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Thank you all. This is the meeting of the Natasha and Board of Education for Tuesday, May 12, 2020, held via Zoom.

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It is, I'd like to let everybody know that we've, hopefully, it doesn't happen here, but we just finished our executive session prior to this meeting.

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And we're having them challenges with Zoom was a bit choppy video was a bit choppy audio was okay, but we were,

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Step in one another a little bit. So we will hope for the best with this new

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getting and go from there. If you're on, if you dialed in via phone, your phone is on

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mute. There will be three times during this meeting where we will open it up for you to

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speak. So now I'm going to do the notice of the meeting. I hereby make this statement

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to indicate compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act. No. 2 chapter 231 of the

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in act of January 1976.

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Notice that this meeting was given by providing

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an location, time and date of this meeting

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and posting of the same on the front door

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of the Board of Education offices

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by delivering copies to the Barrel Hall

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and the Mithachin Public Library,

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the Home News and Tribune, the Criterion Sentinel,

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the Star Ledger, the Mithachin Mirror

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and by filing a copy with a borer clerk

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as prescribed by law.

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Rural call vote, Mr. Benderling,

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he is here.

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Mr. Cook.

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Mr.

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Durklinger.

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Mr. Glassberg.

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Here.

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Mrs. Glean.

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Mr. Lifton.

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Mr. Small.

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Mr. Sus.

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Here. Here.

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And I'm Mr. Manley. I am here.

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This time, I would open up for Dr. Caputo, Superintendent Marks.

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Just to mainly help the board members that are enjoying us tonight.

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Few updates tonight. First,

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to update everybody on our lunch program. So as you know,

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we continue to deliver lunches to all the free reduced lunch eligible students.

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We have 152 eligible students. And last week,

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we delivered lunches to 46 students.

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In my Friday message list,

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we got maybe announcement that decision has been made to open up lunch delivery to any student

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regardless of their free reduced lunch status at this unprecedented time. Since we made

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that announcement less Friday, we've already had six students take us up on that offer and until

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until we reach our capacity, we'll continue to deliver those right to the doorsteps.

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We continue to make home visits. We've made 24 home visits for students who are

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We haven't been participating or we haven't been able to reach via phone.

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So we're really looking out for our students, the email through phone calls and even home visits when we need to make those.

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As we turn to look at some of the year and activities, some parents have asked about medications that they have in the schools,

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But their students, not that Governor Murphy has closed school for the rest of the year,

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that our nurses are planning for a contactless exchange for parents who want those medications back.

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At this week's county meeting, you can imagine that some of the big topics were

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the solar programs, which are most are planning to be remote, and also year-end celebrations,

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and graduation, and I think by now you've heard that the state, the Board of Ed, has determined

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that virtual celebrations are the only things that district should be planning now. So we're

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planning right now for various end-of-year celebrations, right now we're planning for them to be virtual.

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We continue to make wellness checks for our students, as I said, emails, phone calls, and home visits.

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In terms of grading, I recorded this out last week.

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At most progress reports will be used as normal.

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At Campbell, a decision was made by the team there

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to focus on a narrative part to give parents a

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paragraph and more narrative sense of how their children are

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progressing.

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At Edgar, as you know, we're a past Alfred of fourth

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Mark and period.

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At the high school, we are keeping the same grading system.

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we've modified the weights of the mark and periods and we now have support plans in place for any

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students who are struggling with the work. As we make the turn now toward the end of the year we

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we look at three things we look at our end of year events and obviously those are the events like the

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high school graduation but those are the events also at Edgar the events at Campbell the events

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the most. We turn our attention to closing out to school year and what that entails is how our

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students can return textbooks, how our students are going to get the contents that are meeting

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their locker and the medication and the uniforms and everything that goes with that.

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Our teacher is going to get their belongings out of their classroom, girls, all decisions that

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will be coming out with plans in the appropriate time. And finally, we are looking at a real

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planning plan. So we're still waiting for guidance from the state of New Jersey. We have some other

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states that have put out some good reopening plans as models educators and administrators throughout

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the state are looking at that and we'll stay in enclosed touch whenever we open. We're planning to be

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open for a September but we'll also have contingency plans that we can't be open or if at some point next

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So we have to go remote again.

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So Mr. Mayor, that's my report for tonight.

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Great, thank you, Dr. Caputo appreciate that.

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I told the teachers last week, you know,

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today it's still not far from how much we appreciate everything

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that they're doing.

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I wanted to take a moment now to really say thank you to you

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and the administration as well for, you know,

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all of the efforts that you're all doing, not only to get us

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immediate challenges, but I can assure the public all the questions you have about the future,

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whether they're monetary, whether they're how we can deliver education, all the things that you

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could possibly imagine and things you probably cannot, or all being thought about, they're all being asked,

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they're all being discussed, and we're making decisions with this much information.

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I'm just possible we can gather. So I just wanted to, you know, take a moment to say thanks to you guys as well. So thank you.

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Thank you.

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At this time, I'd like to open the meeting to the public. I'm going to unmute everybody. If hopefully your phones are on mute.

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If you have a question, feel free. Again, we're having some latency issues, audio and video, little choppy, so please be patient with us. So at this point,

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I have unmuted all the phone lines. If you have a question, please state your name and address.

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Hello. My name is David Aiken. I'm a 24-highland avenue with two children in Campbell, great to.

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We have used both or Dr. Cudley.

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Hello.

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Dr. Cudley spoke about gravy in that and as part-time teachers assistant.

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I think myself and everyone else would like them to understand that a lot better, what to anticipate in helping our children do well this school year.

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What exactly was meant by, well, in my case of Campbell narrative approach.

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So, I would definitely like to have some direction early to ensure that I'm having my children

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do the correct things and doing them well so that they will be doing well for this

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school year as well as prepare for next school year.

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So that's a great question. Dr. Cooper, do you want to take that? Thank you.

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Yeah, sure. We actually had an email of conversation today.

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Yeah, I'm going to repeat. I'm going to repeat. I'm going to repeat for him for the

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public what I put in email. So certainly there are some questions that he had about the work for

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students about the preparation for third grade. We talk about those every single day. We're doing

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our best. I think we get better every day, and I think we get better with back. We appreciate

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your feedback. My part of my report that I just repeated again that I just gave now was just simply

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about the grading, and that was just to remind the public where we were in how to expect grades

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at each of the different schools and just to repeat again at Campbell. Instead of the indicators,

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exceeds expectations and meets with independence and meets with supports. The teachers

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will be focusing on a narrative feedback where it's more of a paragraph for parents. The team at

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just felt that to give letter, kind of letter grades, whether it's E and I and different grades

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of Campbell, they thought parents would appreciate more the narrative about how their students

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doing, almost like another teacher conference.

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Okay, so how does this fit in between letter

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great and pass fail. How will we be able to judge that? And how will we be careful

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because, you know, we have five weeks as parents to continue to direct their children. Unlike teachers,

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teachers have some idea of how they're going to grade that. And all of us parents are, you know,

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we're in the dark. We're just trying to do the best we can. So, we don't know how to emphasize

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where to focus, and where to go.

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I'll jump in real quick.

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This is just a question again.

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That's going to be a good idea.

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I'm going to be in the next two, with well, great.

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Sorry.

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Go ahead.

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Go ahead.

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Sorry.

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I was just going to repeat that.

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Again, I sent an email this afternoon to Mr. Ray, and I'm sure

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I'm going to get a chance to review that.

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And I appreciate the feedback.

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So I'll let Mr. Prousey know and he'll reach out to you if he hasn't yet.

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into the entire parent group at Campbell School.

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Okay, thank you.

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Thank you all.

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Sorry for the audio delays.

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It's definitely have a challenge with Zoom tonight.

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Any other questions?

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I thought I heard something.

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Yeah, Mr. Manley.

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Go ahead, Brian.

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I just wanted to add, you know, as an educator,

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despite how the grades will be assessed

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or any other plans that are in place for the schools,

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just speaking as an educator. I think it's just important in time like this that we're basically

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looking at whether our children are moving forward, growing, learning, the regular measurements

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are difficult to do. And they don't necessarily mean what they might have meant if students were

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in school for the for the full year. So, you know, when I look at my own child and when they look

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students in the school where, where I work, it's, are they learning something? Are they reading? Are they

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writing? Are they improving some of their skills? But it's not going to replicate exactly the

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experience that they would have had when they're in school. And that's hard to measure.

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Good, Mrs. Clean. Thank you, Mr. Westford.

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I also want to offer that just for the public information that this is stuff that we're

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continuing to discuss at curriculum with the administration and it's very much on their minds what

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we're doing for the remainder of the year what the teachers are doing, what could happen in the

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summer and what things are going to look like in the fall. So it's not something that's

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lost on anyone that works in the district or on the boards and and certainly not from the parents

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and where the kids are right now and how they can be in the best shape to be on grade level for the

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So just if I would hope that if anybody is having questions about their own child's progress,

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the teachers have been so receptive to reaching out to the families.

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It's been my experience.

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I've got kids in Campbell School too, also a second grader that

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and the administration has been very supportive.

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Reach out to them and see what they're suggesting if you have concerns,

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but that the bigger picture is being addressed to an administrative level and a board level and

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we're happy to keep sharing the information as it's developed but know that everybody is really

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working to get these kids where they need to be put them in the best shape possible from moving forward.

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Thank you both for your comments. I know you're two Campbell school parents. Mr. Ackon, if you don't know them too.

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I think reaching out by email was a good start. I think what I was going to say earlier, I'm not sure if it was coming too, as I was the, I always recommend we start with the teacher and then go from there. So I think, you know, as both were members, Mr. Glassberg and Mrs. Clean spoke.

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And Mrs. Clean is also the chair of curriculum or, you know, they are addressing some of these issues and concerns both, you know, how we close out the school year as well as, you know, what would this look like going forward? I don't think, you know, if we were remote a year from now, you know, our next school year, it would be very different than how we've delivered education, you know, in the short term as this is developed.

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So I talked with Dr. Caputo almost daily.

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You know, one of the things we're talking about

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just the other day was, you know,

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we should remember, well, yes, this has become two months.

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It's been kind of almost like passing through the Panama Canal.

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It was, you know, well, we're just gonna do this for two weeks

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and then it was two more weeks

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and then it was a month and then it's all the way

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to the end of the school year.

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It is very difficult to build and plan and navigate

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and how you're going to deliver all those things.

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We've developed and gotten better, I think.

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But I don't think anybody would suggest that if you took a snapshot of what we're

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experiencing right now in May, that if we have to do next school year the same, it's going

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to be, it's going to be like this.

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I think, given time to plan, which is happening right now, given time to, you know, strategize

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and go through all the different pieces and parts that, you know, we would be in a very

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different place coming next year.

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So any other comments or questions from the public?

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Thank you, Mr. Reconferior, for your question.

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I really appreciate it. And any email as well.

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Thank you.

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Okay, seeing none, I'm going to mute the phone lines.

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Next to the agenda is President's report.

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You know, my comments, just a moment ago,

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I just, you know, want the public to know that

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So we're continuing to work through all of these challenges.

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Dr. Caputo, Mr. Harvey, myself, committee heads, continue to meet and discuss all kinds

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of things that none of us have ever experienced before, as board members or as administration,

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just like the teachers.

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We really appreciate the patience, we really appreciate the feedback.

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I think constructive feedback is good for us and I think as a group we're learning how to get better and both as a board as well as a district so I'm grateful for the effort that everybody's put into this as well as the effort that the team the parents are doing.

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I think I mentioned that he's a, I think by teacher, by profession, but he's, you know, also, you know, I think we've got thousands of people right now who are behaving as a, as, as home school teachers and those are our parents and we're grateful for the work that you're doing to, as you participate in in your child education, we get them through the end of this year. So thank you for that. Mr. Harvey, Business Administrator, Board Secretary's report.

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Thank you.

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Committee reports, technology, Mr. Benderley.

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The technology committee has not met. We'll be leading to our Natalie.

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Great, thank you. Maybe you can have a better zoom than we're having tonight, by then.

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If not, we won't be using zoom anymore.

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Yeah, great.

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Policy, Mr. Claasberg.

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Policy hasn't met. We meet. We're scheduled to meet next Tuesday.

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Okay. Great. Thank you. Mrs. Colleen for curriculum.

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Correct.

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You have not met either.

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Okay. Great. Thank you.

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Mr. Sus, extra curricular.

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Extra curricular has not met.

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We will be meeting tomorrow just before technology.

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Great.

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And I know finance met Mr. Smalls.

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Spotlighters yours.

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Great. Thank you.

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Finance met on May 4th.

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We had our insurance brokers.

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present once again to give us an update on our insurance renewals for the upcoming

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school year. Talked about current state of bossing for this school year and planning

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for the upcoming school year. Safety grand you'll see on the agenda coming up we're

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voting on applying once again for safety grant of a little less than $16,000 and talked

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about some of the uses for this upcoming year's funds,

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which would include no surprise with the COVID-19 pandemic,

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a certified industrial hygienist to help with making sure

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we're prepared in the district, as well as training

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for the custodial staff.

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Another item on the agenda coming up

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that we talked about are the controls

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for all of the heating and air conditioning systems

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throughout the district and some updates

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that are needed and agreed to approve moving forward with the remaining buildings high school

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was done this past summer. We should yield some savings from energy perspective also as a result

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to doing that and they should run more efficiently. Mr. Harvey A gives an update on cash projections

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for the balance of the school year and into next year. Obviously, it's challenging with

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Both the combination of state aid and local tax revenues, obviously, so many people in the country

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and in this state are impacted and just monitoring or spending as best we can.

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And then talked about a number of year-end budget transfers, the first item that we talked

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about and some of you remember from the last board meeting cheermats, our cheermats went missing

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Fortunately, because of the unfortunate fact that we had no spring sports, we had a lot of unspent

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budgeted funds, we were able to utilize that to purchase mats for the cheer team so that they

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can practice and be safe. I talked about some technology purchases that we'll need to make towards

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the end of the school year. I mentioned I think previously from a prior finance community,

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I mean, one of our school buses is at end of life, and there was a budget of purchase we'll make for

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We approve moving forward with hiring consultant to help with FEMA grants to apply for kind of the myriad of grants that are out there that we anticipate.

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We'll need similar to after Hurricane Sandy, other opportunities to get secure funding to help pay for some of the social distancing type activities that we're inevitably can have to do in the upcoming school year.

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Boiler service repairs, pension payments are pension payments from the state.

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We find out after the budget's already been approved, a slight increase there that we had

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to pay, increasing and ramping up custodial supplies for obvious reasons, particularly around

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cleaning throughout the district, given the circumstances and then two other items, just

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about update on unemployment, cleans, and the fund for self-funded there, what we have set aside,

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and then the last item or some urgent school bus repairs that we need to do that will be coming

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off in the balance of the school year. And then that is finance.

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Sorry, Mr. Manley, couldn't hear you.

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Still, it cannot hear you.

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I think you wanted to say thank you, Mr. Small for that report.

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My pleasure any time.

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So we're going to go see home in that break over.

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Can you hear me now?

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The moment where the Vice President jumps in or

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Yeah, I don't know.

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You're back.

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I went to the emergency backup microphone.

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So hopefully that helps.

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Thank you.

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It would have been one of those moments where you would jump in.

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I was ready.

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I knew.

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It's like it.

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So what I did ask Mr. Small was actually was of the other board members.

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Does anybody have any questions on finance for Mr. Small?

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Can you not hear me?

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We can hear you.

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All right.

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I'll close the committee's reports.

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Any new business from the board?

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Please say no.

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That was a joke.

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Any old business from the board?

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Seeing none.

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I moved to approve the minutes of the file on meeting April 28.

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Special Business Meeting 1s.

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Special Executive Meeting number 2 and the board meeting.

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Do I have a second, raise your hand? Mr. Sus, thank you.

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Any comments or questions on the minutes?

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Roll call vote. Mr. Benderley.

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He said yes.

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I said yes.

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I saw it.

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Mrs. Cook.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Mr. Durflinger.

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Yes.

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Mr. Glassberg.

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Yes.

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Mrs. Clean.

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Yes. Mr. Lyfton. Yes. Mr. Small. Yes. Mr. Suss. Yes. And I vote yes as well. Motion carries. Thank you.

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All. At this time, I'm going to open all the mics again for the public.

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The meetings open to discuss any topic up to this point or for any comments regarding recommendation

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to the superintendent of schools. You are all unmuted. Any comments or questions?

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Hey, this is Tara Matisse from 18 in Colonial Court. Can you guys hear me?

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Hi, Tara. Thanks for joining. Are you missing being on the board?

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No. This is a busy class of other things, but so grateful that you guys are doing it.

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And those things wanted to say hi, but also I will make two quick comments.

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I guess there's no sense, or maybe you just don't know yet, how much the school budget

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is likely to be impacted next year from all of this?

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That's a great question.

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I'll ask that one and then you can go to the next.

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We know that Governor is going to announce something regarding what the finance of the state

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like on May 22nd and then we believe the revised state budget will come out in late August, I think

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it's August 25th. We have a good handle on areas in which our budget has gone up,

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like our costs have gone up, where our savings have gone up. There's, you know, the budget

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and finance were kind of tracking certain areas of surplus. Things you might think that we are

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quote unquote, saving we may not as a result of legislation from the state. So for example,

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a big example is on busing. Legislature, both houses and the governor's sign, legislation that's

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requiring us to continue to pay our busing vendor despite the fact that we're not using them.

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It wasn't clear on how much we're supposed to pay them. So we're negotiating with that.

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Because while we don't think they meant for us to pay for them profit, we do think

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The intent was to probably continue to have their employees paid, but we shouldn't be paying for gas or any or, you know, bus utilization. So working on that obviously we're saving areas like on power and other things.

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But there's other pending legislation and we're services that we haven't provided this year may need to be provided next year. So we're kind of rolling over those savings over so.

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I mean, I'm trying to give you more details, but the short answer is no, we don't, but we're

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we're really looking very closely at it. And I think we get 1.7 million in state aid. That's

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our biggest fear factor right now is, or we're going to get that. And then the other kind of input

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that we're watching closely in conjunction with the town is how our tax collections locally

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been impacted. The town has a pretty high rate of service mortgages that pay taxes, so I think

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it's like between 55 and 60 percent are paid by service companies, whereas other municipalities

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you've got a lot of walkups and hand-ins of checks, which makes it harder to kind of project

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Collections.

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But that's another area that we're watching. And we're working with Thomas Harvey's working with the CFO in the mayor.

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We're trying to, we're making sure that our must-be pades are being paid.

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Our payroll and the things that we have to take care of and we're trying to be flexible in other areas where we can.

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Sounds good. Clearly you're thinking about all the different aspects. I hope that the state budget, the state budget is going to be severely impacted. Hopefully that won't trickle down to K12. Clearly it's, well, you may not know clearly, but higher ed is really getting hit pretty bad.

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So I'm getting I'm getting letters from my my daughter's college, but that's really only a knowledge I have on the higher ed so yeah, and now

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Lecture has is going to be it pretty badly

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Okay, three really quick positive things one who does to the IT group for continuing to provide service for Chromebooks, which I actually needed this week

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So that drop-off went well.

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Awesome that we're continuing to provide additional lunches.

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I think that's a really nice plan.

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Dr. Kufuto, just by up to your capacity, that's great.

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And since I didn't get a chance to jump in earlier quickly enough,

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I just wanted to let you know that the teachers at the high school and the staff at the high school

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that we've been interacting with have been doing a tremendous fantastic job of working

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to keep the students engaged, really strong communication

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every day, clear, clearly listed assignments,

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and lots of flexibility, which has been hugely appreciated.

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I greatly appreciate your feedback.

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A lot, I'll admit that I too needed Chromebooks support.

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I think since our last meeting,

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and Mr. Thuvenman was able to email or help me,

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but Chromebooks are outside of my geek skills.

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and he taught me something so we were able to get it fixed.

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But I, I, I, I echo everything.

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You said I, I really appreciate you reach

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not, uh, documentation and sharing, uh,

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this feedbacks.

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Thank you.

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Yep.

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Thanks, all of you.

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Any other comments or questions from the public?

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Seeing none, hearing none, um,

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I will need all the lines again.

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So at this time, we're on to recommendations

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as Superintendent of Schools.

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Um,

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I'm going to move right to personnel.

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So, personal, we have 12A, one, so I moved to a point, Michelle Reed, as the integrated preschool

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teacher at Moscow, at the salary list of the agenda, step one, deprorated, effective, May 1,

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2020 through June 30th, 2020. I moved to a point, Daniel Rosa, as school psychologist for the

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of September 1st to 2020, salary may be adjusted upon the settlement of a new contract.

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I moved to approve the appointment of the following nine tenured teachers for the 2020,

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2021 school year as shown on the attachment. I moved to approve the reappointment of the

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following nine tenured teachers for the 2021 school year as shown on attachment one

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and listed in the agenda second through fourth pages first page for the nine tenured

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I'm sorry, administrators.

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I think it may as if teachers in the first one.

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So we are moving forward with an unintended admin

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and non-tender teachers.

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Do we have a second, you can raise your hands.

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This is Cook.

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Thank you.

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Any comments or questions from board members?

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Probably a good thing.

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I'll leave.

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I'll leave.

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Seeing none, I'll take your vote, Mrs. Cook,

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because you're coming to the lab and clear.

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Yes?

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Mr. Bendrly.

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Yes. Mr. Fairfinger. Yes. Mr. Glassberg. Yes. Mr.

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Lyfton. Yes. Mr. Small. Yes. Mr. Suss. Yes. And I vote yes. Motion carries.

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Thank you.

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give a roll? Like, to move items V1 through B4 as listed on the agenda.

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I didn't even have

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time to mute none mute with that. I'll second that. Any comments or questions?

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Seeing none.

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roll call vote, Mr. Benderley. Yes. Well, so you just contact me. Yes. Why? Mr. Dirtflayer?

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Yes.

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I think I'd have

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as memorized by now, Mr. Glassberg?

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Yes.

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Mrs. Colleen?

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Yes.

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Mr. Liffen?

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Yes.

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Mr. Small.

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Yes.

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Mr. Sus.

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Yes.

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And I vote yes.

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Motion carries.

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Mr. Glassberg, policy.

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C-1.

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I'd like to move by them C-1.

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Second reading is listed on the agenda.

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I will second that.

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Any comments or questions from the board.

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Seeing none, roll call, Mr. Benderley. Yes.

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Mrs. Cook. Yes. Mr. Fairflinger. Yes. Mr. Glassberg. Yes. Miss Colleen. Yes. Mr. Lifton. Yes. Mr. Small.

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Yes. Mr. Sus. Yes.

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And a thumbs up too. You get the vote twice. I vote yes as well. Motion carries. And then finally Miss Cleaner off you to curriculum.

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I'd like to move item D1 as listed on the agenda.

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Second that motion. Comments of questions from the board.

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Seeing none.

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roll call, Mr. Bendalee. Yes.

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This is cook. Yes.

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Mr. Girafflinger. Yes.

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Mr. Glassberg. Yes.

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Miss Gling. Yes.

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Mr. Liffton.

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Yes.

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Mr. Small.

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Yes. Sorry. I'm reading ahead on the agenda.

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I'm trying to cheating a little bit.

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and Mr. Sass?

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Yes.

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And I vote yes, motion carries. I thought we usually did another public comment at this point, and I don't see it on the agenda, so I'm just going to do it anyway.

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That's why I was stammering there through that roll call, I apologize.

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So one last chance, I'm going to unmute everybody.

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Any comments or questions from the public on anything that's come before in this board meeting?

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Hearing none, I make a motion to adjourn.

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Do I have a second?

456
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Through Bentley, all those in favor.

457
00:38:16,150 --> 00:38:17,350
Thank you and good night.