##VIDEO ID:y3GUjgFSQO0## e e e thank you Mr savan will everyone rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice uh Dr Hayes I'll read a quick statement if I may thanks Mr the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice and to attend the meeting of public bodies of which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the provision of this act the cite Park Board of Ed sces notice of this meeting to be published by having a day time and place thereof posted in the office of the burough clerk burough Library bur Rec Department the office of the Board of Ed the offices of school numbers 3456 and the high school on September 17 2024 and notices were forwarded to the reported of the record on September 17 2024 this is an official meeting I will take the role now Dr Hayes uh Mrs AB Brew here Mr capano is not here Mrs Fredo here Mr Garcia here Mr nadw here Dr pontiano here Mr ranc court is not here Mr Russo is not here mrakia here and Mr yanzi here okay Dr Hayes um as I stated during the work session uh 26 Personnel resolutions this evening vast majority of them cover our lunch AIDS teacher aids bus Aid Replacements we're adding some additional substitute teachers this evening asking you to approve some leaves of absence as well as several co-curricular appointments the only three uh resolutions I'd like to point out to the public and read into the record involve an appointment of a business teacher for the Middle School a full-time a part-time to full-time conversion for a computer technician and lastly a drama club additional co-advisor I thank the board of education for your support with my Personnel recommendations and I look for forward to welcoming the three who I just pointed out to you under procedures and policies I want the board to know that there were seven Hib investigations this reporting period four were alleged and three were confirmed the three confirmed cases all involved counseling provided to all involved and in the confirmed cases disciplinary action did occur as well and lastly I would just like the Board of Education uh read into the record along with me uh resolution 42 which I'm asking you to please approve this following recommendation for the agreement between our Cooperative football program of Cliffside Park and Ridgefield High School for the 2526 and 2627 school years termin the agreement is 2 years with an option to renew for an additional two years as per the njsiaa guid guideline if approved it will expire on June 30th of 2029 and this agreement is subject to the njsiaa executive committees prior approval by our boards our board as well as ridgefields and publicly I want to acknowledge Dr panelo Who was the interm superintendent of schools when this agreement was uh under consideration and it's its Inception was it that three years ago four years ago yeah I think it's four four years now and uh again thank you for your support with this resolution and publicly thank uh the football program for their and acknowledge their fantastic success this year that's it for me Mr Alano Mr tabak do you have anything S as vice president this evening I have nothing any uh committee reports I'd like to jump in something I'm not sure if anybody else was going to say I'll jump in because I want to commend our Athletic program I think on behalf of the board we commend our Athletic program because we had uh two division champs the boy soccer and the girls volleyball were both division champs and then the football was the overall Ivy League Division champ so on behalf of my colleagues I want to commend all of our fall athletes and congratulate the students on the soccer volleyball and football teams for all their hard work and dedication and uh Dr Hayes I believe that agreement covers indirectly the cheerleaders the band Yes and wrestling or do we have to do another agreement on wrestling you have to do another agreement on wrestling do but yes to the cheerleaders in the B the coaches I'm sorry Mr Garcia just want to make sure I said the coaches but congratulations to all of our fall Sports and the coaches and congratulations to those three teams specifically the whole program and the coaches who buil them for doing such a phenomenal job I just want to say while I'm talking um the football team really lost a lot of players four years ago Richfield didn't even have a varsity program so coach Manel and his coaching staff really did a phenomenal job bringing all those players together and every year I just feel the need to praise coach belli and his staff unfortunately I don't know the soccer coaches but you know uh five years ago six years ago I don't know that the girls volleyball team even won a game so they went from not winning a game to winning the league two years in a row so you know congratulations thank you for bringing those programs back thank that's it for us uh just a quick update on the business side fiscal side again we're coming to a closure with our fiscal audit uh we have a Q coming in I think Dr Hayes in January so we're working through that also and we're starting to work on our 2526 budget uh Believe It or Not uh it's time for that capital projects we'll be meeting with the principles on Monday uh the goal over their their templates for the 2526 budget and we'll also be finalizing what we believe will be our capital projects that we may want to assess for 2526 and there's two resolutions i' just like the board and our public to point their eyes to and that would be on pages 24 and 25 it' be resolutions number 59 and 60 get those uh page 24 resolution 59 inter superent to approve clean Sky energy was going to be our new supplier of kilowatts electricity at a contract a rate of 16 cents uh per kilowatt for term of 9ine months we engage we have a contractor and a consultant called Coen Associates and Noble Hill brokerage who essentially go out to the market and bid out uh thms gas and kilow electricity for us we have one bill so everything gets built through public service but we bid against public service and other gas or electric contractors and we uh obviously the lowest bids we we engage in so there's a bidding process and this is the outcome of the L latest bid process where we're going to be engaging with clean Sky energy for our kilowatt and our electricity and it'll be one bill everything will flow through um psng uh the other resolution I'd like to folks to focus in on is resolution 60 we are going to be awarding to K&D contractors for our uni univ ventilator project replacement of our univ ventilators at uh number six school we uh expect to have the uh the bids awarded and the bid packages finalized and blessed by the attorney uh this week I did speak to Mr Fogerty and Mr fogy has assured me that this resolution we can move forward with with K andd uh contractors he's fleshed out all the all the appropriate paperwork so we will move forward with that uh the good news on this is that the assessment by land Associates the actual bid came in lower than the assessment on land Associates would give us a little bit of play in regard to having some incremental Surplus to do whatever we may want to do down the road but uh this essentially this is the formal award of that bid for the univ ventilator project at school 6 we are finishing up the rtu the rooftop unit project at number six think of a going from the top now underneath you have your rooftop units and underneath your rooftop units you have unit ventilators so this will button everything up at number six School we've had our challenges with our HVAC at number six school for many years teddy as you know um on a variety of issues compressors icing up a variety of issues we had at six School uh especially on the uh the Middle School side so this will really button everything up from top to bottom and a couple years ago we uh we installed new boilers too so we're in very good shape now in number six school and all our schools with our uh HVAC so this is what we're going to be uh requesting to formally approve this evening that's pretty much it on my and Mr teraki and Dr Hayes thank you want to invite Nicholas up speak Nicholas you going come up to speak anything U Mr saano just Nicholas hello man hello Bo hey Nicholas thanks for being here Nicholas how are you how's everyone doing so with the Juniors going out for lunch we got good good uh good feedback everyone's loving it you know there's not a lot of crowding no more a lot of people going out a lot of Juniors going out most of them are going like to local businesses like seres down like down P side but uh a lot of them are also going home taking a little rest eating there as well also so that's good feedback from them other thing is that um Mr Pinto approved from uh class representatives so we're this week we're sending out a form and we like 20 to 15 to 20 students uh reported back to us saying that they they would like to to run for class reps so freshman sophomores and juniors are they're running for class reps and that got approved uh they'll probably come in like one one meeting or so uh just to just to get to know like the board of aded and student council just just for that and then another thing for the class of 2024 2025 we would like to like create a fundraiser for like local businesses So like um like bull Shake Pizza side SES so partner with them CU especially with local businesses especially with Juniors and seniors going out for lunch that can motivate kids to go to these places buy something buy something to get something to eat and like fund raise for us for the 2024 2025 class so it's great uh I know you guys need a form for that cuz also we did that last year with Chipotle as well and so we need a form still on the work I still have to talk to to Mr Peno and our class rep for it so that's one thing I I just wanted to clear that out and see why you talking to those businesses why don't you actually to do like a student discount also to motivate so I know Serge just has one okay um a new place down on andon right next to yum yums Jojo Jojo they also have one Vol Shake I don't know if they have one but in yums I don't know if they have one like businesses like Sedona as well they'll be willing to help they've Al they've helped in the past so that's like a big one that can help um another one is um Mash Burgers another one and then like those local business they're always getting kids going there lunch and so that's like it's just a big like it's just a big um outlet for students to go and get something to eat and so while they're getting something to eat they can also help out the school but we still have to talk to that's just that was an idea that was brought up that's it so good ide but it'll be like brought forth to next meeting maybe so great that's it thank you job next ladies and gentlemen Nicholas would like to take your picture he realizes that um there were several board meetings uh for a board members is not here tonight so he will come back again in December but if you don't mind he'd like to take oh yeah after the meeting when we close yeah cap is that good Frank anything from the public not a motion to accept amend motion to accept was that Mr terak here yeah okay can I have a second if I may please okay thank you Mr G okay we'll take a vote now Mrs Abu yes Mrs Fredo yes Mr Garcia Mr Nadu yes uh Dr pontano I have a question before I can you just explain what number 39 is sure so it's a new mandate uh Dr Pantano and uh we had to do a data analysis of our individual schools chronic absenteeism that they defined as greater than 10% and believe it or not the only school who had less than 10% and the best attendance in the district was the high school oh wow so uh our director of research whatever Angelo alin's title is uh he delved into the data um completed these corrective action plans um they'll be on the sorry I apologize for not speaking about this issue sooner they'll be on this District's web page for everybody to can get you copies as soon as you have but a bunch of strategies and interventions to help the elementary guidance counsil is stay in touch with the parents try to curb The Chronic attend absenteeism say I think we're running maybe 133% in some of the buildings try to get it back on 10% that's wonderful thank you thank you Dr just to piig there's a Target though right but we're below Target if I recall below 10% yeah if you and if you if let's say you started at 18% and it's unrealistic to get to 10 they'd accept like a 3 to 5% increase right right there's a play there's a play in there right yes sir okay thank you Dr Pantano ring um Mr teraka yes Mr yanui yes okay so moved can I get a motion to adjourn I'll make a motion okay and a second if I