e e for e e e e e e e e e e e good evening welcome to the Walltown Board of Education reorganization meeting for the year 2024 please rise for the flag salute pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay this is the Wall Township Board of education's re re organization meeting adequate notice for this meeting was provided by publication in the Asbury Park Press co-star notices to the township clerk's office all Wall Township Public Schools sorry and uh posting in the board Administration uh office on January 5th 2023 I'll take a roll call Mr adnia here Mr buffer here Miss D Giovani here Mr Mali here Mr Nasser here miss St here Mr WRA here please take notice of the statement to the public on this evening's agenda it's a statement from the Board of Education with regarding all Board of Education meetings uh also next item is the announcement of the election results from the general election of November 7th 2023 the announcement uh election results and statement of determination concerning the mammoth County general election uh write in results Board of Education this is for three seats from the general election Pamela t shimko with 741 votes Marian e Barbieri with 544 votes and incumbent Kenneth wandra with 491 votes so congratulations to those three individuals for being elected to the board of education at this time we'll have the administr administration of oath uh if I can have Miss shimko please come forward yes and [Applause] congratulations you can have you come around to your seat please raise your right hand and uh repeat after me we do this in two phases two paragraphs I pamelo shimko do Solly swear that I support the Constitution the United States 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 under the authority of the people so help me God I Pamela shimo do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people so help me God I Pamela shimko do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 1941 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will fa F impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me guide I Pamela shimo do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of the member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 1941 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all of the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God welcome to the Board of [Applause] Education please repeat after me I Mar Barbieri do Solly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States 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 under the authority of the people so help me go I Ain barbier do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States oops and the stition 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 under the authority of the people so help me guide hi Mar barier it's do Solly swear that I possess qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and I am not disqualified as a voter pursu to rs9 col 4-1 nor disqualify due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability to help me go I Aon barier do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs19 go 4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 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 godc to the Board of Education you have just read it out to you no unfortunate uh please repeat after me I Kenneth wandra to solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people so help me govern I Kenneth wandra do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey that I will beay a true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and in this state under the authority of the people so help me go I Kenneth wandra do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I'm not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs19 colum 4-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 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 get that I Kenneth W direct who Solly swear or affirm that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office member of the Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to 1941 nor disqualified due to the conviction of a crime or offense listed in Jersey revised statutes 18 Alpha 12-1 and that I will faithfully and impart and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me guide welcome to a second time on [Applause] the here M barier Mr buff here here here here here miss stes here here only have two comments good at this time we're opening up the meeting for public comment anybody who would like to offer public comment can get up and speak now so you're changing it you can come down sir if you're looking to participate in public comment thank you just want to say thank you this is a extremely difficult time in public education this hold in so many directions as careers keeping children at the center everything we do is so important and this work is the most special thing that we can possibly do as adult as care for children and the men and women that donate their time to be here tonight the men and women that have donated their careers to care for children I thank you we've had nothing but an incredible experience in this town um from kindergarten all the way through a sixth grader and eighth grader now and I just with a full heart thank you thank you just want to say thank you and I want to just sprinkle a little positivity on hopefully a really good year to come and uh that's all I really have to say is just thank you for being awesome and looking forward to many many more awesome years to come so thank you have a great night is there anyone else for a public comment just going to note you switch the order and you only have one public comment tonight when you normally have two so just mentioning that um I see you said the Jenny to Carlo case so hopefully we'll get the amount you not I'm not going to try and hide it um I have posted it on Facebook it should be approved at a gif meeting and and and by the board so glad to see that settled um Jenny de Cara wrote a letter to a judge about all the problems with Brian SMI so I'll be sure to post that again as well um I do want to say I did just get back from Mr SMI my Oprah of December 7th and what's disturbing is it looks like the trailers was bid ringing because this is dated April 23rd and Mr freek seems to know the prices and that there's four trailers so that would be called bid rigging and that's why he probably didn't want to give this to the mammoth County prosecutor's office and he did not include it so this took a very long time to get and I see you're shaking your head Athena that's good it's called bid rigging it's called consy theor don't interrupt my time so that's why he didn't give it um It also says there are attachments and there's no attachments he attach PDF files on o estimates um Mr SMI it says as well as FF um it talks about um inspecting the units and Reporting back to the committee on their condition well we know that never happened right Mr SMI that was just a complete compl lie for four years it was a lie that you evere address your comments to me we don't know you went out there with Terry one afternoon cooperating with our protocol um so miss stes maybe you can finally get to the truth on this this is like absolutely despicable so I know we have an attorney on the board that does this for a living so you know maybe for all the information that's been withheld and probably not given to Goldberg sagala you can take a look at it because it's really really disturbing so December 7th and he just sends it after I follow up with uh the Attorney General today the controller's office um I sent it uh to wall PD a number of people um people were asking who's that officer sitting in the courtroom when somebody's giving me the finger that was Michael Stites our board president's husband so I have people asking me who that was he was trying to cover his face at the end it's ridiculous um what else we're still waiting for a certification for Mr SMI on what was given to me um in this folder because it just seems so crazy that we had to go through this case and he again says the administration have extracted well we know when he puts the administration a letter it means nothing it's a lie so we need to know who extracted the information and if he withheld any documents and who destroyed the rest of these growth and development minutes cuz obviously some of them been destroyed cuz he just wrote back that they don't have them anymore they don't have them Area 51 level conspiracy Miss cross we know and thank you Miss cross your time is up thank you are you running the meeting are you two running the meeting or running meeting do you know who's in charge here the two you miss cross your time is up the two of you are not running the meeting uh Miss cross I am running the meeting at this point in time as a board secretary I'm running the meeting thank you is there anyone else for public comment Kathleen Duran wal Township I'm going to assume that um my comments are addressed to Mr SMI since he says he's uh running the meeting unless otherwise noted Mr SMI I take Serious issue with the snide comments of Athena Cornell they are unprofessional they are childish they are immature the reason that there is a question about the certification of those documents is what I mentioned months ago when I stood here and I pointed out the flaws in what I'm going to assume perhaps Mr Smite that maybe Athena drafted that certification for you or if you did it so I don't know who lied you were Athena or Mr hyim but you certified that the documents were not able to be retrieved by the school district then the court says you have to produce them your lawyer argued differently than you your lawyer argued that you shouldn't have to produce them and you said I cannot do it the judge orders you to do it and then lo and behold the documents are produced 19 pages of Facebook BS and for that we are build tens of thousands of dollars while people try to decide how to hold those 19 Pages back those publicly published 19 Pages back how to hold them back from the from Betsy cross what a waste of money and a certification that was less than truthful now yes they're going to be it's going to be Revisited in court and Athena Cornell can try to minimize and mock a member of the public who's trying to find out how we went from it can't be done to its magically done and it's only 19 pages of Facebook posting and by the way it cost the district $40,000 I'm shocked that nobody else is disturbed by that because it's deeply troubling your unprofessionalism which has as has been questioned by Ms cross over and over is highlighted when Athena Cornell acts like a child sitting to your left and mocks a common sense question brought about by a certification that you signed saying it cannot be done how did it get done that's all she's asking and it's a simple question how did you go from can't do it to here's the 19 or so pages of the Facebook posts that were in that folder but I'm not going to tell you what day and time they represent I'm not going to tell you how they retrieved when they were retrieved or if they are in fact the documents that were in the folder on the date that was requested in the Oprah it's your job you are highly compensated for it and I'm asking as well as Betsy cross and those who understand what's going on we're asking for you to do it and do it competently without the horse and pony show to your left thank you one item we do agree on is that yes they are quote BS Facebook posts close quote is there anyone else for public comment those did you get this is not your opportunity to speak M please do not shout out did he get Facebook excuse me m cross M cross please do not shout out answer the questions and provide a legal CER you are disrupting the meeting please stop calling out it's not your opportunity to speak thank you good evening Mike Shelton Happy New Year I think that you want to start the clock again when they keep interrupting me or how are we going to do it stop disrupting the meeting please new people can probably leave I think you got like a 15 minute window to get out now on your own um you had a good year you got a lot of stuff going on with the referendum I think that's good um so congratulations on that and your new members as a taxpayer I am curious on one thing in particular yeah call it 19 BS Facebook posts if you want I have a different theory on them I I believe that you use some of our money well over a year ago to write a letter to someone and say quit disrupting our meetings and quit telling lies and quit telling mistruths because if you don't we're going to do something you didn't do anything so my question would be when are you going to you're not going to answer that tonight what are you going to do but you ought to try to figure out a way to take your meetings back I can ask him to start the clock again go ahead stop disrupting the meeting Miss cross thank you stop disrupting the meeting he's a Facebook thank you he doesn't talk he just talks on Facebook coincidence anyway welcome to your new members and as you pick your new officers I hope you uh populate your boards and committees in such a way that uh you can get them involved in and some of the things going on um welcome back to Mr wandra as well that was last minute and um I do think if you're going to send out those type of letters and say stop doing something uh or we will take action maybe you ought to consider taking action and maybe you wouldn't have some of these constant disruptions and the misinformation that's going on out there because you have to be tired of it you have to be people at home are tired of it people here are tired of it people say they want to come but they don't want to come because they don't want a phone shoved in their face they're tired of it her own attorney's tired of it he dropped her so maybe you guys can look into that have a good 24 thanks thank you is there anyone else for public comment okay seeing n we're going to close public comment and at this time I'm requesting from the Board of Education nominations for the uh office of president of the Board of Education Mr SMI yes i' like to nominate Christine Stites for board president noted thank you I'll second in that nomination any other nominations for the office of President okay seeing none I'll take a roll call Mr anio yes Mr barbier yes Mr buffer yes Miss D Giovani yes Mr Mali yes Mr Nasser yes Miss shco yes Miss should have started with it Miss stes yes and Mr wandra yes it's unanimous so at this point I'll turn the board the meeting over to uh board president miss stes thank you Mr SMI thank you at this time I please have a motion uh for nomination for vice president Madam president I'd like to make that motion I'd like to nominate and is my pleasure to nominate Mr malof thank you Mr Nasser I have a second I'll second that thank you Mr Buffa Mr Smite roll call yes yes yes yes yes absolutely yes yes thank you Mr [Applause] M thank you at this point in time we're going to move to the Board of Education report what I'd like to do is please start with Miss D Giovani and we'll make our way around the table um and we're going to read our code of ethics for school board members please I will uphold and enforce all laws rules and regulations of the State Board of Education and court orders pertaining to schools desired changes shall be brought about only through legal and ethical procedures I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of the children and will seek to develop and maintain public schools that meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or social standing I will confine my board action 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 car carry out my responsibility not to administer the schools but together with fellow board members ensure 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 that 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 or for the gain of friends 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 the proper performance of their duties I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on the complaints at public meetings only after failure of an administrative solution thank you the dates and at this time may I ask for a motion to to approve the uh code of ethics I'll make that motion I'll second thank you take a roll call Mr anesio yes Miss barbier yes Mr buffer yes Mr G Giovani yes Mr Malo yes Mr Nasser yes Miss shimko yes Mr wandra yes m yes thank you at this time may I have a motion to approve the dates for the 2024 wall Board of Education meeting dates I'll move that I'll second thank you Mr Smite take a roll call Mr buffer yes Mr Giovani yes Mr Mali yes Mr Nasser yes m shco yes Mr wandra yes Mr anesio yes Miss barbier yes Miss St yes thank you at this time I would just like to extend a very warm welcome to our newest members of the Board of Education um and to Mr wandra for returning I think we are going to have an outstanding 2024 I look forward to um helping guide the board um as we work as a team alongside Mr maloff who is going to do a wonderful job as our vice president um we will be working on committee assignments and we'll be in touch um and we're going to remember that we are going to remain first and foremost focused on the success for our students and the staff of this District that is what we will continue to focus on in 2024 uh there's a lot of other static that I'm not going to address tonight but will be address rest um and families need to know that the success of our students however they Define that is our first uh goal and will always be our first goal but that certainly will be how we are guided for 2024 um I'm going to be adjourning the meeting in a moment but I'd also like to ask any family members that are here with our newest members to hang around and come down for pictures so that we have those too at this time may I please have a motion for adjournment I'll make that motion second thank you all in favor okay we'll see everybody at the business meeting for January thank you e e e e for