001All right, we'll call meeting order 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 call, please. Sorry. Mrs. Denny, Mrs. Ell here, Mr. Hston present, Dr. Huber here, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Manselling here, Mr. Ces here, Mr. Twistler here, Mr. Arm here. 2.01 is approval of minutes. Motion is to approve the minutes of the February 26th, 2025 board by this motion. Second questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. 2.02 is the invoice listing. Motion is to approve the invoice listing for February through March of 2025. Glad questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. 2.03 is the treasures report. Mr. Z, as of January 31st, 2025, Pendulko's balance was 56,712,541. During
002February 2025, local, state, and federal revenues totaled 3,111,958. Dispersements were issued in the amount of 5,211,145. As of February 28, 2025, Pendo's current balance is 54,613,354. The motion is to approve the treasures report for February 2025. Do I have this motion? So move. Questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Second. Second. Motion passes. 2.04 2.04 is a budget transfer report. Motion is to approve the budget transfer report for February through March of 2025. Let us motion. Second. Questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Number three, student report to the board. Good evening. First, I would like to start off by saying that spring sports are in full swing. Boys and girls lacrosse already have a few wins under their belt along with baseball and softball. This weekend, SV track and field
003participated in the upper derby realize and it was great. At nationals, Xavier placed 15 and Manny advanced to the semi-finals in the 60 meter hurdles. Also, Elijah Jones became a district qualifier and had the second farthest throw in school history yesterday for Jaclyn. Also, at yesterday's meet, Manny broke a school record in the 110 meter hurdles. Good luck to all the student athletes. I'm sure there will be plenty more victories as we advance into the spring season. Next, Junior Prom tickets have been on sale all week with the last day of sales being Friday and plenty of students already purchasing tickets. I'm sure this event will be one to remember. Junior prom will be held at the waterfall and is on April 25th. Senior prom will be held at Penn Golf Club on May 9th.
004Ticket sales will be online shortly. Guests form for both prompts can be found in the office and many students are taking this opportunity to bring in an outside date. The National Honor Society and FCCLA have joined together for a clothing drive. The clothing drive ends on the 31st and NHS members are able to get hours for each bag of clothes they donate. Finally, the third marking period ends next Monday, the 31st. Students are taking time this week to turn in their overdue and late assignments and see if they can do any extra credit. The fourth marking period has a lot of fun activities for students to enjoy. For example, spring break, keystone testing, where some students get to come in late, spirit days, and of course, finals. Good evening. This past weekend, the Sun Valley
005Theater program put on a musical production of Spongebob. Thursday was opening night and Saturday was closing, having both shows at 2:00 and 7:00. Shout out to Jonathan Michael for his amazing portrayal of Spongebob along with showcasing his amazing vocals along with Gabriel Pomearini as Patrick and Amaya Howard as Sandy. Both students performing the characters spot on. A select few of Sun Valley students in the theater program will be selected to attend the Philadelphia Independence Awards also known as Jimmy Awards May 20th which honors theater kids across the region. In addition, members of the theater program will celebrate the production at the CAPES Awards, which stands for Critics and Awards Program, which is ran by high school students. This will be June 1st, and all theater kids and crew members in Delco are permitted to attend.
006The spring concert for both Sun Valley Choir and band are approaching quickly. Both programs will have hold rehearsals weekly um all throughout the week, the month of April. each week. The band concert will be April 10th at 7:00 p.m. and the choir concert will be April 30th, also at 7:00 p.m. Both are free to attend to. Lastly, today's juniors had the opportunity to win a raffle for free junior prom ticket. Shout out to Connor Crowley for winning the raffle. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Thank you. We're going to move uh item eight up in front of four. That way we can do our recognition and if parents would like to get back down the road. Okay. Thank you. Well, good evening everybody. Uh typically in my superintendent report, which I'll be showing in just a
007little bit, we we highlight uh success stories from students around our district, but there are sometimes where the success stories are really extremely impressive. And tonight is one of those nights where we wanted to bring the success stories out to be able to acknowledge formally at a public meeting and document for perpetuity uh some exceptional work and recognition that the school board would like to share with you. So when I look at what we're h what's happening in Pendulko, we're very thrilled with excellence in academics, excellence in the arts, excellence in athletics, excellence in activities. Tonight we're recognizing academics, ingenuity, and also athletics. Like to begin tonight by recognizing Frankie, the candy. Frankie, can you come on up here, please? Frank is receiving a certificate of commenation from the Pendulco School Board, excellence in academics
008as a 2425 Pennsylvania State Invention Convention first place winner. So we are recognizing Frankie this evening for a terrific accomplishment. like he won first place, the gold medal, the grand prize as the winner of the entire state Pennsylvania invention convention for his entry and invention titled the cozy illuminator, which is both a neck pillow and a reading light. Statewide, there were close to 300 applications for the awards. Frankly also had to submit a display board with details about his invention and deliver a 3 to five minute shark tank like pitch to judges. Congrats to third grader Frankie Dandia, Pennsylvania convention elementary champion. Tell us about your invention. This is the cozy illuminator. This will help. This will help the world because instead of like hurting your neck or like only trying to use one hand
009to read at night, you can just put this around your neck, turn on one of the lights, whichever one does it. [Music] And we should note uh he was here uh last year uh for honorable mention for like wasn't like a car wash shower. And I also want to acknowledge uh the gifted and talented teacher from elementary, Miss Emu's here, who is fantastic at what she does. We have three athletes that we would like. Oh, thank you for the uh information sheet, too. Appreciate it. Can I order one, Frank? What else [Music] is ladies before gentlemen tonight very pleased to recognize Jameson Franklin. Jameson is a sophomore and a returning fourth place state medalist. Jameson currently holds a 64 and8 record in her matches, 31 and five this year. Jameson came in first place at
010the combined district 1 District 12 championship. She also came in first place at the girls wrestling souththeast regional championship. Her finish at regionals qualified her for states where she entered the tournament as the number two ranked wrestler in the state at her weight class. She had a great run in states making it to the state final where she ended up earning a silver medal for the state of Pennsylvania. Jameson picture. How'd you get into wrestling? Um, did you have a joint? My older brother's wrestling. Okay, I got you. They inspired you? Yeah. Yep. Well, you're a great student. We're thrilled with your accomplishments. Keep up the great work. Thank you. Next, we'd like to recognize super wrestler Brandon Cart. Brandon, say a few words about your accomplishments cuz they were quite impressive this year. This
011whole this entire four years. Brandon finished his senior year with a 50 and3 record and in the process became Sun Valley's winningest record in school wrestler in school history. He ends his career with an incredible 160 and 21 record. Brandy came in first place at the district tournament and first place at the Southeast Regional Championship. His finish at regionals qualified him for states. He went into the state tournament ranked number three overall. Knocked out the number two seed. Very happy with that. Four to one to earn a spot in state finals, becoming only the second Sun Valley wrestler to make it a state final. Brandon finished the tournament with a silver medal at states and will continuing his wrestling career at the division one highly ranked Franklin and Marshall College and wrestling program. Congratulations. And
012I have to editorialize for a moment. I've been doing this job for uh over 17 years and I don't think we have ever recognized a track and field athlete. But boy do we have a good one to recognize tonight. I'm very pleased to offer certificate of accommodation to Maddie Muhammad B. Mattie, come on up. Back so I get them straight from Mr. Raf. Manny tried the 16 meter hurdles for the first time this year. In his first race, he ran an 859 and qualified for states and the meet of champions. In the meet of champions, Manny won the gold medal, running a 7.98. Now, I can tell you as a former track coach, that is a division one caliber time already for a guy just in high school. In the state championship, Manny came in
013fifth with a PR of 7.88, 88, which was the 20th best time in the United States. Wow. And I remember when I was sent that text from his coach. I said, "This can't be right." But it wasn't. Manny's efforts at states qualified him for nationals. In the national meet, Manny finished 17th overall. Currently, Manny is still undecided on the school, but there are many people who would love to have him as part of their team for sure. He plans to continue his track career as well. Maddie and the record from yesterday which I wasn't aware of. Congratulations. Thank you. Could we grab just a post picture with Frankie as well? And while we're doing that, let me just finish up by saying um it's been a pleasure to recognize uh this group of athletes and
014academics tonight. Not just because of their accomplishments, but you're talking about four fantastic kids that really reflect so well in our school district and we're thrilled to have them in in Sun Valley and in Aston Elementary. Mike Okay. Thank you. Everyone's welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting if you'd like. Yeah. Congratulations. Congratulations. For [Music] sale driver. I think we just want third grade. Young shelf right in kindergarten obviously kindergarten is where it [Music] starts. Yeah. And then there was four five. All right. Uh we'll move on tonight. Uh this will have a DCIU report for us. Uh the DCIU board of directors met on March 5th and one of the items that we voted on was the budget for the upcoming year. Um for the 26th consecutive year there's going to be
015no cost increase to the districts which is a fantastic thing for us. Um and even though the operating budget for the DCIU has increased by 8.44% that's going to be paid entirely by DCIU generated revenue through programs and grants. Thank you Dr. Stan. Superintendent report. Sure. And I'll do it over by computer again if you don't mind. Well, good evening again. As I do each month, I want to point out for the public uh some of the topics that the school board addressed last week. School board does its heavy lifting, the study, the work really the week ahead of the school board meeting. Last week we had a considerable discussion on the second reading of the board policy around the use of generative artificial intelligence in education. Uh we received an update on the very
016successful upgrade to the Sun Valley High School Planetarium. We're really excited. Uh we have staff that are getting training on that. Uh we are still looking at an opportunity a night uh for the public to come out and to see these upgrades. Um our teacher uh Mr. Brley's fantastic. has even said, "Hey, how about having a schoolboard meeting at Pentelo so that maybe you can come into my planetarium and I can show off all the projects that we put together." And I said, "Absolutely. We'll talk about that." He he was thrilled uh to be in a position. So, we've gotten so far really good positive feedback on this upgrade. Um we talked about our outreach efforts to get students to return to Pendelo Cyber Academy from the u very expensive external profit cyers that are
017out there. and we reviewed all agenda items in advance of tonight's voting meeting. So, a few items. So, we uh we'll be putting out communication survey on April 1 to all users in the district uh parents, residents, employees. We want to hear from everybody. We haven't we haven't done a communication survey in quite some time. We want to better understand how the community feels about our communication efforts. We have a lot of them. Um but we want to know how do you feel about it? How can it improve? What types of information do people find most useful? What is their preferred ways to receive updates? Is it from the teacher? Is it from the principal? Is it from the district? Um, so we'll have about a 10 question survey. Will not take long uh to
018complete, but we're going to push that out to everybody and we will encourage folks to participate in that survey during the month of April. And Delta will be represented at the upcoming Delta Career Fair uh April 8th at the DCIU. Um really we'll push this for anybody in the county who wants to come in and work in the field of education possible power educators, office workers, special education teachers, bus drivers, custodial staff, you name it. Uh we will be there represented and we're looking forward to uh seeing some of our prospects and possible future employees of Pendulko. Kindergarten registration remains open. uh we put out uh some additional signage on some of the main roads to remind parents now is the time to let us know uh our our uh enrollment is still a little
019lower than we expected at this time. U so that's kind of consistent with trends of lower enrollment in recent years. Um the demographics are tight. Uh there were less live births in the county 5 years ago than there were 10 years ago and we're starting to see that in all of the schools throughout the county. All students attending Pendela schools of course must reside in the Pendelo school district. It's touching to hear from people who see our signs and say, "Can I send my child to your district?" Um, but we are registering only students for kindergarten who actually reside in our district. Want to point out Mr. Colleen Bray, fantastic fourth grade teacher at Panel, uh, was honored as the prestigious Citadel Heart of Learning award. they came in and surprised her on March 14th
020in front of her colleagues and even her family were able there uh to be there. Always wonderful when a regional group recognizes one of our teachers and this is one of our best. She's been a panel and was at Northley prior to that. So, congratulations to her. As the student reps mentioned, uh we just finished up with our annual school musical. Uh so impressive. As you know, the group we had last year uh received an award for best musical in South Eastern PA. They had a lot of talent that graduated, but boy, you wouldn't know that seeing the next generation of superstars take the stage. Fantastic work. And really, every year that I've gone to these shows since we've done the upgrade, the lighting and the sound has really been spectacular. So, super job for
021Spongebob Musical. Our staff brought the younger kids back to them, too. And that was wonderful to see our own teachers coming back to the shows. Congratulations to Sun Valley High School unified boxing team that won the gold medal and they are heading to states tomorrow up in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Really excited about this group. They were thrilled. I love the fact that they beat Havford. So, I could tell Mr. Dunigy, "Ha, we got you in the finals." Uh but really excited for this group and we're pulling for them and hoping that they do a wonderful job. We continue to do the kids heart challenge at the elementary level. $48,000 was raised in Pendelo from the American Heart Association. Next month I'll I'll bring back the full total, but I believe we are now over $1 million
022uh in funds raised for the American Heart Association over the course of the years that we have done this heart challenge. You know, it's not about raising the funds too. It's really about teaching kids healthy practices and letting them have fun. I mean, they're in school. They're loving this day. They're loving the event. Our PE teachers do a wonderful job with it. We're really pleased uh to participate in the uh Entra X lab competition, which is a competition that is part of the dual enrollment program that we have with the University of Delaware business class. I want to thank Mr. Manelli, who was one of our volunteers. Um it was a Shark Tank style competition. If you're in that college entrepreneur experience class, you had to present your your ventures, your marketing plan, uh all
023the finances, and we were just just blown away by not just the creativity um but also the sensibility and the financial awareness of some of the programs that they put forward. We saw uh apps on their phones to help with mental health. Uh we saw versions of Uber. We saw uh someone even came up with an opportunity to improve the bike guard that people need to use in lacrosse. So it was very impressive and uh we had a winning group that we're really thrilled with. So this program continues to grow along with our dual enrollment program and right one of our classes that we offer right in Sun Valley with a Sun Valley teacher. Also had Read Across America Week. want to thank a lot of the special guests that came in and uh read
024to some of our uh some of our rising stars at the elementary level. I think Dr. Priscola up there in the center of the screen there. Hope it went well. But we always enjoy having that. We want to thank the guests who come in and make that such a special day, special week. DCIU STEM competition. So, fourth and fifth fifth grade STEM club students from Coburn and Panel uh really put their skills to the test at the DCIU STEM contest. Want to thank Miss Cameron who always does a really phenomenal job with this group. Um special congratulations as well uh to the panel team that won best design in the competition for the disaster cleaner. So again, excellence in academics whenever we can get it. Sun Valley High School hosted their annual science night for
025members of the community. You know, a couple board members are there as well and really appreciate the National Honor Society students sponsoring that, running that science national honor society rather hands-on demos, opportunities to see the new planetarium. A lot of different student projects become quite a nice event. And then just last week, districtwide, we celebrated the Rock Your Socks event, which happens on March 29th, where we come together to recognize the diversity of individuals with Down syndrome. Um, a couple of our teachers, this is very near and dear to the heart, and they provide great leadership with this program. I think it's why it's so successful in Pandela. Last night, um, I was able to, uh, host a webinar with our three special education administrators. Um we had a number of attendees. Uh that was
026our third session of the Pendelco Cares webinar series and we offered a session on special education. Um what to expect from identification to exit. Um we have put a copy of that up on the on the Pendela special education web page. Now for any parents who are wondering about the evaluation process, what their role is, what to expect, that information will be available to them. Tomorrow night, uh, I'll be, uh, welcoming, uh, many, many guests. Uh, our elementary course teachers, uh, we we'll be sponsoring the PMEA District 12 course fest. Um, so I want to thank them for stepping up and saying, you know, let's be a host district. We've done this before for secondary, we've done it before for instrumental, and we're now doing it for district 12 elementary course fest. Going to be
027large number of students. very excited to once again show some leadership in this area and welcome people to Sun Valley to recognize the wonderful singers that they have. Meer spring break's coming up. As a result of that, our study session will be moved up to April 9th, not that Wednesday, and we will be meeting at Northley Middle School where Mr. Bterball will provide the board with an overview of all the great things that are happening at Northley Middle School. That concludes my presentation for tonight. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Style. Any comments by members of the board? I just say thank you, Dr. Style, for for bringing up the uh planetarium. Looking forward to getting over there, checking it out. I know Mr. Mansinelli and have been had a quick peek at it, but um
028I don't ever text Dr. Simon. I'm glad that she said they learned it. It was really cool and everyone that were that came sat in those chairs had an experience. Uh it was pretty cool. Uh announcements for the public tonight executive session to discuss personnel and litigation. Any comments by members of the [Music] public? None. Why? Uh we'll start on page two with items from board action. Carries through page three four and ends midway through page 5. References of pendulco budget 2024 through 2025. Act 93 plans PDA agreement to PESPA agreement. PE SSPA agreement for PA school code section 11108B. Is administrative recommendation to approve all personnel items as presented. Do I have this motion? So questions or comments? All those in favor? I opposed. Motion passes the bill consent agenda for 10.03 through 10.14.
029Does anyone wish to have anything for to vote individually? All right. With that, I need a motion to approve 10.03 03 through 10.14. Please note, all bids are subject to submission review. Questions or comments? All those in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Any comments by members of the public? Any comments by members of the board? There's a also Representative Aston. I just want to say thank you for accepting the donation as sheds and thank you to school district for continuing to work with our our program and our league. Uh it's a big you know goes a long way in the supporting of youth sport. So thank you Dr. Style. I also want to uh thank Principal Burbal and the all the other teachers administrators for the fifth grade information night the other night. It was actually
030really informative. a large turnout and uh a lot of the feedback after the meeting was the parents were really impressed with the presentation and excited to send their fifth graders to Northland next year. So just wanted to thank him for that. I will pass that along. Thank you. Just to clarify the scheduling clarification. So study session is it at work? Yes. at least correction on the back. I I will be able to make that traffic that day before. You got [Music] it. Don't ask to see the planetary. All right. Uh so our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 9th over at uh Northland Middle School um for our study session and then back here on April 23rd for the business meeting at 7:30. All right. Motion for German. Thank you everyone.