001Thanks. Thank you. There's something [Music] Right. [Music] I'm getting What did that mean? It's my next That was awesome. There we are. That was nice. [Laughter] That's not happening either. Let me go. Yeah. Awesome. Okay. very next to Which one are you? You know what I mean? I knew it. >> Kill me up. I have left. I don't know. Stop touching it. Where is this? >> Hi Oh, okay. >> Nice to meet you. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Well, welcome. >> Excited. >> That's great. July 14th. When you say kind of transitioning back to building No, >> no. So, it's um it's going to be a little different, but I am going to try and um be in every building for at least one to two weeks. Okay. >> And develop during that time. Um, and
002I'm in the process of dropping a new handle and I send it to the dashboard. >> Okay. like to call us making an order. Can we have roll call, please? >> Director Cooper >> here. >> Director Colliver, >> here ma'am. Director Hzowski >> here. >> Director Hunter >> here. >> Director Myers >> here. >> Director Roberts >> here. >> Director Spriggs. Six members present. >> Thank you, ma'am. Can everyone please rise for 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. >> Everyone, please remain standing for a moment of silence. >> Thank you. Good evening everyone. Thank you all for coming to tonight's combined review and regular legislative voting
003agenda voting meeting agenda. Um before we begin, I want to um formally announce and welcome our new superintendent, uh Mrs. Sonia Cruz Coleman. >> Thank you. You want me to say a few words? I I'll try to keep it under a minute or two. I just want to say, and I know you guys may hear this, and they've heard this before, like someone saying they're excited, but for me, it's very different. I can see the excitement and the hope of everyone that I've met so far, and I'm so pleased and honored to be a part of our way forward. And I'm just gonna going to leave it at that. >> Straight to the point. That's what I'm talking about. Any public comment for the agenda items? None heard. Where we going it for information? Financial.
004Welcome. Mrs. Sandy. >> Thank you. >> Lor say I'm really excited the business office business office here um in house. Um, I think it's great that we'll have people invested and committed to the district managing and overseeing our finances. So, I'm really excited to to be a part of it. >> Welcome. >> So, um, Michael Lamb, who is our consultant from PD, >> just just don't let go. Let go. There you go. >> U, who is our consultant from PD, couldn't be here tonight, so um, we had a conversation yesterday. Um, and he passed off the business office report to me. Um, if you have any questions, I've only been training with JMA for about a week and a half now. So, if you have any questions on anything that we talk about, let me
005know and Michael or I will definitely get back to you u as soon as we do a little more digging on that. Um, but just kind of a bird's eye view of the financial report as of today. Um, so the bills to be paid listings, if there's a particular check or vendor that you have questions about, please let us know. You should have that list. Um the balance sheet report uh typically the focus is on the general fund um and it still reflects a positive balance and the general cash fund is sufficient for the short-term needs of the district as it stands right now. Um the June bank balance uh as of this report we hadn't received the reports from the Pennsylvania school district liquid asset fund uh for June. So those are not included.
006And then the revenue account summary report. Uh Michael does have a little um box here that shows the 2425 versus the June 2324. So this hasn't been audited yet. So it probably will change. Um but this is where it stands as of June. Uh the good news is with local res revenue we have our local taxes are higher than we had budgeted. So, um, that stands to show that maybe there's growth in the neighborhood and in the area, um, where that's going up. So, um, it's higher than it has been realized in prior years. So, that's that's good news as far as the local tax goes. Um, as far as the state revenue, we should know more about that once the state passes the 2425 budget. And the federal revenue, the decrease is consistent with
007the expectations as far as the um, ESSER funding being concluded. Um the next is the expense account report. Um so there will be a change in this as well. So we are over but the increased revenue from the local taxes um should balance us out as far as that goes. Um and we do expect changes to this number as far as summer and charter school expenses come in. Um, and then Michael just had a few notes about Martha and I, you know, working and training with JMA as we do this transition back into the business office being here at the district. Um, and Michael is also working on a financial dashboard. Um, that's going to really lay everything out in a summary type report. um that'll make everything um breaking down the financial report um
008into an easily understandable and not so many pages to go through at every board meeting. So, like I said, there's a there's a stack of uh balance sheets here. If you want to look through them and get back to me or Michael, we'll be happy to answer any questions that you have as far as that goes. >> Thank you very much. Appreciate that. >> You're welcome. >> That wasn't too bad, right? >> Yeah. All right. >> Up next, we'll go into a portion of presentations. Um, up first we're going to ask one of our principles, uh, Miss Lisa Mau, Dr. Lisa Muel to come on up, please, with WQED for a primary elementary school donation. >> Hi everyone. Good evening. I want to take a minute to welcome Abba, the education director. Right. No, that
009>> learning. >> Oh, a learning manager from WQED. You may remember her and her team. They were paramount in our be my neighbor day in March. That was such a success down at 4. So, um I really appreciate their partnership. We've been in communication since March and um they provide a lot of resources on the WQED website for all kids, social emotional learning, academics, opportunities for kids to kind of get connected. So, we were able to brainstorm as part of our transformation at the SRPC, teaching our students more about disregulation and regulation, really trying to set that tone for our students. So, we had an anonymous donor. We feel so completely amazed that gave us $2500 to create calming kits, reset bags for all classrooms. So, this is a sample of our bags and we
010have a myriad of lessons and resources within the binders that are going to work well into our morning meeting. All students at the SRPC are going to be having morning meetings with the daily five. We're going to be able to reset and pause things happen in the community on the bus within our families so we can be very intentional how we're going to move forward. Creating academic goals, building better relationships, decreasing any type of peer aggression andor non-compliance based off of other things going on. We're giving kids opportun, excuse me, opportunities to learn those skills. So, I really wanted to just give a shout out to WQED, their creativity, their investment once again in the SRPC. I'd like to go a step further that her colleague Rachel has been working with me for the last
011three weeks. We're turning the SRPC conference room into a calming space for students. So, the calming space is going to consist of calming chairs, bean bags, a noise machine, lava lamp, um sensory boards and beads, special lighting. So, when students are disregulated, it's not going to be the dysregulation that would have any type of aggressive action. They might not feel a connection. They may be going through something. They're going to be able to go to this space with a trusted adult, get the things that they need, the supports that they need, and then we're going to be able to re-emphasize that entry back in this class. So, we're very, very excited. They're giving us $500 toward that space. Um, we're working on some other donations within that space just to make it really inclusive for
012all of our students. So, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of our heart for bringing these opportunities and experiences to our kids. It's going to be amazing and we're so excited our staff are on board. Um, we couldn't do this work without our teachers and without partners like the WQED. So, thank you very much. >> I just I just want to mention that WQED works with community. So the donor, the anonymous donor, she's from Stoox and uh she has always worked with Stoox community. So um I was really happy that I was able to find a funer in Stoox. So uh Lisa actually you have a good leader who is you know advocating for her uh children. So thank you for asking us because of that one action it led to us
013reaching out finding donations. So, uh, thank you for, you know, I'm a former teacher, so this matters to me, too. Um, so thank you for recognizing WQED. And again, this didn't come from, um, me, so I'm just here on behalf of WQD. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you everyone. >> Once we have the room done and supplies, we're going to make a quick video so we can share with our superintendent and our board. We're really excited to showcase all the great things that'll be happening. >> Thank you. >> Up next, we're going to have do we have uh Miss Carrie Potter Murray from Holy Family Institute program update. She online by chance hearing none. Up next, we're going to have our chief recovery officer, Dr. Rabel, for financial recovery status updates. Thank you,
014Mr. Colliver. So, just let me share a private moment. He and I just exchanged as I was coming in and he was coming to get me and and the solicitor, he was smiling and I said, I'm smiling, too. I get it. It's a really good day at Stow Rocks. I have to tell you, the people behind me, they've heard me say this. You all are building the dream team. And I mean that sincerely. I am seeing movement and it is so absolutely exciting. You have people who are highly intelligent and people who are highly ethical. I believe that's a recipe for success and I think you're well on your way. So, let me just give you an official update. So, Martha has a PowerPoint there that I put together. So, some of the board members
015were not here at the time financial recovery was assigned. You may not be as familiar. So, I'm just going to go back in time just a little bit. I don't want to bel labor anything negative, but let's just talk about real quickly how all this turned out. So, in 2012, um I'm sorry, let me go back. Moderate financial recovery was assigned July 12th, 2021. And in the letter that was sent to the district by the former Secretary of Education, Nori Ortega, he listed these criteria as the reason why the district was put into financial recovery. Now, initially there's a warning um assigned and then even in my case as a former superintendent in a recovery district that was really quick and I was mad because I thought you didn't give me time to do anything.
016Here we are in recovery. Sounds like something similar happened here. But there's positive and negative with that. Certainly it feels negative. Nobody wants a label, but there's positive as well because now you get extra support that you need and hopefully that propel propels the district forward. So in accordance with 2012, you got the label. Now what happens? The position of chief recovery officer is assigned to the district and that position has to be filled. There's also a recovery advisory committee that is established to support the recovery officer and there's actual appointees to that. It's just not a volunteer assignment. There are specific p positions based on their titles of what they do um in the job. A financial recovery plan was developed and approved at both the state level and the local level. The date
017on that plan is March 11th and specifically and you see it referenced in bold three areas of focus academic, financial and operational. So areas in need of improvement and then additional um support from the department of education was extended. So, if we go back and look at the second bulleted item more closely, who currently is on that financial recovery advisory committee? As I said, they are appointees. Of course, the superintendent now, Mrs. Coleman will be on there. Two board members, there's two seats for board members, and you see who is listed there from your group. A district principal, a business office, Alagany Intermediate Unit reps, and you see two listed. There has to be a charter school rep. That kind of rubbed me the wrong way when I was a super. Like, why do I
018want the enemy? Is how I felt. They're taking our dollars and our kids. But truly, if we're going to grow, we have to see all perspectives, including theirs. Why are they more appealing in some cases to families? And that representative, there's a typo there, I apologize, can give that insight to us. a special education advocate, an additional superintendent, so somebody else in another district, two residents, we have one and we had another um but his commitments have extended beyond what they did initially. So he has dropped out and now the IU which is their role as per act 141 to assign a replacement. There's currently an advertisement on the website and anybody who is interested responds directly to the IU. They vet the candidates and then they will recommend to the committee who should take
019that extra seat. And then also our district teacher behind me uh Miss Kotek uh joins that group as well. Act 141 prescribes monthly meetings and they are open to the public. We have to follow sunshine and for the district um traditionally the district had used the last Wednesday of each month at 4 p.m. I just picked that up when I came in and continue with that. There's an option to participate virtually or we have been using the superintendent's office. We keep the doors open if there's anybody from the community who wants to come in and sit and listen to what's going on. As I said, we have to follow sunshine, which means the agenda has to be posted in advance and in accordance with the sunshine law. Also, another requirement, I didn't put it in
020the PowerPoint, is I have to um share with the department of education a monthly report and there are specific reporting categories. for example, enrollment, um, charter school enrollment, open positions, and so they're trying to look at that to gauge the stability of the DI district. Obviously, if a certain position is listed three months in a row, that's hard to fill. And then the consideration would be, okay, how is that affecting district operations? Perhaps PTE would intervene and say, hey, we can give you some more temporary support until you fill it. So that is also those monthly reports are posted on the website. So, the recovery plan originally 2022 um I just wanted to give you some sample language and and this is pretty custom um I shouldn't say pretty standard for recovery plans. You see
021that if there's surplus money because there's been a history of maybe not having extra money if something goes wrong, something unanticipated, having a rainy day fund as some would say, the plan prescribes for the district how that extra money should be spent. And if you go through and you see that the last one I kind of put an extra um remark in there because raising taxes that is prescribed in the recovery plan and when I addressed you all I don't I can't remember when Mr. caller asked me to come forward, but it was maybe December or January. For me, that that's a really really hard one. A lot of the districts in recovery, they are parts of communities that have a high povert poverty rate. And so now the district has to keep taxing them.
022That is really, really difficult, but it's something that is necessary unless we can all agree. It's my decision ultimately, but we I would want consensus agreement. We have to do it this year. I remember coming up and and talking and saying, "I just not sure where the budget is, what things look like, how much we have, we don't have. I I think we should just go to the index as the plan prescribes." Not trying to be a hero at all. But now, when we look at the title funds being frozen, it's probably good that we did we do that. But I do know that the former the most recent recovery officer was one point, he said, you know, we're not going up to the index. I think we're okay this year. and that is perfectly
023fine for that to happen. Okay, some of the extended support, just want to give you a sampling of that. As I said, the position has to be filled for the recovery officer. Um, and I'm the third one in that position. It is not supposed to go vacant. There was a guaranteed loan and for that it's called the intercept program. So the Department of Education will work with the lender and intercept the payments that the district would otherwise pay back on the loan. So the the the lender is protected. It's not going to be while the check is in the mail. They automatically get it from the funds that would otherwise go to the district first. They're going straight to the bank. And a lot of times that's an enticement for the lender to loan the
024funds. So you can see that that that was um something that the district was able to take advantage of. annual empowerment grants in the amount of $2 $2 million each. And you look those actually started when the district was put in warning and they they do accumulate as you can see I have marked in yellow this particular year because the board will probably remember in February we assigned an amount of 200 u two million I'm sorry we restricted those funds and we put them into what we call fund 33. They're in capital reserve. Nobody can touch them without board action. So they're designated. They're pulled apart. They're not actually the empowerment grant, but they're equal, too. There was a reason to do that. We are able to say, look, this particular year, we were able
025to meet our operating costs and we didn't have to use the empowerment money to do that. That's really, really important as we start looking towards exit. There's also a transitional loan that the district received in November of 2022. and that particular loan was the amount of $1 million. We know that there was an issue. Um the district did not return the quarterly interest payments that we received on that money until it was spent down. And we have representatives from the Department of Ed coming next week to visit to see the new administrative team. And we're going to give them a check in hand um so that we can resolve that and we can close that out. That is a no interest loan, but we have to pay on that $100,000 per year for 10 years.
026And this is the first year where that starts. And then there's other technical support at no cost to the district. And you can see some of those listed there. This is really, really a benefit to the district. You know, as I said, there's smart people here, highly ethical, but there are not people sitting around doing nothing. And so for them to go through, crunch numbers and pull up things, project out into the future, I don't know how you would realistically practically get practically get those things done. It is great to have a quality team outside of the district. We feed them the data, they can crunch the numbers, and they can give us um updates on whatever it is we're pursuing. So I'm starting to think about exit. I hope you are, too. So let's
027look at the criteria. and they are um these criteria are listed on pages 13 and 14 of the original plan again dated 2022. I have this in red, this first one, because this is one we're watching. The big piece there that I underlined is successive years and in my notes I have $1 listed. So I am hopeful as we move forward every year we'll have at least $1 extra. If we do, guess what? We've met that criteria and that's a good thing. th those things listed in black, I'm not concerned about those. I feel we've mastered those and we're good to go on them. The list continues. The two there at the bottom also listed in red, the projections, those are the ones that are killing us. So when you you look at anticipated rising
028costs for health care for salaries and you project out if you look at the trend uh in terms of declining enrollment if you look at charter school tuition what it costs and you add inflation to that that's where we are struggling. We have got to be able to project forward for five years past when we would anticipate to exit and it's the secretary of ed who will consider my recommendation when I asked for that um we have to be able to show in the numbers that in five years we would still be able to meet our annual operating costs without borrowing money getting advances on our subsidies um and doing what we need to do as a district. And then the other one there listed the substantial progress and that's one of the other areas
029of focus the academic including the graduation rate and attendance goals. We're we're struggling there a little bit. All right. So the next slide talks more specifically about current status as I just suggested the academic growth. There's limited evidence of that. There's no way that I could ever put anything together at this point in time and say to the secretary of ed please consider STO rocks for exit. We're just not there yet. We're growing. The future looks really bright. We're just not there yet. Financial projections, as I've already mentioned, and those are tied directly into the variables I just referenced, the enrollment, the charters, and then um outstanding capital repairs. You know, when you think about money struggles, I don't care if you're talking about an organization or a family, an individual, you cut back when
030you don't have money. If it's not broke, you don't fix it. and and districts do that as well. And so that is catching up with us right now, buildings aging and so forth. So we're gonna have to problem solve and figure out a way to to handle that. Um, with that, I have the reference to the A SASI supporting America's school infrastructure grant program. Mrs. Coleman and I were so excited a couple weeks ago. I've been badgering them literally. When are you coming out? When are you coming out? Finally, they said, "Oh, we think we'll come out the last week of July or the first week in August." She jumped on it. She said, "Okay, we'll take you in July." They said, "Wait, wait, wait, wait. Let's do August." But we also know it's tied
031to the Harrisburg budget. And I suspect we haven't heard any updates because that budget has not yet been adopted at the state level. I'm hoping because that would be really, really helpful. Remember, we've talked about it before. It's not actually them coming in and doing work, but coming in and looking at the space, helping to problem solve. Hey, you could do this, you could do that, what about that? And giving us that more engineering, architectural perspective. So, we're anxious for that. And number three, this is amazing. This is why I'm smiling. Um, operational efficiencies and effectiveness, it is improving. And I mean that every day there are now checks and balances in in place. And I I have to tell you this, I hope Sandy and Martha aren't offended. But, you know, sharing workspace with
032them and hearing them in their trainings and hearing the questions that they are asking, you know, they're hungry to learn, but they're also critically thinking, well, wait a minute, that's not logical. Why do you do that? Why don't we do this? Why do we have to manually and that's what we need to grow. Um and and that's really important and certainly that's tied to critical review. Just real quickly, the next slides, I'm not going to go over them a whole lot. Just the the academic piece that I referenced saying that we'd struggle right now to show any evidence of sustained academic growth. We can do it. We're going to do it. Having a new director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment is definitely going to help. There's also the list of the financials. Most of them
033in that list those are audited. So we've had the neutral third party the independent auditor Mark Turnley in most cases came in looked at the books and when you see negative obviously didn't have enough money to cover expenses that year and then there's a cumulative effect. It just keeps building and building. We can see in 22 23 23 24 the benefit of the ESRES money. All districts benefited from that. Now, if we just look at this past year, uh Mrs. Coleman and I were on a on a call, JMA representatives were there and and we had been asking, can you just give us a a look? We not going to hold you to it, but give us an idea. Where do you think we're going to finish out for the most recent year? They went
034on record and said 1.5 million surplus estimated as of June 30, 2025. So, that's for that year that would be added onto that cumulative positive fund balance in bold there. Just a reminder when you look at the extra money that came in 14.1 mil million in ESSER or COVID money and then the empowerment the 2 million a year and if you put those two together it's about 24 million. So the district needed those extra supports to stay afloat. We want to wean off those and we want to show that we can do it in the absence of those things. Charter school tuition costs. Again that's just something for you to look at the a trend. Um, let me just add a couple notes there. June 2025, as part of my report to the Department of
035Ed, Sandy gives me numbers for charters. Um, at that point, she gave me 604 and that's what I reported to the Department of Ed. So, that looks like it's down. However, you have to think about the per pupil tuition cost at the time. And also whether the student, the charter student is a regular ed student or a special education student because the tuition cost is different. So, the district fills out a form. It's called PTE 363 and it looks back at budgeted numbers from the year before and just how those affect this year 2425 the most recent year regular ed tuition. So, student didn't have any special needs goes to a charter school. It could be a cyber charter. $11,61243. If the student has an IEP or sometimes what happens, they leave regular ed and
036shortly thereafter now they have an IEP. They maybe need speech services. Sometimes districts question that and look at that a little bit more closely. Nonetheless, a special education student in this past school year, brick andmortar, so not a cyber, $33,61.95. If that special education student was a virtual student, a cyber only, going to a charter school, each student cost the district $26,188.81. So although maybe 660 604 enrolled in charter schools as of June, you have to look at the breakdown and there may not really be a savings in the end. The next slide just very quickly the capital improvement plan our analyst researchers from PFM have helped and this is updated. So a lot of work has been done at the elementaryaries but this is what we're looking at. So if we have 2 million
037in this fund 33 capital reserve and we add another to be determined maybe six million that's a good thing because we would have that in the event we had to do immediate repairs that would exhaust though our reserve. So just something to um be mindful of. Okay, next one. again looking just at the enrollment population trends and so forth and I will tell you most districts in Alageney County are seeing declining enrollment even ones that don't have as much charter school competition birth rates are lower there people are having fewer babies I mean that's just a fact and then the next slide what I referenced earlier the title funds that are now frozen so if this board remembers when we were looking at a proposed final budget and then a a final eneral budget for
038this upcoming year. We asked about the surplus and we were told that maybe around 16,000 17,000 would be left over. Great, because consolidating the district offices is going to cost about that much. So, we're all thinking, okay, that feels pretty good. And then federal government makes some big changes, withholds money, and now about 850,000 was ripped out of the budget. So, your superintendent on it telling the managers, the directors, you know, you got to make sure you're spending. You absolutely need it. We have got to really bite the bullet this year. I'm hoping these dollars will be released. We don't know that. I'm not saying gloom and doom. I think we can do it, but that may be the reason why in some cases purchases that aren't viewed as necessary, essential will not get approved
039in this year. Okay, last two slides. So the option to amend that statement in bold comes verbatim and I'm telling you I think it's a good idea. The benefit we want a more prescriptive and more more closely aligned plan that represents current needs and thinking. Let me just give you a real uh quick example. One of the documents I inherited said the district didn't want to have a prek program on site. You know, I'm not here to vilify anybody, but when you think about the um declining enrollment, the de the enrollment is declining most rapidly at the primary center. So, why would you not want to try to curve that and get the families in there? Regardless, that was something that that was a I guess a thought at that time. U the the foster
040building, there were in the notes that I inherited district not interested in selling that building. It's an aging building. you're not actively using it. Yes, you are leasing it. Aging building, there's stuff that's going to go wrong, is going wrong, and the district has to pay for that. So, just even insurance costs, think about that. So, we we want to purge that. We want to think present day, what are the needs? Contracted services. I think of the board president saying, you know, we were told it's a good idea. It is a good idea in some cases. Sometimes there's a tradeoff. If you have people in your buildings who don't work for you, it's really hard to give them direct feedback or even to discipline them and evaluate them if they are not meeting your expectations.
041They report to somebody else. And also in terms of local growth and building capacity, if somebody else is always doing it, the core people in the district never learn how to do it and you're relying on them to do it. So, it's a little concerning at a time. And I do know that the board is is very clear that you're thinking about a grade level restructure and so we have to kind of tie that in. How how would we do that? What would the process look like? Um the expectations, we want them more clearly defined. There's actually an accompanying document that goes with this and talks about frequency. Very few things are one and done. However, sometimes people perceive the expectation as one and done. I did that and you don't ever do it again.
042If we really build it into the system, there are some practices that should be embedded daily. Other things maybe twice a year, maybe at the end of the semester. We want to be really, really clear because the goal is you take that document, I take that document and say, "Yep, yep, yep, you're doing it." And the evidence is very, very clear. Uh to the point of the third uh bullet, opportunity to demonstrate the ability to sustain and to operate independently in the absence of extended support. February, we put two million equal to what the state gave us this year. We put it aside. We did not use it. That's a good thing. That's evidence. And we also want to embed a mechanism to track the progress and to gather evidence that supports future consideration of
043exit. Um, we know that my bosses, to be honest with you, are coming here next week and they're going to visit. As I said, they want to meet the the members of the administrative team. Um, and I'm really hyping Stow rocks out. My boss said to me the other day, when Stow rocks qualifies for exit, she's never said that. So, I am like I am pumped. I think it's going to happen. And just just to show you the outline of what we expect and the dates that go with that. So, there's ongoing review. Um PFM, as I said, is supporting the revisions to the plan. The themes were shared in financial recovery advisory committee. The board um last month got a copy of those themes. Friday, August 1st. It is um a deadline for me
044and for the analysts from PFM to put together. Here it is. Here's what our best edited version is and then it goes on to PTE legal team and they'll go through once they release it. We'll do a public um review for 30 days and then at the next um board meeting after the 30 days, I'll ask you all to adopt it and hopefully we're on track and we move forward. You all get your independence back. You have a monitor for five years and then you're good. I know that was long. I apologize, but I thought it was important information. Anybody any questions? You all should be feeling really, really good. >> Thank you for the information. This is good information. >> Okay. Thank you. All >> right. Now, we'll move on to our non non-conent
045agenda. Before we do, I want to give everybody a heads up that we did meet before this meeting in executive session to go over personnel issues. Board meeting minutes. Any questions to wave to improve the reading of the June 26, 2025 minutes of the Straw School District Board of Directors? Any questions? Unheard B. Financial management. >> Pass it over to you again, ma'am. >> Yes. >> Uh B yours. >> I don't know. >> I'm sorry. >> Do we have the um is this for the >> list of bill? Yeah. Do we have any >> comments? Do you have any comments? We also already have any comments. Anything for us? You know comments on this? Thank you. They're all general fund. >> Thank you. Next, we're going to approve Mrs. Sonia Kleman as an authorized signer
046on Stat School District's bank account with First National Bank. Any questions? Approve Martha Hoover and Sandre Lier as authorized users on Stat School District's bank accounts for First National Bank. Any questions, comments? Approve Sonia Coleman is authorized signers on the straw school district's bank account with Cambridge Cambridge Bank. Approve Sonia Kman's authorized signers on the straw school district's bank account with First Summit Bank. Six at the recommendation of superintendent and chief recovery officer approve the transfer from general fund the remaining balance of donation of 28.99.00 00 that remain unspent from 2425 school year of Viking productivities at the junior senior high school to student activities account. Sorry. Approved the engagement letter from Turnerly Robinson Associates LLC for the fiscal year 202425 audit. Any questions? Next, we go to operations. Any questions to approve the following
047ABC employees for next school year? Questions, comments, concerns? Next. Accept a donation of $2,159 from the consortium for public education for the purchase of house swag and t-shirts for upper elementary. Mrs. Johnson, you online, ma'am? >> Okay. Yes, ma'am. Any question? >> I am online. >> Yes, ma'am. All right. about to say >> um sorry I couldn't be there tonight. There was a little emergency. Um but we got a donation last year after participating in the Ron Clark Academy. We were part of the public consortium for the year where we were able to network um and get resources to implement the house system for this coming year. So, one of the things um that we got was the grant to purchase t-shirts for all students and staff in the building. Thank you. Appreciate that. Sound
048amazing. Next, we go to accept the donation of 30 caling bags for each classroom worth $2,500 and a donation of items to enhance the calming sensory spaces at the primary center worth $500. Dr. Mimo, and I think we discussed that a minute ago. Thank you again very much. accept the anonymous donation of $40 for steroids work truck tire repair retroactively retroactively approve theou with the infinite lifestyle solutions to provide yoga during ESY from July 825 to July 2425 any questions comments concerns for that >> approved disposal of old curricular materials and books listed in do in document attached that we reviewed. Uh Mr. Johnston, you want to talk about this a little bit? >> Yes. These are all materials um that we used probably over 10 years ago when we moved to the upper elementary
049and have since been um phased out with our new curriculums that we were using. So we were just cleaning house and you know getting rid of old materials. >> Thank you. Next, approve the renewal of the Amguard Incorporated agreement effective July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026. Um, Mr. Mike Petri Gallalo, any questions, comments, concerns for this? None heard. Yes, sir. Copy that. Thank you. Actually, can you come forward, please? You don't mind? I'm going to put you on the spot, sir. But at the same time, I do want to just without going too much into detail, talk about this. Um, with you, you know, getting familiar last year with the district and having them here last year, you know, how do you feel moving forward, you know, with them? Honestly, you know, how do
050you feel about this? And >> Yes, sir. Honestly, >> our kids are this is important for our kids. >> Honestly, I feel very confident. Uh, we were able to maintain staffing numbers. Uh, and I personally threw some, not deliberately, but I threw some curve balls at them at the last minute when we had events come up on the calendar. We needed additional security with sometimes little to no notice, and they were always able to deliver. So, I'm I'm very confident moving forward. I'll be proud to have them on the team. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. Appreciate that. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next. accept the anonymous donation from a community organization for 330 green back to school folders at the primary elementary center. Dr. Mimoa want to talk about this? >>
051Once again, our community shows up when we need things. I was contacted by a community organization and they asked us what we need. What do we know about elementary students? They need organization. We call those those Nikki folders. One side is home, one side is school. So, we're going to have those in the next several weeks and we feel extremely blessed to be supported by our community agencies and partners. We like to partner, you know, myself, Mr. Lillo, we try to be in the community as much as we can and give to our community and, you know, they bless us in return. So, we're very thankful for that donation. >> Thank you, man. Thank you. Next, under co-cooker leadership approve Mrs. Sonia Cruz Coleman, superintendent to approve curriculum and needed resources between meetings with board
052approval being retroactive during the next school year. I think this is very important to allow her to do the job that we brought here to do for any questions, comments. >> I have >> Yes, ma'am. I have none. And I know that people are waiting for me to say yes to things, but I really think it's important that we ensure every purchase is a need and is aligned to the bigger picture and principles um and directors truly understand this. We we've got to be careful and make sure it makes sense and will truly support the growth that our students need. >> Thank you. Next under board policy approved the third reading of board policy policy 221 dressing grooming. I also want to give a shout out and thank you to all the folks out there
053who are donating, sponsoring kids, the whole nine um on getting them uniform ready to go for next school year. So thank you for that. Next, under educational leadership, approve the AIU comprehensive services agreement 2526 for schoolbased access program support services for the next school year. Any questions, comments? >> It's written in there, but it's it's written in there. I think I'm on the right one. um certain health services like what can you give an example of what type of health services in that agreement? I was just curious. >> I can talk about this one. This is the one to help with the MA billing assistance. So, um it's really the other health services is really to help to do the billing of the speech, the OT, the PT, and that kind of thing. We're um
054trying to move over from possibly leader services helping us to um do the max capture that's required to get the MA uh reimbursement back and this is moving back to the IU helping us since they've been helping us and they have a better understanding like with um the you know Lucy helping in our special ed department they have a real feel for what um our related services are and so we feel like the IU will be able to help us better with that. >> Thank you. And the other piece to that is there's money being left on the table and we need to make sure we're going after every avenue to support our students. So that's why this piece is is truly critical. >> Okay. Number two, retroactively act retroactively active approve the the addendum
055to the agreement with Wesley School for individual student enrollment in extended school year for July 7 through 31, 2025 for $3,800. Any questions, comments? Approve Holy Family Specialized Learning Agreement for Educational Services effective September 2nd, 2025 for the 2025 26 school year. I'm sorry, I saw something different for three students. Approve extended school year teacher hours to include one hour paid each day for lesson planning, data collection, and progress monitoring. Any questions, comments, concerns? approve the following sient returning employees as pay professionals for next school year. Any questions, comments for any individuals on there? None heard. Not going to go into the voting portion of this meeting. >> Yes. Do you only need the break for executive for a couple minutes to go over personnel or no? This is a it's a voting meeting. That's
056that's that's why. Excuse me. We're going to break for a quick 10-minute executive session. All right. We'll be back. Maybe not even 10 minutes long. We'll be back. We want to go back to your office if you don't mind or just outside of here for a second. She's trust me. Oh my goodness. Jeez. Thank everyone for your patience. We went to executive session to discuss personnel matters. Once again, before we go into the voting portion of this meeting, um I'm going take a quick moment to recognize a few individuals. Mrs. Coleman, pass it over to you. >> Please blame it on my head and not my heart because we have two um new administrators that came out to the board meeting tonight. So, if you guys can please come up to the podium and say
057a few things. Our new director of student services and our new director. Some of you guys have met him already. I'm talking to you, Tony Paul. An official because you were being voted for approval. Now you're official. Our director of curriculum instruction and assessment. [Applause] >> Say a few words. >> I think last time we spoke to you, you were you were on a on a call, so we didn't get chance to meet. official. You've been voted in. >> Hello. There we go. I appreciate you voting me in, hiring me, bringing me onto this team, being flexible as I was on my way to vacation um during the voting meeting. So, I really appreciate that. I have been so um enthused over these last two weeks getting started seeing all of the dedication that the
058administrators, custodians, security guards, union members, secretaries are putting into um building this community and increasing our educational product. Um as Mrs. Cruz Coleman said there there's just so so much excitement at the table right now and I think that we are going to be moving in a really strong direction and I'm really excited to grow our special education department compliance um working on bringing some of our out of district kids back into our home buildings and bringing that community together um and just being here to support in any way that I can. So thank you for bringing me on. >> Thank yes I will echo those same sentiments. Thank you for your approval and and your confidence in me and the rest of the administrative team. And uh just the level of excitement is in
059my opinion off the charts as well. And uh I just just would add that every single person I've met and every single situation that I've been in so far, everybody's been impressive. just just super super easy to talk to, super uh informed and uh you know, intelligent conversations moving things forward for the better uh of our district and for the betterment of our of our students. And that's what it's all about. And uh Dr. Coleman mentioned uh somewhere in a conversation within the last couple days that when you first start somewhere, it's like a fire hose and everything's just blasting at you. and we we're finally getting to that point where it's it's, you know, we're starting to get control of that and and really start to be able to, you know, make some important
060decisions, you know, get the get the lay of the land and then, you know, take it from there. I think that's that's where we're getting to. So, thank you for this opportunity. >> Thank you. And I'd be remissed if I didn't have Lydia come up also. She's taking over for Dan as our new communications specialist um from the AIU. Hello everyone. I'm Lydia Richardson. I'm taking over for Dan Rinkis, the communication specialist. Um we're contracted with the district through the AIU, but um I've been here since July 1st. It's been a pleasure. Got to meet um with Mrs. uh Cruz Coleman so far and Mr. Colliver. And I'm just so happy to be here. I'm excited to see what we can do for Snow Rocks. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Welcome. [Applause] >> All
061right. Now, we'll go into the voting portion of this meeting. Like the items A1 through B5. Can I have a motion when ready? I have a second. Second, >> Director Cooper, >> yes. >> Director Colliver, >> yes. >> Directors, >> yes. >> Director Hunter Rue, >> yes. >> Director Meyers, >> yes. >> Director Roberts, >> yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. I like to make a motion to table item B6 which states at the recommendation of the superintendent and chief recovery officer approve the transfer of general fund and the remaining balance of donation of 2,899 that remain unspent from 2020 2425 school year by any private activities at the junior senior high school to student activities account. Make a motion to table that. Can I have a motion to table that? Have
062a second. >> Director Myers, >> yes. >> Director Roberts, >> yes. >> Director Cooper, >> yes. >> Director Culliver, >> yes. >> Director Isowski, >> yes. >> Director Hunter Rue, >> yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. And now I want to make a uh I'm sorry. Can I have a motion to table that item now? >> I have a second. >> Director Hunter Rue. >> Yes. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. >> Director Roberts. >> Yes. >> Director Cooper. >> Yes. Director Culliver, >> yes. >> Directors, >> yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Can I say items number items B7 through C6? B7 through C6. I have a motion when ready. I have a second. Second. >> Director Meyers. >> Yes. >> Director Roberts. >> Yes. >> Director Cooper. >>
063Yes. >> Director Culliver. >> Yes. >> Director Zowski. >> Yes. >> Director Hunter Rue. >> Yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you, ma'am. Take item C7 by itself. Approve the renewal of Amgard Incorporated effective July 1,25 to June 30, 2026. Have a motion. Have a second. >> Second. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. >> Director Roberts. >> Yes. >> Director Cooper. >> Yes. >> Director Culliver. >> Yes. >> Director Isowski. >> Yes. Director Hunter Rue. >> Yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Now, can I take items C8 through F5? C8 through F5. Have a motion when ready. Another second. >> Second. >> Director Cooper. >> Yes. >> Director Culliver. >> Yes. >> Director Zowski. >> Yes. >> Director Hunter. >> Yes. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. Director Roberts. >> Yes. >>
064Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. How can I impersonel item one by self? My motion. >> Motion. >> Have a second. >> Second. >> Who Who seconded that? >> Okay. >> I know that's I'm gonna have to move them because they're too close. Director Myers, >> yes. >> Director Roberts, >> yes. >> Director Cooper, >> yes. >> Director Culliver, >> yes. >> Director Zowski, >> yes. >> Director Hunter, >> yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Can we now take items 2 A 1 through 3? 2 A 1 through 3. Have a motion. I'm ready. Have a second. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. >> Director Roberts. >> Yes. >> Director Cooper. >> Yes. >> Director Culliver. >> Yes. >> Directors. >> Yes. Director Hunter. >> Yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >>
065Thank you. I like to make a motion to table item 2 A4. >> Mr. Josh Camping B sub for next school year. >> Have a second. >> Director Hunter R. >> Yes. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. >> Director Roberts. Yes. >> Director Cooper. >> Yes. >> Director Culliver. >> Yes. >> Director Isowski. >> Six yeses. Motion passes to table. >> Thank you. Now, can I make a motion for that item, please? >> Motion. >> Have a second. >> Director Hunter Real. >> Yes. >> Director Myers. >> Yes. Director Roberts, >> yes. >> Director Cooper, >> yes. >> Director Culliver, >> yes. >> Director Zowski, >> six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Now, let's see. Items 2 A5 through sorry 2 A5 through 6. Have a motion ready. What's wrong? So, I'm sorry. So, 285
066through item number six. I'm sorry. Through item number six. >> You mean D6? D6. >> No. No. Okay. One second, y'all. So, 28. So we're in two A5, >> right? >> And we're going to go to three, four, five, six. >> So six would be acknowledge of the successful completion of AIU educator industry program. I'm sorry, y'all. 285 286. Yeah. Yeah, I get you. Oh, >> it's not D. It's not D. It's not D. D is under two. And then we skip three. Like there there's no three. So it's number numbering wrong. [Laughter] >> I'll get it. >> We good to go. Oh, I'm sorry. No, no. We good to go. >> It's all love. >> 2 a 5 through 6 - 3 + 8. for the save. >> Looks like a motion ready. >>
067I have a second. >> Director Myers, >> Director Roberts, >> yes. >> Director Cooper, >> yes. >> Director Cully, >> yes. Director Zowski, yes. >> Director Hunter Rue, >> yes. >> Six yeses. Motion passes. >> Thank you. Thank you. Hey, we can have fun too up here, y'all. Now we'll pass it over to our solicitor. >> I have nothing at this time. Thank you. >> Thank you, ma'am. Any committee reports? Anything to say committee? Nothing heard. Thank you. Um public comment. Um no one signed up. I do have one final thing for public comment and I wish more people were here to hear this, but um we're very transparent and very open to the community, right? Whatever anyone needs, we're here for. Um I wish more folks would have heard the recovery officers report as
068well kind of figure out some things going on, you know, in our district and how we're trying to trying to reach, you know, to um success. That's that's end of day. That's it, right? Um, we're public officials, you know what I mean, elected officials, so we understand that, uh, a lot of access to us. But with that being said, you know, um, for us to receive hate mail, you know, it's it's not appropriate, I would say. Um, freedom of speech is out there, so by all means, use it as you see fit. However, we do encourage you, anyone, to come out to a meeting at any time. Come out to a meeting. Um, we will we will be open up to anybody at all as much as possible. You know, there nothing to hide. It's
069that simple. You know what I mean? Nothing to hack. So, um, anything that anyone's looking to learn, gain anything at all, we we are again fully transparent on what we're doing here. So, that's all I want to make that clear. You know what I mean? um as a uh as as as the president of the school board and being you know sticking up for my people and myself um I don't want to see no one you know receive hate mail right it's just not fair doesn't motivate you to come and come and do your job every single day you know what I mean or you know every every single day um so that's all I want to say again please anybody come out to a meeting figure out what's going on go on the website
070come to the school come see us come figure out what's going on so we can get the ball rolling. That's all it is, you know. Um we can't we can't help what we don't know, you know. So, close mouth, don't get fed neither, you know. So, anyone has anything at all, please please please come and see us, talk to us. Yes. Okay. Thank you. And and thank you. And one more thing, um, we know we did vote on item number six, but we do want to go ahead and acknowledge the sessible completion of AU educator induction program for the following staff. Brett Morrison, Alyssa Sakowski and Cynthia Wilson. And in year two, Magdalina Vincent. I say that right. Thank you. All right. So, um, if there's nothing else to be heard, again, thank you all
071very much. We do appreciate you all for coming tonight. Mrs. Cruz Pullman, you have any questions, comments, concerns? >> I have nothing additional. >> All right. Well, hope you enjoyed your first meeting. Have a motion to adjourn. >> Wonderful. >> Second. That's the rocks meeting. Have a >> second. Mean >> journal.