e I'd like to call this meeting to order Mrs noran would you lead us in the flag salute certainly I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty Sunshine Law statement or requirements of the open public meetings act have been met for this meeting of the Board of Education of the Bureau of oral notice that this meeting was filed with the record in town news and all persons requesting such notice uh Mr Daran would you read the mission statement the ORD public school district is dedicated to the ongoing pursuit of educational Excellence through comprehensive Innovative curriculum and instruction the district is committed to providing opportunities for social emotional and academic Discovery to Foster curiosity courage and character our goal is to prepare our students become lifelong Learners who are self-directed resilient productive responsible citizens thank you roll call on the rooll Mrs aasta here Mr Del Greco here here Mrs Downey here Mrs noran here Mr nutland here Mrs Walker here Mr Walsh here Mr Darian here Mrs Nichols here at this time we will open to the public for agenda items only if it's an agenda item come on up sure if you can put if you can tell us your name and if you just write write your name and your address in the book is there a pen up there no we gotta be tough on this guy the former board member oh is the mic on okay Ralph lamola n delord Avenue Oro of course in orell um first of all I like to thank all the board members cuz I was on the board years and years ago I was just talking to Catherine and and I know John also um for the time that you spend you know helping the Community Helping the students of orell um I know sometimes it feels like a thankless job I was there um but I appreciate all the time you put in my two grandchilden now come to this school so I really appreciate the effort that you put in um that's first thing second thing um second thing is I just have um want to know the procedure for A1 after you vote on that this evening is that information that reports public information I I just don't know the process or if it isn't do the parents get a copy of those reports at some point or is there a verbal confirmation of what the results were it's that simple I'm Glad You Came tonight because I was going to say in my report we have our board attorney with us this evening so I am going to let him answer you so so there is there is no access so unless you're a parent of the one of the students involved in the Hib then you don't get to see those reports does the parent get to see the report the parents can the parents can will they have to ask for that in writing or they will have to ask it uh in writing they do and they can get a copy of the report yes I'm I'm sure that the administration's going to talk to them anyway at some point but I just want to know if there they can get a copy of so yes there's two things so they can get an executive summary of the investigation and then there's they get certain letters about the findings and then the board's the board um whether the board accepts that or rejects the the recommendation or or modifies the some way okay all right that was it simple I didn't know the process thank you very much so I have a question for you you want to come back on the board no come on they've been on I I just talk to Captain 32 33 years uh I was on probably back then 30 some years ago it's a lot of work that's why I say I appreciate all the efforts everyone in the administration too not just the the board members I know how hard it is thanks for coming to the meeting and and speaking three nights a week and uh reading the packet going through well if you ever get bored you know where we are yep maybe in another life any other comments on the agenda thank you very much thank you for coming thank you okay moving forward um I just have a few points um and our packet tonight we you already received the budget presentation in your packets at home but one of the um pages had to be updated so it's in your packet tonight so if you see that when we're going through the presentation um the next item I wanted to mention is this coming Tuesday I believe is the last Bergen County School boards meeting at the hasri heights Hilton yes is anyone planning on going that we know of is it anyone else going because we I might be able to go Mr Walsh you going I might be able to go we need to sign up if we're going so if you're going to go is anyone else going to go we got to tell tell Mr aell to sign us if you want to sign up um for this because it's the last one of the year I think and then um lastly as we see under A2 um next week is Teacher Appreciation Week and as we know we all love all of our teachers and there I know there's a lot of things planned for them next week from different groups we'll be talking about our uh segment of that afterwards but of course we wanted to say thank you to all our teachers for everything they do um and we're going to move forward to the superintendent report before Mr iell and I present the budget presentation for 2425 I wanted to share one exciting thing that happened yesterday and today for our sixth graders um they competed in the regional competition for steam t for New Jersey school boards Association and I always take it as oh okay we made it to Regionals it's no big thing however I learned today that 600 teams submitted applications for steam tank this year only 202 were given the opportunity to compete at regionals and orell public school had 23 of those teams so yesterday and today they have been presenting virtually via Zoom their product and their pitch to representatives from school boards and and we will find out if we made the state finals which is our goal we said we're all cheering for each other we're trying to get one team from orell public to make it to State finals this year and I will let you know if that occurs and with that um Mr iell and I have been working along with the administrative team on the 2425 budget and we are very excited about next year as we finish up this year so I always like to start um a budget presentation by talking about what this Year's budget accomplished so you'll see here several points of Pride for orell Public School this year from meeting the New Jersey standards um maintaining our onetoone devices by continually purchasing Chromebooks 125 for first grade and 125 for fourth grade every year implementing foundations in third grade piloting the Oram AI reading device and a continued focus on professional development which we know is near and dear to my heart if we truly want to be the best District that we can be we can continue to help our teachers to grow our operational improvements from in installing a new antenna and a new two-way radio system upgrading our Bell System emergency communication app training for all staff and a continual a continued additional deployment of cameras and door swipes which there's one that I just got a text 20 minutes ago is now operational in terms of buildings and grounds I think that we have probably had and I think Mr Daran would agree one of our biggest buildings and grounds years to date from renovating the four staircases re refinishing the gym floor installing three paved areas in including the panther patio updating the Center Street retaining wall which was a labor of love for everyone at the table repainting the MPR replacing piping um adding a new sink to the steam lab and for our kindergarteners getting a water filler closer to their classroom so they no longer take an entire tour of the building to get their water um and in terms of Engagement learning we know that creativity is one of our district goals this year and a big part of that was renovating our steam lab purchasing additional robotics materials not only purchasing additional 3D printer but our steam lab now is the proud owner of a glow Forge um laser printer as well and we've really been working to facilitate more classes for students and students and parents that um create opportunities to develop grit and to use the design process Mr riell it's all you because it's the numbers thank you Miss Posas so uh the budget we assess our needs but it's not a one-time or a oneoff uh process I do this consistently throughout the year speaking with Miss boosius the administrators to see where we're going what do they think we're going to need down the road and then also bringing this to the finance committee the finance committee we met numerous times uh uh very good discussions regarding the budget and we built a budget that we on behalf of the finance committee that really feel that meets the needs of these students and based on what was assessed by the administration so we received our final uh budget is going to be tonight there's going to be one change from the tentative budget it's adding an additional $22,700 from Bank cap that will be going to uh some subtitute salary lines uh because the substitutes now that the district is actually able to get substitutes that comes with a additional price so our substitutes now are costing more than they ever have um so that's where we're presenting tonight that's the only we're going to do it in more detail than the tentative budget but the only difference is $22,700 and that's reflected in one of the in the resolution the bank cap is now 50,000 and we could talk more about that as I move on so school funding formula um factors what's considered how do we get our Aid well they consider the age of the students they look now there is a wealth factor a wealth component now to school uh Aid there is property values income of the district's residents then they also do Geographic cost adjustments uh for the most part Northern New Jersey gets an adjustment because costs are higher than Southern New Jersey they look at enrollment and then they look at our number of lowincome and special education students and the state puts that into their magical formula and they come up with our aid number well we'll go to our enrollment but this enrollment number impacts our a so if the trend were the but this trend doesn't seem to be going down it seems to be there's ups and downs within our enrollment cycle and from what I understand this year it seems like we have more kindergarten students registered at this time than we've had before so it's not to say it's going down and it's not to say that we're going to continue going up it's a there are slight variations any given year so how does that formula impact orell well the state says if you have an 800 student enrollment they start off with giving every student every student per Aid $122,400 so you can see that means we should be receiving over $ 9, 900,000 but what's the reality the reality is for 800 students we get $1,298 per student and why is that if we just go back to some of those cost factors the funding formula factors the property values in idell have risen substantially over the last few years that impacts the other component is are the community's income as a whole has also increased so those are two numbers that would impact the wealthier districts receive less money um so that's how it breaks down well why do we go from 12,4 to 1,298 per student and I don't know if we've ever talked about that before or it's ever been shown before but I just thought it was a good idea to see why we spend 85% of the budget comes from the taxpayers and here leads into Revenue sources as you can see 80 over 84% is a local tax levy and then we have our state aid which is nominal in relation to the rest of the budget and we also have budgeted if we look at our uh revenues from budgeted fund balance that's at the end of the year the Auditors come in they prepare our financial statements and the district has to have a uh a fund balance that's unrestricted of at least 2% of the budget that's the number that you have set aside and everything else would have to be exhausted did before you could ever touch that money so this is the dollars that are in addition to that and so since that's above the 2% that money is returned as part of the budget and if you could think of it as a sort of a tax relief so that's 357,96 that's going back into the 2425 budget from the 2324 budget so we have our capital reserve which which is going to fund the capital projects moving forward at no additional taxes the largest amount that 522,000 we've talked about that numerous times that's related to the regulated regular operating District or Rod Grant uh that project needs to be in the budget this year but will not be completed because of those airdale units not being available anytime soon the second component the 260,000 with that's the local projects that will be for our rooftop unit over the kindergarten and that's for additional stairwell Renovations the board also um took out 15,000 from its own maintenance Reserve account to fund those are maintenance projects that are not considered Capital so those are the day-to-day sort of projects small projects that we have to do do and then the emergency Reserve this 45,000 will cover the additional security improvements so your emergency Reserve is allowed to be taken and used for security projects so at the end of the day the budget if you could see mostly you know other than the 6 and a half% from the state and a tiny bit of extraordinary Aid that's either from the taxpayers or from what the board has saved throughout their time so shared services this is an opportunity that the district uses to try to save funds wherever we can so one of the uh savings is region five and you will see those two resolutions for this for preparing to be on next year's uh into next year's cycle with region five and you can see our transportation that's a big deal so all of our special Edge students are transported through region five they try to consolidate students from other districts to put them on one bus if there's districts if there's students if there's not you pay more uh if it's it's one student going X miles away you would pay more so they try to see well is a River Edge student is a gorell student they try to then get get those students together to try to reduce costs with the routes Bergen County Technical Schools our technician is here on site right now uh like to thank Ramy helps the day keep going um so that's where we have with our technical school right down the road uh they provide site technician technical support all of our backups so that's how we do that purchasing cooperatives we use Ed data that is the largest of the cooperatives that we use for school supplies right now the teachers just finished doing their school supplies order for next year um and I am going through and with Miss Holly finalizing the numbers that the teachers were given allocated to spend and then we use Edge service commit Aces is another one that's through New Jersey school boards that's a Consortium of many districts and they put together to buy utilities uh our natural gas and our electric so we have PS and we pay a portion to PSG because that's how the route that's all the transmission lines that bring it to the district but then we have NRG uh that supplies our electric and Direct Energy that Pro provides our gas so we buy the Commodities from two different companies and we have psng directs it and brings it into the building so that's you also pay that fee and then another uh great saving item as opposed to being out there on our own is our insurance that stands for nbig is the northeast school board Insurance Group it's about 45 school districts uh one of the best components of the group is the fact that we are a self-insured workers compensation fund we have a uh an HMO that helps manage it and in surfco they help with the paying of the bills and coordinating Services uh so that is and then if the fund every year gets audited actuaries look at it if there is a surplus that they see based on the claims we get a refund so this year I just learned we're going to get a refund of $222,000 so we will put that towards next year's work and Compensation bill and that'll reduce our work in compensation so from 8 ,000 it'll drop down so that's a uh and it's all our property insurance everything is done through them sorry about that so what's the money spent on this number here when I'm talking about special ed General Ed these are all the salaries supplies everything that's do transportation for special education that's everything that is there except the benefits employee benefits are not distributed to those sectors or those appropriation lines they are uh their own one line it's everyone together um so if we take a look here this might help a little better taking a look at the pie chart and we could go back where do you want the pi um you could see that 28.3% is special education 27% is general education and 18% is benefits so that's the Lion Share of the budget um we then have operations and maintenance these are all this includes the utilities the property insurance custodial salaries maintenance salaries maintenance projects it does not include capital projects capital projects are in their own area and then as you get down you start to see that District administration basic skills School administration the smaller and smaller piece of the pie so the largest piece of the pie are special education followed by general education costs and then the benefits Associated so what will that budget accomplish next year um one of the things that I pride oursel on is we are not a district that just says okay let's take the en and distributed line it up it by 2% we zero budget every year we itemize every Pro every project every resource that we plan so we have a good idea of what not only do we hope to accomplish next year but that the money is in the budget to accomplish that so while districts across the county and across the state are cutting staff orell public school will be adding staff next year the budget has in it a additional full-time special education teacher and the major goal of that is to ensure that we have a a Continuum of services that if a child needs in-class support we have the the staff for that if they need resource room we have the staff for that additionally we have hired we will be hiring one part-time school counselor to assist in meeting the emotional needs of students if you attended my reading and safety presentation you'll know that uh mental and emotional health is the only preventative measure that has been proven to be successful in uh School Safety and Security everything else is reactionary and we have continued funds for language arts and math professional development because everything comes with what our teachers do every single day with our students and we can't expect our teachers to just constantly be on their own trying to figure out what to do we need to be the resource for them to make sure that they have every skill and every tool in their toolbox to give students what they need we also are maintaining kindergarten AIDS and I point that out because sometimes something happens in our district that we're so used to we don't realize it's a bit of a luxury there are very few districts that have Aids in their kindergarten classes and we will continue to have them next year um I I watch budget presentations in my free time Mr aapeli has gotten used to walking into my office in a budget presentation just being on my screen and there is a district in County that just k cut their kindergarten AIDS and boy was that a board meeting so I thought it was important to share with you that it is something that we will continue to have in this budget updated curriculum purchases include math resources to support our new curriculum which will be in place September 2024 uh new CL classroom read alouds to support our language arts curriculum additional materials to support steam integration and those technology upgrades aren't just educational technology upgrades uh we will be up updating numerous access points in the building maintaining onetoone devices we are we are onetoone in kindergarten through sixth grade but as a district we have never pushed technology on our kindergarteners so we give every student a Chromebook to use in first grade we have them in kindergarten we dabble with them but there's lots of other things we'd like to see our kindergarteners doing and continued technology purchases to support educational initiatives and the implementation of Gog Guardian in grades five and six and the buildings in grounds beautification it sounds silly but it's very near and dear to my heart we will be painting the flag pole it's been on my list of projects for a very very long time and Landscaping upgrades which we've been talking about and every summer we take on classroom and hallway hallway paintings so that's in our general operating budget and with regard to capital projects we've been talking about these and talking about these I know Mr Daran spoke at our last meeting about how proud as a board you should be about the fact that you are funding these projects with your own monies and not going out for referendum so the replacement of the airdale HVAC units which as Mr aell said is in this budget although it will not be accomplished until summer 2025 we will be completing the stairwell renovation project so in September all of our new stairwells will have safety treads we'll be a lot cleaner looking and we'll have visual safety stripping the roof replacement of two parts of roofing will be done in July and August we have a project meeting about that next week we will be replacing a rooftop unit in kindergarten and we also have as we stated before through emergency reserve some school security improvements that will be taking place as well so if we look What's the total Levy there is The Debt Service that will be added to the general fund Levy that debt Services prior uh commitments so this year going forward 13 m793 403 will be our total Levy how does it impact the average taxpayer it impacts that person or persons by about $122 on the average assessed value of $32,365 so I speaking for myself believe that's a nominal increase for what Ora Del provides our students I'm really excited that uh we have a lot in this budget for next year and we have really big plans and it's incredibly I'm proud and I'm excited that I can sit here with you and that we did not go through the struggles that lots of districts went through this year and yes that is because we did get a small increase in state funding but it's also because we pride ourselves on making step-by-step plans we don't budget for just one year we're already thinking in the future so some of the technology we bought this year was because we knew what was coming down the pike so we're never surprised um do you have any questions for Mr ieli or for me about the budget what percentage of our students are special needs approximately 14% what's the number the total like 10 I want to say somewhere between 120 and 140 is it that high if you include the speech only students so which we did in that because the speech teacher salaries are in that special ed okay grouping Mr Walsh um I've seen a few budgets but I never remember special ed being the highest is there anything that we can do to lower those costs well one of the things we do do and trying to continue and this program is actually you know region five is doing everything they can to help hold those costs down I think if we weren't part of region five and we were a sold District on our own we would even see higher costs they at least try to collect the students that are traveling on the buses at least try to get a couple of them on one route to save funds as opposed to we would be going out in one route to it's it's hard to think but one route going to Norwood cost $65,000 a year um the busing is incredibly expensive uh the also bringing in uh OTS and PTs and the evaluations they help our child study team in our district instead of having to hire additional staff you could Outsource at times to the region five um so I think that's where we could continue to see Sav you know try to see savings and try to hold the line on the costs and Region 5 is also um they understand that one of the biggest hits to special education budget is out of district tuitions and so as a group of districts we are talking about how does any of do any of our districts have a space that we could open up a program so we were not using a private out of um District program which is much more expensive so these costs are hitting everyone so we are working collaboratively together to say what what more can we do are there any thoughts on on what programs we could possibly offer that would be a benefit to those in region five that could help offset our special ed costs yes so that's exactly what we're talking about we're talking about it as a region though because orell public school doesn't have room we have investigated this in the past and we really do have we don't have two more rooms that we can devote to a special education program so that's what we're talking about and even talking about as a reg in the possibility of maybe renting a space somewhere and running a program because we'd like to have a little more say and oversight and especially with regards to we find it very difficult um to find programming for children with OT regulation needs so is there something we can do to help each other in that area because all of us are having the same issues Mr Walsh I mean we could we have looked at parents driving their children to school uh paying for one student to be on a bus paying $65,000 I mean uh I don't know if that's still happening uh but there's got to be a different way can we have region five come to us and uh answer some of the questions that we had that we brought up at the budget meeting what question do you want answered well I mean what are they doing how many students that I have that are were sitting on the bus by themselves and and uh why are they sitting on the and how how uh has the district looked out for parents because uh I know years ago we looked at trying to get parents to drive their students to school by them themselves you know which would save us some money we have some parents that prefer to drive their children their own children we do have some but they prefer it but it's Our obligation to drive them right okay I understand that but there are some parents that prefer it but maybe Mr iell could maybe call Region 5 and find out if we have anybody sitting on a $65,000 bus and what we are actually paying per student transportation wise follow thank you maybe you could mention I mean I know the finance uh committee knows this what percentage are we going up 27 well 2 I don't it's 2.96% is the levy increase uh but once you factor in the fact that our budget The Debt Service is going down the net effect here that increase is 2.73% when you look at for the average tax pay but without Debt Service it's 2.96 2.96% that is correct of the of the 4 million that you have no no no this is our entire budget the tax levy 2.96 so last year it was 12,981 181 this year it's $3,365 1953 so that's a 2.96% increase uh that we worked as a team to and the finance committee I think did a fantastic job work working with us uh my first time working the budget with the finance committee and it was I enjoyed it it was a great discussions that's one way to put it you always look back on things fondly you never remember the bad [Laughter] times any other questions a little levity to the questions little levity to the Mr Daren yeah so uh this this is uh I don't know what slide number it is but this is revenue sources for the budget for 2425 we talk about the tax levy of 13.3 million we get revenues from other sources I.E the state that's 1.1 million and uh revenues from reserves that's the savings account within the Ops prior year budgets of 1.3 million so we're we're contributing to the budget of 1.3 million which is more than what we get from the state 1.1 million so I just wanted to highlight that out of the total budget um you know it's nice that we get money from the state but it's nowhere near where it should be anything else um just a comment I think that we're very fortunate here if you look at other school districts I know of one in Rockland County and that school district is losing so much money they're worried about it going under and the reason for that is the transportation so what's happening is that more and more of the influx of students are being pulled into private school and the Board of Ed is being filled with certain parents who are supporting having transportation provided to private schools and therefore now they're really in a deficit and there are 29 children in this second grade class that I visit and 21 of them are English is a second language no Aid in that classroom so I think you know when we look we and we keep up with of course when you look at special ed is a greater percentage than regular Ed but still we are supporting our students in very very good ways and putting AIDS in classes and pulling kids out so I think we can really we are extremely fortunate we can do it we don't who knows if that can continue in the future but we are very lucky because I don't know how many schools around have do you know M Bo Miss boos how many have kindergarten AIDS there's actually a survey done recently and I will put it in your board update because I don't remember off hand yeah that would be good and um speaking of transportation we had actually had kind of this discussion so Mr iell you want to comment on that yeah I just want to also comment uh on some of if there is a child that would be on a bus by themsel there could be a need that that child has a onetoone aid plus a nurse their uh disability medical issues May necessitate that they're the only child on that bus so it's not that they're just well not looking and putting a child there that some children that's the only way to transport that child um so I just wanted to say that we may have a child and I know of one child on a route but that child requires that there's no other way around that um so then we also have something here where it's called Aid in L so that's roughly you know $25,000 of our transportation so anyone who lives greater than 2 miles from the school is entitled to Transportation if you cannot provide a route for that child under the a inl amount the the parent gets it so they get roughly $1,300 if they're going to a Catholic School in Glenrock we don't have enough children going there and it's not uh beneficial for us to make a bus route if there were 20 children and you could do it for less than the eight in L you would have a bus route but if there's only one child two child uh one child two children and a family they then are entitled to eight inl per child um so that's a number that you know it's 22,000 25,000 depending on the year and the number of students uh the number went up this year over 5% was a 5.8% because it's tied to the Consumer Price Index um so that's a number where you you know 22 25,000 and it's being paid out so that's part of a transportation costs that some people may not realize that those are things that that's more than we pay that to transport our students to events so that's just the point I wanted to mention Mr Walsh if we looked at where the students are being delivered to the School District they're being delivered to maybe we could find a cluster of schools that we could uh take care of that's what region 5 does they do try to group the students so they take the students from our region and try to if a if it's possible based on that child's needs if they could add two from River Edge one from oradel and then there would be three on that bus instead of just the one Orel child that's what region five does do on our behalf they look to put those children together but there are sometimes based on the child's needs based on the child's placement uh might not be a local public school it could be a private school of some distance uh so it's complicated and they do do their best at trying to consolidate because it's the fewer routes they have would ease that eases their job they want to consolidate the routes not have many routes because they don't make you know region five doesn't make money based on the routes uh that's not what their job is so that's the one thing they want to consolidate as many as possible so they have as few as routes as possible because busing is not an easy issue I've that in the past and it is a to have to have your own busing is it's a difficult it's not easy thanks I still think we should look into it anything else to your report no good okay so thank you to Mr iell for a great job on the budget this year and all the work you put in so yes it was your I want than Miss Bas on the graphics because my presentation was very very black and white there were there were just lines and numbers simple we're not surprised it's okay they're very simple it's very yes but miss boie has really jazzed it up thank you for the report uh we'll move to minutes now we have the review of April 17th and approval for March 27th if you have any comments on April 17th which I actually do I'll email you I have a change please email Mr Elli and do we have a motion for the approval of March 27th I move that we approve the minutes of March 27th second by Mrs Walker any questions call a question on the rooll Mrs aasta Mr Del Greco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran yes Mr nutland yes Mrs Walker yes Mr Walsh yes Mr Darien yes Mrs Nichols yes uh committee reports Mr Darian would you take administrative uh yes tonight we have administrative items A1 Hib reports and A2 which is the teacher appreciation week I'll second it any questions or comments call a question on the rooll Mrs aasta Mr delgreco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran yes Mr nutlin abstain Mrs Walker yes Mr Walsh yes Mr Darian yes Mrs Nichols yes uh buildings and grounds Mr Darian yes um we did not have a buildings and grounds meeting since our last meeting so I have nothing to report and with that I will introduce item B1 for facility use I'll second it second by Mrs noran any questions I just wanted to add we will be having the preconstruction meetings for next week on 58 for the roof replacement and the exhaust fans so that's getting that's moving forward uh so those projects can be done this summer call a question Mrs aasta yes Mr Del Greco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran yes Mr nutland yes Mrs Walker yes Mr w Walsh yes Mr Darian yes Mrs Nichols yes uh Finance Mrs aasta yes um we've had several meetings on the uh the budget that was presented tonight and I'd like to introduce D1 through d8 I'll second it second by Mr Walsh any questions I have a comment Mr Daran yes on d8 it's a new ition it's in red um I don't know if you remember when I discussed the basketball court last time and I said that they were going to uh we're going to have um members of the parent Community volunteer their time and efforts in uh resurfacing the basketball court and putting together mural uh what we're doing here in da is we're accepting um it's basically a person's volunteerism and it's monetized and um and since it's over $1,000 uh we are including it here on the finance section so i' just like to call out um you know zicaro Inc for uh doating um materials and um to repair the um basketball court just to clarify it's not the materials it's the services so I just wanted to make do we have a resolution for our payment no since that hasn't occurred yet we so that will be going on any other questions call the question on the rooll Mrs aasta yes Mr delgreco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran yes Mr nutland yes Mrs Walker yes Mr Walsh yes Mr Darien yes Mrs Nichols yes delegate report Mr Walsh um I have nothing to report but there's a delegates assembly on May 18th and I'm not going to be able to make it but Katherine is stepping up and uh filling my spot and also there's a delegates assembly uh no there's a legislative meeting on June first that I will attend I'll be back and I will attend that Mrs noran are you going in person or by zoom on May 18th I'm going in person huh it's on the agenda where is it it's in the it's um no at College it's in here it's on the back of here okay good we edit it are there any resolutions coming up for this meeting that we know of I haven't there must be right there must be but Peter can you uh get in touch with a school boards and have them send the uh delegates book book to Katherine I will do that thanks thank you Personnel Mrs Walker uh thank you I'd like to present F1 second I'll Che second by Mrs noran any questions I have a question on page Four J the seel review can you explain what that is sure um when we originally chose open circle as a social emotional learning um resource part of the reason we did it was for consistency across the school that orell public school happens to be one of the largest um elementary schools in Bergen County as we know and the need for consistency is incredibly important we want to make sure that the language we are using in kindergarten when we talk about certain behaviors is the same language we are using in second grade or third grade so what that team will be doing is coming up with our schoolwide language that we will then make some decisions about where do we want to hang posters of that language how what are some of the phrases we're going to use at ell Public School one of the examples I typically give when I used to do open circle training is that one of the ways we tell students when to tell vers when to tattle is if something is dangerous and destructive but if you start telling children that in kindergarten then when a teacher says in third grade or fourth grade is that a double D Behavior we don't have to really talk about it we've already laid that foundation so that group and that's why there's so many we want to make sure that we represent all um members of the school Community because once we do it we need to make sure we're using it consistently how many do we usually put on a committee for a rewriting curriculum or looking at a new resource well we would use if you think about it we would use at least one to two members of every grade level so seven grade levels times two would be 14 add a special education teacher and a specialist in that area and you could go up to 15 to 18 we always put that many on yes is seal part of New Jersey curriculum is it one of the standards or is it something that we teach are there are social emotional learning standards in the curriculum and that's why they're actually in our curricular documents with specific standards any other questions call a question on the role Mrs aasta yes Mr Del Greco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran I will vote Yes but abstain on 8A Mr nutland yes Mrs Walker yes Mr Walsh yes Mr Daran yes Mrs Nichols yes policy Mr delgreco nothing to report we do have to schedule a meeting public relations Mrs Downey where we with the um survey um I send the Public Relations Committee a version of the survey that I would like to distribute to parents on Friday so if I don't hear back from you that survey will be going out to parents on Friday morning with a due date of a final closing date of May 20th because we decided that we wanted to ensure that parents had two weekends open to the public just a point of order before we get to that okay because you skipped me I just wanted to say as chair of curriculum that um I skipped you you skipped me sorry I thought you report sorry there is no report but I just wanted to be sure that you didn't forget about me oh okay sorry that's okay open to the public um any old or new business Mrs question odyy of the Minds when are they going to Iowa when is that it's May it and they come back on the weekend of Memorial Day okay yes lollipop s start next week any other old or new business under um new business I would just like to acknowledge the phenomenal students and the uh PTA talent show that went on here last week uh it was remarkable to see this Auditorium filled with amilies watching their kids um you know anything from dancing to you know a young man playing Metallica so that that had me you had me at hello so uh uh congratulations to our students uh they did a wonderful job any other older new buiness we do need to go into a Clos session so Mr Darren if you could make the motion for legal issues uh special ed issues student issues I think that probably covers it and possibly Personnel actually so you got it I'd like to make a motion that we go into close session I'll second it second by Mr Walsh roll call on the role Mrs aasta yes Mr Del Greco yes Mrs Downey yes Mrs noran yes Mr nutland yes Mrs Walker yes Mr w Walsh yes Mr Darien yes Mrs Nichols yes we will not be coming back and taking any action