001Welcome 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, April 14th, 2025. Would you all 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. Bumigan, present. Mrs. Burlingham, here. Mrs. Heatherington, here. Mrs. Lee, here. Mr. Morve, here. Dr. Pushchek here. Mr. Williams here. Mr. Young present. First on our agenda this evening, uh, will we have a school report for next week? Uh, yes, Mr. President. We will have a school report for next week.
002Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Berlin. Uh, next on our agenda is guest and citizen comments. Do we have anyone signed up for this evening? We have no one signed up to speak this evening. So, moving along. Uh, next on the agenda, a superintendent's report. Dr. everyone. Uh thank you, Mr. President. I will update the board on just a few things um next week. So, I'll have a brief report and uh it it will be dealing with um just some of the landmark activities that the board will engage in between now and uh the end of the school year to wrap things up. Excellent. Thank you, Dr. Berlin. Uh moving on for the business administrators report, the chair will now recognize Mrs. Vicky Bendig. Thank you, Mr. President. For tonight, I have treasures reports. General fund as
003of the end of March, 11,399,731.65. The budget to actual report will be ready for next week. Uh capital projects in that fund, there's $1722. cafeteria at the end of March had 628,81424. I will have the cafeteria profit and loss report next week and the student activities balance um in those accounts as of the end of March $83,8537. And then moving on to the bill lists. Um since the uh last board meeting prior to this evening, there were $111,53.17 in general fund bills um checks written. There were no capital projects or cafeteria checks um in that period of time. And there will be um the rest of the bill lists next week for your consideration. And that is all I have. Thank you, Mrs. Bending. Any questions for Mr. spending on the treasures reports or bills.
004Uh hearing none, those items will move over for next week. Uh there are no items under legal advisement for this evening. So the chair will now recognize Dr. Andrew Pushjack for finance. Thank you, Mr. President. We have five items for the board's consideration for next week's meeting. Um we will have 7 A, which is the monthly budgetary transfer from budget to actual. We'll have 7B which are fund transfers as you can see listed there. Um that is to get our unassigned fund balance down uh to the appropriate amount and you can see the projects that will be funded there. 7 C is the proposed final general fund budget. The board will be asked to approve that. And then we have our approvals of both the intermediate unit budget which is 7D and the Erie County
005technical school budget which is 7E. So those five items for the board's consideration next week, Mr. President. Thank you. Are there any questions on those five items? All right, hearing none. Those will move over for next week. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Dr. Bushchek. We will now recognize do Mr. Jeremy Blazer for Buildings and Grounds. Thank you, Mr. President. I have one item uh two items, three items for the for the board meeting next week. I hear four. Keep turning the pages. Uh uh subject A is the flooring replacement. I'll be looking uh to approve the flooring replacement as detailed in the motion. Uh second will be our Northwest Tri County Interme uh classroom lease approval. And third is to approve the facility use requests. And that's all I have for this evening. Thank
006you, Mr. Blazer. Any questions on those items? Hearing? None. Those will move over for next week. The chair will now recognize Miss Nicole Lee for personnel. Thank you, Mr. President. Um I have quite a few items for next week. They include A. appointments as listed, B. Resignations as listed, C, ESS substitute list additions, D, service substitute list additions, E, leave requests, and F, um, the Barber Center one:1 aid service agreement. Thank you, Mrs. Lee. Any questions on those items? Hearing none, those will move over for next week as well. The chair will now recognize Mrs. Britney Berlingham for policy. Thank you, Mr. President. I only have one item underneath policy that will be on the agenda next week, which is to approve the second reading and review of the multitude of policies as outlined and
007listed attached below. Thank you, Mrs. Burlingham. Any questions on any of the policies listed? Mr. President, I I have a question. Not so much on the policies listed, but uh in the recent um what's the name of the magazine that we get published for the board? Uh No, not ours. The P the Pennsylvania one. Yeah, it's a PSBA one publication. Yeah, school leader. And I didn't I was running behind today, so I don't have it in front of me, but there was a recent court case in Pennsylvania uh discussing um parental notice in regards to um certain instruction practices. So, everybody can go back and look at it. I don't think we had it. I don't know that we have policy on. And it turned out that the district lost. And so there's, you know,
008advice given out that every board sit down and review their policies and procedures and look at whether or not we need something in place. And given the world and how quick our world's changing, I thought it might be timely to review that, especially when was put in the publication for us to consider it. Um, so I thought I would note that. Please. Any familiarity we will review? Yeah, I I'll take a look at that journal. Um, so I I appreciate that and I I will I will bring back you read your journal this month. I did not. So I will go back and review. Thank you, Mr. Bremagen. Any other questions? Uh, hearing none, those will move over for next week. So the chair will now recognize Mr. Steven Morve for curriculum. Mr. President, there
009are currently two items on the agenda for next week. uh under curriculum uh 11A under the summer school to approve the imagine learning summon imagine learning summer school courses as outlined and 11B uh language instruction educational programs contract between Watsburg area school district and uh LE between triar intermediate unit and Watsburg. So those are the two items that we'll have for discussion and for approval next week. Thank you Mr. Morve. Any questions on those two items at this time? Hearing none, we will move on to technology and the chair will now recognize Mr. Jesse Williams. Okay, Mr. President, I'm going to take my time on this since I don't get technology very often. So, we have number 12A, by the way, and that is the Ed Link comply software agreement uh between us and the
010district. I did look into it. It looked pretty good, by the way. Thank you, Mr. Williams. Any questions on that contract agreement at this time? Hearing none. Thank you again, Mr. Williams, for your technology addition. The chair will now recognize Mr. Greg Bumagen for transportation. Mr. President, I have three items for next week. Uh item A, transportation requests. Item B, independent contractor agreement between the Watsburg Area School District and parents to provide transportation for their child. And item C, the bus driver agreement for the 2024 2025 school year. They will that is the is the year correct on that? That's for this school year because we just because we just changed it. So it's not an agreement. It's actually to approve a bus driver. So every time a driver passes training and can drive for
011us, um we add them to the agenda to be approved. So it is correct. It's for this year. Well, in that case, we need more. But thank you. So it's to approve the bus driver for the 2024 2005 school year. I would love to add more. Thank you Mr. Brein and thank you Miss Bendig for the clarification. Any other questions on those items? Hearing none. We will now recognize Mrs. Leah Heatherington for athletic and extracurricular. Um thank you Mr. President. I will have five items on the agenda for next week. Um the first one being extracurricular appointments. um to appoint um extracurricular appointments as listed. B will be uh extracurricular resignations and those are also listed. Athletic appointments um okay uh as listed athletic resignations as as listed and the volunteer list as listed. Thank
012you, Miss Heatherington. Any questions on those items? Um, yes. This C, the athletic appointment, were other coaches removed from staff or step down? Oh, that was a that was an empty position. We had a resignation earlier. Okay. Um, so yeah, he's filling an open spot. Excellent. Thank you, Miss Heatherington. Hearing no others, those items will be moved over for next week's regular board meeting. Uh under miscellaneous this evening, uh we need to do make an appointment for the Northwest Northwest Tri County Intermediate Unit board of directors representative. Um could I have a nomination from the floor? I uh make a motion that we nominate uh Dr. Andy Push to continue in his role as our representative on the Northwest Tri County Interview Unit Board of Directors. Dr. Push, do you accept the nomination? I graciously
013accept and I thank the gentleman for his recommendation. Are there any other nominations from the floor? Hearing none, we will move over the approval of the appointment as Dr. Pushchack as our continuing Tri County intermediate unit representative and we appreciate your service. Uh for next week as well, Mr. Morave, will we have an Erie County technical report? Mr. President, I'll have a brief report on the March joint operating committee board meeting. Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Morave. uh for the Northwest Tri County Intermediate Unit. Dr. Pushjack, will we have a report? Yes, Mr. President. Brief report March meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh it's now time for board correspondents and dialogue. Is there anything else for the good of the order this evening? Mr. President, uh since tonight's a work session, I thought maybe
014we would uh entertain something to work on. So, I was handd delivered a letter that says to the board of Williams of Williams uh Watsburg Area Middle School. So, I thought I would be remissed if I didn't if I didn't share the letter and some background on it. So, uh to Mr. Brumagen and board, my class and I would love if you would let us have four days of school because everyone is always used to their weekend bedtime and they are always laying their heads down in class and the teacher is always stopping to tell them to pick up their heads. Take my brother. I'll leave the names out for instance. like excuse me for example he's not ever used to his school schedule until the next day he's ready for the day thank you
015for reading sincerely Donald so I thought I would entertain if we wanted to look at 4day school week four day school week so that Donald all the administrators should be picking their pens up right now to take notes because our students are speaking and and that's who we're here for so Uh two things about that. First off, I think it is important when somebody help our budget. It would it could utilities and everything. Yes. And that debate has gone on for a long time actually. Um I think it is important though when people address us, you know, that we do take the time. So I did reach out to the school teacher for a little bit of background on it. So I thought I would share the background too if we have another couple minutes.
016Absolutely. So that was from fifth grade. Uh Mrs. rubric's class. And so I reached out to her for some background. She says they have a morning meeting daily with the students to discuss and bond and practice speaking fluently and providing explanations of their thinking. Sometimes the students pick their own topics and at times she has pre-written cards that she chooses from. Last week the topic was chosen from how many days should children attend school and why. I'm sure there was a discussion Uh there were many opinions and examples given. We dis they discussed reasons for why some schools have more days and less days and the pros and cons. They asked who makes the the school the students asked who makes the decisions. They discussed the chain of command from teachers making decisions for the
017classroom, the principles to the superintendent to the board to the state of Pennsylvania. We discussed the proper way to approach change. And since we write essays in class, students suggested writing essays to the school board for change. On a personal note, I have no knowledge of this letter. That's from the teacher, not me. Thank you, Mr. Brumagen. If anyone can top that, is there any other board correspondence and dialogue for this evening? I quickly just have to say yet again a fantastic musical, whatever you want to. It was a great show. I don't know who all was able to attend it, but it was once again high school, middle school. They just did such a great job. It was so fun. It was so light-hearted. Yes. I I may have had a favorite with the
018plant because Michael, you know, it is. However, they did a great job. And I also I noticed that we have someone sitting over there, one of the leads. you did a great job. So, I just have to say and you always do. I've watched you perform multiple times. But once again, the school just I love that we put those on. There's always such a crowd. Like, everybody shows up to support our musicals and our our shows and it's just such a fun time. The bake sale that they do, the students put in so much work, the teachers is fantastic. So, once again, I just have to say, thank you, Mrs. Burlingham. Any others? Right. Hearing none, I will also announce that after uh this open public session uh the board will meet in executive session
019for legal advisement. And other than that, could I have a motion to adjurnn? Move to adjurnn. Push check. Nicole second. All in favor? I oppose. Nay. This meeting is adjourned. Thank you.