##VIDEO ID:NFssQ95oBcY## good evening I will now call to order the November 19th meeting of the sville Board of Education please rise for the pledge to the flag IED to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all please remain standing for moment of silence Mr Fernandez thank you madam president I'd like to take a moment to remember the loss of one of our own Jean celier who passed away suddenly on November 7th Jean was a member of the class of ' 89 and outstanding football player and a beloved figure in our community Gus survived by his children Briana Dylan Taylor and Nicholas his mother Flavia and his siblings Danielle Scott and Brian he is predeceased by his father Eugene celier Gan lived life to the fullest bringing energy laughter and love to everyone it reminds me of Dr Seuss don't cry because it's over smile because it happened at this time I ask that we keep his family in our prayers and that we hold a moment of silence in his honor thank you Miss Hill roll call Mr Callahan here Mr Esposito Mr Fernandez here Mrs napalitano Mrs babone here miss pyck here Mr Smith here Mr Walsh here Mrs Bloom here uh will you please summarize executive session for us the board discussed Personnel including but not limited to agenda items negotiations related to the teamsters matters falling under attorney client privilege and student matters okay any correspondents Miss Hill no I need a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting second so I have Mr Smith and Mr Callahan or was that Mr Walsh Mr Walsh okay um Mr Callahan yes Mr Esposito yes Mr Fernandez yes Mrs pone yes Miss pyck yes Mr Smith yes Mr Walsh yes and Mrs Bloom yes okay and at this time we will turn to our student council Representatives uh from The High School Miss Coons good evening Board of Education members and administrators my name is Morgan coun swmhs student council Board of Education representative I would like to begin with activities and events the distributive education Club of America visited Kean University to participate in the cult conference where they learned about marketing College and Career preparation and how to develop a successful Deca chapter students in the humanities and Social Studies classes were visited by state and local legislators during the annual legislator day legislator day is an activity unique to sville that gives high school students an opportunity to meet their local legislators to learn more about state and local government public service and civics students in the community-based instruction program visited the State Theater in New Brunswick where they took a behindthescenes tour and learned about jobs offered at theaters students and future Business Leaders of America attended the state leadership conference where they had an amazing time networking and completing worksheets later in the week they held an interest meeting where they encouraged freshmen and other students that were interested to join the club honors accounting students visited Rucker's business school where they learned about Admissions and Future career opportunities ROTC Cadets went to Princeton airport on Friday and were given the opportunity to take flights with pilots from Air Force Civil Air Patrol on Friday and Saturday evening the S swmhs theater Society proudly presented the Woody Allen production don't drink the water which was directed by m Mr Schmidt theater director at s swmhs in the performances it was clear that all of the students staff and volunteers that assisted them worked tirelessly over the last the past several months to prepare this masterpiece this was also the first theater performance in the newly named John Bon Joy Performing Arts Center moving on to sports congratulations to the girls field hockey team for winning the white Division I would also like to congratulate the the cheer team for winning the GMC game day Championship cross country congratulations to the girls cross country team on placing third overall at GMC's multiple athletes medled individually in the top 30 including Angelia Lei Molly Logan Morgan coun Julia kle Damen Oliver and Bryce white Angelia Lai made the All Conference team because she meddled in the top 10 and the rest made the all division team girl soccer The Varsity girl soccer team finished with the record of 791 and JV ended with a record of 518 good job to all the girls for playing a great season in the Red Division boys soccer the varsity boys soccer team ended their season with a record of 144 JV ended with 372 and the Freshman ended with 514 football team the varsity football team ended their season with a record of 4-6 JV ended with 45 and the freshman team had an undefeated season tennis team the girls tennis team ended their season with a record of 611 volleyball team the girls the varsity girls volleyball team ended with a record of 118 and JV ended their season undefeated with a record of 1 15-0 congratulations to Seline Augustine and kayin C on making the all blue division team I would also like to congratulate the varsity coach coach Moen on being awarded with blue division Coach of the Year good job to all athletes who played a fall sport thank you for your time and support we have questions well first of all morg congratulations on yet another great season ended your season really well thank you and please extend my commendations to your sister as well for her volleyball season okay I will and what's on the Slate for the for the winter for you any uh swimming we have triy outs on Monday swimming that's fantastic wow and I'm glad to see that uh the center for lifelong learning Aquatic Center is up and running for us CU we were at RWJ last year for half the season but now we're back at the Aquatic Center excellent and did you have a chance to go to the play no I couldn't cuz I ran a 5K race so I had to go to sleep oh that's a pretty good reason how' you doing that not too good oh well that's okay I didn't do good in my half marathon either so I think you did great um but the play again I I agree with you 100% And what you said the play was magnificent hysterical the the acting well first of all the the Wardrobe the sets were amazing the makeup was fantastic the two older parents if you saw it they looked like older people and they were our students um and boy did they act incredibly well too um they had Mom and Dad down pat uh in in their performances so I'm going to Echo what you said honey what a magnificent job by all involved and congratulations to our new director Mr Schmidt who uh really started off with a bang um with this Woody Allen comedy so great job morg thank you thank you okay Alana good evening good evening Board of Education members and administrators my name is Alana sery seral Middle School student council Board of Education representative here's what is going on at serville Middle School the student council held a Veterans Day ceremony on Tuesday November 12th on the front patio of SMS thank you to our guests and participants the student council along with the community service Club are holding a can food drive for replenish last year serville Middle School came in the top 10 for Middle sex County the student council will hold the annual fall anything goes assembly next Wednesday students will also go get students will go against the staff in various activities good luck community service will be participating in the food drive from November through December in collaboration with the student council they did letter for soldiers candy collections for soldiers and are currently working for collecting CA gifts the career Club had a meeting for sixth graders students only they had a pediatrician come to their meeting students had the opportunity to ask her questions career Club will be going to the east bunck magnet school on Friday November 22nd the PTO are currently selling Dave and bu Power Cards PTO gets 50% profit sale ends November 22nd SMS Got Talent tickets are on sale now show is December 6th and at 700 p.m. at swmhs there are over 22 acts save the date seral Middle School tricky tribe and handbag PTO Friday January 31st tickets will be on sale next month the SMS FB La chapter has grown in size over the past 3 years we are currently up to 48 members and will be participating for a competitive events for March at the state leadership conference now on to the Cal Middle School athletics the Middle School cross country team finished out the season on Saturday October 26th at the GMC championships at Thompson Park in monre New Jersey our very own eighth grader Sophia Stanley finished first and was the GMC girls Champion the girls team had three other top 50 finishers seventh graders Alyssa Westgate Dia Shaw and rachna Kuma the boys team was led by eighth GRS Eli Maloney and Malachi Harley seventh grader Liam Vargas and sixth grader Josh cabria the Middle School field hockey team had such a successful fall 2024 season at the end of season banquet on November 13 the 32 student athletes were celebrated for their season of growth and individual accomplishments 13 eighth graders were also honored at the banquet and in their last home game great job field Hoy the SMS girls blue soccer team and gray finished their season strong with a lot of improvement from the start of the Season we are proud of their effort and commitment to the program and look forward to seeing them grow on the field next season congratulations to our eighth graders on their final season at s saille Middle School the middle school cheerleading team will hold tryouts on Thursday Friday and Monday we are excited to welcome coach Aon handy on board coach handy was a bomber cheerleader both at the middle school and varsity level she's excited to be back once a bomber always a bomber the team will be performing at basketball games pep rally throughout the community community and of course at the NJ cdca state competition the Middle School girls basketball team is hosting triy outs this week they are very excited for their upcoming season and cannot wait to see all that this talented group of girls accomplishes thank you for this opportunity to speak on behalf of the students at sville Middle School excellent job Alana so Alana as a member of the student council I know that you guys were big in terms of coordinating the veteran stay ceremony correct yeah yes how about did what did you play a particular role in it did you speak or do anything with that um I was sick so oh no yeah okay but I know the student council did an amazing job yeah they did excellent and how about you anything big going on for this next couple of months at the middle school for you cheerleading I'm on uh I'm trying out for the cheer fantastic wow lots of luck with that and one last question about the student council are you you guys still go to Camp Bernie correct um I think that's tag I don't know oh I thought student council went to Camp Bernie too I don't think so Mrs gashinsky they don't do that anymore this is Lynch kashinsky no no okay never mind Alana I only know that because I I drove by Camp Bernie the other day and I said well I think our student counsil from the Middle School still goes there pure leadership goes there right m grman they do all right great it brings back memories for me because when I worked in Edison I used I went I think I went to Camp Bernie with our fifth graders maybe I want to say seven or eight years in a row so um okay thank you Alana very much as always great presentation you two morg thank you ladies okay uh moving on to the president's comments that would be me I would also like to extend my congratulations to Mr Schmidt as well as Mr Sanford who was the technical direct of the play um I was thoroughly impressed I enjoyed myself and the actors were enjoying themselves amazing it came across to everyone in the audience it was a wonderful evening this is now also banquet season so as you know I've been to your Banquets we've had field hockey and volleyball so far and I want to thank you because it gets the shoes out of the closet and I am always happy to be there to honor you and we will honor you again later on tonight since our vice president is not here I will read the highlights some of them are redundant they've already been done by the ladies but I'll go through as quickly as I can congratulations to the sville War Memorial High School school student rishy sha who recently earned the presidential volunteer service award gold level for the third consecutive year with over 540 acts of community service this year alone wow it's amazing congratulations to sville War Memorial High School field hockey team for winning the 2024 GMC white division championship y congratul ation to the sville War Memorial High School cheerleading team for winning the GMC day g game day Championship yay congratulations to sville middle school student sopia Stanley who finished first in the greater middle sex conference CrossCountry meet earning her a GMC Championship congratulations to sville Middle School sixth grader Anderson Campos who according to the international Brazilian Jujitsu Federation is currently ranked number one in the world in his weight age and rank division and is number five pound forp pound at just 12 years old Anderson recently traveled to Lisbon Portugal where he competed in the European championship and won the gold medal y wow wow commendations and thank you to Jason Geico who create for creating the new logo for the new bombers shop and Community Hub Bravo and congratulations to the student performers crew and members of the SE of a War Memorial High School theater Society for their impressive production of Allen don't drink the water congratulations and commendations to Mr Joseph Schmidt and his incredible team of dedicated director designers and volunteers commendations and thanks to Elijah Jung a sa of a War Memorial High School senior for his Eagle Scout badge raised $112,000 for the purchase and installation of a playground to the Wilson school yay Elijah thank you to the amazing sville fire department who visited all of our preschools and elementary schools to teach students fire safety as part of fire prevention month month we thank all our incredibly Brave women and men in blue for the time for taking time from their busy schedules to teach our students these very important life-saving lessons thank you okay moving on presentations Dr lbby thank you Mrs Bloom and as we've been alluding to all night and because we have a jam-packed house it is obvious that we're celebrating some very amazing young people and their coaches today as well as an amazing young man who we just clapped for too who will be giving us a presentation about his actual Eagle Scout project but let's begin first with our amazing young student athletes beginning with our greater middle sex conference white division field hockey Champions give them a big hand our white division field hockey Champions and to say a few words about them is coach car charmello who also by the way is the white division Coach of the Year Mrs Bloom will join you Mrs charmello to hand out certificates and we ask all the student athletes to stay up here so we can take a picture of you guys together good evening everyone um first off we were 78 and one uh this year undefeated in the white division six and0 uh we had five young ladies um with white division accolades and two on the All Conference team we had an amazing season um um we are graduating 10 amazing seniors and it was a great year for us thank you for everyone um and your support and for coming out to the games Mr charmo when's the last time we won a white division championship first time in the history oh my gosh you go girls and I actually had the privilege to go to at least one game and boy are you guys fierce they are definitely okay ready K ay Aubrey Alberta McKenzie Hastings Ruby Hy Sheridan marowski Ashley wusi Danielle zapus Paige clearing Daniela verlingo Madison Ron Olivia charmelo nope Lucy Logan Kaye schline Gabrielle Jones Kaye ralen Julia colaric and Savannah pars Doc's job Kimel know what you should know better good I know I apprciate T a little while for you be the one to present please give another big hand for thanks mayor all right keeping the fun going we have another group of Champions here with us tonight so I ask Mrs Bole to join Mr Callahan up in front so that we can celebrate and recognize our 2024 greater middle sex conference cheer competition day Champions no what is it to game day competition I knew I'd mess it up game day competition cheer Champions give him a big please um good evening everybody I just wanted to um thank the board of education at Administration for recognizing us here tonight we have a group of 33 athletes on our competition team this year which is a very large team for us and our program grows every year this is the second time in the past three years that we've won the GMC um championship and this year we had the highest score out of all 17 teams Within in both divisions so the girls did an excellent job this year and that was only our first competition of the season so I think this is going to be a great year for our athletes so congratulations all right first athlete is Zoe Anderson J bonitz Hannah bagata summer Carbell Olivia DeSimone we gave him one job one job Rachel galber Riley Hastings Leah hu anivia Kenny Ariana Kenny Lacy Kent Olivia Lombardi Abby luki cat forit Madison maroli Gabby Mino Sarah Murphy Isabella Negron jany Peralta Brook Rosario McKenzie sha Jillian slavich Casey Flav Mna Switzer Emily Sakowski Sarah Torino and Delila booy y I also just quickly want to thank um my other coaches coach Ritter this year for team and Coach Lynch and also miss okay ladies her bark is worse than her bite thank you Nick what are you doing back back up yes we need our Co come on Happ a picture homor right got it everyone say Che another big hand for our GMC cheer champions oh you have little more maybe what we can do is yeah I know yeah okay yeah we'll talk about it I see ladies we're going to ask you to move along so we can get on with our meeting thank you have a Happy Thanksgiving okay so Board of Education members we have another amazing student from the high school here as we alluded to earlier over a year ago this young man approached me and he said Dr Labby I've been speaking with Mr burn the principal of the Wilson school and we both agreed that the Wilson School School needs a playground and Dr Labby I want to for my Eagle Scout badge raise the money necessary to purchase and install a playground and I said to this incredible young man I said W that's a pretty big Endeavor Elijah do you think you're going to be able to raise that kind of money and as we mentioned earlier Elijah singlehandedly well not single-handedly because he had some help from a very special person his mom raised $122,000 for the purchase and installation of the brand new playground at the Wilson school and I see Mr burn is here too to help us celebrate this incredible accomplishment and I have the privilege of attending one of those pasta dinners that he threw that was one of the numerous fundraisers that he went ahead launched in order to again I can't it's staggering for a young person to raise $112,000 on his own uh it is just mindboggling so please indulge me in recognizing and celebrating Elijah Jung for his incredible accomplishment and his contribution to the Wilson school and our school community and Elijah would like to be able to give you a presentation of the whole journey to the playground being installed and our kids using it for the first time last week so please give a big hand for Elijah hello okay good evening um uh yeah you guys heard what he said I this project um I'm I'm pretty proud of it it took a long time for me to get this done I started in my freshman year of high school and by the way you were like four or five inches shorter at that time too Elijah you grew so big yeah um but yeah I made this little slideshow to show you guys the whole process from all the way from the beginning from what they had um to the end so so this is what they had when I first showed up and I went to do my project there was just a pretty much blank field with a little bit of equipment for kindergarteners and I was like this is not enough for my school that I attended and um I wanted to do some more so after this I obviously I to fund raise a lot of money so the next slide is some of the fundrais the pasta dinner I did a car wash trash cleanups I had a Gund me page I had all kind like so much other stuff I don't even remember what I was doing there was so much stuff um so I started getting to work this was at least two years ago in my in my this is literally in my driveway we were cutting wood for benches that I wanted to install cuz you know they didn't have anything so I my plan for for I was going to build benches and a guy got pit and I had to hire a company to build the actual jungle gym so this is me building the benches and the next side is more progress um so this is more building benches is the day of construction um benches is got got pit here and on the right side too um and these are the finished benches on the left and we were staining the benches um you know outo woodst for that um so the finished finished up hit and the Finish benches are all there and uh I was pretty happy with the work that I me and my troop accomplished on this day of installing the benches um after this I had to hire an actual company to build the jungle gym because they don't let uh 16year olds use you know uh a backa um so beats me so this is the company with all of their this is like all the playground stuff um all the parts and things they got to work at 7 in the morning and they ended at 8:00 p.m. all in the same day 12 hours they built this freaking Jungle Gym um so this is a work in progress of the Jungle Gym you know almost done three years worth the work finally just right in front of me it's like wow it's it's really surprising um the next slide I pretty sure is yeah the fin this is the Finish playground so this is what they have currently sitting at Wilson school right now is this $113,000 playground and my benches and Gaga pit you know elij so many things impress me about you um but what impresses me the most and I got from the short presentation you made is what an inspiring leader you've become I think this project meant so much to you and I think this project helped you grow in so many ways but above all what I see is a very strong young leader in front of us I appreciate that and I can't thank you enough for your initiative your hard work your dedication commitment to seeing this through it got gray sometimes right yeah it definitely it got gray and and you know you're stuck to it you know we we talk about all the time that when you're a leader you're going to face some difficult times and you got to face that difficult time with poise patience and then persistence you persisted on and look what you accomplished and I love how you when you were given your presentation you said my troop and my troop and and me or or we I heard mentioned Time and Time Again by you and it just shows what an impressive young leader you are and I'm inspired that someone like you is going to be leading Us in the very near future so congratulations and all the best on and a job done incredibly well I don't don't go away I just want to add a couple of words um I actually um know him from when he was a little kid and his mom was a girl scout leader remember uh you probably don't remember me but um I do remember you how can you forget Mrs babone you out and um you know you were always like that though even when you were little your compassion and your empathy for people shown through I think the apple does not fall far from the tree so you kind of take after your mom so congratulations and you really did grow up to be an outstanding kid you're welcome thank you hold on elah anyone else from the I just want to ask Elijah one question I looked at your benches they convert into tables right yes I love that there's four benches and the back so it's like the benches like this and then you can move it up like this if you put two them together it's like a picnic table very cool very cool amazing see and I think Mr Callahan had a question or one or Mr Walsh he has a mustache sorry sorry he a mustache I don't have hair I I I was very impressed I know we uh all of our athletes we we gave them great accolades tonight but I was an athlete we compete for ourselves we we want to win something I I'm so impressed with you that you raised this money and did this for something that's not really benefiting you which is extremely commendable and uh you should be very proud of yourself thank you great job anyone else thank you Elijah very much me too Mrs Bloom that concludes my presentations for this evening okay uh moving on to board discussions finance and infrastructure Mr Smith thank you last Tuesday the Board of Ed finance and Constructor committee met uh during the meeting Mr colenburg were providing an update on facilities uh and the referendum project among other things he discussed replacing the high school vents where old the old units were with panels uh and we were discussing replacing putting the panels in or just receiving a credit for leaving the old vents in place uh likewise he discussed the inclusion of a few exterior doors in one interior in addition to work that was done at the Middle School uh second bid for windows at Slover arith in the middle school and the Slover bathrooms in vestibule are complete or well underway uh in addition he reported that the electrical switch gear at the high school and in the media center at the middle school were successfully installed over the nja convention recess uh he informed the committee about the process installing new HVAC units during the evening at the middle school this will allow the vendor to Abate any on the spot and Test air samples before the classrooms are turned back over to teachers later on the summer they'll use same process for removing the old units uh then he reviewed the schedule of replacing windows at Wilson Sam cell and the high school and that infrastructure work is currently being done on the installation of new hbac units at Eisenhower Wilson AR and Slover in the first floor of the high school Aon then reviewed a proposal from uh to be sent out to our architect to complete a bid specification for the completion of the solar cor project at the High school um and that the Truman school parking lot was repaved over the njaa convention uh he also reported that over the past weekend a light pole at the high school was knocked down after a police chase but he is working on getting as soon as possible and aring concluded the meeting with an update on our audit which is going swimmingly well thank you that is all thank you Mr Smith questions for Mrs Smith from the board no okay Personnel committee Mrs pilot sure uh the Personnel committee met earlier this evening we reviewed open positions for both certificated and non-certificated staff uh we spoke about the professional development day which was held on November 5th um overall the feedback was very favorable um particularly getting uh a lot of positive feedback was the Ed connective and keynote speaker uh we also discussed our mid year job fair uh where we will focus on loas and non-certificated openings in transportation um cafeteria and the maintenance department um and we are working uh with Administration for possible inclusion of departments and other buildings um and lastly the governor educator of the Year award that process uh is in motion um and the board will know the nominees by the eth and you know always uh a great meeting uh when we give out those Awards so uh great to get that process underway that's it thank you Mrs Mr lman our government's meeting was uh relatively short we only had a few minor things uh we have a number of policies and regulations that are going to be coming up in a future update um but they have not come out yet our major um piece of this meeting was a slight revision to our student identification card and uh lanyard regulation which is on tonight's uh Board of Ed agenda as well for a first reading um that is just to align it with our student code of conduct um aside from that we went over some legislative updates and that was it student achievement y uh student achievement met last month October 29th uh during that meeting Mrs grossin reviewed the six curriculum guides that we're approving tonight uh in just a short little time there in addition she also discussed with the committee the new say yes Club at the high school which stands for saille youth enjoy science club uh we're going to also ask us to asking all of you to approve it tonight after that Miss Bert uh also gave us an update on the November 5th staff development day and again fantastic uh job by all she also discussed uh the grants the EA Grant the Perkins Grant climate change grants and she even discussed the climate change Grant Advisory board meeting that she had earlier that day and finally she gave us all an update on the new linkit RTI intervention manager software our next meeting is next Tuesday thank you but I'm sure you can hear me anyway okay so if you didn't hear me the meeting is on December 12th that's the middle sex County School Board Association meeting at Piscataway High School uh at this time we will open to public for agenda items only anybody from public for agenda items okay see none Dr Labby superintendence report if you please thank you Mrs Bloom if I can bring your attention to finance numbers 14 and 15 we're asking you to approve the submission of the amended application for funding under the individuals with disabilities Education Act for the amount stated as well as for the amended application of the every student succeedes act again for the amount stated in the agenda and that's for the period of July 1st through June 30th 2025 number 16 which you can find on page four we're asking you to approve the submission of the 2025 2026 3-year preschool program plan and annual update number 20 which you can also find in page four we're asking you to prove the purchase of a beverage air reachin refigerator and that would be for the samsa upper elementary school and that's from map restaurant supplies in the amount of $555 and that's going to be paid for out of the food service Services account number four on page four number 34 we're asking you to approve a contract for Professional Services with Aspire technology Partners to purchase cabling and installation of additional security cameras across the district in the total amount of$ 62573 number 36 which you can find on the addendum we're asking you to approve an agreement for Professional Services with the spel Architectural Group grp um for $986 and that's for the completion of the solar canopy project at the high school and that's using the esip funds this is just for the Professional Services as you know Board of Education members we have been in a stalemate with green Skies who is the financer and contractor of the solar power purchase agreement and we've decided finally to move on and finish the project ourself because they are refusing to do it numbers 37 and 38 which you can also find in the addendum we're asking you to approve a contract with CD government for tutoring software licensing uh for go Guardian tutor me also known as pek and that program is to provide tutoring Services 24 hours a day 7even days a week to students in grade 6 through2 and that's in the amount of $43,500 beginning on January 1st we're also asking you to purchase technology software subscription licensing um from savis Learning Company in the total amount of $2,350 and that's for success maker and that's part of the envision math program and I asked Miss Grossman and Miss B if they would like to give any more information to the board on either parade or uh the um success maker en Vision math program absolutely Dr lbby so uh pair deck is on demand one to12 ing that we were able to provide for all of our students at sville middle school and at se sville War Memorial High School last year as a result of the district being awarded the high impact tutoring Grant and we had such a large response from our community and the students had such positive things to say about it that we are continuing our partnership so that students can log on to their clever accounts and they can um request on on demand tutoring onetoone in any content area that they would like extra help or supplemental instruction in in addition to being able to submit writing assignments and get feedback from certified teachers and we are locally funding that renewal for this year uh due to the success that we saw last year the um online component success maker for the enVision Math series is something that some of our special special ed supervisors and our math supervisors have been working closely with me on to find materials that are going to support our students in mathematics so Envision which is our curriculum program material textbook series for mathematics in K through 8 has this online component that they have put out since we acquired the program that is assessment based so students will have embedded assessment that they will take when they log on to this tool but then it also has video tutorials and it's differentiated to revisit the skills that the students may be um a little bit weak or need a little bit extra practice on so that tool is going to be made available to all of our students in grades 4 through 8 as part of our plan when we talked about student achievement data and as a district we are always looking to see student progress improve So based on that we were able to identify this tool that we're going to bring to our ues and our middle school students thank you Mr Gman any questions on those items or anything else on finance and infrastructure I'm I'm just so glad to seeing on our own thank you okay any others all right let's move to student achievement beginning on page 15 number two we're asking you to prove the long-term suspension of several students number three we're asking you to proove multiple revised curriculum guides and number four which is also on page 15 love the name of this club by the way the approval of the say yes Club at the high school which stands for the sville Youth enjoy science club and we can thank Mrs Abdullah for taking the time to act as the adviser for this club any questions for those items or anything else on student achievement all right moving on to governance and I apologize because the the policies that um Mr Glock Malloy referenced are not on the agenda for a first reading we will put them on the agenda for a first reading in December and again I apologize for that but let's begin with number two which can be found on page 17 as always we can thank Mrs uh dzinski who is our media specialist at the middle school who has once again volunteered to serve as our liaison with the burrow um and the mayor um in the count the to serve as the burough of sville Mayor and Council trustee for the sville public library so once again I think this is her fifth year that she's agreed to serve in this capacity for us she's the intermediary between the the burough library in the school district so it's it's quite um it's quite the important position and we can't think or enough for again volunteering for that number three which you can find on page 17 we're asking you to approve the 2024 School Safety and Security plan review statement of assurance number four which you can also find in page 17 we're asking you to approve the sville public schools nursing Services plan number five as we've told you we are in a qack and that's the qualitative single accountability Continuum review cycle this year so the Department of Education is revie viewing to determine if our district continues to be a thorough and efficient district and they use the qack or again qualitative single accountability Continuum to rate our performance um the first step in doing this is to do our own self assessment which we conducted back on October 30th via a committee several of our board members are on that committee and upon your approval this evening we'll be submitting those ratings as well as a declaration page and a certified board minutes page to the Department of Education they'll be coming out sometime in the spring to collect evidence to support our ratings and then give us our final ratings number six which you can also find on the addendum we're asking you to approve a revised cafeteria manager cook job description we determined that we are in need of another manager cook position uh this this one at the Samer Elementary School currently there's a satellite manager position but we also feel that we need to have a manager Co cook position there so in looking at the job description Miss Hill and Mr cadino felt that it needed some tidying up it hadn't been revised in several years so they took the liberty of making some minor revisions to it that we're asking to approve this evening any questions on those items or anything else on governance okay moving forward if I can bring your attention to Personnel let's begin on page 22 so numbers eight and nine which you can find on pages 22 and 23 as well as items 30 and 31 which you can find in the addendum we're asking you to hire new certificated and non-certificated staff for this school year numbers 10 and 11 as well as number 32 which you can find on pages 23 and 24 as well as the adendum we're ask you to approve the transfer of certificated and non-certificated staff for the school year number 14 and 34 we're asking you to approve advisors with their stiens for the 2024 2025 school year and I bring this up also to highlight the fact that we have a step team again for many years we could not find a step team adviser and I'm so thrilled that um we have a staff member that stepped up pardon the pun and now we'll have a step team once again at the high school so um thank you to that that adviser and I'm looking forward to seeing our our kids and action pretty soon and finally number 15 which you can find on page 25 we're asking you to uh approve advisers as the Middle School environmentalist Club love that too and that's all due to our climate change initiative grant that Miss Bert Miss Gman all of our content area supervisors have been working so hard on um to to establish but I love this club the environmentalist Club so great job everyone with that and Mrs Bloom that concludes my superintendent report micophone microphone the step team started years ago when I was teaching at uh the high school they started as an act in the talent show and from that we developed a team we got a coach and it was very successful for quite a while and I I actually had missed that it wasn't Iran when I saw it I got excited that it was back again so thank thank you to the adviser for stepping up and hopefully we will see them at our games soon okay and now having finished his report uh we need to open to public no no we need to vote I'm sorry we need a motion to approve so move second so that was Mr Callahan and W all right Mr Callahan yes Mr Esposito Mr Fernandez yes Mrs pone yes Miss pyck yes Mr Smith yes Mr Walsh yes and Mrs Bloom yes okay now we are going to open to public let me remind you that we limit our time to 30 minutes each speaker 30 30 each 30 minutes total time to 30 minutes let me finish each Speaker gets three minutes uh anyone who is a resident gets first preference and if you are going to speak please line up so that we can see that you were there and waiting to speak no good evening Dr lby board members staff and administration this evening uh Anthony spato Washington Road proud to be here again this evening as gabes Dad I want to start by expressing my gratitude to the members of our board of education for their continued service to our community specifically to our outgoing members Mr Walsh Mr Esposito and Miss pyck sville is lucky to have had you and grateful for the time you served served and to those who serve us on our Board of Education extend beyond this calendar year I say this your work is hard and your work is good but rarely is your work political it is seldom if ever governed by external forces seeking to enact an agenda nor should it be there was an article recently in the New Jersey Spotlight news titled NJ Schoolboard elections are supposed to be nonpartisan what happened it details the rise of political agendas on both sides in the space B of public education policy and in the races for Board of Education around the state in some instances including SEL candidates messages were requested to be Amplified by politically motivated candidates businesses and organizations this was no accident but the author of the article does examine how moving a board of education race to coincide with local state and federal elections in November has led to an increase in the politization and I practiced that of our Board of Education races having a Board of Education election in April often decreases the appearance of that election being partisan or political I would encourage this board to consider returning the Board of Education Election to April where it could be given the appropriate attention that an election as important as this would Merit as a board you are able to do this as a resolution should the board deem appropriate as you will know additionally I would request that you consider restoring the public comment to 5 minutes uh which can also be done by you as early as next meeting I'm not going to ask for a motion or resolution this this evening but a holiday gift to residents at our next meeting consider it now to our board members who are returning for the 2025 calendar year I do come tonight to ask for your support not for a campaign or a resolution not for funding or special projects but I'm here to ask for you to focus as we enter the next term I'm asking for your concentration and your dedication and your continued commitment to keeping the actions of this board spotlit on the good of our children under the power granted to you by both law and statute as well as by the public trust it is important that our returning board members help to counsel folks on what role a board member can take and what they cannot and to keep a watchful eye on that work that's being done I assure you on the strength of 1,26 committed sville residents as well as from the mouth of the dad who stands before you that Sarahville is a burough that cares deeply for transparency and good work and the ethical application of law in policy I lean into the work that you have done to inform my hope that as we move forward we give our good grace and gratitude to the work that has come before by training our eyes on the work that is still to come and I trust that you will ensure that that good work continues without hindrance or distraction on behalf of me my husband and our son and the good folks of this burough thank you for your time for your consideration your care and your commitment thank you thank you okay seeing no others I will close public and do we have a motion to adjourn we do okay anybody want to say anything before we adjourn Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving everyone Happy Thanksgiving before we go I want to say hello to our three elected board members who are sitting there very diligently tonight thank you for being here and we look forward to working with you rorg is on January the 2nd and the next board meeting is December 17th everybody have a great Thanksgiving good night we need that motion again we need the motion I already closed okay done yeah that was just Lucy off on a tangent that the trail