##VIDEO ID:FI15uES6Cxo## she gets here she gets here so she said there was traffic somewhere I'm sorry what was that that awesome so freaking cute good evening everyone I'd like to call this meeting to order this is the North Brunswick Township Board of Education regular public meeting today is Wednesday November 20th could we please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge Ali 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 Mr Ali Mr Brockman here Mr Carter here miss James here miss Keith here Mr Lori here Dr Patel here miss to here and Mr W here we have a car thank you the New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon in accordance with the open public meetings law the public notice of this meeting which included the time date and location was distributed by three p.m. on Monday January 29th 2024 and Tuesday March 19th 2024 in the following manner posted on the bulletin board reserved for announcements in the board office 25 lywood place North Brunswick mailed to the home News Tribune Star Ledger nj.com and the clerk of the township of North Brunswick and delivered to the nine July elected board members good evening everyone thank you all for being here tonight uh we are almost in holiday season so prior to the meeting ending I'd like to wish everyone a very happy healthy and safe Thanksgiving um we have one presentation this evening and I will pass it over to superintendent choka to welcome our guest thank you I'd like to invite um our music supervisor Miss Danielle nlman and one of our high school music instrumental teachers uh Cooper Ford up to make a presentation um I don't know if you want me to play this first or play this after okay so fingers crossed it worked an hour [Music] ago F join us on Thursday December 12th at 7 p.m the just Performing Art Center you don't want to miss it all righty hi everyone uh well said um I guess for the adoring fans out there I'm Cooper Ford um one of the HML teachers at the high school as along with uh my supervisor Miss Danielle nman here on behalf of the students and staff of the high school U first of all I start out by thank you all for um your support over the years for everything uh to make these wonderful things happen and our students are able to do things that are not possible in other districts because it starts here it starts with uh you know parents and school leadership getting behind the music program and saying yes it is is important for well-rounded education for our students and through that we are able to provide wonderful wonderful special opportunities they don't get elsewhere so there are a lot of things that are going on um and things that are happening I know some of you have had even your children as a part of it and you've witnessed it throughout the year so uh we're here because we are thrilled to share about a new wonderful thing that is coming up which I will turn it over to miss doodleman and she will tell you some more so um it's winter concert season so we have about 11 concerts that will be coming up between the elementary schools the Middle School Lynwood and uh now the high school so we're kind of changing up how we do the high school concert this year um we're not even calling it a concert anymore we're calling it The Holiday pops show uh we're we're spicing it up a little bit putting on more of with theatrical holiday performance uh think along the lines of trans cyberian Orchestra Manheim stee roller and the classic the Glen Burt Chris stravaganza that used to take place at the State Theater that our students used to take we would be a part of it I was in it when I student you know Mr rean my old supervisor used to bring us all along we all play the State Theater um and it was wonderful so we had this great idea years ago they wanted to turn our Winter concert into something very similar and this is the first year um that we're doing it so our holiday pops show is going to feature our honors music students who are in the choir the band The Orchestra and the drum line uh plus some nbths alone are going to be coming back to be part of the show and some very special guests maybe some singing High School administration that you may have never seen before I want to way too much but it'll be worth it I promise um as always our concerts are free there is no cost or anything to enter our concerts um but this year we've partnered with the north Fric food bank with the help of uh Laura Kinski so we do ask that if you're able to bring a non- perishable item uh for a donation uh the um Minal Alliance is going to be collecting at the right in the lobby so we're going to have a food drive which going to be a part of it um and basically we're we're here uh because we wanted to extend basically a formal invitation to central office to the Board of Education Town Council to anybody watching probably just my mom she thought the band was playing I'm going to come to the meeting no one support no one's your number one fan like your mom so anybody watching the um Alum fames friends music enthusiasts anybody who wants to come out and join us 7 o'clock uh December 12th in the north brunic T High School Performing Art Center which is a fancy name for our Auditorium um the students are all which has brand new lights it has brand new lights uh thank you all so much that it was it's wonderful the project was done it is beautiful we have essentially the same lighting system that the NJ PAC does now um obviously on a small scale because we we don't host you know 10,000 um audience members but it is wonderful so you will see all of our brand new lights um in uh in use we figured out how to to create presets now um one of them says general use but really it's flashing blue and orange when the Mets were still in the playoffs so don't click on the general use when unless you look in New York met thr party having stage um but the students are all working incredibly hard both in and out of the school day to put on a great show um so we really hope that you're able to join us um also in the lobby we're going to have vendors will be out there um so they'll be selling holiday themed goods and the B parents Association as well we always are so thankful for their support they selling hot chocolate and other winter treats um so 7 o00 December 12th at the high school um there also might be a special DJ out in the front another uh High School administrator just DJing in the lobby um we're trying to get as many people involved this we're doing on a pretty small scale this time but as we we hope that this works out and we were able to incorporate you know more Township like the the women's group The Women's choir that's say we're Hing to try to just incorporate as many Township things as possible um so come check it out and it's free so you we would happily pay by the way uh we the kids are they're great they're going to put on like a professional worthy performance we're we're all very excited so uh thank you so much for letting us present here tonight and we hope to see you guys on December thank you so I don't know if any of you been I'm sure many of you have been to the holiday concerts but you know the music team just puts on incredible concerts and they have a special concert they do for all the elementary school students um where they take them in buses and it's it's one of the last few days before the holiday break and and everybody just it's just a lot of fun for the kids to to spend the morning at the high school they get to be in the big Auditorium and and see all the music and then you make a lot of fun so um we're looking forward to that season as well um but thank you for for coming and making the video and thank you to um Mr Swain I guess for helping make the commercial so that was that was a student production from our new TV studio as well I think so so thanks again great thank you for being here we look forward to hopefully some of us will be attending all right we will move to item number six our meeting minutes uh Mr Lori would you please take that item sure Madam president I'll move to approve the following board minutes the regular public meeting of October 30th 2024 and the executive meeting minutes of also of October 30th 2024 second all in favor I anyone opposed all the minutes are accepted thank you um any Communications this evening none this evening uh just my administrative report great thank you good evening to all our families guests and viewers here tonight congratulations to our new board two board members who are reelected to another three-year term and one newly newly elected board member Steven W kagi Patel and new board member man PRI Singh Manny Singh I know he's here in the audience tonight welcome you have to check out what what what it is we do we look forward to your continued service and Mr sing's addition to the board and we look also look forward to honoring Mr David Brockman an outgoing board member next month at our December meeting as we move into December we do have have our Winter concert scheduled for each school so if you can't make the 12th um December's 5th is John Adams December 9th is the Jud concert December 10th is the mbtm middle school concert at mbms uh December 12th is the holiday Pops concert December 16th is the Lynwood concert December 17th is Livingston Park December 19th is Parsons January 23rd is the mbts choir orchestra concert and January 28th is the band concert for the high school all of those concerts are at nbths in the Performing Arts Center except for the middle school one which is at their um Middle School these are great events and we really do like to showcase the talent of our students who have really been working hard in the music department and we hope that many of you will attend this week our schools have been celebrating American Education week during American Education week we celebrate the dedication hard work and passion of our educ ERS students and families who make our Public Schools Thrive this week serves as a reminder of the vital role that our Public School System plays in preparing the next generation of leaders thinkers and citizens from fostering academic growth to promoting social and emotional development our schools are the foundation of a strong Democratic Society as we reflect on the importance of Education we honor the commitment to Excellence that drives our community forward ensuring that every child has the opportunity to to succeed next week schools will close early on Wednesday November 27th for Thanksgiving and they are closed the rest of the week for the Thanksgiving holiday We wish all of our community a safe and happy holiday we continue to remind all our families of the importance of regular School attendance and the impact on your child's learning progress principles and their teams are reaching out to parents of students who may have had high absence numbers again this time of year and continuing to be here to support parents and families with the challenges they may be facing that is it for my report this evening mam president thank you we'll move to our student reports good evening Miss Keefe and Miss Montero hello good evening um so sgo hels holds two blood drives every single year one in the fall and one in the spring so November 12th we held our first fall blood drive and the New Jersey blood center was able to collect 81 pints of blood with the help of mbts students and staff and this will help about 250 people that are in hospitals also on November 13th we had a busy week um we held our annual powder football game and the first game was the seniors versus the freshman and Mr Z said that the seniors most likely broke the record for the most amount of points scored in a game following the seniors and the Freshman the sophomores beat the Juniors with like 26 to six so in our final championship game it was the seniors against the sophomores I think we were all hoping the seniors would win but the sophomores beat them and the class of 27 are champions for the second time so who knows they might win all four years and then ending that very busy week on November 15th and 16th The Alchemist Theater Company performed their fall play Hamlet thr likeed in everyone involved did an amazing job in bringing this play to life and that's all we have thank you great thank you for being here we'll move to our committee reports Mr Lori business operations Madam president the business operations committee was scheduled to meet on Wednesday November 13th the meeting was cancelled uh but we do have some highlights to share from the past month or so on our agenda this evening is a second reading of policy 8600 uh titled policy student transportation we had discussed this last month as well uh tonight is the second reading there's also a motion to approve the purchase of a food service oven for Jud which was funded by our Enterprise fund uh not to exceed about $11,800 it's under Finance item 3F uh which is on page 12 um just some other status updates The Lynwood Chiller is still active give the warm weather uh the pre-work is still being conducted we heard that the High School auditorium lights that project has been completed um the John Adams Jim divider curtain we're still waiting on some final engineering approvals the Parsons Courtyard we're still waiting on an estimate the Livingston Park Paving and traffic flow the specs are still in progress uh we had a pole that came down outside of Jud and uh it's been deemed that it's very costly to replace so they're looking at other options right now uh the ECC Courtyard drainage issue that we've talked about is going to be scheduled for the spring and then districtwide we've talked about our HVAC controls and how that's all ongoing we did some lead water testing our high school results will come back in about two weeks uh there were no exceptions at most of our schools one school had a flag and it was retested and a water fountain was replaced with a water filter dispenser and a kitchen sink faucet was replaced as well and that would conclude business operations thank you uh Mr Brockman Human Resources sure Madam president um the human resources committee uh and Community Relations Committee met on Wednesday November 13th to discuss various Personnel topics for those on tonight's agenda who are resigning the board thanks them for their service and wishes them well there are also new staff and new substitute staff on tonight's agenda and we look we welcome all to the district and look forward to having them work uh with us here in North Brunswick as as of our committee meeting any remaining new or new vacancies for the 2425 school year continue to be posted and can be found on our district website social media pages and posted in in each of our buildings for teaching positions alternate route and traditional route candidates are all are encouraged to apply we also discuss these uh these vacancies um along with upcoming leaves of absences and how the positions will be filled via daily subs long-term subs or six period um teaching uh six teaching six teaching periods uh there are also a few reassignments on tonight's agenda and we thank our staff for taking on these new assignments that's all I have thank you uh Dr Patel our education report thank you madam president good evening the education committee met on 13th of November the committee discussed various assessments and grants and the plans for the utilization of the funds for this year several students have passed the New Jersey GPA requirement for graduation both Ela and math uh the accuplacer testing is conducted this week which is another route for graduation the committee received an update from Miss lamagra who is the grade 5 to8 math supervisor in regards to the math text review we're hoping for the pilot phases start in late February to early April as a committee we reviewed the goals of QC District Improvement plan which also aligns with the administrative schools as well we reviewed the response letter on behalf of the Board of Ed regarding the cjcp charter school expansion and that concludes my report thank you all right at this time we will will'll move to item number nine Mr Carter would you take item number nine please yes Madam president uh I'd like to make a motion to approve the administrative student and committee reports second all in favor I anyone opposed all the reports are accepted thank you at this time we will take some time to review our agenda um as previously stated in other meetings the board receives the agenda prior to our meeting we've all reviewed this um any changes are listed in and bold so we will go through briefly Page by Page Pages two and three pages four and five six and seven pages eight and nine 10 and 11 Pages 12 and 13 and 14 and 15 definitely a shorter agenda this month everyone so at this time we will um have a public session on agenda items only if there's anything um on the agenda that you'd like to come to the podium and speak about we invite our audience up we just ask that you come up state your name and you'll be given 3 minutes all right seeing none can I please have a motion to close this public session so move second who a second thank you Mr Lor all in favor I anyone opposed this public session is closed thank you at this time we'll move to item 13 consent agenda Mr Wen would you please take that item yes Madam president I'd like to make a motion to approve the following consent agenda items Personnel curriculum miscellaneous Finance items 1 through three policy and transportation second all right I'm going to take roll call Mr Ali yes Mr Brockman yes Mr Carter yes Miss James yes Miss Keith yes Mr Lori yes Dr Patel yes Miss to yes and Mr W yes all the Motions are approved and accepted thank you right everyone we will jump to page 14 of our agenda at this time we'll have a public session on any matter um if anyone would like to come up to the podium and speak on any matter we invite you to at this time again please just state your name and you'll be given 3 minutes good evening even Township Board of Ed my name is Beth pner president of the NBT now uh good evening everybody U my name is Beth pner president of the north runs Township Education Association uh the association wanted to extend our congratulations on the reelection of Dr Patel and also Mr W congratulations to newly elected uh board member manre Singh um and we wanted to wish uh the for a lovely Thanksgiving and holiday break and uh we're looking forward to uh continuing to work with you have a good time thank you thank you and Miss passner we'd Al also like to extend a um congratulatory and a great um American Education uh week to you and your team all of our staff so thank you for everything that you do anyone else all right seeing none can I please have a motion to close the public portion of the meeting so moved second all in favor I anyone opposed this public session is uh closed thank you at this time we'll motion to go into Clos session whereas Section 8 of the open public meetings act chapter 231 PL 1975 permits the exclusion of the public from a meeting in certain circumstances and whereas this public body is of the opinion that such circumstances presented exist now there or be it resolved by the north BR Township Board of Education that the public shall be excluded from discussion of an action upon the here and after specified subject matters the general nature of the subject matter to be discussed is as follows number one Personnel matters number two negotiations and number three financial matters it is anticipated at this time that the above stated subject matter shall be made public at such time as the need for non-disclosure no longer exists this resolution shall take effect immediately can I please have a motion to go into to close session still moved second all in favor anyone opposed we can go to close session thank you thank you all 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 all right can I please have a motion to reopen our meeting so move second all in favor I anyone opposed all right we're back in session thank you uh this time we have uh a couple of motions we'll start with Mr Brockman sure uh like I'd like to make a motion to approve approve the termination of employee 8958 effective January 10th 2025 second I'm going to do a roll call on this uh Mr Ali yes Mr Brockman yes Mr Carter yes M James yes Miss Keith yes Mr Lori yes Dr Patel yes Miss to yes and Mr W yes this motion is uh accepted thank you Miss Keith yes Madam president I'd like to move to approve the sidebar agreement between North Brunswick Township Board of Education and the North Brunswick Township Education Association for the 2425 contract agreement relative to article 38.2 can I have a second second I'm going to do another roll call on this one Mr Ali yes Mr Brockman yes Mr Carter yes M James yes Miss ke yes Mr Lori yes Dr Patel yes Miss to yes and Mr W yes this uh motion is also approved thank you and at this time we will adjourn our meeting can I please have a motion to adjourn so move second all in favor anyone opposed we're adjourned thank you everyone have a great Thanksgiving everybody