##VIDEO ID:euWN6MLNqa0## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e that's what I was hoping to see e good evening the regular meeting of the northern Berling County Regional School District is hereby called to order this meeting is called in conformance with the open public meeting act uh with adequate notice provided as follows notice sent to the Berlin County Times in the times of Trenton on October 17 202024 a notice filed with the township Clerks of Chesterfield Manfield North Hanover and Springfield townships on October 17 2024 and notice of the annual meetings adverti in the bril and County Times and the times of Trenton on January 7th 2024 I will now call Ro Mr figs present Mrs Bond present Mr arm manente present Mr bucks present Mrs gamble Mr narwood present Mrs Janice present Mr Spence Mr Zimmer here and Miss Pierre thank you very much and this time I'd ask everyone to please stand with for the pledge of Allegiance followed by a Moment of Silence has any Board of Education member received Schoolboard related emails Andor correspondences that have not yet been shared with the superintendent all right uh Dr Zuckerman if you'd like to give your superintendence report please thank you uh first I'd like to turn it over to uh Miss Pierre for the student representative report good evening everyone my board report tonight will consist of information about our sports clubs and coming events for sports cross country the girls team won the bcsl divisional meet with four athletes being named All Stars the boys team took second in the bcsl divisional meet with two athletes being named Allstars at the group Championship Lyla Gordon won group three race for third straight year in a row in School record time of 1757 girls tennis made it to the second round of the playoffs field hockey bcsl Liberty division Conference champions made it to the second round of the playoffs with many students earning County honors girls volleyball Advanced to the second round of the playoffs and have many students earn County honors girls soccer made it to the playoffs where they challenged their opponent ultimately losing in penalty kicks boys soccer made it to the second round of playoffs with many students earning Division and state on honors and in football qualified for the playoffs for the second year in a row with many students earning league and County honors for clubs and activities Esports during the month of October the Esports Club held two free play days where students stayed after school to play games we also held our first Mario Kart Tournament of the Year October 24th where students who placed first second and third won prizes their photo is on the next slide below for the competitive team during The Fall season of October smash crew team W was chosen to go to playoffs at georgean court University November 23rd rocket League won against Lakewood High School 20-0 and is currently fifth in the our division within the Garden State Esports League the marching band our marching band competed at the Serena High second senica High School band competition in October the band got first place in their division and won all caption awards including best music best visual best percussion and best color guard congrats to everyone who performed you are a great representation of Northern Burlington FFA the FFA Northern FFA October FFA members attended the New Jersey FFA lead conference at the Crown Plaza Edison on October 4th through the 5th members competed in the Halloween dance and were best of show as the founding fathers and Aiden was the best costume the northern FFA a mechanics team represented the New Jersey at the National FFA convention Expo in Indianapolis Indiana October 20 20 22nd through the 25th 2024 the team placed Bronze in the competition with Jack Smiley placing silver individual and Ryan craft Adam sentac and Conor love IND dusy placing BL bronze individual sphere during the month of October sphere focused on choosing our use un unless project Challenge and focus animal the unless project is held by the Philadelphia Zoo and focuses on students developing real work real world scenarios towards real world environmental problems this year students chose to focus on the African line and develop Solutions towards habitat issues in our local community we discussed this by brainstorming in groups about the issues we could address in our local community cult leadership conference Deca officers spent the day at Kean University where they had the opportunity to interact with Deca officers from other schools brainstorm with chapters to find ways to incorporate their ideas into the NBC Deca chapter create a plan of action for the upcoming year and meet 2024 2025 New Jersey Deca State officer team Relay for Life Northern Burlington is excited that we will be hosting a Relay for Life event on May 17th 2025 the the event will run from 400 p.m. to 10: p.m. with a celebrating life dinner to kick off the event we are looking for more of the community to come together from form a team and join us to raise money to fight cancer information is sent through the parents message if anyone is interested in helping NB me our goal of $50,000 this year and for upcoming school events we have the ptsc clothing drive from November 1st to November 18th the fall play and the winter craft show December 1st and that's it well thank you for your comprehensive report and I told M uh Dr Warren that that I I Mario Kart is the only one that I can do for the eort so I I I'm going to try my best to make it for the next competition so thank you um few things for the uh remainder of my report I attended the the November meeting for the Burlington County Chamber of Commerce I learned a great deal about the chamber and made some ver very promising contexts that contacts that I'm hopeful will benefit our students and our district in the future earlier this month I had the opportunity to meet with the new JB jbmdl based leadership team it was a great opportunity to learn about their vision and how they're how they want to engage in a collaborative relationship to ensure that we're continuing to support our our military students and their family we're going to continue to meet on a regular basis and I will certainly provide you with updates um that are appropriate along the way last week I was made aware of a a few uh I was made aware of a few parent emails that were sent to a middle school teacher teacher pertaining to a literary literary excerpt that was used in class this excerpts were from the publication titled Melissa two excerpts that were used in this book were used with all of our seventh grade English language arts classes for the past four years the use of this lit the use of this literature was put into place after 2021 after a directive from the New Jersey Department of Education this state statute requires the youth requires us and all other public school districts to include liter literature that represents a diverse population in our community I sent the board an email earlier today that contains a few more specifics about this situation it is right my recommendation that we add this to the next board curriculum committee meeting agenda to review not only the current practices and also discuss them in further detail if I can continue to ask the Board of Education to encourage parents to contact the school if they have concerns rather than go to social media by contacting the school we can learn firsthand about their concerns and also share information directly with these individuals rather than than have the comments on social media drive the information and sometimes that drives misinformation as well one other thing that that you will see on this evening's agenda you will see several people being recommended for the part-time security positions these individuals will work to oversee the Safety and Security when the recreation programs use our facilities in the evenings and on the weekends we continue to interview for additional security monitors and I expect that you will have additional candidates for you to review during the December meeting that concludes my report yes go ahead this on no oh there we go uh Kevin Zimmer speaking uh I think it's great that you went to the Burlington Chamber of Commerce I just wanted to mention several years ago uh I was I belong to the northern Burlington chamber and there were some teachers from this school I believe they were child study team maybe that were members do we know what ever happened I I mean I thought it was great that they went to those meetings probably for the same reason that you were going they were making contacts and finding out different things that were available in the township and what I did look to see I I can't see I can't seem to find a northern Burlington Chamber of Commerce I did find a mercer Burlington Chamber of Commerce which is more centered around uh the Mera County um organizations which is where I elected to and that could be my that could be my my mistake if you have anything on a northern Burlington chamber I'm happy to join sure um by by being a partic ipant in the Burlington County anybody from I can send anybody from the school district as part of our membership so if we see an event for health and fette I can I can send Mr Cataline if I we see anything we can I can send any individual that that it's pertinent to I know that would work as well with Northern Burlington but I'll give you the information if you if you have any contact I'm happy to to follow up on that as well sure any other questions about my report thank you so much thank you Dr Zuckerman uh Mr Cass if you'd like to go through your business administrator's report please certainly thank you uh it's pretty light this this month but I congratulations go out to Jerry Spence and Paul narwood for their reelection to the board uh you guys get reworn in at our January 6 reorg meeting and a congratulations to uh Christa Applegate uh who won uh the seat representing the Mansfield um she will also be uh sworn in at the reorg meeting in January Dr Zuckerman and I will schedule a time to provide her an orientation prior to that that meeting uh my board report it's been busy with the audit and now we're getting ready for budget so um I just included some details as to what those processes uh inail and where we are uh in that uh in those processes we had a finance committee meeting tonight with a very comprehensive agenda that will report on uh more thoroughly in the December meeting and then lastly there's a joint Insurance Fund event coming up and I wanted to know if any board members uh wish to attend and if so please uh let me know uh by the end of the evening that concludes my report thank you does anyone have any questions regarding the ba report all right um at this time I believe we're going to progress over to the uh middle school and high school students of the month if Dr mccan and Dr Kerns are are ready that sounds better thank you Mr figs members of the board here it's our our our pleasure to recognize our students of the month the students of the month are are nominated by the teachers every uh you know week we put out a form for them to fill out with with a student that they would like to nominate for for student of the month we have meetings monthly of our our school climate committee they review the different nominations and we select students of the month from from again from the the many different uh good candidates that are put forward by our teachers we are there are two types of of recognitions we're going to honor tonight we have our own students of the month for Northern Burlington but then we also have an Elks student of the month that we do in conjunction with the Elks Club out in bord toown um and just because of the way they do things and the way that we do things there's one Elks student the month for September and then moving forward we have a northern bran student of the month um seventh grade and eighth grade as well as an elk student of the month for October and November and that's sort of how it plays out and at the end of the year Elks ends a month earlier than we do so it all all catches up but it's our honor regardless of of the of the name and and the uh the association to to recognize these students and uh their families for their you know good work in our school and the good things that they're doing for our Elks September student month I'd like to First Call up Alexander Balley Alex tell us you hear what tonight my my dad my brother congratulations thank you so much for coming out Alex was my my guinea pig he did an excellent job being the first one up here so I want to thank him for that you can see why he was selected as student of the month um our now we're moving into the month of October our seventh grade student of the month is Miss Brooke Viner Brooke you join there our eighth grade student of the month for October is Mr Braden Barnard our Elks student of the month for October is Miss Mia Jones Mia all right now we are moving into the month of November for our our seventh grade student of the month for November we have Miss Sophia smilo our eighth grade student in of the month for November is Mr Alvis Morant Alvis and our Elks student of the month for November is Mr Shankar Satia noran Shankar and and I believe I turn you Mr Lee for the videos I'm Alex Bley now was nominated for elex during the month for September at Northern I'm involved with uh the select choir I'm in the school player right now and I plan to play either LaCrosse or baseball in the Sprint I want to go to college and get like a really good job and enjoy life my name is Brooke fer and I was nominated for seventh grade student of the month for October I did cross country and I will do cheerleading for the basketball team I want to be a host on QVC it's like this um show that they like sell products and stuff like a lot of products and I just think it' be fun because like it's in Philadelphia and stuff and it's just going to be fun because I love talking my name is Bren Bernard and I was nominated for student of the month of October here at Northern I'm involved in junior Greyhound football and in the spring I do lacrosse I want to own a business and be really rich my name is Mia Jones and I was nominated for Elk student of the month of October here at Northern I'm involved with the girls soccer program and in the spring I plan on doing lacrosse in my future I plan on being an interior designer and working with designing my name is Sophia Smo I was nominated for a student of the month I'm involved with field hockey and I'm doing winter cheer but I want to go to college and get a good job I'm Al I was nominated for a student the month I go outside play football with my friends or just do my homework at home but I'm planning on doing wrestling I'm planing on being an engineer I am Sean car Oran I am in eighth grade and I am nominated for the Elk day of the month in Northern I'm involved with jro DC and many after school clubs like jazz band mching band no place for hate and bucket juming I'm undecided about my future but I know I want to go to college and make my parents proud all right um so we're going to jump into the high school so many of the accolades you just heard about mrly sabotage um many of the things you heard about the middle school students exactly the same about the high school students seeing all the nominations pour in um from teachers that we're writing paragraphs and paragraphs about how great your kids are great work parents you're doing a great job um and we're really excited to be able to honor them tonight uh so first up September Elks student of the month Colin Brennan next October elk student of the month Imran cess being a senior has its perks all right October nth grade student of the month Ethan havalance 10th grade October student of the month Laurel arenson 11th grade October student of the month James Cataline October 12th grade student of the month Michaela Fontana I heard Michaela could not be with us this evening so we'll move to November November elk student of the month Sophia Rathbun November 9th grade student the month Justin Broadway Dr Karns is so much better at pictures okay November 10th grade student of the month Madison Wright all right November 11th grade student of the month Mia valino and our November 12th grade student of the month Nicholas trosi he couldn't be with us tonight thank you all my name is Colin Brennan uh I'm a 12th grader I was nominated for Elk student of the month uh I'm involved in the cross country team and I'm involved in the debate team uh uh over the course of my four years yes well uh I've just been putting out uh my application so I haven't been able to get any authors but I hope to go to the local state school Bakers uh for chemical engineering uh mathematics is a very fun thing i' hope to use it in my future my name is Ethan and I was nominated for October student of the month uh in my spare time I like to hang out with friends play games and draw in my future I would like to be a marine biologist my name is Laurel arenson I'm in 10th Grade and I was nominated for the month of October I like to play field hockey lacrosse and I've gone to a couple FFA events um what I want to pursue is that I want to be a veterinarian when I get older my name is James Cataline I'm in 11th grade I was nominated by my Spanish teacher last year Miss Moore for helping out other students um in lower grades and kind of assisting them in what they do in their classes um I'm anr Air Force RTC units I'm very active in that that I have a lot of leadership roles and then I'm also a part of our cross country and track teams um I'm really big into running and I just think um physical education is very important I plan on going to school for political science and economics and then one day I eventually want to go into politics and run for some sort of office I'm Michaela Fontana and I was nominated for a 12th grade October student of the month by miss nooni my accounting teacher um I'm involved in Northern softball so I've been a varsity starter four years in a row and I've broke a few records here at the school and then I'm also involved in FFA and NHS I'm going to go play softball at chinburg University and I'll be majoring in Finance and Accounting and going in that field somewhere in the future my name's Emon ceesay and I'm in 12th grade I'm a senior um I do wrestling for the school I also do track and field a member of the black and brown Student Association and I'm also the Secretary of class of 2025 Council I want to go to rcbc for my first two years outside of high school and then transfer off to Montclair State University I want to study nursing and psychology my name is Justin I was nominated for a ninth grade student of the month for November uh I'm in robotics Club I want to be a diesel mechanic hopefully save enough money to build my own shop and build like really cool lifted trucks hi my name is Madison wght and I was nominated for Northern Burlington's November student of the month for 10th grade at Northern I am in the DECA club and Health Science Club outside of school I'm involved with competitive dance and I've been a dancer for 13 years in the future I know I want to go to college and I either want to become a lawyer or a doctor my name is Mia valino and I was nominated for November student of the month for 11th grade I'm involved with northern's ban program anchor for life and I was inducted into Spanish Honor Society last year for my future I either want to go into Dentistry or become an engineer my name is Nick rosi and I was nominated for student of the month I'm a senior here at Northern Burlington I participate in the baseball team in the future I want to go to college to study finance and hopefully that will take me to get a better job hello my name is Sophia rapman and I was nominated for November's student of the month I am involved in all three seasons of sports cheer track and field and then track and field in the spring um I also school store manager alsoa president NHS historian and a peer mentor my future plans are to attend a university abroad and study architecture congratulations to all the students and thank you for coming out tonight um I speak on behalf of the board that we particularly enjoy the students of the month presentations that are that are held for us um and congratulations to again to all of you um we're going to take a brief 10-minute recess uh we'll get some pictures uh out in the foyer um with that can I get a motion for a short adjournment so moved in a second second all those in favor I all opposed abstentions all right we'll take a 10-minute recess thank youer parents because believe I have two friends who are one I know that's weird but that's weird that she's never congratulations con sir oh e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e all right now we're going to prepare to resume once everyone everyone back I take Saturday morning good to see you sir nice to see you young man all right um can I get a motion to return from the recess motion have return from Recess second all in favor I all opposed extensions all right um at this time uh we will Pro proceed with the uh Middle School principal report if you could Dr currence No we're we're we're jumping we're jumping back back gotta we we jump down to get them their L back at section two all right Mr pigs thank you just a couple highlights from my board report for the month of November we just completed parent conferences a slightly different setup um this time around we had a combination of inperson as well as virtual trying to accommodate as many parents as possible um so we we did that over on Election Day we had some um in-person conferences first thing in the morning people wanted to get their first thing perhaps before they went to work or what have you and then in the afternoon we had virtual conferences and we had a steady flow of people in person and I'm told we had a steady people virtual obviously I didn't lay eyes on them as they were coming in and then we had a session of evening conferences on no November 13th and we got to see a number of parents come through the um through the middle school so it was good to see all those parents we did a different setup this year typically we've used a purchased software product to uh have parents register for conferences and this year we used a Google um calendar to set up the conferences and so that much much more cheaper and and to be perfectly Frank with you I thought it was much easier to set up than than the bigger software program so we used that to um register have parents create the schedules to meet with their their teachers and that seemed to go smoothly so we're pleased with that we have a new club in the middle school as the board knows called angor for life and this is connected to the uh milit you know the base military students um designed you know to to address the needs specific of military students but it's also their services available for all of our students so for example one of our anchor for Life students is responsible for taking new students on a tour of the building a lot of our new students of course are our military but when we don't have military students that are new the anchor for Life students do the same same thing for them and provide them with you know a Welcome to our school and what I want to highlight is in my board report they put together a really nice program for for Veterans Day we had a they had a display in the the Middle School main office where um you know students were invited to name a veteran that's in their life and obviously for our military families that's Mom or Dad Mom Andor dad in some cases um as well as all the rest of our students who wanted to to acknowledge a veteran and they also designed a flag display that we was out here in the front of the um of the School uh the ptsc want to thank them for running their book fair in the month of October they were there for for a week and our students had an opportunity to see the different uh Scholastic offerings and I want to thank the ptsc for setting up the book fair and they had a steady um supply of volunteers to man the book fair so it was really great to to see all of them our Middle School drama program they take the stage on December 6th and 7th and they are presenting a science fiction uh program called space wars 2000 I suspect it came out many years ago 2000 does sound quite as futuristic as it perhaps once did but uh looking forward to see our students bring that that show to life on our stage and those are the U you know the main items in my report obviously there's some other items that you can can review if you have any questions for me before I turn it over to Dr mcken thank you very much Dr M all right so just some highlights um The Hobbit is this weekend I didn't really know what a hobbit even looked like this morning but I searched it um they have pointy ears and some other things so if you're interested in coming out um they're here 7 PM Friday night Saturday night and 2 pm Saturday Sunday um and they have a double cast show so there's tons of kids performing it'll be really exciting if you have some time to come out um and then we're going to roll right into NHS induction and concert season coming soon so if you're you're looking for some things to fill your evenings um we had open housee which I felt like was really awesome I had not experienced an open house here but just seeing so many programs um and seeing so many of our teachers really Embrace really cool things they do in some of their programs um was really nice to see they were 3D printing things to show parents the ROTC was here in full dress ready to go um just kind of really a cool experience um to see and we got to have a lot of the community come out and check it out which was really nice um we survived homecoming um and some moments it was unclear if that would happen um but we did allow seniors to bring guests we let all students um who wanted to come uh pretty much come and we still ended up only with about 900 students um that's exciting for us because it means that we can think about the prospect of having more grade levels bring guests in the future um potentially and kind of some of the things that we were concerned about what the spacing would look like and what um having a longer amount of time to sell tickets would look like and all that turned out not to really be as concerning as what we anticipated um so that was exciting and it seems like uh students had a really nice time um we had the PSAT um which I think students always do a really nice job and are very focused with but one of the other things that I thought was a real highlight um for us was the the 10th and 11th graders uh do the PSAT that means the 9th and the 12th graders have some programming while the other students are um testing the nth graders had presentations around navon so they could first learn about the software that helps them kind of figure out their career progression and um their way through high school um and then they had vaping assemblies that prevention plus ran for free for us they're a group based out of Burlington County that runs different substance use um programs so that was really nice for them um and our seniors attended a assembly with alumni um who were notable alumni from northern who we recruited and got to come out and be part of a panel students submitted questions in advance of the panel so they knew what the questions were going to be and then some of them even read off their questions to the group um and it's something we're hoping to do for seniors every year um on PSAT day going forward it was a really nice showing um you heard tons of things are happening from ammani both with sports we had really successful season and we have a ton of activities um going on so uh to continue to be on the lookout um one really interesting highlight is we were part of this T-Mobile competition um to try to get folks to vote um it was called like Friday Night Lights and it ran through our football uh team and we got a thousand check presented to us from T-Mobile for being part of that you had to get a certain number of like likes on social media in order to continue to advance in the competition so that was like a really uh interesting highlight and then uh last I get asked a lot while I'm here about the bathrooms and the function of the bathroom so I wanted to fill you in on where we're at with that um we the bathroom sinks are half repaired at this point they've done all the electrical the plumbing is getting finished they realized what all the issues were um and then we'll have all of the sinks back to operation after Thanksgiving we also opened a third set of bathrooms so in addition to the main bathroom and the 600 bathroom we opened the 300 bathrooms by West gym um we've got a lot of positive feedback especially from folks in the math hallway who were sending kids all the way up here to this main bathroom before but are now able to just send them right down the hallway to that bathroom it's decreased the amount of um waiting in lines and I think made it just a little bit of a quicker um situation and we were able to staff that with a combination of some of our permanent subs and then some of our teachers who have Duties are using that Hall Duty space uh to monitor so we've seen no um additional negative behaviors or anything that was problematic because we've been able to continue to supervise those spaces in a way that we think has been positive that's all I have if anybody has any questions I'm happy to answer them yeah so with that being said about the bathrooms is there any plan to just do a check-in with the students so that if the feedback is positive we can pass that on to the community and pass that on to folks so that we can show look here's what we did here's the positive impact and absolutely Chuck up a victory yeah for sure so so in October we randomly selected kids and invited them to come for lunch with leadership um what we noticed is that kids would not come on their own but when we said you've been randomly selected but you can bring a friend we got a ton of kids who were able to give us feedback and they talk to us about all kinds of things including like the parking lot the bathrooms the whole nine um some of them suggested that we just make a like a QR code in the hallway that says you want to meet and come to a leadership meeting so that is our goal for after the long weekend for Thanksgiving is to let some kids like create their own groupings where they can come and provide feedback and we'll have a list of questions one of them will be bathrooms fantastic other questions how many are open and how many are closed at this point um three sets so three boy three girl bathrooms are open at this point the ones that are not open are the 100 200 that are not next to each other they're in separate hallways so three of five general facilities three of four per gender 100 only has girls and 200 only has boys okay yeah all right so we're 75% then yeah all right I'm GNA this isn't directed to you in particular I I really am disappointed it's taking us this long to get these bathrooms open and at this point I mean I don't see why we just don't open and make sure that we have severe and consistent sort of discipline to anyone that has improper behavior in these in these facilities like it just it's unacceptable that we've had these bathrooms closed this long this is now years that this has been going on and this has to get resolved I'm tired of going back to the community when the community comes to me and says what is going on here to tell them you have to talk to the administration they're trying to open it but like this is this is ridiculous let's just open them and be done I have a I have a follow-up question question to that so can you share with us like what was like factored into the decision to open up more bathrooms just so we know moving forward like okay and when are you going to reevaluate next yeah um so there there's two key pieces for me one when I came in and before I came in a lot of people said to me the bathroom is not a space that I want to go to or my kids want to go to because there is Vape all over the place there are tons of kids hanging out um and so a priority for me was make it a safe space where they feel like they can be in there and use the bathroom and keep it moving um which means that we need an adult that can monitor to make sure that there's not large groups of students so one of the things we had to make sure is that there was somebody who could effectively monitor outside those bathrooms we were able to rearrange some of the teacher duties to staff that with teachers for all about one of the periods we are at capacity with what our teacher duties will allow um at this point so that would be one of the challenges with opening an additional bathroom space I think the other thing that I've really committed to is that if the Vape sensor goes off we are touching base with any student that was in the bathroom space and so that means that sometimes the security or the assistant principles or myself are dropping what doing to go check in with those students and that's allowed for students to recognize that there is followup um if the Vape sensor is going off having an additional space it's further around the building would create some additional challenges with Personnel just to be able to get to those spaces is my perception I don't think it is impossible um I think the bigger piece having the monitors outside the bathrooms and because 100 and 200 are not next to each other that's the reason we held off on those is we would need two additional bodies versus opening 300 where we only needed one additional body to monitor the yeah so Kevin Zimmer with a followup so when you have it staffed that means there's somebody there the whole day every period there's a person on duty for those 80 minutes yes right yeah and they're checking in we on Smart pass you can see every student's picture that's created a pass to leave their classroom the monitor is asking the student their name checking that their name aligns with their picture to make sure that students who have made passes are actively going to the bathroom that's closest to their classroom and then making their way back within the number of minutes that the pass allows so the procedures that have been implemented this year have in in my and I don't have data for you have and we can get it from the smart pass significantly reduce the number of students that are that are in the Halls which means that they're in the classroom more often more frequently uh which is obviously the goal because the more often they're in the class the the more they're able to kind of focus on on teaching and learning um Mr bucks I certainly hear what you're saying and I will explore that with with Dr mccan and and and her team to see um the as we talked before about the pros and the cons about about doing each of those and I would provide um the board with that feedback any other questions awesome thank you thank you Dr mccan um agenda item 2.05 is approval of the October Hib reports and 2.06 is approval of the superintendent reports um we uh had a buildings grounds Finance Transportation committee um meeting this evening however that meeting will continue prior to our December uh regular board meeting and a report will be given at that time um to include all the items that were discussed for both meetings um Mr bucks or Mr rente do you have any updates from njsba or bcba yes so um on the 16th of October um the fall meeting took place um I've got a slew I'll try to be as quick as possible uh the NJ SBA uh launched their new website so if you haven't checked it out I highly recommend that you go and check it out it's actually pretty darn good they've done a nice job of overhauling it making information that you need uh to be able to get is on there um they gave an update on how many people were registered for um the event down in Atlantic City at that point looks like 98% of all the schools were represented uh in the state of New Jersey um which was pretty good there's a brand new field service person for us her name is Dr Lori branow um and she replaces um the gentleman who used to be for us which we all who what we all knew and loved um Jesse um she's available for any type of strategic planning or any type of training uh she seemed very nice first time I met her and she was very open to um wanting to help us if there's anything we need from a board standpoint um Angela gave an update on um the legislative pieces there was about five bills last last week so that would have been October 8th that were dropped a lot of them or or put on the floor a lot of them focused around TI uh title 30 which uh is focused around students with disability so uh I encourage you to go check it out if you want to see what's on this on the state floor um you can find those also on the njsba website all of those pieces are dropped on there um they did a board of directors auditing uh on September 28th um that's the check on who's who's involved and paid up from a from a County standpoint 90% of the districts were paid at that point which is good um they also which was really cool had a board certification recognition for the pton board um they were certified and they went through their 16 hours four years um it was really cool to see that the whole board um was was um recognized for that um and then last but not least they elected all of the officers um for the coming year so Angela I'm going to butcher these names but I'm going to do the best I can uh zagas was uh elected as the president for Burlington County Donna Lang Cove was the vice president um and then from the um for legislative Vice President Andrew Rochester from Chesterfield so from our uh District which was really cool uh the board of directors delegate uh was Mike McClure he's been our Delegate for quite a while so that was really cool and then the board of directors alternate de delegate brand new Carly lamara uh the next meeting is Thursday December 5th um at the Medford School District and they'll be focusing on student mental health and that's my report for the fall meeting thank you thank you very much uh same I have any questions Mr bucks do you have anything for njsp no update from Schoolboard Association other than delegate assembly will be December 7th uh I plan to be in attendance and I'll report back afterwards all right thank you uh and Frank briefly me mentioned the the bills on the legis legislative side which was basically the only update I had so all right um with that Mr Lee do we have any signups for public comment on agenda items all right thank you all right um we'll now proceed with the content agenda items on the content agenda are believed to be items of routine nature requiring no discussion in whicher to be voted upon a single roll call vote to the board any single member of the board may have any of the items on the consent agenda removed and placed on the other part of the agenda for discussion merely by so indicating prior to the vote to be taken on the consent agenda items removed from the consent agenda are identified by an asterisk and will be subject to discussion by the full board uh 5.02 is approval of the minutes for the October 7 th work session 5.03 is approval of the minutes for the October 15th regular meeting 5.04 is approval of the minutes for the October 7th executive session 5.05 is approval of financial report of the board secretary for August 2024 5.06 is approval of the treasurers report for the month of August 2024 5.07 is approval of budget transfers for August 2024 5.08 is approval of the cafeteria report for September 2024 and 5.09 is the resolution of the board regarding the budgetary major account fund status uh do I have any questions or comments for Section Five all right section six is approval approval of bills 6.01 is approval of the bill list for November 18th 2024 any questions for Section 6 right section seven is business and financial uh 7.02 is approval of board and staff travel 7.03 is approval of board member resignation 7.04 is approval of change order uh for fbd project 5521 and 7.05 is approval of the high school charitable organization uh any questions on Section 7 all right section 8 students uh 8.02 is approval of homeless non-resident tuition 8.03 is approval of non-resident tuition 8.04 and 8.05 5 8.06 8.07 8.08 are approval of out of District placements uh 8.09 is approval of home instruction services and 8.10 is approval of additional field trip destinations uh any questions or comments on Section 8 uh quick question on 807 it listed Mount Holly as the out of District placement is it Mount Holly District or was it ranus Valley okay thank you that's all I needed that's all I needed thank all right uh any other questions or comments for Section 8 all right section nine is Personnel appointments uh 9.02 is approval of non-certificated appointment 9.03 is approval of substitutes 9.04 is approval of high school extracurricular AC advisors 9.05 is approval of Co coaches 9.06 is approval of additional class coverage and 9.07 is approval of additional work assignments uh any questions or comments for Section n all right section 10 uh 10.02 and 10.03 are approval of change of assignments uh any questions or comments for Section 10 section 11 uh 11.02 is approval of leaves of absence any questions for Section 11 section 12 separation of employment uh 12.02 is approval of resignation 12.03 is acceptance of retirement any questions for section 12 all right section 13 miscellaneous Personnel uh 13.02 is approval of job description 13.03 is approval of substitute pay rates for 2425 3.04 is approval of supplemental stiens and 13.05 is approval of classroom observation uh any questions or comments for Section 13 I had a question about the job descriptions if we could just kind of walk through like is that going to be for the all right athletic programming the the supervision um security supervision I'm just pulling it up to make sure I give you the the right um this is for the um evening and weekend security monitor that is to support the recreation programs it's it's almost identical to the the um security um job description that you approved before just the hours are different uh any other questions on Section 13 section 14 is programs 14.02 is approval of guest speaker any questions on section 14 section 15 policy uh 15.02% approval of policies for adoption second reading any questions on section 15 section 16 um Transportation uh 16.02 is a certification of the bus evacuation drill for the high school 16.03 is certification of the bus evacuation drill for the middle school and 16.04 is approval of the joint Transportation agreements any questions for section 16 section 17 use of facilities 17.02 is approval of use of facilities for the Northern burlingon Soccer Club 17.03.2012 or can I get a motion for the consent agenda I'll make a motion to accept consent agenda and a second second right uh Mr Cass if you could yeah yeah you can do a roll call vote please so the uh the exhibit for the Hib report is wrong so I deleted it and I'll put it back up um later tonight or tomorrow morning next is that next month yeah we yes we could do that I'll pull it from the agenda thank you so again that is um two 05 being pulled from the agenda the consent agenda so for roll call yay nay or uh exstension Mr figs yay Mrs Bond yay Mr aente yay Mr bucks uh abstain on 53 and the entirety of section 7 so 701 through 705 and yes on the remainder right hope that was a this is gamble Mr narwood yay Mrs Janice yay Mr Spence Mr Zimmer yes all right thank you board motion passes all right uh thank you Mr Lee if you could please check the public sign up thank you okay ladies and gentlemen this meeting will now be open to the public for comments please not that the board is here to listen the public comment period is not designed to be a discussion accordingly please do not expect the board to respond to your concerns or questions this evening we take your concerns and questions very seriously and want to have sufficient time to allow our Administration to process and research issues if need be we will however respond to your questions and concerns at a future meeting or have the proper staff member get back to you at the appropriate time also please note that if your questions or comments pertain to litigation students Personnel or negotiations we would ask that you see the superintendent after the meeting since we do not discuss these items in public please keep in mind that the public comment session is an opportunity for you to share your opinions and remarks with the board and is not a question and answer session we also recognize that our community may be polarized on some issues we want our Schoolboard meeting to serve as an example to our students that each member of the board and Community can deal with controversial issues in a civil Manner and demonstrate mutual respect for everyone's views in that Spirit we ask that all speakers please address their comments to the board directly rather than the audience and all speakers and members of the public show respect for others views and maintain civility during the meeting please state your name Municipality of residents and group affiliation if applicable comments will be limited to 3 minutes per person and the total comment period to 30 minutes only those who have signed up on the public comment signin sheet will be allowed to speak this evening the individual time limit will be enforced so that as many members of the public who wish to speak may be allowed to do so uh s hi I'm Shri a sophomore here at sof wait sorry I'm Shri a sophomore here at Northern Burlington I'm also a Hindu and my culture in my culture we celebrate a holiday called the valley you may or may not know it but it's a religious Festival where we light sparklers fireworks and candles to C to celebrate on the darkest night it represents Darkness over light CH light over darkness and good over evil this ritual starts in the morning with a Rel religious ceremony called a buja and I miss out on that every year because I have school in the morning and I unfortunately can't attend it just like many other of my fellow classmates so I'm asking for a day off on the upcoming calendar to for me to celebrate for me and many of my classmates to celebrate this religious holiday to the fullest for reference it's on October 20th Monday next year thank you for your time thank you very much all right um we have uh for future we have a curriculum and Technology committee meeting um virtually scheduled for December 2nd um I believe we have a buildings and grounds um committee meeting December 9th before the meeting that's not listed on the agenda but I think everyone building some grounds is aware and then our regular meeting is uh December 9th um does anyone have any old business um they'd like either discussed at the next regular board meeting or sent back to a committee for further investigation or any new business that they'd like to recommend to to a committee or inform new information they'd like from from Dr Zer the administration team Mr figs yes not quite sure if it's new business or not but regarding the the public comment yes um and was maybe looking for clarification my understanding of our current policy is that um an absence due to a religious reason would be deemed a um an acceptable or excused absence is that is my understanding correct for that that is correct and I was going to actually follow up with her but yes I mean you are you are correct in that for religious reason that is by the state um in approved absence thank you how about we how about we connect after okay thank you uh thank you any um other older new business all right uh we have no executive session this evening um with that can I get a motion for adjournment motion to adjourn second all those in favor I I all opposed extensions right thank you have a great evening and a Happy Thanksgiving everyone