001We're doing the pledge of allegiance. I just realized I didn't have my microphone on. >> I alian to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with justice for all. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Bishop, could I have a roll call, please? >> Certainly. Director McCormack >> here. >> All right. Director Sharid >> here. >> Director Chrroni. >> Director Cunningham >> here. >> Director McCarrick >> here. >> Director Fluki >> here. >> Director Prago >> here. >> Director Bieber >> here. and director Penny Packer >> here. >> Thank you. Um introduction of staff, we have Mr. Bishop, our uh business manager, and then we have Georgie Fischer, our HR director, and Dr. Fina, our assistant superintendent. And we have Bethany O'Neal is
002substituting for Kyle. And we have Dr. Roach. And I have a I have a question. When will we have student representatives? We have um Ruth is still a representative. She is probably still in military camp or I don't know if she's back yet. I know um she'll be with us again and then as soon as the junior class elections are done in the first part of school, we will have a junior rep. >> Okay, great. Thank you. All right, so we'll move on to president's report. Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a great summer. I'd like to welcome our new administrators. Uh Kim Haney, middle school principal. K. Oh gosh, I'm sorry. I wrote the wrong thing. Okay, long morning. Uh, Alyssa Wallaf, our director of curriculum 7 through 12 and welcome back
003to Kim Bast. I had the pleasure to greet our new teachers on Tuesday. There are 17 of them. They look like a great group. They were raring to go and I hope they enjoy it here at Upper Perk. couple of weeks ago during one of the administrative retreat days. I was the I was the field trip for nine of them. Uh they came for a tour of titanium finishing which is one of my favorite things to do and it was a lot of fun for all of us. I hope they learned a lot and they're really smart so that was fun. I wanted to give a shout out as well. Sorry JP, I'm doing one early. uh one of our high school contractors uh went out of his way to stop in at my work
004to tell me that our high school project was going well and he wanted to extol the virtues of our custodial staff, our facilities director. Uh he also said they everyone was helpful, knowledgeable, flexible and amazing. Uh that was great to hear and a big thank you to everyone who had a hand in the project. Last weekend, I had the pleasure of attending the Upper Park Alumni softball game because my daughter played softball and she played. Uh, it was a perfect day for a game. Looked like everyone had fun. I'm guessing there was a lot of sore muscles the next day and I could sort of smell the Ben Gay in the air. Um, also looking forward to the Peach Festival. I believe it's Saturday in Pensburgh and the Red Hill Band concert that goes with
005it. Yep. Uh la um a request. Could we try to make the pep rally a night when we don't have a meeting because we have EPS that night and we're not going to get to be there. Um I want to thank Paula Germanio and all of our talented kitchen staff for the wonderful meals they have prepared for us over the last over the years. Um, in an effort to do our financial part, board has decided not to have meals before our two big meetings like we've had. So, we're just going to have snacks. Um, uh, I also want to look our last thing, feeling really optimistic from a board president perspective about this school year. This is the first time I felt that we're going to be a cohesive unit focusing on student achievement, fiscal
006responsibility, and we're going to do it together. I get the feeling that working as a team, we can be the best advocates for the district. And with that, I'll turn it over to Dr. Roach. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Cunningham. Give me one second here to load up the presentation. All right, thank you very much. Stole a little my thunder there with a couple things, but we'll that's okay. We'll we'll cruise through that. Uh, welcome back to everyone. It's been a it's been a great summer. A lot of work uh done and we'll uh kind of kick this off. I'm glad at some point this summer when I turn to Mr. Roach and asked about um I keep getting calls about starting virtual. I keep getting calls about after Labor Day, all those types
007of things, and he's like, "We're going to make it. We're going to make it. So, I'll quickly put that out there. That's what I'm telling you. The rumor mill was was uh crazy at the high school about the the projects. It's not going to be perfect when we get when you get when we get in there next week for our staff. Um and there's work to be done into the school year, but it's going to be safe. The abatement is taken care of. We'll get an update on um the remaining portions of that potential project at at an upcoming facilities meeting. And um and there's a lot of there's some case work that still need to be done. So, here's a couple pictures from um this week um at the uh at the high school.
008So, upper left there, you're looking at the part of the gym hallway coming down from the build from the main part of the school down that hallway. So, ceilings, there's been progress made since then with some ceiling grids and hopefully the grids will be in uh by the end of the weekend. There are people the team is working uh Friday and Saturday heading into there. You can see there in the middle some classrooms that the floors are redone. Some of the ceilings were were redone based upon what was what was done above them. Some of the ceilings we should probably look at getting done sooner than later um on some classrooms that had flooring done but didn't have ceilings because there was nothing that needed to be abated above that. You can see uh in
009the lower right corner there uh the coral room that's still got some work to do. But there's you can see on the lefth hand side that's an old science classroom that had um the the square tables probably look like triang um diamonds there with some things coming up. So that's a room that's going to be ready for students that's going to have some boxes over them to safely allow students in there for the time being as the casework is coming together. Um some of the countertops are going to be buffed up uh plywood uh to make sure that the teacher desks and teacher tops are there. That's that's part of that ongoing conversation we've had about um countertops and those things to get the asbestous pieces out. Again, not perfect, but safe for students, safe
010for staff, and um most importantly in person on on time to get that going. So, there'll be some second shift work that will continue. Here's some more pictures um of some really nice classrooms that are done and then some other areas. So, now you're looking right dead center. You're looking back at the uh gym hallway which was most recently done, but you if you look closely, you'll see some of the spikes coming down getting ready for that ceiling grid. Uh and then it's the band room in the upper right. Um that's still got some flooring to do. Again, these were taken on Tuesday. So, there's been progress made since then and and much more progress will be um well is happening today and then into the weekend as well. Um the high school staff did
011get an email from Mr. Flanigan today sharing that he will be on on site on Saturday to let them know if that if the building is is okay on Monday for uh staff with the impacted rooms to come in if they want to begin to unpack. Um and then obviously everyone's here on Tuesday. So we know those are the two target dates to get teachers in on Tuesday and then Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday the building will be open Friday and Saturday if needed and we'll be ready for students. Um things will be safe. They may not be super pretty but the ceilings are it should be completed by that point. So other than that, the roofing projects have gone uh almost to completion and the board has been getting an update on those throughout the summer
012on all the work that's going on. So again, as you had said, the work the that's nice to hear. Great comments about our staff. They have they've been moved out of the high school for a while, really hitting the other buildings and now moving back the other way. And um you know, even our staff, as Mr. Roa said, no, this person has a plan. this this head custodian has the plan and trusting them to get the work done and the the teams are working great as well as the contractors have been uh doing their their best. The local contractors have been doing exceptional work and helping us out in all in all facets. So, um we're looking forward to that. So, the just so the board, it was a reminder for the board, we're having
013our um extracurricular committee meeting and our facilities committee meeting on Monday the 25th of August at the high school in the audon and we'll be able to walk these facilities towards the in the at the end of the facilities committee meeting. Um, and you can kind of see an update from where we are here. So, any questions or anything on the projects? Mike's in the back. He's happy to step up and talk if there's anything but do okay, Mike. Good. All right. Thank you. Um and just so you just Dr. Fina and myself, Mr. Roth, um Mr. Flanigan, and Mr. Robot today walked it again today, made sure that we were kind of making game plans to make sure everything was going to be as smooth as it can be. You already mentioned Dr. Haney,
014Dr. Wallof, and welcome back to Mrs. Basque. Um this was part of the bus tour when we were out and about through the through the district admin team. So, we did have some uh um you know, some professional training this this summer a couple times and met again on on this past Monday. Um but I'm just really proud and happy that team the team is working extremely hard focused on uh on on getting getting things ready for for the school year. So, I want to acknowledge the work of of our team as well as our people that are here working all summer long. some important information. Um today elementary um schedules and and and things opened up and then tomorrow it's the secondary um 6:00 to 12 so tomorrow morning. So if you have not
015and you're getting ready, we ask you to do your back to school forms which is the first thing that open that up and then into the uh to get access to the schedules today and then uh again tomorrow secondary and then the bus schedules are are there as well. So, um I think it's normal as I talked to a couple people today, a couple questions here or there and and but for the most part the information is out there. I don't have a percentage that we usually get for um how close we are with getting the back to school forms done. But um that's just again reminding people couple fast facts here. Um the free school breakfast is still in effect for next year. So that's qualified for everyone across the district. And but lunch
016is still on the qualified free and reduced. There's no reduced. It's if you if you qualify for free or reduced, the lunch is is uh no cost, but you have to have the form uh filled out and the information is on the website and is getting pushed out in tomorrow's um summer blast for our families. Transportation, just remember, every year we have new routes. It's not the same as it always is. So, new year, new routes. Um so, we ask everyone to be patient. The first two weeks of the school year, routes can be adjusted. Um I'm going to read something that's going to come out in tomorrow's blast here. Your bus information is subject to change between now and the start of the school year as we finalize routes. We ask that you make
017sure to re-review your information before school starts this year. Our transportation department will continue using My Ride K12 platform for bus riders only to provide bus information throughout the year. Families can access the the app via their mobile device or web browsers. Please note if if you use the system last year, you'll need to reconnect your student once bus information is available. And I I don't Yeah. So again, we're aware of the ongoing road closures and and weather issues. And what's an exciting piece for this school year um for uh this year is Mrs. Malone was able to split out the middle school and high school runs. Therefore, only middle school kids will ride together. Only high school kids will ride together. And I think what's most exciting at the building level is there's only
018one wave. So when the bell rings and everyone goes out, all the middle school kids, all the buses will be there. All the high school buses will be there and then they'll go. They don't have to crisscross over that type of thing. And I'm looking at Mrs. Malone. did save a driver or two on that as so we saved saved as well as made it okay. Yep. One great um even without that savings I know that people are thrilled at the buildings to really have the one wave and go from there. So definitely a positive uh positive move there. So we appreciate the time that which goes back to new year new routes. Um so that's we we appreciate that and again just continue to ask for patience. We had new teacher induction as Mrs.
019Cunningham mentioned that was this week and um that finished up today. Welcome back to teachers next week on uh Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and then Friday is an optional day with a lot of online uh learning uh learning. First day of school the 25th again communications via parent square. So you don't there was a big question last year about have to down you don't have to download the app but it's recommended but we'll continue to push the information out. And then a quick update I know uh high school athletics has already started on the 11th but middle school athletics is ready to go on the uh 25th. All right. Kindergarten registration. Continuing to take registration for kindergarten or any students. You know what class we're at? The class of incoming kindergarten or class of >> 202.
020>> Nope. >> Three. >> Lower. >> Oh, >> I can't. >> 38. Class of 38. >> Class of 38. So, continue to, you know, the more with the quicker we can get in, the better it helps us with staffing. All right. Preview one. High school marching. So, I went over to the high school marching uh practice. I thought you meant after college. >> No, no, high school. Um, I'll make sure I have my uh I don't know if this the sound will work here. So, every year I got I see if you guys can guess what song they're playing here for part of their show. One, two, one, two. Ready? [Music] Yep. Sentry pull out. Yep. This is their This is their opening number. Well, the location right now because of the renovations is the
021JB field out in in the area there up the field there. So, nice little. [Music] >> All right, you ready for song preview two? >> Hold on. There we go. Okay, this I think is their second song. All I have is two. [Music] I went right the pitch perfect on this one. This is perfect. [Music] You got >> another fallout boy. light them up, right? >> Yeah. >> So, we're excited to see the uh we're excited to see the marching marching band uh their full routine this year. And for those of you that are going to be joining us uh next week at convocation, you'll get another little sneak peek from the marching band. So, welcome them. >> All right. So, welcome back to the school year for everyone. We're excited to get started. And
022in tomorrow's blast, we'll this is the first day of school sign that we're, you know, they're on the website if people want to print them out and do there. And that could be for schoolboard members, too. Um, we can have signs ready for you as well for uh for that to post and put on put online as well as uh send over to Alexis to be a part of our overall push to welcome the school year. If I could real quick because I I have another note here about athletics, I want to mention the senior gold card passes. They're they um they if you live inside the school district, seniors can receive a free gold card pass by calling us the ed center here from 8:00 to 3. The pass is also honored at any
023Pioneer Athletic Conference school that charges admission. The gold card may not be used for pack championships or postseason competitions. And then a reminder to game day students. Game day reminder, students in grades K to 8 must be accompanied by a paying adult for entry and must remain with the adult during the contest. And uh no backpacks or large bags allowed in the stadium or gymnasiums in terms of the uh football games and the evening evening events. So just again some notes here wanted to make sure it was was out there. More importantly the gold card to know that that that's out there. >> How old is that? >> How no how old do you have to be? >> A long time ago. That's the end of my report. >> 65. >> Oh okay. Not yet.
024Okay. All right. Thank you. That was very nice. All right. We don't have any student representatives, so we'll move on to our solicitors report and Sunshine Act announcements. >> Good evening, everyone. I have uh two announcements tonight. The first is that the board met in executive session immediately prior to tonight's meeting for the purpose of discussing a collective bargaining uh between the district and the upper education association as well as a tax assessment matter. And the second is in regard to public comment. There'll be two periods for public comment tonight. The first is limited to uh action items on tonight's agenda and the second is for any item that is or may come before the board. Each speaker will be limited to three minutes and there are signup sheets in the back that must be
025turned in up front prior to that uh comment period. Thank you. Thank you. We'll move on to presentations and discussion and that will be the 202526 superintendent goals. >> All right. Thank you. I know this is what brought everybody out tonight. >> Yep. the goal reports. So, I'm going to kind of go over the uh the goals that I presented to board leadership and are moving forward with at this time um for the school year. Okay. So, obviously goal one, the main reason we're here in school every day, continuing to increase student achievement, growth, mental health supports for each each of our students. Um a lot of this work is done at the not necessarily at at my desk but at the desk of um the assistant superintendent, the curriculum directors, the principles and all
026the work the special ed directors all the work that's going. So this really goal is about supporting the work um and supporting the team the cabinet team as well as the principles and everyone to uh focus on that. So we have goal meetings set up um throughout the course of the rest course of the this month and getting ready and then monitor those monthly uh going through there. So, we'll continue to provide updates there. And then with the change in the curriculum department, um I felt important to to make this a goal to continue to work with with this uh transition to the two director model. So, with Mrs. Bast and Mrs. and Dr. Dr. Wallof working with them to kind of lay out the uh statement of duties and then adjust from there and
027continue to support them throughout the course of the year with this new model. So, those are the two are uh two areas here specifically in the increasing student achievement and growth sections. In the second one really it's been focused on financial stewardship budget preparation for next year and beyond. So what I'd like to do first is I'd like to ask the board if we could have the February workshop um maintained on the calendar but not have it a workshop. What I'd like to do is be beginning at next week's convocation begin to invite staff uh students and the community to participate in an upper perk preserving today planning for tomorrow efficiency fair. So, this is where we're going to seek um uh students, teachers, staff, administrators have already been volunttoled that they would participate. Uh
028I'd love to see the board members, including uh the ones that will be heading off the board to come back in February and any new board members. Would be great to have all nine uh at a community atlarge program um to present ideas for increased efficiency. So, you have an idea, well, why don't we do this way? Why don't we do that? I'm asking people to put together an old school science fair type of project. Technologies is okay, but we're looking for old school science fair like this. >> We have a visual >> like the old trifold poster board which which would list out the ideas and uh have anyone even from the community who thinks they have an idea to come together on on that February workshop since it's already on our calendars. uh
029probably middle school or high school and uh and have like a science fair and share with each other, do some research, do some opportunities. Uh in a previous district, we've had something similar to this. I use this example a lot. Two students came up with the idea to print in a different font than what the district was printing in at that time to save I don't know $10,000 a year if we printed in um I know it's not right. Comic Sands versus Times New Roman um or Aerial Narrow I guess. Any rate um again just different ideas. People have ideas, right? So, we hear all these things. We hear different concepts. What about this? What about that? So, if you have an idea, we're asking you to put it on paper. Be be a part
030of that. I know Mr. Bishop's excited for all the research. He's going to have people contacting him for numbers and different things. Um, but again, I would I would ask the board as as a part of your advocacy efforts and your commitment to financial um, you know, stewardship that this could be an opportunity that we can engage with the community. And I haven't got it all thought out yet. If we're going to do dots and you know, some dots we really think it's a good idea. Let's consider it. let's uh do that. But I think it's going to give everyone an opportunity if there's something that's on the table to participate. And I think February is a good time. It still has budget implications, gets the year going um and and go from there. But
031I would love to see I'm hoping I get some teachers that are like, you know, my students can do this for a project. Let's let's see if they could do that. I really think that would be a nice thing. And again, it and I thought about the middle school because I still hear people like, I never seen the middle school. Like, well, then come and walk the middle of school if that's what you want to do. That's okay, too. Um but again try something different to have this community at large. Um and no no secret here I went put into AI to get up with preserving today planning for tomorrow efficiency fair. Um something that we again just kind of says what it is. So to me I think this was in the spirit of
032what I was hearing the board talk about. How do we provide the opportunity and if there's someone in the community that has an opinion I often do. We'd love to for the people to participate and we'll get that information out there as we go forward. So that's what that looks like. >> It'll be fun. It's good. Bye. All right. Uh, and then I think part of this is the work uh that for for Drew and I is to continue to work to reduce that structural deficit that we continue to work in. I can't say it's going to wipe out in one year where we never have to use fund balance, but the goal every year should be to use less and less and less down to zero and truly have a balanced budget um every
033year. So that's we're going to continue to work on that with that term. that right now we've been working long before I was here a couple years before I was here was still always always pulling from from from the fund balance to balance that doesn't we have to continue to reduce that it's got to get better every year so that's the goal is to make it least at least less less than this year next year but continue to figure out what's there and how that works so with the goal of eliminating that that need over the course of time to to to get to that balanced budget and I think that's what I heard from from the board as well so we'll continue to work on that so that those are the financial aspect goals
034goals. Uh if you're ready for your science fair board, let me know. >> Thank you. >> Y >> I love that. >> Goal three. This typically is a goal area where I work with uh different departments uh some of the other directors specifically on a couple items here. So, um again, hearing hearing things loud and clear in terms of charter school. So, this is kind of a working on some plans and action steps and and including taking some action whether it's a new survey or or getting to the heart of um how to why our charter why our students in charter and cyber charter are there and are there any of them interested in coming back or what we could do to to do that but explore I I don't disagree that when we try
035a survey two or three years ago and it failed miserably that we should rest on that we need to be proactive so putting together a plan here with some of the administrators and exploring those areas and um not waiting on simply to see if there's going to be reform let's reform as much as we can ourselves and make ourselves maybe they don't know everything we have to offer and we need to to do that so working on that uh working with Mrs. Fischer on specifically employee satisfaction, trying to continue to collect feedback um from from our employees and then sharing that feedback. The same thing we heard from our students, you know, we we fill these surveys out and we never hear anything. But making sure that we can we can convey that employee satisfaction,
036those things back and be explicit about the action steps that are taking in that area. That'll obviously it'll improve the employee experience that are for our current employees and hopefully it improves u our recruitment strategies when when the information is is positive. Often when Dr. Free and I are finishing up our last round of interviews with staff, we're like, "Well, what's your interest in Upper Perk?" And maybe it's just the interview process. You know, they talk they sometimes talk about things specific things at Upper Perk that they've heard about or that their their friends or other people have told them about. So, how do we continue to capitalize on that? And then finally, as um I put a note to the board that at next week's EPS meeting um yes, during the uh during the
037pep rally, um there'll be a sharing of an update on the uh the plan with we know Skyward is going uh end of life December of 28. So, we've worked all through last year, but now we're at the point to make a selection, have some additional board conversation to see if we can't uh move forward in one direction, and then begin to work on training as early as October to be able to go live uh for for next year. Uh, and that's in the student information system. So, and then there's also the budget uh or the financial side of that as well is a separate discussion that Mr. um Bishop is working on as well. So, that's third overall goal. And then fourth finally uh can this often is the kind of community engagement increasing
038communications. So in addition to the report that I'm I provide every every month and would like to continue again take take the word from some of the board members continue to share a letter to the editor which there was already been one out in July uh to the local newspaper because if it's not in the town of country Bradley >> didn't see that. >> So uh continue to push out information and promote and I even heard Mrs. Cunningham chime in about getting some potential committee reports out in the in the paper as well to kind of tell our story and not have it told for us. So you utilizing the um utilizing the uh town of country and other other local media for that. Uh I had an offer from uh the teacher the Miss
039Heron at the um high school about utilizing their podcast information or their podcast um hardware. So plan right now is to host a monthly podcast and have some guests uh guest talk about what's going on in the district uh some Q&A and try to continue to promote um you know promote what's going on in a different forum. This may hit a different forum than someone that may not read the town and country or or be plugged in or >> is there anybody >> I'm sure there is somewhere but again a different a different take on that. So, be be on the lookout for some more information. If there's board members here that would like to to to have a segment on there or come and talk about something, happy to to host that. It won't
040be as popular as the Kelsey brothers and I won't have anyone I won't have. Well, yeah. Yeah. Taylor's not available on the days that I'm scheduling uh these these these things, but maybe you never know. Never know. Maybe Jason um uh podcast wise and then continue with some of the other the other things that have been going on with our with our community. I still want to um continue to to meet uh and meet with students and talk with them and um you know work with the local organizations. I just to share I got an email from the um chamber asking me to continue on for another two years as the uh as a board member there. I didn't realize that I it was an option. I just thought this comes along with the position.
041>> I was volunte by Lann Staler back in the day. Um but no, but I'm happy to do that. I think I think the chamber is a great organization and and we're able to um definitely benefit the school district with those the partnerships that are going on there. So that's an overview of of the goals. We're ready for more information. Typically this has been shared in September. So it's really kind of right out the g here in the summer and um and as the administrators have seen this a couple times, their goals are due very very soon and this I think helps set the stage for them as well. Um, and a lot of the things you're going to see, the logo that you saw on the first part of the um, of the presentation
042from my superintendent report is the logo is the tagline from the comprehensive plan. So, a lot of the work that's going to be happening throughout the course of of the year early on is comprehensive plan roll out, making sure that that document is is part of the part of the fabric of what we're doing here. So, you'll see that as well. So, that's it. >> Thank you. They're going to be fun goals. Good goals and fun goals. All right. I don't see that we have any public comment on action items. So, I'd ask for an approval of tonight's agenda. >> Motion to approve the agenda. >> Second. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. >> Thanks, Emily. Any opposed? Okay. Uh, next we'll ask for an approval of the minutes of the June 19th regular
043school board meeting. >> Motion second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Okay. Um, move on to old business uh board advoc advocacy efforts. I mean, I can start that by saying I didn't mention that in my president's report u but Leah and I had been talking. had sent us all um an article a while ago um about the cyber charter schools and um between the two of us we kind of revamped it got some numbers some real our numbers from Drew um and I'll send that out tomorrow to our finance committee first because I sort of think we need to I my vision is to put um one report maybe once a month maybe once every 3 weeks in the town and country um for a committee and
044what are we what is that committee doing and um I think it would really be good to have the community understand some of the things that we're doing. Um so the first I'd like the first one to be about the cyber charter school since that's right at the forefront since we're still waiting for a budget um from the state. So hopefully everybody's in agreement with that and we can talk about what, you know, what's going on, facilities, EPS, like what exciting things we're doing. Um, so that the public gets a real taste of um, get to know UPSd because unless you come to these meetings or you read the town and country, you may not always know. Maybe we can incorporate some of them into your podcast, too. Yeah. U, anyone else have anything else
045they would like to talk about? We'll keep walking. We'll keep walking and talking and and see what else we can come up with. Um in September, we'll be having um for sure Tracy Penny Cook coming to talk about the some of the things they're doing um on the state level uh to for cyber charter reform. Just sort of a a chat with us to tell us what's going on. That was one of the other things that we could talk about. >> Which which meeting is that? >> Uh the September. >> It's the workshop. Okay. And then you you mentioned a committee. Is that going to be discussed at the workshop? Like when you would want to start a committee for board. Yeah, I think we'll just talk about it. >> Wanted to make a note.
046>> Yep. Yep. I'm pestering you. Don't worry. I'll be pestering everyone. and we'll just make it a as make sure each committee is good with what we're saying and and then push it out and see what we come up with. Thought that sounded like a good idea. Um, anything else? All right. Um, we'll move on to new business. Uh, personnel report. >> Madam President, can I make a motion for personnel report to be approved in its entirety? That's the retirements, the resignations, the appointments, and the leaves. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I >> Any opposed? >> Okay. >> If I could just make one comment. So, uh, what was approved in June also, we appreciate the opportunity that the board afforded to, uh, for us to pay bills
047as well as to hire people. So, that that motion from the 19th of June is still in effect until the next meeting. It was up until today to to ratify these positions that were offered and then extends to the next two weeks. So, we do have interviews coming in the next two weeks. We'd like to make those offers and continue to um, you know, continue to do that so that people can drop a notice as soon as possible. that that really has helped us get our staff and have the large majority of them uh here. And I think I heard that next week or the following week there's going to be an open house for additional positions once school gets started. So if it happens before the board meeting and things go well, we can
048make that offer and um and and try to fill those last positions. But as you've seen the board over the course of the summer, we're down to minimal vacancies heading into the school year. So a tremendous amount of work. It tells us that people want to be here. uh and I think the one professional full vacancy is due to a recent um resignation. So it's been a lot through there a lot of interviews from the team. So anyway, just want to clarify that we're going to continue to work under that same umbrella we have between this meeting and the next meeting so that we can if we able to secure a staff member, it'll get us there two weeks earlier. Some of the people we hire later in the summer are still not going to
049start the school year with us. Um and then once their 60 days are up um that they they'll be with us. And that goes the other way, too. Someone that just recently signed a resignation will be with us through the end of September because where they're going, they they're we're being held here. So, just want to clarify. Thanks. >> Just one last comment. Congratulations to Mr. Hans on his retirement from high school social studies teacher. >> Yep. >> That's okay. All right. We'll move on to action items. Um, >> Madam President, can I make a motion to approve action items A, B, C, and D? That would be Red Hill Dental for the school dental services. The uh approve the hourly rates for Delta T group for substitutes as needed. Motion to approve the addendum
050to the existing agreement with pediatric therapeutic services and a motion to approve educational services agreement. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Okay. Melanie Melanie. Yes, just I need to back up, Keith. Sorry. Just a real quick question on the appointments. Um, Dr. Roach, could you investigate the timeline for filling the girls wrestling position? >> Yes. I was told that the open open winter sports um coaching positions will be interviewing in the next two to three weeks. >> Yep. >> Thanks. >> Okay. I make a motion to approve items E, F, and G. That's to approve the MCIU service agreement for Zoom webinar and Zoom license. They approve the MCIU service agreement for Zoom individual license and the MCIU service agreement for the -ate management for category
0511 and two. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Yes. >> Okay. Go ahead. >> I had a question on what we're getting for the um the individual license for $9,000. Like is it a number of licenses or what? >> I'm curious how many >> Mr. Roth's gonna come up and answer. >> Yeah, there's a button there. >> I need a button in the back. >> I've been quarantined. Uh that covers a license for uh every staff member. um and also covers like some free licensing for the students, but it's for Zoom meetings between principles and teachers and faculty and so forth. So, it's used from time to time with parents as well. They zoom with parents and by having that license versus the free license, they can have longer meetings and they can control who
052can they call it zoom diving, keep people from zoombombing them. Does that make sense? That's that's why the license. Okay. How how long are the free meetings versus with the license? >> Free meetings are limited to 40 minutes, I believe. Um, and you can't necessarily uh keep people out of your meetings. >> Can't you can't you just relog in after 40 minutes? >> You can. I mean, that can be difficult depending on what you're doing, but >> Okay. So it was enacted um you know and got uh taken under play when we got into um uh the COVID situation and has kind of become an everyday we the administrative team zooms all the time. We have one of our meetings every other meeting I think we do with the the administrative team we zoom we
053zoom with our texts you know those kind of things. So, um I can speak for the operational side of the um ed center used a lot and I know the other administrators are are checking in with um their teachers and their players. So, >> okay. >> Saves a lot of travel time. >> It does. It's one of those wins and and then it's also discounted licensing from the IU. So, >> so the Zoom webinar um would be more for >> this. This Yeah, >> exactly. >> Okay. >> So, >> Okay. Hope that helps. >> Anyone else? Mr. >> Roth, while you're there, I know that the next items after this talks about the cyber security and that type of thing and there was a question or two from the board and I had I already
054talked to you earlier this evening and asked you about a future >> update on what that looks like so the board can understand all the layers that are in place. >> I think it's time that conversation the exact session we're talking about layers of cyber security. >> I just I mean >> it could be okay you could keep it general. >> Yeah. Yeah. No, I just want to make sure that that was >> sensitive. Yeah. Right. >> Okay, that's all. Thank you. Okay. >> Yeah, it would be kind of silly to have all those layers and then tell everybody about them. That'd be kind of Yeah, we've got it. >> All right. Anyone else have any other questions on those three? >> All right. So, all in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Okay. Motions carry.
055>> Madam President, yes. Final three >> items H, I, and J. That's the MCIU Mime Quest quote, the NRI quote for the three-year Verona subscription and approve the list of Chris transportation staff. >> Second. >> Okay. Any discussion? >> All right. Hearing none. All in favor? >> I. >> Emily, did we lose you? >> Sorry, I did say I. >> Okay. >> Sorry, my ears are clogged. >> No, it's took mine, too. >> Yeah. Any opposed? All right, motions carry. I don't know that we'll have new follow-up items. Just we'll continue on with the advocacy. That's all. >> Okay. I was paying attention. Uh we don't have any public comments in there. And so we'll move on to board comments. Do we have any board comments this evening? >> Sure. I agree with Melanie. I
056have high hopes for this year. And um Dr. Roach, obviously I really liked your plan with including the community with ideas. I think that's going to I hope it goes well and so um I want to encourage everybody listening or here to join in with that. I think that's really great. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> And JP and and Emily too in February. Have a great day. >> Yep. >> Y >> bring your uh trifolds. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you JP. I see your light on. >> Yeah. I actually got a shout out over the summer. >> Oh, good job. Okay, it's a it's a real good one, so bear with me. A little long, but uh Christine and Scott Mcuinness wanted to shout out Mr. Gadro, uh 7th
057grade ELA, and Mrs. Stone, seventh grade math teachers. Mr. Gdro makes it a point to attend at least one event that each of his students participate in or have an interest in. This past fall, he attended Brooks Cross Country Home Meet to cheer her on. This is above and beyond expectations and is such an amazing way to let students know that you care and are interested in who they are as people. He also made it a point to call on Brooke every single class to help her get comfortable with speaking in the classroom and it worked out really well. He made it a point to help her grow not only academically but as a person. If contri contributing to creating confident, caring, compassionate, hard-working and mature future adult citizens is part of being a teacher,
058then he ex exemplifies this role. He was always keeping us in the loop and providing feedback regarding her progress. For Mrs. Stone, her posit positive and upbeat energy is truly infectious. She is always smiling and encouraging. Sarah benefited in ways I cannot describe. She also hated math homework until Mrs. zone. Sarah grew with Mrs. Stone and improved academally academically in math and her overall level of confidence. Mrs. Stone communicated and updated us on her progress and provided tips on how else we could help her polish her math skills. But this is not what impressed me. However, she got Sarah to enjoy going to a class that is always that she has always hated must lie in her personality, professionalism, experience, and passion. She is just an amazing person. She shared her positive energy and poured
059her heart into helping Sarah grow. We cannot thank these two amazing teachers enough for investing their time, thought, and energy into inspiring our young ladies. All this while, I'm sure, inspiring others as well. I am pleased that Upper Perk has such amazing and invested teachers that are part of the village which with which to raise our children. >> That was very nice. That was a really good shout out. Yeah, good stuff today. All right. Well, we have any other board comments hearing none. >> Motion to adjurnn. Second. >> All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you everyone. Motion or meeting adjourn.