I'd like to call this meeting back to order may I have a roll call please Mrs Fritz here M gck here Mr gibons here Mrs Gils here M Gore is absent Mrs Johnson here Mr Donal here Mr dentino here Mr Marks here we have quum at this time we're going to move on to Star students in the recognition of the Naran training for the drivers Mr buildo good evening Mr Marks good evening Mr Marks members of the board ladies and gentlemen I uh would like to at this time ask Mr tro our assistant superintendent to help facilitate uh with the first recognition of our star students Mr tro good evening everyone um welcome out welcome tonight um we are excited to be able to recognize some of our fine students from Union Valley and aerial elementary schools and so I will keep my portion short I'm going to be turning over to the principles from each of those schools and those they will be introducing the students and some of the staff that are involved and they also have certificates from Mr Bido and the Board of Education that they'll be presenting to the students after the presentation tonight so with that I will turn the microphone over to our administrative team from Union Valley Elementary School Mrs lwell good evening everyone and welcome congratulations to all of tonight's shining star Spotlight students union Valley is highlighting our 14 student council members from our fourth and fifth grade classes and we have two teacher leaders who head that up and at this time I'd like to ask Mrs Malloy and Miss NOA to please join us we would like the union Valley student council members to please come forward our student council members that are here tonight are Terrence Somerville Natalie Salis tavaras AJ walls Avery heran Luke San jorgio edelyn Laura Tatum Speakman arice Hamill Brady Bartell Ellis Johnson jce nebor Blake Brinley and Ryan Hajj good evening everybody and thank you um for allowing us the time to present uh we are super proud of all of our students um and we're just going to sorry highlight some of the great things that we've done throughout the years um my name is Mary Jo snola and I've been one of the speech language specialists at Union Valley for about 10 years good evening my name is Erica Malloy I'm a fifth grade teacher at Union Valley um I've been there since the school opened in 2001 and with the help of our building Administration we founded our student council at the start of 201627 17 school year for the past seven years we have led our members in becoming the leaders of our school typically student council consists of two students from each fourth and fifth grade home room for a total of approximately 14 students a year prior to being elected by their peers students campaign by creating posters and making speeches to their home room peers who then vote to elect whom they think are the best candidates the purpose of an elementary level student council is to help students learn the importance of organization leadership service and teamwork being a member of student council now also has to prepare students for later Student Government positions in both middle and high school each year the student council as a whole focuses on carrying out a variety of activities as a team from start to finish students and teachers search for and vote on which activities they will partake in each year members then meet during their recess time no more than once per week to plan gather materials put together sell goods and sometimes even deliver Goods to organizations many of our activities are built around service and doing good for others our students will now introduce themselves and present you with pictures and information about the activities that student council has participated in over the years I'd like to call up teren first hi my name is Terrence and I a fifth grade member of student council I won student council this year and last year I joined the student council because I like helping people and making my parents proud I also join the student council because helping people is great and it makes me feel less selfish and I can be considerate student council is great fun and a happy program that I'm proud to be a part of hi my name is Natalie and I'm a fifth grade member of student council each year in early may we found we hold a fundraiser for Alex's Lemonade Stand foundation for Childhood Cancer student council members will make a list of materials needed to make lemonade and hold a lemonade stand then gather and sort donations make the the L lemonade and sell it in the cafeteria at lunch and to our families at Fine Arts night at the end we are responsible for collecting and organizing the money then then making a donation to the organization to help change the lives of children with cancer hi my name is Blake and I am a fourth grade member of student council student council members had the opportunity to visit the Ronald McDonald House in Camden New Jersey while there students had a tour of the building and then made served and ate lunch with families who were staying at in the house at the time prior to visiting student council made a list of materials they would need and pack them up to be brought to the house hi my name is Jace and I'm a fourth grade member of student council a few times student council members ran a food food drive to gather other items requested by the food bank of South Jersey we kept track of what was received then sorted the items and brought them to the food bank members had a chance to tour the facility in penson the New Jersey and learn about the needs in our community hi my name is AR and I am a fourth grade member of student council last year student council visited the animal welfare Association in Vorhees New Jersey they had an opportunity to learn about the shelter and different types of animals that are there we also T the shelter met some and some of the cats and dogs and even made toys for the cats to play with before we visited we gathered and sorted donations that were requested by the shelter hi my name is Tatum spitman and I am a fourth grade member of student council some of our projects are even schoolwide each year we ask for donations that are needed to make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to be delivered to The unforgotten Haven once we have gathered and sorted throughout materials each grade level is asked to participate by creating a bag or a message making the sandwiches and putting together the bads student council members finish up the project by boxing the complete bads to be ready for donating hi my name is Avery and I am a fifth grade member of student council last year student council members Made pocket hearts for Veterans Day and pocket flags for Memorial Day through a local American Legion once they made the hearts were delivered to the US veterans and the flags were delivered to current US soldiers reminding them that they are not alone hi hi my name is AJ and I'm a fifth member of student council last year we participated in a fundraiser for the Alicia Rose Victorious Foundation which provides lung areas and activities in hospitals for children we chose bandana colors and then sold them to all the students during lunch periods at the end of the week students were able to wear their bandanas to show their support in just 3 days we raised over ,000 we can't wait to do this again this year hi my name is Luke and I'm a fifth grade member of student council this year another activity for the American Legion was to make bracelets for the for soldiers some of us already knew how to make loot bracelets if we didn't we learned then we each made a few bracelets to be given to soldiers hi my name is edelyn I and I am a fourth grade member of student council this year's food drive was donated to the Williamstown food bank we listed the items we needed then we made sure that they were sorted in box to be delivered to the food bank hi my name is Brady and I'm in fourth grade of this of student council every year during the holidays Union Valley adopts a family in need to help provide them with gifts that they may not get otherwise we have used nonprofits such as salvation Army and more recently Family Promise of Southwest New Jersey students and families that are able to participate are asked to donate clothing toys and housewares for each family once all items have been collected we separate them into Pils for each family remember then wrap the gifts so they are ready for the holidays this is one of our favorite activities hi my name is Ellis and I'm a fourth grade member of student council this year the PTO had some leftover materials from the holiday shop so we got to make reindeer food for our younger students to leave out the Night Before Christmas This was such a fun activity hi my name is Ryan I'm a fourth grade member of student council we are currently in the process of making blankets for for project lonus the organization gave us the materials and now we are making blankets like this one by measuring and cutting tying large pieces of fabric together when the blankets are all done we will give them to children who are very sick we can't wait to have more finished blankets and for the month of February we were going to be making 30 cards for home for the brave this is a homeless shelter in Camden for single male veterans they get the support services they need and they can live there for two years so this is what our student council has been involved in the last several years and continuing all these fun activities for this coming year as well so thank you all for coming and you do a great job when we [Applause] meet good evening thank you everybody for coming tonight my name is Brian Shields I'm the principal at aerial Elementary we are also presenting with our student council and some of the things that they have been working on this year I'm going to turn it over to Mr Jim carmichel our assistant principal who fac facilitates our student council thank you Mr Shields good morning everyone Board of Education superintendent Mr Bido parents and family members student of the month is a special celebration for students who have demonstrated exceptional citizenship we at Ariel have several students being recognized for this prestigious accomplishment in fourth grade we have Tyler kernigan Mia Logan missil Silva Kalo Christian hail Carter Brown Dakota Watkins Alexandra AGA Caleb Revo Elizabeth Capra Evelyn connley and Pearson Payne our fifth grade student council members Jaden Jones janad Jenkins Henry vo Amaya wac dejon Lester Amaya Carter Levi nicoletto Adriana Smith guel Zavala Lopez Leon Tran and Alia Berger this makes up Ariel's fourth and fifth grade student [Applause] council our student council is a student-led assembly comprised of fourth and fifth grade students who represent the interests concerns and needs of the student body student council is a group of student leaders who work with adult advisers to collaborate with others to impact their school Community which impacts their city or town which impacts our state which impacts our country which changes the world through projects and activities student councils work to promote citizenship promote scholarship promote leadership promote human relations and cultural values several projects this year include helping teachers collect food items for the needy families of our community during Thanksgiving collecting and distributing information for a hat day at Ariel in which we collected over $500 which will be invested in our PBIS reward systems of incentives for all of our students at Ariel voting on our new iiel PB cheer which we will try to sing in a couple minutes in the future we'll be doing a superhero Underdog day collecting pet food for local animal shelter and also Autism Awareness I did ask the student council to sing with me but they're going to sing only one part correct okay you might want to video this parents here we go Ariel Eagles the green and white we're proud to say that we are bright we have great teachers working as a team we try our best when reaching for our dreams we respect everyone and Obey all the rules act responsibly remember safety to we work hard to represent our school we are the mighty mighty eagles very nice job once again student council members at Ariel Elementary School great job kids thank you Mr tro um just wanted to uh as an intro to uh some of our guests in the next recognition program we have is uh about two years ago gler Township suffered a tragedy of one of our elementary students dying from being poisoned from Fentanyl and at the then time we had less than a handful of Staff members we have 1300 staff members but we had less than a handful who had received training in noran so um since that time it's been U very profound this board of education's been very supportive of making sure that we begin to train staff um all of our nurses all of our administrators both certificated and non-certificated uh have been trained um there has been a tremendous amount of effort from the Canon County government to push this message of students being poisoned and different people and our community being poisoned by this um terrible uh drug and I would um tell you that it's been a uh short Journey but it's been a long journey thus far and there's a lot to do still um I had heard about having bus drivers trained and I'll be honest with you initially I was resistant to it only because I felt our bus driver ever should be driving the buses um but as more and more information came out on the benefits of such a program I began to listen and I am pleased to report that um in partnering with the Canon County government and the can County Department of Health uh we had an opportunity this uh this year to get on to their training uh format and have 50 of our transport staff trained at once um I can go on and on but that um is a wonderful first Salvo um I know that our transportation supervisor and our assistant supervisor uh uh Lyn Kion and Chris clear were instrumental in facilitating this so I know they're here Lynn and Chris thank you for going to your staff telling them the benefits of being prepared in the the event uh that a student on a bus um or anyone on a bus is suffering uh from ingesting this drug so I am pleased to report that we do from camon County have commissioner Virginia of Betteridge of Virginia I know that you have brought some staff along with the Department of Health um you have Carla avalino did I pronounce that correctly carer welcome and John pelan John I know that um I appreciate you have been at superintendent round toes and have told all the superintendents of can County your message from the Department of Health and we even have the trainer who uh kind of pinch hinted um and did a wonderful job for us so Jennifer Hicks is also here so I wanted to acknowledge these uh people for coming out to an Mullen school and being really the impetus for our staff to be trained in an important program so Jenny uh welcome to an Mullen School if you have a few words we'd like to hear from you thank you superintendent thank you members of the board for being so hospitable tonight and allowing us to take a few minutes of your meeting well first before I get into bringing greetings from the camon county uh Board of Commissioners I just want to commend all the students here tonight you are exceptional you have just lifted me up at 7:20 tonight and let me know that our future is in good hands if all our school districts operate in the that what I've seen here tonight I know that we will together fly really high as the Eagles from the aerial School Air District and also the union Valley so to the parents thank you for your commitment to raise such fine young people because in a few years they're going to be taking my place and I hope that we inspire you to continue to fly really high so thank you for your time so the reason I'm here tonight is again to to acknowledge and thank the staff and especially the board and the superintendent for allowing the Camden County Department of Health and Human Services under the leadership of John Pelican who is our director of mental health and addictions we have lost too many people to the fental crisis here in our country and stepping up and training 50 Professionals in your your transportation system is admirable so tonight I would like to call John up and just read a little piece what I have here tonight is a Campton County Proclamation please excuse our backs and I'll just read one little snippet so that you understand how important this is so whereas we acknowledge the Gloucester Township School District and their transportation department for their efforts in supporting this County initiative to education and equip school bus drivers with the tools and training to administer Naran in the case of an overdose the Gloucester Township School District has trained their bus driers Personnel to respond to an overdose and has provided each driver with elicone overdose response kits nxone is the first tool to administer during an opioid emergency and it is critical to have accessible to the staff working closest with the children and in the community so on behalf of the Camden County Board of Commissioners we thank you for being here tonight for supporting us and making a difference in our communities Lynn do you want to come up please ly kion's our transportation supervisor and while Lyn's walking up I do do want to acknowledge the president of the glossa township support professional association gie Rodriguez is all the way in the back G I know I called you I asked for your help and support I thought it was worthwhile as did you so whatever you did to Rally your staff and your colleagues and your Association members I do appreciate you thank you Gina for well Mr Marx that's uh difficult but um yes I will follow your instruction I don't want anybody to think that we didn't offer or afford the opportunity for our professional drivers to come to this event and certainly get recognized uh the drivers if you don't know it are very dedicated and many many districts certainly ours uh they probably get up before 4 5 in the morning and um report before 6:00 in the morning so I know that Mr Marx wants any driver to be ST stand and be recognized so if there are drivers here with us please stand all right thank you I appreciate you coming out all right that concludes the recognition we will have uh 10-minute uh break before we resume the regular session I will I do have uh Mr Umar is over here so students from both Union Valor and Ariel Elementary School um who were recognized tonight if they could go back and have their pictures taken um and at the conclusion of that we will resume our meeting thank you everybody for coming out tonight and supporting everything thank you appreciate it I'd like to call this meeting back to order may I have a motion approval of minutes for executive session December 18th 2023 and January 8th 2024 I'll second I have a motion as a second may I have an all in favor please I I I any opposed motion carries may I have a motion and second for board regular meeting for December 18th 2023 and recognition meeting January 8 2024 second any questions may have a roll call please Mrs Fritz yes Mrs gck abstain Mr gons yes Mrs gilch yes Mrs Johnson yes Mrs oon uh no on January 8th yes on December 18th noted Mr dentino yes Mr Marks yes they both pass we're going to move on to public comments for agenda items only yes please state name and address please no name and just name and town you made me having stopped answering questions now Dena Henry Summerdale um looking over the bill list can we have two lawyers or two um councils because there's uh Dan long and also Parker and McKay for $35,000 seems like a pretty big amount so yes we can I think we have I think we just have the two right three so sometimes when I have a conflict and have to accuse myself I'll give you a perfect example Union negotiations it's not a secret that my wife's a teacher here so they have to step in and do that because I can't uh do the negotiations for obvious reasons as a result of that so they step in on cases or matters on which I have a conflict of interest okay um the $35,000 was this just for one day I can't answer that one that seems like a pretty large amount anybody yeah I think it was a case a case like was it like a teacher case a building case a student case like what kind of case what kind of case 35,000 Personnel matter oh okay thank you thank you any other yes uh Pat McBride uh president glosser Township Education Association on attachment 6.2a it refers to the Fire and Security drills I have a I guess I'm asking for maybe clarification on um 12:22 there was a lockdown in the morning and then there was another some kind of shelter in place or lockdown at 10:30 are all the do they all have to be reported any shelter in place or lock down do they are they reported or recorded with the police the local police officers and if so why wasn't that second shelter in place lock down listed here or is there a report that can be seen why that shelter in place was done you're talking about an actual one or a drill they don't tell me it's a drill or not so the drills do and I think the actual ones should be um so I'm maybe SE a look into that one I was I just I was stated to me that the shelter in place does not need to be reported from a ad from an administrator but I see some here they say shelter in place here from glandor on 121 um from GW uh JW Lily on 1219 I have a concern because it was a shelter in place and there was a concern from a staff member and I don't know if that if that has to be reported to the police shelter a shelter and police would place would have to be reported okay so that can I can find that file at the Poli local police department I think Mr V can you cut out the middle person and figure out kind of what happened there and report back good evening M McBride good evening um I think most of everything stated here between you and Mr long is accurate the scheduled drills have to be listed and approved by the board of education but um under some impression that that second one on the same day wasn't a scheduled drill correct I would have to look into it a little bit further and get you a precise answer okay okay I appreciate that all right you're welcome I have another question in regard to um the listing of appointments coming up in the spring Sports I know the spring Sports was posted and closed on January 17th um when do you plan to when does the board plan to approve those positions since most of them start the first week in March and the individual staff members that coach those Sports would have to be notified because they pretty much prepare for the season in the month of February now based upon the time frame that you just stated if it's accurate I assume it is Patty uh the board is going going to have to approve all the spring coaches at the February meeting it is we will have to be uh efficient with our communication to those people selected thank you we'll try to post those in the future with a little bit more um pace so we don't have to be up against it I think that may be a point hidden in your conversation here thank you any other comments sorry one more comment uh or question looking at the resignations I think I asked this question before are we doing uh exit interviews and if we are doing exit interviews how are they being conducted and if we're not doing exit interviews why not good evening Mrs Henry hi I don't believe we're doing exit interviews I believe they used to be uh they're not a mandate of the district I do believe that people have an OP staff um even staff that are leaving us have an opportunity to speak um and let us know Mr M a is available for them to either come and visit and or send in written remarks which we receiv received before but when we had it on that volunteer basis it was um tepid the response meaning like some you would get it sometimes and sometimes you wouldn't most people that are resigning um don't have a lot of inertia to give us an exit interview and uh a lot of people that are terminated don't um want give us the time of day oh absolutely if somebody's getting terminated I would yeah but I mean just seeing the resignation if somebody would I know like on my team if I got a resignation you know I wish them well but I want to know why like how can I be a better leader what can I do better what could the company do better um because it helps the people that are there still to be better and also it's helps us the leaders to be better so I mean seeing the amount of resignations each month month after month it's concerning because you want to know why people are wishing to leave your team and if you're not doing exit interviews then are you doing stay interviews you know taking the temperature of the team to see what makes them stay what makes them tick why do they want to keep calling glosser Township the place where they're earning their hard ear dollars that's just my two cents thank you we'll take into consideration any other comments I see none the public comments as closed we're going to go into the report to solicitor Mr long thank you Mr Marks uh my items were discussed in the Clos session reported superintendent Mr buildo thank you Mr Mars members of the Board of Education members of the public my microphone is now on Mr Marks and I think the owner of the phone that I have up here helloo we we found a phone on the floor out in the public area we're trying to get it back to the rightful owner so it may be some what entertaining tonight more entertaining than most of our board meetings Mr Marks um if I could uh ask the board to consider uh three changes to the agenda this evening they are minor proceed under 6.4 a field trips uh I'd like to ask the board to consider uh walking um on a trip that had to be cancelled due to the inclement weather last week so um the rescheduled trip to the Franklin Institute uh will be now February 12th for the luring Fleming um fourth grade I don't want the uh students to miss out on that opportunity through Franklin Institute any time the district travels to another state for insurance reasons we have to have it approved so that's an add to 6.4 a um under 6.6 B under non-instructional appointments I would like to add one name six I'm sorry 6.4 B and getting there 6.6 6.6 b b 6.6 B non instructional appointments yes to say six six six six hold on I don't here we are 6.6 B which is non- instructional appointments if we could add Ariana Shaw Ariana Shaw is replacing employee number 6467 the position is mlki 8 at Union Valley the salary would be 15266 one7 prated the effective date is 123 uh 24 um and on 6.6 I uh under a transfer we wanted to just amend the the start date for the final row on that um attachment employee ID number 5957 to change the effective date from February 1st 2024 to January 23rd 2024 which is tomorrow and um they are the only changes thank you for allowing them and any questions with them may I have a motion a second please second any questions I do on 6.6 c um on some of these resignations do we know if we've gotten any responses whatsoever I mean there's a French teacher a preschool teacher special ed teacher a math teacher do we know if we've gotten any responses on any of these seems responses or as far well they're posted I know they're posted do we know has anyone sent in resumés for them when do we know they closed I would have to honestly check and get back to you Mrs guil thanks do I have any other questions may have a roll call please Mrs Fritz here yes yes yes Mrs gck yes Mr gimons yes Mrs gch yes Mrs Johnson yes M odono yes Mrs dentino yes Mr Marks yes may have reported a business administrator yeah Mr Marx I'm asking for uh the table 7.1 which is the board secretary's cast summary report and also 7.2 line item transfers for the month of December I will present both December and January at the February meeting May I have a motion of second table of 7.1 please all in favor I hi hi hi hi hi any n uh and asking for the board's uh approval of payment of Bill 7.3 all the way through uh 7.7 B uh on their Finance business and budget we have a motion please second any questions um on check number 131 910 um under Brett denovi and Associates it says anticipated Services can someone please tell me what that means that's that's the way that that's the way the PO is written the PO is written for a lump sum and as they bill we we knock down the PO just say if the PO was a uh a million dollars and he bills $1,000 it's anticipated Services because that's a says just like we do for electric and all I've never seen that before I had the same question I've never seen it yeah it's it's a gross po that is reduced as the bills come in and then and in June we cancel the PO for what's left how do we know that the money that we had put out for that was fulfilled oh no the services were 50 they invoice us on a monthly basis so we invoices on Services rent correct okay not anticipated maybe we should just change the words to rendered we could do that okay thank you just so everyone's clear the $100,000 your reference in the check okay we did receive a detailed invoice for services rendered correct but in the system the nomenclature used for the original po was anticipated Services correct all right thank you Mr moli I also have a question regarding that check um and I sent it to you via email you said you get back to me did you get a response on that yeah I got a response it's 10 so we have 10 employees doing the service that they're doing got it thank you any other questions uh yes I do and I've asked this I know Dr Martin isn't here but I want to know what is being done to bring people into the district so we're not having Brett denovi or any other uh company come in and service our children I don't know what we're doing and I'd like to have an idea of what we're doing if we can get a uh report of what we're doing somehow it's just a lot of money and I think they' be better served by our own employees I bet Mrs Gil will ask both Dr Martin and Mr marado and get an assessment let you know thank you thank you any other questions May I'm sorry I I'm sorry 7.7 b um for the construction management firm do you know like a roundabout what the going rate is that is for that I would say the roundabout is two to 4% or whatever the project is is what it is okay what was the answer two to 4% thank you any other questions roll call please Mrs Fritz yes Mrs gck yes Mr gibons uh I'm going to be no on check 131 910 and yes on the balance that's 131 910 yes okay thank you Mrs gilch yes Mrs Johnson noted Mr Donald I am abstaining on check number 131 936 yes on the balance M dentina yes Mr Marks yes motion passes any old business Mr buildo I know this time Mr Marks new business um actually um I have two items of new no I have no new no old business Mr Marks I'm repeating myself with this microphone thank you Mr Wells for your system um the um first new business item I would like to recognize all the board members here because January is uh School Board recognition month um you know everyone here plays an entral role and um there's no compensation uh for the oversight and advancement for our children's future and um I don't often thank everyone seated here but uh you do do uh a lot of work and make um you make a lot of inroads in letting communication get to me uh to improve our district I do appreciate all of you for endeavoring that so uh for January I want to uh just have everybody know it's the board of education for their efforts that we have a good 2024 years so thank you everybody thank you m second item I'd like to announce is this is um would have been a little bit um quicker in the communication but I only got confirmation today uh but next week in this room uh the Gloucester Township Police I believe it will be 6:30 p.m will again present to parents and Guardians uh their sexting and vaping um uh presentation they have in the past done this at Charles Lewis school I thought a change of venue would be in order um there have been reports given to me by administrators about coming off of the break how um how the use of cell phones and the inappropriate use of cell phones with um our students and so this has really been a plea from our Middle School principles let's get back on track with this um I'm hopeful that we can go from here in springboard into assemblies for our students because they do need to see it and I would um unfortunately um the things that are happening on these phones uh females are really truly the victims um and that is sad and so to prevent that I think we can start being here um next Tuesday evening we will start that again and we were trying to push through and get the police to come out and and um this awareness I think is important it's just as important as some of the recognition we had earlier tonight so I'm I I'm really thankful that the police department partners with us and does that so if you haven't seen that presentation I know some of the board members here have gone before um it's it's um disturbing but it's informative and it's um something I think is necessary to get into into the light of some of the ills out there with these phones so thank you for that very nice we'll move on to the second portion of public comments Mr pis breaking news we're giv Mr P a microphone regret okay all right first of all when I was a student at glester township I thought the role of the superintendent was to call a snow day that's all I thought you did so I commend you on the three days Tuesday Wednesday and Friday they were excellent calls timely manner greatly appreciate it our safety comes first thank you very nice thank you yes they were they were all well good days I am under my principal just texted me at 6:30 tonight F second Market period now gets one day at it correct it was just adjusted in real time are you talking about the oh the marking period marking period dates because now we do science and social studies by marking period so we made up the day in June the second and fourth would still get the same amount of time and se but she just informed that we're adding one more day to the second Market period am I not right I am not aware of that answer Mr pis I just got a text myself I just got I thought you were going to ask what impact it has to the calendar it is a calendar question preliminary calendar question it's going to be you know we had prior to the snow day finished on a Thursday I think the 13th of June I'm off a little bit right we will finish on a Friday so that finish but the marking period because science and social studies is Market period by Mark period we have to know when the kids switch yes so I just wanted to be clear so Tuesday will still be second Market period we'll switch on wday all right under old business I was expecting a response on the report guards getting printed did we make a decision and I missed it I'll answer that there has been no more discussion but that discussion will be taking place very soon okay so you're saying there's a chance everything has a chance not setting expectations exactly all right now on Mrs Gil's vein here um we see as teachers all the posting of jobs special way French Spanish music whatever where else does the district publish these vacancies I don't know I I mean it's I don't teach Spanish or music or so I get the emails all the time I get the postings but outside of our inhouse where else are we posting I the opinion or they got me I'm of the opinion that they also go to a service and they are put out online like monster or uh indeed or something like that I'm not certain of it but I can follow up with you so the outside world knows we need these people they they go to NJ school jobs NJ schools we have an we have an account with NJ school jobs that's sort of posted oh NJ school job okay so at least it's not just us getting the information it's it is out there all right am I zapped I had to come back you're going to you're going to circle back I got we Circle back you're Zapped unless anybody else wants to speak who am I passing this still oh all right you first I'd like to thank that every board member for their time I know it is a lot um so moving forward have the new committees been set yeah for the board or well they be posted along with in the minutes the whole board received them tonight Mr you'll put that on the website sooner or later first sure thank you or you can just email me a list probably send Mr bride I don't know if we have a put it if you want it up uh whatever our past practice is we're going to do it again but I certainly can give a copy to miss McBride she's asking for one we got yeah we got to go everybody once and then we come back around good evening Dina hry again Summerdale um as an Engaged and involved parent of this district and Community I've been closely following the discussions of the school uh school board meetings and regarding team retention and related concerns within our district given glosser Township's Vision as a place where one lives works and plays I'm keenly interested in the steps being taken to support team members during contract negotiations over the past two years numerous resignations and pleas for fair and livable wages have been shared during Boe meetings there's also been mentioned of team members leaving for opportunities with higher wages less responsibilities and more supportive conditions elsewhere understanding that the cost of living in Gloucester Township particularly in terms of housing is pretty crucial with the lowest one-bedroom apartment price at 1311 a month as of today where the average is 1422 a month month team members aiming to achieve the GT dream of living working and playing a GT would need to earn three times the rent for example Milbridge Gardens that would equate to $3,930 a month or $ 47,1 n6 a year based on the recent new hires it appears the only people today that could qualify would be the Spanish teacher and our HVAC ticket would currently meet those income qualifications unfortunately it seems that our 10-month secretaries paraprofessionals and other countless support professionals that fuel this school would not qualify as we enter a New Year and welcome a new board I'm eager to understand what measures are in place to address these pressing concerns and ensure that the support and well-being of our dedicated team members are going to be had I also would like to know if that this board would ensure that our support staff receive a fair and livable wage thank you for your consideration I look forward to hearing about [Applause] it hi Kelly Rudder um Blackwood and I also teach at Lily not asking about report cards today I do have a quick question though about um the job postings um following Miss Skil and Mr pis um they you had mentioned that they're on the NJ schools I had a teacher who wanted to work in glosser Township but when she went on NJ schools it was not there and now just looking myself there's not any gluster Township positions posted um so it would be nice if we get those jobs out there so we can get some real quality um people to come work with us because totally agree we need them M buo can you address that in the morning please thank you any other comments back there and then we're back to Mr um Teresa osorto Damon Drive cville I was just um concerned because I see that one of our preschool teachers is leaving here at Mullen this next month um the next board meeting to vote somebody into that position to fill it is not until the end of February so what's going to happen to that preschool class for a couple weeks where there's you know a lull and it seems to happen a lot around the district somebody leaves a position and then it takes a month or so to find somebody to fill that spot and it's not consistency for those kids so just a concern out there that maybe some meetings have to be held quicker or something has to be done so we can get these people hired and in those positions before the meeting Mr pills you will be our final comment tonight so I notice walking in tonight that the playgrounds have expanded exponentially in Glen landing and at M was this ever approved because you know I was checking out the playgrounds did we just double the playground sizes in both schools and we could just do that I believe that they have increased the hardscaping at both those locations yes this year but it's I believe it's part of the state of New Jersey's um Like Preschool planogram on what the ideal Playard should uh resemble is that something we can look into so is it a qack request would that fall under a qac I don't know that would be qac oriented but um certainly preschool well for out of compliance it would be a qac wouldn't they say they would recommend we expand our playground no I think that there's enough of the early Educators in the preschool program for the state that do oversight here I don't know if the qack would look into that to be honest with you but I don't remember having any preschool programs for compliance but um I do know that they have certain amount of hardcap soft areas has to be fenced in so it's like mud in GL Landing there's no more grass there little little guys Tor it up they'll be grass in the spring yeah now's a bad time of year I know it's it's a Dust Bowl in the summer like when the wind blows it's bad so but now they expand it so now it's like moving the chickens they just move over here right I'd have to go see it for myself you won't believe it all right first of Mr Mason thought we were selling Christmas trees so it it was those orange Nets until they made what else we got Miss P well my dear friend Nancy faly she's going to listen to this because she couldn't make it tonight is retirement in April you just approved their retirement so she said put in a couple good words I got hired with her she's retiring making me think it don't have a science lab you told me I'd have a science lab before uh I retired so 37 years I'm still waiting for that sence La so um but Nancy is an awesome teacher special ed hard to find her replacement she leaves March 31st just like the young lady back there said how are we going to replace them in time to fulfill the special ed requirements with the IEPs okay you're going to miss Nancy she's awesome thank you for your time and congratulations on board member of the for j i i if they had a Hallmark card I would have got you one but I wasn't sure thank you m pis thank you we're going to move on to board member comments do I have any I do I'd like to say congratulations to the 41 new Junior National Honor Society students from Glen Landing that were Indi inducted last Thursday night inducted um also on December 19th I came here to the Mullen school to see their Winter Wonderland I want to say congratulations to Mrs Rose bounds and her whole staff the students earned points in their positive behavior program by using care c a r e care for collaboration a a for accountability R for respect and E for empathy the students then used their points and they played video games board games play paid Bingo painted ornaments made bead bracelets Lego buildings and I even got to watch a chess match looked to me that both students and staff had a great time so hooray for that very nice any other comments Mr oh go ahead um I want to congratulate um all of the student council kids from UV and Ariel um and thank them for representing Gloucester Township Public Schools out in the community in such a positive way um I also wanted to thank the transportation staff for getting their training and while they're getting it they are hoping that they will never use it um Mr pildis I'm so glad that you appreciate the snow days but until Mr bow Bido sends the school clo cling rapping the song I will not be impressed I've been asking for years and he won't do that yet um and Mrs Henry I am thankfully and gladly on the negotiations committee yay thank you uh to Mr Marx I did request that um I have been for eight years being uh just a nudge to Mr BAU I have said lowest wage earners in this room room countless times um since I started here so I'm excited to get that started I'm excited to work with everybody um and hopefully it'll be quick and easy and painless thank you Mrs gild uh yes I just like to um say that I attended the Martin Luther King Day of Service at Lewis I just want to say kudos to all the parents and the children that came out that morning um and did service projects I commend the parents for having their children come out and I'm to see the kids excited to be out there it was amazing um we had a parent maryan and I were doing cards for soldiers we had a parent bring four young teenage boys she went on the global uh thing that was on Gloucester Township she was from doy town she traveled an hour and a half to bring these boys down here so that they could do a service project which I found very commendable so I was really impressed with that um I want to say congratulations to the schools for the student council it's an awesome program keep it up um transportation thank you for your concerns with the uh drug issues we're having and thank you for stepping up with that and also Mr builda are we going to be doing a Global Connect on that St sexting and vaping if we could please out globally I did go to the one at Lewis um I just wish more parents would come out to that because it was very very interesting and you don't understand until you see what really goes on what they show you so if we could please do a Global Connect on that to everyone I'd appreciate it thank you any other comments um I'd like to congratulate the star students um thank the bus drivers for taking the Naran training um and also to to reiterate what Miss odonnell had said for uh Miss Henry we've been working on salaries for low low wage earners for quite some time through special services secretaries non-union um and I I'm happy to be on negotiations again and I can't wait to get started because there are a lot of areas in that um section that do need to be addressed as well thank you any other I'm going to piggy back and kind of reiterate what the other board memb said I would like to congratulate our star students is a wonderful program I am so thrilled that we brought that back almost two years ago now Mr buo what wonderful program to our bus drivers phenomenal it's a necessary evil but thank you for taking the time out to do that and learn that uh it's been a a good proud moment for our Gloucester Township family January's been a good month for us all the different programs you know with the MLK and the the National Honor Society that's that's really nice we should all be proud as as a a family for gloss countship for the way our District's moving i' like to thank thank everybody for coming out tonight good night and may I have a motion to adjourn all in favor I I thank you