[Music] hi everybody great crowd nice give ready a chance to find a seat pursuant to the open public meetings act chapter 231 Public Law of 1975 this meeting notice was sent to the Asbury Park Press on April 29th 2024 and has been duly advertised in the asur Park Press issue of May 3rd all Municipal Clerks of the township the burls within the regional district has been notified and the requirements of this posting with met on April 29th 2024 please rise and join me in the Flash any Chang yes Mr President uh in addition to the items that were noted on the agenda that was preprinted prior to start of the meeting uh the board also announced that it was discussing uh perception number three uh the uh suspension and discipline report uh for exception number four uh the board discussed the memorandum of agreement with stodal and uh maintenance uh Association and the board also discussed uh for number seven uh the implications of the passage of uh the legislation assembly Bill 4161 now I have a motion to approve the agenda from April 25th second any discussion board just one item note Mr President just note that the minutes uh do reflect that the uh vote uh that was taken at the last meeting uh for the memorandum agreement stodal maintenance group did pass by a weighted vote of 4.3 to 4.2 uh a little closer than uh kind anticipated only because of uh the necessary uh extensions under the school ethics act the fact that uh we had a member that was uh uh absent but it did pass you needed to calculator and I needed to calcul okay um thank you br Mr ASA here Mrs Bruno so this is a vote on the minutes it's a yes Mr Bruno Mrs Cella yes Mrs Higley yes M mob yes Mr Messinger yes Mr Brun yes Communications on is it on file with our board secretary and now here see oh no I'm going to throw it over to the St yeah thank you Mr Bruno good evening and thank you for uh just a couple of minutes of your time as we conducted some of our official business uh to open the meeting but good evening and welcome all to the Board of Education student recognition Ceremony this evening uh my name is Dr Hazel I'm the superintendent of schools and we are all so excited to join to celebrate all of you and all of our award recipients assembled here this evening um for their outstanding accomplishments and achievements each of you have worked so hard to earn this recognition and we are so proud of each and every one of you to our teachers advisors Seas supervisors and administrators your commitment to our students our community and our programs is so appreciated what I know to be true in the Freehold Regional High School District is that all of us are committing committed to helping our students reach their potential we know at the start to ensuring students success really starts with building relationships that's something we are extremely proud of here in the regional and build building connections with our students so that they are able to continually build confidence in themselves and maximize all the opportunities that are available to them in the freehill Regional High School District this really paves the way for our students to engage at the highest level in their classrooms on the field and in the community these Regional foundational Hallmarks lead to student learning and growth so when I think of the regional relationships engagement and growth those are our Hallmarks for each of our students here in the Freehold Regional High School District tonight's program and each student's success in the district is a testament to our Continuum of work to the parents that are are here this evening you have been with us on the journey um and a special congratulations to all of you um in being able to celebrate this great accomplishment of your child this evening and we are so happy to celebrate that moment with you tonight before proceeding with recognitions I'd really like to thank our Board of Education they are the backbone of this school district time and dedication in servicing this outstanding Community not just you know partaking in board meetings uh but also in various committee meetings and they are ever so present in our buildings and in all of our activities again I want to congratulate all of our students our award recipients this evening again like always we ask for your full attention during the program we we have an extensively big audience here this evening we are so excited to celebrate with all of you we will keep the program to an hour uh but we really um want our entire Community to be here to celebrate all of our students across the district that are being recognized so really just take a moment to relax to enjoy in your mind celebrate the wonderful accomplishments and the work um that you have put in this school school year whether it be in the classroom in the community or on the field or the court um so kick us off this evening uh Mr Braverman who is the principal of Howell High School he is going to present his students um you know to this audience and again I am so proud of each of our students I look forward to hearing your name and your accomplishment this evening congratulations to all and enjoy the evening I'd like to ask Mr Bruno our board member to come down and uh join us in celebrating the students at how high school as Dr Hazel said I'm Jeremy Braverman the proud principal at Howell High School it's great to see the crowd out here and I'm excited to celebrate our students uh I will recognize all the students who have won activities or clubs or within our magnet programs and Mr Bruno I'm sorry Mr Mian will do all the Athletics a long time so you know as Dr Hazel said Thank you to the Board of Education uh central office um obviously ongoing support and uh allowing us to have celebration nights like tonight and of course our our board members who are supportive of Howell so I'm first so there will be some things that I'm going to go over tonight and talk about and go in a little bit more detail so that when my colleagues go they I will already have addressed some of the um accolades that go with certain Awards so bear with me I will maybe be a little bit longer um first and other schools do have this as well we have one incredible Rising senior at how high school who got admitted to new Jersey governor School in Sciences so just a little um update about what Governor's School is it is a thre we residential program where students are immersed in intense college level um research and uh The Sciences is at Drew University Governor school is made up of the most talented students in New Jersey the admission process is extremely competitive um recent years 15% of the nominees were accepted and at this time I'd like to call up Annette Tran who is going to [Applause] Governor okay so I'm going to ask the members of the allshore symphonic band of How High School to please come forward and as you come forward I'll talk about you and um let everybody know what your accomplishments are so come on forward if you are allshore symphonic band Howell High School had seven students this year that achieved the allshore status honor the audition requirements for allshore band allshore symphonic band are performing a memorized scale or scales playing a piece of music from the New Jersey All State band solo list and site reading as well so congratulations to our students who have achieved April bishof Adriana busy Julia Epstein Caitlyn nura Jerry Rogerson Sophia tameo and Jacob wasika congratulations [Applause] next up we have allshore chorus how high school I'm sorry all state chorus my apologies how will high school had five students who achieve the honor of all state chorus in order to make all state chorus one must sing a chosen scale with an exceptional tone quality in addition each note on the scale must be impeccably in tune in the center of each pitch how was that Mr K good thank you okay so would you come forward at this time and the advisor is Casey Shields and our students are Kayla Brown Zara galeno Ava rehea Josh Rivera Alissa pre congratulations okay next up is the New Jersey state music tech festiv festival and this is a state level competition where how high school had three students named best in three different categories um amazing accomplishment and this is part of our MVP program our music and video production program um this is on the music side the advisor is Mr Joe and tafa first uh and come up as you can all start coming up right now and I'll explain what everybody what everybody has won first we have Macy Fone Macy won best cover remixes and loop based projects her work done in a digital manner included Arrangements recordings and pre-existing songs song samples and projects incorporating a combination of original material and pre-recorded Loops she was scored on originality and creativity Zoe lewitz won the best original composition her work also done digitally included traditional Andor electronic instruments she had to incorporate a pre-recorded Loop in a creative Manner and lastly Ricardo POA won the best applied technology and his work encompassed the use of Technology why creating a new electronic musical instrument via software so congratulations to those three students now I'd like to call up the eight students who and you can start coming up now who won a national competition referred to as the count basy breakthrough Film [Applause] Festival the county breakthrough Film Festival is a national competition held in Red Bank at count AC theater this year we had eight students win the distinction of national champion five of our students won best sound two of our students won best editing and one young man guy right here won for best sound editing and documentary all of the students work first had to go through a rigorous acceptance process to even be considered and they are all submitted through an for file um even to be acknowledged to have a chance to win the competition and having eight winners is incredible these people are from our music and video production as well they are on the video side first we have Elijah Berg who won for best sound in Haunting of white hill we have Genevie Brun who won for best sound as well for Haunting of white hill we had Virginia folks who won for best sound for Haunting of white Hill they were on a team um then we have Trenton kipac who won for best sound of Haunting of white Hill but also won for best editing of Morgan in the waves Justin Marinelli won for best editing Morgan of the Waves best sound Haunting of white Hill and best high school film The Rain Song incredible job Justin then we have Alana vichi who won for best editing of Morgan and the waves we have Rachel Violet who won for best sound of Haunting of the white Hill best editing for Morgan of the waves and lastly King Andre Paris who won for best documentary of Against All Odds the life of James Wang how best editing of Morgan and the waves and best sound for haunted of white Hill again this is a national competition and our video production program obviously rocked it and took away almost all of the awards so congratulations to at this time I'd like to turn it over to our supervisor of extracurricular activities you ever so hand to Mr P thank you Mr prman um I'm going to go over our Athletics we had probably the best winter in school history um our girls dominated across the board um in every facet it was incredible um the individual Awards I'm going to call up first are for wrestlers U we have giovana faroh buers who took seven down in Atlantic City [Applause] Kylie gurowitz was the 114b state champ in Atlantic City's first female wrestling she was a training tonight not be attending and then Tanner hodin another one of our wrestlers Tanner um took sixth place down Atlantic City quite an accomplishment um congratulations to [Applause] next I'd like to call up our cheerleading team our competition team girls please head on up a team of bled by our coaching staff of De marovich Ashley dods courney kosi and Zoe Rosen Merz the How High School competitive cheer team this year was the all music Mega division state champion group four all music state champion as well as a Meriter group three Mega all music national champions in Orlando Florida the girls are Natalia chanowski Olivia Saro Olivia angle Allison finegan Caitlyn finegan Ryan Foley Ashley Goodman Olivia Henry Kylie Lane Marley Mara Amilia Moret Julian Napoli Brianna Pine Alexander razi Gia Nicole Sarah Avery Vasquez Gianna baringer Sophia burn Chelsea candino Gabby cortiz the next three I'd ask to please step forward haly Coyle Jayla deino and Gina obers shaven these three ladies were named for the njcdca All State cheer team congratulations [Applause] congratulations next i' like to call up our girls bowling team girls come on up girls were led by coach Robert rler and Coach Jennifer Johnson girls were named South Jersey group four sectional state champs as well as overall two-time repeating group four overall state champions the girls were also named nj.com bowling Team of the Year steton Alissa riio Melissa bascone Juliet Hughes Riley Palise Megan palfrey Sophia Roger Kaylee jadik please step forward she was named second Team all state Madison Lewis please step forward name first team All State [Applause] congratulations the next team I'd like to please call up is our girls basketball team [Applause] girls basketball team was led by coaches Santa Petro Matt Coulson and Brian Blood the girls were a North division champs as well as first time ever in school history Central Jersey group four sectional state champions congratulations girls consist of Gabriella bambo Kylie Bean Kendall Bleckley Gabriella car carer McKenzie Maloney Bella Rose Marino Kira Macau Angela Nez Veronica Nez Ashley Smith and Payton Smith coach Santa Peter was also named Shore Sports Network girls basketball coach the year congratulations to [Applause] okay um I'm back um my the way I had it stapled was clubs then Sports and then I had TSA for clubs so we're going to go back to the clubs um Sher roses is our TSA advisor we are probably a one of the biggest powerhouses in the state of New Jersey as far as TSA goes Sher Rose is our advisor um and she always seems to bring a ton of success to how high school so with the members of TSA who won awards please come forward [Applause] so the TSA competition was held on April 27th at the College of New Jersey and we won numerous Awards our competition event for first place for the senior solar Sprint um which was the state champion team of Thomas Campbell and Brandon Raga congratulations digital video production was a team of William aliger Nick rigio Emma Rodriguez Caitlyn Thomas and Hayden vigdor board game design Champion was a team of Nick munes and Dan ROV and our chapter team um was made up of first place as well was made up of Liam Liam burn Liam Daly William Daly Harrison Feldman Ben jarm and Christina manchenko our structural design engineering Champions were Ryan Cruz and Justin zasi and we are moving on to our national TSA conference which we qualified for in Orlando Florida in June of 2024 and we also had many achievement recognition Awards which is sh Wait you were telling me like the great four the whole state four in the entire State um so I'm just going to name them real quick we have Georgia abvi she was a national champ winner nicholet cardino Ean kapola Dakota Giordano Caitlyn Thomas and Ariana Tony only four in the entire state were won this competition and like I said our TSA program is incredible and thank you to Jen hire and to Sher roses at this time I'd like to welcome up our next principal who will be [Applause] presenting thank you Mr Rob please bear with me tonight my allergies are uh not doing well so good evening my name is Dr Risha Selso I'm the principal of fre Township High School and first I would like to congratulate all of the students who are in attendance tonight being recognized for their outstanding achievements I would also like to thank their parents for all of your support that the that you have provided to our students to make this evening possible I would like to invite Mr Christopher Provo the Sea of for Township High School and Mrs Elizabeth Higley Board of Education member for fre all Township to come to the podium to assist in the presentation of awards all right all right the Girl Scout award is the highest and most prestigious award a scout can earn the award acknowledges each recipient's power and dedication to not only bettering herself but to making the world a better place for others to obtain this award high school students must complete a project that they May tackle a broad spectrum of important issues I would like to call to the podium Tyler dublas Leah blue and THS for earning the Girl Scout World award to earn the award Tyler completed a project about mental health awareness and selflove she painted murals and positive quotes in churches to remind people that they are loved in addition to the murals and positive quotes she raised funds and donated money to black girls smile an organization that empowers the mental well-being of black women and girls congratulations [Applause] Tyler Korean and taught lessons to promote cultural creativity in her Hebrew school as a means of increasing pride in the culture of Jewish students Leah also made a website congratulations Leah and Leah is also a finalist in the 2024 National Merit scholar program to and finally to earn this award Olivia crocheted and donated over a 100 baby hats for the center State niku she also taught two crochet classes at Chelsea Regional house and congratulations Olivia the eagle scout is the highest rank in the scouts BSA program it's a prestigious Milestone that requires years of hard work service and determination to become an eagle scout one must earn a total of 21 merit badges and demonstrate Scout Spirit service and Leadership a service project must also be completed as well Daniel Sweetman if you came in uh the back in the auditorium please come up to the podium at this time okay congratulations Dan for Ernie your Eagle Scout award would Ellie duer please come up to the podium at this time at Freel Township High School we house the animal Botanical Sciences Academy students from throughout the regional district can apply and if accepted attend fre Township High School to focus on various topics covering agrobiology all students are members of our school's chapter of the FFA Future Farmers of America we had one student earn first place accolades in the division 3 FFA Agro science fair and social systems her research project was titled A retrospective study on the role of pets during covid-19 quarantine congratulations Ellie drer at this time I would like to call up the fths allshore symphonic band members [Applause] 16 members of our band were named to the allshore symphonic band congratulations to the following students via aasian Caroline Zer summer karuso Victoria Sanchez Martez Alysa Florio Kevin Sweeney I also want to recognize Kevin for being an e alto clarinet first in the shore Bridget Mary O'Brien Bridget Mary o O'Brien is the base clarinet number two in the shore Riley tiger Taro devolve allshore symphonic band principal baritone Sachs number one in the shore Anna Kon Sophia Briggs Sarah luty Devan Tandon Annabelle Fredericks trombone number two on the shore Nia Jo Jamila Abu and Carly Jones Jones is a principal to paty number one in the shore at this time I'm going to ask Mr Provo to do the Athletics good evening athletically fre Township is celebrating multiple accolades as well first I'd like to ask Emma zaty to please come up Emma is not here but Emma is the track and field Group four champion in the indoor 1600 and the indoor 3200 she placed second place at the meet of Champions for the 1600 and third place in the meet of Champions for the 3200 she was also named to the second Team all state congratulations Emma next up uh would like to congratulate Joe Dominguez Joe was a member of our bowling team and he was the shore Conference tournament champion he was also named the second team Team all state and first team allshore the next athlete is uh rosabella Kerns rosabella played fifth in the state of New Jersey at 138 pounds in the 2024 njsi wrestling state championship [Applause] and our next athlete is another wrestler Danielle Forenza Danielle is a Shore conference wrestling champion and the njsia central region wrestling champion at 152 [Applause] PBS our next group is actually a Spring sport that won their Central Jersey group four state championship last week I'd like to call up our golf team this is their backto back title [Applause] and at the sectional tournament they also finished second overall so they participated in the Tournament of Champions yesterday the members of the go the golf team are Christian klewitz Angel Patel Matt C Leon Cory gold Matt gados Ben Jacobson Nate Fury Michael kuchi Gian Luca troli Ben store and Andrew [Applause] manusi congratulations gentlemen I'm going to turn it back over to Dr CA [Applause] hi how we back again how's everybody doing all right I had one come in late um Jake Diaz one of my male Bowlers was first team All State Jake come on [Music] [Applause] up thank you congratulations again to all the fths districtal and at this time I'd like to introduce Dr Brian danu principal of colik high [Applause] school okay good evening ladies and gentlemen uh just want to thank the Board of Education and our Central office administration for putting together this night at this time I would like to invite Mr aseta colck uh Township representative to the Freehold Regional High School District Board of Education come down and help us pass out medals and I got off this we have a we have one award winner tonight that we want to recognize the presidential volunteer service award the president's Council on service civic participation founded the president's volunteer Serv service award to recognize the important roles of Volunteers in America's strength and national identity this award honors individuals who serve as positively impacts communities in every corner of the nation and inspires those around them to take action too so this is a national level award I would like to call up suani Mahajan to the podium please joh is a cul School sophomore she was recognized for her commitment to her organ gation and was presented the presidential volunteers service award gold as part of her volunteering team she's PR she's dedicated many long hours to working on volunteer programs for her Temple and mentoring youth campers for summer camp that has run out of her Temple all this resulted in over a 100 hours of leadership and service hours and she was recognized for that so congratulations at this time I would like to introduce Mr David L our super visor of extracurricular activities who will take us through the athletic program thanks Dr Donahue um I'd like to call up members of our boys and girls indoor track teams who were able to make it tonight guys come on up our boys and girls indoor track team uh both won the Central Jersey group three uh State sectional title this was the girls fifth straight State title and the boys indoors second straight so this was the second straight year that uh we swept boys and girls uh the boys team edin Alpa Jay adamala Lucas Bavaro Andrew Bales Asher Burgess Nick burrow Hunter zupa Matt D Janeiro Brandon Kerwin Andrew Croc Charlie laosi Jak mcamera Mason mcque Lucas sanjari Kyle shandall and John Shapiro and then also a shout out to uh four members of the boys team uh Jay Al madala Andrew Croc Jacob mamera and John Shapiro they were also the 4X 800 meet of Champions first place winners so congratulations to them and the girls theme were Lydia bear nitki Juliana Brown Joselyn CA Michaela Curry EU Franklin Michaela Hartman Julia Maldonado Natalie oconor Emily Scarpa Liz Scarpa and Morgan Van Mater congratulations to both [Applause] teams and then we have one other athlete who could not be here tonight but I just want to recognize her uh senior Alexander cenoba uh she was a female wrestler and she placed in uh the state championships in Atlantic City for the second straight year so congratulations alexand that does it for me so uh I think I'll call up doc okay at this time it is my pleasure to invite Dr Letta Ross principal of Freehold High School to present their Awards I am going to begin by inviting Miss mov to come and join us last year I forgot to do that so I'm going to do it first this year while she's coming I would like to once again thank uh the Board of Education and our central office administration for this evening uh it's a wonderful evening to celebrate our students and I would want to wish a congratulations to all our students and parents and coaches uh and advisers for all the hard work that has taken place thus far um and in his absence Mr Mel we have a lot happening at the burrow with our sports during the Spring season uh so he's navigating uh a lot that's going on with uh you know the teams playing today because we have everyone doing something somewhere so in his absence I just want to recognize him uh extracurriculars let's start there first we have Andrew chenin all sure jazz band come on I would also like to invite Ana celis down for allore symphonic band the description of both of these uh Awards have already been given so we're just going to invite them down and celebrate them this evening so congratulations once again we have two members of HOSA which stands for Health occupation students of America I would like to invite them to come down and I'll tell you what they won as they come forward so Arna bataki won first place in the behavioral health competition Bosa and Ariana Anna Mani won core of research persuasive writing and speaking competition foros so congratulations to [Applause] the now moving on to Athletics we have Daniel liser come on down is on our swim team he is first team allamerican he's ranked number one swimmer in the state of New Jersey he is First Team all state 2024 meet of the champion uh in the breast stroke 2024 Shore conference and MTH County champion and he now holds five school records recognizes with Coach Mr Cooper coach Cooper [Music] congratulations at this time I would like to invite Malachi prey to come on Mali is the New Balance n naal allamerican in high jump and he's six in the nation he is First Team all state in the high jump meet of Champions number one seed and winner in the high jump group three Central Jersey champion in the high jump third in the sh conference and second in mamath county and he just started last year here I would also like to shout out his coaches I know Dr E is here and I'm not sure if any other the other track coaches are here but thank you so much and I also want to also go back and just say thank you to uh Miss Dei and Miss Dona for hoso because they're here with us this evening now I would like to invite our boys basketball team to the boys basketball team has the best record in school history with 24 wins and the Central Jersey State Championship uh sectional Championship they won the group three semifinals over Mainland Advanced to the group three championship for the the first time in school history coach Ben debias who made it as well as coach shaim Richardson are here but Coach B deas was named sh conference Coach of the Year by the coaches association and multiple media Outlets here are our players names for you Christian gizo Brian tassy forier Everett Aiden Hamlin wolw Sam Cranwell William Han Hayden Reed mat Freda theia Lester Mike Kush Jason Matthews and C Casco congratulations and that concludes the awards for the Freo burrow at this time I'm going to invite Mr Sean hurry up and say [Applause] [Music] congratulations thank you Dr Ross good good evening my name is Sean Curry the very proud principal of man alfan high [Applause] school first I would like to thank our Board of Education our superintendent of schools Dr Hazel as well as the entire central office administration for providing our students with endless opportunities to pursue their dreams and help nurture our students in all that they desire at the Freehold Regional High School District I would also like to congratulate all of our medal recipients tonight and thank you for how you represent our district here on a daily basis at this time i' would like to ask the man alipin and English town Board of Education Representatives Miss Jamie Bruno and Mrs Diana Capello to join present District medal high school student our first three medal rep uh recipients were selected to attend New Jersey Governor's School this summer Mr Braverman principal Howell provided the description of the prestigious Governor school program early this evening I asked them to step forward at this time manalan high school has two students who were selected to attend the governor School of New Jersey program in The Sciences at Drew University they are Stephano dagostino and Chris Sha additionally additionally Victoria KMI was selected to New Jersey Governor's School of Engineering and [Music] Technology congratulations all our next student Robbie trapathy is being recognized as a finalist for the 2024 National Merit Scholarship program each year the top 50,000 PSAT students receive Commendation letters for the National Merit program approximately 15,000 of those commended students will be recognized as finalists all finalist must have a record of high academic performance be fully endorsed for finalist standing and take the SAT or sat and earn scores comparable to their semi-finalist PSAT score congratulations Robbie we also have a second finalist that cannot be here this evening that's Bernard [Applause] leang our next medal recipient is cydney Jacobson s was selected as a finalist for the New Jersey Scholars Program which is a tuition-free 5we summer program for Rising seniors the mission of the New Jersey Scholars Program is to provide New Jersey's Rising High School seniors of extraordinary demonstrated academic potential with a free ungraded diverse inclusive and residential interdisciplinary learning environment that sharpens critical thinking writing and research skills stimulates a desire for lifelong learning and fosters lasting interpersonal connections congratulations Sydney at this time I would like to recognize saketh ayyagari and Jonah keski who both scored a perfect 800 on a math portion of the SAT [Applause] te congratulations G next I ask all of our math leue Shore Conference champions to make their way to the stage at this [Applause] time the following students successfully defended their title and are now backto back Math League Shore Conference champions they are Dia avalor saketh ayyagari vicam chowri Ryan Cohen Stephano dagostino Ryan Edwards Adar Kamar Chris Patel Chris sha Savon sha Evan Sue and Robie trapathy congratulations [Applause] finally I would like to recognize our allshore Jazz and symphonic band members first allshore jazz band RIT Vic [Applause] Sony and for allshore symphonic band Aiden Linder and Connor pasz [Applause] [Music] congratulations gentlemen at this time I would like to turn it over to our Seeker Miss Beth English who'll recognize our student anthy and our [Music] at this time I would like to call up to the podium the members of Brave cast achievement Sports statistics extracurricular info upcoming in events to Foster involvement in our School Community the manalan Brave cast took home a national award being recognized as mascot media's production the best school run media team I would like to recognize the adviser Mr Joseph gerardi who is the founder and advisor of great P the members are Alexandra Han Anthony pesi Jayla George Madison Joya Spencer finkler Ranna Balter Gracie ly petner kayin Donovan Steven Russo Shay Varga Samuel gin Ryan turto Jacob lizer Arwin Rivera Evan Sue Jimmy gosinski Maddie clauser Jenny patzer luchano Fuso matalina Martinez Kira Sullivan Christopher ryer Gabrielle gendi and Emily cat [Applause] w at this time I'd like Emily Catz to please step up in addition to winning our best school media running media team Emily was recognized as production MVP also a national [Applause] award congratulations great cast [Applause] next I would like to call up our boys winter track [Applause] team our boys winter track team are the Central Jersey group four state champions remember dark Sten Sten cellos crew Brown suhan de Jonathan Weinberg Ryan Goldberg Justin vosen Michael Black Philip Pace Andrew Baron and Tyler [Applause] perezz at this time I'd like sophomore clay Stevens to step forward he took took fifth place in the state in the 32 meter and Senior stepen cavellis please step forward rers commit he placed first in the 1600 in the meat of Champions so thank you boys and congratulations congrats at this time I would like to call up our distant medley girls team [Applause] please our rley medley team of Lola U Olivia schw be and Maddie Bard and STI honing took seventh in the nation at pen reles and number one in New Jersey sa please step forward STI also took sixth place in States at the 32 meter all Junior so watch out just watch out congratulations girls at this time I'd like to call up our ice hockey team our ice hockey team got our first divisional title but more importantly our South Jersey state [Applause] champions they were also named for Conference Team of the Year their coach Matt inzerella was also named nj.com Coach of the Year all the boys all the boys United the community and we all made a trip to the credential Center which was very fun for the overall state championship game team members are Jake Bender Christian Esposito Nick Fen Venia Samuel gakin John hanic Samuel Kaplan Adam Keller Josh Krishner Thomas Lena Luca Luca manino Joseph Munch Owen odonnell Ryan Peters Alfred Casino laer James Stevens Zach Zachary CERN Daniel yakob Vincent [Applause] zamit chrisan ESO please step forward Christi ESO took first team all state public and third Team all state overall All State it's a pretty big deal when you play the position of so congratulations to everybody and again coach and the team [Applause] congratulations I'm back to Mr Curry thank you Miss English at this time I'd like to introduce the host school principle here this evening Dr David all right good evening thank you Mr Curry and welcome everybody to Marval High School hope you're enjoying your St with us this evening firstly I'd like to thank our Board of Education our superintendent Dr Hazel as well as the entire central office administrative team for all you do to support our schools and providing so many opportunities for our students to pursue their passions at this point I'd like to ask the marble representative on the board Mr Michael Messinger to join me in the presenting of medals to the maror high school students I also since maror high school is the last school to go I do want to say thank you to this tremendous audience because you have been so wonderful being the last school it's it's so important to our students and their families that you know the same audience that was here for for the presentations of awards to to the earlier schools remains in place for them so really appreciate everybody's patience and I'm so thankful to you to be here to to see the Maro students be recognized as well also a quick Public Service Announcement when we're done with the award ceremony in the lobby just outside the auditorium there are two Freehold Regional High School District step and repeats basically that's a nice background uh for families to take photos so they're both in the Lobby on your way out this evening if you want to take photos of your child or teams and so on uh please do so that's why they're there all right so first from Mar High School I'm going to ask anakia to come on up to the front my colleague Dr skelo from F Township described what it means to achieve the distinction of Girl Scout Gold Award winner and anuka uh did achieve that distinction for her service project anuka focused on educating Adolescence in nutrition and healthy eating among other things anuka developed an informational website as well as hosted seminars where she presented to groups of adolescence congratulations an the next group of students I'll call up to be recognized are the FBLA students so the FBLA students from maror high school please come on out front so fpla stands for future Business Leaders of America it is the largest business career focused student organization in the world FPL inspires and prepares students to become community-minded Business Leaders through career preparation and Leadership experiences this winter the FPL students competed at the state leadership conference and among many other impressive results we had five students come in first place so Nicholas manarino was first place accounting one sha Gelman first place accounting two manav vajani first place business management Jake Spiller first place computer applications and Jessica Mendes Alonzo first place international business congratulations to [Applause] our the next group of students to be recognized are those that came in first place in the DECA conference so I'll ask our Deca students from maror high school to W make their way up to the front deca's mission is to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs for careers in marketing Finance hospitality and management students are given a chance to compete in an event classified by industry and Career Cluster the DECA competitive events involve both Career Cluster exam and role play provided on site with a judge the first place winners have distinguished distinguished themselves with Stellar performance in all areas of the competition so this year we had Natalie kol First Place restaurant and food and service management congratulations Natalie we also had first place Alissa Hoffman who was unable to be here this evening she was first place in accounting and application next up for marble High School are the consumer Bowl students I'll ask the consumer Bowl students to make their way to the front these students represent the marble high school team that came in first place at the mammoth County Consumer Bowl the consumer bowl is a game show style competition in which students answer consumer related questions and multiple form formats to test their knowledge of consumer issues these students performed exceptionally well and collectively came in first place at this year's competition they are Elon Abramson summer Adler Sean Gelman Chase susman and David tach congratulations can you tell we have the business administration magnet program at marvor high school there's a theme here congratulations guys I will now turn it over to our sea Mr Ryden who will recognize our musicians and our athletes thank you Dr Bley uh the first people I would like to to uh come on down is our allshore symphonic band members the allshore band description was provided by how earlier in the program we have arav Desai Alana Lee Isabelle Lona Klein Le treesa and [Applause] Ma congratulations guys and now for the first time ever ever in marbor history I would like to bring down our cheer [Applause] team the state cheery competition provided by how earlier in the program The maror High School cheer team is in a different division than Howell and we took first place in the large Mega Varsity state competition first place members are BGA Chloe Burns Ashley Karo Mia Kuba sari Donner Rachel gersman Leah Gigante Julia Goan Juliana Iker Marcela kri Cassie kullin Melanie Kaufman Adriana crowz Elizabeth lean Giana Michelli Haley Omani oh haly yeah that's my sister y'all see her hey that's that's my blood right there okay yeah that's me that's a cheer parent for you Ellie Pani Alexa Emily Steinberg Franchesca Tamborino Taylor trasta and Emma Wildman [Applause] congratulations and I'd like to bring back up Dr hael thank you so much uh this was such a wonderful evening to recognize our students across the district again I want to thank all of our parents and award recipients uh for your close attention this evening as we recognize all of the students across the district again a special congratulations to all of our award recipients uh please enjoy your evening um and we have the stepping repeats in the lobby for you for some pictures congratulations okay we're going to start our meeting we're going to resume our meeting that was a great award one of the best I've seen in many many years so thank you for organizing that everybody it's great going to continue with our superintendent report I think they're kicking us out good evening I would like to update the board and our community uh the Senate budget and Appropriations Committee um made changes to legislation allowing for the tax levy beyond the 2% however those changes do not impact the options discussed at our public hearing on April 25th the modified bill was voted on by the assembly and the Senate yesterday and was approved by the governor today this is great news tonight though the board will be looking to adopt a fisal year 25 budget that was presented at our public hearing with a 2% tax levy increase since the legislation has been signed by the governor this board may consider amending the budget at that time we will probably reconvene another board meeting we will get direct ction from the Department of Education on how that looks and how that gets handled because actually this evening our budget needs to be submitted to the Department of Education at that time once we receive some direction from the Department of Education we will be able to look at restoring positions that were eliminated due to some of our budgetary constraints so we will have more information coming out to our community probably in the coming days once we receive guidance from the Department of Education uh but good news that it passed the assembly and the Senate and was signed by the governor today that was a very quick turnaround um and that positions us positions this board of education to make some further decisions regarding our budget uh moving forward I'm just anticipating I'm hoping everything can be kind of solidified um before we leave uh and that would be you know the end of June uh we do have a board meeting scheduled at the end of June um Thursday evening the 27th uh but again uh receiving direction from the Department of Education uh we will act upon that as quickly as we possibly can we are also excited and you'll see on this board agenda to announce that the Freehold Regional High School District has been awarded a grant it is a teacher climate and culture Innovation Grant it's from the New Jersey Department of Education it's for the period of May 1st through February 28th of 2025 into next school year it's in the amount of $200,000 this grant was initiated and written in partnership with the Freehold Regional Education ass Association our president who was actually here this evening please stand Sarah Reen Becker was instrumental in working with our offices at central office this will enable the district to enhance teacher collaboration streamline instructional planning and create collaborative resources this will provide substitute teacher coverage and we look to develop a digital library of educational resources for our teachers this will result in teachers having more time to focus on core instructional activities and this will benefit our Educators and our students so we are really excited uh for this grant we are going to work very closely um with Mrs Reen Becker and our team and we are excited to get started shortly and there'll be some postings coming out for positions uh that will help us work through that Grant we have our executive student cabinet members here U Nicole Cruz Morales where are you okay great and Emma Corbin of Marboro high school and Nicole is from Freehold High School we are preparing for a middle States visit uh next school year um we have a visitation scheduled in the month of December uh we're an outside uh entity middle States education comes in and um they really take a look at everything we are doing in the school district and that provides us with accreditation uh and it's a 7ye accreditation uh I know we're just going to you know do absolutely fine we had a systems team meeting um on April 29th it was the third meeting of our full systems team in attendance were administrators supervisors teachers support staff as well as community members and board members the district has outlined um some work ahead with objectives and uh when I reviewed the notes our executive student cabinet um is a part of this middle State systems team and when I reviewed their notes I said wow they have everything in their notes that I wanted to speak to so um they are absolutely going to be able to share and cover uh one about their experience uh so serving on that team um and the work that the district um is partaking in as we prepare for Middle States and look to work of the objectives over a 7-year period so I invite to the podium um both uh Nicole and Emma uh to share um about our middle States good evening my name is Emma Corbin and I'm a senior at marbor high school Nico and I represent the executive student cabinet the ESC Works closely with the superintendent and serves as the student Representatives on the board of education this year we are participating in the middle State's accreditation planning process for a middle State's visit in December of 2024 our third systems team meeting was April 29th during the meeting we reviewed the three main objectives we've developed for the middle States accreditation process these include number one improving student performance in mathematics and English language arts one key step of this object objective involves analyzing data to identify Trends and areas needing additional support and developing additional support programs number two is expanding access to smaller learning communities specific steps include expanding dual enrollment opportunities and fostering stronger connections through mentoring and support programs number three is fostering stronger student connections within the school Community which includes ensuring students feel connected to at least one adult in their school and know where to go to for academic or social or emotional help thank you good evening my name is Nicole Cruz Morales and I'm a senior ADV rold High School looking back at this year we accomplished a lot we have finalized our core documents our mission core values and profile of the graduate which set the stage for our strategic work we analyze data from stakeholder surveys and outlined our objectives ensuring they align with compass 3.0 our district strategic plan looking forward each school will conduct their third component school team meetings throughout May providing the final sets of feedback on the action plans developed so far which will be used to finalize the action plans that will guide the district's efforts over the next seven years during the summer and early fall the district and schools will complete document collection and finals preparations for our middle States visitation in December 2024 we really enjoyed serving on this middle State scho system team and offering student feedback to the process and we are glad we are part of ensuring future igd students to continue to have an amazing educational experience thank you great job thank you so much Mr burn thank you we do have one board report tonight Mrs Higley from Freehold Township uh curriculum good evening the curriculum committee meeting was held on May 2nd and a number of topics were discussed first of all there were 1,763 total applications to our magnet programs students are permitted to apply to two programs um also there is a large number of students who continue to be interested an international baloria program which is flourishing this year Hal's IB Program successfully underwent the IB 5year review and next year fths will undergo their second 5-year review since the program's Inception in the district over 60% of students in each cohort have received the prestigious IB diploma as a district we are examining multilingual Learners program including enrollment and curriculum development the program is expanding and has changing needs curriculum is being developed this year for ESL 1-4 newcomers and transitional Learners there are 11 curriculums being written this school year across the content areas a few to highlight public speaking is a new course and will fulfill the Performing Arts requirement peer leadership has been redesigned and is now titled leadership in action and focuses on real world leadership skills multivariable calculus will be offered as a dual enrollment course through seaten Hall University starting in the um 24 25 school year 260 students participated in the FSD online sat preparation course this school year districtwide in addition a grading committee has been established in the district to provide feedback and suggestions around grading practices to meet the goal of the Strategic plan to develop common District grading practices regarding the reporting calculating and communicating of students progress to improve consistency Across The Districts The District's upcoming middle State visitation is December 9th through the 12th the three objectives as you heard have been approved um by the middle States Association we will have a preliminary site visit on May 15th F frhsd 2024 Summer Academy will be offering original Credit Credit Recovery AP bridge and algebra one Bridge the registration process will continue throughout the spring students are encouraged to discuss these opportunities with the school counsil thank you thank you very much we do have a couple people from the community uh oh budget yes we're going to go to budget I have a motion to approve the 2024 2025 school budget Mr CA Mrs Higley any discussion board not hearing any discussion we do have good I just wanted to make a comment before we come to vote um I'm thankful that the legislature and state of New Jersey um came through if you want to say that at you know this late hour of maybe 1 or 2:00 this afternoon um but um as always you know they're lagging behind and leaving school districts in um a very uncomfortable position so based on the fact that they um have done this at such a late date the budget that's put forth today um hopefully will be able to be revised as um the legislature directs us as to and the and the State Board of Education directs us as to what the next steps are um because this budget this bud budget has things in it that um we're losing that are very important okay um when you have to make Cuts it's it's a difficult decision you try to make um cuts that have the least impact on students um and of course the most impact on finance um so it's a very difficult thing um I personally I'm not happy with a lot of the things that are um going to be lost in the budget that we're going to vote on tonight and as I said I'm hopeful that as we move forward we will be able to reinstitute um and and and put back into place some of those things that are cut um but we are at the mercy of government unfortunately um one of the big things that um I'm upset about is the fact that the raay academy goes away um I find the raay academy has been um very useful and helpful for our acis students um it's been running through a Grant now which the grant has now expired so without changes um to the budget we will not be able to sustain it this upcoming year and U there are other things also so I just wanted to put forth that yes we're voting on this and and you know probably most of us will vote in favor but I'm hopeful that there will be better things um coming in the next weeks um that will allow us to reinstate some things that that we have to cover thank you thank you so much any other board member would like to discuss any discussion any more discussion on the budget not hearing anything Mr aceta yes Mrs berno yes Mrs cello yes Mrs Higley yes Miss maob yes Mr Messinger yes Mr Bruno yes we do have some people in the community who'd like to participate tonight we do have the change in the agenda Mr voice yeah just one change on the uh printed agenda uh for resolution K1 which is approval of professional conferences and workshops uh please change board the entry uh for uh Bruce hener June 24th PD from $125 to 50 and that's the only change thank you okay I think I can go can move along here now we do have some people who signed up to speak and um Liam and Lindsay and you're from what school okay [Applause] welcome good evening board of education is it working yeah good evening Board of Education my name is Liam Marian I am a senior at fre P high school and a member of the IB program and I along with many of my peers here today are here are here to express our extreme disappointment caused by the decision to cut the positions filled by Mr Fusco at fre T High School such as the IB coordinator web design pathway coordinator science coordinator and math coordinator we recognize this was done due to the budget reduction and that this is not a matter of Mr Fusco being deemed as an ineffective addition to the fhsd staff but we hope that these new budget amendments that are just been presented by the board the possibility of Fusco being brought back to our school could be discussed regardless we still find it relevant here to express our distaste in the present decision and why we believe Mr Fusco is an indispensable member of the frhsd community if for no other reason than to bring to your knowledge the importance of Mr Fusco at our school as an IB student I know firsthand how essential it is to have a coordinator at our school and not share between two as the new plan would imply Mr Fusco was essential and helping my environmental science class the first time this class was offered ever at the IB level at township and the only one-year IB course offered transition into this new study and helped our teacher whose first year was teaching an IB course during the IB testing as well the communication and connection between the students and Mr Fusco made for a smoother and more confident testing period which is something that would likely not be attainable if Township shares a coordinator with how fco's importance to our school community and to our programs comes not just from the general benefits of having a supervisor that can focus on these programs that he has assigned overse but the connection that he has formed with us as a consequence of his position again environmental science SI big part of the reason why this issue regarding Mr Fusco was so important to us the dedication and care he showed for us in this new class displayed just how much he puts in the program he head enough so that it resonated with us in the effort that we put into our program as well and we would not have been as confident on our exams and the essays we had to write if not for the benefit and direction that he provided us despite also being new in the inner working of the IB program thank you good evening Board of Education my name is lindsy w and I'm a senior in the IB program at real tum high school I'm here to speak on behalf of Mr Fusco and his position as the IV coordinator first I would like to talk a little bit about myself I'm your typical anxiety kid a highr perfectionist who hates change when I heard a new IB supervisor would be overseeing our program at the end of sophomore year I expected the worst this was going to be the official start of the program with a stranger I knew nothing about I was pleasantly surprised and to say my transition as the IB program was seamless would be an understatement Mr fosco personally introduced himself and went out of his way to learn each and every one of our names he explained how even though this process seems scary we would get through it together because of Mr Fusco I felt guided throughout the entire program without any doubt that I would fall off track he is a caring open-minded and well respected coordinator I am happy to have spent my last two years of high school with with his office being only a few steps away on the second floor the presence of a coordinator in our school was beyond comforting you may be wondering as a senior who this has no effect on why I'm standing up here today I want to make the impact that Mr Fusco has had on this program note I want every single student in the IB program at for Township High School to have the same experience I have with Mr pusco this program needs him and would not be the same without him please consider how much each and every one of my peers has been inspired by this amazing teacher and why we are here tonight this is more than just a program Mr fosco shapes our IB family and form the relationships we have with each other today thank you thank you [Applause] yeah thank you so much for coming out to um speak about your experiences and your work over at freeh hole Township High School under the support and Leadership of of Mr Fusco um who I'm sure has made a tremendous impact on all of you so we appreciate hearing your words here this evening thank you thank you is there anybody else in the audience that would like to speak no one else okay um oh [Applause] okay good evening Board of Education my name is Anastasia Joseph and I am a ib junor in the program um I'm here to talk about Mr FCO as well and his contributions to the inter National Balor program at my school I'm going to start my speech by reminiscing about last year when I was a sophomore I was not planning on doing IB and I did not think I was cut out for it however after numerous conversations with Mr Fusco I ended up signing up and it was the best thing that could have happened to me and my academic career now I'm a junior in the program although I um still although I was not able to adjust fully and was having a hard time balancing the workload at first Mr Fusco was always there to lend the help he can throughout the entire process I do not think I would have been able to continue in this program if Mr Fusco was not there to help me and all the other students present day I am the first graduating class that has to pay for our exams and if and we are if you guys get rid of Mr Fusco it is lowering the quality of the program substantially because now they're going to have a hard time adjusting at succeeding in in the program and they have to pay for it Mr Fusco would be there every step of the way for them just like he was for me I think I speak for all the IB Juniors when I say we appreciate him very much and would hate to see him go not only had he helped us achieve academically through all the things he's done in the program and through making sure that we are prepared for college but he has also helped us mentally through practicing time management and the systems he has put in place in our um School the Community as well and the international program are very important to him and it is shown through his work and dedication to us um and I would urge you to reconsider your decision to keep Mr Pesco at FT thank you thank you so much okay now we're going anybody else Mr Mr okay [Applause] good evening Board of Education my name is Eman G and I'm a ib junior in high school I just want to speak on Mr because I feel like to me personally he's a very enthusiastic especially when he puts his work in dedication towards the IP Council being in like me personally being on the IP Council I work with him closely so I understand like what he does and the effort he puts into his especially to me personally from a person who TR doesn't M especially with the IP program and Mr F hasn't went out of his way multiple times to put effort towards me as a student and went all the way to set up things for me set up teachers for that I could better succeed in the program when I see Mr F present like his teachers or students I see that he puts a lot of enthusiasm into his speaking that is unmatched I can tell from Mr on personal a personal level that he is very enthusiastic about the what he does and he speaks very powerful on the program and I can tell that he really cares about everyone who's in with the BR thank [Applause] you okay um we could be here all night so come [Applause] on good evening good evening um I'm fedo I'm from f t high school and I unlike a lot of people here are not from IB however Mr Fusco has been imprint in my life recently I was at the IB Art Exhibit and he was present there he mistaken me he mistaken me for a sophomore and then went on a tanged about the wonderful opportunities that IB offered as well as how me just for looking at me and my personality how I can fit and understand the budget cuts are not something you guys directly can control but I'm asking not only on behalf of real Township students but on behalf of myself and other real Township students to come to fight for increase in the budget fight to keep teachers fight to end the 30 plus transfers of teachers going out of f Township and to most importantly fight to keep education Equitable and equal for us it's because when we cut the budget when we transfer teachers we are eliminating integral programs that help many students at our school I'm sorry for this stter of my voice because this is a very emotional topic for me as I know two teachers are going to be transferred away from a program that was integral in my life speech and debate which is a club and two advisers are going to be leading the township and now the team that I've build three years with other people in the audience now a team that I am a current board member of now a team that I've worked and competed on for many years of my high school career is going to need a scavenge for new advisors and is going to be to lead these people that have been very helpful and help us grow not only publicly but academically so I want to close this off by thanking you for the time and also urging you to please fight for these students fight for fre Township staff members and fight for increase in the budget thank you thank [Applause] you okay we're going to try to get the but the agenda here um we're going to take um G1 to g15 I have a motion to approve G1 to g15 motion second I heard one down there Mr and I heard a second m that was a tie um any discussion not hearing any discussion roll call Mr aceta yes Mrs Bruno no Miss Bruno is it no to all or because we are doing G1 to g15 so I'm just going to say to uh g15 okay g15 okay and just for clarity is it yes to the rest yes okay Mrs cell um yes on everything except um G7 I abstain from Michael cello Michelle England Brian post Pete Mian Craig churn ml NCH and Jeffrey barberman and in G13 I abstain from Rachel gal and Merl norch and I think I'm done Miss mob um yes with the exception of g15 Miss Higley yes with the following exceptions uh G6 G7 I abstain for Charles keski Matthew verini Michael vone patler gravitus Matthew Coulson Kim brandley Pete Mian Frank churn Michelle England Brian post Jeremy braan Joanne Becker coward keski Rachel gal David Fusco Christopher Provo shabri D Michael Dylan Leanne reinald Alicia celo for G13 Iain for Rachel gal and Maro nor yes and yes yes everything okay just making sure thank you uh Mr Messinger yes Mr Bruno yes okay give just a moment okay all motions passed thank you I was holding my breath there okay I breathe now all right we're going to go to H um I have a motion to approve H1 through I4 that's program operations building transportation and physical plan I'll offer that second second any discussion Bo not hearing any discussion roll call Mr AA yes Mrs Bruno yes Mrs Capell yes Mrs Higley yes M mov yes Mr Messinger yes Mr Vera yes okay we're going to take um J1 through K5 educational programs and administration second Capell second m y any discussion board not hearing any discussion roll call Mr ASA yes Mrs Bruno yes Mrs cello yes on everything except in K1 and K3 I abstain from Dr Hazel Mrs hegley uh yes and everything except K1 and K3 I'm same for sha Boyce and Dr Hazel Miss mob yes Mr Messinger yes Mr Bruno yes motions pass thank you um does any board members have old business to discuss any old business for discussion not hearing any old business any new business I do have one today um Dr Hazel and I were at the lunch in for met Sai um at Freo Burl and um Mr M you're going to be very happy to hear that 16 out of the 22 kids at the mid Live program seniors are going right person one of your wow yes absolutely it was a great day um and um just nice to see the focus um Center State gave $199,000 in scholarship to the medside student today and that's an incredible contribution that Cate gives to our school some of that out of my paycheck but um and they were there today a lot of people from cry were there in administration to um give out the the awards was very nice beautiful program Mr Bruno uh I just want to uh once more congratulate all of the athletes the teams the scholars uh and all of the students uh who part who uh were awarded uh and recognized today uh for their uh great job in in whatever field uh they pursue thank you and can I just mention that I think M Alin just broke a record with our lacrosse program boys and girls just Advanced so I'm really proud of them proud of great job thank you um any other new business not hearing any um we're going to adjourn I have motion to adjourn name that favor