001We'll call the meeting to order the pledge of allegiance. >> Pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Roll will roll. Mrs. Denny, >> Mrs. Ellis >> here, >> Mr. Heftton, >> present, >> Dr. Huber >> here, >> Mrs. Jones >> here, >> Mr. Manselli >> here, >> Mr. Ces >> here, >> Mr. Twistler, >> Mr. Ar >> here. Uh, number two on tonight's agenda is approval of minutes. Motion is to approve the minutes of the October 22nd, 2025 meeting. So move second. Question or comment? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. 2.02 is the invoice listing. Motion to approve the invoice listing for October and November of 2025. >> Second. >>
002Questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. 2.03 is the treasures report. Is that >> As of September 30th, 2025, Pedoka's balance was 66,996,95. During October 2025, local, state, and federal revenues totaled $4,387,88. Dispersements were issued in the amount of $6,46,823. As of October 31st, 2025, Pendulko's current balance is $64,977,169. The motion is to approve the treasures report for October 2025. >> Second questions or comments? All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion passes. Tony student representative report to the board. Thank you. >> Hi, I'm Buffalo. super excited to tell you about all the exciting events that microphone >> microphone. You just hit your microphone. >> Sorry, I don't I guess this one's not working. >> Um, should I restart or did you guys not hear that? >> Okay. Hi, I'm
003Maggie Mucklo, the vice president of student senate, and I'm super excited to tell you about all the exciting events that Sun Valley has been up to, including our holiday festivities. Starting off, the student senate just held its fall blood drive yesterday, November 18th. We had 51 people sign up and we were able to donate 35 pints in total with the others not being able to donate due to medical reasons. Out of those 35 donors, 27 were the first time donors. We appreciate all the students, teachers, and staff who helped make this day happen. On the same day, Clarence Yates, a senior at Sun Valley, was featured on CBS News as he was gifted the 2000th pair of sneakers from a nonprofit that teaches anti-bullying called Sneakers for Smiles. This organization is run by one of
004our very own substitute teachers, Claudia the rule. We are so proud that we have so many leaders who represent kindness and confidence. This week, Sun Valley has also started preparing for the Powder Puff, which will take place on Monday, November 24th. Players are having two practices, one of which was yesterday, November 18th, and the last one will be tomorrow, November 20th. This year, not only do we have girls playing football, but the junior class has decided to also bring boys to do cheerleading. Thank you to the volunteers from football and cheerleading teams who have coached these players. All winter sports officially started on November 14th where all teams are looking forward to some great seasons. Last year our teams did outstanding with wrestling and boys basketball both being chess match champions and the cheerleading team
005going to nationals in Universal in Orlando. To start our holiday festivities, the Turkey Ball pep rally is taking place on Tuesday, November 25th. Like always, the band will be playing their traditional songs and cheer will perform their game day competition piece. In this pep rally, we will honor our winter sports teams as they are announced by individual name and walk with their sports team to a song of their choosing. Each grade will also get to participate in their specific game with the seniors doing the incred incredibly popular pi a teacher. Seniors are able to select a teacher and raise money to support United for Hard, a foundation that helps support women with breast cancer. The 10 seniors who raise the most money get to pie their teacher, while the bottom 10 get pied themselves. Anyone
006who's in the middle is safe and doesn't have to do either. The turkey will be on Thanksgiving, November 27th at Chai Chester High School at 10:00 a.m. This game celebrates tradition and friendly rivalry and is loved by the students. On December 17th, the chorus and band kick off our winter holiday celebrations with their concert which will be at 7:30, sorry, 6:30. To follow that, the student center has fixed spirit days for the week leading up to winter break. Wednesday is holiday movie character day, Thursday, winter wonderland, Friday candy cane day, Monday cozy sweater day, and Tuesday is pajama day. To end our winter festivities, we have a holiday hoolie nanny. This is a favorite fan favorite where students can trade in their hard-earned sun dollars for things like hot chocolate, cookie decorating, and more. >>
007Thank you very much. All you guys do is have fun up at sun down. >> Yeah, basically like that. >> I love it. I love the spirit. Thank you, Mag. >> Of course. Any questions? You usually have a couple. >> Thanks for asking. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> All right. Number four on tonight's agenda. I'll turn over to uh Mr. Zley. >> Hi. Sure. So, um this would be uh the daily audit presentation. So, our independent auditors LLP uh from from uh the accounting firm. Today, we have Matt me. He's going to give a presentation uh review the executive summary findings from uh the independent audit of our financial statements as well as uh the single I believe he'll talk a little bit about why it's preliminary uh and uh review those results. >>
008Yes. >> Good evening. >> Testing testing. There we go. >> There we go. Third times the chart. >> So, first off, thank you for giving me the opportunity to present again this year. Um, I'll first start off with, um, explaining why it's preliminary. So, um, with the federal government shutdowns and some other factors in place, there's this compliance supplement for the single audit that we must follow. This usually gets issued around the summertime, which for some reason it wasn't. And then with the shutdown, it still isn't. And now that the shutdown is done, we're hoping within the next month or so that it's ready, but it's really we cannot determine at this time. I'm sure there's a lot of priorities with the uh departments and I don't think OM guidance is at the top of
009it unfortunately. So when it comes time to issue the audit, we will if you have to go out for a debt issuance or something and we have to split into reports, that's something to consider at a later time. Want to work with you and during this time really undeterminable. So I'll talk about the uh summary of the findings and audit results. Fortunately, there was no findings to start. Um with the auditor's report, you have an unmodified opinion. This is a clean opinion. This is the best opinion that you can get as part of an audit process. This means that it's free of material misstatement. There's no scope limitations and it's in accordance with US GAP. There were no instances of non-compliance noted as part of the audit process, no findings, no deficiencies, no material weaknesses.
010Next, with the uniform guidance audit, as in draft form, we have also an unmodified clean opinion as it stands. As we get final guidance from OM, we'll see if there's any changes in the compliance requirements for the IDA special education cluster program that we test it, but we're hoping that there's not changes and we think the likelihood of changes would be very low. Uh, the district is a low-risk audit. to be a lowrisk audi. That means you have timely single audit filings for the prior two periods and you have clean single audits. Moving on to the next page of the handout, I'm going to talk about the significant accounting estimates. The first one is capital assets. You have your cost basis of your capital assets, which is the total value when they're put into service,
011approximately 186 million. Current year depreciation expense was approximately 5.3 million and then accumulate depreciation approximately 81 million. Common trends that we like to look at with school districts is how much of their total cost basis has been depreciated to see what useful life is left. The trends typically we see are between 40 and 60%. For Pendalco it falls within that range at 43%. The next is your next is your net pension liability. What this is, it's part of the Pasers PI for the retirement system. There was a significant increase of approximately 16 million, but this was due to the change in the district's proportional share based off of calculated contributions and covered payroll. The balance at the end of 2025 was approximately 90 million and for 2024 is approximately 74 million. Next you have your
012net op liability which is your other post-employment benefits. This is also part of the feaser pie and for 25 and 24 it flatlined at approximately 5 million. Last we have compensate absences. There was a change with the implementation of gazsby 101. With this it changed how the recognition for it under the old standard gazby 16. It had to do with what would be paid out at retirement. Now the recognition has to take into account payouts at retirement but also the likelihood of what's going to be used in the near future. With the change in the liability for 2025 it was approximately 2.4 million and the restated balance for 2024 was approximately 2 million. On the next page we have the revenue compensation composition for the governmental funds. Overall the revenue for 2024 2025 was approximately
013$79.4 million and for the fiscal year 2324 was approximately 77.2 million reflecting the $2.2 million increase overall. This is broken out in three categories. local sources, state sources, and federal sources. With the local sources, that's mostly derived from tax revenues. In 20 fiscal year 2024, it was approximately 55 million and in the current 25 fiscal year, approximately 58 million. This $3 million increase was the reflection of increase in real estate tax millage. For state sources, that was relatively consistent at 19 million year-over-year. and federal sources for 2024 it was approximately 2.4 4 million and in the current 2025 year was approximately 1.3 million. That 1.1 million decrease had to do with the assert coid9 funds which the amount recognized was exactly 1.1 million. So that was the complete difference for that. The next chart we
014have on the handout is the expenditure composition for the governmental funds. This chart overall for title expenditures reflects approximately 76.1 million for fiscal year end 2025 and approximately 72.3 million for fiscal year end 2024 for an overall change of 3.9 million increase. So this is broken out in three categories. Instruction, support services, and facilities. For instruction, at fiscal year end 2024, it was approximately $40 million. In 2025, approximately 42 million for instruction, reflecting a $2 million increase. This increase was primarily reflected due to payroll related costs. For support services, 2024 was a reflection of 23 million and 2024 for fiscal year end 2025 with a $1 million increase. This was due to a combination of payroll, technology, and transportation costs. And lastly, we have facilities. And with your facilities cost, it was approximately 2 million
015for both periods. On the final page of the handout, we have long-term [clears throat] debt. This is the a depiction of your bonds and notes for the prior and current year. At fiscal year end 2024, it was approximately 78 million and at fiscal year end 2025, it was approximately 75 million. And that was just due to the continued payoff of debt. Lastly, we have fund balance. This is basically if you take your assets, pay off all your liabilities. This is what you have left over mix up fund balance. The chart below it depicts uh the trend for three years. There's three lines on it. Blue line for general fund, orange line is other governmental funds which is your capital reserve and capital projects funds combined. And the gray line is your food service fund. First
016I'm going to talk about the general fund. Blue line that was relatively consistent for fiscal year end 23 and 24 at 22 million. It saw it saw an increase to 25 million in fiscal year in 2025. That was partially that was due to a variety of factors, but a few that I could key down on or increase in tax millage, which would increase your tax revenues, but also responsible spending of the district. Next, we have at the orange line our other governmental capital funds. For 2023, it was approximately 5 million. In 24, it was approximately 9 million. and in 2025 approximately 10 million. You you want to have good reserves in here to fund capital projects to avoid the need to go out and acquire debt when possible. So, it's nice to see the trends
017continue to grow year-over-year. Lastly, with the gray food service line, it was consistent around 400K for all three periods. This is a comfortable level since the food service fund should function more on a not for-p profofit basis. you're there to provide uh meals for students. Typically, we want to see anywhere from zero dollars to a million dollars in this fund. So, $400,000 across three years is a good benchmark to have. Once again, I want to thank you all for giving me this opportunity to present. And please let me know if you have any questions. >> Thank you. >> All right. [cough] [clears throat] Have a great night. >> Uh, tonight's DCIU report. >> Um, I just want to provide an update for the DCIU executive director search. Um, the Delaware County Intermediate Unit board of
018directors remains dedicated to finding the best possible leader to guide the organization into the future. And as part of this ongoing commitment, the board decided to reopen the executive director application window to ensure a broad and competitive pool of candidates. This step reflects the board's deliberate and thoughtful approach to the search process, emphasizing the importance of finding the right individual who embodies DCIU's mission and values. The board looks forward to continuing this process with optimism and care as we work towards selecting an exceptional leader for our organization and the communities we serve. So, the application window has been reopened to like mid December and then hopefully I'll have an update on where we're going from there after that. >> Thank you. Number six, tonight superintendent report. >> Thank you. [clears throat] I'll report over here
019so I can not stand in the way of presentation. So, good evening everybody. Again, welcome back uh to our latest board meeting for the month of November. A couple things here. [clears throat] I do want to mention I want to thank the board for the work that we did uh last week at our study session. We uh spend a number of hours here and uh I know that's where the hard work is done. That's where the deliberation gets done. I want to thank you for time that we were able to present to you and also for the deliberations and for the uh conversations that we had and feedback that we received. So, since we last met, oh my gosh, should have had one in July, actually sooner than that, but uh we now on as
020of November 12th have a state budget. Um this delay had very significant very negative implications for a large number of districts throughout the Commonwealth. on the police to the state public education and all of the agencies that were impacted by not having the budget. Uh we were not directly impacted by that. Our financial terms in this district were solid enough that we were able to certainly kind of weather that storm. Uh but I know it was causing some anxiety and some pitch points for a lot of agencies throughout the Commonwealth. Um there are a number of people who feel like look school boards don't have a choice of not having a budget by a certain time and why doesn't the state uh mind their own schedules as well and uh and put themselves at that
021kind of level. So they would hope that this was kind of an outlier. I've never ever can I recall being in this spot and not having the budget for this amount of time. Um but in just two months Governor Shapiro will have to be talking about the next budget. But we do have that. So, some of the information that came out uh on the budget uh that I was just looking at today, some of the summaries that we have uh kind of pleased to kind of mention to you the investments that this budget shows $565 million increase in as pushing funding that will not impact Pendelt very much. 105 million increase for basic ed funding. We're getting a 1.2% increase in our basic ed subsidy. Uh there's a very modest increase in special ed funding
022across the Commonwealth. That's disappointing. It's only $40 million. Uh that is a small amount of money given the exorbitant special ed cost that school districts are facing. Um we should take advantage of the 175 million expected savings and cyber charter tuition. Uh that is something that will impact Pendelt taxpayers positively. Uh we are finally starting to have some common sense reforms on cyber charter tuition and Delta can run its own cyber charter program essentially or its own cyber learning program for less than $10,000 a student. We should not have to pay 20ome,000 for a student to stay in their bedroom and learn remotely from an agency somewhere in state Pennsylvania. So there are some controls that have now been put in place that will enable us to lower our cyber charter tuition uh payments. So
023we're looking forward to some of these in that area. I will also say that we've also benefited from a very sharp decline in the number of students in our district who are even choosing cyber charters at all. Uh so that was up in the 90s. Our total charter count for any student is now down just slightly below 50. So I've always said, you know, if you have that that number down in that kind of 1 to 2% range, there are selections by people who want to go to brick and mortar or cyber charters, that's their decision. Um, that's a reasonable number. I think the work that we've done and the confidence that people have in our own program has really paid off. Couple other items that always come out of an omnibus bill. Uh, the
024district is the state is reverting back to a prek6 teacher certificate. So for a while they had converted to prek4 school districts were all saying that's a problem because we have fifth grade teachers where do they where do they fall in the certification process and they listen and now in two years we'll be back to an elementary certificate and a 7 to 12 certificate. Uh we are creating the state is creating pathways for individuals who had inactive teaching certificates to be able to return to the classroom. uh they are allowing prospective tech education teachers to demonstrate occupational skills, not just state testing skills. Again, we talked about the savings for cyber charter. Uh and then importantly importantly, we'll talk about student well-being. There are now requirements that cyber charter school students um have to be
025seen by the teachers and that there must at least be one live communication between the cyber teachers and the student. Uh it's hard to believe just one a week is all that's required. But that's better than none because there were cases where students were neglected and they were in cyber programs for years and no one followed up on these cases. So there are some changes that will ensure that there is more of a focus on the well-being of students who aren't walking through our doors. So the PA future ready index was released. If you go on uh the that publicly released web page, you can bring up Pendulka school district. You can bring up any school district. You can bring up specific schools. Um happy to share with them more some summaries. I can tell
026you that uh college and career uh readiness scores uh at all our schools were at 100 out of 100. So we continue to do a great job in CCR indexes on track measures uh such as third grade readiness, 8th grade algebra um they were solid. uh our attendance numbers uh remain above the state average. It picked up a little bit at the high school last year, dipped down a little bit at the middle school. It's a national concern which is that there's a growing trend where people kind of just casually miss too much school time. So, our staff does a really strong job of making sure that our attendance numbers uh need to be where they are. In terms of achievement, the growth measures were generally very solid. uh proficiency depends upon the subject. Some
027areas could use some improvement that was such as math language arts was much stronger. Um and we saw some growth in some areas uh some modification in others. Generally, we always take a look and see how are we doing compared to the state because that assessment that's given by the state tells you what the trend line should be and generally speaking I think state math ticked up a point guards dropped by about a point secondary level. So, we're kind of holding our own there and that's why we've been focusing a lot of staff development on professional development in the area of secondary mathematics. So, certainly encourage you to take a look at some of the index scores that have been released here. Uh this is uh a before and after. So, uh up top there
028you see where the uh the very dated display case used to be and we've been talking to the board. You know, we heard loud and clear over the last couple years from the community. Hey, can we add some spirit, some elements, some pop to our schools. Um, so I keep showing you some images. Here's one. This looks fantastic when you go by at night. Backlit Sun Valley High School. Superman Robbie. Uh, there was a news crew there yesterday and they used that as the background, of course. So, a lot of great images of really fun things happening at the high school. I showed you some last month from the middle school, but we're also not forgetting our elementaryaries either. I just want to point out um you know we haven't framed this out yet um
029but if you're at the middle school they too had some kind of drab walls need a little pop and this is a mural that they put together uh it's going to be focused on leader and me uh those uh unfinished flower areas will have um mirrors and there will be some line language there you know I am looking at the leader and me and uh going to be really neat what we love about this is every student and every teacher uh was permitted to paint part of that door. So, you better come back here years later and say, "Oh, yeah. I I I painted the top of the alligator head." Oh, I painted butterflies. So, um if this turns out well, we'll look at maybe bring us something similar to some of our other elementary
030schools. Kind of make sure there's a lot of spirit, a lot of color, a lot of pop. So, comprehensive planning for Pend Delta. Uh we are on cycle uh where we are now approaching uh the next three-year period. uh during the time that I've done this used to there was a time when it was a six-year process. Now it's every 3 years. Um so having done this so often we know uh that uh stakeholders appreciate [cough] when the [clears throat] administration does the front end work. So do the data analysis, do the assessments, bring some recommendations to us so that as outsiders, as a stakeholders, either as parents or board members or community members, business members, they're not starting doing that kind of grunt work in the front end. So we have started to pull
031together our data assessment that we'll be coming back to the board and having some discussions with. And one of the things that we recognize is when it comes to goal setting um there are some foundational beliefs called the five principles of public education promise that we would like to embed within our comprehensive plan. So we will be coming forward to the board and to our other stakeholder groups with some goals based on data that do the following five things. Prioritize student centered learning. That's a main piece that the board has always spoken to us about. Active learning, results oriented learning, ready for life skill building. Principle two, what can we do to attract, hire, retain, and reward the best people. Principle three, how can we build highly engaged family, community, and business partnerships? We heard
032that from the board. Principle [clears throat] four. And then five, measure what matters, right? What really matters most. That's what we should be putting our efforts towards. not kind of chasing every little metric and every little test score of what matters most to this community uh as represented by the school board. So uh we have uh Dr. Kamea, myself, Mr. Zedley, Dr. Priscola, all of us will be leading one of those principles uh with some of our other administrators and coming back with some ideas and recommendations based on feedback that we've gotten on the goals that the board has asked us to focus on. And we'll show you the data. We'll engage stakeholder groups to develop a doable um comprehensive plan that reflects the will and desire of our stakeholders throughout Pendulko. So, we look
033forward to that. That that action has already started because we really want that posted in February uh for public consumption for board approval in March. We want to welcome uh Lisa Logan uh who is our new home and school visitor. she has started. You'll recall Barb Bole retired. We'll recognize Barbara May when we recognize our retirees. Um, Miss Logan's office is at the ABNA building. She works closely with Regina Mccur and you may hear her name from time to time. So, she is our new home and school visitor. We're really thrilled to have her part of the Pendelco team. This is American Education Week. uh a lot of reasons to be really excited just about the opportunity to take stop for a moment and recognize what every child in this country has access to. U
034parents, you know, might be food insecure. They may be concerned about housing. They might not be able to afford clothing. One thing parents in this country don't have to worry about is getting an education for their kids. You can have a family of four, five, six, seven, eight students. They will all come to our buildings and they will not have to pay tuition to get an outstanding highlevel education. And what's happening in our public schools today is so much more improved over what was offered just 30 years ago. the the difference in the skills of the kids that walk through our door, the difference in the needs of the kids who walk through our doors, the difference in their interests, in their language, in their cultures, and their background. And we cater to them all.
035And you know, there's a lot of there's a lot of complaints uh about public education, particularly online. And I've heard it decade after decade after decade. In the 60s, people complained about American public education. In the 70s, they talked about it. Oh my gosh, we're going to be overtaken by Russia. In the 80s, we're going to be overtaken by Japan. In the '9s, we're going to be overtaken by China. On and on and on. And yet our country continues to be the great country that it is. If our American education system was so weak, we could not continue to power the economy that we have. That's the bottom line. So 40, 50 years of hearing about how these schools just are failing kids today, they're not failing kids. Many of us were the product of
036those schools. And you can't have it both ways. You can't say we're a great country, a great economy, incredible future, phenomenal democracy, but our schools have stumped for 40 or 50 years. Doesn't work that way. So, I'm just really proud that we take a moment to acknowledge what we offer in this country. Um, also want to thank uh Alison Gangle who submitted information for the DCIU's American education publication. I'll send the board uh the length of that. Uh we feature uh something that happens in our district each year. This year we actually featured no surprise Parkside blue ribbon and uh we had this uh within the last month that we talked phenomenal event. I know a couple floor members were there. We shared a lot with you. Just look at those pictures. It was just
037a special special day. Um when we talked about committed to excellence took center stage at Parkside. Uh we had a great kickoff in the morning and assembly. Uh the kids were outside celebrating with the bouncies. Uh we had a dance off with all of our mascots from around the district. Um just a wonderful great day and to show you a little bit about Parkside because I always say pictures tell the best story. We'll share with you the hype video that Mangle had put together. [screaming] [music] Heat. [music] [music] Heat. >> [music] [music] >> Heat up here. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] Heat >> [music] >> up here. >> [music] [music] >> Heat up [music] here. >> [music] [music] >> Heat up [music] here. [music] Heat. [music] Heat. [music] [music] >> [music]
038[music] >> Heat up here. [music] >> [music] [music] >> I wonder what round [applause] that. But what I love about that is it's a unedited look into a day at Farside Elementary and that sure looks like a blue ribbon place to me. I mean you saw smiles, you saw rigor, you saw challenge, you saw technology, you saw care, you saw fun and uh at the end you also saw one of the individuals uh who a wonderful person who's here tonight. Uh I want to thank Tara Young for phenomenal work. uh she's going to be recognized with some of her staff [clears throat] December 9th at the SAS conference in Harrisburg. Um but I know she has a couple words she want to say to the board as well. So Tara uh welcome to come to
039Michael. >> Good evening. I watch that video and it just it just gets me every time because that is just a day and thank you to Allison Gangle for coming over and and getting like a good snapshot of what a day at Parksville Elementary School looks like. as a principal, there's, you know, times that you just feel tremendous pride and the blue ribbon designation designation is definitely one of those times. You know, um it's not often that schools get an opportunity to say that they were recognized by the state for having an outstanding closure of the achievement gap. And that's something that, you know, we have been able to do consistently at Parkside. We do that through um having just wonderful, dedicated staff. Our teachers are, you know, showing up to work every day wanting
040to help our kids. They are doing the work of personalizing learning for the students through the MTSS practices that we have. We are blessed to have interventionists and reading specialists who can help with that mission to make sure that students are being met where they are and that they can add value to their skill set on a daily basis. Like Dr. Seinhoff said, you know, we have a lot of fun, but we also are exposing kids to leadership opportunities. at Parkside, they have leadership roles where they know that they have personal input into their school and their job is important. Like we all kind of are rowing the boat in the same direction, making sure that we are picking up momentum and you know having a really good showing um both academically and also just
041like with personal growth and things that we talk about in those ready for life skills. So that starts at Parks Elementary School and in our elementary schools overall. I think that um you know we're lucky to have such dedicated staff, but we're also really lucky to have the support of the surrounding community and the other schools in the district. Our celebration day was a perfect example of that. you know, we had board members, we had high school administrators, middle school administrators, we had staff from district office, we had um you know, burrow officials from Parkside, we had um you know, I had a elderly Parkside resident come down to the school with a bunch of um spirit magazines to say, "Hey, we saved these to bring to you so that your teachers and everybody here
042could could just share in the pride that we all have for the Parkside community and the the way that the school is positive. positivity positively reflecting on the surrounding community. So, this truly is a a full district and community effort to bring this type of recognition about and and we're just really appreciative for the celebration day. It was a phenomenal day where the kids just got to let their hair down. Um we are so thankful for the, you know, board support in those inflatables. Um you know, we had a a local business who uh donated water ice. It was just a full day of celebration where the kids could just really like, you know, revel in the fact that they they achieved, you know, such such a great u recognition. Um, so it it's just
043wonderful. But we're not done at Parks Elementary School. We are driven. We are um, you know, touting the 100% belief that teamwork makes the dream work and that every student has the opportunity to show genius and every student is a leader. So, we're going to continue to represent that. Thank you, >> Carol. Thank you. [applause] I had a certificate of appreciation and your superintendent for God. >> Okay, >> I I will send that over. >> You know where we are. >> I [laughter] also want to thank Michelle Crowley who was one of the great teacher leaders, reading specialist. Uh she's very much part of their uh lighthouse team with the leader of me, but you know, she was long long time uh Parkside supporter and I just wanted to come out tonight as well. And
044so on be for you on behalf of the staff uh we really appreciate Michelle your dedication to parttime makes a big difference. Thank you. [applause] So, uh, also in November, some of our schools do some special events to recognize our veterans. And again, this year, ASET and Cohern um, celebrating local veterans, uh, did some fantastic, heartfelt ceremonies uh, that was studentled, student driven, a lot of great student remarks. We had, uh, musicians, uh, students performing. Um, but if you look at the images uh that we had that came out of this day, a lot of them posted on Facebook, it was just heartfelt. Uh, you have a lot of veterans who like, "Wow, you know, this means a lot to us." Um, and my wife's in a school that closes on Veterans Day. And I
045was joking with her. I'm like, "Maybe you guys should open up and do what Pandelo does, you know, which is educate our kids about Veterans Day, recognize our veterans." And uh, I just uh really want to appreciate the staff and schools that lead this up. But I know it's a lot of work to make sure that it gets done well and they continue to do a fantastic job with it. Last Friday night um I was uh fortunate enough to be able to give kind of welcoming remarks to a auditorium filled with parents from throughout Chester County and Delaware County. 19 different middle schools throughout the region. Uh the very best middle school singers were brought together as we hosted the PMEA seventh and eighth grade course fest. You might recall we we did that last
046year with a different age group. Uh they were in a jam this year. They had to find a location and couldn't find a location. We were having to step up and be that location. What a great night it was. Performance was fantastic. um had parents from other school districts coming up who were very complimentary about the high school, complimentary about the event, complimentary about the entire day for their kids where they came in uh within one day all those students were up on that stage. They get to meet one another, they practice, and they put together an incredible performance under the leadership of a guest conductor. So, I was just really proud uh to host that program and also of how well it went last week. Tomorrow night, our first fall information night for Sun
047Valley. Uh, this is being put together in response to some requests from the community to say, "Hey, there's a lot of great things that are happening at at the high school. Can you let the eighth graders know about it earlier rather than the end of the year?" So, I appreciate the fact that our high school admin team, particularly Mr. Rosco, said, "Sure, we will do that. Let's get that together and let's provide all the eighth grade parents and the students a chance to come out and hear about the high school so that as they progress through the rest of their eighth grade year, they start to feel really excited about the opportunities that they're going to have at a really impressive uh high achieving high school. Coming up, Thanksgiving recess, don't forget we have half
048day conferences. Uh we're still really pleased with the student le conferences that we do as well at the middle school level. I think that really helps kids gets kids ready for life. Uh Thanksgiving holiday the turf ball is away this year as Maggie mentioned that'll be over at Chaiester wishing those guys good luck for that. Uh we have our board reorganization meeting coming up on Monday December 1st where a number of our board members will have to take the oath. We'll also recognize two new board members. And on that note I do want to thank Mr. Heftton and Miss Denny. I want to thank Mr. have for your time uh that you did working with us here as a certificate of appreciation for your commitment, dedication and service. [applause] That concludes my presentation for this
049month. >> Thank you, Dr. Steinball. Announcements for the public tonight. The board met in executive session to discuss personnel litigation matters. Any comments by members of the board? Any comments by members of the public? See none. Um items support action. Uh number 10 start on page four. Carry through five and six and end at the bottom of page six. It is the administrative recommendation to approve all items as presented. Do I have this move? >> Some move second. >> Questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. Tonight's consent agenda will go for 11.01 01 through 11.11. Does any board member wish to have anything removed to vote on separately? If not, I need a motion to approve 11.01 through 11.11. Uh please note that all bids are subject to solicitor review.
050Do I have this? So second >> questions or comments? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Any comments by members of the public? All right. Any comments by members of the board? Yeah, I have something. Uh just overall, uh thank you for everybody. U but couldn't be more proud to be a part of the school district to watch the growth from when our kids start young. So, it's it's definitely uh a great community atmosphere that continues to display throughout our school system. Um, I was watching that video and I'm thinking to myself, how cool would that be? First day where your kids come to kindergarten and parents see that like that's what this is about. Um, so just want to say thank you. I'm very appreciative for our work. So, thank you. >> Thank
051you. Thank your service. >> I'd like to first thank Brett um for all your service um with our team. Um, and then I'd also like to give a big shout out to uh Eric Zedley for a squeaky clean audit. Um, you know, to have that um from you and your department, it's outstanding. Thank you for all you do for us. So, [clears throat] I was kind of echoes a lot of the sentiment that Dr. Simoff had. So, I was able to attend blue ribbon ceremony and it was pretty terrific. the vibe, the positive energy, the video went over so well and every, you know, student when they saw their face on the screen, it was like a yelp every time. So, it was pretty awesome to see and I had two of the best tour
052guides I've ever had to like take you back to school. So, thank you for feeling keep up to the work. Um, as far as the veteran day celebration, um, I think it's great that we do that. I wasn't able to take my father this year, but I wanted to kind of recognize Lee over at uh, Aston who makes, uh, little placards for every veteran at event. So, I thought that was very nice. Um, also, uh, as a followup, the the soccer program at Northley with the cheerleading program, uh, I think they've eclipsed $5,000, uh, for that fundraiser that they did, which was awesome. Um, this Friday is asking PTO, but there's still some tickets, so there. And I also wanted to thank Kate and, uh, Brent. Uh, I'll have the good fortune of still serving
053with Brent with As Valley in some other capacities, but it was a pleasure working. Thank you. >> I just wanted to obviously just repeat everyone's sentiments. Brett, you're going to be definitely missed on the board and you know, I'm sure we'll see you around all around all the baseball fields, softball fields, and everything else, but um you're definitely going to be missed here. Um and also to Parks, I know um Terry always say it's the little school with a big heart and that totally showed in that video and everything that you guys did. So, congratulations. That huge accomplishment. Um I apologize I wasn't at last month's meeting. I've been very busy at the DCIU as most of you know. Um, but I did want to say that um, I did happen to have a visit
054at Sun Valley High School and it was my first time really being there during the school day and I was blown away with the school. Um, I was blown away with the organization. I was blown away with um, the rigor that was happening in the classrooms. You know, hearing teachers and their high expectations and that whole entire process was just really amazing. And um, you know, I think it's it's definitely I'm glad that we're having that information night tomorrow. I think parents at the middle school level really need to get a chance to go up and see that high school and see it in action. I think oftent times there's this ridiculous perspective out there that's not what it actually is. And I think actually seeing it and being there and experiencing it. I was
055just so so impressed with the whole thing. >> I just want to thank uh Brent for Brent for your service. uh you know uh you've got a full-time job uh man you know volunteer in the community uh you know several children in the community and it you know you always come always provide very good insight you know use your real life experiences and I I always learn something from everything every idea that that you've ever uh come across so thank you so much great I'd like to say thank you for coming out tonight. Uh looking forward to what's to come because it's pretty uh level or the uh bars been set pretty high with this. So I'm not quite sure where you can go from there, but uh everything you do over there is greatly
056appreciate it. Um, I know the parents and the kids [clears throat] appreciate it as well as the board that we know that that u it's been in good hands over there for quite some time. So, >> thank you. And Brent, we'll be seeing you everywhere. So, goodbye. See you in a little bit. >> Was the best part coaching seventh grade football? >> Oh, it was a blast. Blast. Definitely an experience I'll remember. Uh, want to continue to come back and help out. Uh we're just talking beforehand this new uh girls flight football new thing coming and it's coming fast. So hopefully there'll be more involved in that and hopefully present everybody shortly bring that into future meetings. Monday, December 1st is our reorder meeting here at the service center. Uh please note the correction. Uh
057that is a 7:00 start time 7:30. Motion for German.