##VIDEO ID:k22E5D4XrCw## e be we're almost right on ready good welcome to this public meeting of the principal Board of Education the board is an elected unpaid group of 10 citizens who set policy make decisions on educational financial and Personnel matters for The Prince and public schools on behalf of all residents we are always pleased when members of the community attend our meetings the board and the school district operate under applicable New Jersey laws and under regulation of the New Jersey State Board of Education each meeting includes an opportunity for those attending to comment on items on the publish agenda or other matters of interest to them the board reserves a right to limit the time allowed to public participation law limits discussion of individual Personnel uh and confidential matters we desire that our meetings provide useful opportunities for communication between the board and the community thank you for attending as required under the open public meeting act njsa 1046 Ed sequentia adequate notice was given for calling this meeting it was authorized by the Board of Education and forwarded to the municipal clerk princ and packet and the Trenton Times on January 6th and was re-advertised on December 27th 2024 it was also distributed to the schools and others on the standard distribution list the board reserves the right to enter into executive session during all meetings of the Board of Education board policy 168 recording devices requires that we inform those attending this inperson meeting that the proceedings are being recorded uh the meeting is this meeting is being live streamed the rep pres the sing district is authorized vote on such matters that affect sing District students or affect the governance of the principal Public Schools as more specifically designated in njsa 18a 38.81 sending District votes pertaining to Personnel actions refer to high school Central administrative and districtwide staff only votes otherwise are considered extensions in the event the statute is amended the law shall take presidence over this bylaw so it's an atypical meeting because I get to start this out as board secretary um so before we take a roll call we will um go over the results of the annual school election so uh Mara franceski was elected to our second term Chris Chris santarpio and Ari miselle were elected to their first terms on the board of education so now I get to swear all of you in you should have the oath in front of you and I'll just come around go to the no we can just use your mic here so each one sorry so I'll just read it slowly repeat after yes please okay I Mara franceski do solemnly swear I Mara franceski do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people so help me God under the authority of the people so help me God I Mara franches franceski do solemnly swear I Mara franceski do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I will faithfully impartially and justly and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me gu all right all right I I Chris santarpio do solemnly swear I Chris santarpio do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established in the United States and this state and to the governments established in the United States and this state and under the authority of the people so help me God under the authority of the people so help me God I Chris do you prefer Chris or Christopher Chris ear Chris is gr yeah I Chris santarpio do Solly swear I Chris santarpio do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I will faithfully impartially and justly and that I will faithfully impartially and justly perform all all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God all right I arel do solemnly swear I risel do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the governments established the United States and this state and to the governments established in the United States and this state under the authority of the people so help me God under the authority of the people so help me God I arel do solemnly swear I risel do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education and that I will faithfully and partially and justly and that I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability so help me God excellent congratul it Ling it so uh take your time next on the uh agenda is welcoming um our representative from our saning district cranberry Katherine Lara welcome aboard uh so now I'll officially take the roll call although I think I accidentally took it before so um I hit clicks so hold on no well when I I just it came up when the beginning of the meeting so I clicked it so we'll go officially Adam Beerman presid Beth Baron here Debbie bronfeld here Mara franceski here Elanor hover here Susan caner here dap Kendall here Ari miselle here Chris santarpio here Katherine laa here we have a quorum uh next on the agenda is will we acknowledge and accept the rules of par monary procedure for conducting public meetings um we do follow Robert's rules to the best of our ability uh we generally don't have an attorney present um I guess well we already kind of appointed me as temporary chair uh but now uh now we're going to take nominations for our board president do we have any nominations uh for board president tonight yes who do you nominate daff mendall okay do we have any other nominations for board president oh oh great go ahead please oh sorry were there any other see if we had any other nominations for board president tonight great go ahead deie okay good evening it was it is with great pleasure that I would like to nominate daphna Kendall for president to the Princeton board of education for the 2025 school year this will be dap's fourth year as president and she has done an amazing job moving the board and the district forward these past few years a few things to highlight her suggestion of several interim candidates for the district that have kept us moving forward while we continue to interview for full-time staff her continued focus on ensuring that every board member has the same information so we can all make informed decisions her effort to keep our monthly meeting short maybe not so short and her depth of knowledge and Leadership through several successful Union neg Union negotiations the up coming referendum and the hiring of a new superintendent dap's respect for our staff makes her the Right leader to help transition the Princeton public schools to a new superintendent in June whenever daphna does whatever daphna does she always keeps students front and center DNA is a tiess advocate for students and her intensity about keeping focus on students is matched only by her sense of humor thank you excellent so we'll officially now take a motion in a second uh do I have a motion Beth Baron and Mara franceski uh D Kendall yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman no Debbie bronfeld yes Mar franceski yes Elanor Hubbert yes Susan caner yes arri miselle yes Christopher Santa Chris sarpio yes Katherine laa yes all right we have a board president thank you thanks thank you can I can I bang the gavl once please you know I never bang it so you can have it can I give it to you now you get to have the G I don't want to startle myself um I just wanted to say so thank you Debbie for the kind words and everyone for your support um and thank you for your continued confidence in me um as I said to the last B board meeting as a community we want the right people on a board of education making decisions for children and um just as I said that Brian and Betsy and Rob were those type of board members so are Ari Chris and Katherine and we welcome you to the board um Believe It or Not we've all spent a enough a lot of time together um during the superintendent search and we're thrilled to welcome you to the board um you know as Debbie said like we want to focus on children that's why we're all here the children have to be the center of the orbit and um I couldn't be more grateful to work with all of you um we really are a team and um even if we get off uh the track we someone will always bring it back even if I get off the track someone will always bring it back to kids and that's the most important thing um what we do um matters and um you know as as we say every time and I just want to laugh that we're unpaid volunteers like that's a double what do you call it uh wh me um it's I I I truly believe there's there's no um more important service that someone can do for their community and I'm so glad to do it with all of you and um we've been through a lot um many of us over the last few year past few years this is going to be a great year and we are going to have a lot of fun and I'm so excited to lead um one more year um and I just want to thank Kathy um for her leaders ship um she makes being the board president very easy and I'm grateful for that um and I want to thank Matt uh for always being you know a good partner um and keeping his sense of humor thank you yeah um and and thank you to Angela um for everything she does and also Kim could be with us tonight because she's going to be here tomorrow night uh but thank her on behalf of the board as well so thank you that's your me oh like I think you're doing a great I think you're doing a great job I do think I do think you need to have water in between the two um yes you know when you have to do both speeches because it's very dry yeah okay so now um moving on now for uh a nomination uh for the election of Vice President of the board uh so be yes I nominate Susan caner Susan caner Okay anyone else uh can I get a motion please can I say something well we have to enter it oh okay yes are you motioning I'm motioning you're motioning second Beth everyone oh Elanor too um you just got to go like this sorry I'm my RIT rules yeah it's been it's been a while it's been two weeks yeah please go ahead the floor is yours yes I would just like to say it's my honor to nominate Susan caner as vice president of the Board of Education Susan has demonstrated thoughtful and balanced consideration of differing viewpoints over her years with us and her service as as committee chair and on many different committees she has been careful and strategic in her approach to decision-making she has a tired tireless willingness to pitch in and move the work of the board forward and she has an unwavering Devotion to our students and it's my honor to nominate her as vice president I look forward to having her in leadership Deon Kendall yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Mar franceski yes Elanor hover yes Susan caner yes Ari miselle yes Chris santarpio yes Katherine wara yes all right we have a vice president yeah go ahead um uh thank you very much for um nominating me and approving me for this position um you know in my five years on the board uh I think everyone knows that we work hard but I I enjoy the the the getting to know my fellow board members the and team and the um having a collegial and enjoyable service even when some of our days are not so enjoyable so hopefully that will continue and like daphna I'm excited to help daphna uh and support her in ways to help lead the district to help our admin team as we move forward and welcome a new superintendent and um you know I've been involved in the prin and public schools for over 20 years so this is like a very exciting day for me but thank you um and I just want to add um so we had superintendent searches and um you know the meetings went on for a long time and um I was gonna say this tomorrow night but I don't embarrass you I think we have less viewers tonight but Susan had a kidney stone and um I actually thought she was going to kill over at one of the meetings um well one meeting in particular and I was like are you okay and she just like was in so much pain and so if I had a sticker to give out I would give it to you for um just the the most hardworking um board member um you know you're just amazing seriously it was amazing selfless that's good but hardworking too she's always there but she was in a lot of Agony so we apologize for that well I'd rather you know having your support there considered Home Alone being Agony or we could be doing some good work so it was good to have you all with me well right he went down well now that we have I just yeah you were slumping in your chair but you did not leave we you stayed all right and thank you for that all right so uh I don't have a board president report except tomorrow night uh we'll be welcoming Dr uh Michael Lusa to the district at 5:30 please join us if you can it'll be a lot of fun and there's a cake that Debbie's in charge of but we'll also have other Refreshments um next up is uh the code of ethics and so it's on the does everyone have this or not can we I had out broadcast so what we'll do is we usually have um our our ethics training it's required every year our lawyer does it but um we're not today because there's a referendum meeting at 7 o'clock our ethics training will take place at our February meeting January 21st or February uh 4th yes at one of those meetings February 4th was February was Vic's Choice well he couldn't come I think to the 24 anyway so that'll be coming so that that's always a lot of fun they go over all the bad things board members do kind of a reminder not to do them um it's very interesting reading um okay so next we we're going to move on to organization of the board then no not today yeah um moving on organization of the board um the newspapers that we're going to advertise in and Mr bolon they changed the law right so we can now um just advertise away yeah it's not permanent yet but yes for the time being the uh Trenton Times is uh hard copy is going away like February 4th oh right Star Ledger right Star Ledger too yeah which is basically I mean we can't rely on a weekly um which poses issues already with yeah so yeah the law is changing so we'll adapt we may have another resolution as we go through the year okay well hopefully that makes your life easier um moving on so we have e three legal advertisements for hiring of Staff E4 District organization uh E5 hiring in between board meetings uh and then we have um F1 adoption of the minutes for December 17th um and so just a reminder if you weren't here at that meeting just abstain uh so can I get a motion for that b second Debbie DAV Kendall yes Beth Baron yes Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Martin franceski yes evanor Hubbert yes Susan caner yes Ari miselle yeah abstain abstain sorry you clicked price said it yeah don't let him do that Chris santarpio abstain and Katherine laara abstain great thank you okay thank you Mr Balden um so then we have uh H1 registration travel agenda uh and then we have the consent vote oh we have public comment in between public comment any public comment nothing today no thank you for joining us sure okay and we're going to be done before 6 o'clock so does anyone have anything to say no all right so moving on now to I the consent vote can I get a motion Mara second Susan Dy Kendall yes Beth Baron Adam Beerman yes Debbie bronfeld yes Mar franceski yes robbert yes Susan caner yes Ari maelle yes Chris santarpio yes Katherine Lara yes the want uh well no there's other things on the consent agenda passes consent agenda passes thank you Mr Balden all right so just reminder everyone we'll be back here tomorrow at 5:30 definitely um there'll be more people here um and we look forward to introducing Dr Mike Lusa to the community uh and with that can I get a motion to adjourn Ari second Chris all right all in favor all right have a good night