School Nominee Presentation Form. U.S. Department of Education Green Ribbon Schools

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1 ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATIONS Shool Nominee Presentation Form Shool and Distrit s Certifiations The signatures of the shool prinipal and distrit superintendent (or equivalents) on the next page ertify that eah of the statements below onerning the shool s eligibility and ompliane with the following requirements is true and orret to the best of their knowledge. In no ase is a private shool required to make any ertifiation with regard to the publi shool distrit in whih it is loated. 1. The shool has some onfiguration that inludes grades Pre-K The shool has been evaluated and seleted from among shools within the Nominating Authority s jurisdition, based on high ahievement in the three ED-GRS Pillars: 1) redued environmental impat and osts; 2) improved health and wellness; and 3) effetive environmental eduation. 3. Neither the nominated publi shool nor its publi shool distrit is refusing the U.S. Department of Eduation Offie of Civil Rights (OCR) aess to information neessary to investigate a ivil rights omplaint or to ondut a distrit wide ompliane review. The Department of Defense Eduation Ativity(DoDEA) is not subjet to the jurisdition of OCR. The nominated DoDEA shools, however, are subjet to and in ompliane with statutory and regulatory requirements to omply with Federal ivil rights laws. 4. OCR has not issued a violation letter of findings to the publi shool distrit onluding that the nominated publi shool or the publi shool distrit as a whole has violated one or more of the ivil rights statutes. A violation letter of findings will not be onsidered outstanding if OCR has aepted a orretive ation plan to remedy the violation. 5. The U.S. Department of Justie does not have a pending suit alleging that the publi shool or the publi shool distrit as a whole has violated one or more of the ivil rights statutes or the Constitution s equal protetion lause. 6. There are no findings of violations of the Individuals with Disabilities Eduation At in a U.S. Department of Eduation monitoring report that apply to the publi shool or publi shool distrit in question; or if there are suh findings, the state or publi shool distrit has orreted, or agreed to orret, the findings. 7. The shool meets all appliable federal, state, loal and tribal health, environmental and safety requirements in law, regulations and poliy and is willing to undergo EPA on-site verifiation. U.S. Department of Eduation Green Ribbon Shools X Publi Charter Title I Magnet Private Independent Rural Name of Prinipal: Mr. Mihael Kneller (Speify: Ms., Miss, Mrs., Dr., Mr., et.) (As it should appear in the offiial reords) Offiial Shool Name: North Brunswik Township High Shool (As it should appear on an award) Offiial Shool Name Mailing Address: 98 Raider Road, North Brunswik, NJ (If address is P.O. Box, also inlude street address.) County: Middlesex State Shool Code Number *: (23 ounty ode) (3620 distrit ode) Telephone: Fax: Web site/url: nbtshools.org mkneller@nbtshools.org (prinipal s ) *Private Shools: If the information requested is not appliable, write N/A in the spae I have reviewed the information in this appliation and ertify that to the best of my knowledge all information is aurate. (Prinipal s Signature) Date: Name of Superintendent: Dr. Brian Zyhoswki (Speify: Ms., Miss, Mrs., Dr., Mr., et.) (As it should appear in offiial reords) ED-GRS ( ) Page 1 of 2

2 Distrit Name: North Brunswik Township Shool Distrit I have reviewed the information in this appliation and ertify that to the best of my knowledge all information is aurate. (Superintendent s Signature) Date: 2/14/18 Nominating Authority s Certifiations The signature by the Nominating Authority on this page ertifies that eah of the statements below onerning the shool s eligibility and ompliane with the following requirements is true and orret to the best of the Authority s knowledge. 1. The shool has some onfiguration that inludes grades Pre-K The shool is one of those overseen by the Nominating Authority whih is highest ahieving in the three ED-GRS Pillars: 1) redued environmental impat and osts; 2) improved health and wellness; and 3) effetive environmental and sustainability eduation. 3. The shool meets all appliable federal ivil rights and federal, state, loal and tribal health, environmental and safety requirements in law, regulations and poliy and is willing to undergo EPA on-site verifiation. Name of Nominating Ageny: New Jersey Department of Eduation Name of Nominating Authority: Mr. Bernard E. Piaia, Jr. (Speify: Ms., Miss, Mrs., Dr., Mr., Other) I have reviewed the information in this appliation and ertify to the best of my knowledge that the shool meets the provisions above. (Nominating Authority s Signature) Date: 2/15/2018 SUMMARY AND DOCUMENTATION OF NOMINEE S ACHIEVEMENTS Provide a oherent summary that desribes how your shool is representative of your jurisdition s highest ahieving green shool efforts. Summarize your strengths and aomplishments in all three Pillars. Then, inlude onrete examples for work in every Pillar and Element. Only shools that doument progress in every Pillar and Element an be onsidered for this award. SUBMISSION The nomination pakage, inluding the signed ertifiations and doumentation of evaluation in the three Pillars should be onverted to a PDF file and ed to green.ribbon.shools@ed.gov aording to the instrutions in the Nominee Submission Proedure. OMB Control Number: Expiration Date: Marh 31, 2018 Publi Burden Statement Aording to the Paperwork Redution At of 1995, no persons are required to respond to a olletion of information unless suh olletion displays a valid OMB ontrol number. The valid OMB ontrol number for this information olletion is Publi reporting burden for this olletion of information is estimated to average 37 hours per response, inluding time for reviewing instrutions, searhing existing data soures, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and ompleting and reviewing the olletion of information. The obligation to respond to this olletion is required to obtain or retain benefit P.L , Se. 501, Innovative Programs and Parental Choie Provisions. Send omments regarding the burden estimate or any other aspet of this olletion of information, inluding suggestions for reduing this burden, to the U.S. Department of Eduation, 400 Maryland Ave., SW, Washington, DC or ICDoketMgr@ed.gov and referene the OMB Control Number Note: Please do not return the ompleted ED-Green Ribbon Shools appliation to this address. ED-GRS ( ) Page 2 of 2

3 Shool Contat Information Shool Name: North Brunswik Township High Shool Distrit: North Brunswik Street Address: 98 Raider Road City: North Brunswik State: New Jersey Zip:08902 Website: nbtshools.org Prinipal Name: Mihael Kneller Prinipal Address: Phone Number: x73001 Lead Appliant Name (if different): Amy Rafano Lead Appliant Phone Number: x73056 Level [X] High (9 or 10-12) Shool Type (X) Publi How would you desribe your shool? (X) Suburban Distrit Name North Brunswik Total Enrolled: 1,830 high shool Does your shool serve 40% or more students from disadvantaged households? ( X) Yes ( ) No % reeiving FRPL 41% % limited English profiient 2% Other measures Graduation rate:_81.4% Attendane rate: _93.29% North Brunswik Township High Shool (NBTHS) is a suburban shool serving 1830 students, more than 41% of whom are reeiving free and redued prie lunh. We have developed a ulture of green awareness by inorporating measures in all aspets of sustainability. Over the past 25 years, we have been striving toward reduing our arbon footprint through several energy audits. We have made great strides in reent years with the addition of an Energy Manager who implemented energy onservation praties lowering our energy osts. We lower heat settings during the shool day as our shool fills with warm bodies, redue lighting during evening and weekend hours, use window blinds to lessen heat loss in the winter and inrease solar heat gain in the summer. Our distrit replaed T12 lighting to energy effiient T8 lighting, and we are swithing to T5 and LED lighting. All new onstrution and renovations sine 2000 have inluded the installation of oupany sensors. Further, our omputers are programmed for an automati shutdown at 6:00pm, and again at 1:00 am to ensure maximum energy effiieny. We have also replaed and retrofitted HVAC system ontrollers and installed a heater for our pool area that reovers heat during the dehumidifiation proess, to provide temperature and humidity ontrol. In addition, domesti hot water for restrooms is provided by a high effiieny ondensing style hot water heater, and low flow restroom fixtures were installed to redued water onsumption. In our effort to redue waste, we have installed four water bottle refilling stations throughout the building, thereby reduing single use water bottles Funds ame from a grant provided by Sustainable Jersey for Shools and a partnership with our ommunity basketball, baseball and softball organizations. Student groups monitor and ollet single-use bottles from reyling ontainers in our lunhroom and throughout ampus. We have also redued our printing needs by more than 10,000 sheets of paper through the integration of digital resoures inluding Google Apps for Eduation, Chromebooks, online publiation of our shool newspaper, and initiating BYOD (Bring Your Own Devie). We also replaed the operating system to CloudReady, whih uses web appliations and loud storage instead of traditional software and loal storage to onvert and revive 300 legay omputers that would have otherwise been determined to be end of life. We have also partnered with our town s Parks & Rereation Department for maintenane of our on-site butterfly garden. Through a partnership with Rutger s Master Gardeners, students from our Autisti Program onstruted three raised gardens, whih are used for learning life skills and learning to are for our land in a way that positively impats the environment. In our maker spae, students partiipate in a furniture hallenge and reate designs using reyled materials. In our Projet Lead the Way Priniples of Engineering lass, student projets explore renewable and non-renewable energy

4 soures inluding solar and hydrogen fuel ells, as well as reylable plastis for a robot hallenge reated with a 3-D printer. Students in environmental lasses hoose a topi with pending legislation involving environmental siene and ontat the sponsor/legislator to ask questions, assess authenti researh and develop ways in whih they an ontribute positively to remediation of the problem as it pertains to their own neighborhood. Culminating ativities inlude an explanation on how eah party is involved inluding the ommunity, sientists, government, environmental groups and loal businesses. Last year, students foused on the ontroversial proposed Penn East Pipeline whih would run through Prineton and Hopewell Townships. These neighboring ommunities share a ongressional distrit with North Brunswik Township (Congressional Distrit 12). Comparing this issue to the Keystone Pipeline, students ontated ongressional and legislative representatives to voie support or onern for pending environmental projets. Our staff supports not only the aademi understanding of ontent, but the real-life appliation of ommuniating global awareness and itizenship. Finally, students investigated the waste management praties and protools established by the loal waste management ompanies and identified ways to mitigate the prodution of waste in the household environment. Students identified the reyling efforts of eah ommunity, household and individuals through surveys and questionnaires, and identified areas of improvement. Students findings strengthened the reyling efforts of the ommunity through their reommended solutions to redue the use of plasti produts. In hemistry, students studied the impat on the environment- toxiity to soil, water- by the disarded plastis, batteries and eletroni equipment. Students also studied an outdoor observation area and identified all the bioti/abioti fators they see with eologial relationships. The lesson inorporated how proper waste management positively influened the health of natural environments. Students designed a plan that inluded parents and younger siblings fousing on ativities and praties to keep our environment lean. SCHOOL PROFILE: GREEN SCHOOL PROGRAM AND AWARDS (Cross-Cutting Question) 1. Has your shool partiipated in a loal, state, or national program, whih asks you to benhmark progress in some fashion in any or all of the Pillars? Yes No If yes, please explain what program(s) and what level you are urrently at, and state the years you have been involved in these programs. (e.g. EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager, Eo-Shools USA, PLT Green Shools, Sustainable Jersey for Shools, and NJ Learns). Currently partiipating with EPA Energy Star Portfolio Manager; rating is 52. In addition, we partiipate with Sustainable Jersey for shools mini grant program to support our initiatives for reyling; purhasing lids for reyling bins and water bottle refilling stations to redue plasti in our landfills. Also, we use ECAP Professional to trak our eletri, natural gas and water onsumption and osts. 2. Has your shool, staff or student body reeived any awards for failities, health or environment? Yes_X No Award(s) and year(s) Asthma Friendly Shools 2007 _ 3. Has your shool identified or reated a plae for teahers to go to share lessons on Sustainability? Yes_X No If yes, where? Environmental Club meetings, Green Team Meetings, and Professional Learning Communities provide opportunities for staff to share lessons. In addition, the shool s aess to our IDE portal provides units of studies fousing on sustainability. 4. Has your Shool Board adopted a Green Strategi Plan or sustainability poliy? Yes_X_ No Our Sustainability Poliy was approved June 24, 2015; the poliy promotes and supports that the township will fous attention and efforts on matters of sustainability. The poliy promotes and supports that the distrit will ensure a safe and healthy environment for students by enouraging our shool ommunity to implement sustainable, energy-smart, eofriendly and ost-effetive solutions. 5. Has your shool reated a Green Team? Yes_X No If yes, list team members and their roles. Dr. Brian Zyhowski, Superintendent-poliy and poliy support Mihael Kneller, Prinipal-initiatives Amy Rafano, Assistant Prinipal-oordinator of NBTHS Sustainability Initiatives Ray Kuehner, Diretor of Transportation-Energy Manager-initiatives, audits, grants Bill O Connor, Diretor of Building and Grounds-initiatives, audits Page 2 of 16

5 Adam Sawhak, Diretor of Food Servies, Chartwells-eduation, reyling opportunities in afeterias, sustainability opportunities Mary Blakborow, Certified Shool Nurse-Wellness/Student Health Matt Brigandi, Building and Grounds-Plant Manager NBTHS-initiatives; purhasing Andrea Lamagra, Siene Supervisor-STEM, urriulum Janet Ciarroa, Diretor of Curriulum, Instrution, & Tehnology-urriulum Alex Benanti, Assistant Business Administrator-finanial initiatives Louis Emanuel, Athleti Diretor, Supervisor of Physial Eduation & Health - initiatives Gerardo Cohran, teaher & advisor of Environmental Club-instrution, implementation reyling initiatives, eduational praties Mary Dart, teaher & advisor of Environmental Club-instrution, implementation of initiatives, eduational praties Martin Shneider, Coordinator of Tehnology, reyling of eletronis Eah member of the Green Team partiipates in promoting environmental and sustainability initiatives. 6. Has your shool seen a ost savings from green initiatives? Yes_X No Eletri Energy Consumptio n (kwh) Natural Gas or Fuel Oil Consumption (therms) Eletri Utility Costs ($) Natural Gas Utility Costs ($) Total Utility Costs ($) Annual Savings ($) % Redution from Baseline Year ,612, ,704 $970,167 $141,022 $1,111,190 Baseline Baseline ,653, ,815 $852,734 $111,334 $964,069 $147, ,595, ,814 $834,382 $111,335 $945,717 $18, ,458, ,189 $683,784 $106,879 $790,663 $155, % 1.89% 13.9% PILLAR I: REDUCED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT Element 1A: Redued/eliminated greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Use Portfolio Manager format 7. Can your shool doument a redution in Greenhouse Gas emissions? Yes_X or No Eletri Energy Consumpti on (kwh) Natural Gas Consumption (therms) Carbon Dioxide from Eletri 1.52 lbs/kwh Carbon Dioxide from Natural 11.7 lbs/therms Total # of Staff & Students MT eco2 /person % Derease from prior year ,612, , ,653, , % ,595, , % ,458, , % 8. Has your shool onduted an energy audit of its failities? (e.g. LGEA, Eo-Shools Energy Audit) Yes_X No Perent redution: 3.75_% from 7/2015 to 6/ Has your shool reeived EPA ENERGY STAR ertifiation or does it meet the requirements for ENERGY STAR ertifiation? (sore of 75 or above) Yes No_X Year(s) and sore(s) reeived: Page 3 of 16

6 10. Perentage of shool's energy is obtained from on-site renewable energy generation: 0_Type Purhased renewable energy: Type Partiipation in USDA Fuel for Shools, DOE Wind for Shools or other federal or state shool energy programs: (Ex. ACES) Yes No X If yes, what programs? 11. Has your shool redued its total non-transportation energy use from an initial baseline? Yes No X_ We understand this statement to refer to the possibility of lessening our transportation of students. We have a high number of ourtesy busing due to the fat North Brunswik Township has two major highways running through it. For safety issues, we inlude students who would need to ross these major highways in our bus routes. Eletri Energy Consumption (kwh) 1kwh=3.412 kbtu Natural Gas Consumption (therms) 1therm=100kBtu Number of Oupants kbtu/ Oupant kbtu /sq.ft. % Redution From Baseline ,612, , Baseline ,653, , % ,595, , % ,458, , % 12. What year was shool originally onstruted? 1973 Total building area (sq.ft) 394, Has your shool onstruted or renovated building(s) in the past ten years? ( X) Yes ( ) No For new building(s): Whih green building standard was used? LEED for Shools. Whih green building standard was used?_ LEED Existing Buildings: Operation & Maintenane. Element 1B: Improved water quality, effiieny, and onservation Water and Grounds 14. Can you demonstrate a redution in your shool s total water onsumption (measured in gal/square foot) from an initial baseline? Yes_X We have added syntheti turf football, baseball, soer fields and use 1.6 flush o meters on toilets that have redued our water use. Water Consumption (gallons) Total Oupants Gallons Per Oupant % Redution from FY FY k % FY k % FY k % FY k % Do you inlude after-hour ativities in your water onsumption alulations? (adult sport leagues, adult eduation, souting, other ommunity events et.?) Yes X No How did you doument this redution (i.e. Energy Star Portfolio Manager, utility bills) Energy CAP Professional 15. Desribe any strategies you use to disourage single-use beverage ontainers on shool property. Desribe how you assure the reyling of those ontainers if/when purhased and used at athleti loations, or other outdoor events. (Ex. Hydration Stations, bottle refilling fountains) installed four water bottle refilling stations in the athleti and aademi setions multiple reyling reeptales used throughout ampus student groups monitor lunh areas olleting and reyling single-use beverage ontainers eah lassroom has a designated reyling ontainer Page 4 of 16

7 athleti trainer provides athletes with a water hydration program offering reylable water use bottles, not single use bottles 16. What perentage of your landsaping is onsidered water-effiient and/or regionally appropriate? 100% What types of plants are used and where are they loated? Have you preserved any areas with native vegetation with minimal disturbane? The majority of the developed portion of the property is overed with 8 ares of grass. Even though we have an irrigation system, it is only used to water two softball fields, approximately 1.5 ares. We irrigate only when needed and, when doing so, the system is sheduled to operate just before dawn. Approximately 10% of the entire site is in a natural state. 17. How have you inorporated native plants into your landsaping? (50-words max) We only use plants native to New Jersey inluding servieberry and dogwood trees. In Springtime our butterfly garden blooms and raised beds are planted with native flowers and vegetables A Rutgers Master Gardener works with our students to ensure that we are working with plants suited to the soil omposition of our grounds. 18. Desribe alternate Non-potable water soures used for irrigation (e.g. roof or parking lot run-off). Plans are being disussed in our shool budget and are mentioned in our three-year strategi plan. 19. Desribe efforts to redue storm water run-off or redue impervious pavement (e.g. rain gardens, bio swales, storm water basins). The distrit utilizes detention basins to ontrol stormwater runoff. 20. Our shool's drinking water omes from: (X ) Muniipal water soure ( ) Well on shool property 21. Desribe how the water supply for your shool is proteted from potential ontamination. Bakflow preventers are installed where the water servie enters the building; these preventers are heked annually as per ode. 22. Desribe the program you have in plae to ontrol lead in drinking water (e.g., pipe flushing, old plumbing solder). NJDEP Lead in Drinking Water Publi Water System Information ( ) The Maintenane Department and our vendors only use lead free solder and Pro Press fitting when installing or repairing plumbing fixtures to domesti water lines and outlets. 23. Desribe how your shool's site grading, irrigation system and shedule is appropriate for your limate, soil onditions, and plant materials, with an emphasis on water onservation and/or improved stormwater management. (50-word max) Our irrigation system is only used to water two softball fields, approximately 1.5 ares. We irrigate only when needed and the system is sheduled to operate just before dawn. Approximately 10% of the entire site is in a natural state. We utilize detention basins to ontrol stormwater runoff. We have planted native trees to NJ and help absorb rainfall, so onventional irrigation and drainage are not needed in all areas. 24. What perentage of shool grounds are green spae? (ex. Green roof, rain gardens, native plants, solar panels, fish farms, outdoor raised beds, living walls, wetlands/marsh, forest, grassland, et.) _~10% and list items (50 word max) butterfly garden utilized as a learning resoure at various times throughout the shool year autisti program onstruted and planted three raised garden beds to grow various vegetables to use in their Life Skills Course, preparing the various items for their onsumption April 2011, reeived 175 free saplings from NJ Trees organization. NBTHS shared their allotment with the township; both township and shool reated tree farms to nurture the growth of the trees so they ould be plaed in loal parks and along the landsape of the high shool Element 1C: Redue waste prodution Waste/Hazardous Waste 25. What perentage of solid waste (inluding food servie waste) is diverted from landfills or ininerators due to redution, reyling and/or omposting? Complete all the alulations below to reeive points. A - Monthly garbage servie in ubi yards (garbage dumpster size(s) x number of olletions per month x perentage full when emptied or olleted): 173y B - Monthly reyling volume in ubi yards (reyling dumpster sizes(s) x number of olletions per month x perentage full when emptied or olleted): 121y C - Monthly ompostable materials volume(s) in ubi yards (food srap/food soiled paper dumpster size(s) x number of olletions per month x perentage full when emptied or olleted): 0y Reyling Rate = ((B + C) (A + B + C) x 100): 41% Monthly waste generated per person = (A/number of students and staff):.085y 26. What perentage of your shool's total offie/lassroom paper ontent ontains at least 30% post-onsumer material, or fiber from forests ertified as responsibly managed and/or hlorine-free? Unknown Page 5 of 16

8 27. Do you inlude after-hour ativities in your garbage redution alulations? (adult sport leagues, adult eduation, souting, other ommunity events et.?) Yes_X No 28. Desribe how you have redued your paper onsumption, and how you measured that redution or other uses you reated for the materials (e.g. working and reviewing online, white boards). (50-word max) The following praties are in plae to redue paper onsumption: 100% of lassrooms equipped with whiteboards, smart boards, epson projetors software programs report ards, attendane letters, and other shool related douments are posted to shool s Parent Portal free and redued lunh program proessed totally online announements for both staff and parents posted online shool newspaper is produed digitally Event flyers are reated and shared throughout the distrit and broadasted on TV monitors, web pages and our distrit home page 29. List the types and amounts of hazardous waste generated at your shool: Flammable liquids Alohol 800ml Corrosive liquids Aids 800ml Toxis Mis metal ompounds 500g Merury None Other: None How is this alulated? Inventory ontrol How is hazardous waste disposal traked? Chain of ustody reports. 30a. Desribe other measures taken to redue or eliminate solid waste and hazardous waste (on-site omposting et.). (ex. Swithing to reusable afeteria trays, silverware, et.) (100-word max) This year, North Brunswik Township High Shool purhased an operating system named CloudReady. This operating system is built and maintained by Neverware based on Google s open soure Chromium OS. CloudReady uses web apps and loud storage instead of traditional software and loal storage. By utilizing CloudReady North Brunswik Township High was able to onvert and revive 300 legay omputers that would have otherwise been determined to be end of life. These existing onverted legay omputers will remain viable assets North Brunswik Township High for the foreseeable future and we will look to expand this software use on legay omputers as the opportunity beome available. 30b. Desribe how eletronis are handled at the end of their useful life. (TV, omputers, laptops, tablets, printers, toner artridges, et) (50 word max) How many pounds of eletronis did you disard as hazardous waste? What was the weight of material reused? 1000 Was any donated? Y N X (E-CYCLE NJ: EPEAT: All eletroni items are sheduled for pik up by Upyle; objetive to have it repaired, refurbished, or re-distributed. If items annot be fixed Upyle partners with R2 ertified reyling ompanies. Upyle piks up our failed projetor bulbs, and disposes safely due to Merury. All toner artridges bak to the manufaturer for re-use or reyling. 31. Whih green leaning ustodial standard is used? GS-37 What perentage of all produts is ertified? 88% What speifi third party ertified green leaning produt standard does your shool use? Desribe the measures your shool has taken to use only green leaning produt. In the shool year, , the shool moved from hemial-based leaners to peroxide-based leaners. Cleaning produts are metered to insure the orret dilution. In addition, mirofiber leaning loths, dust mops and wet mops have replaed otton material. 32. If your shool has a nurse s offie, how does the nurse trak regulated medial waste? Desribe the tools or mehanisms used to trak this waste. Indiate (X) if you have the following: Medial waste is olleted in a sharps ontainer in the health offie. A medial waste transporter ollets this annually and the reords are stored in the health offie. X Shool has a Generator ID number, unless exempted; The shool has a generator ID number and ontrats with a medial waste ompany to ollet this on an annual basis whih is then disposed of at an appropriate faility. _x_shool manages the regulated medial waste on-site properly? (Use the proper ontainers, properly segregate the regulated medial waste, and properly store the ontainers) _x_shool uses a liensed and registered regulated medial waste transporter, unless exempted? Shool ships the regulated medial waste to a faility authorized to aept the regulated medial waste? _x_shool ompletes the proper paperwork to doument the shipment and maintain reords for 3 years? Page 6 of 16

9 Shool files the generator annual report, unless exempted? 33. Is a Hazardous Waste Poliy for storage, management and disposal of hemials in laboratories and other areas with hazardous waste, in plae and atively enfored? Yes_X No 34. Do you have Underground Storage Tanks loated at your Shool? Yes, Ative. Are tanks properly registered? Yes No_X Are monitoring systems operating? Yes No Yes, Inative. Are tanks buried? Yes No X Are tanks sheduled for removal? Yes No None 35. Is your shool ompliant with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protetion s (DEP) Air Quality Permit requirement? (Equipment at shools that require air permits inlude boilers, emergeny generators, spae heaters and hot water heaters that have a maximum rated heat input of 1 million BTU/Hr or greater, to the burning hamber. Also, some shools might require an air permit for ertain woodshop operations. Most of these piees of equipment an be permitted.) Yes_X No Element 1D: Use of Alternative Transportation 36. What perentage of your students walk/bike/skateboard, ride a shool bus/use publi transportation, or arpool (2+ students per ar) to/from shool? 7% 37. Indiate (X) if you have implemented the following. _X A well-publiized no idling poliy that applies to all vehiles (inluding shool buses, ars and delivery truks) _X A poliy that enourages walking and/or biyling to shool _X_A Safe Routes to Shool program or a Shool Travel Plan. _X Seure biyle storage (suh as biyle lokers, raks, or rooms) is provided to enourage biyling to shool 39. If your shool has only bus transportation, desribe how your shool transportation use is effiient and has redued its environmental impat. The distrit uses a 3-tier routing system, we urrently have a 2.11 bus use effiieny rating whih is in the top 30 of all 627 shool distrits in the state. All distrit vehiles have the CCVS diesel retrofit. Summary Question for Pillar Desribe any other efforts toward reduing environmental impat, fousing on innovative or unique praties and partnerships. (100-word max) Our Environmental Club implemented environmental tip of the week and provides ativities during lunh periods; they also assist with reyling and omposting. We partner with Chartwells, who has a sustainability program in plae that inorporates; Fresh yogurt and milk free of RBGH or RBST hormones as well as animal welfare issues IDP (Imperfetly Deliious Produe) working with growers and distributors to resue produe and redue high quality produt going to landfills and ompost or waste Offer only HFAC ertified Cage-Free shell eggs Redued Antibioti Chiken and Turkey (use 100% antibioti turkey) Chartwells ontrated suppliers are required to provide produts whih adhere to speifi riteria developed in partnership with The Environmental Defense Fund. Buying loal produe aounts for 30% of produe used Compass Group developed Trim Trax, a food waste redution program and green initiative whih ould notieably ut operating osts as well as redue our arbon footprint in landfills. FAD Free Tuna - Compass Group uses skipjak tuna from fisheries that don t use Fish Aggregating Devies (FADs) PILLAR 2: IMPROVE THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS OF STUDENTS AND STAFF Element 2A: Integrated Shool Environmental Health program Environmental Health 1. Has your shool onduted any Oupant Survey with teahers and students? 2. Do you have an Operations & Maintenane Poliy for your building? Yes X No 3. Does your shool have an Integrated Pest Management plan? Yes_X Date updated:_12/13/ Indiate whih praties your shool employs to minimize exposure to hazardous ontaminants. Page 7 of 16

10 _X Shool onduts both indoor (strutural) and outdoor (turf and ornamental) IPM to redue student exposure to hemial pestiides. _X Shool redues or does not use fertilizer on our property _X Shool prohibits smoking and use of eletroni smoking devies on ampus and in publi shool buses _X Shool has identified and properly removed soures of elemental merury and prohibits its purhase and use in the shool. _X Shool uses fuel burning applianes and has taken steps to protet oupants from arbon monoxide _X_Shool does not have any fuel burning ombustion applianes (boilers, generators, hot water heaters) Shool has tested all frequently oupied rooms in ontat with the ground, and first floor rooms above basement spaes that are not frequently oupied for radon gas and has fixed and retested rooms with levels that tested at or above 4 pci/l. NJ Reommends Shool Radon Testing X Yes No Radon testing was performed in the 1980 s. Additional testing has not been ompleted sine then. However, all onstrution sine 1989 has inorporated either ative or passive radon ontrol systems. Shool built with radon resistant onstrution features tested to onfirm levels below 4 pci/l. Yes X No _NA Our shool has identified any wood playground or other strutures that ontain hromate opper arsenate and has taken steps to eliminate exposure to this pestiide/wood sealing preservative. 6. Desribe how your shool ontrols and manages hemials routinely used in the shool, as well as onstrution or leaning ativity that produes odors or dust, to minimize student and staff exposure. All hemials routinely used in the shool are ordered by Supervisors of eah Department (Siene, Custodial and Industrial Arts). Supervisors keep trak of supplies ordered and keep hazardous hemial orders to a minimum. At the end of every shool year our shool onduts a hazardous hemial disposal. All onstrution or leaning ativities that produe odors or dust are not sheduled during operating hours. Measures are taken to keep odor ausing work to a minimum and we assure ventilation systems and equipment are operating effiiently to provide proper ventilation and air quality. 7. Desribe ations your shool takes to prevent exposure to asthma triggers in and around the shool. To ontrol triggers, indoor air quality is maintained by delivering minimum required amount of filtered outside air to all oupied spaes. Maintenane ativities produe smoke and vapors performed after hours and HEPA vauums are used. No idling signage posted, weekly health tips addressing environmental issues that impat health as well as other health promotion and wellness tips for staff, students and families; we reeive Enviroflash announements, when levels are high PE ativities to promote safe ativities without risking negative health onsequenes. Install and promote the air now widget on website so that lassroom teahers an view this. Staff reeives annual training on Asthma Management; ustodial staff ensures vents in all spaes are not obstruted and upholstered furniture and rugs are not permitted in lassrooms. Is your shool signed up to reeive air quality alerts through Enviroflash whih issues notifiations of days when poor air quality is foreasted to our? Learn more Yes x_ No Has your shool developed a plan for implementation to modify ativities to protet the health of students and teahers when poor air quality is foreasted? Yes_X No Have you provided brohures to students, teahers and parents to eduate them about air quality and steps they an take to protet their health and derease their ontribution to ozone pollution? Yes_x No 8. Desribe ations your shool takes to ontrol moisture from leaks, ondensation, and exess humidity and promptly leanup any visible mold or remove moldy materials when found. (100-word max) Roof leaks are addressed quikly. During an event, standing water is removed and, when possible, high speed blowers are used to redue drying time. Work orders to repair roof leaks are entered and are a priority in terms of response time. Wet eiling tiles are removed immediately and replaed as soon as the leak has been ontrolled. Also, any type of wet dusty materials are removed immediately. 9. Our shool has installed loal exhaust systems for major airborne ontaminant soures. Yes_X In our Wood Shop area there is a dust olletion system for loal olletion of sawdust and there is a spray room for use in applying vapor-produing wood finishing produts. In siene labs, there are fume hoods in whih all ativities whih produe vapors are to take plae. In our pool filter room, there is a loal exhaust over the tanks that ontain the hlorine and aid. Page 8 of 16

11 10. Desribe your shool s praties for inspeting and maintaining the building s ventilation system and all unit ventilators to ensure they are lean and operating properly. A program has been implemented quarterly to hange, lean and replae filters and reord in a binder and eletronially when filters are hanged as well as when servie alls are performed throughout the shool year. Filters are also hanged during the winter. Exhaust fans are also servied All heating and ooling equipment is inspeted and leaned during the summer annually. Work orders are submitted for all HVAC work thereby reating a reord of all servie ativities, whih are reviewed by the maintenane supervisor and Supervisor of Buildings and Grounds. 11. Desribe ations your shool takes to ensure that all lassrooms and other spaes are adequately ventilated with filtered outside air, onsistent with state or loal odes, or national ventilation guidelines. (100-word max) All ventilation systems were designed and built in onformane with all appropriate odes and were balaned when ommissioned. It is our pratie to avoid making hanges to the ventilation settings. Oasionally there is a need to inrease the amount of outside air into spae to fully ventilate an area. At those times the rate is inreased but later returned to normal. 12. Indiate (X) steps your shool has taken to protet indoor environmental quality: Implementing US EPA IAQ Tools for Shools and/or _X Conduting other periodi, omprehensive inspetions of the shool faility to identify environmental health and safety issues and take orretive ation. Monthly failities inspetions are onduted by the Head Custodian, and Annually we ondut a faility-wide inspetion as required by the State of New Jersey. _X Partiipating in the Pediatri/Adult Coalition of NJ s Asthmas Friendly Awareness Program _X_Other Partiipating in the NJ Pediatri/Adult Coalition in-servie eduation and have registered for the April 2017 training. As the shool nurse, I have done the training for shool nurses, plan to arrange Asthma training for shool staff for the Fall. We utilize Asthma treatment plans for orders and send home the forms, annually, to students diagnosed with asthma and require treatment plans for athletes that identify as having asthma or reative airway disease. Students who arry inhalers reeive training with a return demonstration of their use to make sure that the mediation is being used orretly. Students are permitted and enouraged to arry inhalers and self-administer. 13. Indiate (X) if your shool s green prourement praties pertain to the following: (Buy Reyled / Buy Green) Constrution _X Carpets _X Cleaning _X Eletronis Fleets Food Servies _X Landsaping Meetings & Conferenes 14. What system do you use to determine if the above produts and servies are onsidered sustainable? (ex. DOE Purhasing for Energy Effiient Produts, CHPS High Performane Database, Eletroni Produt Environmental Assessment Tool) When onsidering a produt or servie we researh and seek out a onsultant to help us omply with green standards. Element 2B: Nutrition and Fitness Food and Nutrition, Fitness and Outdoor time 15. Whih praties does your shool employ to promote nutrition, physial ativity and overall shool health? Provide speifi examples of ations taken for eah heked pratie, fousing on innovative or unique praties and partnerships. (100-word max eah) Our shool partiipates in the USDA's Heathier US Shool Challenge. Level and year: _X Our shool partiipates in a Farm to Shool program to use loal, fresh food.chartwells partiipates in the Department of Defense produe program that features loal produe when in season. We selet loal produe first when it is in season. _X Our shool has an on-site food garden that teahes nutrition and environmental eduation, desribe. The shool has three raised beds that are planted with various vegetables. The rops are harvested, prepared and onsumed in Life Skills lasses with our Autisti students. _X Our shool garden supplies food for our students in the afeteria, a ooking or garden lass or to the ommunity.the rops grown in our raised gardens are used in our Autisti Program inorporated in the Life Skills Lessons provided weekly. _X Our students spent at least 120 minutes per week over the past year in shool supervised physial eduation.pursuit of personal fitness and understanding the benefits of leading a physially ative lifestyle is at the ore of Page 9 of 16 Offie Supplies _X Paper Other (50 word max)

12 the high shool physial eduation urriulum. Designing, implementing and assessing personal fitness is a primary goal. Refining a variety of movement skills that ontribute toward lifelong ativity is also be a omponent of the program. All goals will be ahieved through a urriulum that provides opportunity and individualized instrution. _X At least 50% of our students' annual physial eduation takes plae outdoors. It is the goal of the North Brunswik Township High Shool physial eduation program to provide students with developmentally appropriate learning opportunities with meaningful ontent and instrution. All students will develop health-related fitness, physial ompetene, ognitive understanding and positive attitudes about physial ativity that promotes a healthy and physially ative lifestyle. When weather permits, 75% of our PE ourses our outdoors in multiple failities inluding the trak, turf stadium field, turf soer field, natural grass softball and baseball fields. Our shool partiipates in the NJ Safe Routes to Shool Resoure Center. Level and year: Our shool partiipates in International Walk to Shool Day in Otober or National Bike to Shool Day in May. Year(s):. _X Our shool has a Shool Wellness Poliy that addresses both nutrition AND physial ativity.the shool wellness poliy enourage food produts that meet the nutrition standards of the HHFKA when used as an inentive or reward for student aomplishments, lub or ativity ahievements, and/or suess in ompetitions within the shool. It also requires that student input and taste testing be taken into onsideration and to have the HHFK posted in areas where food and beverage are served and to provide a opy for the parents.care to walk sponsors a fundraising walk in the Fall that has widespread support in the shool and ommunity _X Our shool has a Shool Wellness Committee that meets at least one a year. Our wellness ommittee meets twie during the shool year and this year we have foused on inreased outreah for free and redued lunh program. During an August Health Fair, we provided omputer aess to assist families with free and redued lunh program registration, this also was done during our September Bak to Shool night. We also expanded breakfast options and have started marketing Breakfast to inrease partiipation. _X Health measures are integrated into assessments. Heights, weights and blood pressures are done annually on all students and parents reeive written notifiation for abnormal findings _X At least 50% of our students have partiipated in the EPA's Sunwise,or equivalent program.literature about this program is shared with the Physial Eduation department and the information is used in the spring to enourage student partiipation. _X Some food purhased by our shool food servie is loally soured from regional farms.this is part of the DOD Produe program. 16. Is shool lunh waste omposted on-site? Yes _X No Perent_15% How is it used in your outdoor lassroom? The Environmental Club failitates a pilot program in our New Cafe olleting lunh waste for omposting. Our omposter has a designated area outside and the produt of the omposting will be used in our raised beds in the Spring. 17. What environmental tehnologies are used with urriulum? (weather station, energy monitoring system, GIS, web am, et) Not appliable at this time 18. Desribe the type of outdoor eduation, exerise and rereation available. (100-word max) Our PE instrutors believe that physial eduation is essential to the eduation of the whole hild. The program provides opportunities for students to attain the skills, knowledge and attitudes essential for a healthy lifestyle. Physial eduation is that part of the total proess of eduation whih utilizes games, sport, aquatis, dane, and health fitness ativities to help the individual ahieve the goals of eduation. Well-defined programs of provide a systemati progression of ognitive, affetive, and psyhomotor experienes as our students pass through various developmental stages. We ondut a multitude of outdoor ativities to ahieve these goals inluding but not limited to flag football, soer, ultimate frisbee, jogging, sprint relays, mid-distane relays, tennis, and softball. Coordinated Shool Health, Mental Health, Shool Climate, and Safety 19. Does your shool use a Coordinated Shool Health approah or other health-related initiatives to address overall shool health issues? _X Yes No If yes, desribe the health-related initiatives or approahes used by the shool:the Whole Shool, Whole Community, Whole Child (WSCC) model is program that is used to support health and learning. This is a program developed by the Assoiation for Supervision of Curriulum Development. 20. Does your shool partner with any postseondary institutions, businesses, nonprofit organizations, or ommunity groups to support student health, shool garden eduation and/or safety? X_ Yes No If yes, desribe these partnerships: Page 10 of 16

13 NBTHS partners with various organizations to promote student health, shool gardens, and safety. Rutgers Gardens provides eduational sessions and ooperative work on site suh as raised gardens. Our township s Parks & Rereation Department assists in the maintaining of the Butterfly Garden on site; in addition our students provide assistane to the ommunity in maintaining and leaning up our ommunity parks. NBTHS ontinues to partner with Keep Middlesex Moving reeiving an award in We also partiipate with Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital s Safety Ambassador Program whih provides NBTHS students with eduation on a number of topis, suh as aident prevention, pedestrian safety, bike safety, safety in and around ars, and fall prevention. The partiipating students then provide the lessons learned to our distrit s 1st and 2nd graders through outreah visits. During our Freshman Orientation Program we offered a variety of servies for all members of the ommunity. Optial Aademy provided low ost vision exams and glasses Rite Aid Pharmay provided flu shots and other vaines as requested The Brain Injury Alliane provided eduation about onussions Saint Peter s Hospital ontinues to support our efforts to eduate staff and students about vaping and the dangers assoiated with vaping Blood pressure monitoring was also provided and disussed in eduational forums The Center for Empowerment provided sessions about substane abuse and addition servies; also eduational forums about healthy relationships Our English as a Seond Language teahers provide information for families about English lessons for families. Our Guidane Counselors provide a variety of servies for families; inluding but not limited to mental health, physial health, family ounseling, individual ounseling, and finanial support systems.information about their servies. The shool nurses also provide families with information about asthma and life threatening allergies. Those students in need are provided with bakpaks and water bottles. The Central NJ Maternal and Child Health Consortium and The TOP Program provide at risk students and their families with strategies and eduational sessions to promote good deision making skills. NBTHS supports the Saint Peter s University Hospitals Health Careers Camp during the summer, sending a number of student partiipants. The NJ Brain Injury Alliane has provided eduation programs to our oahes and parents in the Spring. They also provided three sessions on onussions and return to learn for staff and shool nurses. As part of our partiipation in the Conussion Surveillane Projet whih is failitated by Rutgers Shool of Publi Health, elementary students will be reeiving an eduational program as well as bike helmets. At NBTHS we have initiated a oordinated onussion management team to better manage the aademi adjustments that students require when reovering from onussions. The administration, PE supervisor and shool nurse are atively involved in planning modifiations to the Physial Eduation program to prevent injuries. 21. Does your shool have a shool nurse and/or a shool-based health enter? _x_ Yes No As a are manager for those with hroni and aute medial onditions, the shool nurse oordinates student health are between the medial home, family, and shool. The nurse brings the health expertise neessary to develop a student s Individualized Eduation Plan or Setion 504 plan designed to redue health related barriers to learning. The nurse provides for the diret are needs of the student, inluding mediation administration and routine treatments and proedures. Primary prevention by providing health eduation that promotes physial and mental health and informs healthare deisions, prevents disease, and enhanes shool performane. Addressing suh topis as healthy lifestyles, riskreduing behaviors, developmental needs, ativities of daily living, and preventive self are. Sreenings, referrals, and follow up are seondary prevention strategies that the shool nurse utilizes to detet and treat health-related issues in their early stage. The shool nurse promotes immunization ompliane and monitor for unusual outbreaks of disease. The shool nurse also assists with identifying resoures for students and families who may need dental or vision are or other referrals for insurane, housing, medial treatment or food. The shool offers oordinated after shool exerise programs for staff and provides eduational sessions about asthma, bloodborne pathogens, diabetes, and suiide. The shool nurse also arranges for a provider to administer flu shots at no ost. There is one ertified shool nurse and one nurse lerk for a student body of 1800 students and 200 staff. 22. Desribe your shool s efforts to support student mental health and shool limate (e.g. anti-bullying programs, peer ounseling, et.): Page 11 of 16