001Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Wattsburg Area School District where we are student centered and future focused for a world-class education. This is the Wattsburg area school district board of directors work session for Monday, May 12th, 2025. I now call the meeting to order. Would you please stand 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. Blazer, present. Mr. Brumagen, present. Mrs. Burlingham, here. Mrs. Heatherington, here. Mrs. Lee, here. Mr. Morve, here. Dr. Pushchek, here. Mr. Williams here. Mr. Young present. Thank you, Mrs. Bendy. Uh, school reports. Dr. Blimemer, will we have a school report for next week?
002Uh, yes. The the Am I on? Okay. Yes, the middle school, I believe. Um, they're going to speak to the board about Environ. Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Berlin. Uh, guest and citizen comments. Do we have anyone signed up for this evening? All righty. Uh, one note uh, I need to make at the beginning of this meeting. Uh, the board did meet in executive session uh, prior to this meeting uh, for the purpose of discussing the contract negotiations with the Watsburg Education Association. All right, moving on. Uh, superintendent report. Dr. Berlin, will you have a report for us next week? I'll have an update next week. Mr. President. Thank you, Dr. Berlin. Now for the business administrator's report from Mrs. Vicki Bending. Thank you, Mr. President. For this evening, I have the treasures reports as of
003the end of April. General fund uh cash in that account 10,957,71416. Capital Projects has $1722 in that account and cafeteria at the end of April had $751,989. Student activities in balances in that collective account $77,27185. I will have the other the budget versus actual and the cafeteria profit loss report ready for next week. And then moving on to the bill lists, there were two bills. The lists written uh between last board meeting and the work session general fund totaling $40,499.33 and cafeteria $7383. The rest of the bill lists will be on the agenda for next week. Thank you. All right. We look forward to seeing those for next week. Uh we have one item under legal advisement uh for this evening. Uh this will be uh on our agenda for next week. This is the
004ratification of the collective bargaining agreement between the Wattsburg Area School District and the Wattsburg Education Association. Uh this will be to uh ratify the collective bargaining agreement between the Wattsburg Area School District and the Wattsburg Education Association including all the appendices and it will be uh for an effective date of August 16, 2025 through August 15, 2028. Does anyone have any questions on that item? Hearing none, you will see it on the agenda for next week. Uh the chair will now recognize Dr. Andy Pushchack for finance. Thank you, Mr. President. Under finance for next week for the board's consideration, we have two items. 7A is the food service management company renewal cost reimburseable contract and 7B are the standard monthly budgetary transfers from budget to actual reports. Two items for next week, Mr. President. Thank
005you, Dr. Pushchek. Are there any questions on those two items? Hearing none, you will see those on your agenda next week. Thank you, Dr. Pushjack. Thank you. Uh the chair now recognizes Mr. Jeremy Blazer for buildings and grounds. Thank you, Mr. President. I have three items for the agenda next week. Uh 8A is a renewal of our snow removal agreement with Elson Trucking. Uh 7B is the facility use request of Fort Luff School District using our athletic baseball field facility. and 7 C is our HBA 8C is our HBAC preventive maintenance plan approval. Thank you, Mr. Blazer. Are there any questions on those three items? Hearing none, they'll be moved over to the agenda for the regular board meeting. Thank you, Mr. Blazer. Thank you, Mr. President. The chair will now recognize Miss Nicole Lee
006for personnel. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, I would like to start by requesting we add a agenda item for next week. This would be from 9A of our April voting session. Um to include all the appointments for summer help. Uh we are going to have a reconsideration vote. There any objections to moving that back onto the slate for next week's meeting? I believe our solicitor advised last week to explain to the public why we're doing it. Could you please Dr. Bushek? I I would feel Oh, absolutely. the maker of the motion. Yes. So, we had a motion uh a board member has a child who was going to be uh under employment with the district uh for which there should have been an abstension. Uh it was merely an oversight on his behalf on the
007motion as it contained multiple individuals who will be uh under employ. Uh with reconsideration of this motion, it will move back on for next week. uh proper extension will be obtained and we can motion forward with those individuals. Thank you, Mrs. Lee. Uh hearing no other uh additions to that, we will add that item onto the agenda for next week. Okay. And then I have uh quite a few um other items for the agenda. They include A appointments as listed, b resignations as outlined, cumber help rates, d leave requests, e job descriptions, f tuition reimbursement, g eerie county sheriff's office office deputy sheriff services agreement, and h ESS substitute additions. Thank you, Mrs. Leer. Are there any questions on these? How many were there? I always have to count. Um, a lot. Any questions on
008those items as presented? Hearing none, they will move over to next week for a regular board meeting. Thank you very much, Mrs. Lee. Thank you. Uh, the chair now recognizes Mrs. Britney Perlingham for policy. Um, thank you, Mr. President. There is currently nothing under policy at this time. If that changes, we'll address it then. Thank you, Mrs. Berlingham. Uh, the chair now recognizes Mr. Steven Morvey for curriculum. Mr. President, currently there are two items on the agenda for next week. Uh the under uh curriculum, the first item is the uh high school health curriculum which is the uh partnership with between us and the u education training research health curriculum as noted in the attachment. And the second item is the uh re focus room agreements between Sarah Reed Children's Center and Wattsburg Area School
009District for the refocus rooms at the middle school as well as at the high school. Those are the two items on the agenda. Mr. Thank you, Mr. Morve. Are there any questions on those two items? Hearing none, they will move over to next week for a regular meeting. Uh, the chair now recognizes Mr. Jesse Williams for technology. Mr. President. Um, so let me give see if I get this right. I'm going to add a motion that we are going to add on a item under my technology. Uh, are we calling it just phone contract, Vicki? Is that what we're going to name that? It will be it will be a contract for the purchase of communication equipment. That's it. Yeah. And continued um VoIP service. Okay. So, upgrade to phone system and that will be
010added as an addendum. It will. Yes. Okay. Excellent. All right. We'll see that service agreement. Any other questions on that one or clarification? Nobody wants to talk uh electronic communications? I do have one more thing to mention. So, there is a cost for um the equipment, okay, that is not currently living in a bucket in the budget. So, I will be recommending a fund transfer to transfer $45,000 from the unassigned fund balance to the committed fund. Yep. Uh for the purchase of the equipment. Okay. Thank you very much. Any other questions or comments? Hearing none, you will see that next week as an addendum item. Thank you, Mr. Williams. The chair now recognizes Mr. Greg Brem for transportation. Mr. President, I'll have one item for the board to consider next week at this time. Transportation
011A, transportation request to approve the transportation ratification request and ratification of field trips since last meeting as attached. Any questions on the transportation requests? hearing. None. Those will move over for next week. Thank you, Mr. Bremagen. Chair now recognizes Miss Lee Heatherington for athletic and extracurricular. Thank you, Mr. President. I will have one item on the agenda for next week, and that will be the volunteer list additions, and they are listed below. Thank you. Are there any questions? Hearing none, they will also move over for next week's regular board meeting. Thank you, Mr. Heatherington. Uh under miscellaneous uh this evening we have a KER media agreement. Uh this is to approve an agreement between Ker Media and Watsburg Area School District for the 2025 2026 newsletter production as attached. Is there anyone have any questions
012or comments on that agreement? Hearing none that will move over for your consideration next week at the regular board meeting. Uh chair now recognizes Mr. Steven Morv. You have a report for us from the joint operating committee of the Erie County Technical School next week. Yes, Mr. President. That'll be on the uh uh April joint operating committee meeting. I'll have a report. Thank you, Mr. Morve. Uh the chair now recognizes Dr. Andy Pushchjack. Will you have a report from the Tri County Intermediate Unit for us next week? Yes, Mr. President. Similar fashion, brief April board meeting report. Thank you, Dr. Pushjack. We look forward to hearing it. Uh it's now time for board correspondence and dialogue. Does anyone have anything for the good of the order this evening? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion
013to adjurnn. So move push check. Nicole second. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Meeting is adjourned.