we the to United stes supp Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established init me God one and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties that office according to the best of my ability so help me God and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God and now I will take the roll call again Mrs assor here Mrs Austin here Mrs burkowitz here Mrs Pinelli here Mrs Sande here Mr White here Mr rosini congratulations you are you've just been sworn in yay and now I'm going to ask for a motion for a nomination for board president please I will make a motion for Steve rosini as president second I'd like to make a motion for Patrice p for vice president and I'd like to second that okay we jumped ahead so we're going to slow down thanks it's all good I thought we were going to do it out no nominations for president are closed and now I'm going to take roll call on that Mrs Austin yes Mrs burwitz yes Mrs assor yes Mrs Sande yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mr osini yes Mr White yes and now Mr Ros unless I was supposed to abstain no okay you are now I'm turning over the Gabel to Mr osini you are President okay thank you um I'm now going to call for nominations for vice president okay now I'd like to make a motion for Patrice ferelli for vice president okay uh second by anybody I'll second okay terrific thank you any any other motions no okay closed brok call vote please certainly Mrs burwitz yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mrs assour yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs Pinelli I'll obain and Mr rosini Nice yes a big yes two yeses one for Mrs bentelli um okay um okay thank you everybody thank you very much thank you for trusting Patrice and me um it's much appreciated um and now let's move on to resolutions um one through R R7 through R32 be resol okay um all right so let's look at R seven in terms of r s is there someone who wants to um volunteer for this right now or we can postpone it till the next meeting and then if you want to think about it at that point we can just um uh take out r s and then anyone who wants to decide to step up and take care of it they can do it then um unless somebody knows they want to do it now are there only two meetings I'm not sure yes there's only two I'm not 100% I'd have to get back to on that okay yes well you don't have to commit it's okay I I will will I remember from last year I said I would I will uh nominate myself I guess I suppose terrific that's great um I'd nominate myself to be an alternate if okay Mr White can't all right is there anybody else who's interested anyone okay right somebody say ber um um okay so that's terrific I'm glad you guys um decided to um I'm I'm glad you both volunteered for those those positions um Mr White would be the delegate and uh Miss Austin will be the alternate uh with regard to r s is there any other nothing else in here right we need to take care of on that okay so now that we know what we're doing on R seven um is there a motion motion with regard to R7 through R32 I'll move them second I'll second okay with regard to r33 um as been in our tradition to remind ourselves um what our role is as board members in our ethics which um our past board president um M wal always remind us that we're the only elected officials that actually have a rule of Ethics in the state of New Jersey um I'd like to go through it and um uh just go go around and and talk oh I'm sorry okay first let's do R 7 to 32 do a roll call vote and then go to r33 that I was talking about Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mr rosini yes okay we're step we're going ahead of ourselves a lot in this meeting but that's okay it's a very exciting meeting um so now to r33 which I was talking about um the code of ethics so as been our it's been a long tradition I'd like to go through it again that we start and we'll start with you Jamie please on r33 I will withhold up sorry I will uphold and enforce all laws state board rules and regulations and court orders pertaining to schools desired changes should be brought only through legal and ethical procedures I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will seek to develop and maintain public schools which meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or social standing I will confine my board actions to policymaking planning and appraisal and I will help to frame policies and plans only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them I will carry up my responsibility not to administer schools but together with my fellow board members to see that they are well-run I will recognize that Authority rests with the Board of Education and will make no personal promises nor take any private action which may compromise the board I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use the schools for personal gain of friends I will hold confidential all matters pertaining to the schools which if disclosed would needlessly injure individuals or the schools but in all other matters I will provide accurate information and in concert with my fellow board members interpret to the staff the aspirations of the community for its schools I'll go back to you Jamie please I will vote to appoint the best qualified Personnel available after consideration of the recommendation of the chief administrative officer I will support and protect School Personnel in proper performance of their duties I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on such complaints at public meetings only after failure of an administrative solution okay all right thank you everybody for um going through this with us with with me and um and now we'll do a v call vote certainly Mrs burkowitz here are we're doing here yes Mrs Mrs Sande yes Mrs assor yes Mr White yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Austin yes Mr rosini yes okay terrific thank you um now I'm going to open the meeting to reorganization public comments on reorganization items only the Rivervale board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of Rivervale and employees of the Rivervale School District to speak directly to board trustees in order to facilitate this communication residents and employees have requested one to sign in before speaking two to maintain an appropriate sense of decorum and three to limit the remarks to no more than five minutes the board will also take under advisement the written and comments of opinions of nonresidents that are submitted to the board secretary being mindful of its responsibility to maintain the orderly cond of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters as the speaker's right to address the board as well as the appropriateness of the subject being presented the board's decision in such matters is final the board also reminds all members of the public that while it subscribes without reservation to the principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law it cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverville public schools is of Interest or concern to a resident the matter should be referred to the responsible building principal or the superintendent of schools by telephone letter or email and I'm going to open the meeting to public comments at approximately uh 7:17 anybody want to make a comment on reorganization items only okay seeing there being nobody who wants to make any comments I'm closing the meeting to public comments at 7:7 p.m. um okay now I guess we'll have to go make an adjournment to close the reorg meeting uh is there a motion to close the reorg meeting I'll move it uh second I'll second okay so the reorganization meeting of January 2nd uh has been adjourned at approximately 7:18 p.m. roll call vote please certainly Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs penelli yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mr rosini yes okay now we will start our ordinary meeting notices hereby given that accordance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 the laws of 1975 notice of this meeting has been sent to All School offices officially designated newspapers file with the Township Clerk and posted in the Board of Education Office 48 hours in advance of this meeting roll call please certainly Mr White here Mrs Sande here Mrs Pinelli here Mr burkowitz here Mrs Austin here Mrs assor here Mr rosini uh here okay with regard to uh the board president's report my report um again thank you everybody um for um and I'm looking forward to another great year I hope everybody had a happy and healthy celebration um during the holidays and um I'm only just going to wish everybody a happy and healthy prosperous and everything good in the new year um and then I'm going to move now on to committee reports um buildings and grounds Mrs burwitz I have nothing at this time just note that our next meeting is February 13th um communication and policies Mr White nothing to report um curriculum and Technology Mrs Sande no update at this time our next meeting is April Finance Mrs Pinelli uh yes we just concluded our um meeting tonight um our audit has begun um and should be finalized very soon uh just a reminder for the finance committee to look at your calendar for dates um to have the audit presented to us um Mrs Zito and the administrators have begun the budget process preparation process um the amount of budget cap or allowable increase from the previous year is 2% or 478 approximately 478,000 for the 2425 school year um we also have about 300,000 of banked cap that's available for the upcoming budget um some budget uh assumptions when preparing um for the 2425 school year the rvef will provide um the annual $100,000 contribution towards technology initiatives and they also continue to gift grants um we would like to extend our greatest gratitude to the rvf for all they do to support our schools so um I always want to mention that because they help us out extremely um in a lot of different areas um in terms of Staffing there will as of now no anticipated changes at Robos or Woodside um holdrum there might be an additional uh custodian due to the increase inrease of um 950,000 Square ft with that new with our new addition that is absolutely beautiful um some challenges this for this budget um it is going to be a challenging budget year and there are certain expenses we are looking at looking at um like uh possible property insurance increases um this will also be the first year that the AC um is going well that the buildings are going to have new Mechanicals um working um especially with the AC um and there are also projected health insurance increases last year the increase was about 10% so um we're waiting to hear about that um and that's all I have for tonight thank you with regard to negotiations uh my report is that the um we're beginning the process with regard to negotiations with the teachers and the secretaries um and that process will continue um uh along but there's nothing more to say at this time uh with regard to Personnel I have nothing to report please take note of the committee meeting schedule um and and now I will open the meeting to agenda items only with regard to public comments again the riverville board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of riverville and employees of the riverville school district to speak directly to board trustees in order to facilitate this communication residents and employees are requested one to sign in before speaking two to maintain an appropriate sense of the Quorum and three to limit their remarks to no more than five minutes the board will also take under advisement the written comments and opinions of non-residents that are submitted to the board secretary being mindful of it responsibility to maintain the orderly conduct of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters as the speaker's right to address the board as well as the appropriateness of the subject being presented the board's decision in such matters is final the board also reminds all members of the public that while as subscribes without reservation to the principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law it cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverville public schools is of Interest or concern to to a resident the matter should be referred to the responsible building principal or the superintendent of schools by telephone letter or email um again I'm going to open the meeting to public comments now with regard to agenda items only at approximately 7:25 p.m. all right nobody showing an interest in making a comment and so I'm going to close it at 7:25 pm. and now I've gotten to the superintendent's report okay thank you good evening everyone um so it is the beginning of the year obviously but in the education world it's really halfway through the year the school year that is and so typically after our winter recess that's when we start to reflect on the year and think about what have we done so far and where do we need to go for the remainder of the school year uh so with that in mind I do just want to remind uh the board of our goals and uh you will be getting an update a detailed update about what we have the progress we've made so far things that we need to continue to do to continue to meet our goals for the remainder of the year so our first goal and if you remember we made the goals a lot broader um this year so that they can Encompass a lot more so our first goal um the district aims to enhance student mathematical and Ela achievement through an increased focus on differentiated learning and you'll see that in a various different ways so you'll see that through our DDI periods that we've created which is our datadriven instructional periods you see that through additional tiered support that we've put at hrum you see it through the increased use of data so we heavily are relying on linkit but now we're increasing that data to also look at internal benchmarks um and and a whole you know slew of different data points that we can look at so we can make sure students are getting exactly what they need so you'll get a full report on what we've done so far to meet that goal and then things that we anticipate doing for the rest of this year our second goal was to revise curriculum and resources to provide updated and relevant student learning experiences that work is ongoing and right before break I know that our curriculum supervisor started to meet with some of our teachers to um look at some of the ELA revisions um our standards change so anytime standards change we then have to update that um and throughout the year we've been looking at uh science social studies a few other areas so you'll get a full update on that as well goal three provide students and staff with various secl supports to achieve positive behaviors increase academic success and caring School communities uh this fall we sort of doubled down on our efforts in talking about positive inclusive environments um we took some opportunity in October to go around to at the middle school I think it was done during their advisory periods and at the element level it was done during their um guidance went in and did some lessons around that um we of course have our ruler program um and now all three schools also have like a positive referral system that we do as well to recognize when students are achieving those behaviors and um that we want to see so you'll get more detail on that and the fourth goal that I included for tonight was to continue to place an emphasis on the importance of robust communication with the goal of transparency sharing important developments within the district and helping I'm sorry and keeping the community AB breast of the multi-year referendum projects uh I put out a video for holdrum uh I guess a couple months ago so that our community could see the beautiful work that we've done there today my district newsletter went out so that's just it usually goes out on the first but obviously we were closed yesterday so make sure you're keeping an eye on that and always always check our referendum website it we keep it up to date um and you can get a whole bunch of information on there as well so hopefully in the next couple weeks I'll be sending the board a full detailed report of all of our goals and I wish everybody a very happy and healthy new year thanks thank you and Mrs Zolo board secretary's report yes uh again happy New Year welcome back I hope everybody had a wonderful holiday board members there are some very important paperwork in your folders in your yellow folders that I need before you leave I will lock the doors and I will make you fill them out because that's the only way I'm going to get them from you tonight so that's uh for those who were sworn in your your oath of Allegiance um code of ethics and acknowledgement of contracts there's also some County information that needs to be updated please the new committees we need to talk about the new committees for the 2024 year and congratulations to the board it's January um which is School Board recognition month and I know that there's a certificate in your in your folder for you to take and you should be very proud of all the work that you do and most importantly on this agenda we are awarding the Woodside renovation projects phase two of Woodside which will be starting this spring we're very very excited and all three of the canopies were within budget so we are going to be finalizing the entire project this year other than that um best wishes for a great rest of the Year and thank you well good news um and I think we'll all get it done one way or another because nobody wants to be locked it um now let's move on to General resolutions G1 through G9 n may have a motion please I'll motion second I'll second discussion questions okay uh roll call vote please certainly Mrs assur yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Sande Yes except all obain from G4 certainly Mr White yes Mr osini yes okay moving on to business resolutions B1 through B17 may I have a motion please I'll make a motion second I'll second discussion I'll just take a moment to address b14 we had three biders we are awarding the bid the recommendation is to award the bid to GPC they are the same contractor that is currently at holdrum which we have had great success with so we are very pleased with this with the results of this and also I would refer to B15 um we will be ordering the UV the univ ventilator units directly from a distributor so this way we are doing our best to ensure that we will have them before the start of next year if we do not the contractor knows that nothing gets ripped out until there's a replacement so that's the reason why you're seeing B15 okay thank you um anybody have any questions or comments okay roll call vote please certainly Mr White yes Mrs Pinelli bless you Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs assor yes Mrs Sande Yes except I'll abstain from B16 certainly Mrs Austin yes Mr rosini yes okay moving on now to personal resolutions P1 through T P10 um may I have a motion please I'll make a motion second I'll second okay discussion or comments questions me P3 I noticed we have a new science teacher which is good got holdr okay any other comments or questions no roll call vote please certainly Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burwitz yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mr rosini yes um and now with regard to General items for public comment on General items only um I'm going to open the meeting but first I have to say that the riverville board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of riverville and employees of the riverville school district to speak directly to board trustees in order to facilitate this communication residents and employees are requested one to sign in before speaking two to maintain an appropriate sensitive Quorum and three to limit their remarks to no more than five minutes the board will also take under advisement the written comments and opinions of non-residents that are submitted to the board secretary being mindful of its responsibility to maintain the orderly conduct of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters as the speaker's right to address the board as well as the appropriateness of the subject being presented the board's decision in such matters is final the board also reminds all members of the public that while it subscribes without reservation to the principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law it cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverville public schools is of Interest or concern to a resident the matter should be refer to the responsible building principal or the superintendent of schools by telephone letter or email and I'm going to open the meeting to public comments for public comments and general items at approximately 7:35 is anybody want to make a comment out here all right not seeing anybody who would like to come and make a comment I'm closing it at 7:35 um old business anybody new business anybody I was just thinking thinking since this is our like well we had our reorg meeting but is it possible to get in our folders um maybe a copy of the goals just cuz I like to you know look over it every once in a while um so I don't know if we can put that in our folder and maybe the Hib prongs just as a reminder in case something comes up I don't know if there's anything that anybody else wants sure just in there as a source of reference you know or resource yeah y makes sense anybody else no okay and I'm just going to reiterate also with regard to the uh what Mrs Zolo said with regard to the uh What U different I'm sorry um I didn't say that no you didn't say that no with regard to what whatever um different committees you you want to be on think about it because I don't think we' finalized that yet for the year so um you did say something like that though didn't you y in in summon substance okay and that's it um shall we um are we going at the close session so motion to uh conclude the meeting motion to adjourn second I'll second and um anybody not in favor okay thank you all right have a good night