Pleasantville Public Schools Board Meeting May 5, 2026

Good evening, everyone. Today is
Tuesday, May 5th, 2026 budget public
hearing action meeting. May we please
stand for the flag salute and a moment
of silence.
This is to advise those present at this
May 5th, 2026 budget public hearing
action board meeting of the Board of
Education of the City of Pleasantville
in the County of Atlantic that notice
was given on January 29th, 2026 of this
budget public hearing {slash} action
meeting as required by the provisions of
chapter 231 of the laws of 1975.
Notice thereof has been distributed for
publication in the press, posted in the
administration building, and forwarded
to the city clerk of the City of
Pleasantville within the time required
by said act.
Roll call, Ms. White.
Ms. Aikens. Here.
Ms. Harris. Here.
Ms. Morgan.
Mr. Rodriguez. Here.
Ms. Sanchez.
Present.
Ms. Waters.
Ms. Silver.
Ms. Rowell. Present.
We good?
Next, we have 1.5 public comments,
agenda items only. Can you please come,
state your name, and speak.
And remember, we do not
discuss personnel matters in public.
We have Ms. Priscilla Noel from
Pleasantville.
Check one, two.
Good evening, everyone. I am having a
few questions.
This is about the budget, but when will
the public be able to have access to the
budget? Um cuz I didn't see an agenda on
the website
or access or a link to a budget.
After the public hearing, the budget
will be on our website within 48 hours.
After it's approved and submitted to the
county it would have been on our website
within 48 hours. And which budget is who
is this still the one by Dr. Martinez or
Or no, is this a new budget?
Well, this is a budget for the public
Pleasantville public schools and we'll
go over it in the presentation this
evening. Oh, okay. And for
2.1
Um we were here before, Dr. Hyman
Medley.
And you know I love you.
But I'm just wondering first we
shouldn't have a blank, that's not a
good look. I want us to start off on a
good foot
so that there is no question.
There can be nothing questioned about
your appointment to that position.
Um when you were assistant
superintendent, I told you that you
deserved that. And now that you have the
opportunity to be acting superintendent,
I don't want anything that could hinder
or impede the process from being
legitimate. So if if is that procedural
for it to be blank or
Well, the attorney told us to put it on
and to leave it as blank, Mr. Taylor.
Okay, cuz I don't want anything to
undermine
the opportunity that is being presented
to Dr. Hyman Medley.
She has been a dedicated employee of the
district. She has worked very hard.
And I think that she is qualified and
she cares deeply. This is her community
and so I want everything to be on the up
and up. Thank you.
You're welcome, Ms. Noel.
Um
Next we have 1.6 the budget the budget
presentation 2026
and 2027
by
Dr. Felicia Hyman-Metly
and Ms. Dale White.
Testing. Okay, you have to speak into
it. Good evening, everyone. I want to
say thank you to our board members,
the staff, and the members of our
community.
Thank you for the opportunity to serve
as an interim superintendent of Plasma
Public Schools effective April 28th,
2026.
Upon assuming this role, my immediate
priority was to ensure the successful
passage of the district's budget.
I would like to clarify that the
preliminary budget that was for 26-27
was developed prior to my appointment
and submitted to the county
superintendent without board approval.
Since stepping into this position, I
have worked closely with the business
administrator. We have dedicated
extensive amount of time, including
evenings,
over the weekend, to review and revise
the existing budget that that created by
our former superintendent.
The initial proposal reflected a deficit
which include is going to be included
and shown here with a significant staff
reductions.
My focus has been to bring the budget
into balance along with our business
administrator, Ms. White, while
minimizing the impact on student
programs and staffing.
Although substantial personnel cuts had
already been made, I worked extremely
hard to reduce the number of affected
positions by identifying opportunities
to defer or reallocate certain capital
improvement projects.
In collaboration with the building
administrators
were included in this
and the district directors, we made
thoughtful adjustments aimed at reducing
hardships across the district.
As we move forward, I respectfully ask
for your understanding and support as we
continue to make decisions in the best
interest Excuse me, best interest of all
of our Pleasantville students.
So, I ask the board to please
feast your eyes on the screen and Ms.
White, I'll let you take over. Thank
you, everyone.
Good evening, everyone. Board members,
community members, and everyone online
watching this budget presentation.
Pleasantville Public School District
2026-2027 public budget hearing.
Uh
budget agenda was our timeline,
tax levy rates, state aid revenue
summary, appropriations, uh changes in
budget, and board action. That's our
presentation agenda for tonight.
For the timelines, the state aid numbers
was released on March the 12th, 2026.
And normally, the state aid numbers are
released at the end of February, but
there was a delay.
April 21st, 2026, the preliminary budget
was presented to the board and the
community.
And then on April 28th, 2026, the
preliminary budget was pre-
presented to the community and the
board.
On April 29th, 2026, the county office
approved the preliminary budget.
And May the 5th, 2026, tonight we're
having the public
hearing for the 26-27 budget.
The state aid overview and the equalizer
equalizer driver.
The state aid amount does not include
preschool. So, our transportation aid
for 26-27
actually decreased by $540,974.
Our special ed education aid actually
increased by 306
increased
$316,032.
The equalization aid increased for 26-27
by $3,062,000.
Our security aid increased by $63,268.
Our total state aid is $97,000,000,
which includes 6.2 million for preschool
and 91
91,011
thousand for um all those
categories I just stated above.
So, for the state aid, the adequacy
budget is how much money a school needs
to give students a good education.
The local fair share is how much money
the town can afford to pay. And for our
district, the approximate local fair
share is $18,000,000. And currently, our
tax levy is at
$10,000,000 currently.
If the If the town can't pay the full
amount needed, the state helps by paying
the difference. So, the equalization aid
is what schools need and what minus what
the town can pay.
For our revenue,
the state aid total state aid
$97,373,844.
The tax levy is $13,019,224.
Our tuition from out-seeking and
miscellaneous income is $764,244.
Our fund balance for for this school
year is $7,421,695.
Our federal grants are $4,605,155.
And our semi revenue is $91,320,
which equates to our total budget for
this school year, $123,275,482.
So, the deficit reduction journey.
The district planned for 146 million in
spending, but we only had 123 million in
revenue.
That created a shortfall of about 23
million dollars.
So, the district needed to reduce its
budget by 23 million to balance the
actual budget.
The reduction journey consisted of
additional 3 million dollars in health
care,
salaries
$5,855,346.
Federal grants decreased by $874,725.
Charter schools increased by $1,154,822.
Our preschool contribution, we had to
contribute more to the preschool
program, which is $524,
$504.
Special ed tuition increased by
1,321,012
Our capital projects reduced we reduced
them by 1,970,849.
We reduced
athletics by 305,619.
We reduced CNI areas for 1,855,588.
Transportation contracted routes and
additional vans we reduced by $550,000.
Our substitutes ESS we're reducing that
by $400,000 this school year. Operations
we
took off $200,000
in legal fees we reduced by $100,000 to
save on this deficit.
So
when you ask what the budget
reduction phases that we took to make
sure that we were able to balance the
budget the first thing we did was we
went to phase one and we looked at the
initial offsets and non-personnel
which is the focus we had on identifying
immediate savings on non-salary accounts
including supplies, materials,
A2 contracts and contracted services.
After that we looked at phase two which
is operational efficiencies and program
reviews. We looked at the programs in
depth and made a depth and depth
analysis of district operations to
streamline processes and evaluate
program effectiveness for cost reduction
as well as capital projects.
And the last phase we've been doing this
for four days nonstop was the personnel
adjustment and strategic realignment. We
addressed the remaining gap through
staffing changes, position eliminations
and restructuring the roles to align
with the budget constraints.
So, these three phases were taken into
consideration to offset the $23 million
that we had to bring down to balance the
budget.
So,
with that being said,
personnel reductions, we have two
options.
The first option was the formally
submitted one that was given to you on
April 21st. That included approximately
52 staff reductions that did not include
the the staff positions that were from
like attrition and they kind of didn't
want to be phased it out and didn't
repost it for it to be in the budget.
So, the 52 staff reductions include 10
secretaries, eight security guards, 18
certified staff, two administrators,
nine support nine support staff, seven
custodians, 11 educational support
staff. And at that time, there were
approximately eight staff retirements
and resignations.
As we work diligently to bring those
numbers down, as of today, option B,
we have 29 staff reductions out of the
52 that was formally submitted. That
would be two secretaries, two security
guards, nine certified staff certified
staff four administrators, three support
staffs, two custodians, seven
educational support staff, and with the
help of the PEA, we were able to get six
additional staff
submitted their retirement and
resignations.
Okay, so our general fund tax levy
options.
Dr. Milly just went over option A, which
was the formally submitted budget, which
included a 2%
tax levy increase, the minimum. Also, it
included a healthcare adjustment of
2,437,331
dollars,
which equated to the total tax levy
being 13,019,224
dollars, and it was a total of 52 staff
reductions. That is option one I mean,
I'm sorry, option A
for the budget. Option B is a 2% tax
levy, which is the minimum, the 207,488
dollars, and then the healthcare
adjustment was reduced 50% to 1,218,665
dollars for a total tax increase of
11,800,345
dollars, and that equates to 29 staff
reductions.
So, option A keeps the tax 2% tax
increase, uses all of the healthcare
cost increase, and it cuts 52 staff
members.
Option B still keeps the 2% tax
increase.
Citizens contribute only half of the
healthcare cost,
and the need to only cut 29 staff
members.
A simple way to look at it is option A
requires more money for taxpayers, but
cuts more staff, and option B saves
taxpayers more money and cuts fewer
staff.
So, thank you for hearing our
presentation tonight, and happy Mother's
Day to everyone, and happy Cinco de
Mayo.
>> Thank you, Dr. Honeycutt and
and
Ms. White.
Does anyone have any questions about the
um
audit
or the budget?
Madam Chair, I have I have a few
questions.
>> Go ahead.
>> If it may please the board.
Um
Madam Chair, I know that phase one
talked about an immediate savings in
non-salary accounts including supplies,
materials, and contracted services.
What in detail are are being saved in
these uh
supplies, materials, and contracted
services? How much and and what are
these types of services and materials?
I
didn't hear what you
What was the question?
What What is the immediate savings in
non-salary accounts, supplies, and
materials, and contracted services? What
is that amount and what specifically is
that? What does it entail? Okay,
supplies and materials are supplies and
materials for the schools are your A2
contracts, your contracted services,
uh
transportation. We're going to try to do
more bus routes internally opposed to
contracting out with
service providers which cost $300 to
$400 per day to transport students.
Training, professional development, we
reduced professional development and
CNI, and I've already said A2 contracts.
And um what else did you say?
What just says supplies, materials, and
contracted services. That's throughout
the district. Everybody All the schools
we shaved off money for supplies and
materials. So this year is going to be
stringent. So supplies and materials are
going to be reduced. So I mean we have
funding for that, but you just have to
be very mindful of spending. So in terms
of A2 contracts, what programs is that
impacting?
That includes like your clubs. I'm
sorry.
That includes like clubs. For example,
we have um art
as a specials area class. So in some of
the just for example for the elementary
schools, you may not need to have a art
club because you already taught art
during the school day. So we looked at
programs such as that where we're kind
of doing double and just kind of let it
sit into the regular school day instead
of having an extra club at the end. And
we also looked at the clubs um here at
the high school um where how many
students participated and if the
participation rate at the high school or
the middle school or even the elementary
schools were very low.
Um well if it's less than 10 students
participating,
we had to we collapsed those clubs and
we we are combining some of the clubs
to make sure that the kids still get
some type of um well-rounded experiences
after school.
Is there a list of of programs? Does
this include sports programs that you
can provide to let us know what There's
no sports programs being cut. But in
terms of the clubs, is there any any
list out there that you can provide?
I can have a list provided to you.
Is that it, Mr. Marino?
Uh
No, I So my question my second question
is
um
the streamline processes to evaluate the
effectiveness of cost reduction as well
as capital projects, what capital
projects are being impacted?
You said it's on the agenda.
>> We have several projects being conducted
at this time.
HVAC systems. We were trying to phase in
getting new systems throughout the
buildings, but we're just going to phase
them in instead of doing the whole
buildings. So we have phase one has now
allowed us to do like one I think we
talked about the third floor
of the Lees Avenue School instead of
trying to do two floors and then next
year look at the second floor. So we did
cuts such as that.
And then my last question for now chair
is
the third phase which includes position
eliminations and restructuring of roles.
I know this was an issue at the last
board meeting.
Um,
can you provide a list to the board of
what positions are being eliminated?
No, no. The actual positions, not just
departments.
I'm not allowed to do that at this time
not for this budget hearing. Cuz I know
the board asked for this list at the
last board meeting.
Hey, hey. The what? I just we are not
allowed to express or present any of the
exact positions because at this point
people have not been riced.
So we just wanted to make sure that we
stay in compliance. Okay. But later we
will and you'll get a itemized list of
So would it be fair to say that Dr.
Martinez couldn't provide it at the last
board meeting?
I don't know. Hey.
I can't speak on Miss Dr. Martinez's
behalf, but I can only go by what we
have been working on the last four days.
Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Moreno.
That question that last question that
you're asking I was one who asked for a
list and this is exactly what I was
talking about to know the numbers, not
who per se because you can't identify
who per se. That's um private. I just
wanted the numbers. So, I'm the one who
asked that question and that's what I
meant by asking it. But departments,
too, right?
This is departments.
>> Right. That's what I'm saying. I'm just
trying to clarify that. Okay. Okay.
Is there any more questions?
Ms. Aikens.
I just have a question. So, we didn't
cut special ed, correct?
We didn't cut nothing in special ed.
>> Nothing special ed.
>> Okay. Let me ask you a question, too, um
Ms. White. At the first presentation,
was special ed cut?
No, special ed wasn't cut.
>> presentation?
>> No, special ed wasn't cut. The only
thing
with special ed, special ed increased
for tuition.
>> Okay. Okay.
Okay, got you. Okay.
Um now, everything looks nice. I think
you guys did a good job. Um
also,
the tax levy.
Did you save us?
Thank you so much.
>> Yes, we went down to the 50% because
that was the best option for us to do.
So, we instead of 2.4 million, we cut it
in half to 1.2 million
for the tax levy. Okay, good. Okay,
great. All right.
And
the A2 contracts that you guys did deal
with, the union's okay with it? Yes.
Okay, good. Got you. Okay. I have one
more question.
We work with the principals,
all departments, and we've also worked
with the unions Okay, good. Okay, great.
I have one more question. Go ahead.
Um sometimes I hate to go in the past,
but I got to go there real quick.
It says in this timeline that it was
submitted to the county office.
How was it submitted when we did we was
voting it down? Well, well, it wasn't
for the county office.
The 21st, it was
failed. The budget failed and then on
the 28th it failed. The county office
sent us a letter
stating that we had to submit it. But
then it says county approved.
Is this right?
>> they approved the submission.
Like when we submitted when they
requested us to send them the budget
the preliminary budget on April 29th, we
had to submit it to them and they
approved the preliminary submission. So
tonight any changes that we make tonight
once the board approves it, we have to
submit that to the county so they're
aware of the changes that were made.
Are my dates wrong?
Okay. All right.
Well, in order for us to reduce
In order for us to reduce or foresee any
more changes that you maybe can
squeeze Well, no after we submit it to
the county
based on what
we presented tonight, we can't change it
once the board approves it. But you just
said we can make changes. Right, the
changes that we come tonight. Well, no
the changes that we did to get from the
52 to the 29. Those are the changes that
were made. Okay, got you. Okay.
Yeah, in the tax levy reduction as well.
to
positions to 29. Sounds good. All right,
I have a question cuz I can barely hear
what y'all are saying down there. So
this submission that were that's tonight
will take the place of what we well,
what was submitted before.
So they'll So they'll take this one.
Whatever anything after this can't be
done. Whatever this is, this is the
final one. Right, the submission that
was previously that they approved, this
submission well, this public hearing
will override what was submitted on the
the 20 when they requested us to submit
the budget former budget. Okay. I just
want to make sure I understood that.
No more questions?
Okay.
May I have a motion to
approve the budget presentation?
You have to let us know which option.
Oh. Oh, I'm sorry.
Um,
do we got to do it one at a time or
Of course, everybody going to choose B.
I mean, how do we do it? One at a time
or what?
Which Okay. Which option would you
choose, Mr. Merino?
Which option do you choose, A or B?
Okay. How How
do we do this? What is your
recommendation as far as which budget
you would like to see the board choose?
Well, we want the board to choose option
B, of course.
>> Can we make a motion to choose option B?
Thank you. Okay. Second. Okay.
Any questions about that?
Motion on the floor. No questions? Roll
call, Ms. White.
Uh, before roll call, I'm sorry, I
didn't hear the motion.
Motion to accept option B to be
submitted.
Option B? Yeah.
>> Yes. This is the new improved budget
that's helping Yes. Yes.
Thank you. It's your acting
It's your acting superintendent's
recommendation, as well.
Thank you. You're welcome.
All right.
Roll call, Ms. White. Ms. Aiken? Yes.
Ms. Harris? Yes.
Mr. Rodriguez? Yes.
Ms. Sanchez?
Yes.
Ms. Rowell? Yes.
Ms. Waters is on.
Oh, Ms. Waters.
Ms. Waters?
Sorry, yes.
Thank you. Motion carries.
Next, we need to go into executive
session.
>> No, you know what?
Um Hm. May I uh Yes. Yes.
>> All right. Um the next How does this
work?
Push it.
>> First of all, um I just want to
introduce myself. My name is Phil Stern.
I'm an attorney at Taylor Law Group.
I've been uh practicing education law,
representing boards of education for 36
years. It is an absolute pleasure to be
representing Taylor Law Group, and it's
a real pleasure to be here in
Pleasantville at this amazing facility.
I'm I'm really impressed. It's just
beautiful.
I've wanted for years to be down here to
to be working with you. So, it's a real
privilege to be here tonight. Um I
wanted to uh
just explain to the board and the
community about the appointment on the
motion uh to appoint Dr. Hyman Medley as
the acting superintendent of schools.
And the reason that that is blank for
now
is that the procedure for um
uh
appointing the acting superintendent
always has to go through the county and
ultimately the Commissioner of
Education, okay?
And um I believe there's already been
communication between the board and the
county, and we have the authority to
make this
um
uh appointment with the uh
amount in that
position blank. And the reason is
twofold. One,
uh I have no doubt that Dr.
Hyman Medley is a member of the New
Jersey Association of School
Administrators. Yes? No.
Are you? No. Oh, you're not. No, I used
to be. Oh, used to be. Okay. Well, Dr.
In other words, there there there is
every right for the acting
superintendent to come forward with a
number and then the board can consider
that, then we can go to
and the board would There would be a
simple negotiation, that's all. Once
that negotiation is finished, we would
then go to the county for approval of
that and that blank that that blank
would be filled in. Okay? So, I think
rather than going to executive session
for tonight, we can we can begin the
process, if that's okay. Okay.
I have a question real quick.
>> Sure. I am conflicted, but I can still
oversee and ask the question. So, she's
in uh Dr. um Hyman Medley's in this
position. So, she has to be paid a
stipend for doing what she's doing.
Right. So, I'm sorry. What is she going
to be paid? That's what the board has to
decide. Oh.
You don't have to hold it. You can just
put it down while you're
>> see. All right. Thank you very much. Um
I All I'm suggesting is that the board
and the acting superintendent have a
conversation
um where it's a mutually agreeable
number Right. to start that off. Okay?
And once that happens, Right. um
then that number would be transmitted to
the
county Correct. for the county's
ultimate approval. And so that would all
be retroactive
to April the 28th.
Uh 2026.
And and
I hope that answers your question. So my
next question is shouldn't a board
discuss how much they're going to pay
her?
Um
Sure. We can discuss it. So if the board
can come to a conclusion what they can
do is send that and send have everything
ready to go to the county tomorrow. Uh a
Sure. Sure. The The only point that I
was making is that this begins a
collaboration
that that should be a collaborative
process and a positive one and and
that's all. But there is absolutely
nothing stopping
uh the board from doing so uh from going
into executive session to discuss. So
okay so Thank you.
May I have a motion to go into executive
session? Motion. Motion by Mrs. Aikens.
May have a second? Second.
>> Second by Mrs. Harris. Any questions?
No questions? Vote by Ms. White. Ms.
Aikens?
Yes.
Ms. Harris?
Yes.
Mr. Rodriguez? Yes.
Ms. Sanchez?
Yes.
Ms. Waters?
Yes.
Ms. Rowell? Yes. Motion carries.
Okay.
>> Maybe 20 to 30 minutes. Max.
Thank you. Um the question The question
that we're hearing from the community is
that whenever the board goes into
executive session, the board has the
obligation under the Open Public
Meetings Act to explain why it's going
into executive session so that the board
so that the community understands that
we are going in for a purpose that is
permitted under the Open Public Meetings
Act. In this case, we're going in to
discuss uh obviously a personnel issue.
I'm going in there so that in some ways
I suppose it it makes it somewhat part
of the attorney-client privilege, but
the more important reason is that it is
personnel and the board is looking to
deliberate so that it can uh
make a very important decision.
Um but thank you for that reminder. I
really appreciate it.
Please don't be long. We're going to be
Oh, wait a minute. Miss Burgess said,
"You know my Oh, yeah."
Thank you. He already told me.
You think you better tell your board
members. They be the ones
I don't know. I'm going to ask him do I
have
Yes, I may not
>> Mhm.
>> Never mind. I'm sorry.
What is your plan?
>> I have a motion to come out of executive
session. Motion. Motion by Mrs. Harris.
I'll have a second. Second. Second by
Ms. Aikens.
All in favor? Aye.
>> Aye. Opposed? Okay.
Next. Okay.
Good evening again. We're back. Um as
far as the
uh
what was discussed in executive session,
as soon as the board votes publicly on
that,
which I believe is going to probably
happen next Tuesday,
um everybody will know what we talked
about in executive session uh tonight.
So, um that should probably come out at
the at the Tuesday meeting. So, thank
you. The board passed a resolution
before we went into executive session on
option B of the budget. That was the
uh
motion. It was seconded, and it was
voted upon. But just to be absolutely
clear to the community, to the board, to
anyone in the universe who's listening
to this board meeting tonight, um it's
the full budget option B, and the board
would uh
prefer invite just a a redo
with a motion that says uh I move uh the
full budget um option B, then there's no
question what document and what proposal
the board is voting on.
Motion.
Okay. Motion by Mrs.
Akins making a second.
Second. Second by
Miss Sanchez.
Any questions? No. No questions. Roll
call, Miss White.
Miss Akins.
>> Yes.
Miss Harris. Yes.
Mr. Rodriguez. Yes.
Miss Sanchez.
Miss Elise. Yes, I'm sorry, I couldn't
unmute. Yes.
Miss Waters.
Yes.
Miss Rowell. Yes.
Motion carries.
Okay, next 1.8
uh 1.7
public comments.
We have
Miss Kathy Watson from the PEA.
Check one, two.
We'd like to request to speak on her
behalf because she's not here, but the
two vice presidents of the PEA, Danielle
Percy and Ronda Moore McQueen. Um first
of all, we just want to first
congratulate Dr. Jaime Medina on her
appointment, and we really want to thank
you for being so open and willing to
collaborate and communicate with the
PEA.
Um this open communication is something
that we have not had um in recent time
and so we are just really grateful that
you
have opened your door to us and been so
willing to communicate with us.
Like she said, congratulations Dr.
Hyman-Mentley and thank you to each and
every board member for working with us,
for taking the time to break things
down, to work it out, you know, where
it's fair and equitable for everyone. We
appreciate We're breathing now, you
know, a sigh of relief and we really do
appreciate each and every one of you.
Thank you and and once again,
congratulations Dr. Mentley.
Thank you so much.
Okay.
Can we just go right into
the agenda?
Okay. Also, for the record, Ms. Morgan
was not able to make it tonight. Okay.
So, we're going to go
into our action meeting for
our agenda. We're going to start with
facilities, am I correct?
We're going to start with facilities.
Did you want to do the personnel?
Did you want to do the appointment
Tuesday?
Okay. Okay. Great.
Is this still on? Is this still on or do
we release one?
>> Just to explain to the community what
we're doing right now. We're doing a
committee as a whole and we are doing
facilities today and we are doing the
curriculum part.
Okay.
So.
So
so we're on 3.9 or what?
So you're you're ready to begin?
So say good evening boys.
Hey so good evening good evening
everybody.
So I guess we're going over with the for
the facilities agenda.
I guess so if you turn the page 31 we're
going to 3.9.
Page six. Page six.
On the agenda.
Page six.
Page [clears throat] six.
>> Brock. Vance Brock, yeah.
So, we're we're ready?
Yeah, so 3.9 is the professional
engineering services for the Leeds
Avenue parking lot.
So, this is a proposal by the
engineering service Remington & Vernick
for 66,000
to uh design
uh the parking lot in place of the
current central registration house at 16
West Leeds Avenue.
It's the little house next to Leeds
Avenue school.
Do they have a timeline of when it's
going to be done?
Yeah, so at this at this point this
project would be um specked out uh and
uh specked out and bidded for the work
to be completed over the summer.
Okay.
This was already in the budget. Yeah,
this was in the budget for last year.
>> Okay.
So, also on 3.10, also from Remington &
Vernick, is the preliminary uh
preliminary engineering design services
for uh heat pump replacements in the
high school middle school.
Uh this is just for them to uh speck out
and design the systems, which then gets
submitted to train
uh for like the purchase of the
equipment.
And the amount of that is 79,950.
Do we have a warranty on that before or
is this after the fact?
>> this is just a design phase.
Was this in Are these numbers in the
budget? Yes, for this current budget.
>> current budget, not next year.
>> Not yet.
No questions on those two? I have a
question.
>> Good.
Why do we have to fully replace the heat
the um
heat pumps?
>> yeah, like Uh cuz they're they're 28
years old. Um they're geothermal heat
pumps, so they're not like a regular gas
or an electric heat pump. Uh, so being
28-years-old and the brand that they
are, like the parts that's in them at
this point are obsolete.
Uh, so it's it's hard to get
compressors, motors, blowers, boards,
stuff like that for the units. Okay.
Absolutely, yeah.
All right, this is for the high school
So, this is for the high school and
middle school. Okay, together.
And this this I'm sorry, going back to
3.9, this is for the parking lot at
Leeds Avenue? So, the the house at 16
West Leeds Avenue, uh, I want to believe
we you already board approved for the
demolition of the house at 16 West Leeds
Avenue.
Yeah.
Any no more questions on those two?
Mr. Vince, uh,
what is the lifespan of these heat
pumps?
On a new heat On a new heat pump? Yeah.
On a new heat pump, realistically, uh,
you're looking at somewhere between 10
to 15 years on like a new heat pump.
So, these heat pumps should have been
replaced years ago.
Oh, absolutely, yeah.
Madam President, I have a question.
I was wondering,
uh, we received an email not so long
ago. I was wondering if anybody ever
find out where the $300,000 in vinyl
fencing was at.
We'll have to check into that, Ms.
Anderson, and get back to you.
Can you write that down so you can check
into that and get back to us?
From what I was, um, informed is that
there's no remnant fencing
that we are able to identify.
There's no There's no There's no vinyl
fence. The The district
>> vinyl fence in the
>> does not purchase vinyl fencing.
The district does not purchase No. No,
the district does not purchase vinyl
fencing.
Thank you. I would um
Okay. Thank you, Ms. Sanchez.
Next, 311. Also, 311 is a proposal um
from Peterson Service Company to provide
a building automation system controls at
Leeds Avenue. Uh we're already in the
process of installing new unit
ventilators, which are the classroom
units, at Leeds Avenue. This will
upgrade the controls uh being able to
control them like monitor uh room
temperature, humidity in the classrooms,
which helps us prevent like mold growth
and everything like that in the
classroom.
At Leeds Avenue, yes.
And when would this project
Um if if board approve, like they would
probably start that in the next month.
So, so their system is is bad, too? So,
Leeds Avenue Leeds In all actuality,
Leeds Avenue probably has the worst
system in the district, yes.
So, so what it
Um your title, I'm sorry. I'm just the
custodial maintenance foreman. Okay.
So, do we have like a Is there something
where you go like maybe monthly,
quarterly, and you you check out all
these things instead of it all hitting
like Yes. Yeah. So, so the filters get
changed on schedule. There's a routine
maintenance done on every unit here with
the HVAC tech that we have here.
>> it quarterly?
The The The The filter gets changed uh
quarterly, yes.
So, do we see the issue and then we just
ignore it? I'm just trying to figure out
how we get this far with these big
numbers. Well, well, you're getting this
far because 20 years prior, nobody did
anything to them.
Uh so, you know, like it so so it's the
neglect that you're catching up to.
So, you know, they they're at a point
right now where one, that that that
system was put in in the late '90s. So,
those are pretty much obsolete, too. So,
you're putting more modern unit vents
inside the classrooms.
Okay.
I can I I don't know if I can ask him.
Can I? Ask what you want.
>> How long have you been with the
district?
>> How long have I been in over the
department? Yeah. I've only been over
the department since
uh maybe 3 4 years now.
Cuz I'm thinking back then we had a lot
of money.
We had grants, we had COVID, we had a
lot of money. That's what we should have
been doing. Well, well, they they So,
you know, um
um
uh
I would say whoever was in charge at the
time was misinformed. So, they they did
part They did part of the building
instead of taking the money and doing
the building as a whole and completing
the project.
You know, so you know, they did the
boilers, they did the cooling towers,
they did the chillers, but nobody
addressed all and all that's great. Like
you can put all that in, but if the
units don't work inside the classroom,
Right. you're still not getting air and
heat in the classrooms.
So, you're saying that we didn't um
do that in phases?
That project start that project had
the
>> the when you got the COVID money and you
spent um
2.2 or 2.1 million dollars,
they did the boilers, they did the
cooling towers, and they did the
chillers.
Which is the which is this for for
better terms is like the heart of the
system. Right. But what I'm saying is um
they did do some work with Leeds Avenue.
I know there was done work in Leeds
Avenue in phases um with the HVAC
system. So, what I'm trying to ask you
is is this part of the phase that they
were doing the HVAC Is is Is what part
this? Yeah.
Yeah, this this is part of the phase
that we're doing now that we budgeted
for last year to take place for the year
that we're in right now. Yes.
>> Right, but what I'm saying is they
worked um
at Leeds Avenue, it was the the HVAC
system was done in phases, correct?
Because I remember being on the board
when someone called me and asked me
about needing to get something for Leeds
Avenue, some type of vent system. And
they needed approval. Cuz I I was the
president at the time.
So I'm just trying to figure out is this
we we had one big project, but we
couldn't do the whole project, so we did
it in phases. Like this year we would do
one project part of it, the next year we
would
do another part, and now we're here.
Cuz to my understanding with the last
budget we had, we were supposed to be
doing something in Leeds Avenue um
as part of the last phases for this
project we're talking about.
>> so so let me explain. So like when Okay.
when you guys had received all the
money, right, you worked with the
engineering service. Um you took the
advice of the engineering service or
whoever you replaced
a a portion of the HVAC system.
Um when I took control of the department
and we started sitting down from Ms.
Vargas on to Dr. Martinez on, you were
getting the complaints
about the conditions of the building.
Uh so that's when we decided or they
took that they took the recommendation
from me to replace the unit vents in the
classroom. Because like you you can like
I said, you can have all the stuff brand
new outside, but if the stuff doesn't
work inside the building,
it doesn't make a difference. It's like
so in better terms at your house, like
you at your house you got the outside
unit at your house and you got your
furnace, right? So let's say they
replaced the outside unit at your house,
but you didn't replace the furnace, so
it's still not working. So you got to
you So at this point we're kind of
complete the building.
But Mr. President, I have another
question. Mhm.
Well, I don't know if it's a question
>> Oh,
absolutely. So, every time we replace
like then the warranty certificates come
Oh, what am I
Right. So, um
Yeah, so every time a system is replaced
like the warranty certificates come with
the units and they they all get filed.
So, we all have them in electronic
folder with the warranty for every unit,
roof, everything that we've done over
the last 3 4 years.
Yeah, for the HVAC units?
Yeah, we
Well, so so not
It depends on what you're referring to.
Like you have a checklist for HVACs.
Everything else is like daily
maintenance.
Okay, you'll make sure you get that list
for everybody, right?
Okay.
Any more questions?
>> guess my question would be
um from what they're saying
>> [sighs]
>> um
maybe quarterly the board can get a
report.
So, this way we all know what's going on
and this way we can, you know, hold
people accountable if stuff isn't being
done, especially if we're approving
stuff.
I'm sorry, I didn't hear anything.
Asking for a quarterly report.
Does she hear it or not?
You heard it, Thea?
Yes, they have checklists they do
routine maintenance on
for every mechanical
equipment in all the schools. All I'm
asking is do we have the work orders for
those routine maintenance reports? Yes.
Yeah, yeah, he said he had it. Yeah, but
that's that's not a problem that's not a
problem at all.
So, can I follow up? I have a question.
Um I know y'all mentioned Lees Avenue.
We see the middle school, we see the
high school. Um
concerning
North Main.
I know I don't see that on here. Were
those issues addressed? The leaking
ceiling and the roof and
all that stuff. Was that taken care of
in this budget? Or we have to save for
next budget?
No, no, we spent like almost 70 74
75,000 dollars addressing that issue.
>> Okay, so all the work in new and Lees
Avenue is complete. Are you saying Lees
No, I'm I'm sorry, North Main, North
Main. Yeah, yeah, it was completed
earlier. It was It was completed last
last year.
>> Last year. Yeah, last year.
>> No, it wasn't completed last year cuz
that's when I think it came to committee
last year. No, cuz it was it was in the
summer.
>> leaking. I thought it was in the summer
cuz they had the whole thing.
>> Yeah, it was like it was in the summer
last year cuz they repaved that little
spot and everything.
Like like
It was the outside and the inside. Yeah,
it was all part of one project, yeah.
So, all the work in So, my question, all
the work
in North Main has been completed to
to that extent. And and the issue that
you're talking about, yes. Okay.
Thank you. Yeah.
Is it South Main? North Main?
>> Who? Which one? High school, Lees
Avenue. Who did they did 311? Middle
school.
So, then you have 3 312, which is the
landing towers and like the stairwells.
Like we budgeted the renovate the
stairwells in the high school middle
school.
This is just um this is just that they
they already started replacing the stair
treads and now they're doing the
landings.
I have a question. Thank you. A
question? Yes, ma'am.
What in reference to all this?
So, we got
I guess you're the supervisor. Yes, if
you want to call that. Yeah. And then we
have, you know, people that work for
you, but none of these people have this
trade? No.
No, they don't.
So, what do they do?
They do general maintenance. The
district sends them to to to get some
two specialized.
He said you only have two specialized.
Well, we we we we got three, but yeah.
So, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, you said something?
No, I was just I'm
I said they just regular maintenance
like they just do plumbing or paint?
They they just the the staff that we
have on staff. So, we have two
specialized. You have a HVAC tech, you
have an electrician.
Um
we have a plumber on the book, but he's
just currently not here. Okay. Everybody
else is pretty much general maintenance.
But but isn't stairwell landing ain't
that gen- My my maintenance man I'm
sorry.
But I've ran in my maintenance man do a
lot. Oh, I know your maintenance man
like yeah, he does. But
>> And he he's a he's
>> my maintenance man? Yes, and and he and
he's a lot more skilled and he's a lot
more skilled than the maintenance people
here.
Madam President.
Anthony, you want a job?
I have a I have a never request. Is
there any
way we can get
some kind of chart showing
the training of any availability for our
employees if if there be any at all?
Yeah, so so what so when they're when
they're offered offered training not for
specialties, not all of them accept the
training. You do have one or two that
have accepted training and went on to be
certified in like locksmiths and stuff
like that, but not all of them take the
trainings. Not not all of them take the
opportunity. Mhm. So, Madam President,
one more question.
So, we don't have it where it's
mandatory training?
So, we don't have to outsource?
I don't know if you can make it
mandatory, but we should we should
really strongly encourage. encourage.
>> Well, they have to.
We went through the acting
superintendent.
Can we like figure that with the budget
somewhere?
>> Yeah, if if I if I may, Madam President.
Um the questions that are being asked
are really great policy questions, which
is your job as board members. And the
only thing I just want to make sure that
we all remember that in these kinds of
sessions, we're not looking to criticize
employees, particularly if they've not
received uh
Rice notices, etc. Um
nobody has gone over that line at all,
but I just wanted to mention that these
are really great critical policy issues
that you're bringing up.
Um and as long as we stay on the right
side of not evaluating employees in
public or anything like that, I I just
applaud you.
So,
three three um
313 is under finance and transportation.
So, please skip 313. We're going to go
to 314. That's Mr. Brock's area.
And 314 is page eight.
Okay.
Page eight.
All right.
So so um
both three 314 and 315 have to do with
the SDA project at the new Decatur
Avenue School.
Uh one is for the relocation
uh of the sewer line that had to cross
from our property uh through existing
properties.
Yes, ma'am.
So we had a property there. What
happened to the sewer line? They hit it?
No, ma'am.
>> No, ma'am. The The school was built in
1900 and the sewer line went to a
different direction and it's too small
to accommodate the size of structure
that we are building now. Yes, ma'am.
Got it.
Understood.
I'm glad.
Well, that's
Well, that that goes into 315. So 315
is pretty much the payment that we owe
the city of almost $300
to to their engineering services.
So we're paying the the city Because the
SDA has to work with the city engineers,
you know.
>> And they're actually waiting on that
right now cuz it has to be approved by
us and then it goes to city council so
they can approve it and they can move on
with the project.
Question.
>> Cuz we're due to open when? October? I
mean uh Uh 2028. 2028 which is around
the corner.
So any any delay stops the process.
Question. Where is the It says file
attachment.
I don't see no attachments.
What are we supposed to be reading?
One here. It says attachments.
Oh, you got to click it when you open.
She's looking for the attachments.
No, on BoardDocs. Oh.
Miss Eggers, none of the attachments
were attached for the for the committee.
Yeah. Yeah, normally they'll be attached
in your booklets
when we send the agendas home.
Okay.
All right. Any other questions?
No?
You sure? You sure, Ms. Harris?
Well, I'm not I'm going to just ask it.
Um
I understand about you know, we need
this to get the school started, but here
we are again
going over budget that we have to
decrease and
how we going to be able to
supply the need for that school
when I don't think we going to get
bigger budget. I think we going to keep
going down. Then we going to keep
Are we going to be able to Explain to
her, Ms. White.
Well, the school
is scheduled
to open in 2028 and that school is
supposed to replace North Main Street
School. So,
at that time we're going to do
redistricting because we have to
determine, you know, where the kids are
going to go and where they're living at.
And then, depending on enrollment cuz
our enrollment has been increasing over
the years, I don't know we may not need
another school. They may be able to
consolidate. So, teachers are going to
be shifting between school to school
once that time come.
>> All right. So, we will not need
additional staff.
Or we will not need additional
Yeah.
Next.
Yes.
Go ahead, Ms. I have a question. I I
believe that I don't know if this would
be for downtown
or who it would be for.
Have some HVAC
units already been purchased? What is
the boxes sitting in that house on B
Street?
In In the house on B Street? Yeah.
HVAC systems sitting in the house on B
Street.
In In 16 West?
So, the the unit that's in 16 West is a
condenser for the outside of the
building.
Okay, thank you.
What was it? Any for this part?
Yeah.
I might as well go to that last, right?
Get out the rest of them.
All right, so yeah, going over
facilities usage, um
yeah, three um
ID number 3544371
uh is for the Pleasantville Rec Center,
the Phoenix Track Club to have a track
meet on Saturday the 16th
um
with a total cost of $10,983
which uh is a district cost of
$8,343.50.
Do you have the information on that, Ms.
White? It is It is Brock, isn't there a
spreadsheet that has the fees for
everything?
>> usage?
>> Yes. And what's the Do you know the cost
for the track?
Yeah, the the cost for the track for the
10 hours is $2,640.
It's how much? $2,640.
On the
part that says
That's the Yeah, that's the facility
That's the facility fee, which would be
like the rental fee. And, Mr. Mayor, Mr.
President, Yes.
Can somebody tell me why we are charging
district kids to use
something that's for the district for
them?
Mhm.
Can you?
Yeah, so in um
in the facilities usage agreement that
uh the board board approved, uh
municipal youth municipal organizations,
which is category one and two, does not
category does not fall under like the
stadium rentals. Stadium rentals are
completely separate like in the
agreement. Uh that's why it's separated
on the here for the facilities usage of
2640, which is
you know, can be waived or whatever you
want to waive the the cost.
That balloons it up is the the board
cost, which is $8,343,
which includes security for the day,
um the audio video tech technology for
the day,
and
grounds and stuff like that. And also,
is this um the one that we had about a
month ago?
You get it approved yet? Yes. Yes.
>> Okay.
Well, just I don't like to talk out of
turn, but I my understanding was when we
had this in the committee, if I'm
mistakenly
um
the chairperson of this committee would
have been Chanel Morgan, and I believe
that the committee agreed that they
didn't want to
um keep renting out the um school to
people
um because we everything's new, and I
believe it was said that
they have to pay something. We can't pay
everything because if they damage
the property, then what happens?
I I can't speak to that. I don't know.
>> from my a little bit of memory what I
had in the committee meeting and what
was said by the chairperson. Madam
President. Yes.
This is This is the social recreation,
correct?
Uh
it looks like it is, yes.
So, do they they So, the city of
Pleasantville, I'm assuming the most
positive will have insurance, correct?
Uh yes, it better. So, we wouldn't be
able to go to What is it called? The GIF
fund and get any reimbursements for
anything that may be
Hopefully not, but maybe broken in the
process because I just want to be
mindful. As a school board, we are here
for the district and these are 100%
district kids. This is a facility that
was built in the interest of the
district kids in the city of
Pleasantville.
Okay. Yeah, we can check it out. Can you
check that out?
Can you check that out? Yeah. Um um Ms.
Sanchez, I'm totally agreeing to what
you, but
if we go if we were able to look at it,
Pleasantville Rec does not just house
our children.
They're not all Pleasantville children.
And you know what? I think now that we
with this I think I was told also that
it's not just Pleasantville children. It
might be um out of district kids, too.
Madam President, when I presented the
question to young lady who came to the
mic last meeting and I said, "Are we
talking about all district kids?" She
said, "Yes." So, could we look into
that? Yes, we can. Can you look into
that, um Mr.
I mean, I can I can ask, you know, yeah.
Or can you somebody look into it and get
back to us by Tuesday so we can put it
back on for two We can look at it in And
um Tuesday, maybe.
>> Um Madam President, I thought just the
problem was just the waving a fee
totally. It was like we were going to
take on the waiver fee of $10,000.
Yeah, I remember that. Yes, you're
absolutely right.
>> about if they pay up something and leave
their insurance. Right. You're
absolutely right. Yeah. Cuz I think the
question was when Ms. Sanchez I think
the question was it was 10,000 and they
we paid the 25 or whatever and they paid
the eight because I believe if I'm not
mistaken this is
Yeah, give me Yeah, 1 second Miss
Sanchez. It was a track club. From
through Morgan through Pleasantville.
Yeah, the the I think they're
participating competing in this. Yeah,
for sure.
Yeah, they talked to him because Morgan
said she didn't want us to pay those
things.
So, what happened to the money?
They have several track teams from
different areas. It's because
>> Yeah, it's the BA. Yeah.
All right.
Excuse me. I thought it was his group.
Board President
>> here
>> I'm sorry. Yes.
>> a question. Go ahead.
Um
cuz I'm under the impression
that
the district
and the city has like a MOA or MOU
agreement Right.
>> each
the district
partners up with the city, they use
city
areas and the city sometimes use
uh the school district. I don't recall
in the past maybe this is new to me that
we have charged each other.
So, can we check the MOA MOU or whatever
Yeah. because we don't want to violate
any agreement that was in place Right.
Um Okay.
>> between each other because you don't
want to mess up a partnership. Just
because Yeah, can you
>> want to check that out.
>> into this because I think the past
superintendent was there um Dr. Martinez
was dealing with this. Okay. Uh Dr.
Memorandum of agreement or memorandum of
understanding.
Yeah, she's going to um check into it
and then give us an answer so we'll have
it for Tuesday.
Okay.
Next one.
What is the next one stuff? You We
moving on to the next one?
Everybody's good? Okay.
Okay, so ID number 3617948.
Uh the location for the area is in the
PHS cafeteria.
Uh Mr. Paul Linger is looking to rent
the facility for 80th birthday
celebration.
Uh that total amount is $2,249
with a board cost of $1,499.
I mean it, I have a question. Go ahead.
If I'm looking at this right, y'all want
to wave a fee for a birthday party, but
you don't want to wave a fee for the
kids
>> think No, ma'am. I don't think anybody
said anything about waving a fee. I said
the board cost was one
>> Look, it says wave fees, yes.
Yeah, that's Yeah, that's not No, so So,
this this section right here was put on
on like the previous chairperson of like
the committee that wanted to see that.
And that that's up to you guys whether
you Well, that's that's what you vote
on. That that's if the people are
requesting
a fee waiver.
>> They requesting us to wave the fee, but
we didn't vote to Oh, okay. I'm Yeah,
that's that's not wave fees for a
birthday party, but you ain't going to
wave the fees for the kids Well,
that's completely that's
That's completely your decision. Okay.
Any more questions about this?
No questions? Next one.
Victory, what's the next one? Okay, so
ID number 3623127.
The location will be in the middle
school cafeteria. A request A request
was put in from the uh
Victory First Presbyterian Church to
host a fashion show for their building
fund
um
on July 25th.
Uh that balance due for that would be
$1,313
with a board cost of $788.
Is this done on a
No, ma'am. Okay.
Now, school should be out there, right?
School's out there. So, that's y'all
time to get the buildings and stuff
together freely without kids and
It's the 14th Yes, during during during
that time we would normally be within
like summer school, so not too much is
going on during
summer school. Yeah, I think
>> Like we don't we don't really
have it um
all the ones pulled out till
after summer school. Okay. All right.
Okay.
Any more questions?
>> on that one?
All right. Um
ID number 3544391
which would have a location of the
Pleasantville High School Auditorium
from the Pleasantville Rec Center. Um
they usually they have their summer camp
here, but they use the pool. They also
have their summer play annually here in
the auditorium.
Uh that would be a a fee of $1,500
which is a board cost of $1,500
cuz it in accordance with category one
uh being a municipal youth organization
which is the Rec Center, you do not
charge them a fee for any any usage
inside the buildings, whether it's
classrooms, multi-purpose rooms,
gymnasiums, stuff like that.
Is so question that you you charge them
But because
>> inside, but you charge them for outside.
>> Because under the agreement that the
board approved, not me
there's a fee for stadium rentals. It it
doesn't fall under categories one
through four.
Can we get a copy of that category one?
>> Sure. Yeah, you can get a copy of
whatever you want and then you guys can
revise whatever you want.
Okay.
And also, is this a day where our kids
are going to be using the pool?
The pool the the pool usage for that
would be over.
No, but I'm saying our kids won't be
using the The pool will be The pool is
usually closed like the last day of
summer school and then the maintenance
is done
like that last part of August to prepare
for the school year.
>> but what about
Don't we have a
a summer time where like all summer the
pool is open for the Pleasantville
residents and
Yes, ma'am.
Is this cutting into them hours? No,
ma'am. No. No.
Everything has like a time slot like
every year. So, like our our care
program
So, our our care program uses the pool
two days a week, the rec center uses the
pool two days a week and then I think
community's community swim is four days
a week.
Yeah.
>> A Wednesday?
So, let me ask you one more question.
So, do you have security already working
on that day?
Um as far as my knowledge is security
>> on that day during those hours because
if you do, then So, for the majority the
majority here your security is 10-month
employees.
Right, but I'm saying will you have the
regular security working on that day
because if you do, you don't have to get
extra security because if they're
already here working
you kill two birds with one stone. If
they're working already, why would you
need to, you know what I mean, have
people come in additional
You don't have no night security working
on that day? No. Okay. Okay. No. Okay.
Next one.
Uh so, the other one um it doesn't have
an ID number yet, but it's on the
Pleasantville High School football
field. It's for the Pleasantville Fire
Department. That date is still to be
determined. In June uh they're looking
for like June the 5th, I believe. It's
for a field day that um where they bring
all the fifth graders or fourth and
fifth graders throughout the district.
>> throughout the district to the football
field and they um take part in a a
competition.
Are we having anything going on with our
kids on that day? It's our kids that's
in the competition. No, I'm just saying
every single kid? The fourth and fifth
grade, I believe.
>> Okay. Yes, it's fourth and fifth. I'm
just asking. It might be No, they're
kids, you know, our kids using it. So, I
just don't want to Oh, no, no. Like, if
you know, no, like we would work with
athletics. Like, if that's the day that
they would have the field, they wouldn't
have gym or anything out there, yeah.
Okay. Sounds good.
>> [snorts]
>> Any other questions about
um
agenda?
Madam Chair, I have a question. Go
ahead. Uh Mr. Vance, thank you for being
here and answering these questions. Um
in your opinion, what what are some of
the top issues that we need to address?
>> I don't I don't I don't work with an
opinion. I just do it I don't have an
opinion. But, what what are some of the
issues that we need to address as a
board in terms of facilities that you
see crucial?
>> I don't have an opinion with anything
with the board. No, facilities. I I
understand, but you're asking me what's
my opinion as the board. I can't I can't
answer that for you. I have Like,
something that's emergency. Um No, right
now everything that's emerging is on
this agenda. I was going to say yeah.
>> Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Next, we have curriculum and
instruction.
Page 21 of
21 of 31.
Um we our curriculum expert is um out
this week, so I'm going to present for
her.
So, starting with
8.2,
there's a list of workshop and
conferences um for several staff members
in area of social media and sleep
adolescence, managing sudden
um sudden traumatic loss, foundations of
traumatic awareness,
um congressional contact committee
um in Washington, D.C.
We have um a school health summit.
It's virtual. It's not offsite.
And we have um food distribution
coordinator training, which is um
required every year for our food bank.
And we have our family pack program.
ABC and school we have school climate
anti-bullying conference, which all of
our counselors normally go every school
year.
Advanced Canva techniques um for the
world language learners.
And then we also have last
for number 14 um
the membership meeting for
um SGBODA, which is our music program.
Part B is our activities. We have South
Main Street School having a June team
celebration.
That's on June 3rd, because of course
June 13th we're out. There's no cost to
the district.
It's a celebration with staff and
students and the community.
Um South Main will also have a third
grade end of the year celebration.
Um that's on June 25th.
And it's coming out of student activity
raised funds.
There's a read-a-read-a-thon celebration
on May 15th.
And there's a $126 cost. It's coming out
of student activity raised funds.
There's an annual chess tournament.
Which is if you can get out, it'd be
nice for you to go see it. The kids do a
very good job.
Um that's
for the chess from the chess club. And
then for early childhood we have pre-K
families um ESL classes. That's May
13th.
And it should say until June 20th, May
28th, I apologize. Those are parent
classes offered by our early childhood
program.
The middle school will have an art show
on May 20th.
And the preschool registration and
health event, um those are the dates May
13th, May 10th, June 10th, June 17th,
July 8th, July 15th, August 12th, August
19th,
between 3:30 to 7:00. These events is to
help um promote our early childhood
programs and get more students enrolled
in our pre-K
classrooms.
There's a preschool dental decay
screening.
And you have dates here located on page
23.
Um that's going to be on May 12th at
AtlantiCare North Main Street.
May 13th will be at North Main Street
School.
May 14th, South Main Street School.
May 18th, Middle School of
Pleasantville. May 19th at South Main
Street School.
May 20th at Leeds Avenue, South Main and
May 21st and Gateway Head Start May
21st.
So, those are the dates for the decay
dental decay screenings and it's offered
to all our families in the preschool
area.
Um number nine, we have district-wide
Latino Institute Community Conference
which will be on May 21st. It was
previously board approved, but the date
had changed, so it's now May 21st.
Leeds Avenue School has Smiles Mentoring
end-of-the-year barbecue,
which is coming out of student
activities fund.
Leeds Avenue School fourth and fifth
grade PLCs. It was previously board
approved for another date, but it's now
being re um revised. The date has been
revised to June 8th.
And it's about internet internet safety
and cyberbullying presentations.
Lees Avenue has MLL family literacy
night. Oh, there's another date change
for it June 15th from 3:25 to 5:00.
They have a first grade end of the year
picnic
or barbecue. I don't like saying picnic.
June 16th from 11:30 to 2:30.
And their fifth grade end of the year
celebration will be June 23rd from 9:30
to 11:00.
Coming out of student activities funds
for $200.
North Main Street School will have a
band concert from 4:00 to 5:00 on June
4th.
North Main Street School Sister to
Sister Club will take place on May 27th.
They're having a a spa day for girls.
South Main Street School Sisterhood
Mother Daughter Tea is on May 14th from
4:00 to 6:00.
North Main Street School has a
school-wide paint party
on May 13th. I think rain date is a May
21st.
Are you ready for ice pops for North
Main Street School ice pops for kids?
South Main is having a Juneteenth
celebration
on June 3rd.
I think some of these are double.
Cuz this is South Main was already I
apologize. South Main was already in for
these dates.
Right? Let me double check.
Yeah, their Juneteenth was already
there.
The Read-A-Thon
for South Main Street School will be May
15th
from 12:00 to 2:00.
And they're having a special education
extravaganza
on June 1st.
It's a celebration of student
achievement student achievement. They're
having a Scholastic Book Fair
from June 8th to June 12th and their
gardening event on June 11th is $1,700
for refreshments and it's coming out of
the PEP account. And this is hosted by
the Horticultural Club activity.
Washington Avenue, I'm skipping the ones
that's duplicated so please you know, I
just want to let you know. Washington
Avenue's field day is June 1st to June
4th with June 4th is the the rain date.
They're having a i-Ready celebration
celebrating um celebrated and sponsored
by Chick-fil-A
for the the most i-Ready um student
growth. They're also having a
kindergarten stepping up ceremony on
June 23rd.
Parent workshop
regarding inter- interpreting access
scores for parents
on June 22nd, they're having an art
class
for parent and student activity bonding
on May 21st.
The middle school will have a 7th grade
end of the year barbecue June 18th.
It's coming out of student activities
for 1875.
My role model and me, this is a dads or
guardian participate in fun building
activities with the students and that's
on June 5th.
They're having a power hour end of the
year celebration
at the middle school on May 28th.
The Pleasant Fire Department will visit
on June 1st
to do a fire prevention and safety
assembly.
The Yes.
High school does power hour?
Power hour is a tutoring? Yes.
Power hour is our tutoring program.
>> the middle school does power hour.
Yes. Okay.
Middle school is also having a
Juneteenth in the year celebration on
June 18th.
June 19th, I'm sorry, June 10th in the
year celebration on June 18th as um the
end of the year celebration coming out
activities, the student activity account
for A73. They're also having an art show
on May 20th to showcase the students'
artwork.
Pleasantville High School's Bring Your
Child to Work Day is being ratified. Um
staff were able to bring their children
to school and it was really, really
nice. The kids and the staff and the
students enjoyed that day.
Uh the Pleasantville High School is
doing a father pool jam. They're having
a pool celebration, um a fatherly pool
jam.
It's a pool celebration with
the um the
the fathers club with the students. How
are they doing that?
Like, what is that about? I I know what
it says, but like
can you explain a little bit more to me?
Father pool jam.
Yeah, like what does it consist of?
They're at the pool or what?
>> [laughter]
>> It's It's kind of like a a fun pool. Um
some of the the parent volunteers are
sponsoring
The does The fatherly pool jam is when
the parents of the some of the parents,
not just the fathers, but primarily the
fathers are sponsoring the pool jam in
celebration with the students. Oh, okay.
At the pool, right?
>> Yes. Oh, okay. I think I need more
information on that. You know, Mrs.
McQueen, I see you in the back.
Oh, okay.
They did.
>> Okay. Cuz it does sound a little Thank
you. I appreciate you being here to res-
Thanks.
The newcomer parent meeting
is May 22nd. And newcomer
>> High School. And what is
freshmen?
That's the parents for the parents, the
parent meeting.
For like people that are new to the high
school or
>> No, newcomers like for the country. Oh,
okay. Isn't that the newcomers that the
one for the country?
They're new to the country, so they have
a parent have all the parents come
together and offer support for parents
who are not from this country and have
that support service It's like a support
team.
Okay.
Good. Multicultural Fair at
Pleasantville High School for June 5th.
They're having a fair. There's no cost
to the district. Our senior class parent
meeting
will be held on May 20th.
Leeds Avenue School will host a
internet safety and cyberbullying
presentation for students on June 8th.
And this is going to be provided by a
special Homeland Security agent.
And Middle School of Pleasantville is
having an AtlantiCare Healthy Schools
Believe to Achieve Challenge. And this
is to promote health and wellness. Staff
will participate in a weight loss
competition to promote an active and
healthy lifestyle. And that's from May
14th to June 15th.
The following schools will be having
fundraisers. I'm going to kind of group
all North Main's together.
Um so, North Main Street South Main
Street School will have a third grade
icy sale
on May 15th, 22nd, and 29th of May.
They will also have a school spirit
dress-down day to raise funds for
activities.
Build your own sundae. That should be d
a e. I apologize it will be on June 11th
until June 12th.
There um
build your own Sunday
pick up a pop
so that's the ice pop
fundraiser
and then North Main has an ice pop sale
from May 13th to May 21st.
Number nine Middle School of
Pleasantville will have a dress down day
for May 29th.
Pleasantville High School will have
snack stand sales for May for June 5th.
Yearbook fundraiser on May 29th.
Snack stand sales for the yearbook
specifically on May 22nd.
Traveling Times Coffee on June 10th.
A walking taco sale on May 21st.
And freeze the moment June 4th.
Ice cream sale on June 10th.
Those are the fundraisers for the
schools.
For the trips
we have Pleasantville High School track
team will be visiting
Burlington County High School
for a competition on June on May 29th
and May 3rd to May 30th from 2:30. I
think the rain date is May 30th from
2:30 to 8.
No, they're staying overnight. They're
there
overnight cuz they have lodging and it's
$736.
South Main Street School is visiting the
having a trip to Historic Cold Spring
Village on May 26th.
They're visiting safety patrol the
safety patrol gardeners will go to the
Regal Cinema movie theater
on June 1st.
First grade will
visit the rain Rainforest Cafe on June
9th.
Second grade will also visit the
Rainforest Cafe on June 2nd.
The middle school academic excellence
recognition luncheon is on May 19th.
Pleasantville High School academic
excellence
recognition luncheon will be
on May 19th as well.
The middle school
will visit eighth grade
will visit a visit the Adventure
Aquarium on May 20th. Leeds Avenue
School will go to the Planetarium in
Glassboro on June 9th.
Leeds Avenue will Renaissance and Boys
and Girls Club will visit Dave & Busters
on June 17th.
South Main Cold Spring was there already
for fourth grade.
Which one you have?
Uh what is the
What fund What funding is number seven?
The um
It's a grant, the Jetty Rock grant.
>> the grant.
>> Yes.
>> Oh, okay.
So they're going to provide the cost for
it. It looks like you have a couple of
these on here twice. Okay, I'll stop.
Number seven [clears throat] and 16
Seven?
>> Unless it's two separate things, but it
looks the same to me.
You said number seven? Yes, isn't that
The aquarium? Yeah.
They um they
were able to get the cost paid by the
Jetty Rock grant.
Yeah, I'm just saying you got it on here
twice.
I can't hear you. You have it on here
twice. That's why I said some of these
are all duplicated, so I apologize. So
if you see me skip, it's because I
already said it twice and I'm I want to
respect your time and I apologize it was
done twice.
I think it did it as a transfer of
hands. It was put in twice.
Oh, you know what I wanted to ask about
number 15.
How did
I I I'm just curious. How did um
they get the mission and is it like
something we
for the they got it provided by the
museum?
Yes, that there are opportunities if you
they send you emails to principals, so
many different places where they will
fund the visit for you. Oh, wow. That's
really good. Yes.
That's good. So, it's really important
to check the emails when you're a
principal because you don't want things
like this to go and you can take
advantage of it. Okay.
Washington Avenue will visit the
Wetlands ESL class Wetlands Institute on
June 15th.
And as you just stated, the Art Museum
in Philadelphia is going to be a mission
and transportation provided by the
Philadelphia Art Museum.
That's good.
The middle school eighth grade will
visit Adventure Aquarium on May 20th.
The Pleasantville Art Club will visit
the National Museum of African-American
History on May 27th.
The Renaissance Club in of the Excuse
me, Renaissance Club
for MSP will visit Denny's on June 1st.
The E-Sports Club, Stockton University
on June 8th June 3rd. Pleasantville High
School VPA, the Visual Performing Arts
9th through 12 Teen Arts Festival will
That will be on June the 1st.
Pleasantville High School JROTC Army
Aviation Support Center
um on June 4th.
The Pleasantville High School ESL class
will visit ACCC on May 27th.
Pleasantville High School National Honor
Society 9th through 12 will visit
um Leeds Avenue School on June 1st.
Pleasantville High School Student
Council will visit Washington Avenue
Elementary School on June 2nd.
The Pleasantville High School Visual
Arts
um club will visit Museum of Illusions
in Philadelphia on May 20th.
And here it also, remember we talked
about the grant that's paying. This is
the the company, this is the title of
the company, Jetty Rock Foundation,
State of New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection. Wow. And
that's a description of the that's
more of a description of the program
that's funding that grant. Okay.
And this is the amount that they're
going to is this approved the grant for
them? This is the money they want to
donate. You're approving the donation.
Okay.
Um, for resolutions
um, for CNI Empowerment Matters, um,
this is the the
organization that is providing some
meaningful and very important, um,
training for our teachers in restorative
practices, um, for all the educators
throughout the district.
Now, when will this
>> They're doing a refresher parts two,
three, um, part two and three
implementation on June 3rd and 10th
at North Main Street School
for $2,000,
Middle School of Pleasantville, um, for
restorative practices for educators
trauma informed and culture responsive
practices on June 5th and June 12th
for 18 for $1,800 in June 2nd
to June and June 3rd, 6th and 7th 8th,
I'm sorry, for June 2nd they're going to
work on the 8th graders. Okay. And June
3rd they're going to work with 6th and
7th graders. So, that's important with
they're doing the staff and then they're
going to do the students and we talked
about next year phasing in some of the
parents as well.
Um, so they're
June 10th, they're going to also go back
and do the second part with the 6th and
7th graders.
June 16th they're going to double back
with the 8th graders and they did like
three parts. And then June 17th
6th and 7th
and then after that they'll go to Leeds
Avenue School and do tier one full staff
PLC's
for June 2nd and June 16th.
For South Main Street School full staff
mixed with PLC's June 8th and 9th
and the funding for that is $2,500. But
this was already budgeted and everything
but just had to do some changes.
High School Summer Program to begin July
6th through July 31st from 8:00 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. The cost will be 45,000 and
the funding source is the 15 account
which has already been budgeted as well.
Middle School of Pleasantville we're
asking that you accept the Jetty Rock
Grant in the amount of 2,300 is already
up there so you that's that's two.
Pleasantville High School Early College
Program summer classes July 6th through
August 20th no cost to the district.
And that can
quick question
the high school summer program
is that summer school or just where they
come
from 8:00
that is summer school. It's summer
school. Yes. Now do we take outside
district?
I'm excited that you asked that
question. I just talked to Miss White
about that. I'm thinking about another
way that we can bring back money into
the district is when we offered the
credit completion and that helped pay
off set the cost of the staff and it
also brought money back into the
district and I would love to present
that to the to the board in the future
to so maybe next summer we can offer
that.
>> [snorts]
>> And 8:03 is a duplicate we did 8:03
already.
That concludes C&I have any questions
I'm here.
And the 45
covers what? The lunch.
What number?
That should cover the teachers. Oh that
covers the teachers. The teaching staff.
That's for the teaching staff for the
45.
>> Okay.
Any questions?
Technology, there's three items on the
agenda. If Mr. Doby can come down and go
over those three items for technology.
Uh Mr. Doby, there's three items for
technology on the agenda.
Uh
This is like
Looks like a Just start with this to be
BOE items.
Do you have this?
>> I think she put it actually on the
agenda. It is. I didn't see it on this.
Maybe yours? Oh yeah, page
Page 9 of 31.
Starting at 3.17.
Page 9, 3.17.
Hello.
Okay.
Uh 317, plain old telephone service pots
lines audit.
Motion for the board to accept the
[clears throat] recommendation of acting
superintendent of schools and hereby
approve the data network solutions to
identify and validate all active lines
associated equipment across the school
at a cost of 3,000.
Sorry, I ran.
Okay.
>> [clears throat]
>> Uh pots lines are plain old telephone
services. They're commonly used for
alarm systems, elevators, and such.
We have [clears throat] a lot of pots
lines throughout our district. This
company's planning on coming in here and
doing an audit of our
plain old telephone lines
and [clears throat] determine what we're
using and what we're not. That's going
to cost us $3,000.
They test all the lines and remove any
equipment that we're not using.
With this audit,
uh if we decide I've already priced out
another supplier for our phone sys- pots
phone systems that's offering a 50%
deduction, over 50%.
If we decide to move to this other
service provider
that we already use currently for our
ISPs,
uh they would waive the $3,000 fee
because we would be
moving over for
take they would be taking over the
services.
Does that make sense?
>> be a savings. It would. It would be a
savings. Actually, our return on
investment would be less than 1 month.
Well, it would be a savings it will be a
savings in a way because if we have
lines that we're not using and we're
paying for them, to find out identify
what they are to get them off the plan,
that will save us money. That's 100%
correct. Yes. So one is is to reduce our
current bill that we have, which will
save our money month over month, and
then with that we would also find
savings by moving over to a new supplier
that would reduce our bill that for the
lines that we are currently using
already. Okay. So when we So
when we if we approve this, when will
this start?
Like when can this get done?
>> Um they would send a team out next week
at the latest, it'd be the late side of
next week to begin the audit.
>> So we'll have it done by next school
year. Oh, yes. Between now and the
summertime you guys will
>> I would like to even have it done
wish and hopes and dreams within the end
of a month within a month, so that we
can see the savings on the next on the
next month's bill.
>> savings is you know, a plus.
Okay. Thank you. Yep.
Um Hold on. I'm sorry. Got a question.
>> So as of right now, we're paying for
phone lines that we're not using.
Correct.
How long do you think we've been doing
that?
I don't know. We don't know.
>> Without going back and looking at bills,
I could not tell you.
Um
we also
as we've moved away from different
technologies, some of that technologies
moved away from those tele- you needing
those telephone lines, but we never
removed the telephone lines. So, we
moved with some of the equipment, but
then the telephone lines had
held over as residuals. So, are they are
they actual telephone lines like in the
schools in the schools or like personal
old phones?
These are telephone lines. So,
in the
uh telephone lines are commonly used
inside schools for emergency services
like uh when you want to call the
elevator service or the alarm system
needs to go off. You need high re- high
availability, high resi- resilient
uh uh
uh com- communication lines, and that's
why phone like this, plain old telephone
service, is a very popular service for
this. Okay.
Um this is our Mic- Microsoft renewal
licensing renewal.
Um
attached is the motion to board to
accept the recommendation of the acting
superintendent of school and hereby
approve the annual Microsoft licensing
renewal with White Rock Security for the
2026-2027 school year at a cost of
$20,812.93
utilizing account
pricing is in accordance with the NJECC
Microsoft E- EES cooperative contract
486-8496
level B 3-year annual price lock.
So, this is for the whole district.
>> This is our whole district. This is
includes all of our Microsoft licensing
for our computers that we use, laptops,
as well as our servers. Okay, so this is
per year for the next 3 years. Great,
that is a per year price for licensing.
That is correct.
>> for the next 3 years.
That is a price per year, so it's
20,000.
>> what I'm saying. So this rate won't
change next year or the
>> As I Yes, that is correct. Yes, yes.
We would be locked in for one for 3
years under that price.
Is there any questions on that?
Any more questions?
Um
no.
Okay, next question. Sure.
>> [clears throat]
>> Yeah, sure.
Uh Is that 319? 319, Securely
replacement for GoGuardian. A motion for
the board to accept the recommendation
of acting superintendent of schools and
hereby approve Securely to provide
educational technology for safety,
wellness, and management software for
K-12 schools to monitor and filter
student internet activity on school
devices both on and off campus at a cost
of $26,064
for the beginning of May 1st through
June 30th utilizing account
This is uh So we currently use
GoGuardian for our uh to protect our
students from getting into certain uh
blocking certain content and ability to
see certain screens and other types of
stuff of that nature. It also allows
abilities for the teachers to see the
student screens and work with the
students while they're going through it.
The other side to this that is
an addendum to GoGuardian that also is
offered by Securely is uh a replacement
software called Hall Pass, which is very
similar to a smart pass software that
we're currently using inside both the
high school and the middle school to
determine
uh how long students are out in the
hallways and what digital passes they
have.
Uh this software also is incorporates
that as well. And then the last thing
with this
is it also
includes uh wrapped a uh hall pass
software that's used for visitor passes
that we currently use called Raptor
Technologies. Uh that software
uh looks up the background of visitors
that we have to make sure that they're
not on certain lists um and that kind of
stuff and then approves them and records
all of their
uh
driver's license and that kind of
information about them. So, we record
all of our visitors and then run them
through a background check.
We're using these three different
softwares
as together and this solution here would
consolidate that tech stack underneath
securely as well as find savings that we
would be able to use
in
uh underneath those areas.
All right, I have a question. Um cuz I
remember
uh I'm not sure if it was a parent or
someone in the um
congre-
out there.
Uh meet missing mentioning about um
uh was it Class Dojo or the interaction
between parents and teachers? It was too
much information.
Like it was selling to the AI or
something like
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah, so um the report I didn't I didn't
dive into that report, so I can't speak
on that, but I can tell you that there
is privacy policies around this mostly
because we are collecting information
about users that visit our stuff and
they do not have sales on there to uh
uh
selling the information from from their
websites.
>> like
I mean I can't speak how Class Class
Dojo because I didn't read the terms and
conditions out of ClassDojo, but I did
read the terms and conditions out of
securely and they do not sell it to
third party.
Can GoGuardian and block them? Okay,
like if they Can they No? Uh GoGuardian
is more of uh think of it like a DNS
blocker. It's more of a way of blocking
what content goes to the website and not
so much uh what you're want to go to per
se. It's only what you would get to see.
And it's mostly used for our students
inside of things, not so much at a
higher administrative level of uh
of what uh IT or technology
administrates
to the district.
>> Well, what I'm saying is like the whole
district uses Remind and and and them
type of apps. So
is in there like you could actually go
and search a class if you want. I can go
and search Miss
Miss A's English class and it'll come
up, but descriptively what the what I
think I was hearing in the comments was
like
it can basically
make your child. So like she me and the
teacher could be discussing that, you
know, my child gets A's or my child only
wants to see but then by then it makes
an image of your child. And technology
is going that far.
I don't want to put the I don't want the
kids out there risky.
I understand. As for
as for ClassDojo, I don't know what
they're doing with that information. I
can go and read the terms and
conditions. So I I can't speak on that
without further knowledge. However, with
securely, I can tell you that the
information that they do collect on us
does not get sold to third parties.
Got it. Can we just double check so this
way uh
if a parent comes back up and have the
questions that we have an answer? So can
you guys just look into that?
>> Yes, 100%.
>> us since it was a concern. Yep. Thank
you.
>> Absolutely. I can read the terms and
conditions on uh
uh
ClassDojo.
Okay.
you said is fine, right? Maybe we should
ClassDojo is separate, yes. But I can
also I will find out the terms and
conditions on Securly, but I do know
that they do not sell to third parties.
As for ClassDojo, I don't know the
details of that.
>> be be
be used like Remind? Cuz Remind is more
As I understand it, ClassDojo is like a
Remind, but it's a lot more direct
contact between the the teachers and the
parents. It provides a way in which the
parents and I've seen teachers using it
at the elementary school having
conversations directly with the parents
about their students' performances or
other things of that nature.
Remind is more of a broadcast type of
thing, or at least that of my experience
of using it. It's a little less direct
one-on-one interaction. Securly would be
not in not touching either one of those
solutions.
Got it.
>> [snorts]
>> Uh, educational
service contracts. That's
Do you have any other questions for me?
Okay.
Am I clear?
Oh.
Thank you. Next we have board comments,
1.8. Mr. Marino.
Uh, first and foremost, thank you for
sticking with us
throughout this meeting.
Um,
I like I said, I've I've been on the
other side. I understand, but thank you
for being here. Thank you for asking the
relevant questions. Keep coming up with
your questions. We truly appreciate it.
Um, and let's move this district
forward. Um, I do want to say
congratulations to our acting
superintendent. Um, I look forward to to
working with you and and bettering the
school district for our students, our
educators, our parents.
Um I do want to give out a shout-out to
our Pleasantville JROTC.
Uh the military ball was quite
spectacular.
It was emotional.
Uh congratulations to the graduating uh
leaders of the JROTC and um
best of luck to the incoming leadership.
I look forward to seeing what you do in
the next academic year. And of course,
congratulations to everyone who made
that night so successful. Um the
cafeteria workers, the staff, the
sergeant, the lieutenant colonel, and
all of the students.
Um
And again, uh I know it's teachers
appreciation week. So, that does not uh
pass by me. So, uh I send the most
appreciation to all of the teachers in
the Pleasantville School District. Thank
you so much for what you do. You change
lives. And something that I always like
to remind all of the future teachers
that I get to meet um at the university
level is we are all planting seeds to a
forest that we may never see.
And so, we have to keep that in mind.
Um and so, thank you for all that you
do. Thank you, Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Romano.
Ms. Aikens?
Um
I want to say uh thank everyone for
coming. Thanks for everyone who's
watching. Um
I want to also say uh
you know, uh
congratulations to everyone in JROTC.
They actually did do a wonderful um
job. It was a beautiful event. Um all
the staff, want to say that we
appreciate you
um and that we are working to move this
district forward. Um and continue to
come, voice your comments, your
concerns, and everyone have a good
night. Thank you.
Ms. Harris.
Um
What do I want to say?
Okay, I just want to say thank you all
for coming, holding us accountable.
And
you know, I always say up here on this
platform it's totally different now. I
was once the mom that was down there at
that mic.
But to go back and now I'm sitting over
here and I got to think and you got to
use your heart and go with your best
judgment and and just go off of what we
are given, not what
we really know. I'm brand new at this. I
never
ran for a board, I never sat on the
board. I'm brand new, so I'm learning
it. I'm reading. If you see my bed, my
living room is all over, but I thank you
all for having patience with me.
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week and day.
You are the center of of our children. I
have children in the district. And I
know my children come home and they're
raving about miss one and miss one and
so thank you so much. Trust me, it does
not go unnoticed.
And all we can do is take this thing one
at a time, one day at a time.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Harris. Ms. Sanchez.
I just want to say thank you to say
everyone that attended tonight.
I want to tell everyone to stay
involved, stay inspired.
Um
This district is moving in the right
direction. Uh, the school board is
working together to do what's in the
best interest of the district and the
people in it. I appreciate you guys
input. I appreciate
all information given.
Um,
happy Teacher Appreciation Week and you
guys enjoy the of your life, and drive
home safely.
Everyone has said it all for me, but I
first want to say thank you to the
acting superintendent, Dr. Jaime Medina,
and to Ms. Dale White for working on
this budget, and helping us to pass it.
Um they worked very hard and tirelessly,
so I just want to thank them for doing
that. And also want to thank you for
bringing the tax levy down.
With that. Um
and want to thank you for this board.
Also, my colleagues said about the
JROTC, it was really a great night. Um
everything was nice.
Um also, before I forget, I want to say
happy Mother's Day to the mothers out
there, cuz Mother's Day is Sunday. Hope
that you have a great time, and we ask
you to continue to pray for the
district, um and pray for the board.
Until we meet again, we hope that you
have a happy, safe, and blessed uh week.
May I have a motion to adjourn this
meeting?
Motion by Mrs. Atkins. May I have a
second? Second by Ms. Harris. All in
favor? I. I. Oppose?
Good night.