##VIDEO ID:dUGY_nIjXmI## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e just speak yes it's going to take 10 seconds so just um so at this time we're going to do the recognition and appreciation for retiree Ellen Bender okay we good Eastford Board of Education in recognition and appreciation for Ellen Bender whereas Ellen Bender has served as a teacher with the east Rutherford Board of Education from September 1st 2006 through December 31st 2024 during during this time she has committed herself and served to the education of the children of East Rutherford public schools and where as Ellen Bender has demonstrated outstanding instructional qualities throughout her career in education and whereas Ellen Bender eagerly met the challenges to ensure educational Excellence for children and to serve for the well-being of the East shuford Public School community and whereas alen Bender has served the east Rutherford Public School District district and our community with distinction and dedication and whereas the members of the Board of Education and the community appreciate and hereby recognize her commitment to the east Rutherford Board of Education the east Rutherford school district and the children of the community now therefore be it resolved that the East retherford Board of Education acknowledges the efforts and commitment of Alan Bender for her dedication to the children of the East Rutherford Public Schools throughout her 18 years four months of teaching and be it further resolved that with the enactment of this resolution Ellen Bender's recognition shall shall be so noted in the minutes and become a part of the permanent record of the district and be it finally resolved that the east Rutherford Board of Education wishes wishes Ellen Bender every success in the future this resolution shall take effect immediately adopted this 19th day of December 202 second Miss carusa yes Miss colie yes Miss Mena Mr Sanders yes and Miss Lissa yes Madam president just so just a bit of record Ellen vender will definitely be missed yes um worked very closely with her she was wonderful um she really worked hard to bring children to a whole new level um and I appreciate all the work that she's done as superintendent of schools as well as wishing her the very best in her retirement thank at this time I will open um public comments on any agenda or non-agenda items state your name address for the record address the board president each person wishing to speak will have five minutes each anyone wishing to speak will be given the opportunity to do so here7 Place representing each P uh just to give you an update we have 190 members as of today uh from November we had the following events we had ating program at the Texas Road House on November 14th which was our last SP meeting uh we had $150 of income to the PTA from that event and we also were allowed to sell candy bars and chocolate car PR at a table and made $220 at the table so it was great people were waiting to be seated and they were like our gr committee host two events in November they had an e8th grade FS versus uh eth graders uh soccer game on November 15th and an eth grade staff volleyball game on the 26 sou and both events were well attended and uh were very fun uh PK host inasa yoga and War 16 19 I the exact number of purchasing for there raed $5 and most people we' had so far a couple times last year um we also help coordinate for linol school their Thanksgiving feast um all the um supplies and everything were provided by the parents of the students PT was there as volunteers to help serve and set in December we ran the holiday shops at both schools at McKenzie and Lincoln also chopped at School uh this allow students purchase from an assortment ofensive gifts I the family members and friends or many of them like to keep them for themselves uh pays for accepting cash and credit card also introduced online gift cards so parents could preset for their children send gift card online um the school is on December 2 and 3rd we also handed out fre register packs to every student buy something got something little a total sales of 6363 of which P got just over $1500 and linoln 11 12 and 13th um approximate sales of $6,700 $600 uh we had a table set up for our town liting Marketplace then we we gave away coloring books and RAC P any child present themselves several teams and a few to um did a raffle of spat spirit wear basket $150 value we had $120 on that raffle we actually didn't have to spend any money on on the um on the raffle items because we earn a credit for the spirit based on our back to school sale that we ran so when we run the sales the company gives credit toward purchases and weing protein help a for our Tri uh we also have S candy bars and chocolate pretzels there as well but we didn't do quite as well at the roadhouse and we included a sale of some Le items from the holiday shop as well um we did have the H Spirit Weare sale that end on December 10th we'll have the amounts for that in January um thanks to missa here we had a uh what you call m mission magical Christmas in town a new initiative uh provide holiday gifts for each other families PTA donated $150 worth of wrapping paper and supplies to that initiative uh to assist the families of our town uh picture retakes and our e c down photos were taken last Friday the 13th at all three schools um the D Don program continue that this speak on Tuesday with Jersey mik the amount will get soon um Lincoln School hot chocolate social is for tomorrow so we'll be there with hotol CER and water for the students fin for our fourth and fifth graders to uh begin their holiday recess and our East police department and some of our PT members will be at McKenzie school tomorrow uh to pick up some donations for their choice to TOS program um Kenzie School participated in that this year and we're going to offer the classroom that that are brought in those toys uh either some sort of special Prize or event depending on what the teacher would like to do and then only a few things in January we have the D and donate program continuing on January 7th that will be at chipot Mexican Grill on L 17 um we're putting together win teacher and staff appreciation treats those will deciding both will provide provide those on the professional development day uh which will be January 9th in the afternoon and our events being worked on and will be announced in the new year and just on behalf of our P we want to thank everyone on the board for your service and support of our children's education and our schools and we wish you all the happiest holiday and the best in the New Year we look forward to working with you in the thank you lots of exciting stuff happening thank you oh thank you oh I start ly I did print out that thing that we spoke about yes okay so before we go into the OR I'll give it to thank you Mr L thank you anybody else okay seeing none I close uh public comment uh committee reports uh School business administrators report Mr verrai thank you madam president first off I want to start off with the building grounds and transportation report first for cleaning uh custodial cleaning efforts our custodial teams continue to demonstrate a strong commitment to maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness across our facilities their dedication is evident in the consistent improvements in Daily and evening cleaning operations BR main focus on provided ongoing support to our custodial staff to ensure our schools are clean safe and welcoming environments for everyone uh our ongoing Main uh maintenance work order system uh is actively addressing work orders to resolve routine issues efficiently and effectively each task is being managed promptly to keep our buildings and equipment in excellent condition we deeply value their attention to detail and commitment to ensuring our facilities remain in optimal working order Transportation updates uh we are we did Welcome a new part-time bus driver his name is Dumar Beltran he started on December 2nd he is a welcomed Edition with many years of experience and he's proven to be a great addition to the team we are in we are have recruitment efforts are underway to recruit a part-time bus a for further enhancement of our transportation services vehicle mainess there were no significant mechanical issues aside from wear and tear repairs and Regulatory Compliance a me a memorandum has been issued reminding all bus drivers and AIDS to adhere to the New Jersey transportation idoling regulations and codes okay now for food services for mashes for November 2024 prepaid balances at the end of the month was $1,368 42 negative balances at the end of the month uh was negative $1,535 I want to remind the board members and those at home that these are negative balances not just from 2425 they go back to 2324 and even before that so our off off is Thoroughly looking into uh into those negative balances uh our profit and loss for no uh for the end of November uh although we are still in the red it was $3,844 129 I went back to last year to see where we were and last year we were in a deficit I shouldn't say a deficit we were in the whole we were not making money right we were at a loss and it was 24,300 $ 58.72 so that's a big improvement from last November to this November um we are bringing in more income with cost of goods being sold which is good so I'm very positive that this trend will continue and that the food service program will be self-sufficient by the end of the year okay pf1 is the approval of the monthly facility calendar calendar for January 2025 F1 is the approval of bills list number one for December 2024 F2 the approval of payroll for November 2024 F3 is the approval of the financial reports for the month of October 2024 which we are in Balance according to our Treasurer F4 approval transfers for the month of October 2024 we are where we need to be F5 is the approval of aen L for transportation for 2425 school year uh we do make payments twice a year that is in January and June parents barnings of the student as well as the non-public school have to provide us information documentation that that student does attend that school uh F6 is approval of eay funding year 25 category one bid this has to do with our Verizon files uh we do have to go out to to bid with that and our new uh eay Consultants actually called eay consultant has been helping us out uh tremendously doing a lot of delayed work uh with this so that's what you will be voting on tonight is for the Verizon files the category one F7 is the approval of providers for tuition for Extraordinary Services contract agreements this is Bergen County Special Services give me a second I'll pull that up Bergen County Special Services for augment of communication assessment learn well and again for Bergen County Special Services teacher of the def consultation f8 is to approval of the consultant Services agreement with brown and brown for calendar year 2025 this is our broker for the health insurance and prescription so they don't go by fiscal year they go by calendar year I'm happy to announce that their rates didn't go up which is a good thing that's good uh um F9 is the approval of the agreement with Varsity Tutors for school year 2425 F10 is the approval of the December transfer for preschool expansion a 24 25 school year uh myself and Dr King doson as well as Mr Jen Casper we noticed a need when we reached out to the county the county informed us this is what we needed to do in order to transfer money within the fund this is not coming from general fund it's within the budget we noticed that we needed to uh reallocate some money for transportation supplies for our prek students which we will be transporting from not mistake Mr J Casper I think 17 preschool students will be transported that's accurate thank you F1 is to amend f10a as approved at the July 25th 2024 board meeting this has to do with Kelly Services this is this is uh specifically for our power Prof professionals what they bill us because minimum wage is going up January 1 in the state of New Jersey it's going up from $15.13 to $15.49 so that's the only part of the contract that we are amending is to reflect the race in the hourly rate um so because of the mean was didn't uh happened last week we were able the treasurer was able to get us November's reports so you'll be approving that just October's but November's reports Financial reports and transfers and then F14 authorizing and approving the use of expert witness services and that concludes my report thank you I'll take my report at this time just a quick announcement uh so um president needs to step out for personal reasons Miss um Maria kuso will take the position right now to run Bo meeting I'll start with my report so McKenzie school students 367 students down three students B School 239 students down one Lincoln School 177 students staying pretty steady so that's 800 783 students in general uh Fire and Security drills were conducted for the month of December which complies with New Jersey Fire and Security drill mandates that are conducted by school drills for school districts uh this evening we have HIV investigations for the December report there are two HIV non hibs that we'll be discussing in executive session this evening underneath superintendent presentation the only thing I have right now is long range facility we're still working on getting ready to upgrade the McKenzie roof section as as as well as the full F uh School roof um as well as the um Board office Board office roofs yeah right is the exterior is the exterior correct and then we have the exterior interior doors of f school so that's in the works and we'll be reporting out uh in the coming months um we don't have our students here today so I'm going to report out on our buildings uh buildings report so for f school on December 5th Mr tanell and the Honor Society members of the Honor Society visited vanon Park to decorate Bergen Bergen County's Christmas tree their theme uh this year's theme was wild cats metro metro metti stadium and candy canes those huge thank you for Mr tanell for collaborating with councilman buer and councilman laruso on this project Mrs barali and Mr valard were in attendance that evening as well as Miss Balco and for helping out with decorating of the tree Winter concert took place on December 9th at beckon Regional High School thanks to uh Dr sporza for allowing us to perform there um it was a full event a lot of talented students with the fine and Performing Arts and congratulations to a wonderful event from our F school students Mr schwart and M schwart Miss Sato and Mrs mer on December 12th F School honorable students en enjoyed a breakfast with Mrs barali great work to our wildcast for all their achievement in the marking period number one um the student council will participate in an afternoon of volunteering community service at the metaland YMCA food pantry uh a special huge thanks to Mrs Muse and Mr calabo Lincoln School we uh Thanksgiving was incredible we finished that Thanksgiving I can't believe we're in December right now we're talking about Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was on Wednesday the 27 through a partnership with the PTA they traditional Thanksgiving foods and and and place mat that were created huge thank you to the PTA PTA is nothing but the best so we appreciate all the hard work and all of our parents that belong to the PTA as well as our teachers um as we approach the holidays our staff is exploring different elements tying in various cultural holiday components integrating their experiences into programming this culminate this culminated with a winter wonderland week Lincoln leaders will be focused on accountability this month at at Friday monthly meetings they will be reviewing expectations of Student Success and honorable students Live school parties for for Miss Ernie and Mr K's home rooms were took place yesterday on December 11th picture day makeups were done on December 13th and our holiday shop PTA which run through Lincoln and F School holiday shops which took place on Wednesday through Friday of the current over at McKenzie School uh uh let's see second grade Winter concert was um which was held yesterday at 6:30 in evening had the opportunity to see them in the morning on the holiday theme was wonderful was well well um attended by our our family and parents McKenzie school and other districts participated in the PTA and e um East Rutherford Police Department Toys for Tots donation school spirit week during the week of December 16th leading into the holiday break students are all participating in that uh McKenzie school celebrated Wildcat of the month for each grade level during Roar assemblies at the end of this month and McKenzie school has also celebrated perfect attendance for the first marketing period over at McKenzie school in the area of special education business total number of students 131 students up two in District um up seven Al together equ 119 students out of District steady at 7 parent Serv so the Easter brother for school district is in cohort 19 which will participate in the New Jersey Department of Education special education parent survey the district met its December 10th deadline and sending to New New Jersey Department of Education pertinent parent and student data that was requested and in February 202 will be sent to all our parents notifying them of this survey which they will be receiving electronically um on dece on November 19th Dr attended a web a webinar hosted by Melanie ree director of kadd which is also the group invested in educational Partnerships in California pathway Partnerships uh and to gather information about Insight on making IEP meetings more inclusive collaborative and focused on um unique student needs New Jersey uh grow New Jersey on November 21st Dr King doson met with the New Jersey Department of Education representative to to complete steps in ensuring the district is registered in part to participate in grow New Jersey as required by paa as a result of this meeting on November 27th the district receives official exemption for licensing notice which was great we received that and it's in hand and at the County uh New Jersey Department of Education has released guidelines for best practices in New Jersey Public School Behavior Analysis I will be attending a workshop on that on January 14th um underneath curriculum business we attended a county curriculum meeting which was held on December 6th uh the areas that were discussed were using project management tools as administrators how to prepare for cardiac events perspectives on the impact of New Jersey lgbtq plus and disability mandates success skills in middle school students and reduction of chronic absenteeism uh assistant superintendent of curriculum student services and instruction conducted a monthly check-in with gifted in town ented and basic skills for the month of October November and now December conducted basic skills BSI check-in on 11:22 and also um attended an online Title One performance report hour uh which was done by the Department of Education that concludes my report thank you Mr Jan casbro correspondence to members the Board of Education there were none uh with that I like to do the adoption of Prior board meeting minutes uh upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves the following meeting minutes from November the 14th public session meeting minutes and executive session meeting minutes second second roll call please yes M calling Mr Sanders yes resoltion yes yes ma'am okay upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board hereby approves motions S1 through S three S1 the approval of fire and emergency report S2 approval of enrollment S3 approval of harassment intimidation and bullying monthly report roll call please miss colie miss meta yes Mr Sanders yes and Miss cuso yes see phical facilities Mr Sanders please yes acting president upon the recommendation of superintendent the board hereby approves motions pf1 through pf2 pf1 approval of monthly facility calend January 2025 pf2 approval of District use of facilities applications any questions roll call please miss Paulie Miss meta Mr Sanders yes M carusa yes curriculum committee Mrs quy can you take that please of the superintendent the board hereby approves motion C1 approval of student field trips and transportation requests for the 2024 2025 school year any questions roll call please Miss Callie Miss Mena Mr Sanders yeah Miss Kusa yes okay uh Personnel committee that's me you're everything everything upon the recommendation of the superintendent the board here by approves motions P1 through P10 P1 approve the Kelly education substitute list P2 Personnel actions P3 approval of travel expenditures P4 approval to amend p4a the After School academic Intervention Program appointment for the 2024 2025 school year is approved at the October 17 2024 Board of Education meeting P5 leave of absence P6 accept accept acceptance of resignation notification for Diane Williams p7 acceptance of resignation for Julissa sorry correct trola p8 resolution authorizing and approving a collective negotiated agreement between between the east Rutherford Board of Education and the international Union of operating engineers locals 6-68 A- 68b AFL dco P9 approve the iuoe salary list for the 2023 2024 school year and P10 approved the I the iuoe salary list for the 2024 2025 school year any questions it's a Clarity for the board um underneath uh E4 there's any confusion that is just a code different that there's nothing change it's just a the line item number has change so that's what we're correcting there under pf6 it's not a full resignation just resonating from the uh lunch Aid she's still a busz aid for the district to give you clarify on that um everything else should be okay any the questions for the from the board no other questions okay roll call please this Char Miss Mena Sanders yeah Miss cariso yes and that ends my reading moving on to techn oh I'm sorry Community Relations Committee Mrs qu thank you acting president there's a lot of policy changes and revisions that are coming up that I'm going through it's a lot um so I plan on giving it to you way for to January board meeting if you to look at give you a little cheat sheet so you can look through all the things so if you have any questions prior to the meeting you can just ask ask away okay so I'll send try this is a lot so I'll try to get this to you as soon as I can this community relations or for techy community relations it would be it's the policies new policies and revisions new updates so because there's a lot of them I'll try to get that to you so it gives you time to digest them read through them if you have any questions you can can ask um then moving on to technology committee Mrs safy andity of our data and information systems improvements for school year onging in Mee schedu SC Protocols are continuing to be updated the the security need for the district and stand are being scheduled to evaluate the current structures in place budgeting for the 2526 school year is also way the4 25 school years continuation of the annual techology to helpology programy to create accounts for all district financials if they have not already done so Contin to use Genesis to share and colle data from through the to communication information the district Contin to evaluate technology platform to help support productivity efficiency and instruction with and lastly thees to valuate policy procedure to to appropriate technology to help support productivity efficiency and the district that concludes my report thank you Mrs men thank you okay um finance committee that's me again or or uh yeah do um right so yeah yeah we thr it in table yeah you take Finance but just table yes yeah thank you Mr sanders9 not9 yeah F9 F14 so you'll move all them but that thank you acting president um upon recommendation of superintendent and board the board here by appr motions F1 almost to F14 omitting F9 and F14 F1 approval of Bill bills list number one December 2024 approval of Kroll November 2024 approval of I'm sorry F3 approval of Finance reports October 2024 F4 approval of transfer uh for October 2024 F5 appr approval of Aid in leg Transportation 2024 through 2025 school year uh F6 approval of T rate funding year 2025 category one bid uh F7 approval of providers of uh t uh tuition extraordinary service contracts and agreements for the 2024 2025 school year uh f8 approval of Consulting service agreement with brown and brown Metro LLC omitting at 9 uh tbling F9 F10 approval of the December transfer for preschool expansion Aid 2024 school year f11 approval to amend f10a uh as approved at the July 2020 July 25th 2024 forward meeting for Kelly Services Inc 2024 2025 contract uh F12 approval of financial reports for November 2024 f-13 approval of transfers for November 20124 and table link F14 that ends my report any questions can I have a motion okay roll call please miss colie yeah Miss meta yes Mr Sanders yes and Mr Russo yes thank you okay with that uh do we have any old business okay any new business with that I going to open now to the public for comments on anything so during hearing none then I'm going to post to the public on comments um we resolved that in accordance with Section 8 of the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL the board has the authority to adjourn to a closed session to discuss matters pertaining to Legal Personnel negotiations attorney client priv Privileges and or student matters said matter would be made will be made available Upon A determination by the board that the disclosure of the minutes will not detrimental detrimentally affect any right or interest of the board the board expects to return to the business portion of the meeting in approximately minutes an hour's let say an hour hour yeah let's say one one hour 60 minutes I'm sorry one hour one hour for sure um and um action may be taken can I have a motion to close second all in favor I thank you thank you than do get e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e motion to go back into public session um with that we're going to I'm gonna ask Mr Sanders under Finance please yes thank you president um I'd like to move that F14 yes authorizing the approval of the use of expert witness Services roll call please miss uh Miss call Miss Mana Mr Sanders yes missuso yes uh and the other thing before we close is that our next Board of uh Board of Education meeting on the agenda it me it says Thursday January the 2nd 22 2 it's actually Monday January the 6th at 6 o'clock so I just want to make a notation um of that that's correct so that uh so that we have the right date it's it's Monday January the 6 202 with that then I'd like to close our meeting motion please all in favor I meeting ended thank you