Jersey stat time location ready public meetings Act was taken stand Al to the flag of the unit States of America and to theic for it stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you everyone please Dr toac okay so this meeting is in many ways a wrap up of the current school year along with other actions prepare for our next school year that includes several items on the agenda that involve public interest but before we get to that like to mention that the end of the year um is here and as a result there's many wonderful events taking place across the district including our annual Field Days tonight's P for way Valley next week is at Hills um I still to be able to attend a very special event Mrs rman attended to Scott kfax Middle School wellknown speaker Jordan delivered a very inspirational message to all of our students and staff and he spoke about how the support he received from his mother and so much while he struggled in school with learning disabilities so it was really quite an experience also enjoyed attending our annual car show of course this year is a very special year because Mr Bergen and Mr Hopper who are really the driving force behind our Automotive program are retiring so it is their final car show congratulations to them for building the great Wayne tradition um was able to attend the Wayne Hills yearbook preview event which is wonderful the district science fair all these fantastic events that mean so much for our students and staff are happening and I look forward to the many events that are scheduled for the next few weeks as we get to Awards the very last day of school in a few moments the Board of Ed will engage in a public discussion regarding a possible future Bond referendum we call it the referendum from earlier this year and March failed by a wide margin of votes purpose of that referendum was to maintain our current schools while starting to address increased enrollment due to the construction in the community we're currently at our at near our maximum enrollment at almost all of our elementary schools and that is without any new construction the board of education is also moving ahead with the new food service provider on July 1st Max's food service we placed at EXO as a food service provider this result in new menus food items and other changes this action is included on agenda item 06 also agenda item 09 is part of our ongoing partnership with William Patterson starting this year that the school district rented a small amount of space to allow for professional development for staff as well as office spaces which we lost due to the renovation of pris school and the conversion of those spaces into classrooms so we're simply continuing to rent the same spaces some of reading lists are included on this agenda as public work session item L2 so it is a public work session item so why I know many parents have been asking about the reading list so it's available for review although it will be acted upon formally for the Board of Ed next meeting Dave brj will be retiring later this summer we might see him tonight but for now um we're going to need two new assistant principles for athletics and activities with mer merging item T10 four and five we're happy to recommend Jason carage at Wayne Valley and Ryan Bailey at Wayne Hills to succeed Mr dck both an excellent experience a long history in Wayne Athletics also under emerging item T10 number seven is our recommendation to appoint Lissa abos to replace M KY as Lafayette school elementary I'm sorry Lafayette Elementary principal Lissa emerged as a top candidate during the interview process and she's an excellent instructional background for that approval she will join the district this summer after having served in ell as an assistant principal for the past three years she currently Works in a school with over 800 students where she is directly responsible for the supervision of all students and staff in grades 3 to six she also has extensive experience with scheduling and G driven constructional prac practices um as far as the HIV report goes I'm reporting the following data related to harassment and foundtion bullying incidents way countship Public School District there have been 20 incidents of HIV investigated since my last report which is a lot and eight of those cases were deemed to meet the criteria of an HIV incident however we were still even though we had a lot for this reporting period we still are far behind the number of cases we had at this quick last year that concludes my report okay next on the agenda is discussion of possible referend put this on the agenda because getting to the timeline where we have to be prepare again to go out um get all paperwork and everything together in order to move forward with it um Avalon Bay is you know one thing that was up there yesterday and did notice they already have the uh footings in for the buildings and the concrete pads are already in that's moving along so the date that we date that we had heard of that they were anticipating was July of 25 I'm no architect but the way that's moving I think that's a realistic date for them because they're not making money off making property so you know which then shifts population to our schools so um talked about having this discussion and to see you know get input from the board and the thoughts and how do we move forward we don't that's the question but if we don't move forward then you know we're going to have to be we're going to administration's going to have come together and uh you know look at some other options we already looking at options so I think we have to get to the point of we either going to or we're not going do we know do we know what the cost would be to try to attempt to come up with a another Bond referendum number for this election because I mean I think we heard uh during the last election for the bond referendum that oh it was an off ccle period if it was at the general November election it would be essentially no cost I mean that is that a real um right you would not in corre you would have no cost to go on the election because the county would pay all the co-workers and everything else they would pay they flip that whole bill if I can I I do think there is a sliver of that that we're responsible for I think it's a smaller amount because that's a special election it's our whole cost and we went over that recently it's over half a million dollars that we absorbed related to all the costs um but even we're still today getting a couple trickles of bills related to some of the county agencies that were involved in it um but as far as the election cost it is a portion of that because it's split amongst you know that fact that is the general election that shared so I mean I'm in favor of you know definitely trying again whether it's you know in 2024 and 2025 you know whatever is our best chance of going out there educating people educating the importance um you know in this community I mean I I think some people at least 2,000 people do know that it was very important to to get a bond referendum done to improve our facilities in the district and and to prepare for the future so I think you know we need to to do something I know the mayor said if it's 100 million he would definitely support us uh and going out there so you know we can use anybody's support so um anybody and everybody's support so I think we're getting to a critical point um and we need this so my concern about going forward with another Bond re so quickly this year especially is that in order to do so we have to go forward with the same projects that we have already R and my concern about that is While most of the projects were very important in terms of maintaining the buildings that we have there was minimal benefit for the long term in terms of adding enough space to support the growth that we anticipate so I don't know that there's going to be room to put out even a $100 million referendum for the repairs that we're looking for and then ultimately then what are we going to do when we have to start really dealing with the building out of something to support potentially a couple hundred more kids you also now have unfortunately this you know this potential thing to to do with IHM where we may have to absorb some of those students into our schools so you know and also our turn to build that space could be years before we can actually build out that space fast enough to absorb that you know that count so to me putting out a referendum asking for money what we don't know that real and again that money has to be allocated pretty much the projects that we've given we can't just say all we're going to go for $100 million and then we decide okay well we're going to go this route we're going to buy a building and fix it up and that's going to solve a problem and then take that money in reallocate we have to go back out and ask for more money so to me the challenge is not having the plan of what's going to address all of the issues that we want to deal with and just going out asking for money for all the things that we've already discussed that we know really aren't going to make a tremendous of an impact on our space issues as we need don't get wrong the maintenance stuff has to be done but to me those projects don't they don't really resolve our you know near-term issue I I I agree I I think I hate to say this but people need to feel pain before they agree to something because a lot of the feedback is what you said you know like I've heard oh there is nothing in it for the growth our schools like tuna th parents would say there is we're already running out of space and you're not giving us anything you know from another parent who had kids in the Athletics that there was nothing sexy about this referendum there's no projects that would make them say like you know yes I want to spend money it was for routine stuff so I yeah I agree it's I don't know that right now next year maybe a couple years out maybe they need to feel pain of the bu Cuts before they go up out there I don't know I don't I I personally don't know that it's the money thing I think that money is an issue but I feel like if you have the right plan with the right things people would support it you know if there's going to be long-term benefit to it but when you're talking about just doing one of the biggest complaints I heard was it was all maintenance items it was all windows and roofs and you know they're all important but you know it's things that they don't really think are going to be it's not going to help us long term and I you know I see that point and I just feel if we just put the same list back out again it's going to get turned down again even if you size it down you have to have a solution that's really going to give them something that they could say all right now this makes sense I mean how how does a roof not help long term how does new windows not help long term I mean that's you know doesn't add space for students is what I'm saying doesn't add space for well that's why we have the pr School renovation and we had that as an expansion you know to be able to cover all the new um construction projects coming in I don't think space how many classrooms are we going to get I mean you know you got to walk before you run so how many classs we getting at buing the old Edition in okay so that's still like and then again when you see the longer growth that comes how do you go back to them and say okay we need another 100 million you know to do something else to me we need something that's going to be creative to solve the problem like you know some of the things that we've spoken about during other in Flight those seem to be more reasonable Solutions should they work out just my I think also that I heard um you know some of the feedback that I'm sure we've all heard is that you know a lot of the maintenance part but I think once people realize the influx of students we already have people talking about class sizes right so that's a real problem that needs to be addressed so I'm not sure you know I kind of agree with having um something more concrete that people can see and really understand how that will affect them and their educational experience so I I wonder if we can break it down let's say like if we can look at project like the boilers alone right because right now the maintenance is astronomical when they have to actually make a part to make it work so is there such a way that you would look at like project on a little scales and say this year we'll do this one next year we'll ask another question and just kind of lay out the plan that fine you know you don't agree to ask for all this at the same time is there a way to maybe do it by peace meals and ask every election ask a question and get chunk of money and just move it along I mean well that's that's what we're thinking about now so instead of 170 million you know maybe we go with 100 or maybe we go with you know another number I think 100 it's still a lot if you're see everybody everybody sees this big number but per household it was 370 little faery which you know they had a $35 million Bond referendum that was approved approved or was it 39 million cost $650 per household and it was approved so I mean you know you can't look at again I don't think it's the dollar amount I think it's the projects that that are on the list like doing windows so we can start doing Windows you know place a classroom you know over time some of these things if we do them over time you won't end up in a position where in 30 years you're going to be in the same position where everything has to be repl all at once so if we started this stagger some of these things and say okay well we're going to try to fit these into the budget we do those over time we need to save the money for the big things that we have coming you know I just don't know if we're going to get people to agree that these are the priorities because they're certainly not their priorities they said last so a plan must be put in place we have about a year before the Avalon Bay housing uh project is completed so I think it's a good time now to start planning for we have one year period to get everything ready agreed and that's why I said if you if we would to go let's say we would go for the 50 million to do pre so if we would have put that on the ballot in November because we wouldn't get the money potentially until March we wouldn't be able to start building until the summer and then it would you can't build while people are in school so you're potentially going to be two years of building that addition so you're going to have people there before you even have that building close to being done so that's not a solution that's going to resolve the problem it it may help down the line but you're years away from that when you have people that can be coming into the district in a year don't you feel like we'll have the funds to resort to a plan B you can't allocate them anywhere else that's the problem once you get the project where you get $50 million to prequest that money has to go to prequest yeah but it can't be towards school expansion no it has to go to that project that you've submitted but we have we have projects that we're working on every year we work on projects right so you get the bond referendum approved we had some projects in the operating budget you subtract that out and then you free up some money to be able to do some of the other temporary solutions I said I just don't see them going for I think the township understands that we have this situation and they're going to expect something from us as far as a referendum to see our proactive approach to the Future agreed y I think we need a plan just going to say I think um really coordinating a plan that's palatable right that allocates funds you know revisiting the whole layout of what was prioritized you know um and then like you said cross some things off and free up some funds but um so was $5 million was allocated to redo the uh locker rooms so to me okay so you can probably get something done that makes them palatable right for half a million dollars so that's a project that we budgeted for that maybe you don't have to go that rout you know I had suggested well the boiler project we place one boiler in each school take the ones that's there put it in you know a storage somewhere and use those for parts until the other one you know goes down just try to come up with ways to just cut money creative and then come up with a real creative solution that we could get to that would allow us to solve the problem on a bigger scale and also something to consider is that a lot of people in the community agreed that if that number was different that they would have supported the referendum right so well I heard that from the mayor I didn't hear that from a lot of people yeah I heard yeah so maybe it's Matthew the problem we have is we were presented the right plan to fix all of this it was done at the retreat we all almost all of us swallowed tongues when they wanted to hand us a $440 million bill this is a Town based upon its income and the way it's been taxed over these years which some people will say is fair unfair that's their opinions versus other towns that get extremely large amounts of State support what it comes down to is we're reaching a p inch Point people want to come here we have award-winning programs in special education in general education we call it the good problem but the word is it's still a problem we're going to have to leave the Paradigm behind of we're going to own all of our properties and build on our properties because we had a solution that was four times greater than we put out there and they said no that there was plans with extensions on every Elementary School building that probably would have solved the problems we needed to solve yeah if every single building had gotten a wing put on that alleviated the problem but this town based upon its beliefs and the way it's being taxed and they don't think it's fair and I agree with them based upon the safe funding formula we're never going to be able to you know piece together a bond referendum here and a bond referendum here and a bond and build them one bit at a time here first of all every knows the cost is going to go up it's never going to go down that $440 million Bond referendum we brought it back around against at5 $ million r r period just just off of inflation alone we have to accept the fact that we're not going to be able to just put a building up we can't do it it's too much money and we can't put up one building we have to put up two or three based upon the astronomically large amount of buildings going up the one over by the ice rink is going up lightning fast that's one there's another eight on top of that that's coming through we're whistling past the graveyards here personally I think we walk away from the referendum's period and we have to start looking at things like finding locations that we're looking at very carefully right now that are already exist and for a tenth of the price we fix them up we pay into whether it's going to be arch dasis of Patterson or it's going to be William Patterson University or a private school or an empty building that's going to be the new way this is going to have to be done because the economy and the amount of people coming in here is going to outpace anything we do at the table Dr toac is put put up a miracle Hail Mary pass and it'll look great 12 months from now three years down the road it's going to like peanuts because we got all these people coming in here that people tell us no they're not coming in demograph say is not coming in b not coming in just F that especially since the housing market is doing so well how many people how many units are coming in Old the people 2,9 something 2,900 let be ridiculous to say 10% of those have kids that's one school building if only 10% of them have kids 10% would only be having kids come in I mean that's that's the numbers we're talking about here I think we've got to start looking at a completely different direction would I love to have a new wing on every Elementary building absolutely I think it would reflect the the the great system that Wayne has but the town and it's reasonable to say doesn't want to foot that bill okay let's get out of this referendum stuff and let's start looking at Plan B and plan C because we're just going to be wasting our time CU you want us to do the referendum but he's pointing out that no matter what we do it's not going to fix the problem we have well we need money to fix the problem we need money so you need even even a $30 million referendum helps to frees up some of that money that we allocated for for maintenance you know so that'll that'll free up some money where we could go to plan b or plan C and search out other kind space you know Office Buildings or whatever there's no way we can sit and do nothing there's no way right absolutely nothing we we have to do something and Harry you're absolutely right no matter what it is whether we go rent the you know a building over here somewhere it's still a cost to get that building up to be a school and again you have to follow doe standards when you're doing it it's not you know we just throw up some walls know it's a classroom no there's a lot of other things involved in it so you're going to need money to do it you cannot do it out of your operating budget if you're going to try to do it out of your operating budget you're going to have class sizes of 35 Plus kids again get get that's the real real real facts on this not saying it to you know shock the world but when you have no place to go and your footprint is full what are you going to do we're a public school system we have to educate every child and we all take that seriously or we wouldn't be see it here but you have to do it you're going to have to have some money to do it you know it's just the way it is yeah you know you get pennies back on your dollars that you send to the state of New Jersey back and you know all these Builders just get to build any place so the impact doesn't matter where do you try to e out the other morning 15 minutes to get from McDonald Drive to that to Riverview Drive way do the 500 units come in down there and way do the 800 units next to it come in want to go through that intersection of Valley in Hamburg in the morning forget it wait till they cut it down to one Le right no matter what we do we have to do something exactly that's why we're starting this discussion tonight right we have to come up with a plan we have to develop a plan to move forward that's going to be that we're going to be able to have children in a classroom maintain the class sizes where they are or it's a reality we're pushing for next year right now and we don't even know what the impact from IHM is going to be again we're at the maximum class SI and the problem the problem exists is too you don't have classrooms to open other classes so it's not like we can say oh we need another you know we're at the Maths for fifth grade we're going to open another fifth grade class and Fallen like said we don't have the room to do it you can't do it or you're gonna have to dis or you're gonna have to have a real honest discussion about the RW that I really don't want to bring up but r districting and I don't even know how much that's going to help because the buildings are full it's not like we say oh well we have three elementary schools that only have 200 kids in in them so we have room there we don't even have that anymore you know back in the day when they 20 20 plus years ago when they talked about redistricting yeah there was nobody ever in the Carter so it was they were talking about shifting kids there and shifting kids away from you know Bon because Bon was overcrowded you got you guys remember that conversation but now you don't have that luxury anymore every place is full so what I would say is though I think we all know the problem I think what we really need to figure out are the potential Solutions because I think that's where we are and I think the thing that we're hung up on in terms of conversation is do we want to move forward with a referendum to potentially get money to support the things that we've already put through that fail or I'm saying let's come up with the plan that we think is going to address the issues that's going to be palatable and then go with a referendum that supports that plan that people will feel better about because to me again my answer is going to be if you come and say okay well we're going to do a $50 million referendum $50 million okay so tell me what does that $50 million buy me in terms of getting your class sizes down what does that get me in terms of you know Shifting the students around because again we're only looking at potentially absorbing new kids but the issue is we already have class siiz problems with the kids we have so even adding on to Prius isn't going to address the bigger picture issues that we have because prick is supposed to be an elementary school we have middle schools that are busted get the SCS so again just by doing one building and again you can't assume that all the kids that are come in are going to be Elementary School age so you going have kids that come into those districts that would end up in the schools that are already packed and that's not addressed by any of the plan so we're going to put a plan out there to people and we're going to say okay we want to get you we want you to you know support $75 million but at the end of the day it still doesn't resolve the potential problems that we have because freakness is only going to address an elementary school problem it's it's a bandid on the problem for now it's not you don't know if the kids com men are going to be in elementary school we're going to get kids from high school we're get kids from middle school and they're going to be live in there and so you'll get you know you may pick up space but what if you know 5% of the kids that come in go to elementary school and the remaining 95 is split between high school and middle school you don't know that so that's the thing is you're only planning for a possibility of having all new elementary school kids so to me you got to look at this from a different vantage point and say okay what's the fastest solution that's palatable because again if you could find space and rent it on like lease it on a long-term basis and put the money into it and say we get a 100 year lease you can do that for a while and then figure out buy yourself time to figure out what we want maybe if the if that model works we start divesting some of the properties that we have sell them some of the schools because there's a big real estate boom there going to be a need for more housing things that we have to deal with next year so then we just add and you know start relasing more schools wheny I mean uh I was while you were speaking and trying to think outside of the box have we I guess we have still more space in all our middle schools or that's we have a little bit of space maybe 40 students we have space for probably 1502 200 students over George Washington so there is there's space in the middle schools that would just require redistricting what while the way I was looking at it maybe we can consider and I don't know what that would look like we'd have to obviously plan and study it a little bit is moving fifth grade up out of the elementary and then you create space I mean it I know some middle schools do that that they start at fifth grade and some pounds it's not unheard of but maybe it's an option that me e grade high school high schools have most well I guess you can do it each one up and you know move f grade and then move e grade every option's on the table you know I mean I don't know educ educationally moving fifth grade to the middle school I think you'd get most teachers who would say or those in education say that's a big jump taking those kids and putting them in that rotating schedule and everything else would change because you have sixth graders who can't even do that I wouldn't change the way of the school I wouldn't say change anything about the way the fifth grade Works other than the fact that you don't change that to be Middle School process it still stays the same but it's just one location not necessarily let's put this way the fifth graders have the same program that they have for all the elementary schools they have things like specialist right and so somehow when they go to special right that has to fit in with what the building will allow for so if you have a library and you have a schedule where the middle school kids are on those all those schedules are prepack so it's you could do it but not saying we can't solve it here but saying that it's also it's very hard to separate a group of kids from the the schedule of the building I mean I think it's worth exploring if then would address some of our space concerns so there's space in West Milford send your kids to go to West Milford for us the pay tuition atest I me the other thing is is find space that you could actually use for the high school for at least one of the schools and then combine some of the middle schools and put them in the high school so that's all R districting and we have we have a proposal right we're requesting proposals M mff yes there are a few things that we're doing yep one of which is the uh redistricting we have a request for proposals out and they're due back in June 13th at 11:00 and we have had inquiries and some U agencies that have requested some additional information provided to all of them so we anticipate uh some returns uh on the 13th of June uh we also have um reached out to our architect record to explore temporary classroom units which are uh trailers people refer to them as trailers with the idea that we place them at our elementary schools so PSA is working on that we've gone back and forth we provided uh quick survey of the energy needs uh for those sites because obviously if you don't have enough power for the trailers you would have to then upgrade that so uh they have that so we're working on a proposal we don't have it back yet from our Architects uh but we're trying to identify the schools that have adequate power those that do not and need electrical upgrades and we wanted to make sure that we could fit in TCU units on site because that's a big issue is the site work uh so we're looking at that to be part of this proposal I work to identify other utilities because you need underground water and sewer so that's something that is we're looking for some uh advice on and uh once we get all that including Heating and ventilation systems uh they'll provide us a rough budget but we take call in order of magnitude budget so uh we have been doing that um since the referendum uh results came in um and we've also which I think we've touched on a couple times tonight was prant school we've identified it this is and I think we remember at The Retreat that this is an intermediary step for some we we continue to expect increased growth at El level um so since we've been working with those estimates um we have existing exterior envelope project which is underway as a rodad grant so we're going to continue doing that we hope to lift off over the summer on that we also have an interior restoration project that's going to continue uh through the old section of prus so we're going to go upstairs on the top floor and then turn our attention down to the bottom floor to bring that all back online uh again to kind of relieve some of the pressure as it develops again as a shortterm step um and then tonight I know Don we still need your signature if you don't have it on some paperwork we're going to submit two grants uh for Early Childhood expansion money that became available as a second round from the Department of Education and SDA um so that'll be going down we have two projects there one is going to be a um Ada American with disability upgrade uh which will include an elevator and uh a chairlift to make a handicap accessible um that roughly right now is uh rough estimate is $1.7 million again 40% that of that which we hope to get uh we would then have to come up with about six uh about 700,000 in in local funds um estimated cost for the next item which is um the um interior Renovations which would bring them up to today's standards all the renovated areas that were restoring now we could renovate them and bring them up today today's standard uh in the old section uh we look to see that project to be about $10.5 million and these are are being submitted uh in the next few days down the trend to be reconsidered because we you remember we uh anticipated some of these intermediary not only the steps within build out of the space we also try to plan with Rod grants and early childhood money to try to get the projects that we felt were more of a an issue to get going now light B Rod grants with the with the ruls that we're doing now and that'll take uh take place over summer as well so these are all things that we're working on and that's PR so again 1.7 for the ada8 and then interior renovation for about 10.5 minutes okay can we have a Google meet toown Hall with the public see what their thoughts [Music] are schedule that come September we have to sit down and Retreat and I come up with a plan with direction we're going to go at that Retreat would it be okay if we have all the enrollment numbers for all the different public schools high schools middle schools right in front of us so we can take a better look at it so we know exactly what's going on where we have that available every day we should hand that up to the people who come to the town yeah perhaps we could hand that out yeah be part of be part of the yeah meeting packet I say I hope that people will come to attend these meetings if we're going to open them up publicly proactively this time and try to have feedback and you know here from town I really hope they take us up on it and show up to give that information this way we can do you know what they're trying to you know what they think is right I I think so you have to make it not only in public but like during Co people are still you know busy that we should have the online opportunity and actually to try to get maximum people to attend and ask questions not require them to come in but also be able to ask on the phone or and like phone it in or do it online I think that's going to be vital virtual meetings are they hard to have 100 people on there what everybody wants talk they can raise done yeah we've done it we done it more than 100 oh yeah okay any remember additions to the agenda we have two additions tonight under X emerence school resource again this is Public Work session but under emerging um school resource uh we have X1 which is approval of settlement agreement and release and that reads as follows resolve at the Board of Education upon the recommendation of superintendent hereby approve settlement agreement and release in the matter of Wayne custodial maintenance Association dated May 28224 arbitration wd-2 24-1 and perk DOC number co223 052 as attached by reference and further authorizes the board president and secretary to execute same on behalf of the board the business administrator and superintendent are authorized to take all further steps requiring the terms of the settlement to further Implement saying and the other addition is X2 which which is a approval of settlement and agreement in general lease and that reads as follows resolve that the Board of Education upon the recommendation of the superintendent hereby approves a settlement agreement and release in the matter of student ID number 75713 442 Agency number 202 24- 36707 dated May 12 2024 as attached by reference and further authorizes the board president and secretary to execute the same on behalf of the board the business administrator and superintendent are authorized to take all further steps required by the terms and settlement of the to further Implement same that concludes the changes to tonight's agenda this CL will open for public comments on agenda items only this portion of the meeting is open to Citizen for comment on agenda items only residents are asked to State their name addresses and subject matter comments may be lied to 3 minutes per person members of the public are discouraged from speaking negatively about an employee or a student the board Bears no responsibility for comments made by the public comments regarding employees or students cannot be legally responded to by the board other comments may be responded to tonight at a subsequent meeting under own business do I have a mover Mr anyone from the public wishing to speak on an agenda item any no approaching I move to close have a mover for the agenda move thank you Mr B say we so any discussion on the agenda see none loc oh wait sorry I wanted to I understand we are having a new principle on the agenda under emergence can we talk about the process and how principal is selected for the position I think that would be helpful for public and everyone to understand you know what that looks like sure so um the district has a a long established um history of basically um starting the interview process of the building so ultimately when it comes to a principal position candidates are selected from among in this particular case there 20 different people that applied for principal position at laf elementary school so from there we look for CS who have some administrative experience people who we think would flesh out and add to our administrative team um people with skills that would be able to move this school and AC people with a background and and a solid School District lots of different things that we we look for and we basically we take the candidates that are identified we start with the interview process of the building level we ask the same questions and in the end the number of candidates are move forward so the building level interviews do not necessarily lead to recommendations for For Hire but what they lead to is candidates to move forward then the candidates come to the central office and ultimately they're interviewed by a committee here they're interviewed by principes interviewed by directors so they make their way through that process and candidates are moved ahead eventually to me and So eventually I I interview each of the candidates I basically we go through the same process but the process is also very controlled so at every stage of the process there are questions that are asked that are scripted and so then from those questions determinations are made there's a scoring sheet there's a rubric that we use and ultimately um everyone independently writes down their score for each to the candidates and then based on those scores that's how people move forward so um it's like I said it's a long longstanding tradition of the district to start these interviews at the at the building level in the group that makes the selection is it always the same group of people or do you rotate different Personnel to kind of make the part of the selection group so when it comes to when people come here there's only a there's only a certain people that you can choose with so the directors for example all the people who are directors would be the people who would interview but down at the building level let's see the story do you have anything you wanted to add to the um process we looked very closely at the process a number of years ago um to make sure that every candidate who comes in is treated fairly so um once the criteria very clearly delineated in the job description we're also looking at building up team because each principal wears multiple hats in terms of their contributions for curriculum instruction and assessment so you you want to sometimes there are specific skill sets that you're looking for people who have experience um now it's you know um very important that anyone who comes in has a proven track record of using data to inform instruction and can show examples where they've had success and they've had substantial gains um you know this is very public and it's very important that we maximize learning for every student we um based on the training we had every um candidate is asked the same questions um you can ask a followup but it's consistent and in line with the question you're asking so that you don't have an opportunity to have me ask a question that lets everyone glean something that I didn't ask you because it may give you an advantage um and there's really no discussion other than they were ni um there's a point person it's usually our HR Director um if she's not here then there is a point person from that department who collects all the rating sheets tabulates um and there's no conversation about it um and then those are passed on and those are stored and secured here so if there's ever question um we have them all here it's very fair process any other wel Mr gardano yes Mrs andry yes Mrs regoso yes Mrs Wente yes Mr Faber yes Mr praco yes and Mr pad yes motion carries this time will open to the public for General comments this portion me is open to citizens to comment on any topic residents are State their name address and subject matter common C need to five minutes per person members of the public are discouraged from speaking negatively about an employe or a student board Bears no responsibility for comments made by the public comments regarding employees or students cannot be responded to by the board other comments may be responded to tonight old business thisand you from the public speak no sit down yes so uh Dave char 64 seater Place hello so unfortunately I wasn't able to make the last board meeting uh it was actually my wife's birthday that one out obviously so I'm here today um because the last board meeting was when it was official with my retirement uh September 1st so I just wanted to come just thank you all just uh well personally thank Dr topac and his administration and the board of education for uh bringing me home to Wayne to finish my career in education uh being a lifetime Wayne resident I'm a proud Wayne Valley alone 1979 and uh you gave me the opportunity to give back to my community which I'll be U eternally grateful for so thank you for that although challenging at times you know I loved every minute uh working with our administrative teams at both high schools our staff our coaches and most important our student athletes and our students we're all in this profession for the same reason that's to provide the best OPP opportunities for our students and to make a lasting impact on their lives so I thank you for providing the environment where athletes can Thrive and for supporting all of our programs and I look forward to seeing the continued success of our programs for years to come and since I'm not going anywhere anytime soon I'm going to be uh Ling yet a number of the games and plays and so forth I'll be around so again thank you for G me the opportunity to come back and finish my career here thank anyone else from the public to speak seeing no one approach I need to close parents any old business new business since the summer is approaching and I know a lot of students will need to register and re-register for their Sports and have to deal with Medicals and nursing and since I understand what that looks like as a hands on parents I would like for us to consider reviewing the process and the workflow of things to make it as easiest for the nurses who are in the receipt of this and the parents as well because it's not right now Easy A lot of times you know the hours that are provided aren't sufficient so what you end up doing as a parent and a student is wait for two hours in the line to get to see the nurse so I would like for us to look at to do something better so that when you have to wait you have a time slot or whatever and you can just come in and out so we don't create lines and kind of make it little now with the technology whether it's an app upload you know I don't know what it is I don't have the solutions but I know for sure that there are so many out there and we may already have the technology in here because we get a lot of great technology um I would like for us to start looking at some solutions maybe it's not ready for this year but at least we can be ready for the next period in the winter and so on um we had an unusual ending the meeting last week there's a couple things I want to say from that meeting first of all publicly congratulate all of the musicians and all the music educators for a fantastic program and a fantastic here I also want to acknowledge a deep sincere thanks to Jen barano with help of the Special Olympics she started the Unified sports program and we sold those wonderful people there at that program and uh my hats off to them and you know one of the reasons why this is such a fantastic District or things just like this so unfortunately wasn't able to say it uh public here but I want to get it on record to uh congratulate and thank you for all their efforts so I mentioned this uh to you at sometime um but um you know it kind of goes in line with what we're talking about having these uh the meetings on um Google meets to accommodate people who are busy and such um potentially if we could maybe we could look into live streaming our meetings on Facebook or something like that because if people are on the go and they want you know they want to try to listen to what's going on you know it's hard if they're not near the home TV set because they can't turn it on anywhere I can't watch my TV on my phone unless I'm on my own home Wi-Fi so doing something like that might allow more people to see what's going on real time and we can even have the comments like streaming on a TV somewhere you could you know just understand what people are saying as happen we actually had a conversation tonight with the Matt tech guide before the meeting oh okay good so we talking about that so anyone else yeah just a board comment wanted to um reiterate since we had an the ending to the last uh meeting uh it was great seeing the Unified sports teams being recognized I did participate in the inaugural turkey trout was a huge fundraiser and success uh last fall and uh I hope to be able to ATT this fall again uh and U yeah congratulations to all the musicians that we we recognized anyone else um again uh reiterate with my fellow board have said uh tonight um to our Unified sports we this district has gone way W above any other school district in the state with our Unified sports and we thank everybody who's involved with that from the parents to um Dr sir and uh Jen veran everyone who has made that program just flourish along with our teachers who really um have done a job with that program that that we couldn't have done without all these people together you know as they say takes a village to come together well a lot of people came together on that on all sides which is great our musicians he those the pno and the B and the band director at Wayne Valley they have it made with the teachers we have in elementary school and middle school by the time they get there what they can do with these young people is incredible where they were you know where they've come from the journey that they take and then we look at them academically we're handing out academic Awards and these these students are doing this and that they're doing aund other things besides the academics it's just it's it's incredible and it's it's a testament to Dr Tobak and this is rman and the administration and the teachers what they do every day it's not easy and Mr D I go back with you all the way so long way even when I walked off a 12 yard penalty when it was only 10 and you never let me forget but thank you Dave you you stepped in you really helped us you got us into a really great place and we always appreciate here we wish we had you back a lot sooner than we did we happy to steal you from West Essex all right one more thing I just want to say um speaking of that last meeting I watched Mr pno and I was like what is his name holy cow but passion no matter what you do passion creates momentum and it's encouraging and same with you Dave you know your impact on all the athletes I mean everybody you talk to you know you you really made a difference right isn't that what it's all about and I think just working as a whole group and even on the board for me it's you know it's time and it's energy and everything else like that but when you're committed to success and not your own success it's the success of people around you it makes a huge difference so yeah take a motion to adjourn motion thank you everyone