##VIDEO ID:9D7IPkPC0D4## I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you okay thank you and welcome to the South River Board of Education reorganization meeting of January 2nd 2025 in compliance with the open public meeting act chapter 231 laws of 1975 of the state of New Jersey adequate notice of this meeting of the South River Board of Education was provided in the following manner on December 4th 2024 the notice was delivered to the office of the South River burrow Clerk and posted at the Board of Education administration building on December 4th 2024 the notice was faxed mailed to the following newspapers home News Tribune The Star Ledger on December 4th 2024 the notice was posted at the South River burough clerk's office Mr Rosa would you please call the role Mr basac here Mr budson here Mrs Bush here Mrs burn here Mrs La here Mr neelson here Mrs Sadowski here Mrs y Yao here Mrs orbanic here have a call thank you so tonight's meeting is to the reorganize the Board of Education it is the time and place provided by Statute for the installation of our newly elected and reelected board members and for the reorganization of the board and to transact several items of business at this time though first we are going to appoint our board secretary Mr Rosen as the temporary chair thank you Mr oranic on the agenda on the 3.2 you'll see the results of the November 5th uh School Board elections for your review and the next uh item of business is the installation of the new board members and we will begin with Renee bush take pictures she's like wait what do I want [Applause] then you repeat after me all right I I Renee Bush do solemnly swear or affirm do solemnly swear and affirm that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the con constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear I willar and that I will will bear true faith and Allegiance true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the governments established in the United States established in the United States and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I I Renee Bush do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office of member for office of member of a board of education of the Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter and that I not disqualified as a voter pursuant to RS pursuant to RS 19 colon 19 colon 4-1 4 D1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to convic conviction of a crime nor to Du to conviction of a crime or offense listed in or offense listed in njs njs 18a 18a colon colon 12-1 12-1 and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of that office perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you thank you very much you're [Applause] welcome our next member is [Applause] Lisa you repeat after me all right I I Lisa burn do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear and I will bear true faith and Allegiance true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the governments establish in the United States established in the United States and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I I do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office of member for the office of member of a board of education of a Board of Education and that I am not disqualified as a voter and I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to RS pursuant to RS 19 19 colon colon 4-1 4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due to conviction of a crime due to conviction of a crime or offense listed in or offense listed in njs njs 18a 18a Colon colon 12-1 12-1 and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully impartially impartially and justly and justly perform all the duties of that office perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations thank you [Applause] [Applause] next we have Nicole Sadowski that's a good idea you get okay you repeat after me okay I I Nicole do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will support that I will support the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and the constitution of the state of New Jersey and that I will bear and that I will bear true faith and Allegiance true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and to the governments and to the governments established in the United States established in the United States and this state and this state under the authority of the people under the authority of the people so help me God so help me God I I Nicole Sadowski do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I possess the qualifications that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law prescribed by law for the office of member for the office of member of a board of education of a board of education and that I am not disqualified as a voter and that I am not disqualified as a voter pursuant to RS pursuant to RS 19 19 colon colon 4-1 4-1 nor disqualified nor disqualified due due to conviction of a crime due to conviction of of a crime or offense listed in or offense listed in njs njs 18a 18a Colin colon 12-1 12-1 and that I will faithfully and that I will faithfully and partially and partially and justly and un justly perform all the duties of that office perform all the duties of that office according to the best of my ability according to the best of my ability so help me God so help me God congratulations [Applause] [Applause] I will now perform a roll call of the new board Mr basac Mr buson here Mrs Bush here Mrs burn here Mrs L here Mr neelon here Mrs Sadowski here Mrs y Yao here Mrs urbanic here all [Applause] right our next item is our election of the president I will be asking for a nomination and we'll do a roll call vote and um the nomination will be uh V voted on as as um they're uh nominated all right so do I have a nomination for board president I nominate Cynthia orbanic for president second okay sorry give one second are there any other nominations hearing none I'll close that item and we'll go to the vote Mr basac yes Mr butson yes Mrs Bush yes Mrs burn yes Mrs L yes Mr neelson yes Mrs Sadowski yes Mrs y Yao yes Mrs orbanic yes we have our board president I will now give the uh meeting back to you thank you Mr Rosa uh at this time then I first like to thank the board for nominating me as the president to run the meeting for another year I think we do have a great board where we all participate no one person heads it and everybody does have an equal say and if you ever find that to be different please let me know I would greatly appreciate that uh at this time now we are going to uh accept nominations for vice president and as explained by Mr Rosa the nominations will be voted on in order of nomination do I hear nomination for vice president Kevin neelson second we have a nomination for Kevin neelon and we have a second are there any other nominations for vice president then those nominations are closed Mr Rosa would you please call the role Mr basac yes Mr budson yes Mrs Bush yes Mrs burn yes Mrs La yes Mr neelon yes Mrs Sadowski yes Mrs Young Yao yes Mrs orbanic yes we have a vice president and I'd like to ask our vice president if he has any comments to offer at this time I'd just like to thank the board for you know uh putting me in this position again I have to agree with President orbanic uh we do work well together um with the leadership from uh Dr her to keep us going I really think there's a lot of improvements that we've made over the years um and that all stems from the uh the leadership to talk with Dr zercher and uh I'm just happy to be here thank you again thank you the uh next item on our agenda is to establish our pre meetings and monthly board meeting dates and the locations so the location of course is here uh at the high school in our Auditorium everybody did get a copy of the meeting dates are there any conflicts or comments on those meeting dates okay seeing none uh do I need a moot I need a motion for that and I I would like to now have a motion on the board meetings neelson approve the board meetings for 2025 we have a motion by vice president neelson and that we have a second by m l once again any comments or questions all in favor I the meeting dates are established thank you that was oh did I miss that marks and at this time we are going to go back to our new board members and ask for the remarks I missed number 3.7 my apologies uh so we are going to start alphabetically Miss Bush good evening everyone I'd like to um take this opportunity to thank um the community for supporting my reelection um for the past 10 years or so I've been on the board of education and we've made great strides in our academic um and school goals to the facilities as well um and I'm looking forward to working with my fellow board members Administration and the community as we move forward so thank you again thank you Miss burn hi everyone I just want to thank everybody for your support this is my second reelection I had an unexpired term and then reelected twice and just looking forward to working with everybody in the community thank you thank you thank you for your service and time Miss Sadowski thank you um very thankful to being part of this board um I do feel that the nine of us with the guidance of Dr Zurcher really do work to ensure the academic success of our students um in the South School District I would like to thank my husband and my daughters and my family for their continue support and I look forward to seeing what we can accomplish in the future thank you thank you Mrs Sadowski again thank you board members for your years of service I think Mrs Bush you mentioned 10 years yeah scary uh you have seven you have six Mr burn and Mrs sidowski that's a lot of years of service a lot of time that you spent up here and given to the students of this uh School District thank you very much the community thanks you I thank you okay now we are going to then move on sorry about that once again uh to the board committee chairpersons Vice chair and members I believe everyone did get the list in email the chair people and the H remain the same I believe there was one change to a vice chair and just a very few changes to the members of the committee trying to uh accommodate everybody's preferences so we'll see how this works for this year and uh get some things done as always next item on our agenda is we have a use of facilities Mr Rosa would you tell us about that please so we have two tonight uh number six 75 and number 676 board members do you have any comments on these use of facilities or questions seeing none is there a motion on the use of facilities Mo the use of facilities in accordance with board policies there is a motion by vice president neelsen is there a second second we have a second by Mrs Sadowski again if there are no questions or comments all in favor I thank you the use of facilities passes uh at this time we do have an item under Finance going to turn it over to our finance chair m l me miss one you missed seven superintendent number seven seven I have is finance no oh no s superintendent okay then at this time I will turn the meeting over to the superintendent of schools so that's what happens when you get emails at 4:10 and I left work at 400 p.m. this is the most updated all right thank you um Mrs urbanic uh I just want to begin by congratulating our board and our board president our board vice president um as a school leader all you can ask for is a board who is students centered and this board really exemplifies that quality and that character istic um I think you've done great work together and I really look forward to everything else we have to um to accomplish also on my superintendent report tonight is item 7.1 which is uh an addition and approval of a confirmed hit and so ends my report for this evening and we are off to finance item number eight do we need a motion on the superintendent report yes and the confirmed Hib motion to approve the Su a superintendent report motion by vice president neelon second second by Mrs Bush any questions or comments all in favor I so moved okay at this time uh Miss Mrs low would you please give us the finance item thank you so much so the finance committee after review of all items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of the item 8.1 with additional item 8.2 on the agenda as listed including routine items and that is all I have to say and are you making that and I so move thank you so we have a motion by Mrs L is there a second second second by vice president neelsen if there are any questions or comments on these two Finance items I have a comment um yes as you see there's going to be a new scoreboard up at the baseball field M constantly making improvements um it'll be you know if you read we had to get a new one because these are so old you can't get light bulbs for them anymore so this coming baseball season we'll have a new scoreboard and hopefully we'll have a winning season that's all I have Dr M thank you sorry okay uh all in favor I thank you our next item on the agenda is policy and legislation Mrs burn thank you the policy and legislation committee after review of all the items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of the item 9.1 with no additional items on the agenda as listed including routine items that is all we have today okay there is a motion by Mrs burn second second by Vice President neelsen are there any questions or comments regarding this seeing none all in favor item moves thank you at this time we are going to open up the meeting for the reception of visitors we ask if the public has any concern or comment for the board that you please come to the microphone state your name and address and please keep your comments to a 10-minute time limit this is on first call anyone from the public hello everyone uh Matt Des santis 10 Ridge Road uh I just want to introduce myself I'm a newly elected councilman and I will be the liaison for the council to the Board of Ed this year uh so I do look forward to working with everyone I'm familiar with most of you some by name some by face some I've coached some were at my wedding so I have a big mix here of that uh so congratulations to the new members I I do look forward to working with you guys and and getting to know this process so I'm just here to introduce myself and and say I look forward to working together so thank you thank you is there anyone else from the public wishing to speak on First Call On Second call and on third call we will now close this public portion and at this time the board is going to go into executive session so be it resolved that pursuant to sections seven and 8 of the open public meetings Act the following subjects be discussed at a session of the Board of Education close to the public and those items are attorney client privilege it is presently anticipated that the item to be discussed in Clos session can be disclosed to the public when resolved is there a motion neelon we have a motion by vice president neelson second second by Mrs Bush all in favor I I they are now in executive s thank you for attending everyone yeah thanks for coming rting