001Everyone, it is uh 6:17. Normally, we would be having an official committee of the whole as the secretary will explain here shortly. Uh he'll give an update about the committee of the whole that happened last week. So, this will be an opportunity for announcements that uh would normally take place during the committee of the whole. Um Mr. Secretary, you have a budget update for us? >> Yeah, a a minor uh update. The good news was the federal money uh that was frozen that has been released. Uh Justin completed the title two and title 4 applications and we reuploaded the consolidated application for approval. So that federal money is unfreeze. That was roughly around $91,000. So that's good. But state budget nothing. Uh I know the the Senate last week uh they proposed a partial funding
002in a six-month one. it went to the house and the house uh declined that. So we still even as of today before coming out of here there's just I have no update on the state budget and um we're doing okay cash flow-wise our tax revenues coming in and uh like I said committee the whole we are hide holding the cyber payments for 2526 until we start getting the state subsidy money uh then we'll make the cyber payments but we did reconcile everything for 2425 for cyber so that's all done but uh yeah I just have no news on the state I hope maybe X committee, the whole or somewhere in between there. We could uh have some good news on that. But uh we're okay from a standpoint financially and cash flow wise. Um we're
003we're one of the fortunate has a good fine balance they can make is I know a lot of schools are struggling right now. So thank you. Uh Director Brown I know had some information regarding one of the meetings she held uh dealing with the meals programs. >> Okay. So I just wanted to give an update. I had last month I had said that I had several parents that got in touch with me about the meals ad hoc committee that I said that we were going to uh form. So what has happened since that time is that I talked to Justin and Justin and Dr. D and I had met with Jennifer from Mets. Uh Chris who is the regional uh director and the girl who is their uh dietician nutritionist had a very good meeting
004uh a lot of information that uh Josie was in that meeting too that we didn't know about. just got some things straightened out. Um, so my big concern was because what's happening I think is there's some misinformation being told from the students to their parents and they're getting, you know, some wrong information. So my concern was what the nurses had brought up in the wellness committee meeting about the kids having these sugar highs at like 10 o'clock in the morning. So, you know, I wanted to address that. So tomorrow, um, Justin and Dr. DN I and Josie will be meeting with the the nurses who have concerns to talk to them to share this information with them. And then I requested that in September that Jen and Chris would come and give a presentation during
005committee meeting the whole before the business meeting so that all the parents would be able to come field their questions, listen so that we can explain. You know, federally we get almost correct me if I'm wrong about this, but I think you said we almost get a million dollars towards our meals program. Is that right? Yeah. So that's a lot of money, but because of that, we have to hold to their nutritional standards and all that kind of thing. So Josie and I, you know, we've got some ideas that we are, you know, banging back and forth against, you know, about it. But this is going to be the chance. So get the word out. The September meeting, committee meeting whole will be that that when parents that are concerned can come, they can listen,
006they can we'll field questions at that time. Chris said that him and Jen will both be here. our dietitian can't make it but um we can you know send those questions to her and then we come back get back to to them and just try and get um a consensus and understanding I think is the biggest thing of what is happening with our meals program. >> Thank you very much. I'd like to welcome back our staff and our principles. Uh things are kicking off this week as we prepare for next week for the students arrival. Uh any of our principles or administrators have any uh comments for the committee this evening? >> Dr. D is waving some people up. >> No, feel free. >> Thanks. That was a little quicker than you. Um yeah, I'll
007just give you an update of today. So today we had um our superintendent address this morning. Uh went really well. Uh teachers came back excited. Uh they they were lively, they were engaged, they were, you know, having having a good time this morning. Um so with Dr. D had his address this morning. Uh went very well. We had some presentations. We had a presentation about our 403 program and insurance and I know those are, you know, those are things that we have to do and uh required to do. And then we had uh Baba Fatulla came and he presented on our our safety plan. I think his presentation was really wellreceived. Um I actually had a few staff members that came up to me. I I remember I talked with the board probably maybe a
008month or two ago when we were talking about Bubba. Um all I could say is that he's he's probably the most engaging uh safety speaker I've ever heard in my life. I know uh I told you guys maybe a couple months ago that he is the first safety presenter uh that I've ever had teachers that come back to me after the fact and say, "Hey, when's Bubba coming back?" Um so I actually had a couple teachers that said that to me today and said uh that was I I got an email from uh one of our teachers today that said uh was exactly what we've been looking for over the years. So uh so we're really pleased with that. Really pleased with what Bubba did today. Um the next steps with Bubba um as far
009as our our safety plan is concerned is he's going to be looking at our emergency operations plan and giving us feedback for our next meeting. Um and then we're also looking at doing a a similar presentation so that all people for our students so that all people our staff and our students all know exactly what to do um with our emergency drills and with crisis situations that happen in the school. Uh after that um we had um some uh some various trainings. We had stop the bleed training for our folks at the middle school. Uh we did swish training at for our high school staff and then we did uh let some letters reading for our elementary staff. That was that concluded the morning and then uh we did lunch and then this afternoon we
010did building meetings. All of our principles had their meetings with their staff just to just to go over expectations. Um those went really well. I talked with all the principles after the meeting and um those went well and um looking forward to tomorrow we have our HMH training um that remember when Nicole Cording she she came and did our presentation that'll be kicking off tomorrow. Uh that'll happen for all of our elementary staff. And then we have um our science training that'll be happening on Thursday. um this the buildings that did not do the Swiss trainings will be doing those uh they either did them this afternoon or or through tomorrow. Uh so a lot of good things happening in the district. Um so great first day. >> Justin, can I ask you a question
011please? Just because this is on tonight's agenda and I know that there has been questions from the board members about the EOP plan. Um and and I know since last year the only thing that we've actually done is changed updated staff um information in there. Could you please explain Bubba's role in that and how that's going to be changed during the year? >> Yeah, so um the biggest thing that stood out to all of us, you know, when we and when we talked as a group as or administration is just the need to have an expert that's involved, uh you know, an outside expert that's involved in those discussions. You know, I I I always equate it to curriculum. Uh and Bubba actually did that in his presentation today. He said, "You don't want me
012to be the guy that's in charge of curriculum in your in your buildings because I have no idea what curriculum should look like." Um, and so I think that was our, you know, the main point was to have that expert from the outside who was a former law enforcement officer who really could take a critical eye to the emergency operation plan that we have. Uh, the current operate emergency operation plan that we have is is solid. uh but definitely could use uh some external eyes, expert eyes on that and I think that'll be helpful. So I think his process the he is going to examine it you know page by page item by item and what he's going to bring back to our first safety committee meeting is just his recommendations his thoughts um he
013all we also shared with Bubba um a report that was done uh by Rich Mater. came in, he did, he was an external safety consultant who looked at all of the buildings, you know, what issues potentially exist, how, you know, how to fix them, and then he kind of tiered them off with the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime and Delinquency. They have a tiered list. So tier one items are, you know, your basic building level items. And then if you've accomplished all of those, then you'd start looking at tier two items. Same thing there. If you've accomplished those, then you'd start looking at tier three. PCCD actually uses that tiered list when uh we're applying for grants. They want to make sure that we we've addressed all of their tier one items before we start looking
014at, you know, some of those next level type things. So, he'll look at look at it with a critical eye and also look at in in according to those tiers that PCC uh has established. >> So, do you think we'll be looking at a revision by like the end of December or is this going to take his whole year here? Yeah, I I would imagine that he'll have some recommendations for September and and I think that if there's some lowhanging fruit that we can tackle immediately, we'll adjust the plan as as it goes. Uh and then we'll have to have some discussions with the board on do we really like it if as we make adjustments to the plan? um does it need board approved every time we make an adjustment or can we do
015like by quarter you know maybe in December we do a midyear update to the emergency operation plan then an end of year so we'll have some more discussions about that we'll probably talk about that at our safety committee meeting does that make sense >> yeah that's great thank you >> all right thanks everybody thank you >> Mr. Marabito, I know you were in a rush to get us here to the front. >> Oh, okay. Gotcha. Gotcha. So, no report from you tonight. >> All right. Thank you very much. Uh, a couple faculty members are in the house this evening. Any uh anything from you guys for first day back? Okay. Are there any other uh reports for our committee this evening? Okay. Well, then what we will do is we will come back to our
016regular meeting in just a few moments. I know that Janine needs to stop our recording and then reset for the regular meeting. So, we'll start the reg regular meeting in just a few moments.