##VIDEO ID:MbqspS5QqOE## hey Art I just saw this you're right on time just yeah okay this 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 filed with the Township Clerk and posted in the River in the Board of Education Office 48 hours in advance of this meeting I'll take the roll call Mrs assor here Mrs Austin here Mrs burkowitz here Mrs Pinelli here Mrs Sande here Mr White here Mr rosini here and flag salute please okay so at this point we have the election results and congratulations to Mrs burkowitz and Mr White you're in for three more years Okay so at this point I'm going to ask I'm going to administer the oath of office to both of you so if you would just say your name we and and follow along yeah I Cheryl burkit Arthur white do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear and affirm or affirm that I will support the Constitution of the United States that I will support the con Constitution of the United States that I'll support the Constitution of the United States 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 that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same 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 I Arthur white do solemnly swear or affirm swear that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I possess a qualif possess the qualification by law for the office of member of the Board of Ed and then I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to rs1 crime or offense listed in njs 18a 12-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in njs 18a 2-1 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 and I will faithfully and partially and justly perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my abilities so help me God I now declare that you are members of the board of [Applause] education so I'll take a roll call of the new board Mrs assor yes Mrs yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Pinelli here yeah Mrs Sande here miss Mr White here Mr rosini yes I am here thank you at this point I would like to ask for a nomination for president do we have any nominations like to make a nomination for Steve Rini for president okay thank you I'll second any other nominations okay then we I'm going to do a roll call vote here Mrs assour yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mr rosini I will abstain and now I will turn it over to you president rosini thank you um now I'm going to call for the nomination of vice president please is there a motion I'd like to nominate patri spy is there a second I'll second okay anything else anyone else any other nominations okay roll call vote please certainly Mrs auson yes Mrs Pinelli I will abstain Mrs Sande yes Mrs assour yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mr White yes Mr osini yes and I'll vote twice for Mrs Pinelli too and thank you everybody thanks very much um you know I really appreciate everybody uh continuing on with me and Patrice it's just um an honor so um now we're going to go to reorganization part three item R six this is the resolution where we um every year or not every yeah we talk about um the code for the riverville board members um this is usually and and it's usually called out and Mrs iolo called it out again in this um reorganization meeting agenda because um as long as I've been on the board um this is one of the most important things that's been stressed upon me and upon and we try to stress upon every board member and upon the public that we have an Ethics code that doesn't apply to almost any other elected official um and so every year has been the tradition and I'm going to I'd like to continue the tradition of the board going in rounds and reading each um section to remind ourselves and the public of what our code of ethics is and I'll start um I will uphold and enforce all laws state board rules and regulations and court orders pertaining to schools desired changes should be brought only through legal and ethical procedures Mrs I will make decisions in terms of the educational welfare of children and will seek to develop and maintain public schools which meet the individual needs of all children regardless of their ability race Creed sex or soci social standing I will confine my board action to policymaking planning and appraising and I will help to frame policies and plans only after the board has consulted those who will be affected by them I will carry out my responsibility not to administer schools but together with my fellow board members to see that they are well-run I will recognize that Authority rests with the Board of Ed education and will make no personal promises nor take any private action which may compromise the board I will refuse to surrender my independent judgment to special interest or partisan political groups or to use the schools for personal gain of friends I will hold confidential all matters pertaining to the schools which if disclosed would needlessly injure individuals or the or the schools but in all other matters I will provide accurate information and in concert with my fellow board members interpret to the staff the aspirations of the community for its schools I will vote to appoint the best qualified Personnel available after consideration of the recommendation of the chief administrative officer I will support and protect School Personnel in proper performance of their duties I will refer all complaints to the chief administrative officer and will act on the complaints at public meetings only after failure of an administrative solution so with regard to R six I think I skipped one thing and I guess I was supposed to ask somebody to move it and then somebody to Second it so can somebody please move it and then second it I'll move it I'll second it okay and again it's I guess it's a little corny for us to read it I think to some extent but um at the but at the same moment it's really just I think it's important because it really is just a reminder to ourselves and to the public that it's an important position and we and we do our best to try and up hold these values and and I hope we're you know coming close to achieving that if not achieving it um roll call vote please certainly Mr White yes Mrs assor yes Mrs Sande yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mr rosini yes and um now we're going to reorganization uh part four items R through R7 through r33 um will somebody please move these uh resolutions R7 through r33 I'll make up and then second I'll second okay um R7 do we have anybody there to who wants to already in place for those positions yet okay so everybody I guess you've had a chance to look at the agenda and in R seven there's the um delegates for the New Jersey School Board Association the legislative delegat it and and altered it um I'm not sure anybody has to volunteer tonight but if somebody wants to by all means otherwise I'm sure we can uh get to this at another point when somebody's feels comfortable if they looked at their schedule and figure it out so is there anybody who feels that they want to be the delegate tonight they've thought about and said yes or shall we wait and look at our schedules okay we'll wait and look at our schedules um any other items on our 7th to r33 okay there I don't think there's any questions is there no so let's let's have a vote please certainly Mrs Austin yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs assor yes Mrs Sande yes Mrs burwitz yes Mr White yes Mr rosini yes um I'm going to open the matter to public comments on reorganization items only um I'm going to read this paragra these paragraphs which are similar to the other ones coming up but I'll read this one now the riverville board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of riverville and employees of the riverville 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 sense of to decorum in three to limit their remarks to no more than 5 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 its responsibility to maintain the orderly conduct of meetings the board retains the right to rule on such matters it's 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 P principle of keeping the community informed by policy and law cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverville public schools is of 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 I'm going to open it to public comments with regard to reorganization items only at approximately 7:12 p.m and seeing no one who wants to make a comment about reorganization items I will close it at 7:12 p.m. um I guess we technically will have an adjournment here but um and then move on so is there a motion to adjourn I'll move second second okay uh anybody opposed to this adjournment no okay so the reorganization meeting will be adjourned as of 7:13 p.m. and now we'll have a call to order for our regular meeting 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 fil with the Township Clerk and posted in the Board of Education Office 48 hours in advance of this meeting roll call vote please certainly Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin here Mrs burkowitz here Mrs Pinelli here Mrs Sande here Mr White here Mr rosini I'm here okay um with regard to my board president's report and it's going to be brief um just hope everybody had a help happy and healthy holiday time and Happy New Year to everyone um I'm hoping that all the snow can be as limited as we've had recently throughout the rest of the season anybody who likes to ski can go to Vermont um and um that's really it I think there's other things that we can discuss but that we're going to be coming up in the committee reports so I'm going to move on to the committee reports buildings and grounds Mrs burkowitz yep just quickly uh a lot of work got done over winter break at all three schools um canopies need to be finished um the one over at holdrum will be done after their school after school was uh is Led Out in June and um any little tweaks with heat air conditioning um over at holdrum has been fixed as of yesterday or today and everything is good to go and uh same with uh the other schools so we're moving forward okay Communications and policies Mr White nothing to report this evening curriculum and Technology Mrs Sande no update tonight Finance Mrs Pinelli um actually I'm going to move that to uh Mrs zipalo we had a finance committee meeting tonight maybe you have a couple of things you can share with us certainly we had a our first finance committee as we start to plan and build our 2025 26 budget so very preliminary um met with the finance committee and there's still a lot of variables the state aid is not expected to be out until the end of February so fingers crossed we will get equal to if not more and we will deal with all of the constraints that the budget has for US based on the governor and we will go from there but very preliminary meeting tonight just to remind people that we started the budget process in October and it's going to continue we have to submit our budget to the county on March 19th okay thank you y it's a it's a ongoing experience um negotiations I have nothing to report tonight and Personnel Mrs Austin nothing to report okay please take note of the committee meeting schedule um that's here uh public comments now I'm moving on to public comments on agenda items only um and these are the same rules that I just discussed with regard um to the reorganization comments is there anybody that wants to make a comment on the public comments on the agenda items only seeing no I'm going to open it at 717 and I will close at 717 because I don't see anyone who wants to make any comments um with regard to the superintendent Mrs sori can't make it tonight she's a little under the weather and I hope she gets better soon so there a big uh shout out to Mrs sori we'll miss her and we'll see her next time um and now Mrs Zolo your report certainly just an update that the district audit fieldwork has been completed however the um fin overview has not been completed I expect that within the next week our auditor will reach out with a couple of dates so that we can have the finance committee schedule a review of The District audit qac we have our physical walk through that is scheduled with the county superintendent on January 16th so we are diligently going through the buildings making sure that we are in compliance the desk audit so to speak on-site audit which the county superintendent County School business administrator and the county Specialists will be on site in District on February 19th so that's our qac schedule congratulations to the board it is njsba School Board recognition month just want to say thank you to all of you and all your hard work that you put in the Committees thank you I've received everybody's requests put it together I will be providing it to our board president and our board vice president for them to look out we will notify you as to what the new committees will be before the next board meeting in January so that we can start getting together on that um there are several documents in your packets that need to be signed and returned to me please and I know this is your favorite the ethics forms will be distributed by the end of the week so we can start that process again it's that time of year and also we'll notify you about the mandated training that some of you may require based on your years of service with the board and that's all I have to report thank you thank you thank you very much um so now we're going to move on to General resolutions G1 through G4 may I have a motion please I it any you uh second please second okay G4 talks about board recognition month um anything else on G1 through G4 okay roll call vote please certainly Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mr rosini yes okay moving on uh to business resolutions resolutions B1 through B9 may have a motion please I'll motion second please I'll second okay any uh comments questions discussion no okay roll call vote please certainly Mr White yes Mrs Sande yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs burkowitz yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs assor yes Mr rosini yes and now moving on to Personnel resolutions P1 through P4 I have a motion please I'll move it second please I'll second and any questions discussions um anything no okay roll call vote please certainly Mrs assor yes Mrs Austin yes Mrs burwitz yes Mrs Pinelli yes Mrs Sande yes Mr White yes Mr rosini yes now we're moving on to the public comments on General items and now I'm going to remind everyone that the Rivervale board of education is committed to encouraging the citizens of Rivervale and employees of the Rivervale School District to speak Direct LLY 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 sense of deorum 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 its 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 cannot allow public discussion of personnel matters nor can trustees comment on any current or pending litigation if a matter concerning an employee of the riverville public schools is of 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 I'm going to open it to public comments on General items at 7:22 and seeing no one who wants to make any comments I'm closing at 7:22 old business new business uh I don't believe we're going into closed s closed session tonight so um I guess motion to adjourn motion to adjourn uh second I'll second anybody against it okay we're adjourned thank you have a good night happy New Year welcome back and congratulations to Art and Cheryl