001to call this meeting to order of the board workshop of for perkum school board. And first of all, pledge of allegiance. If you would please stand. I pledge algiance. Thank you. Mr. Bishop, could I have a roll call, please? Certainly. Uh, Director McCormack here. Director Shmmet here. Director Chaffrani. Director Cunningham here. Director McCarrick here. Director Fluki here. Director Prago here. Director Bieber here and Director Penny Packer here. All right. Thank you. And we're going to move right into committee reports. Uh Liz, first off with communications, please. All right. We met right before this at 6 o'clock. We discussed the website redesign. It's really cool. Um we got a little sneak peek and it's userfriendly. It's very organized. It's 100% ADA accessible and it's on track for the launch in June. The senior shoutouts um will
002be coming out through social media and the this Friday's update that is if you have a senior you can submit submit a senior spotlight uh picture to celebrate your senior and that will be throughout May. Um some parent square updates. We will be having um next year the parent square pay which is a new feature that will allow you to pay for fees and field trips through parent square. And then um also parent square academy is another feature that will be updated on the parent square that will allow staff to have training um on parent square. Then there's a we talked about the communication survey. Um there'll be a survey sometime next year and it'll be about how you feel about the district um about the communications, questions about communication, about the messages, are there
003too many, are there not enough, and suggestions for improvements. And then upcoming events. Today they had the welcome to kindergarten at Herford and there is another one May 1st. Tomorrow is prom for the high school. Uh, April 29th is get set for kindergarten, another welcome to kindergarten for Malboro Elementary. And there's also one on May 15th. Uh May 2nd, the four five center um will have a color walk. And May 6th through the 9th there's Artfest. May 20th are senior awards. May 20th also is a UPSD Special Olympics. May 25th is the great outdoors day. May 28th is the blue and gold awards ceremony. June 2nd is the graduation walk. And June 3rd is graduation. Okay. Thank you. Any questions? All right. We'll move on to EPS. Ms. McCormack. Hello. Um the EPS meeting or
004committee did not meet this month because of the holiday and um so I don't have a anything to review and then the extracurricular committee also is not meeting this month. So my review is very quick tonight and I'm all done. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll move on. And we're going to have Dr. Rich the uh next extracurricular meeting will be on May 27th. Is that correct? Yes. Tuesday, May 27th. Okay. I forgot to say communications will meet in September. Our next meeting will meet in September. Okay. Well, if you're both done, then we'll move on to JP and facilities. So, the facilities committee did not meet uh for this meeting. So, I have nothing to report there except that since there's no extracurricular on this coming Monday, the 28th, we're bumping up the
005facilities committee meeting from 7 until 6 in. So, hour early. Mark your calendars. Don't forget be there at 6 o'clock. Thanks. Okay, we'll move on to finance. And I can't say that I didn't have a meeting because we did. Okay, so uh we also talked about the parent square pay proposal. Uh it's going to save the district a little bit of money, save the parents a little bit of money uh with the fees, which is good. Uh then we had a major re revenue line item review. Uh we went over current real estate, delinquent real estate tax, earned income tax, and real estate transfer tax. Uh then we started in on the proposed final budget for next year. That was our discussion. Uh the end point of it was to that the committee recommended right
006now a 4.9% increase and we're hoping that we'll be able to make it four uh let's see and oop sorry. So, uh, we went over how much, um, we realized there's a little bit of a math error here, but, um, so there it's not quite as unosie as Rosie as it was. Um, so the amounts that we talked about, which at a 4.9% millage increase. Um, and Mr. Bishop, you want to give, do you have the number the real numbers for those percentages or I have rounded numbers. Okay. Rounded numbers are fine. Yeah. So, um what was shown at the meeting was uh I think it was about a $4.17 uh million dollar deficit after a 4.9% tax increase. Uh that number needs to change to a $4.5 million deficit after a $4.9% tax increase.
007Um there was a calculation mistake on the spreadsheet which uh I've since corrected and will have posted up there um with the agenda. And just also just to make a quick note, the finance committee right before we talked about that uh we did decide to add 225,000 in earned income tax which is not factored into the spreadsheets that are up there. So that will be adjusted later. Thank you. I forgot about that. Okay. Um so we did talk about different percentages 3.5 4.5 and then 4.9. And with the um uh we have unassigned uh funds of 4.68 million. So if we did it at 4.9, that's pretty much going to take up all of our assigned unassigned money um to to meet the gap potentially. Um I think that's about it. That's we talked about
008that the the district uh locked in with really good price for diesel and for gasoline. And unless anybody has anything else to add. I think that pretty much sums it up. Okay. And find my agenda again. All right. We'll move on to policy. Miss Pen. Policy committee met April 22nd. Policies presented for review or updating included policy 806, child abuse. That was moved forward for recommended first read. Policy 807, opening exercises, was also moved forward for a recommended first read. Policy 811, bonding, was moved forward for a recommended first read. Policy 812, property insurance. Policy 813, other insurance, and policy 814, copyright material, were not recommended for first read as the committee has asked for some additional clarifications. The committee dedicated much of the meeting discussing policy 915.1 boosters AR draft. Mr. McCarrick thought we
009were getting out early, but we went through that line by line and we'll finish that up at the next policy committee meeting. Again, we are keeping policy 815.1 gen uh gener generative artificial intelligence and education on hold and will continue those conversations as the committee works with Mr. Summers and the administration and guidance from PSBA to develop this policy. Dr. Roach, Mr. Bishop, committee members, anything to add? All right. Next policy committee meeting is scheduled for May 19th at 5 o'clock here at the Ed Center. This concludes the policy committee report. Thank you. And I also forgot to say our next finance meeting, if I can get it right this time, is May 19th at 6 o'clock. Okay. Move on to ad hoc. Leah, April 17th. Thank you. uh to review the draft student survey
010and timeline is proposed during our February 20th committee meeting. Uh the survey is uh just to reiterate the survey is an outgrowth of the recently adopted comprehensive plan and was developed with student input. The survey will provide critical insights into student experiences guiding future district initiatives on well-being and engagement as outlined in the comprehensive plan. Mrs. Senivitis and Mrs. Hogland collaborated with the DVC groups in the middle school and high school, dreaming forward and student leadership groups to identify key focus areas. Students were actively involved in drafting questions and emphasized the importance of social media outreach to increase participation. Originally, they had over a 100 questions, but after a thorough review, the survey was refined to 43 questions, including single answer and open-ended responses. The committee and attending community members that evening suggested a few
011final modifications, which were approved. The student survey will be administered in May of 2025 to grades 6 through 12 and will replace the Pennsylvania climate survey to reduce survey fatigue. Student leaders will encourage classmates to participate. The 2025 survey will serve as a baseline and will be conducted each May for comparison. Parallel teacher and parent surveys will also be distributed to gather broader perspectives on student well-being, school climate, and engagement. And those um surveys were added. We were just going to look at the student perspective. And then in uh our conversations, we thought it would be better to look at the other two. So we'll have students, teachers, and parents. And then in the fall of 2025, we will re review the results uh to guide our future actions for both the ad hoc committee
012and the district. As the data is essential for next steps, the May meeting has been cancelled. The committee looks forward to using these insights to strengthen student support and improve the school environment. This concludes my report. Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to the Western Montgomery Career and Technology Center and Mr. McCarrick. Well, if you were here two weeks ago for our regular board meeting, you'll remember that Mr. Living Good was up here giving us a brief on the budget and things like that, and he covered pretty much all the points I'm going to cover tonight. So, it's going to be real fast. Uh he had stated that he obtained he spoke with Gilbert Associates, which is an architectural firm. They're going to give us a free feasibility study for the Western
013Center. Hopefully, it'll be completed by sometime this summer. so we can have an idea going forward of what we might be able to do down there as far as um offering new classes or work that needs to be done down there. We also mentioned that Marbor Elementary had our carpentry students stop up there and build a wall for us so that they can put a mural up. And uh the last thing to mention about that to mention about the western about the students of the western center is they now have a dual enrollment opportunity for with pen college in welding and electrical. The other big topic down there is admissions. How many kids are going to be getting in there next year? Well, we had about 200 applicants or no, excuse me, 309 applicants and
014we have almost 200 openings. So, unfortunately, we're going to be turning some of those away, but we'll be but the notifications for those that have been accepted have already started going out. Um, some friends we've heard through the grapevine that their kids have been accepted. I'm sure some of you others have had that. So, so the word is out there. I don't know who the list is, but we'll find out eventually. Um, important dates. One is in the past, April 9th, we had a co-op lunchon. We have about 30 to 40 kids that go out on co-op and are learning skills on the job. Uh if you remember, I was talking about one last year. He worked part-time, made quite a bit of money, and then graduated and had a full-time job. Same thing is
015happening down there this year. A lot of these students that are out there are already promised jobs with these co-ops that they're doing. I had the opportunity to sit with a couple of them. Excuse me. Um the honor society for the western center May 7th will be their honor society program and May 21st is senior awards which will be held at Springford. That's it. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We'll move on to the Upper Perk Education Foundation. Leah graduating. Thank you for the graduating seniors. Uh if you recall in u this year the foundation uh made a strategic decision to redirect funds from personalized graduation science towards student centered programs. The new approach still celebrates our seniors while deepening the foundation's educational impact. This year's initiative includes what we've done before uh the standard
016congrats class of 2025 signs available for purchase for 100 each or three for $250. These signs will be distributed to every senior. Personalized signs for purchase were made available separately through the senior portrait program. Donations of any amount are welcome. Contributions under $100 while not eligible for a sign help defay the project costs. New this year is a um initiative. The seniors are going to be given this for a selfie and on the back are 10 ad spaces for $500 each. But if you do the math, that's $5,000 that could come into the foundation for supporting this. And it'll be businesses that um may have something to offer students as they graduate hopefully. And uh the students will be encouraged to take selfies with those. And uh the idea is to perhaps extend this to
017kindergarten classes in the future. Um board members here and on the U foundation board are encouraged to show our support by contributing sharing with community partners and promoting the project. The spirit store opened the 22nd and the recent one school one book campaign made the paper um there with the squirrel from Q&B and that was sponsored by Stafford Glove and uh Q&B. Our gratitude goes to those partners for their investment in early literacy and student engagement. And I just want to put a plug in for the Upper Perk Education Foundation. Um, this is a 501c3 nonprofit that is positioned to garner funding from businesses, civic organizations, private foundations, and individual donors. These contributions are directed to programs that benefit students and align with the district's comprehensive plan. And when we talk about budget shortfall and
018whatnot, this is not going to immediately close that gap. But in the future, any funds that are raised from the foundation are directly going to impact our students. So this is something that the community, we would like the community to really get involved in supporting. and the executive director, Jess Hilligus, will be giving the board an overview of short and long-term goals for the foundation at our May 22nd meeting. This concludes my report. Oh, and if anybody here wants to do a sign, I have forms. Are they going to go out to businesses like they have in the past? Good. There's the plan. Okay. But if you have a if you want to buy a sign, you have the forms. All righty. Thank you. All right, China with the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit. All right.
019Um, the MCIU board met yesterday. Um, and we opened with the executive director report from Dr. Regina Speaker. Um, she started by expressing some concerns about some potential threats to federal funding. As you know, the IU depends more heavily on federal funding. So um she just expressed some concerns about that. That ended up being a bigger discussion and in the end of the meeting um their solicitor uh Mr. Sultanic again recommended some shifts in focus for funding to EITC's which are education improvement tax credits and Drew that might be something you may want to think about or like the I don't know I know district individual districts rely less heavily on federal funds but um it seems like it might be something interesting to look into and Mr. Sultanic was just kind of recommending that
020um education just start considering different ways to possibly think about funds. Hopefully that makes sense. Um but again nothing you know um nothing has occurred necessarily but it's just sort of planning ahead. Um from there uh Dr. Bradley Landis um presented a legislative update from the Office of Administrative Services. He requested and received board approval for a contracted services agreement with Fox Rothschild for 2526. Um the board approved a change order of about $5,000 for a broadcast studio project and um Dr. Bradley Landis presented several policy updates for a first read, including student records, expression, and adult student boundaries. The CFO, Sandra Edeling, provided um financial reports and payments for March and April from the Office of Business Services, nearing uh uh 23 million. Um the board approved summer food program agreements with Pottstown, Norristown,
021and Theater Horizon. Uh the board approved special transportation vendor agreements for 2526 approved IDA subgrant agreements with multiple LEAs and I believe one of those included Upper Perk. The um Office of Early Childhood Services um asked for a waiver agreement for speech therapy services which was approved. Um the office of facilities and operations um asked for and received approval for several waved and paid conference center facility rentals. Um there were a couple um action items in from the office of human resources which were reviewed and approved um including some hires and a termination contract. Um the office of innovation and strategic partnership um asked and received approval for $4,000 and $4,725 service agreement with Riverview IU6 to produce the annual STEM and PA booklet. Um and let's see, uh the office of organizational professional learning
022um presented and received approval for several differentus um for professionals for professional development across different districts focusing on literacy, STEM, PBIS, AI, and sustainability. Um we the board also approved student field experiences and vendor contracts for services such as validate me and online registration platforms. Um, let's see. The Office of Student Services um asked for and received approval for agreements for evaluations mental health and PCBA services. Um, and the Office of Technology asked for and the board approved over a dozen service agreements with dis with districts for tech support, licensing, and network services. The next meeting will be held on May 21st. And that concludes my report. I should say something. Oh, sure. Uh Katrina, uh the foundation is working on the EITC and we are approved for several programs for EITC money and uh
023the foundation is looking to expand that program. We have to get approval to be part of that, but that is in the works. Oh, that's awesome, Leah. Thank you. Just to clarify, Mr. Bishop the district can't accept EITC straight out that that the arm the arm to accept that is the foundation. Yeah, that was my always my understanding as well that right. Yeah. So we have we have the mechanism to bring the money in through the foundation and then used appropriately in terms of um you know you're talking about the buckets that are pre-approved. Right. Right. Right. But that doesn't stop someone from that doesn't stop someone from donating. It's just how it's spent once you get once it gets in there. Right. And I gave um uh the the representative on the foundation board
024who is managed through Quakertown National Bank. I was very wellversed in the EITC program and I also gave Jess Hilligus some information about individual donors because not only can businesses do it, but individual donors can do EITC money. So, it's it's really um it's almost one of those things that's too good to be true because in a nutshell, what happens with EITC money, if you owe Pennsylvania state tax, you can use that state tax that goes into the EITC program and you get a tax credit and you also get a tax deduction on your federal account taxes. There's parameters. There has to be levels where you need you have to meet to be part of the program. Thanks. Yeah, thank you for that clarification. Um, Dr. Roach and yeah, it's a good discussion. All right.
025Well, we'll move on to legislative leaison. Right. Montgomery County School Directors Legislative Committee met on April 2nd at six o'clock. We met via Zoom. Uh, Dr. Roach shared the meeting summary in his April 4th board update and hopefully everyone's had a chance to review that. But some of the highlights included the student advocacy initiative voices of for education. Since the program began in January, students have had the opportunity to interact with legislators and county commissioner and a super school superintendent. The group will be taking their learning and and applying it during a visit to the capital on June 3rd. a reminder regarding the letters to the editor campaign to promote public education. Let me know if any of you are interested in participating in the campaign and I can uh connect you with the folks
026overseeing that uh effort. Discussion continues regarding cyber charter reform and right before I left the house I did receive the April 23rd legislative report and Dr. Roach will include that in his board update tomorrow so you guys can take a look at that. The Legislative Breakfast is tomorrow. I believe Maline Dean will be speaking at the breakfast. I'll be attending along with Leah and Dr. Roach. And yes, I will be there early. Get my parking space. And uh the next meeting for the committee is May 7th. Board members are encouraged to follow legislative activity through Dr. Roach's weekly board updates and for up-to-date legislative and legal information. This concludes the legislative liaison report. PIAA I don't have a report. I was unable to go to the last meeting. I will be rolling off of the
027PIAA board of directors in July, but I will be reappointed to the PIAA District 1 committee in the fall. So, um I'm not going away from the PIAA stuff. So, yeah. Great. It's nice to have an inside voice here. All right. Um we'll move on to regional planning. Sarah, thank you. So, regional planning commission met last night at Marville Township and we went over new business, the 2025 regional recycling event scheduled in East Greenville, Camelot Park, Saturday, July 12th, 9:00 a.m. to 12. Um, we also reviewed the Percuan Creek flood study update and reviewed the comprehension plan with also future project discussion along with zoning audit, non-residentidential and a lot of sidewalk talk on that too where we need sidewalks. Um, a lot of regional updates. There's a lot of building going on. Yoders was
028sold. Did you hear? Yes. There's a lot of building going on. So there that's going to be building there. Um are they going to knock down Yoders? Oh, thank goodness. Yeah. Um I don't I think it was like Is that your bowling place? Two story twotory something. Yeah. Old school, right? I know. Um there's more building going on behind the park in Red Hill than the Red Hill Bank. There's going to be apartments behind that in the parking lots. Um then if you move down into Pensburg, there's more stuff. Uh Wawa, they sold the lot across the street. Mhm. So that's a warehouse. Yeah. Okay. Then the warehouse sters in East Greenville that's going in with the 55 and older community. There's just a lot going on. Um but the really great thing was a
029perk up had an update. They gave scholarships, 5,500 scholarships awarded to local graduating seniors. So, we just wanted to say thank you to them. Um, and that concludes my report. Next meeting, May 28th, 7 p.m. Come on out. Marboro Township Bill. That's awesome. I like all that building. That's tax revenue. Sorry, I have a really bad problem with that. Can't help myself. All right. Well, thank you everyone. Um, we don't have any presentations or discussions on board and we'll turn it over to our esteemed colleague, Mr. Summers, for our Sunshine Act announcements. Thank you, Madam President. And, uh, tonight my report is is just to announce that there are two public comment opportunities here at tonight's meeting. Um, the first is on the personnel uh, agenda items as well as the three action items that
030are on the agenda for a vote. And then uh there's a second comment opportunity at the end of the meeting on other matters of concern that may come before the school board pursuant to board policy. Um individuals who wish to speak to the board do need to sign up. Sign up sheets are available in the back of the room and need to be turned in into the bin that's located next to the screen. Those forms need to be turned in prior to uh the public comment opportunities in order for you to be able to speak. And there's a threeminut time limit for each speaker. And that concludes my report. Thank you. All right. Um I don't have any public comments on action items. So I'd look to get an approval of the March 27th minutes.
031Motion second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? I. Thank you. All right. Uh next we'd be looking at the personnel. President. Yes, Mr. M. Motion to approve the personnel report in its entirety. That's the resignation or the retirement, the resignations, and appointments. Second. Any discussion? I just want to say a thank you to Miss Scott. She was given a lifetime literal I think lifetime. She was a fifth grade teacher when I was in fifth grade. Um which went a long time ago. Okay. You too. Right. You're only So, thank you, Miss Scott. All right. Any other discussion? Yeah, I have a I guess it's a request. I I would like to request that we list um I guess for approval any coaching resignations that occur and it's been brought to my
032attention that our high school board's wrestling coach resigned and that position is open and I'd like to understand the timeline for which coaching positions are posted and then filled and my concern is with that position being open. and it's a high-profile sport. Um, it's so important to have uh teams come together in the offseason and that's where you do a lot of your preparation. So, I'd like to understand that a little bit better. And I also noticed on the website that the high school girls volleyball assistant coach position is still vacant and a high school football assistant coach position is still vacant. And I need to understand the timelines on those because those are fall sports and coming quick and everything happens in the off season. So, um, Reene, you have two two comments there,
033Peg. You the first one, uh, talking about vacancies, uh, listing resignations, I'll defer to Mrs. Fischer. I know they're year-to-year contracts as you know. So I don't know that the upkeep with some of those and the assistant coaches. It is it just head coaches you're asking for and is that what the board wants or um which would be separate from the timeline. I think those are two separate things. I mean it would it would signify um people if they don't return they don't sometimes I'm sure some of the because you're also getting into individual contract reading Olympics and those type of things that could be one years that they just say to their principal I'm done. I'm good and it's not really a resignation but I understand that the athletic piece to that. The other
034side of that is the timeline piece. So, if that's a a request behind the scenes, we probably wouldn't be on an agenda to say, you know, here's here's a position, here's a timeline that we're going to fill that, I don't I'll defer to Mrs. Fischer in terms of that that the logistics of making sure we can do what you're asking for. But typically, you don't see the resignations because of the the year-to-year piece, though. Yeah. So, I've had I had the same question in years past, and when I've discussed it with Kyle, that was the exact reason why we didn't put them on is because they're appointed yearly. It's a one-year position. Although many folks may assume that they roll over, they technically don't. Um, so we've not made a practice of putting the resignations
035on. Perhaps that's something we could offer in a board update if the board wants to be informed of resignations like that, but that's why we haven't done it. um to say it's not important that a long-term coach is stepping away from the program for whatever the reason is to to that that that does impact the community. It does impact the the school and the programs. That's I would like to request that that be included in board update. Thank you. Um and to your other question, there have been recommendations made for the other two positions, but we intentionally and strategically waited to approve them with other coaches for the same season. So there have been So it's much bigger than that because it it has to do with access to um our technology when they're put
036into Skyward things like that. So it's bigger than that. Um but those recommendations have been made. So they'll be they'll be coming but with with the recommendation we still have I think I saw today on the website they made the coach position still there. So we've got to if the recommendation is made we got to update. I typically don't take down the posting until the person's approved, but certainly I understand that once the person's formally approved, we'll take down the posting. Okay. Thank you. I think going back I think we have a motion in a second. Yes, sir. Any other discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Melanie, can I make one comment? Sure. Um, Miss Scott has been here since 1985. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. I'd say that's a long
037time. That's great. All right. Um, Trina, I didn't hear you answer. I just want to make sure I get you. Uh, yes, I approve. You're good. Okay. Yeah, I I missed it. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We'll move on to action items. Madam President. Oh, yes. M. I make a motion to approve all three action items A, B, and C. Uh A for the order to approve the Singer Equipment Company as Lowe's responsibility bidder uh curriculum associates I ready classroom program and the motion to purchase the adoption of the Huck Mifflin Hardcourt Intro Math Algebra Program. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I thank you. Any opposed? All right, we'll move on to public comments. Thank you. Uh Nancy Juel and if you could just put the push the gray button there
038and you're on. Thanks. It's on. Okay. Back when the school play uh at the high school was was on, it was a rainy ugly day. This was the first time that my husband and I have tried to go to that in many years. our youngest child graduated in the year 2000 and we belong to this center now, the senior center and we um heard about the gold cards. We ran down here, got our gold cards and we were all going to we were both going to go. We got there about 15 minutes early because we thought that that was enough because we thought it was just for us older people with the gold cards. We didn't understand because we haven't been around with all the school things. However, when we got there 15 minutes before,
039there were just a couple handicap spots out front and we both have handicap tags because of surgeries and things that we've had done. He My husband will be 80. I'm 75. We would have had to park all the way around the building. I'm sorry. All the way around the building and at the back row. It was that full. And we were so surprised, but it was raining and there's no way we could have walked that far. So, we went back home, but we did notice that there's really out front there, there's only a few handicap spaces near the door. And I was thinking just for like the concert like we'd like to go to and things that perhaps that little parking lot out front the door there could be all handicapped just for those events.
040So, it's just a suggestion, but and it and it isn't really super important, but I feel it is just for us people that have issues and that's why I brought it up and that's all. Well, thank you. Thank you. That's good to know. We don't know those things unless you tell us. Thank you. Do it a couple months ago, but then I just, you know. Well, thank you. So, all right. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Our only other comment, Sharon Bastone. Hello. I'm here tonight simply to go on record. And it's kind of funny Miss Sharman isn't here tonight and because she knew I was going to speak. It's kind of convenient. But let me get started. It was shady that Miss Charm to contact the student union during negotiations. It was shady that she
041organized her friends and family to show up last week to defend her. And even more shady, she uses them to say things she's too cowardly to say herself. If she were open and honest about what her and her allies were doing, that would be one thing. But this has always been a stage political theater designed to give the illusion of widespread outrage. And let's talk about the email situation. It came out last meeting that she used a personal email account to communicate about school matters. I know it's not technically illegal, but the public doesn't always understand that this is well-known tactic to sidestep right to know laws. Yes, those emails are still technically accessible, but we all know how hard they are to get, usually requiring escalations, legal filings, and maybe even court action. If
042this were a one-off, I might chalk it up to ignorance, but it's not. is part of a long uh pattern of shady behavior. starting with um undermining Title N training for teachers under false pretenses, trying to derail elementary um science curriculum, attempting to break confidentiality in bullying cases, attacking unity flag, dragging the district into a national lawsuit over Title 9, refusing to admit her role in it, going to after the public library, dodging questions about the ties to the Independence Law Center and the PA Family Institute, which we know endorsed her, undermining social emotional learning in the comprehensive plan, even though she was on that committee, constant grandstanding, as if maybe this was just a stepping board to another political office, staging performances with allies to mislead the public, trying to forbid teachers from including
043pronouns in their signatures. And God knows how many times her and her allies have contacted the national snitch line to get our school in trouble and probably lose federal funding. Now, she contacted the teachers union under the pretense of investigating climate teach uh climate teacher climate using her personal email in secret about a sensitive topic directly to the two lead negotiators at the height of the negotiations. She is a trained educator. She knows better and she demonized union during her campaign. All signs point to something nefarious and the uh public proclamation that she'll do whatever she wants shows a deep lack of integrity. With the chaos happening nationally, I fully expect her to double down on every aspect of her political agenda. Meanwhile, anyone paying attention knows there's a real budget crisis here. There are
044no easy answers, and I wish she would spend a fraction of the time addressing that, actually supporting the school and the students instead of playing political games. Last week, while the entire board um you said that um the entire board was here for the best of the school, that was a lie. It's never been about the school or the kids. It's always been about her. It's always a been about what she wanted. And finally, to the six rational schoolboard members. We know what to expect from these three, but you still have the power to lead. Don't obey in advance. Stand up and speak up when necessary. Letting these little actions slide without push back makes you complicit. It's unfair that you've been put in this position, but you are now the last line of defense
045for our kids. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we're going to move on to board comment as soon as I find it. Do we have any board comments tonight? Do you have any? No, you I do. Oh, okay. Go ahead. Um, so yesterday I attended the student athlete and musician signing and Liz was there because her daughter signed and it was a very nice event. So, I really appreciate that. being set up and organized and it was really nice to include the musicians and just it's just amazing where all our kids are going and and so I guess I have a request too that and I've asked about this before that hopefully in the near future towards the end of the school year I don't know if we can do it this year but on
046the website if we can list the percentage of graduates that are going to continue their education at a two or fouryear school. The percentage of graduates that are entering the workforce and what prof what trade or profession they're entering in, the percentage of graduates entering the military and listing the branches and then a percentage of uh you know other unknown kids that are undecided. I you know just seeing the list of the percentages in the list of where kids are going to school, entering the military, going into the workforce, I think can really highlight our school and our community. And so I would just make that request that if not this year, in the near future, we can start kind of celebrating all that every year at graduation. I think it's just a good thing.
047So, and and finally, I just want to thank the folks that spoke um this evening. So, thank you. And yes, handicap parking is very important. I have a handicap placard and I get very frustrated sometimes when I'm going to events and I can't, you know, there's limited space. So, thank you for bringing that to our attention. That's it. Thanks. Thanks. Anyone else? All right. Um yeah. Uh can you hear me? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I also was just going to say thank you to Nancy Juel for um speaking up. That's important stuff that we don't know if we're not in that situation. Um along uh additionally, I wanted to give a shout out to Perk Pals. This week, my daughter was invited to go along to I guess it's like a field trip of some sort
048to the movie theater. And I just I just love the um opportunities that Perk Pales offers. I think it's a great program and I'm I continue to be really impressed with our students. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Last call. All right. I'd call for a motion. All right. All in favor? I I Any opposed? Okay. Thanks everyone. Meeting adjourned.