##VIDEO ID:Kz5wRGy3Bi8## okay I need a motion to come out of executive session M motion can I get a second please second thank you all in favor I okay uh superintendent's report he already did that last week progress toward goals any correspondence no okay special committee reports do we have any I have sorry no correspondence sorry about that goad I have several committee special committee reports Matt okay it's all yours okay um on November 21st SEPTA held their annual thankful meeting we had dinner that was provided by the Oba everyone had the chance to relax eat talk we were treated to a visit to the new GNC life skills classroom and the teacher Mrs Whitney um first talked about it then we visited the classroom was made possible by SEPTA's hard work dedication vision and the generosity of the Oldbridge Community every year SEPTA hosts their um November thankful meeting and to show their appreciation for the staff they provided um $600 worth of classroom wish list gift certificates to members and attendance on December 3rd we had a special services meeting um thank you to Dr Tui for presenting information about an overview of statistics driving special education programming and student placement data Trends seen in Oldbridge and student growth reported through Middle School benchmarking the presentation is on the Oldbridge um Public School website the next meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 14 we on December 16th there was a cpeg zoom meeting um that was last night it was a meeting about um providing resources for activities uh for things to do with um children over winter break she also reminded parents Mrs babbits also reminded parents that they should have received progress monitoring reports and if not they should contact their child's case manager Mrs babits will post the link to the winter break activities on ceg's Facebook page for everyone for anyone who would like to have them I also oh okay that's it for uh committee reports thank you thank you Mr Dow anyone else yes I have yes on November 26th we had a policy health and safety committee meeting uh Mr Parton was present uh just going under the revisions of the policies that are available on page five section 15 uh so would just revisions and updates um to about 12 different policies that we have in the district that was it thank you Mr Slate anyone else yes I would like to report um what was discussed at our curriculum meeting which took place on uh December 11th we kicked off our meeting with Mr sentano and Mrs O'Neal presenting how the district has been and will continue to use artificial intelligence they presented on ways we can use AI in our classrooms and how it can enhance teaching and learning and discuss pros and cons we are going to use and further develop policy 2365 at our next policy meeting we want to ensure our use of AI leads to positive learning outcomes and that we teach our staff and students how to appropriately use it Mr sentano then presented our partnership with the Oldbridge Public Library each of our schools will be receiving book kits we were provided with a list of the books that will be contained in these kits and have been reviewed by our supervisors we will also be organizing trips for our students to visit the public library we then went on to discuss our High School uh course offering book we have several new courses in the works including honors Environmental Science music production 3 orts 2 and weightlifting we reviewed math prerequisites and some course advancements our students can take as they move through High School administration would like to make some changes to course waivers as well Mrs Haney kimak presented the details of a proposed new course called vocal music Theater which would blend singing and acting she reviewed the specifics of the course and what what each marking period would entail we discussed discussed I'm sorry the FAFSA State requirement and also a small preschool tuition increase we ended with a follow follow up from our last meeting regarding onetoone devices at the K2 levels and the majority of our teachers would like to keep this in place I just wanted to say thank you to all the members of our Administration our staff members and our community members that come out to these meetings and I know you've heard me say it and I'll continue to say it a lot of our work um the bulk of our work gets done at these meetings so we would love to have you all there for our next one thank you thank you Mr Francisco anyone else yes uh January 8th will be our Dei and Care committee meeting uh starting at 6:30 uh what we want to do is come together as a community and discuss some of the the schools that are having issues with racial slurs being use and discuss what we can do together to make that um come to a halt and so please come join us at that discussion on January 8th thank you thank you Mr Deo anyone else okay I see no hands hearing of residents on any agenda no hearing of residents agenda items only agenda items only I see no one okay policy we have no vote on this first reading okay curriculum professional development one through three can I get a motion to move curriculum professional development L we move it Miss second any discussion roll call please Marquetta is absence we have Mone yes no yes oh oh sorry Slade yes duno yes Jano yes J yes Francisco yeah so my number one is blank okay there's just it's a placeholder we keep there so no one's going in so yes essentially we're approving that but there's nothing to remind you all the money we're saving just keeping me on my to Francisco is yes lent yes and solowski yes resolutions one through three pass roll call please oh we did okay Finance one through 15 can I get a motion to move Finance lent second any discussion Roco please yes maretta is absent Mone yes SL yes duno yes jodano yes Jo yes Francisco yes solowski yes resolutions 1 through 15 for finance passes thank you excuse me Matt can I I apologize I should have said this during discussion um I just want to congratulate and thank mcdot um I think that's MCD PTA I think that's an amazing uh $10,000 towards a playground for your school so thank you for your hard work and uh great job thank you Athletics we have nothing non-certified personnel office one can I get a motion to move non-certified personal office pleas Francisco will move lent will second any discussion Ro call please Jodi yes Francisco yes Lent yes Marquett is absent maone yes Slade yes Dan tuno yes Jano yes solowski yes resolution one for non-certified personnel office passes thank you non-certified Personnel operational we only have one item here can I get a motion to move one it's your annual motion lens second any discussion roll call please Jano yes J yes Francisco yes lent yes Marquetta is absent M yes Slade yes danant tuno yes solowski resolution one non-certified personel operational passes thank you non-certified Personnel other one through 10 can I get a motion to move non-certified person any discussion Zone on the second we'll give okay any discussion roll call please Dan tuno yes Jano yes jri yes Francisco yes lent yes Marquetta is absent Mone yes Slade yes solowski yes resolution 1 through 10 for non- certificate Personnel other passes thank you certified Personnel one through 14 can I get a motion to move certified Personnel 1 through 14 please move it Francisco one second any discussion okay I believe we have some no hire re over here berbert schools would like to welcome Barbara Reese and Mary Applegate both to MCD are they here are they here good can we get can we get you to come [Applause] up yes thank you and congratulations yeah roll call please sled yes Dan tuno yes Gano yes J yes Francisco yes lent yes Marquett is absent Mone yes solowski resolution 1 through 14 for certificated Personnel passes thank you Mr W non-certified Personnel transportation we only have one item can I get a motion to move non-certified Personnel Transportation L will move it Mone will second any discussion roll call please Mone yes Slade yes Dan tuno yes gardano yes Jodi yes Francisco yes lent yes Mara is absent solowski yes resolution one for non-certified personel Transportation pass thank you Mr W transportation we have nothing supplies equipment and services we have nothing miscellaneous we have one through one through five can I get a motion to move one through five please Jano motion Geor second any discussion please roll call please Francisco yes lent yes Marquetta is absent Mone yes Slade yes d tuno yes gardano yes jri yes solowski yes resolution one through five for miscellaneous passes thank you Mr white board secretary and board of business we have nothing I I do have one thing to add here okay it's not a formal resolution but I just this morning I sent an email to all the uh board members and board members elect uh just a point of topic the njsba has reached out to all njsba members and they have um scheduled four public hearings in regards to U making our our voices heard on state aid and school funding um there are four dates that were given December 17th January 8th January 14th and January 16th um as an Administration we have discussed and are scheduling to head down to traton with any board members that are um interested in doing so on January 14th from 10: a.m. to noon at the NJ Department of Education in Trenton we're going to have uh Transportation arranged for us so um we did get a couple of responses already for those that are interested in in attending um but that email is out there to all current board members as well as board m al if anyone is interested in attending with us um certainly please reach out to me so we can get that together if we plan on speaking and we'll we'll discuss that as an Administration um we have to register to do that um but that'll be something we discuss uh internally as well so the invitation is out there in the email um I just wanted to share that officially as board business uh with every thank you I just know that uh when we we discussed future goals for myself as a superintendent U one of the things we wanted to look at is uh you know en encouraging more fighting for state aid funding and when this opportunity came up uh I said to Mr wend let's get a bus and so everybody can join me and do it so we can all go together no you're not driving ning Dr hooker I think we just have to move a meeting on that day Personnel meeting yeah okay as as an aside to that I know uh Mr Lewis Andrew Lewis has reached out as well I think there's some interest on uh their end Oba to end join us as well so anyone from the public is actually uh open at the public forum to to go um again we'll work we'll discuss internally we'll reach out to Mr Lewis to see um you know the those interested and and maybe we all get together or uh depending on the availability of transportation we have so so that can be discussed and and coordinated as well thank you anyone else nothing okay hearing of residents on any school district items anything to do with our school district okay any old business I have some um one I want to uh thank Mr cadino and Daisy for coming to G's winter event um um the kids after you left that's all we kept hearing seeing the cards going back so thank you for coming um I want to say thank you to Lisa for her years of service on the board and CJ this is your last meeting too so thank you for everything that you have done for all of us um we're going to miss you and I hope you come back to visit thank you you took the words right out of my mouth over here CJ thank you for your service I believe you what would you have 25 26 years 28 years can we get a picture with you in the entire board come on yeah we'll do it now e Lisa and CJ again thank you for your service okay okay anyone else with the old business or new business I have old business go ahead I just wanted to thank Mr cadino and also Debbie no for arranging the bus tour we went on of the schools Elena Christina Jay and I visited Memorial School Cooper school and Sal Middle School um we visited classrooms we talked to student staff and I also wanted to thank Dr Gada and Dr Payton for the gift bags that they gave us thank you anyone else yes I wish everybody yeah great holiday schol uh I just have one thing um just wait one second um okay so I want to thank Luca Dickinson who was here tonight who was honored uh I think it like two years ago I went to Arts Fest with Daisy and uh I was looking at the artwork that Luca had prepared and asked that I said I was commenting that there's a tea kettle with a dog on it I said wow that's so nice tonight I was presented with Daisy's version of it you know look at that two years later so that was a great event I love the Arts Fest it is January 28 this year starting at 6m so if you'd like to look forward to attend that put put that in your calendar and again happy holidays to everyone Merry Christmas happy Hanukkah happy New Year see everyone safely on the other side of this beautiful holiday and thank you Lisa thank you uh for everything you've done as a board member uh thank you Lenny and U CJ as well great wonderful been we still have we still have some time with you at C CJ and office we have some still have some surprises for you coming up so uh all the best to everyone thank you it was a great bus tour too M Mr vasen I see you still wore the sweater so you get you can't wait to get up here so you'll be on the next bus tour I guess go ahead two more two more um so I also like to congratulate CJ on her time on the board and wish her a very prosperous retirement congratulations again to miss lent Mr Marquetta and good job to assume performance that just occurred uh a few moments ago and the fall comedy happened a few weeks ago on this very stage I was very impressed by the student actors so congratulations to them too and that's my old business thank you Mr Jano anyone else yes so um like everyone else I want to thank um Mr Marquetta CJ Lisa uh it's been great working with you while you were here and I it's like trying to peek around you and still speaking to the mic um it's been great you've been a good Mentor I should say a great mentor when I've had questions and things like that uh partying in AC you'll definitely like always be one of my favorit so thank you for that um as far as the performance I enjoyed the Jamaican theme to go with our One Love Theme as a district that was cool um I did tell Mr citadino but I do want to say so publicly I would like to thank Mr tuy and Miss Keeler um I've gone to both of them with questions um in each of their things from students uh looking for assistance or more work or things like that and you've both been super responsive um parents are thrilled and happy for your dedication so thank you both for that great job um and I want to wish everyone happy holidays hope you enjoy um sometime with either just yourself and enjoying the quiet time or with loved ones or with the family or however you choose to spend it so uh safe and happy holidays and before we go off we have the ugly sweater but I didn't know if anyone else want to say anyone else that's it V we're going to have a I guess a contest for this sweater now let's see who wins who who does the judging well they all they all clap for it okay so um we I guess we'll just go down the line so um everyone's donated $10 and then uh you guys can clap on who you think has the ugliest sweater the winner the money goes to a charity of their choice so Marie will start with just stand up oh you want to you want to model it all right so go how but how we going with the mic I okay have on I I'll do it I'll no yes so we we'll be taking Applause now so first up where's yours it's just my red shirt I don't have a sweater so F first up Miss dantono Miss Francisco Mr solowski Miss JRE m mazone m [Applause] Slade Dr Tui and Mr widell Mr Slade wins thank you audience for your participation okay I would like to thank everyone for coming enjoy the holidays it's hot as hell up here I thank you for your votes I'm going to be giving this money to the Oldbridge Animal Center in Oldbridge yes thank you all and happy holidays Merry Christmas Hanukkah K Quanza all the good things and happy New Year thank you thank you everyone have a happy holiday and a happy New Year okay Mr Jano yes um I'd like to congratulate all board members for the 2024 board uh I've enjoyed this past year with you uh President salowski and Vice President Dan anono did a great job this year and good luck to next year's board which will include most of us and we have have one new board member one returning board member one incumbent starting next year so good luck to all of us and merry Christmas happy New Year good luck thank you thank you Mr J great great job hold on my turn so I also would like to I just got used to writing 2024 I don't know about everybody else but now I have to write 2025 which is kind of mind-blowing to me so being up here for a year I can't believe a year has gone by it has been my pleasure to be here and I look forward to the next few years and the change over and I congratulate those who are leaving and I wish um happy holidays and happy New Year to everyone and look forward to seeing you all I guess that's it okay motion I need a motion to adjourn M motion can I get a second please Francisco will second thank you all in favor I good night all for e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e