on our families today I went to fill up my gas tank the price of gas had increased almost 15 cents a gallon from the week before interest rates are rising Federal chairman Jerome Powell suggested a recent testimony before Congress this week that there might very well be a need to continue to raise interest rates yet again to bring inflation to a manageable two percent as opposed to the current six percent the inflation rate is one of the main drivers in raising workers wages in order for companies as well as school districts to remain competitive in a very tight job market workers wages running at an unprecedented rate that we have not seen since the 1980s having started
033working in 1979 at 2.65 cents in lower Camden County Regional High School District number one as a summer and maintenance helper I could never have dreamed that the minimum wage today would be almost fifteen dollars an hour of course everything is relative yes the time was 89 cents a gallon Rising interest rates may come and carbine student loans as well as credit cards more expensive the members of the Winslow Township Education Association are facing the same issues everyone in society is facing the WTA feels that it's time to put this contract to rest for the next three years the officers and the executive committee members are here to encourage the Board of Education to continue to make the effort with the association on Monday my classes including my AP government class that Janaya is a
034member of took part in voter registration form with Personnel from the Camden County Board of Elections as well as Winslow Township mayor Marie Lawrence in attempting to encourage my students to ask questions I asked mayor Lawrence about the services that the Winslow Township municipal government provides in order to give my AP Government students an understanding of the community they live in one of the things mayor Lawrence talked about was a level of cooperation between Winslow Township and the Winslow Township School District even though we sit on opposite sides of the Labor Management table it is our sincere hope we can find a similar level of cooperation our next mediation session is tomorrow March 9th with the state mediator is our sincere hope that we can walk away from that session with an agreement that is
035fair to those parties while taking into consideration the realities of the inflationary period we live in just as our buttons say that we are wearing tonight no contract still working always can thank you as always for this opportunity to address the Winslow Township Board of Education but Howard you are here and Howard you might finally get an answer to the question that you asked me at the beginning of when are you leaving thank you thank you it's always a pleasure Mr Ren always a pleasure or we may have our disagreements board the negotiations have been extremely cordial and I appreciate the respect that the negotiating team has received from the wtea membership and uh it's right back at them we appreciate the respect the negotiations and The Cordial nature of the negotiations and um I'm
036very optimistic that we can get something done I'm glad to hear that and again thank you Mr and thank you very much thank you for the opportunity to speak I appreciate it I believe the other issue that had signed up across the names of oh okay right now oh okay all right sister not at this time though so at this time board members I'm asking for most people are here in our public comment section thank you um at this point in time in accordance with the requirements of the oak Republic meetings Act we will be adjourning into an executive session uh commencing on March 8th 2023 at 7 45 pm of the nine exceptions we're utilizing item seven of matters falling within the attorney client privilege on an issue that I need to discuss with
037the board of a legal matter uh the other is matters in uh involving um Personnel uh pending Personnel matter and litigation that would be actually um number excuse number eight in the circumstance um so we need to discuss that matter as well I would anticipate the executive session um it's estimated to the last uh approximately 60 minutes there may be action needed coming out of executive session Madam president you know maybe after there may be yes ma'am thank you therefore board members at this time I'm asking for a motion promotion to adjust into a second move by Miss Universe second by Mr Moore roll call please finish driving yes this has to be yes Miss Martin yes this war yes yes Mr Thomas yes Mrs Peterson yes and Miss Pitts yes the motion has carried
038thank you again foreign