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Good evening everyone. I would like to welcome you to the July 20th, 2026 Board of Education meeting. We are calling the meeting to order. It's 7:05 p.m. If everyone could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of

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the rep it stands nationisy and justice for all. >> A reading of meeting notice. The New Jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend [clears throat] the meetings of the public bodies at which any business

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affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Verona Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published in the Star Ledger online and can also be be viewed by the public on the board of ed board

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of ed's official website. Legal notices for New Jersey's public entities will also be accessible at the New Jersey Department of State's legal notice website. Copies of tonight's agenda and resolutions have been made available to the public via the board of education website. Dr. Riley, if you could please

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call attendance. >> Modris >> here. >> Mr. Berna >> here. >> Mr. Bowen here. We have a quum. >> Thank you so much. Moving on to our routine matters. I need a motion to approve our

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meeting minutes from our meeting of June 22nd 2026. Motion by >> So moveic, seconded by Mr. Boon. Are there any discussions? >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. >> Miss Kenotic. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Frisco. >> Yes. >> Mr. Ferna.

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>> Yes. >> And Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on [snorts] to our superintendence report by Miss Diane D. Jeppi. >> Good evening. Good evening. >> Very quick. So, excuse me. Uh, tonight

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is um the statutory presentation of the graduation um of high school graduation results. So, Sorry. Thank you.

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So, uh, no fewer a student graduating from, um, high school in New Jersey has to, uh, meet credit requirement of 120. Our policy in Verona pushes that to 130. Um they are specific and spec specific

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areas from English, math, uh laboratory science, social studies, financial literacy, health and PE, visual and performing arts, world language and 21st century life and uh careers and technology. So in order to do that um

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you have to have those credits plus a passing score on the state test which is uh New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment or the NJGPA or a competency assessment and I have a list of those. I was click on it but I'm

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not going to because I this um so the requirements for tonight's presentation is I have to tell the board how many students graduated, how many graduated under the substitute competency test process, the number of

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students that graduated under the portfolio appeals process. So those students that didn't pass either the uh statutory test or the substitute competency test and had to submit a portfolio demonstrating competency. The number of students receiving state

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endorsed high school diplomas as a result of meeting any alternate requirements as a uh as specified in an individualized education program an IEP. The total number of students denied graduation from the 12th grade class and the number of students denied graduation

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solely because of failure to pass uh an end of course test um competency test for uh for the portfolio appeals. So the number of students

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I read that from here the number of students that graduated were 159. That was 154 Vera High School graduates and five students that were placed out of out of district placements. Uh the number of students that graduated under the substitute competency test is 18.

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That is down from last year significantly. We were about 18% last year. The number of students uh graduated under the portfolio appeals process uh is 12. That was 28 last year. So also significantly down. Uh the

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number of students receiving a state endorsed high school diploma as a result of meeting an alternative uh uh requirement specified in their IEP. There were six one graduate and five out of district uh graduates. The number of students denied graduation

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from the 12th grade uh class is one and that is a student that um did not uh meet graduation requirements based on attendance. Although I believe that student will be graduating in um August. The number of students denied graduation

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uh due to failure to pass any of those tests, no one. Sorry, I can't see that from here, so I had to bring it up on my screen. So, um, the specific course requirements and core subject areas, you need 15 credits of math, 15 credits of science.

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Um and that has to be laboratory science, 15 credits social studies with specific um courses. Um two and a half credits in financial economic business or um literacy of some kind. 15 credits over four years of health safety and

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physical education. Five credits in both world languages and visual and performing arts. Technology and 21st centur Oh, technology is integrated and 21st century life and career is five credit requirement. So, I'm going to uh post this to the

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district website if anyone's interested in what these uh cut scores are. I'm not going to go through them. They're there's lengthy when you get into the cut scores for all the competency uh second pathway competency tests. Um so, I will post this to the district

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website. And there's some other information about the portfolio appeal process in both math and English. So, That is presentation. We can go back to you can take that down if you can. Thank you. And the rest of

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my report. Um just a reminder that a lot's happening in the school district over the summer. This summer actually I think at central office is busier in the summer than it is during regular school year. Um in addition to what you would expect which are you know cleaning and

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scrubbing and locker maintenance etc. Um Dr. Riley is closing out the financials preparing for for the district audit. Um we are doing lots of different um reports. Um we are writing curriculum.

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We are preparing to uh open lots of boxes of supplies and materials and make sure they get the the designated people at the different buildings and preparing our classrooms for next year. In addition to staffing, with regard to staffing, we are almost completely

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staffed. We We are in uh we are we have one staff member left to and that's the kindergarten that we added at FM that we are in the process of interviewing uh Dr. Lanzo is we got a a huge response to that we had over 100 candidates so

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there's a lot for him to go through um and we are in that process right now and we are also hiring a good number of par professionals which will reduce our reliance on the agency which are quite Two years ago, if you recall, we we

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revised our student attendance policy due um to concern over chronic absenteeism. Last year, we spoke about uh it at the one-year anniversary of that policy change. And um while we didn't see rates

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drop significantly result as a result of the policy, um we didn't see anything rise. This year, we did see a big jump in chronic absenteeism specifically at Corona High School. So, we we are revisiting the policy. One of the policies for first reading tonight is

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the student attendance policy. And um it's kind of it's unique because most districts um don't have the wording that we had in our policy. Most districts don't allow a parent to call in. Once you call your child in, it's automatically considered an excused

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absence. That's not what happens in most districts. >> [laughter] >> I know most districts there are there's only seven categories of excused absence according to the state and those are the state sanctioned jury duty um for

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students above 18. Uh take your child to work day if you have to go to court. Um if you are a junior or senior, you get three college visits that are excused. Other than that, nothing is excused. We put into our policy many many years ago that if a parent calls a child in, it's

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excused. though. Exactly. Because I mean, listen, I have a a son who had his had a fair share of absent at Corona High School. Um, and the only time those were officially excused, as far as I knew, were when I had a note, like I had a

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note to submit. Otherwise, it kind of like counted towards the, you know, the the limit that one could have to maybe not have credit for a particular class. >> Yeah. Um, your Yes. the high school was the only school that was enforcing the

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idea because high school's the only only um seat time requirement. So the it's not like that K8. Uh but when we put the the attendance policy out to parents in my back to school newsletter two years ago,

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people read it, which is a good thing, and they said, "Oh, I guess we can call our kids in and it's excused." Um last year, two years ago, we we revised it to say um the student's illness supported by written notification to the school by

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the students parents exceeded um extended or chronic absences may require physician certificate. So what it reads now for tonight's uh approval on first reading is the student's illness supported by written notification to the school by the students parents for up to

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four absences per school year. Illness absences in excess of four per school year and any illness absence of three or more consecutive school days shall be excused only upon written certification from a physician or other licensed healthcare provider stating the dates of

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the absence and that the student was unable to attend school submitted to the principal or designated within three school days of the student's return. A parent's telephone call or written note shall satisfy the notification requirement of this regulation but not

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by itself excuse such absences. Um those absence shall be recorded as unexcused and count toward truency. Now there is an attendance review committee in each school that will go over that if a student is approaching a point where they're going to lose credit. But one of

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the problems that uh that we added an additional section because we noticed looking at high school specifically, we had students that had 39 42 days out and more than half of them were school

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sponsored events, athletics, performances, field trips. Um so we are our own worst enemy when it comes to that. So we did change our field trip policy as well. And Uh we added school sponsored activities during the school

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day um section. I'm not going to read it out loud. It's on our website. Anyone that's interested can read it. Um but we we we don't want students to miss more than five sessions as a result of sponsored out outside activities.

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Chronic absenteeism, you know, is really a a can be a big problem when you're missing direct instruction, you're missing guided practice, you're missing classroom destruct discussions with your u with your classmates, um

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missing feedback from your teacher, um those can create gaps in foundational knowledge and make it difficult to keep pace. So, um we're really trying to get people to come to school. Um coming on the heels of what Miss Kenotic had to say uh I have multiple

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questions on this um no particular order. Number number one um [clears throat] is as this coming um regulation is going to show um beyond

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having it in the parents newsletter, how how much are we or how hard are we going to lean into the communication of this? because I think um with the preponderance of people in club sports, I think being a parent in that situation myself, I'm going to see you you I would

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expect to see a lot of that. And how hard or what are we what do we have in place to make sure that there are quote unquote no surprises? >> Um I will do my best to put it out um via our our communication app.

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principles will also put it out um at the beginning of school year remind at school night you know for those people that attend are there going to be people that don't read it and be surprised yes >> yeah that's the reality and >> it's the reality

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>> and you know you pointed how uh Verona's um regulation here is or Verona's approach to it I should say is unique um to maybe some of the other schools in our area um and talking to other professionals that

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work in surrounding school districts around uh Essex County, uh they they've also mentioned the chronic problem, the epidemic problem um or endemic problem that that the um that their schools have and the frustrations that I hear from

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these other professionals is that that the that it's a bit of a paper tiger in terms of the school's approach. How are we going to hold people accountable, shall we say, on this? I mean, how >> Well, if the pro the problem is actually at the high school. So, um when you take

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that excused absence out of the picture, students will risk a greater risk h have a greater risk of losing credit in classes, especially when when you have a rotating drop block. Um if you're if you're out in the morning a

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lot, so you're out when you're late come to school, you're missing that block one which changes every day. So you're you're acrewing absences across multiple coursework rather than just first period class traditional schedule. So um that

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would be one of the biggest deterrence if I were a parent or if I were a child to come to school because I don't want to have to take summer school. >> I can attest to this being a little too maybe I'm being a little too honest about this but but it is it is actually

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a very effective deterrent because at a certain point we do get notifications when you're sort of reaching or nearing the limit. you get sort of like a note that gets sent >> and it's automatic >> and it's automatic and it gets sent to you letting you know, hey, you were like this many away from potentially losing

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credit for the class and that is like you know that does put the fear in one to try to ensure that if you know if your kid is going to be out that you have proper documentation to support the you know the reasoning behind that and and to help to kind of prevent it from

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escalating to a situation where you could lose credits. I would I would tend to say that it is >> it's very clear when things are running a foul at the high school that that that is happening >> at least from the notification side of things. >> We do have to communicate with parents

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that they actually have to physically go into the parent portal to see those letters though. >> It's not like they come through US mail. They come to you through Genesis. So if you're not actively going into the portal >> to look at grades, you may not see that. And they're probably not necessarily signed up for notifications either.

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>> Uh you get an email. >> You get an email. >> Yeah. It's an email regard like >> you're automatically out there. >> Yeah. You you get an email as a parent that says the things that are >> that are going wrong with regard to attendance. [laughter]

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Um but like I've not seen but I it's a good point that it's at the lower levels. It's obviously apparently not as big of an issue at the middle school and the elementary schools with regard to this. I don't that I don't ever see I've never seen communications really around.

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>> Well, that's because until I started here two three years ago um well after my first year because I didn't realize letters weren't going out. Elementary would not sending letters for absences. >> They do have a form letter now and they're sending it um not through Genesis because until next year they

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weren't using Genesis. So, um, next year it'll be consistent across because we're actually putting classes in Genesis or elementary. >> So, so all schools will be subject to this standard. >> Yeah. Also, >> yes.

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>> And, and HBW does send out the automatic letters. >> Yeah. So, the front office is going to have to be ready because um I envision and you just get it would be very easy to get to get past that four four absences.

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>> Yeah. And that's going to be high school only because there's no requirement for credit at the at K. So, but there is a requirement for promotion, right? We don't have to promote kids that are, you know failing. >> Yeah.

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>> So, uh last couple things. Uh we are in the process of um writing the consolidated um Every Student Succeeds Act grant um which talked about earlier, we did not um we did get our entitlements or um and

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we did not receive title one even so my appeal was officially um but we did receive similar amounts in title 2A, title three and title 4 A. So it's about $35,000

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that can be used toward um professional development and that grant is due on July 31st. I'm in the process of writing it. Uh another um end of year um report that I'm that I just submitted tonight actually is the educator

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evaluation um information system for the evaluation system that uh it's a two-part report. one in the summer where we upload preliminary educator evaluation scores and then uh we have to complete a required annual education I'm

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sorry evaluation survey and then in the fall when students get their um when teachers get their student um uh score percentile scores we have to go back in and upload those for those teachers. Now

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we did find out today that um I know we're all going to be shocked that state are held up. They're not going to be coming out anytime soon. >> I'm sorry. >> For title one, what was it last year?

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Like what's the gap? >> 61,000. >> Yeah. >> And uh we also just completed the school registry summary, which is uh what really brought my attention to the attendance because that's an attendance report. student attendance report. Um,

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and we are in the process that's finished. We're in the process of submitting the student safety data system for report two. And once we get that, I have to do that report as well. >> Thank you. >> Um, I I'm sorry to belabor this. I do have a couple other questions outside of

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of the student attendance issue and and they're both on touch on things that you mentioned. the um the uh pair professionals uh benefit that you mentioned. Um I just happened before this meeting to be looking on our bills and we paid a significant amount um in

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fill in through a staffing agency. Do we have a sense of how much this would save us as a district? >> Um Dr. B, I don't have those numbers off my head, but lots of money

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>> by comparison. Um, it's about depending on on the placement and the timing and whatnot, it's it's about a 12 to$15 per hour. >> That's not nothing.

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>> It's not nothing. I think the other thing that we're we'll be talking about with um the VA leadership is how do we get control over staff because that's another huge piece of our budget. Um we are spending

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tremendous amount of money on class coverages and um substitute our substitute think about creative ways to reward people for independence or close closer

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to perfect. >> And um another question that I had u and maybe forgive me maybe this could go under correspondence but I I did have a uh person in the um a parent in in my neighborhood asked me this question

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about the letters that went out um asking if people wanted to move about with uh their elementary Yeah. Um yes, I'm sorry. more specifically the kindergarten is there um what wasn't understood um and I couldn't

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really articulate a proper answer is what is their deadline and at what point if we get maybe the better way for me to ask this is at what point um are people locked in if they say move to town um August 3rd

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>> um if they register that's a great question our policy states that if they register after February 1st first they go to the to the school that has the the least amount. If if the class size is at 25 or greater in their home school, we would place them in another school. So, anytime after February 1. So, if

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somebody moves to town in August >> and there's 25 26 students, 25 students in a class, say at Forest, they're they're going to go to a class or we're going to offer them a class in a different school. We try to make sure that we can if there's multiple

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siblings, we can get them all into that school. Um that's not always possible. We do try our best to keep um students together, but when we are running class sizes the way we're running in elementary right now, it's really >> And what's our response been on um on

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this mailer that went out? >> Three. >> We like our neighborhood schools here. Big class size or not? >> Interesting. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Now moving on to our business administrators report. Dr. James Riley,

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>> I do not have a report for tonight. >> Thank you. There are no committee reports. So now we are moving on to public comments on any agenda action items that we are voting on. If you have anything to talk about, please come to the podium. You'll have three minutes.

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Please state your name. Again, this is on action items only. Hi love Denise from New Jersey. Um, I just wanted to talk about action item 10, which is the acceptance of the

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resignation of a board member. I do hope everyone votes no because [laughter] I don't want Mr. Wit. Um, I just I know he's not here, so I do hope that it gets back to him. I'm sure he's watching. Um, I just

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wanted to um thank him for his service um throughout the years. I met uh Chris prior to both of us being on the board um during the whole co thing. Um and when I was talking about running, he

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encouraged me to run and he was very supportive of me um both as a candidate and as a board member and then eventually as uh when I was holding the seat of president. He is probably the person I've argued with the most at board meetings. Um

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because we both hold uh very passionately opposing viewpoints on some things. Um but he was always respectful and kind and listened and I appreciated that. Appreciated that about him and do appreciate it. He's still around. Um, I

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also appreciate that he speaks his mind in a world where sometimes not everyone does and that is a a good thing. I think I think if more people spoke their mind that things might get done a little bit quicker. So,

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he will be missed. Um, but we will see around I'm sure. And my only other uh comment was about the attendance policy. Um, I think it is we need to get a handle on it. My concern is there is a I

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want to say self- selected group of students that are very involved in high school clubs and activities. I'm thinking student council, heroes and cool kids, music um programs that may

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for whatever reason, I mean, Heroes and Cool Kids goes down to the middle school multiple times a year. Uh student council has events off campus. Um and these type of events are service events and give back to our community both in

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Verona and wider. And It would be a shame for students not to want to participate in these events if they're afraid that now their attendance could put potentially put a hurdle in front of

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their graduation or credit for classes. Uh so perhaps there can be some sort of >> I don't want to say carve out because that sounds like an exception or a loophole but some sort of there is. Yeah. I mean I didn't read it out loud. >> Okay. Okay. I just wanted to make sure that these that do participate in these

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types of programs. I'm reading it on my phone. >> It just needs approval from the principal. >> Okay, perfect. And that seems like that would not be an issue and thank you all for coming out on the center. >> Thank you. >> And on the >> Thank you, Miss Fzella. >> And that might be more of a fine point,

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but uh principal approval is this going to be done pre-event? Uh the way we wrote now of course the board has to approve policy way written but the way we wrote the policy is notwithstanding one above which is

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refers to um limiting the number um of u absences. Um students may miss no more than five sessions of any one class per year due to participation in school sponsored activities. participation beyond this limit requires the prior written

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approval of the principal design um in consultation with the effective teachers. >> So they would just have to I mean none of those activities are popups, right? They're all planned ahead. So >> no surprise stuff.

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>> Thank you. Moving on. Any discussion items? New or old business? What am I? Oh, the resolution to accept. Okay. So, for new business, uh resolution to accept the resignation of the board member, whereas Christopher

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Walka, a duly elected member of the board of education of the Verona Public School District, has submitted a formal written notice of resignation from the board of education effective immediately. And whereas the board of education wish wishes to formally acknowledge Christopher Walka's service

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and dedication to the students, staff, and community of the Rona Public School District. Now therefore, be it resolved that the that the board of education hereby accepts the resignation of Christopher Waka with regret and express its sincere appreciation of his valuable

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contributions and commitment during his tenure on the board. >> Yes, Mr. Walker will be missed. Anything on for correspondence? >> Moving on to our agenda. Um for our resolutions, I need a motion to approve

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our personnel resolutions from A1 through A10. >> Moved by Mr. Boon, seconded by >> Second. >> Second by Miss Kotic. Are there any discussions? Um quick question. [clears throat] The on A4 um the

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paraprofessional resignations is that due to the decision to shift away from um from the contracted paraprofessionals to or or can you maybe explain a little bit around sort of what what accounts for

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these? Um I believe several one is a move out of state and several of them are people that are getting teaching positions not with us but they're moving on >> if I remember from past years that's not a I mean that's not >> that's not any different than

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>> it's a high turnover is yes >> okay yeah that was part of my question is this normal because it seems like it seemed like a lot >> so the the salary um is not competitive here >> for Paris >> very non not competitive we actually the

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um after the last negotiations put $96,000 into the power guide to try to bring it up to $20 an hour because you can make more at McDonald's. You could have made more at McDonald's um two years ago.

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I I just for some reason I mean not being argumentative that I I thought we had a pretty much a sign or a typical turnover over the course of a year that we've had >> that we have a a significant power turnover all year long. >> Yeah. Well that yeah that I think that's

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the point I'm trying to make all year long. So what it would be I guess I guess this potential solution to that. I mean are we going to have trouble bringing in Paris for the the you know for the the next school year or we >> we are getting a tremendous amount of

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response to our par professional ads right now because West Orange just outsourced all of their paras. So our paras are are we are not competitive salary wise and we don't pay them benefits because they're not full-time. So those two things combined made it hard for us to recruit paras

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which is why we went to an agency. However, um some of the surrounding districts just laid off all of their parents much larger districts. So we did um in you'll see um last two meet last two agendas and this agenda there's

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maybe none on this agenda where we're approving uh Paris for new hires. And are there two types of paras from a compensation perspective? >> There are in some districts we Oh yes, we have par professionals and we have

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registered behavioral technicians. So those are paras that are specific. They are full-time u and they do receive benefits. They are specific data. Um they take data on some of our students are more significantly um disabled students and they analyze the data and

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work with the teacher um in that way. Um, some districts have other types of paras that two different tiers. Livingston, for instance, has two different tiers of paras. They have a parah that is a one-on-one parah that are paid on a different guide than um a shared par

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that's with two or three students at the time. But we don't have we don't other than the registered behavioral technicians, all of our powers are in the same tier. >> Thank you. And just one other quick question on A6. Um I noticed that we um

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approved the salary and then rescended and then revised. What um do is you know I guess what accounts for that over the initial overcalculation >> I don't remember what how the error came about Dr. Riley do you remember how this error came about?

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>> There was a typo. >> Okay. Okay. >> There was a typo in the formula that was used to calculate >> in the technology >> certain salaries. Thank you. I forgot what it was. >> Dr. Riley, can you please go roll?

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>> Miss. >> Yes. >> Mr. Prisc. >> Yes. >> Mr. Turner. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to our education. Need a motion to um approve. We're tableabling B2 and B3. So, do I have to

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do a motion to table those two first? >> Yes. >> So, I need a motion to table B2 and B3. >> So, move. >> Motion by Mr. Pera. Seconded by >> second >> Miss Konotic. Any discussion? >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll

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on that. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to B1. Then B4 through B

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B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 16. Motion by >> I'll second >> Mr. Pera seconded by Mr. Boon. Are there any discussions? >> Um B15 sorry um

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it looks like there's some extremely small enrollment. >> Yes. Um, so I guess I guess the question is at what point do we determine that it's kind of not, you know, viable, you know, um, economically to proceed with classes

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given, um, extremely low enrollment. I think here's like two or so. >> Um, >> so that course of it's on here because our policy says it has to be on here. It's actually not an individual course. That course actually is um

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Madame will teach um these two students with French. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So, it's a full class. >> It's just that she's doing double duty with those two students. >> And and the SUPA classes are kind of a different animal in terms of the enrollment numbers, right? >> Yeah. And and this was this was a a drop

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um at the end of the school year. That was nor that had 16 kids in it at first. and we're not sure what's going on, but we're trying to pull other we have some students that are not registered um for all of the electives they need. So, we're going to try to pull them into that course. Um and the rest of them

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like history and the Hollywood uh cinema, that is a um that's a second semester, so that will get larger. >> And the and the super ones are are they through Montlair or are they through um Syracuse?

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>> They're dual enrollment. and the APS are traditionally small. >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. >> Modi. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Prisc. >> Yes. >> Mr. Boom. >> Sir, >> we did a motion, right? >> Yeah.

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>> I go first and a second. >> Uh, Mr. Fa. >> Yes. >> Mr. Boom. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to athletics and co-curricular. Need a motion to approve resolutions C1 through C5. Motion by

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>> Mr. Pera, seconded by Miss Kotic. Are there any discussions? >> Dr. Wley, if you could please call RO. Mod >> yes. >> Mrs. Chris, >> yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to our facilities.

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I have mot need a motion to approve resolutions D1 through D3. >> So moved by noted second. >> Second. >> Mr. Mr. Pera, are there any discussions? Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll.

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>> M. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Prisc. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Yes. Excuse [clears throat] me. >> Thank you. Moving on to finance. I need a motion to approve resolutions E1

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all the way through E 14. Motion by >> So move >> Mr. Seconded by >> second >> seconded by Miss Kenotic. >> Are there any discussions? >> Uh

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sorry I lost my spot here. X8. >> Um we got a number. >> We did >> number. >> How do we feel about the number? >> We're very happy. >> Just [laughter] >> we feel very good about the number. >> Okay. >> Um we feel even better about the number

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given what was budget. >> Yeah. So whereas we left off last year what we entered last year in effect we are now budget I will caution however and say

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that the reimbursement amount was 44% of what was so that number that percentage where I was hopeful that the state would make a better commitment to districts and reimbursing for extraordinary special

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education expenses. That is not the case. But because we have and and we we uncovered every possible expense that could be attributed um we were successful increasing

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the amount year over year. >> Can you remind us what the like what we budgeted for? Um And then what the difference was. >> So last year, >> yeah,

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>> we budgeted 1.2 million and we received 900,000. >> All right. >> This year we budgeted 700,000. >> All right. >> Great. >> It would be better if we got the whole

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>> amount, but >> Dr. Riley, if you could please call roll. Yes, >> Mrs. Frisco. >> Yes, >> Mr. >> Yes, Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Moving on to governance and policy. I need a motion to approve uh

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resolution F1. Motion by >> and just to be clear, this is first reading. >> First reading. Yes. >> So moved. Motion by Miss Kenotic, seconded by Mr. Boon. Are there any discussions?

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Dr. Riley, if you could please call a role. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mrs. >> Yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. Mr. >> Yes. >> Yes. [clears throat] >> Thank you. Moving on to public comments on anything. You have anything you would

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like to state, please state your name. And you have three minutes. See none. Our next uh public scheduled meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 25th with beginning with confidential session

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at 6 p.m. and public session at 7 p.m. in the Verona High School Learning Commons. I need a motion to adjourn. >> Motion by Mr. Boon, second by Mr. Pera. All in favor? >> I

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>> I meeting is adjourned. It is 746.