Superintendent delivered the report to the Board of Education and announced personnel and program updates as well as the district's required twice-yearly public safety report covering Jan. 1, 2025 through June 30, 2025.
The superintendent said the district is accepting the retirement of Rick Delmonico and the retirement of Anna Radcliffe, a science and special-education teacher at the high school. He noted 14 teachers recorded perfect attendance for the year and thanked them for their dedication.
The board accepted a donation of landscaping materials from the Frank A. Henley PTA for the area around the school's electronic sign. The superintendent also described an eighth-grade open house and an honors-academy session, and announced that an interest survey for a Princeton Review SAT-preparation class paid for by the Board is due Nov. 13.
As required publicly, the superintendent reported incident counts for Jan. 1, 202506/30/2025 by school as read into the record: three incidents recorded for Arthur L. Johnson High School (one violence, two substance-related), two incidents at Carl H. Kumpf (both listed as HIV confirmed cases in the transcript), none at Henley School, and one confirmed HIV case at Valley Road (transcript phrasing lists counts by school). The superintendent prefaced these items as the district's required report to the public twice yearly.
He closed by thanking veterans ahead of Veterans Day and wishing the community a happy Thanksgiving.