001Welcome to the Watsburg Area School District where we are student centered and future focused for a world-class education. I will now call to order the Monday, December 1st, 2025 board reorganization and regular board meeting. Would you please rise for the pledge of allegiance? >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. May I have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Brumagen. >> Mrs. Heatherington >> here. >> Mr. Morve >> here. >> Dr. Pushchek >> here. >> Dr. Williams >> here. >> Mr. Blazer >> present. >> Mr. Young >> present. Thank you. Mrs. Bending. Uh, it's now time for guest and citizen comments. Do we have anyone signed up to speak this evening?
002All right, it's now time for the reorganization of the board uh on December December 1st to 25 for the 2026 school year. Uh we will start off the reorganization this evening uh by opening the floor for nominations for a temporary president for the proceedings of reorganization. >> Mr. President. >> Yes, Dr. Williams. Jesse, >> I would like to nominate uh Dr. Bushek as a temporary president. >> Thank you, Mr. Williams. Does anyone else have any nominations for temporary president? Hearing none, I'll accept a motion to close the nominations for temporary president. >> So moved. Mor is there a second? >> All in favor? >> I nay. Motion carries. The nominations for temporary president have closed. All those in favor of Mr. Pushchack of being temporary president for this evening, please say I. >> I. >>
003Opposed name. Dr. Pushchack will take over the proceedings for this evening as we reorganize. Thank you, Dr. Pushchek. >> Thank you very much. Um, it's my pleasure to act in this capacity this evening for our reorganization. Um, our first order of business for myself as the temporary president is to read the certifications of election in no particular order. The certificate of election reads, "I, Chris Drexel, the undersigned chairman of the Erie County Board of Elections of Erie County, hereby certify, after tabulating votes cast in the municipal election, held the fourth day of November 25th in Erie County that Leah Heatherington, having received 103 votes, was duly elected to office of Wattsburg Area School Dire School Director, duly signed by Chris Drexel, Rick Rock Copeland, Ellen Showerman, and Terry Scatella. The next certificate of election reads,
004I, Chris Drexel, the undersigned chairman of the Erie County Board of Elections of Erie County, hereby certify that after tabulating votes cast at the municipal election held on the 4th day of November 25th in Erie County, that Steven J. Morve, having received 253 votes, was duly elected to the office of Wattsburg Area School District School Director. DY signed by Chris Drexel, Rock Copelan, Ellen Showerman, and Terry Scatella. The next certificate of election reads, I, Chris Trexel, the undersigned chairman of the Erie County Board of Elections of Erie County, hereby certify that after tabulating votes cast at the municipal election held on the 4th day of November 25th, I'm sorry, the 4th day of November 2025 in Erie County that Aaron Snippert, having received 2004 votes, was duly elected to the office of Watsburg Area School
005District School Director. Duly signed by Chris Drexel, Rock Copelan, Ellen Showerman, and Terry Scatella. The final certificate of election reads, I, Chris Drexel, the undersigned chairman of the Erie County Board of Elections of Erie County, hereby certify that after tabulating votes cast at the municipal election held on the 4th day of November, 2025 in Erie County, that Veronica Will, having received 62 votes, was dually elected to the office of Wattsburg Area School District School Director under signed by Chris Drexel, Rock Copelan, Ellen Sherman, Terry Scatella. So those four certificates of elections have now been read into the minutes. I would now like to administer the oath of office to the four incoming board members which is Steven Morv, Aaron Snippert, Leah Heatherington, and Veronica Will. If those four members would please stand, raise your right
006hand and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear >> I do solemnly swear >> that I will support, obey, and defend >> the Constitution of the United States >> the >> Constitution of the United States >> and Constitution of this Commonwealth >> and the Constitution of this Commonwealth >> and that I will discharge the duties >> and I will discharge the duties >> of my office with fidelity. >> Congratulations, [applause] The next order of business is our annual uh election of a permanent board president. I will now entertain nominations for permanent board president. >> Miss Heatherington. >> Yes. Thank you, Dr. Pushjack. I would like to nominate uh Mr. Young. >> Mr. Young, do you accept that nomination? >> Yes, I do, Dr. Pushcheek. Thank you. >> Thank you. And thank you, Mrs. Heatherington, for
007the nomination. Are there any more nominations for permanent board president? Are there any more nominations for permanent board president? Are there any more nominations for permanent board president? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to close nominations for permanent board president. >> So move, Blazer. >> And a second more second. Thank you. Voting to close nominations. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Nay. >> Motion carries. At this time, we will have a vote. Without objection, we'll do a voice vote. Since there's only one person on the ballot, I will entertain a motion to approve Brian Young as permanent board president. >> Second. Heatherington. >> So moved. >> Moved [laughter] by Blazer, seconded by Heatherington. Any discussion on the nomination for permanent president? >> Hearing none, voting to approve Brian Young as permanent
008board president. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Nay. >> Motion carries with the unanimous vote. Congratulations, Mr. President. Thank you, Dr. Post Shack. [applause] I will now open nominations for a permanent vice president. >> Mr. President, I would like to nominate Mr. Blazer for vice president. >> Thank you, Mr. Heatherington. Are there any other nominations for vice president? >> And remembering parliamentary procedure now, I do it three times. Are there any other nominations for vice president? Are there any other nominations for vice president? I will now accept a motion to close nominations for the seat of vice president. >> Motion to close nominations. Push check. >> Second. Snippert. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos? Nay. Motion carries. The nominations are closed. Uh with Mr. Blazer as
009the single nominee for vice president. Uh I will call a voice vote. Could I have Sorry. That's okay. Make sure I do this right. Can I have a motion, please, to approve Mr. Blazer as the permanent vice president? >> So moved, Heather. >> Second. Push check. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Name. >> Motion carries. Congratulations, Mr. Blazer. [applause] All right. Next on the agenda for this evening is setting the times and places for meetings uh for the uh upcoming calendar year of 2026. I'll give everybody a second to look through here. Uh we have the work session schedule and the regular meeting schedule. Again, following the same uh second Monday and third Monday that we have uh in the past. Um you'll note that you know July is is
010the off month here. Um, and then also noting that we have the next reorg meeting then will come up on December 7th next year. We'll have a little bit more time. We're a little tight this year. Um, and also noting that, you know, if we do have outside of our committee of as a whole for our work sessions that we can uh have the committee chairpersons request um additional meeting times uh ahead of the schedule as well. Um upon review uh I will now entertain a motion uh to approve uh the dates uh and times outlined below. >> So move blazer >> second snippet. >> Any other questions, comments or concerns? >> Hearing none. All in favor please say I. >> I oppose nay. >> Motion carries. We have set the times and dates for
011next year. Thank you everyone. Uh now it's time to appoint our board secretary. Um, I will entertain a motion to approve the appointment of Vicky Bending as board secretary for the West Area School District for 2025 to 2029. >> So moved. He tington >> second. Blazer. >> Any questions, comments, concerns? >> Are you sure you want to do it? [laughter] >> I have a chance. >> We don't ask her if she wants. It's not in the agenda. [laughter] Discussion has gone on too long. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Opposed nay. Motion carries. Uh, we also need to appoint an assistant board secretary. >> I will entertain volunteers for the assistant board secretary position. Before someone is appointed, I would like to nominate Mrs. Leah Heatherington. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Pushchack. Miss
012Heatherington, do you accept the nomination to be the assistant board secretary? >> I accept. >> Thank you, Miss Heatherington. Are there any other volunteers or nominations for assistant board secretary? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. Oppose. Nay. Motion carries. Thank you, Mrs. Heatherington. >> Congratulations >> for serving as our upcoming assistant board secretary. >> Mr. President, yes. >> Um, you need a motion and a second for that, please. Pardon? Uh >> Dr. Pushack mo Dr. Pushack motioned, right? So I second that motion. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Yep. I did not hear the second either. My apologies. >> Now we uh we also need to appoint uh for the Erie County Tax Claim Commission. We have a primary voting delegate which is Vicky Bendank. We need a first alternate
013voting delegate and a second alternate voting delegate. Are there any volunteers uh for those positions? I have served in the past and I'm willing to again. >> Mr. Chairman, as finance chair, I am happy to serve in either one of those capacities. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Pushjack. Are there any others? I will now entertain a motion to approve myself, Brian Young, and Dr. Pushjack as uh let's put Dr. Pushjack as first alternate voting delegate and myself as second alternate voting delegate. Can I have a motion? >> So moved. Heatherington >> second blazer. >> Any other questions, comments, or concerns? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you for volunteering, Dr. Pushjack. >> Thank you for volunteering, Mr. President. >> Thank you. [laughter] >> I will
014now entertain a motion to approve the agenda for this evening as presented or amended. >> Should probably Oh, should we re should we >> and then you can >> Okay. On advice of council, I will now adjourn our reorganization meeting. >> And now I will call to order our regular board meeting for December 1st, 2025. Uh the first order of business this evening is to approve the agenda as presented or amended. May I have a motion, please? Blazer. >> Blazer second. >> Excellent. Any questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppose. Nay. Motion carries. Uh, we also need to have a motion to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting on November 17th of 2025. >> So, move push check. >> Second. Heatherington. >> Any questions, comments, or concerns on
015the minutes? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. I. >> Oppos? Nay. >> Motion carries. Uh, we'll now turn to Dr. Berlin. Will we do we have a superintendent report for this evening? I I don't have a report. I just wanted to welcome and congratulate our I have no report. Just wanted to welcome and congratulate our new board members. Uh Mrs. Will and um Mr. Snippert um is actually a returning board member. So, we're happy to have um both join us. Uh as well as Mr. Morve and Mrs. Heatherington returning. So, that is really really good news. lot a lot of great people on the board here. A lot of stability. Um and it pays well too. Like I've said before, uh we we do have a cookie tray and and some punch and
016things in the cafeteria. So, uh if you feel so inclined, we could visit for a few minutes after we adjourn later this evening. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Berlin. Uh we'll now turn to Mrs. Vicky Bendig for our business administrator's report. >> Thank you, Mr. President. For this evening, I have the bill list checks written since uh the last board meeting for general fund $19,492.13. Uh cafeteria $25. And then the bill list for board approval for this evening totaling for general fund totaling $9,195.79. And that is all. >> Thank you, Mrs. Bendig. Does anyone have any questions for Mrs. Pendic? Right. We have no items under legal advisement. >> We need to vote on the business. >> We Oh, sorry. We need to do that this evening. Sorry. I will now entertain a motion to
017approve the payments and invoices as presented, outlined, and attached. >> So move, Blazer. >> Second. Will. >> Yes. >> Any other questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppos? Nay. Motion carries. We have no items under legal advisement, finance, or buildings and grounds for this evening. Mr. Blazer, would you mind pinch hitting the personnel until we get our new committee appointments? >> Sure, no problem. Uh, we have one, two, three items under personnel. Without objection, I'll move all of them in one motion. Uh, first is a, appointments as listed. Uh, b is resignations as detailed as listed. And c is conference requests as listed. So moved. >> Second. Snippert. Any other questions, comments, or concerns on these three items? Hearing none, all in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay.
018Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Blazer. Uh, we do not have any items under policy, curriculum, technology, or transportation for this evening. However, the chair will now recogn recognize Miss Leah Heatherington for athletic and extracurricular. >> Thank you, Mr. President. I have three items under um extracurricular and athletic activities and without objection I would like to move all three in one motion. The first one being volunteer list additions as listed on the agenda. The second one be extracurricular appointments as listed on the agenda and the third one is athletic resignations as listed on the agenda. So moved. >> Second push check. Any questions on those three items? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Nay. Those motions carry. Thank you, Miss Heatherington. Uh, we have no items under Miss Anius. Uh,
019Erie County Tech School. Will we have a report coming in January? >> Yes, Mr. President. Our board is uh meets on the 16th of this month. >> Thank you, Mr. Mor. >> If you recall, I think Dr. Berlin, I don't know if there I think this is a >> meeting of the 99. So any and all board members are uh invited to attend. It is a breakfast meeting. It is at 8:30 in the morning. >> What was the date again? >> The 16th. Tuesday the 16th. And um then there'll be a uh so there's the meeting of that and then there's the Yeah, we'll go through the uh the joint operating committee. We'll meet you know as you know following that. >> Excellent. Thank you very much. >> I enjoyed going last year so we
020look forward to it. >> Dr. Dr. Pchack, we have a Northwest Tri County Intermediate Unit report for January. >> Yes. Similar to Mr. Morve. We will have our meeting on Wednesday the 17th and I will report in January. Thank you, Mr. President. >> Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Pushjack. It's now time for board correspondence and dialogue. Is there anything for the good of the order this evening? >> Hearing none, I will now entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So move in. >> Blazer second. >> All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. We are journ.