##VIDEO ID:WI9uGdEOEpU## impact on the growth of our Athletics programs I can remember countless budget meetings where you questioned um and sought answers to a lot of budgetary items involved in athletics and you helped Miss badami and the school district mold some of those great programs that we have and that we've started so we can't thank you enough for all that you did for the district and we'd like to give you this as a token of our appreciation [Applause] he and if you didn't notice if we could pan in on him he's wearing his tuxedo shirt um Miss pyck again um you you came to us when we were in need um we had a very difficult year that year I won't go into details um but we really needed someone to come in and fill a pretty big void that we had and um you far exceeded anyone's expectations um you bring a calm professional very intellectual based presence to everything that you do and you've been instrumental in shaping our curriculum and instruction for the time period then as well as most importantly the time period you've been with us now and you know we talked about it at our last student achievement meeting um we wouldn't be where we are right now in terms of dual enrollment and particularly dual enrollment towards an associates degree which can now lead to entrance into Rucker's University and potentially a Rucker University degree without the work that you did um you are a true leader and an inspiration to all of us particularly me um and I valued the time that I had to share with you uh in terms of leading this district and you're going to be sorely [Applause] missed so I don't have a plaque for the next person because that's the kind of person he is um Mr Esposito is one of the most modest people that you you would ever meet and he wanted to use the money that we would spend on a plaque um to to put into a student scholarship and unfortunately we weren't able to do that but again it goes to Mr Esposito um and his moral and ethics um that um you know we don't have a plaque because he was thinking of the students and Mr Esposito throughout his tenure here has always been thinking about the students students everything he did was with the students at the Forefront of his thinking and that's what we're we all should be doing um all of us work for one entity and it's the students of this district and one of the many great things that he's done since he's been a board member here is shaping our School Safety and Security program when he started as a board member he immediately dug into School Safety and Security he made sure that we had meetings on a timely basis he wanted to make sure that we had our secure vestibules he did research on his own he went to conferences and workshops on his own and in fact I I think I recall there was a special one that I didn't even know you were going to that we both met up there um was was prominent with him and I know for sure that we probably have one of the safest districts and i' I'd have to argue the safest District um in this state especially in a time period in which just yesterday there was a school shooting and we are what I consider to be if not the safest one of the safest and Mr Esposito we would never be here without you and the work that you did beyond that you've actually been the longest serving president that I've ever had the privilege to work with uh as a superintendent um this is my 11th year as a superintendent uh in seille my 14th year total being a superintendent and I think you and I shared leadership for the longest period in my career um and I can't thank you enough for the opportunities that I had to work with you closely as a superintendent and Board of Education president uh I learned a great deal from you and I valued our working relationship throughout that time period and I thank you for everything that you've done in the capacity of a board member as well as in the capacity as a board of education president for this school [Applause] district okay my turn there you go Mrs uh Dr Labby brings speeches I bring gifts so I want to thank each one of you for serving it has been my pleasure uh we don't always have to agree but we always agreed that we were working for the children and I think uh we are all better for having known each other Patrick I know I will see you around I'm sure Anthony and Danielle I will see you around uh but it has been a pleasure and I wish you all the best and a very happy holiday yay okay if I can i' like to just say a couple words I'd like to take a moment to recognize and express my deepest gratitude to all three of our departing board members Pat Danielle and Anthony Pat I'm really going to miss you buddy um you were always there when an adult moment you were always there to bring much needed levity your humor positivity and passion for our students always shine through even though you're stepping away from the board your commitment to our kids remains unwavering as a coach Community leader you continue to be an integral part of our district making a difference for our student body and helping shape their Futures Danielle over the past three years I've come to know you and deeply respect you not only for your intellect and insight but for your calm demeanor and thoughtful approach your presence will be greatly missed on this board I have no doubt you will find joy in many of the Pursuits ahead of you whether it's spending more time with your family or cheering for your kids on the sidelines you left a meaningful and Lasting Mark here and for that we are all truly grateful Anthony when I first joined the board you were a guiding force for me and for so many others not only were you an excellent board member and president but you also took the time to Mentor me and show me the ropes you are always the most prepared person in the room bringing thoughtful and insightful questions to every meeting you challenged all of us to be better better board members better Advocates and better leaders your commitment to our students is unquestionable on a personal note I want to thank you for everything you've done not just for this board in our school but for me personally and for so many of us that have had the privilege of serving with you Pat Danielle Anthony thank you for your dedication your hard work and your lasting impact you've made while your time on the board is ending your influence and Legacy will continue to benefit our students Community for years to come I wish each of you all the best as you embark on your next chapters in your lives thank you I have I also want to make a comment um to uh all three of you it's been a pleasure working with you guys um I have not always agreed with all of you even individually or as a group and but I do agree that you really did a lot for the uh students of seille and you know you will be missed and you know you should be proud of what you've done and of your achievement even though sometimes on in publicly we get bashed it's not easy being a board of education member you are constantly critique for anything you say or don't say and you also it's easy for the citizens as sa to sit on behind their computers but it takes a lot of um caring to come to these meetings to be on these committees to show up for uh you know events throughout the town so thank you so much and I hope that you all have a great life and I hope to see you in a public service different role in the future so consider that seille needs good people on the burrow Council you always got that people I'll nominate you you got my vote I like just say in honor of the distinguished Pat Walsh I said we earn end this meeting early tonight you know be very brief in your comments the more you talk Mr Fernandez the less weird chance of that happening sure um we discussed updates on the referendum projects it's winter so certain things aren't happening that quickly um but we're still pretty much on track for all the timelines that were previously discussed we also had our Auditors present at the meeting to go over the June 30th 2024 audit um and everything was good there we're putting additional funds into capital and maintenance and emergency reserve for future needs for the district that's about it even on the thing anyway I I um just want to say that Erin you are the best business business administrator that any Board of Education could hope to have on the count on their board um you really do and I always tell people you you squeeze a penny and you dollar comes out you really do a great job managing this C this I don't want to I don't care what the people anybody says and they says oh the budget the budget you manage that budget like it's your own okay and you do a great job and the Auditors that that's not just my opinion that is a financial legal auditing opinion as well so congratulations you really do a great job [Applause] okay thank you uh and now Personnel just pilot sure uh the Personnel committee met earlier this evening uh where we discussed open positions for certificated and non-certificated staff uh we discussed our midyear job fair which is uh slated to be held on January 16th from 5: to 8:00 p.m. uh we will mostly be looking for substitutes um and other non-certificated staff members uh we reviewed the fill rates uh since our last meeting that's it Mrs Bloom thank you Mr Callahan are you going to do student achievement for us I will and in honor of Pat Walsh I've got probably my longest one so oh good the student achievement committee met last night uh we discussed there's six curriculum guide revisions that are on tonight's agenda three of them are Elementary uh language arts guides and three of them are high school honors uh honors level English courses uh we also discussed the new organization at the high school the swmhs historical society which is on tonight's agenda as well Mrs Gman reviewed the new courses uh at uh the high school for next year that we're seeking approval for also on tonight's agenda that would be Digital Arts 2 biological Life Sciences some video production and broadcasting courses to replace the and update the current TV Roman numeral one Roman numeral 2 and Roman numeral 3 courses at a new film making course uh again they're all on the agenda for tonight uh Mrs grman also spoke about the new science course sequence that we're going to have at the high school it now means that biology will be brought down to grade nine chemistry to grade 10 physics to grade nine um she she and her staff decided on that resequencing based on the data that she collected from the njs njsla science uh and the enrollment numbers um and then she also gave us the update that Dr lbby uh alluded to earlier with middle sex College that we're going to have an early college experience where students will be able to earn up to 45 college credits in dual enrollment uh with 15 credits at middle sex college and the potential to earn their associates degree and then the potential to go to Ruckers and so on and so forth all while graduating with a high school diploma so fabulous job fabulous job there um Mr naster he gave an update to the committee on the search for a new Interventional math program to be used with special ed students and Center Reach Central reach a new new resource for special ed students that supports multiple disabilities in classrooms related to applied behavioral analysis and lastly Mrs Bert gave us all an update on the recent staff development offerings including the new teacher workshops CPR training RTI through linkit um and then she spoke about the new grants or sorry the B the grants that we always have the climate change Grant uh in grade 7 at the middle school the climate change continuation application for grade five the connect safely Grant and the work related on all the other grants she does for the federal Issa our next meeting will be late January Pat Walsh will not be here outstanding that great great presentation very comprehensive thank you question ask as anyone else okay so let's run through this pretty quickly let's begin with finance and infrastructure page three we're asking you to accept generous donations that were made to us first 600 pumpkins valued at about $1,200 from habak farms and that went to both the project before at Cheesequake school and the project before at cover school and if you saw pictures in Talk Soup the kids had a wonderful time at the pumpkin so we can't thank habak Farms enough also we we thank the Carmen spey as well as masuki funeral homes for donating up to $500 to our bombers beond program that was our items number 16 through 18 number 19 which you can find on page four uh Miss bird has been hard at work with mrar Malloy uh on writing a grant that we're asking you to approve submission of it's the 2025 connect safely Grant it's in the amount of $1,000 number 21 and 22 which you can find on page 12 uh which you can find on page five I'm sorry about that we're asking you to approve the purchase of Technology um most of that technology in number 21 is the replacement of our Chromebooks and our staff laptops but 22 is for um the afor mentioned by Mr Callahan the TV studio Labs um not only are we going ahead and uh renaming some of those classes but we're actually buying new equipment for those classes it's going toward that and our Esports lab that will be constructed in the spring that's the equipment that's going to be in that so that's number 22 number 28 which you can find on page six we're asking you to approve a contract with imagine learning to provide tutoring services to identified students in grades 4 through five in the amount of $ 17,4 se2 and that's part of the annexation of the 2025 well it was 2024 now it's a 2025 New Jersey high impact tutoring Grant and Miss Gman and Miss Bert worked very hard along with Miss Burns to go ahead and produce that so we thank them very much for that number 40 which can find in the addendum we're asking you to prove the purchase of some custodial machines and equipment in the amount of $613 any questions on those items or any of the other items on finance and infrastructure okay hearing and seeing none if I can bring your attention now to student achievement beginning with number one um as referenced by Mr Callahan earlier we're asking you to approve several or multiple revised curriculum guides if you're viewing online uh you can see all those curriculum guides posted uh on our meeting website the motion for that is on page 14 also on page 14 you can find the new multiple courses referenced by uh Mr Callahan earlier for the 20125 2026 school year at the high school and that is motion number two motion motions number three and 8 which you can find on page 15 in the addendum we're asking you to approve the long-term suspension for several students number four which you can find on page 15 we're asking you to proove as Mr Callahan referenced earlier a new club at the high school and it's to mirror the burrow uh organization the Historical Society well we're going to have our own high school historical society and we can't thank enough Mrs Ferrari from the high school for um volunteering to be the adviser for that any questions on those items or anything else on achievement okay moving ahead to governance number one which you can find on page 17 we're asking you to approve for first reading Boe regulation 5517 student identification cards lanyard procedures um that is a revision to that and that is first reading we'll ask you to approve a second reading at our next Board of Education meeting and number three which you can find in the addendum this is for actually qac and if you don't remember qac is our is the qualitative single accountability Continuum that is used by the Department of Education to evaluate the school district to make sure that we're providing a thorough and efficient education they are coming out with a new way of scoring items 1 through seven in instruction and um programs they are giving districts they're not officially coming out with that until next year but they're giving districts an opportunity that are being evaluated this year to go go ahead and implement it and Miss Gman and I talked about it Miss Gman thoroughly researched it and felt that it was an Avenue that we should take um to ensure that we get the highest score possible um on our total qac score particularly in instruction and programming so we're asking you to um approve an equivalency waiver that we can go ahead and submit tomorrow to the County Board of Education any questions on those items for governance all right finally in personnel number 7 and8 as well as page uh number 38 and 39 which you can find on pages 21 and 22 in the addendum we're asking you as we always do to hire new certificated non-certificated staff for this school year numbers 9 through 11 as well as 40 which you can find on page 22 and 23 in the addendum we're asking you to also approve the transfer certificated and non-certificated staff for this school year number 15 and 16 which you can find in page 25 we asking you to approve paid coaches with their stiens as well as some volunteer coaches for this school year numbers 21 through 23 which you can find on pages 27 and 28 we're asking you to proove faculty teach in the seille middle school science multilingual learner and rising stars acmis and number 15 which you can find on page 25 we're asking you to proove staff members just oh not number 15 um oh it is number 50 no it's not we're asking you to approve staff members to serve as advisers on the sville Middle School environmentalist club and the positions are funded through the climate change Grant is that an extension from last year last scratch that I believe that is yeah no that's a mistake that was left over my highlights from last week so that concludes my report Mrs bloom I apologize for that a motion to approve the uh superintendent's report second okay so I got Mr Callahan and Mr Walsh uh Mr Callahan yes Mr Esposito Mr Fernandez yes Mrs Napolitano yes Mrs Pabon yes Miss pyck yes Mr Walsh yes Mrs Bloom is this where I abstain okay yes but I need to abstain on check number 1645 91 okay thank you thank you okay and now m to the end of the line okay at this time we will open up for public on anything that you might like to bring to our attention he's coming back sorry can you just for the record can you say your name and your address again it's a separate yeah supp governed good k happy holidays to you as well when you say departing members I'm sorry but it makes me think that that you're dying you're not you're getting a new life so shall we say those who have turned out okay yeah um yeah departing just that doesn't do it for me um I believe does anybody else have anything that I have something I want to say um I want to oh I'm sorry I have to close public Sor okay okay public is closed um I would like to give our outgoing that's what I'm going to call them not deported our outgoing uh Boe members as well as our remaining Bo members the Unity to appease the public and allow for the five minutes of public discussion um you know for the holidays in Goodwill I believe the burrow Council has also made that move um so you know it is a big bone of contention the time limit so I would like to um extend that to five minutes if you guys agree and I would like to caveat though if somebody does get up there and they start talking in a disparaging manner you know racist uh things like that that we still would be able to shut it down because that's not fair um to you know the rest of the public so um I'd like to put that to a a vote a motion um I can ask to table it to can we can have a board discussion U unless you folks want to go forward tonight I think tabling is very wise so we can I thought we already talked about this yeah I wasn't part of that discussion okay yeah um I will um I will say that we table it until we can discuss it in uh close at the next meeting it's that that hard that we have to discuss well I think there's some information that it's two minutes extra okay uh all in favor of tabling I okay all right so then we will T we will table till the next meeting Miss P okay um anything else any other comments okay our next meeting is January 2 you know I hate to make any meeting any longer so I'll try to keep this very short um this this board here has impressed me for the last four years and everyone who's who's come on um Dr Lobby you were my friend before all this you were my coach and you amazed me with I I've been in schools I've been a teacher I've met many superintendents but you impressed me and people of sville don't realize sometimes times that you know this meeting is sometimes the pit of where people just come and tell you how bad of a job you're doing but there's thousands of parents and teachers out there who know what an amazing job you do and the staff you surrounded yourself with Erin I couldn't have been a board member for five minutes without you and tell me everything I need to do unbelievable unbelievable um the actual board members myself I lean St a little bit of my thunder guys you don't see it all people in the public we go in the back room me and I put our boxing gloves on sometimes but there's one thing I can say about every person in this room what I learned was that everyone loves the students we might not agree the best way to on what to do but every person that's up here does what they can and thinks they're doing the best for the students of this town and it was great being with you guys for four years and I greatly appreciate it and good luck to The Replacements Kiana Reeves yes Kiana Reeves everybody has a title God bless the board would you like to say anything I have nothing oh no that's okay thank you you guys are you know it's been a great nine years anytime the public gives you an opportunity to to to serve and to give back a little bit uh it's amazing so thank you everyone for uh you know Nobody Does It Alone um and Dr Lobby thank you Aaron terrific job David phenomenal and you guys tremendous I mean it sincerely great group you know you hear a lot about other districts and you and you talk to other people other board members it's not like this it really isn't you know I mean yeah we do Spar sometimes but uh like Pat said we have the main objective is the student and uh that's that's really what it's all about so thank you everyone uh for the opportunity it's been it's been my pleasure thank you Anthony Miss pilac would you like to say a upon farewell to us yes I will end it um I want to Echo a lot of the sentiments that Pat Anthony already expressed but you know to the fellow board members thank you for your support coder uh teamwork um you know definitely uh you know I've learned from all of you uh being a board member is uh sometimes a thankless job in many senses so you know congratulations yes sometimes um you know but you all put in the thought the effort the time of the energy we spent a lot of time away from our family um so you know kudos to you um to Dr Labby uh and team um you know you guys put in countless hours Beyond uh you know what anybody uh could expect you know I always uh say to anybody who hears I'm on the board that you know being uh an administrator is uh you know even more thankless than probably being on the board of ed um and you could not pay me enough uh to do your job um because that's how hard uh you know a task that you all have um but you know the growth uh and development that I've seen in the short you know three or four years that I've been on the board has been tremendous um there's still work to do uh because there's always work to do right we're always you know endeavoring to be greater um but I know that this district is in a very good position uh to take it to the next level because of all of you um so Kudos um might not be on the board but you know sbles in my heart have lived here since third grade so once a bomber always a bomber uh you guys have my phone number uh so anything I can do to support uh you know how to find me thank you okay anything else and with that I will make a motion to sove second second okay meeting adjourned happy holidays everyone --------- ##VIDEO ID:wOilKiBfsqQ## is on my green light is is flashing see okay good evening we call to order the December 17th meeting of the sville Board of Education please rise with the pledge to the flag I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all I ask that you please remain standing to observe a moment of silence for former teacher at sville War Memorial High School I just recently found out that back in September Mary pelia who was an English teacher for 31 years retired in 2001 she was the advisor to the drama Department makeup crew and designed and constructed costumes for many years Mary is survived by her husband Frank of 56 years please keep Mary and her family in your prayers thank you Miss Hill roll call Mr Callahan Mr Mr Esposito Mr Fernandez here Mrs impano here Mrs pone here miss pillock here Mr Smith and Mr Walsh and Mrs Bloom here okay uh Miss Hill will you summarize executive session please the board discussed student matters negotiations related to the teamsters and matters falling under attorney client privilege Personnel including but not limited to agenda items was on the agenda but was not discussed okay any correspondents of note no okay thank you uh and now we need a motion to approve the minutes of the previous meeting i' I Mr Walsh and Mrs pone okay uh Mr Callahan I'm yes Mr Esposito Mr Fernandez yes Mrs napalitano obain Mrs Pabon yes Miss pyck yes Mr Walsh yes and Mrs Bloom yes Al righty and now we turn to our uh student council Representatives Morgan good evening Board of Education members and admin administrators my name is Morgan C swmhs student council Board of Education representative I would like to begin with clubs and activities a representative from the Savannah College of Art and Design gave a special Workshop to students in the art Department the topic was Business and Entrepreneurship the speaker also gave an overview of scad's many art programs and the opportunities available at the school the guidance Department took seniors to the Malcolm Bernard's college fair at ritton Valley Community College College the Malcolm Bernard historically black colleges and universities fair is a nonprofit volunteer organization that partners with community and state agencies to introduce a multitude of students eager to learn about higher education opportunities the College admission representatives from the campuses of HBCU students had the ability to speak with admission representatives from over 40 HBCU schools such as Howard University Morgan State University Delaware State University and Bennett College were all present multiple students were accepted on the spot and some even received Merit Scholarships based on the amazing work they've done at swmhs student students in the psychology and sociology classes visited the Museum of Modern Arts in New York City to explore how the brain processes visual stimuli and how Society influences art and vice versa SW mhs's 2024 Valic iian Jay Desai visited the high school Jay is currently a freshman at Princeton University and spoke with Juniors and seniors about everything from the application process to life on campus he encouraged everyone to work to the best of their abilities and stated that the high school advanced placement classes truly mirror his college courses students in Miss draik honors accounting class had a memorable and informative day at rder University touring the campus and learning about their accounting program some winter student athletes went to the greater middle sex conference winter sports Summit they had a great time networking with other athletes in the County student musicians and choir performed magically during their holiday concert led by Dr Caruso the Jazz Ensemble and concert band played brilliantly and impressed all in attendance in addition the choir and Advance choir led by Mr Sanford harmonically impressed the audience with several contemporary and classic holiday songs Miss AB Miss Abigail weel a local realtor visited a few financial literacy classes she made a presentation to students about building a financial plan as well as building credit as a young adult she also shared her personal experiences about being a realtor in the Cal area during the women's Society club meeting board members spread awareness of the increase in domestic violence cases during the holiday season students decorated cookies and wrote holiday letters that will be donated to those spending the holidays at the Haslet woman shelter the students who earned an A in all their classes during the first marking period were rewarded with a delicious breakfast and prizes during the Renaissance breakfast the model Congress participated in New Jersey model congress party day at the New Jersey Capitol house Annex in Trenton congratulations to Rohit gumati who was elected as a Democrat whip he is the first high school student in his first year as a party member to achieve a party elected position students from Miss Moses's advanced placement art history classes visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art they were assigned an art scavenger hunt which included taking notes and answering questions about specific artwork and having their photo taken while posing like one of the artworks congratulations to miss zank for being selected teacher of the year for the 2024 2025 school year as well as Miss chupka for being selected educational support professional of the Year moving on to sports the girls bowling team defeated JP Stevens High School to earn their first match win of the Season likewise the boys team beat Colonia High School to grab their first victory of the Season congratulations to the boys basketball team for winning their first game against South Amboy good luck to the girls basketball team at their first game against mouin on Friday congratulations to the wrestling team for winning their first three matches of the season the swim team kicked off their season with two wins against Monroe and orridge who are in a higher division than them congratulations to Michael wenko Sebastian valz Joshua jatun and Brody Canan for breaking the 200 medley relay record at the first meet of the season I would also like to congratulate Michael wenko for breaking his own 200 IM record along with the 100 backstroke record that was previously held by Peter du frat in 2011 good luck to all winter athletes with the rest of their season thank you for your time and support excellent job as always how do you I had a chance to attend the uh Renaissance breakfast about 190 students it was wonderful Morgan are you running indoor track no I'm swimming you're swimming oh that's great your sister swims too correct okay you guys have two big wins Old Bridge and Monroe right M what's your next uh three records broken already I know Michael yeah he broke two of them when's the next uh swim meet tomorrow to and who are we playing swimming against South Brunswick oh we're gonna swim better than them it's gonna be a close one but that's I've try is it here at CCL or is it there it's at the Aquatic Center here okay I'll try to get out with begins at 4 yep okay thank you great job as always thank you thank you yeah good luck thank you good luck wish your sister good luck for us too okay okay thank you so much Morgan and now Alana good evening Board of Education ministrators or members and administrators my name is Alana s seril Middle School student student council Board of Education representative here's what is going on at the serville middle school the student council held their annual fall anything goes assembly the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break the staff defeated the sixth and seventh graders however for the first time in school history the eighth grade students defeated the staff the food drive came to came close and we collected 1,330 food items the students who donated will be taping our own Mr number to the main fo hallway on Friday December 20th the video will be posted to the school website for all to view thank you to all those who participated this week the student council is hosting the last Spirit Week of 2024 the community service Casa gift drop off happened on Friday December 13th they collected over 240 gifts for children in foster care in Middle sex County the replenished food drive pickup is December 19th career Club will hold a meeting tomorrow December 18th for grades 7th and e8th grade only the PTO hosted SMS Got Talent on Friday December 6th at 700 p.m. at seral World Memorial High School they would like to thank the judges and all the talented acts save the date ser Middle School Tricky Tray and handbag Bingo Friday January 31st tickets will be on sale next month the Odyssey of the man currently has three teams preparing for the regional round of the competition in February now on to Cal Middle School athletics the Middle School boys soccer blue and gray team celebrated the conclusion of their season along with the freshman juniority and varsity teams at their end of season banquet the seral wore Memorial High School on November 25th a special thanks to all the administration and board members who attended and everyone that helped put together such a memorable evening the girls blue basketball team is off to a great start they defeated North Brunswick Middle School last week in their first game by nine points to bring their season record to 1 and0 1 and0 the gray team played South ambor very tough and will look to defeat dunin today the girls program is looking forward to an exciting season ahead the middle school cheerleading team will be hosting the winter pep rally on Monday December 23rd they cheered on the boys basketball team last Friday versus North Brunswick they will be cheering on Wednesday as the lady bombers take on East Brunswick thank you very much for this opportunity to speak on behalf of the students at saille Middle School great job Elana Mrs Bloom I have a couple questions for Alana Elana I'm getting really old I'm almost 60 and I my hearing's going did I hear correctly that you're going to be taping Mr nurger yes no not videotaping you're going to be actually literally taping him yeah how do I get involved in this well I just want to put one piece of tape uh I could give you my piece because oh that is so sweet my home room brought in I think 200 cans wow so everybody in our class is getting the opportunity for a piece of tape that is so cool what a creative fundraiser and I got it hand it to Mr nurger what a guy um for for doing that I think that's great uh that that he's doing that did you participate in family vacation day dress up the other day I don't know or was it just a staff I think that was just a staff did you were they really wearing some crazy outfits not that I know of Mrs Bloom you would have appreciated Mr nurger was dressed up as Cousin Eddie from family vacation okay and he had those white loafer shoes on you would have definitely appreciated did you notice him in the white loafer shoes yesterday I don't think so no you he didn't impress her at all I it if you would have saw him it would have stood out honey yeah maybe if I saw him I don't think I saw him yet great job honey both of you great presentations as always thank you aot oh Morgan you have one more last week was Spirit Week for the teachers and Friday was everything but a water bottle and my swim coach had a fishbowl with a straw in it oh oh my gosh and we had no idea about this I was like is it spirit week or something cuz why are these teachers it was staff spirit week we're allowed to have staff spirit and I had no idea and I was like why did she have a fishbowl with a straw in it I was so confused my compliments to the administration and the staff at the middle school and high school for bringing some levity to both buildings um in allowing the kids to see a different side of them I think that's wonderful for um building morale throughout the building so kudos to our students and our staff at the middle school and high school for that great job guys thank you ladies and ladies have a very happy holiday and wish your families the same for us thank you Miss Bloom for the gift you're welcome in a relaxing winter recess not too much training Morgan oh no no Enjoy ladies thank you so much happy holidays good night happy holidays okay um moving on to the president's comments I really just wanted to mention that last week we had our middle sex County School Board Association meeting and Miss Hill and Dr Labby came and did a budget presentation for the county and they left everybody in a because as I have been saying for years no one no one in the whole state of New Jersey let alone middle sex County gets the information on budget that we get uh people were just flawed they tell you all this yes they're supposed to tell you all this so Ain and Dr lbby were were excellent and there was a there was another gentleman there helping you out Brian cowsky yeah Ain did all the work guys I said nothing yes it was excellent so thank you for that uh the next meeting will be in February and it will be virtual so anyone who's interested uh once you get that email you can sign up for the virtual meeting okay Miss Napolitano highlights commendations to M Mr gusy Ser woman High School principal and his team of Administrators and faculty for earning middle States Association of colleges and school Commission of ele and secondary schools accreditation for Sera wal high school until the year 2032 congratulations to Mr naster assistant superintendent Mr vanderbeck Mr vanderbeck supervisor of special education miss fizzini and miss garet teachers Miss Falcone and Miss batco par professionals and the past and present Brew Crew from the bombers Beyond Cafe for being selected as a 2024 Community Choice best coffee shop in New Jersey wow I know number one number one I voted I remember voting for that okay congratulations to the 2425 Governor's educators of the Year Governor's Education Services specialist for the year and seral Education Association education support Professionals of the Year whatever sea ES recipients all those names uh congratulations to alama's Unified sports student athletes who participated in this year's unified indoor soccer tournament at the High School Middle School Upper Elementary School ARA school and the project before a Cheesequake and slow schools for their amazing display of teamwork and sportsmanship thank you to Mrs K and all the advisers coaches and staff members who once again made each game this year so special for all our student athletes and everyone who attended congratulations to Amanda Moen seral War Memorial High School's varsity football coach on being named the GMC blue division coach of the year I'm sorry volleyball I'm not feeling volleyball congratulations to M to Mary Trello sville W High School field hockey coach for being named the GMC white division Coach of the Year congratulations to the sville junior bombers division 12 football team for winning the American Youth football national championship and congratulations to this derville Junior bombers d8 cheer team for winning the American Youth Cheer national championships that's it thank you and we'll go ahead and as we do every year um we'll celebrate all of those governors educators of the year and the ESP the sea esps during our June Board of Education actually our May our our second meeting in May so we'll celebrate each one for that well we Mrs Bloom we do have some presentations that are not on the agenda that we need to make um unfortunately we have to say goodbye to some very special people on the board and um we have commemorative plaques for them um but before we give those plaques if you don't mind I'd like to say a few words about them so first of all Mr Walsh we we can't thank you enough um for coming to Us in need your first stint on on