##VIDEO ID:L0nDTt_jwrE## good evening everybody um notice is hereby given that in accordance with the open public meetings act chapter 231 the laws of 1975 notice of this meeting has been sent to All School offices officially designated newspapers file with the Township Clerk and posted in the Board of Education Office 48 hours in advance of this meeting roll call please certainly Mrs assour here Mrs Austin here Mrs burkowitz here Mrs Pinelli here Mrs Sande here Mr White here Mr rosini here flag salute um with regard to my report I don't really have a whole lot to say it seems that the school year has been going off pretty well um and um really not much more to report I think everything has just been the days have been nice I wish we would get a little bit water which we're supposed to get um but apart from that I really have nothing more to add um and then we'll move on to committee reports buildings and grounds Mrs Burk Woods hi good evening um yep just quickly so we are still working on some of the punch list uh referendum projects over at Woodside and over at holdrum um as things arise building and grounds has been taken care of whatever comes whatever comes up as you just me mentioned we're having some unusual weather so as we've moved to a new system um we have some challenges that we're facing but um we're getting the Kinks out as we move over to the new system um so we just appreciate everyone's patience as we get those Kinks out and uh and thanks everyone for the support okay thanks um Communications and policies Mr White yeah there's several policies on the agenda for our first reading tonight it's under G4 uh and that's all I have to report okay um Mrs Sande curriculum and Technology uh no update at this time okay uh Finance Mrs Pinelli um yes our audit will be um beginning tomorrow and um I guess we expect to receive a report sometime in January okay thank you uh with regard to negotiations we had a negotiations meeting tonight and uh just you know considering what we have to do moving forward uh with the various contracts um Personnel Mrs Austin nothing to report tonight okay please take note of the meeting schedule um and moving on to public comments on agenda items only again on agenda items only the riverville board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of riverville and employees of the Rivervale School District to speak directly to board trustees in order to facilitate this communication residents and employees are requested one to sign in before speaking two to maintain an appropriate sensitive Quorum and three to limit their remarks to no more than five minutes the board will also take under advisement the written comments and opinions of non-residents that are submitted to the board secretary being mindful of it responsibility to maintain the orderly conduct of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters as the speaker's right to address the board as well as the appropriateness of the subject being presented the board's decision in such matters is final the board also reminds all members of the public that while it subscribes without reservation to the principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law it cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees commented any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverbell public schools is interest or concern to a resident the matter should be referred to the responsible building principal or the superintendent of schools by telephone letter or email and the meeting will be open to the public on comments on agenda items only at approximately 704 p.m is there you want to make a comment on agenda items yeah sure come on up please have a seat yeah have a seat and sign in and tell us your name and that would be great the button hi my name is Jason kesman 538 Elizabeth Avenue rville um give me one second um first and foremost I want to thank all of you for everything you do behind closed doors nobody's here ever um and I appreciate it um it's a thankless job and and and I know it because we moved here 19 years ago um for this for the school um my three daughters have gone through Rob Burge all of them are in PV right now um I volunteer coach from K through 8 basketball for the girls and again it's a thankless job um little disappointed my daughter's a senior um she signed up for the um internship program really excited to start teaching in college learned to be a teacher um she's actually going to be an intern with one of her teachers that she had here in uh Roberge um my understanding is that the teacher who's heading the program reached out to you guys in the summer expected it on the docket in September we missed September my daughter you know the internship program continued um October came around reached out and we were told that you know the meeting's in a week it's too late to get on the docket um you know so I reached out to some other people and it turns out it wasn't supposed to be on tonight's agenda either um it did happen to make it here so I I appreciate that um came to this town for one reason one reason only is for you guys and my family to be in this environment and I'm a little disappointed because it's about the kids you know coaching is about the kids it's not about winning or losing it's about making them better people experiencing this town for what it is and I think you guys fell a little short by this missing the mark and not being on the agenda or making it a priority and I don't know if it's a communication things I'm just a father who has a daughter that's in the program I don't know all the things that go on behind closed doors but I wish that the communication was better I have two more daughters coming up Junior who might do it freshman who might do it in the future if this could be settled before the summer it would be appreciated sure so first of all thank you so much and you're talking about the teacher Cadet program right that they do it's a great program I used to be the Principal over at Woodside Elementary School and it was there when I was at Woodside and it's fabulous and the people who run it too are great we love having the the students come down um so let me just you know help to bring some clarity for you um there's a process we have in place that the high school is aware of um and it's been in place for many years we did not receive any paperwork from the high school until October so so when I found out about it which was October that's when I started to say Well when did these conversations take place the conversations like you said from the high school started to take place in the summer but they never gave us the paperwork with all the information to board approve anything at that time when we realized that we actually went and reached out to the to the high school and said you know you got to give us the paperwork other if you just are having verbal convers ations at the school level we don't know that we don't know to put it on the agenda I don't know why that happened because for years the high school's been filling out the paperwork and giving it to us so when that happened I looked at the October when they gave us the information in October it was actually the day before the board meeting the agenda had been posted and it was already closed and out to the public so we said don't worry we'll make sure we get it on the November meeting so it was posted on the revised agenda for today I reached out to the superintendent and or we were speaking and I said don't worry about it it will be on the November when we got the paperwork we made sure that it was on the very next agenda which is tonight so there was no delay on our end there was obviously a breakdown between the high school getting us the paperwork I actually my assistant actually said you know what just so they don't do that you know so it doesn't happen again let's help the high school give us the information that we need she created a spreadsheet and said to the program at the high school you know what in the future fill out this spreadsheet so if you're having verbal conversations with people in our district I can at least see the spreadsheets filled out and make sure we get it on that board agenda so nothing like this happens again so the the delay was not on River veil's end however we we do work collaboratively with the high school and said let's just put in a process then that will make sure it doesn't happen again and so that's why we revised that agenda and said let's get it on and approve it 100% that's why I'm saying like I don't know where the M was and again it it'd be great to know going forward yeah that it's going to be an easier process that roll on board and 100% it's a great program we love having this yeah we love having the students come and it was surprising too because we've always done it so we were like where's the paperwork and it whatever it happened so we said don't worry about it we'll just revise you know get the get it on the agenda and and it'll be approved tonight perect so thank you very much absolutely thank you guys very sure thank you thanks for coming that's okay hi everybody James Stanis 533 Elizabeth Avenue Rivervale I'm also a member of the pasak valley Board of Ed Regional not wanting to dispute anything here um I do know that my side of the story is different regarding that this agenda item did go up this afternoon because I was checking the agenda periodically soon as