001pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Mr. Z, roll call, please. >> Mr. Denny, Mr. Ellis >> here. >> Mr. Heft >> here. >> Dr. Huber >> here. >> Mr. Jones >> here. >> Mr. Manelli >> here. >> Mr. Ciso >> here. >> Mr. Twistler. >> Mr. Ar >> here. 2.01 is approval of minutes. Um motion is to approve minutes from July 16th, 2025 regular meeting and August 20th, 2025 special. Do I have a special move? Second. >> Questions or comments? >> All those in favor? I >> opposed. Motion passes. 2.02 is the invoice listing. Motion is to approve the invoice listing for July through August of 2025. >> Second. >> Questions
002or comments? All those in favor? >> Opposed. Motion passes. 2.03 is treasures report. Mr. Z, please. As of June 30, 2025, Pendulko's balance was 38,338,343. During July 2025, local, state, and federal revenues totaled 6,852,855. Dispersements were issued in the amount of 4,920,865. As of July 31st, 2025, Pendulko's balance is $40,270,334. Motion is to approve the treasures report for August 2025. This motion >> questions or comments? All those in favor? >> I opposed. Motion passes. Uh 3.01 is the DCIU report. The DCIU in Marble is currently under some major renovations. Um the hope, I guess fingers crossed, um is to have it ready to go for the school year starting next week. Um they're in the process of um improving the front entryway to make it more secure and safe. They're working on having a lobby
003for students that are coming in and getting um evaluated to see if they are in need of services. Um they're improving the HVAC unit throughout the building. Um they're also renovating the cafeteria to make it a more usable space and um also um developing more conference rooms and more rooms for some of the ancillary services like psychology and speech. So there's a huge renovation happening right now at the Marle location and it should be done in the coming weeks. >> Thank you very much. Do they have a backup plan for not ready? >> That's a very good question. So, that was brought up at the IU meeting um in early August. Um and they said that they don't have a backup plan because they are planning on being ready to go on Tuesday. >> Okay,
004that's a good thing. Announcements for the public tonight. Oh, never mind. Dr. Stein off superintendent. My apologies. It's just a new form here. No problem. I'll speak from over here. I think it's a remote click. I lost the batteries today. So we move through it's very quick uh presentation this month please as I mentioned to the board thought we had a terrific study session last week uh long meeting last week our school board received a full presentation from Mr. Brying of our brand new upgrade at Sun Valley High School planetarium system. We're very excited about that. We're excited with the plans to make sure that that's used often not just for our astronomy classes. Um, so I think many of you were really impressed with that upgrade and I appreciate your support. One question on
005that. >> Yes. What is our ability to uh open that up for um almost like a rental other district who don't have to to to you know revenue stream for from what I understand we have nicest in the county now. So sure question districts may be interested you know astronomy classes. >> Yeah I think they would be. I think the challenge for us would be that currently Mr. has got a full teaching. Um he is identifying other teachers though that he could train in terms of managing that planetarium. So if we had you know the excess staff would be able to say you know I have an extra period where I can host you know a class in child high school class high school something along those lines that might be an option. Um I
006I think the other piece though is is can we offen can we open it up to even bring in more of our own classes too. So, getting our eighth graders up there, uh, having our elementary kids come in, just an opportunity to see Sun Valley, get them, oh, this is here's the high school, but then also get in and see the planetarium. Um, that was in place for years, uh, when it was nowhere near the quality planetarium that we have today. So, we're looking at expanding it in district, but we have talked a little bit about, you know, maybe there are some, um, you know, advanced classes, some gifted and talented programs in other districts might want to come in and see that. As long as we have a staffing to be able to release
007that person, then we can do that. Great ideas. Uh we had wonderful presentations from Dr. Ka and Dr. Mario on the data that we use throughout our district. Uh we reviewed a proposal for a new high school course around careers, discussed the implication of stalled legislation on pendulo budget. We are in good shape. Some districts are really struggling right now because they have not received the payments from the state. That is not our situation. We've reviewed the new school safety and security terminology um around our onepage poster that'll be around on what to do when you're facing emergency situations particularly helpful for visitors to our areas. Provided feedback to administration on community and parental interest and we pleased that you approved personnel uh last week so that we could advance very timely hiring decisions. So
008it was a long but very productive meeting. Thank you uh for engaging with us on that. Uh we have made transition to board docs. That's why your agenda is tonight very thick but we're not just supposed to be a paperless governance solution. Uh so next month uh the school board will have a study session iPads at all of your places. Um we'll show you how you'll be able to come in at the meeting, open up the iPad and have a copy of the paperless agenda available for your view offsite. You also have access to all of the documents that you need to have at any time uh with the secure system and your passwords will be given to you next next month as well. So we hope to be operational with board docs. Continue to
009run our meetings the same way. Continue to do live voting. We won't do any electronic voting. None of those features but it'll be a paperless operation. So you won't carry stacks of paper around and you'll have immediate access to back up on any agenda item that you're expected to vote on. I would never expect you to vote on an agenda item that you don't have complete information to vote on. So, we're now using board doc to share more agendas, documents, meeting results and we'll present that to you next month as well. Go already in action. You can still see the general. Welcome our new teachers. We had a really fantastic uh two days of new teacher orientation. Summer teachers uh picture started with us during school year last year but had to come back for
010our orientation. Uh this was right after our districtwide bus tour. um our new science teacher at the high school. Thought it was one of the best features where she could actually get to see the neighborhoods of the students as she's teaching. Um great two days. Uh we do a phenomenal job indire many of whom are Sun Valley graduates. So it was great to serve Sun Valley students but also that the number one candidate in the end and we selected them. Terms of who we have new coming on. Um so officer Anakone on the far right he's been with us. Uh but this slide I'm going to show the staff tomorrow because he hasn't been officially introduced because we started in the middle of last year but officer is our school resource officer. Now that officer
011Coyle is working with Del County SWAT team and other aspect with Aspen and this morning Mr. Justin Shioone new principal for North Middle School um was at school at the new faculty meeting uh doing a phenomenal job introducing himself and welcoming the uh North faculty back for the new starter school year. He'll begin with us, we anticipate, on September 26th. Summer enrichment was an uncommon success this summer in the sense that since co several years back, uh the participation rates have been down a little bit. That wasn't the case this year. We started to see a lot of students signing up for activities. Really want to uh thank our staff that signed up to, you know, monitor those to lead those programs. Um this year I sent letters out to our teachers who did ESY
012for us because they gave up their summer time to come work with uh you know some of our most needy students. It was fantastic to see the volunteer uh efforts um by some of our staff, the efforts to sign up also and run um summer camps, but we had really great success with it this past summer. Vanguard's return uh fall sport uh began several weeks ago actually and we're already wishing all of our student athletes luck the first matchups of the season. Um great to see folks out there. Uh notably uh some of the individual sports continue to grow like tennis. Uh large number of students playing tennis and golf number of students on the golf team. Um it's been really wonderful to see particular student participating in those programs. For family members that have
013questions about going back to school, a great layout on our fresh website this year called back to school central. So any questions that you have, go to that back to school central website. Um really think it would answer the questions that you have. The other piece that's in the works uh that we haven't brought to the board yet, but we're working on on the back end is a potential Pendelco chatbot uh that we could add to our website. So AI design, you would ask it a question and if that information is available anywhere on our website, it would come back on the Pendelo chatbot. So you could easily just go on and say, uh when is Jasmine Valley uh in the spring? Boom. Jasmine Valley will be Mayo. Where will we located? Boom. you know,
014how do I pay for my child's lunch? Boom. Information will come up. So, it's still in beta mode. Um, we're still exploring that. The last thing we want to do is have an AI chatbot that hallucinates, as I say, uh, around our information. Um, but would not surprise us if we bring this recommendation forward to the board as an add-on to our website to make it easier to find the information uh, that's out there. Back to school nights, always well attended. Uh we're excited too for particularly parents of Northley to see some of the facility improvements that are really coming together. Uh same thing with Sun Valley. Some of the graphic patterns for Sun Valley are a little delayed. U but certainly there are areas there that have been significantly fresh and and really look
015sharp. Continuing to accept tax payments right now as we get closer to the deadlines. Been very very busy. Um we're happy to be a collection box essentially at uh district. We're not a bank. Um but we have been very very busy and we appreciate our taxpayers uh who've been bringing the payers into our district office. This is now the second year that we serve as a uh drop off location. Our purpose remains the same. We'll be talking about this as we go into the new year. We kept in our mission as well. And tomorrow we'll be talking to our school district uh employees uh much more broadly about our portrait of graduate. So the portrait grad very excited to have added two elements to that uh based on some of the committee work we did
016with our staff and with parents. Our portrait graduate is adding the importance of connection and confidence. Uh particularly connection parents are very clear that they worry that kids are becoming disconnected uh with the peers. they become disconnected with their neighborhood, have too much time behind screens, and they see the value in, you know, peer-to-peer connection being something that we need to promote in our school. So, we'll be doing that as well. So, we're ready for a great kickoff. Thank you for that time to do the update. >> Our September meetings will be held September 17th and September 24th. Thank you. Thank you, Doc. Announcements for the public tonight. Board met executive session to discuss personnel and litigation matters. Any comments by members of the board? Comments by members of the public for agenda items. Uh
017it ends action start on page four. Go through five 6 11 Sorry, making sure I don't miss anything here. up to. >> Okay. So, up to 91 01 on page 12. 93 95 we got 9 and this H4 is where the reference is. >> Okay. This references a Pendulco budget 2025 through 2026 act 93 plans PDA agreement PDSPA agreement PD SSPA agreement PA school code section 1108B and it is administrative recommendation to approve all personnel items as presented. Do I have this motion? >> So move second. >> Questions or comments? All those in favor I opposed. Motion passes. Sorry about that. I think we got Well, while you're looking through that, I want to um acknowledge this new look to the agenda since we switched over to board docs. Again, not as ideal when it's
018paperbased, when it's a paperless solution. Um we're just going through the section to make sure we cover all the items that are on the paper based agenda. I thank the board for some patience as we make this move. All right. So, with that, uh we're going to do a consent agenda for 9.01. 01 through 9.13. Uh please note that all uh bids are subject to associated review. Um does anybody wish to have anything pulled for an individual vote? All right. I need a motion for 9.01 through 9.13. >> So second >> questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? >> Motion passes. Uh number 10 on tonight's agenda is comments by members of the public. See one any comments by members of the board. I just like to say uh to our teachers, we'll see
019them tomorrow morning and welcome back. Uh exciting school year. We look forward to getting better every year. We had a wonderful school year last year. So hopefully we can continue to carry that through u get better as we go. a little uh as Dr. Steinoff said, future meetings are September 17th at the service center here at 7:30 and September 24th will be our business meeting at that 7:30 here at the service. >> Motion for German. >> Second. >> Thank you. Take care.