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Regular Meeting Minutes - June 15, 2017 Page 1 of 345 Wayne Township Public Schools REGULAR MEETING MINUTES JUNE 15,2017 The Regular Meeting of the Wayne Township Board of Education was held on Thursday, June 15, 2017 in Council Chambers of the Municipal Building at 475 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470. Executive Session was held in the Large Conference Room, in the Administration Building, 50 Nellis Drive, Wayne, New Jersey 07470. The meeting was scheduled to begin at 6:00 p.m. , pursuant to the terms of the Sunshine Law. The meeting was called to order at 6:03 p.m. by Donald Pavlak, Jr. , Board President. I. Reading of Sunshine Law statement Adequate notice of this Regular and Executive Meeting, setting forth time, date and location, has been provided in accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act on January 6, 2017 by: Prominently posting a copy on the bulletin board in the lobby of the offices of the Board of Education, which is a public place reserved for such announcements, transmitting a copy of this notice to The Record, The Wayne Today, and the Municipal Clerk. II. Roll Call PRESENT: Eileen Albanese, Mitch Badiner, Michael Bubba, Cathy Kazan, Gail Okun, Donald Pavlak, Jr. , Suzanne Pudup, Stacey Scher, and Christian Smith. AlLSO PRESENT: Dr. Mark Toback, Superintendent, Toni Liskiewicz, Assistant Superintendent, Nicole C. Schoening, Assistant Business Administrator/Acting Board Secretary and Kyle Ulscht, Board General Counsel. A motion was made to convene into Executive Session. III. Approval to Convene into Executive Session Regular Meeting Minutes - June 15, 2017 Page 2 of 345 x- 2017 - 1 RECOMMENDED ACTION: Approved WHEREAS, the Wayne Township Board of Education (hereinafter referred to as the "Board") from time to time must convene into Executive Session to discuss confidential matters including but not limited to personnel issues, legal matters, student issues and labor negotiations. WHEREAS, THE Board has on its agenda for the meeting being held on June 15, 2017 on issues relating to personnel and legal matters, which must be discussed in a confidential closed session. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the Board shall move into Executive Session to discuss the above referenced matter. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the minutes of the executive session will provide as much information as possible without violating any applicable privilege or confidentiality so that the public can understand what was discussed and when available what the Board decision was. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the minutes of the executive session will be released to the public in an appropriately redacted form within a reasonable period of time. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the redacted portion of the executive session minutes will not be released until such time as the privilege or confidentiality is no longer applicable. Motion: To Approve, Moved by MICHAEL BUBBA Seconded by EILEEN ALBANESE. Passed. 9-0-0. Board Members Voting: Ayes: ALBANESE, BADINER, BUBBA KAZAN, OKUN, PAVLAK, PUDUP, SCHER, SMITH IV. Reconvene The Executive Session of the Wayne Board of Education Regular Meeting of June 15, 2017 was convened in the Conference Room of the Wayne Board of Education, 50 Nellis Drive, Wayne, NJ 07470. The Statement of Compliance setting forth time, date and location was read in accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act and the roll call was taken. The meeting was recessed and is now being reconvened. The Board reconvened at 7:50 p.m. in the Wayne Township Municipal Building Council Chambers, 475 Valley Road, Wayne, New Jersey 07470. Mr. Donald Pavlak, Jr., Board President, advised that the Board had been meeting in Executive Session at 50 Nellis Drive for the purpose of discussing personnel, negotiations and legal matters. Information regarding these matters will be made public, if and when, appropriate. PRESENT: Eileen Albanese, Mitch Badiner, Michael Bubba, Cathy Kazan, Gail Okun, Donald Pavlak, Jr., Suzanne Pudup, Stacey Scher, and Christian Smith. ALSO PRESENT: Dr. Mark Toback, Superintendent, Toni Liskiewicz, Assistant Superintendent, Nicole C. Schoening, Assistant Business Administrator/Acting Board Regular Meeting Minutes - June 15, 2017 Page 3 of 345 Secretary and Kyle Ulscht, Board General Counsel, four Administrators, and the majority of the Wayne Education Association. FLAG SALUTE MOMENT OF SILENCE V. Recognition Program 2017 OUTGOING PTO PRESIDENTS Kimberly Gilchrist II President II PTO Council I Christine Salzone II President II PTO Council I Audrey Crowe IICo-Presidentll Randall Carter E.S. I Maureen Machado IICo-Presidentll Randall Carter E.S. I Christina Kindler IICo-Presidentll James Fallon E.S. I Susan Ginart IICo-Presidentll James Fallon E.S. IChristine Gaccione IICo-Presidentll Theunis Dey E.S. I Dawn Solter II President II Lafayette E.S. I Eileen Domico I President I Schuyler Colfax M.S. Jill Spodek ICo-Presidentl George Washington M.S. Eufemia Campagna ICo-Presidentl George Washington M.S. Don Pavlak: This is a yearly ritual with us here. We honor our PTO presidents who are leaving us after their year of service or many years of service in some cases. Without the PTOs, many of you, almost everyone here tonight knows, we don't know where we would be. The countless donations, the parties they run and other events they run for all of us. The time is endless that they put in and the contributions are beyond what we could recognize them with. In honor of them this evening, we will honor them with a plaque for their service to the school district and to the PTO. Dr. Toback presented the plaques to outgoing PTO presidents. VI. Administrative Summary Report A. SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT B. HIB REPORT SHOP WITH A COP PROGRAM Regular Meeting Minutes - June 15, 2017 Page 4 of 345 Presented to: Angel Johnson, Student, Packanack Elementary School with L.EAD. Officer Ray Caronia Presented by: Karen Holgersen, Teacher, Packanack Elementary School Eda Ferrante, President, Wayne Education Association Karen Palmieri, WEA2nd Vice President END OF YEAR REPORT Presented by Dr. Mark Toback, Superintendent of Schools I would like to talk about our goals for the district and the different ways we have been able to work through some of the important issues in the district by establishing district goals and acting upon them. It's important to know that the district has seven important district goals for this school year. They were approved at the August 25, 2016 board meeting and they include specific information about how to achieve those goals. Each of the goals was written as a smart goal, which means it was specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and it included a timeline. Goal 1--Language Arts, which is a two year goal. You could read some of the information, which is relevant to the elementary schools. Ultimately, the goal involves the implementation of the new program, Fundations, in the kindergarten/first grade. In addition to that the idea of the intervention model that was brought to the district a little while ago to bring in additional certified Wilson reading specialists. The other part about the goal includes piloting. The idea is that the district was looking to have new language arts materials. So the district ran three pilots, Reading Wonders, Ready Gen 2.0 and Schoolwide. These are new language arts programs the district considered. In the end the committee decided to go with Schoolwide. The budget included $750,000 and that will allow for new language arts resources for all elementary schools at all grade levels next year. In addition to the budget, there are 31 days of professional development that are included to improve language arts for the upcoming school year. 31 days of professional development for our staff members for the upcoming school year. That's a very exciting thing. Goal 2--Professional Development. Ultimately, the district is moving ahead-owe have already held our first online professional development programs. We've had a number of teachers; new teachers, incoming employees that have participated in our new professional development program. Goal 3--World Class Science Education. For those of you who are science teachers, working at the high schools, we have already begun construction of two new science labs. The two labs at each of the high schools is the beginning of a multi-year commitment by the Board of Ed to bring our science labs up to speed. To rebuild every science lab that we have at the high school level. The process already began. Goal 4--K-Wrap Implementation. One of the important things that emerged as a result of our kindergarten situation last year was the development of the K-wrap program. The program has expanded. It will now serve over 200 students in 11 sections for the upcoming school year. I am happy to report that the district recently completed a survey for the parents; a pre and post survey. We are happy to report that Regular Meeting Minutes - June 15, 2017 Page 5 of 345 overwhelmingly the survey was very positive for the k wrap program. So that's a very exciting thing. We are very happy to see so many parents see value in our K-Wrap program. Goal 5--Enhancing Career Education. Some of you as Board members were able to attend and learn a little bit more about what we're doing with our partnership day. You learned about how the district is partnering with local business leaders and also with former students to put together a really nice series of opportunities to have students get out there and learn about the workplace. We have a number of additional business partners that we brought on board this year to help us with placements.