001th 2025 regular board meeting of the Ligonier Valley School District to order with 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. Mr. Secretary, can we have a roll call, please? Yeah. Miss Bennett. Uh, Miss Bennett just had a family emergency and just stepped out. Mrs. Brown here. Mrs. Gamble here. Mr. Gilbert here. Mrs. Hutchinson here. Mr. Nup here. Mrs. Croml here. Mr. Stephy here. Seven present. Mr. Secretary, can I have the executive session report, please? Uh, yes. We have four to announce tonight. The first one was May 28th, 25 from 11:17 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Uh, regarding personnel. The second executive session was June 11th from 10:06 a.m.
002to 10:12 a.m. Uh, that was personnel as well. And then 6:2525 from 9:37 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. it was personnel and uh safety. And before tonight's meeting June 30th, 2025 from 5 to 5:57 p.m. Executive session was held for school safety, personnel, and contracts. Thank you very much. Under section five, motions to amend or add, there will actually be a deletion of a motion this evening. Motion F6625 involves a contract that has not received uh proper solicitors review. That motion will be pulled tonight. We now move on to public comments for amended or added agenda items only. Are there any questions regarding the deleted agenda item? Okay. Now with old business, I'm asking for a motion for the approval of the secretar's minutes on May 19th of the committee of the whole. Second. I didn't
003get to read. Hold on. The May 19th regular board meeting and the May 28th special board meeting. Second. Thank you. Having a motion and a second. All those in favor, please indicate by saying I. Are there any opposed? The motion of the minutes carries. Are there any f followup items for previous agendas? Hearing none, we'll move into new business. We have hearing of the citizens for items on the agenda only. We first have Christy Boyd speaking about P39 and P40. Good evening. As we approach the start of the 2526 uh fiscal year tomorrow, I have a few questions and concerns I would like to address. First, have any measurable goals been set and communicated for the district administration for the upcoming year? If so, I respectfully request these goals be shared with the public, and
004if not, why? I take that as a no. Additionally, a board member publicly stated at the district 8 petition signing event that they had gotten rid of some administration and they weren't done yet. Can you please clarify which administration which administrators this statement refers to? Transparency on these changes is essential for public trust. Uh Christie, you you wrote on your statement you wanted to talk about. I'm getting there. I'm getting there. Okay. Please focus on those. This situation highlights a long-standing issue. the failure of the board to set and document annual measurable goals for the superintendent as noted in right to know request 4 2025. Copies of all communication including but not limited to emails, meeting notes, and official documentation from board members between November 1st, 2022 through March 15, 2025 regarding the creation of
005annual goals in accordance with policy LBSD003. The district responded to the right to know request stating that no records exist of such goals being established, nor did any emails or meeting notes outlining trying to establish such goals as stated by the same board member who made the above comment. Further, according to P3925 and P4025, we now find ourselves paying the salary of a superintendent who is no longer actively working while he utilizes 256 unused sick days. a benefit granted under the contract in section 7.05 that appears to violate the 1949 public school code, specifically act 14, chapter 11, section 1164, subsection 10. This provision clearly limits the transfer of sick leave from prior employment to no more than 30 days superintendent of superintendent with no prior superintendent experience. Miss boy, he's always been an employee
006of this district, but his prior superintendent. He wasn't a superintendent. It does. He's always been a member of an employee here, that it's not a violation. Okay. Well, then that's good. Um, but had the board followed and set clear goals and monitored per performance annually as outlined in the superintendent's contract and section 6.05B, 05B we might might not be in this position today both financially and administratively. I hope that we will take these matters seriously and address and um set annual goals so that we don't find ourselves in this situation moving forward. Are there any goals set for administration for this year? We have a new uh acting superintendent that's been here for a few months. We are uh realigning the whole administrative team and for the coming year there will be goals established um
007over the summer to begin the uh next school year. That's what the process is at this point where we still don't even have everybody in all the positions that could be fulfilled. And let me let me add one piece to that also. So um we've had met administratively since I've been here twice a month and those meetings were not held prior to my coming. So we meet tomorrow morning with that group and also the fact that the evaluation of those administrators also include test scores in the state and that those documents come out in October and that's the recommended time to complete the evaluations for the current administration based on test scores. That's a formula at the state level we have to include. So, uh, if you ever want to come in the office, I
008can talk to you length more about that, please. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Roidotti. You have a question regarding policy uh numbers 26. Hi, my name is Sarah Revidat. I'm a parent and taxpayer in the district. I'm speaking tonight because I'm concerned about the direction and leadership of this board. First, I'm glad to see the motion to approve Mr. Koshious as board secretary as his previous term expired in 2024. Also appears that the cadence for appointing a board secretary now aligns with PA code um which requires an appointment every four years beginning in 1953. However, I do want to raise a concern regarding the assistant secretary position. Under article 4, section 434 of the school code, the assistant secretary must be bonded and may not serve as a current officer of the board. Since
009Director Brown is presently serving as vice president, she isn't eligible for nominations under this statute. Lastly, I'm increasingly concerned about the concentration of influence in the hands of a single board member. Director Brown currently chairs the policy and legal committee and the educational programs committee. She's a member of the comprehensive plan committee, the new meal committee, and the strategic plan committee and also serves as a representative representative to the EWCTC. This is a significant amount of responsibility for one individual. Shared leadership responsibility must be balanced. If I'm wrong, I don't think I am. It's the school code. Thank you. I just spoke to uh Mr. Mata and he will review that code and his recommendation was to put a hold on that particular vote for this evening until he can review the code. Hopefully that
010does not result in a violation of having uh members in place by June 30th vote. Mrs. Zitler, I see you have a lot on your list. Please be advised you've got five minutes. I I will I am advised. Thank you. Um I'm glad to hear that you've gotten some information about finances because uh from the state because I have some questions about um finances. There are three questions. Um one related to F5625 insurance rates, one F6825 solicitor contract and P225 the PSBA settlement. So the first two questions kind of go together. They are what are the terms of the settlement with PSBA and what are the legal expenses build by Mr. Mata for his work on the lawsuit? As a taxpayer, I'd like to know that. Um we were told in the beginning that leaving
011PSA PSBA would save the district $16,000. Did it? I I don't you want to during your solicitor. I can I can answer the young lady's questions right now. Um what the exact uh fees from my office were, I don't know off the top of my head um where they were. As far as the PSB uh settlement um as you're aware, that action uh was taken uh with three school districts. um PSBA and all three districts came to a um resolution that the school districts did not do anything wrong. we were allowed to move forward with using uh the um the policies as uh they are the policies that have been established in this district over several years and um that at this point uh the board has decided not to have PSBA um a contract
012with them for services on policies. Okay. Thank you. and the the um billings would be available publicly for us later. Um we we can get those. I I think that was already done. I I believe that someone and I'm not sure whom may have requested that through a right to know. Okay. All right. Um third question is about insurance premiums. Um I'm wondering why LS LVSD's insurance premiums have increased so much. Um is the very large 2025 increase related to the PSBA lawsuit? Um, I'm referring to the rate for property, general liability, and terrorism. I I can answer that and I'm sure Eric can back me up on this because we had this discussion at EWC. There's a very easy answer to that question and that is North Carolina and California and thatffect the insurance
013rates for all companies nationwide went up what was it approximately 17%. Yeah. And we do bid this up. We do this. That was another of my questions process and actually if you look at each of them the workers comp the auto and the other other actually stay the same and went down workers comp a little bit right this was general this was a liability that went skyhigh but our experience too we've had some losses over the couple years that takes into our thing but some insurance people would even bill uh would wouldn't even put a quot on us but Udica was the the one to go with and the right deductibles you compare apples to apples another one would the higher it's it's such an enormous increase. Yeah, it is. Yeah. Okay, that's it. Thank
014you. Uh, Mr. Secretary, do you have any other correspondence for us this evening? Thank you. Dr. D, it's up to you for your superintendence report. Okay. I have quite a few items I'd like to talk about. Um, first of all, let me go back uh in the month of March. Um, on my way after completing a superintendent search in Psutani. I just completed one in Hempfield and was on my way to Greater Lake Trobe to help that school board out because that's what I've been doing since my retirement in Franklin Regional. was called by the Ligonier Valley School Board to meet with them and talk with them to see if I'd be interested in filling in while Mr. Cander took a medical leave. Um, when I went into that meeting, I didn't know a person
015in the room, didn't know any issues about the school district and listened to what they had to say and they said that Mr. Canner, who was in the room at that time, was taking a medical leave and Ed, who was the assistant or the director of people services, was resigning. would I be interested in helping Ligonier Valley School Board out? And I said, possibly. I need to check with my better half at home, as they say, a happy life. Happy wife is a happy life. And so, um, they said, I asked, "When do we need someone?" And, uh, when do you need someone? They said, "Tomorrow." So, u, I went home and told my wife I'd be here for about 90 days until Mr. Canner decided what his next move was. And um tonight I
016will go over some items. So also at that same time because I've had over 40 years experience and I was very fortunate to be in a in a wonderful school district Franklin Regional. I was asked to evaluate some things, evaluate some systems we have in place, evaluate some personnel. Uh there was a guidance position open. There was talk about a director of education, talk about dean of students, there was talk about assistant principles, etc., etc., etc. So, I've taken several months to get to know the people and I can tell you number one, you have a wonderful school district, great people. Uh, the don't I can say negative is I think there's been a lacking of some systems in place and as I heard tonight, a lacking of long range goals and some vision and
017things that I think whoever takes my place needs to put in place. I try to put as much as I can in place. So, let me address several items that are on the agenda. I started to make recommendations with the board and you heard from Mr. Kosis about a lot of the executive meetings we had talked about personnel and many of those were items that I brought to the table based on some information I gathered. So I'd like to read this first document because it deals with Mr. Kner. Uh it starts with this background. Um and keep in mind that Mr. Handner um served the school district um you know 1989 to 1995. He was in the United States Army and after military service he you know had a bachelor's degree from Indiana University of
018Pennsylvania and graduated at a high level and then in August 12th of 2002 he was hired as a social studies teacher at Laurel Valley Middle School. Uh he did a lot of extracurricular activities in government. was a youth and government advisor, golf coach, assistant softball coach, assistant wrestling coach. He was recognized by the school district for perfect attendance over those years. Plus and a minus. Of course, you have a lot of stays and I know that was brought up earlier today, but he didn't miss. And in September 22nd, 2009, he became assistant principal. 2012 he became the principal at uh the high school. In 2021 he became superintendent. So he spent his entire career in the Ligonier Valley School District and uh and I want to commend him for his service to the to the
019school district. The background. Superintendent Tim Canner has informed the board of his intentions to take a medical leave of absence beginning tomorrow, July 1st, 2025, and to retire upon the conclusion 2025-26. To ensure stable leadership and operation continuity, the board seeks to establish a new administrative role for the superintendent during the leave period, the transition plan. In consider in consideration of the current superintendent's planned year-long medical leave and subsequent retirement, the Ligonier Valley School District Board of Directors intends to implement a transition plan that enables the district to appoint a new permanent superintendent while respecting the contributions and tenure of Mr. Canner. The transition role, the Ligonier Valley School District Board of Directors will approve the appointment of Mr. Canner hopefully approved the appointment of Mr. Knander as a senior administrator. That would be the
020title effective July 1, 2025. The reassignment of the position of senior administrator is honorary and nonoperational carrying no administrative authority or supervisory duties. This role acknowledges the superintendent's service and provides continuity during the leadership transition. Mr. Caner will remain connected to the school school district in a nonoperational advisory capacity until his retirement in June of 2026. The senior administrator will remain on a medical leave status and will not perform day-to-day responsibilities with the school district. The reassignment allows the district to proceed with the search for a new superintendent, enables the board of directors to appoint a new permanent superintendent to lead the district forward. Board action. The board will need to take the following formal actions. Accept Mr. Kner's Tim Canner's request for a medical leave, which is on the agenda tonight. Reassign Mr. Caner
021to a position of senior administrator and initiate a search for a new permanent superintendent effective July 1. The district would like to issue the following statement. Superintendent Tim Canner will transition into the role as a senior administrator effective July 1, 2025 while on a medical leave. Mr. Pner plans to retire at the conclusion of 2526 school year. This transition allows the district to begin the search for a new permanent superintendent to lead the Ligonier Valley School Board into the future. On the agenda, I've also asked for the board consideration. If they want my services, I'll be glad to assist with the search for a new superintendent. As I said before, I've done quite a few of those searches and I feel quite confident. Also on the agenda are many different items um that I've evaluated
022over the period of sitting in this role. Um, one thing I noticed is when you have RK Melon uh elementary school and a middle school, you have a principal in each building. And over the years, you've had different people in roles as an assistant principal. In fact, in researching the records, you've had three different assistant principles, none of which are which with the school to the district currently. They've all left. And I can tell you from example of living leading by example in the school districts when you have transition and changes it's not a good thing. So looking through the records you have an internal candidate who was a player in each of those uh interviews over the past several years. You also had a Dina students position kind of covering that this past year.
023So my recommendation to the board was to see if we can find a way to fill that position with an assistant principal and on the agenda is an item to do so with an internal candidate who's been here 23 years has two children in the school district has a wife as a teacher and I think will be a great asset to the school district because he's staying with us. We need people to stay here and lead us forward. So that was one of the recommendations that I made for the board to consider. Also in looking at the number of students per counselor that was put on hold back in March not to hire a counselor at the when there was a retirement. We had over 400 and some students at senior high school over 65
024seniors in dual enrollment classes. So I recommended that the board consider hiring a counselor. So tonight on the agenda is to hire a nice young man who really stole the show during the interview process and is an outstanding young man, a graduate of Ligonier Valley, a former athlete and I think would be a great team for him for he in in the current counselor to senior high to work together as a team. So, we're able to fill the assistant principal's role and the counselor's role, eliminating the students and do it in a way that saved at that time over $26,000. But since then, we found out that the IU is no longer going to have hearing impaired services as an outsourcing for our school district. So Justin Zorich took the lead to try to find
025someone who would be a hearing impaired teacher who also will be on the agenda and that is something we're required to do to meet the special education rules regulations and the fact that we're taking the IU employee that used to provide services to our neighboring school districts will allow us to possibly have students from other schools come and charge tuition back to those schools for those services because those are tough positions. to fill. So the bottom line is in the budget process the 26,000 ends up being in the $160,000 range. But most importantly, there's strong academic reasons for these hires. That's why I made the recommendations. I also a few months ago had mentioned to the public that there was a concern about our test scores. We made some progress in literacy in the English
026language or arts department with a young lady who did a presentation two months ago, Nicole, and talked about some of the data collection we're doing. So started looking at the dean of students position that we eliminated and found that that young lady in that position was also a math certified teacher. So on the agenda tonight, we also are going to approve the job description and a person for a math instructional coach with the hope getting our math test scores up. We've done so with literacy. I'm confident we'll do the same with math and that is at no cost no cost to the school district because we're just moving staff around. So once again, assistant principal, guidance counselor, hearing impaired person, math coach is savings of about 160,000 plus dollars. I think it's positive. I feel
027good about those recommendations. I really do. And I think it's an exciting time uh to to look forward. Also, you're lucky to have some really good people and positions. Justin Zorich is as good as it gets. He uh we sat together, we put together a six-year curriculum cycle, so we know we're doing for the next several years. As I mentioned earlier, um it's not that you don't have good people here. We just needed systems in place. And once we have a curriculum cycle in place, we can then start to collect data. We don't do a very good job of collecting data. We will, I assure you, to do that next year. And we have already started in tomorrow morning at our meeting with their administrators. We'll again talk about goals and ideas to move us
028forward. I didn't come here in March just to sign paperwork and collect a paycheck. I feel confident in what I do and I made and I made many recommendations to this board and I can tell you despite the political differences in this community, political differences on the board, they've been really good to work with me on my recommendations and nearly have supported most of them because they're good solid recommendations and they really focus on the students and the students need to be the focus of what we do moving forward. So, I'm excited tonight because that agenda is just full of really neat items with the curriculum cycle, the hiring of some wonderful personnel at a cost savings in the school district, instituting bimonthly uh administrative meetings to go over goals, meeting monthly with the union
029uh to talk about everything that's going on. We're meeting with them tomorrow at 10 o'clock. And then, let me add to this, uh I'm very confident what I do with the superintendent searches. So I asked each board member to provide to me a parent name and a phone number to serve as an advisory group with my search process. I will have the administrators also give me a name and number. I would like to have parents who care about the school district and have children in the school district or maybe have children who graduated from the school district. I'll ask the teachers union also give me some names and phone numbers. And what I've done in other districts, I've met privately with each board member to do a questionnaire talking about the type of person we
030want to lead the school district, the leadership style and their capabilities and what we're looking for. I'll be asking the parents the same. I'll be doing the same questionnaire with the teachers union, with the secretary union, and also I'll be pulling a group of students together and I'll write reports to the board to share what we're looking for in a superintendent. It's worked for eight to 10 searches that I've done. In fact, every superintendent, there's one right now that's considering moving on, but eight of 10 are still in current positions. And the reason they're in current positions is because we've taken our time and we've listened to the community and the stakeholders and we've worked as a team together to try to find the best candidates. So, I'm going to do my best. There's no
031guarantee that we'll get quality people. I think we will because It's an appealing place to be and it has a ton of potential and but I want to do it and very be very thorough in the search process. So, uh I know Mr. Canner is is on a medical leave and has some illnesses he's dealing with and and my prayers and thoughts go to him and his family. I hope things work out for him. Um he's earned his right to take the leave because he was very loyal, never missed days. And I can tell you when I went from Somerset School District to Franklin Regional, they transferred all my days there. I was just fortunate to not have any major issues to have to miss a whole year. I did have some surgery and did
032miss some time, but not a whole year. So, uh that's one of the benefits of being dedicated to your profession. So, I think I've covered everything. It's on that agenda. And again, I think it's an exciting time. And I know tomorrow is a big day because they're going to appoint another member to the board which gives us nine members which is good. That way we can have a majority on when we have a difference of opinions. But nonetheless, I think what's going to move this district forward who sits in this chair. My time frame would be to run an advertisement from um from this week until mid August, the same as I've run in West Mifflin and Mount Pleasant and West Jefferson Hills and I can name them all that I've done searches for. They
033run them for about six weeks. During that time period is when I meet with all the stakeholders to gather information and write reports to the board. Those reports help me to write questions for the interview process. So, while that's going on, I'll be doing a lot of work at home, a lot of work at night, a lot of work meeting privately with people as I get applications in. I do personal interviews and screening interviews. Our hope would be to find and do our first round of interviews in September and possibly, if we're fortunate, to maybe hire in September. So, my wife, when I told her I'd be here 90 days, I didn't tell her when I would be starting the 90 days. So, I'm going to be starting in 90 days probably in July one
034so I can get all of you through a search because I want to walk away from here and be proud of what I've done for Ligonier Valley School District. And I invite any of you if you have questions to contact me. I'll take time to meet with you. I'll take time to talk about my vision. But I really feel confident what I do. And I hope I explained a lot of things that are coming on the agenda and explain my viewpoint. Thank you. That's my superintendent report. Thank you very much, Mr. Mata. Your solicitor's report for this evening. Yes. The only thing I would like to add in regards to the PSBA, guess there's some rumors in the community that uh that the district had to pay some type of damages um to PSBA. Uh
035the settlement, it was attached to the agenda this evening. There are no damages being paid um at all. Um it was uh a settlement that let uh the uh school districts that were involved move forward and start using the policies that uh were their policies in the first place and PSBA um acknowledged that. So it there was no damages on from either parties being paid. That would be the end of my report. Mr. President, thank you. I don't see Linda. Is there somebody here from LVEA this evening? Okay, thank you. Uh the EWCTC report information from over at tech these days. Okay, so uh last week we had our end of the year wrapup which was very exciting. So uh Todd give us all the numbers. So I just want to share some of those
036with you. um because if you don't know how good of a a work is going over there, the numbers actually um speak for itself. But before I get there, I just want to go through a lot of um the things that run over at Votech run on donations from people. So I just want to acknowledge so we had Robert Robert Delato donated two $100 to the automotive uh technology and collision repair technology program. Uh our president, Mr. Gilbert uh donated Sunundry car parts with an estimated value of $850 to the automotive technology inclusion repair program and Tommy showed donated $50 to our upcoming color car show. And with saying that, I just want to say don't ever think that what you have is garbage. Call Todd and see if they can use it because it's
037amazing what they use over there. Um and so uh at for the end of year wrapup numbers as far as industry certification goes for the 2425 school year they attained 678 industry certifications between 340 students. So that I thought that was really good. And as far as their NOCI scores, the EWCT students earned an overall competency comp, excuse me, competency score of 84% on this year's knockdies. Uh the school did also receive a machine tool technology program um award from the Gene Hos Foundation scholarship grant. They received $18,000 that will be used towards the students participation in competition highlighting the CNC manufacturing program and for awarding scholarships to students currently enrolled in the machine tool technology program. Now the scholarships is the really really it was really really cool because they gave out 32 scholarships
038and Ligonier received the least. So we only received eight, LRA got nine and Derry got 15. But out of $20,500 of scholarship money given out, Ligonier got 11,250. So we got well over 50% of the scholarships on having the least amount of scholarship winners um over there. So I just thought that was really great. Our kids have done a great job. We've had two student of the months this year. Um, and uh, it's it's a very good program and we just need to keep back in it. And uh, coming up on September the 6th, they've rescheduled the car show. That's September 6th. And she mentioned the NOCI scores and I have to put a little asterric at the end of that. You said 84% if I remember right. That's what he's reporting. Um, unfortunately that
039number is actually lower than it should be because one of their programs does not get a NOCI test, right? Which then automatically when they do the calculations scores them at 0%. Right? So if they were to take that group out of there, obviously that 84% would be uh much higher. But uh the list that Todd put on is amazing. If you have the opportunity, go to their website. They are also recording the meetings as well. And that PowerPoint h um is on their website or uploaded into the meeting minutes. So yeah, fantastic stuff going on over there. And they've got all kinds of ideas and and things for the upcoming years. Uh we don't have an intermediate unit report for this evening and public relations. Do you have that from Josie? Uh yeah, Josie left
040this letter. She said, "Together, Roxan Rose and Barbara Rapensky represent the heart of our school. The everyday heroes who often go unnoticed, but whose work touches every life that walks these halls. Thank you both for your years of service, your compassion, and your unwavering commitment to our students and staff. Enjoy your well-earned retirement. You've made a difference that will not be forgotten. Thank you. Director Crumbl, would you like to start us with building and grounds? Is there any discussion for this motion or questions? Hearing none, I make a motion for B1025 that approval be given to award the following bids for the Ligoner Valley High School exercise room project as presented. The bid awarded to Thomas Diano and Sun Developers Inc. as the general contractor for $348,500. John Mill I'm sorry, John Hall Inc. as
041the mechanical contractor $65,970 and TP Electric as the electrical contractor with an award of $68,750. Second. There's a motion and a second for B10. By the way, Miss Crumblot to have you read seven, eight, nine. Love that. You forgot those. Oh, I'm sorry. Do that. Yes. Uh, there a motion and a second for B10 to approve the bids as read. Those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Motion carries. I'm just trying to check you. Any motion? Any questions on those motions? I make a motion to approve B-7-25 through B925. Um, do you want me to read those names? No. Second. Having a motion and a second for 7, eight, and nine. Those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? And I can see what the confusion was. There's
042a line missing from the agenda for the motion. Mr. Stafy, you have a lot. Yeah. First off, before we get started on U F6425, there's a typo down where it says uh $60 an hour beginning July 1st should be August 1st, 2025 through July 31st, 2026. Just want to make that. So, with that in mind, and the fact that they pulled like to make a motion to approve. Well, is there any any other motions that need pulled for discussion? Well, then we might as well go through the whole list and approve F4825 through F6825. Second. Having a motion and a second. All those in favor of those items indicate by saying I. I. I are there any opposed? Those motions carried. Educational programs will be conducted by Miss Brown. Um in under information, James Carr,
043student at St. Vincent College, will be placed with Emily Tash at Legion Valley High School during the fall fall semester of 2025. Abigail Cohen, pre- student teacher at University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, will be placed with Hannah Anderton at Laurel Valley Elementary School during the fall semester of 2025. Nicholas Matro, pre- studentent teacher at St. Vincent College, will be placed with Clint Mullen at Ligoner Valley Middle School during the fall semester of 2025. Are there any motions that need pulled for discussion? Hearing none, I motion to approve E2125 through E3125. Second. Having a motion and a second, all those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Those motions carry. Uh, unfortunately, Miss Bennett had a family emergency and needed to step out. Um, are there any motions that need to be pulled
044for discussion under personnel? You just need to fill in P4. Okay. on P4025 that approval be given to the transfer title agreement and release and to the transfer of Tim Canantra to the position of senior administrator effective on July 1st 2025. I make a motion then to approve. I will therefore ask for any motions to approve P38 25 through P46. So move second. Having motion and a second. All those in favor of the motions as printed indicate by saying I. I. I. Are there any opposed? Those motions carry. 4647. I ask for a motion for the approval for the employment of Adam Story as by as assistant principal and technology coordinator at El at the middle school beginning July 1st with a base salary of $97,500. I have a first from Irma. Second. And was
045crumble. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? I ask for a motion for P48 that the approval be given to the hiring of Jonathan Finger as guidance counselor at Ligonier Valley High School beginning on August 18th contingent upon all paperwork and clearances no violations to prior to employment with the district with a salary of $55,273 based on the first step of the LVEA master's scale contract. So moved second. Having a motion and a second. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Congratulations and thanks for attending the meeting tonight. Both. Yes. Congratulations to you both. Thank you. Thank you. I ask for the approval of the motion P49, the approval of the hiring of Margaret Cohen as teacher at LVE beginning August 18th. Contingent upon paperwork with no violations, a
046salary of $55,795 on the second step LVE master scale. So move second. Having a motion and a second. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Motion carries. I ask for a motion for the approval for the placement of Sher Zambanini as the LVEA instructional math coach beginning in the 2025 2026 school year. So move second. Having a motion and a second, all those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? I ask for a motion for P-51. the approval to the transfer of Barbara Wassel as head cook at RK Melon at an hourly rate of $19 starting August 19th. So moved. Second. Having a motion and a second. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Motion carries. Athletic committee. Mrs. Hutchinson,
047please. Are there any motions that need for discussion? Hearing none, I'd like to make a motion for A1725 with a notation. It's being totally funded by organizational funds or individual student payment. No taxpayer money in this motion. Second. You can do them all together. 17 through 21. And I just need to read them. Okay. I don't have to read those names. No. No. Oh, oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought that the names had to be read. Uh okay. Um there is a notation though that A1825 the rates were not legative rallies. Um it's nothing that we did. It's part of the contract with uh Whipfield the third year of a 5-year contract. So I'd like to make for A18 25 through A25. Yes. Sorry. Having a motion and a second for A17 and through 21.
048All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Those motions carry. I'd like to make a motion for A225. We have a motion and a second for A22. Mr. Secretary, roll call, please. Yes. Abstain. Yes. Okay. I'd like to make a motion for A2325 with the following names. Josh Reese, varsity football. Trent Johnson, varsity wrestling. Dellay Hughes, varsity boys basketball. Pat Nichols, boy and girls golf. Donald Porter, varsity boys basketball. Second. Having a motion and a second for the volunteers. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. I'd like to make a motion for A2425 with the following names. Donna Bennett, Deborah Bridge, Delpine Hover, Nicholas Rivera, and Michael Smith. Second. Having a motion and a second for the event staff. All those in favor indicate
049by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? Motion carries. Moving on to supplemental contracts. Mrs. Gamble, please. I make a motion for S1325 with the names Amy Brown, John Gregorich, Christina Hostettler, all sharing the National Honor Society advisor position and they are new. Charles Crumb, head boys soccer coach, renewal. Brooke Border, head unified botchi coach, renewal. Brendan Raymond, head cross country coach, new. Ryan Podlucky, head junior high volleyball coach, new. Brian Shrier, assistant varsity football coach. Renewal. Randy Lear, assistant varsity girls basketball coach, renewal. Eric Stifler, head junior high girls basketball coach. Renewal. Mark Marineek, assistant varsity boys basketball coach, renewal. David Shannon, assistant varsity football coach. Renewal. Chantel McConville, assistant marching band director. Renewal. Kelly Fry, Ligonier Valley High School. Student council advisor. New Kelly. Wendy Planinsack. Ryan Podlucky, all sharing extracurricular activities assistant
050at Ligonier Valley Middle School renewal and Denise Warren, faculty manager. Renewal second. Having a motion and a second for the names as read by director Gamble. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. I. Are there any opposed? The motion carries. Transportation and attendance. Mr. Nup, you have nothing tonight. Do you have any words for us? No. Director Brown, Policy and Legal. Since we are putting P-26-25 on hold, I'm calling there any motions that need pulled. If not, I motion to approve POL-22-25 through POL-25-25 and P-27-25. Having a motion and a second for the motions read, please indicate vice. All in favor say All in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The motions carry and uh Mr. Solicitor will give us advice on 26th at at the next meeting. We don't have a second
051hearing of citizens. Moving on to school board director's comments. Does anybody have anything for the good of the order? Um I do. I just have to find out what motion it was. Okay. I'm not going to know what motion it is, but um I just wanted to go on record this saying that tonight we passed a um software, what do we call this? Software packet that we are going to be using that Janine had put together that will be used by all the students throughout the school system. If the parents look at that software packet and there are any software programs on there that you do not want your children using, you can fill out the um learning uh programs exemption form 105.2 that is on uh the website and turn it into the administration
052building and then they will take it from there. Any other board members for the good of the order? Sure. It was hired. Yes, Michael. I believe it was Michael March. Michael Moranche. Mark, I just want to make sure that we get that into the minutes correctly. So, Michael, you said Yeah, that's okay. Thank you for the clarification, Mr. Secretary. If I may, Mr. President and also as some of the public may be aware tomorrow uh the the court of common please um judges will be meeting uh in total to appoint a new board member uh for the Lionir Valley School District. I was informed today and asked since we had a meeting today to inform the public that that uh hearing will be moved from uh courtroom number five to courtroom number three. It's right
053across the hall and it will be taking place tomorrow at 1:30. Mr. Superintendent, anything else for the good of the order? Yes, I would just like to thank the board of directors for passing several motions to deal with personnel and to move this district forward. Thank you for your cooperation. Appreciate it. Thank you. Future dates and activities that are currently scheduled are July 21st uh for the next board meeting. We plan on an executive session at 5:15, committee of the whole at six o'clock. And after speaking with the solicitor, um since our committee of the whole was so short and in the event that there may not be a committee of the whole, we are going to uh state that the board meeting and committee of the whole shall commence at 6:00 or the committee
054of the whole at 6 with the board meeting following immediately after committee of the whole. Would anyone like to entertain a motion for our adjournment? Second. Having a motion in a second. All those in favor indicate by saying I. I. Are there any opposed? The motion carries at 7:24. Thank you very much everyone. Have a great evening.