001like to call this meeting to order. Any public comment related to any FG agenda items? Can we please get her a seat so she can see? Please get her a seat so she can be in the know what's going on. And get her an agenda. It's blue. Go get her an agenda right now. Items for information. Uh financial Mr. Agnu from JMA. Thank you, Mr. Culliver. Um, financial reports that we we give you on a monthly basis are there for your information. Just a couple quick highlights. Um, our revenues currently sit at about 91%. We've received 91% of what we had budgeted. Expenditures are at 67% of what we had budgeted. Um, we're three4s of the way through the fiscal year. Uh, one quick note there. Keep in mind that our the teacher salaries actually
002those expenditures, even though they're recognized as of June 30, those include July and August salaries for the teachers because they're on a September 1 through August um salary schedule. Um, and just one other note thought I'd throw in there. Our general fund cash balance is at about uh 17 a little over $17 million there. Are there any questions regarding those reports? None heard. Thank you. Um, did you cover the uh chart school tuition review or that's all M1? You just said that, didn't you? I'm sorry. The choice school tuition review. Did you do Do you want me to comment on that? Is there is there something there? Did you have anything for that at all, my chance? Um, let me just pull that up here really quick. It was a very pretty chart. Oh, well,
003we can thank Aura for that. She's our I you know, that just kind of lays out the the the expense according to different categories of charter schools that we have. Um my my report is not loading here, but um you know it just gives us an idea of where those charter school dollars are being spent on what types of charter schools that students who live in Stocks where they're where they're attending. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. My pleasure. All right. So before we get into reporting presentations, good evening everyone. Thank you all for coming out to tonight's meeting. We definitely do appreciate it. This is um our second meeting in the community. We're trying to do um quarterly, you know, uh community meetings and everything. Make sure we're actually coming to
004meet people kind of where they're at. Um you know, it's we always ask people to come to us. Well, you we meet people people where they're at. You know, it's it's a it's a win and we get more of a more of a crowd sometimes as well and want more people to be in the know. Um, I also want to go ahead and welcome our superintendent at the moment or I'm sorry, interimm superintendent. Um, we hired him last month and he wasn't here for that. So, I want to officially welcome him to uh or or the table with the school board and his first meeting. So, welcome sir. You have any words um any any any how was your first few weeks being here? Thank you. Um, first of all, it's really an honor and
005a privilege um to be here to help the children of uh the school system and I've spent a lot of time in the buildings and they're awesome. I mean, every person I go past, I say hello, you know, good morning, have a good day, and they all say hi. They look me right in the eyes. Um, so they're great. They're very respectful, very polite. So, the highlight of my day is when I'm especially going up to the elementary school with the little ones and you know that's priceless. But everybody everybody has just been wonderful. I've been pretty busy. I wrote down some things because I anticipated that he would probably want me to share my first three weeks here. So each of the principles we did a meet and greet faculty meeting. I have done
006numerous probably two or three times a week I get into the elementary schools and each day Mr. Hower and I walk through the high school. I had my initial meeting with the uh union representation. So that went well. I went to a superintendent advisory committee the first or second or third day that I was here. And what that is is superintendent's meeting up at Parkway Votech. We had a delicious breakfast. Last week I was here for the National Honor Society and that was just that was a ball. The kids were dressed up. They had their gowns on and it was really cool and the food was great. So thanks Mr. H. That was a wonderful evening. A bunch of recovery plan meetings, kindergarten staffing meetings. Next week we're going to focus in on staffing. I
007have an AIOU Alagany Intermediate Unit uh superintendent meeting. And I think the highlight next week for me is I'm going to have I'm going to do a little different the students of the month. So, normally we cater it through food service, but I told uh Mr. H that I'll take care of this one. We're going to we're going to do something special and we're going to have a ball for lunch next week with the students of the month. So, that concludes my little report. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Welcome again. Welcome to our district. Again, one more hand applause. Round of applause for him. Thank you. All right. Up next was a happy moment. Got a little sad moment coming up, but uh like to welcome up to the microphone, uh Miss Beth Harvey. She
008will be she will be retiring after 31 years. Oh, I'll be calling up in a second. Give me one second. They're coming up. We're gonna make it happen. But after 31 years, she'll be retiring. Um, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I don't think any more words will we'll do justice, but thank you. Yeah. I want to talk about you for a second and you please speak on it. I'm a little emotional about it. These two are definitely pushing me more than anything. But I've worked with a lot of great staff, a lot of great students. Years I've watched them grow through kindergarten and graduate and I love it. I'm going to miss it and I really wish Sto Rocks and the community the best. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Don't wait
009wait don't go nowhere at all. Um, so on behalf of the school district, we have something for you as well. What is happening? She said, a thanks you guys. You remember this? Okay, I did. Yeah. on behalf of the school district. [Music] Take a big photo, please, if you don't mind. Get over this way a little bit and we'll take a photo that way. Come on, family. We want the back wall back. It's okay. [Music] Oh, you [Music] You know what, Chad? Don't worry. One, two, three. Where were you at? [Music] All right, I'll let you live. Miss Hoover, thank you very much for taking care of business. We're probably If anyone has any other words, family, what it meant to you, schoolboard members, you're more than welcome to say um, you know, words right
010now. I know we still got a few months for gradu graduation, you know, but still family, you have any words. Family, thank you. You know it. Y'all have a good night. Thank you. [Applause] Oh, d I'm next up, uh, recommended new hires. We're going to welcome Mr. Tory Johnson, pay professional at the upper elementary. Come on up, good, sir. How are you? Good. Tory Johnson. Go bird. Go bird. There we go. There we go. Um, I came from Sarasota, Florida. Um, my brother brought me up here. Uh, Shamari Phelps, you guys. He's an athlete right here. Oh, your brother. Yes. Oh. So, um, all right. I'll forgive. So, I'm here. I'm going to do what I I can do my best to get these students in shape and do what I got to do. Help
011out in the football program as well. Welcome. Welcome. Why? Why? Oh, come on up. You know, we got a cool couple questions. No problem. Uh we said it before to me, but why why store rocks? Jamari telling you come on, brother. Just as he told him about the community. He told about the football program. So, I want to come up here and look for myself and see what's going on and help him out and be positive and community with him. That's it. Any questions? Thank you. Look forward to you making your imprint in our in our uh our school district, in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome. Up next, we're going to have Mr. Ay from JMA want to update on the 2526 school year budget. So, in March um when we were over
012at the U Votech there, we went through a similar packet um in detail. I'm not going to go through all that again. Um not a lot has changed. A little bit has changed in the total revenues and total expenses but um nothing super significant about a you know probably even less than 1% change. Uh the revenues did increase our budgeted revenues our projection increased a little bit. We picked up some um some - things and and school improvement there. So you can see our our our budgeted revenues were at 39.7 million. That's on page three. And then on page four um are the expenses, total expenses and those uh increased as well. A couple other things that that we we recognized were not part of what we shared with you in March. Um some supplemental
013uh salaries there as well as um some additional IT expense and then um the the superintendent piece, you know, so we have Dr. widle in there. Um as well as we're still we're still paying our previous superintendent through December 31st. And then um we have in the budget the um we're anticipating, you know, hiring a new superintendent. So we we just shored that up uh covering all three of those pieces um in the superintendent um expense line item. Additionally, the the our health insurance as as you folks know is through ASICH. Um they they initially gave us an estimate that health insurance was going to go up 9% um and they backed that down a little bit down to about 5.7%. So we made that adjustment as well. So you can see our our our
014budgeted expenses there on page four are at $39.1 million. So that's where we sit at this point in time. There is some additional information in there. Uh once again, a lot of that is similar to what we went through in March. So I'm not going to um I'll certainly address any questions you have, but I'm not going to go through all that uh here again. And and we anticipate when we come well not anticipate when we come in when we come in May um we will have a it'll be an official proposed budget for the board to uh for the board to vote on as a proposed budget. Um and then we can we can post it out there and then at the June meeting the uh the board will will officially approve the 2526
015budget. Thank you sir. Appreciate it. My pleasure. My pleasure. Any questions? make a comment please please. Yeah. So on behalf of financial recovery I just want to clarify um some of the language here about the exit criteria. So it's a financial recovery plan. Certainly there are financial elements. Most of the elements are financial but there's also academic goals and documented progress that has to be in place to qualify for that exit. Um, and again, just to clarify the finance piece of that, the district would have to have three years of an overall positive fund balance, successive years, which you've indicated, uh, Mr. Agnu, that we're on track for that. Uh, two of those successive years of the three have to be positive annually. So for the July 1 to June 30th of that fiscal year,
016we have to spend less than we bring in. Okay? So separate from the overall. And the five years is specific to a forecast. That's that's our struggle at this point as we project out project out in the absence of all that co esester money. How do we look in terms of we are we living within our means. So that's really where our focus is going to turn and certainly we got to keep our eye on the academic piece because we have to show evidence of improvement and we know the challenge is you want to be lean as lean as you can be without compromising and in our case we want to improve the student outcomes. the student experience should be quality and it should be comparable to what the students can get somewhere else that
017that will bring down the charter school spending and hopefully have a really positive effect. So, I just want to be really really clear. Although we have it seems to be on track for one of those components, there's more to it. Okay. Thank you. I'm next. I'm sorry. I'm next. you want to uh go into um school board member interview. So, with that being said, um as we know, school board members, you know, we've been sitting on this board now. There been six of us for a good while now. You know, we started this year last year. It's all it's all blur, but last year we did get get our strength back. We got up to um up to nine. Um and then unfortunately, you know, we had some folks, you know, long story short, just
018fall by the wayside, right? Um, and we really love people come on here with great intentions and they actually actually want to do what's right for the betterment of the district, right? No hidden agendas, nothing at all. You know what I mean? And we really do appreciate when folks show interest in doing this because it is hard work, you know, and there's a lot of things that go on behind the scenes that people just don't see. Being a board member means a lot more than just showing up on Thursdays as Director Roberts would say, you know, um, vote and go home. It's not how that works. We do a lot more work than that. People think about and guess what? We don't get paid, you know, and we don't do it for a paycheck though
019anyways. Don't doesn't matter. Um, we all got something going on outside of here, but we still show up. We do our our due diligence for our community and we make it happen. So to have someone interested and then when you talk and understand or just see why they're interested or what not and you get that warm fuzz, you know that that that feeling. It's like yes, let's go. So I'm actually happy to bring up here um Denanisha. I say that right? She said you better say it right. Uh Hunter Rue and please come on up. Um tell us a little bit about yourself, who you are, where you're from. Hey, sure. All right. Hi everybody. Um, most people call me Danny. Um, I moved to Stow Rocks in 2022. Uh, so we bought a house
020here. It was an affordable place to live while I was finishing grad school. Um, so I'm from Hershey, PA. My family is from central Pennsylvania. Um, but me and my husband and my mom all live here. Um, I have a baby on the way. Hey. Um, and, uh, we'll be in Still Rocks for the foreseeable future. Um, I don't know that much about the school district or how it operates. Um, but, um, for grad school, I'm in a PhD program studying developmental psychology. Um, I'm a licensed um, professional counselor, so that was my life beforehand. And then I have a bachelor's degree in business admin, so some sense of understanding finances and things like that. Um, I think I'm interested in understanding how I can get a more plugged into the community. Um, I've been
021in Pittsburgh for about 10 years. Um, and it's a very interesting place and sometimes it takes a really long time to kind of like get involved. Um, but given that I'm finishing my dissertation in December, I've decided I'm going to take on some new um hopefully some new uh opportunities, have a little more space in my life to do some more service. Um, I'm definitely serviceoriented. Um, I serve on the Black Girls Equity Alliance doing sort of small projects. Um, and that's like in the city of Pittsburgh. Um, I volunteer in different ways. Um, so I'm really interested in giving back and it'd be nice if I could give back to Stow Rocks um, since since I'm here. So that's sort of the main sort of things that I'm thinking about. Um, I'm not sure
022what qualifications you need to know about exactly, but um, I'd be happy to I was going to say we we we um, the qual for a member, we've discussed it. We, you know, we we've spoken and whatnot. You answered the question. So yes, yes, you're qualified to be a schoolboard member. Let's say that you wouldn't be here tonight if you weren't. All right. Um but but again, thank you for your interest, you know what I mean? To want to be a part of something different, want to help out your community. Um thank you. Yes, we're going to ask some questions here in a second. I'm just going to get more of a feeling of you and who you are. Yeah. Um but with that being said, I'll leave it up to y'all. Any questions around
023the table? Make them hard. I have a question. Sure. You say you've been in this area since 2022. Why now for the school board? Um because I'm finishing grad school and grad school has taken up a lot of my life. Um I've been down to the MRDC meetings a couple times just to sort of see if I could get a sense of what was happening. Um and so I don't know this area really well. Um my husband is from Pittsburgh but he also doesn't know this area really well. Um, and then I was, um, part of my dissertation, uh, was to go into was supposed to be to go into Still Rocks and do some sort of, um, the restorative justice project that's there. Um, I was going I was supposed to go in there
024and like talk with the teachers and do some school-based research. Um, but the government sort of shut down. Um, and so I was looking for another way to sort of get plugged in. And so the school board seemed like maybe an option. Glad you had answers. Yeah, it's been a while. So, thank you. You're welcome. I just have a question. Um, if you want to get involved in the community and do more service here, you're in the right spot. Okay. Amongst the right people. So, for sure. In the right building. In the right building. Right. So, feel free to, you know, communicate with any of us at any time because we're all kind of needy. Okay. Yeah. Do you have any other children? It's not a personal question. It's leaving children. Yes. So, I have
025a daughter, but we have uh joint custody, so she doesn't go to school here. Um, which also makes it tricky. Being that you're not from here and I know you don't know much about the area, what have you heard just being amongst the community, good or bad? Yeah. So, I've heard um that uh the high school is 7th through 12, which as a developmental person is pretty tricky. Um, and so I've heard the high school has had a harder time um, sort of managing student behavior and things like that. I've heard pretty positive things about the elementary and middle school um, and I've heard the district has struggled a bit with um, maintaining their academics. Um, and uh, being financially I guess sound for um, independently. Um, but I heard also that like it's all
026on the move like towards more like positive direction. So with your background and experience, how do you think you'd be able to come in and be a benefit and a part of our team with us being in financial recovery as well as possibly considering reconfiguration of that? Yeah. Um, I definitely I I think I come from a research background. So, I'd be um interested in whatever ways I could help either obtain data to help us make decisions or um have a better understanding of what the finances are. Um, that was a bachelor's degree. So, like I have a sense and I can uh learn a little bit. But I think my main focus is thinking about how do we logistically make our schools spaces that um because I don't think it's the kids. I think
027some of it is just the challenges of putting seven through 12th graders in one room because middle school is a wild time. Um, and I study adolescence in particular. And so some of that challenges that I think I've heard in high school are partly because they're all in the same building. Um, and um, it's hard when you do a lot of work in the elementary years and then stick them in kind of a chaotic space is what I've heard. Um, and I've also heard that there's a bit of violence in the community, but there's also a lot of programs that are trying to remedy that as well. So, I think my things that I would like to bring would be around thinking developmentally um about what children need as far as their mental health and
028like academic support and then maybe um bringing some like that research space where we can help make decisions using data. Yeah. I did have a comment. Um, just the feedback that you received regarding like the school district, you're not afraid like you heard what was happening. You're willing to be here to make a change. I also am not originally from Pittsburgh Biz Rock. So, having kids here and knowing some of those like these people at the table um in different settings made it a lot more comfortable and easier for me to be a part of be able to have a voice while I sit here. No, I just looking at amazing teams. Um yeah, I think we're headed in the right direction. Buckle down and yeah, we're just trying to help. So again, I'll say
029thank you for your interest, you know. Um again, um yeah, like he said, we're we're heading the right direction. We really are. The culture is changing. Culture has changed. Let me say that first of all. Yeah. But it's still changing. You know what I mean? Um and and we're we're we're moving, you know, all gas no breaks, right? That's what we're doing, right? The the phrase, right? All gas, no breaks. So, we want to see better for our community, better for our kids, better for our staff, you know, better for the folks in our district in general, right? That's that's what we want to do. That's what we're here. Um it's funny because I actually know her husband. So um did my re doing my research on you like who is this right? And um
030so I used to work with her husband 10 years ago uh at Best Buy. Well more than 10 years ago actually. More than 10 more than 10. She know she um back in 2010 you know it's about 2011 before I left for the military. actually work with her husband. So I'm like reaching to her I'm like who is this person? Can't find you. Then I used Danny. I was like, "Okay, I found Danny cuz I got a friend in common." Which was the friend in common was her husband. And I was like, hey, do you know her? Like who is this person? He was like, that's my wife. He was like, you want to get something done, you tell her. You don't get nothing done, don't tell her. So I appreciate him saying that. Again,
031appreciate your interest. Not just us, but the folks at the table. We're everywhere. Literally, we're everywhere. You know, every community event that goes on, you you'll see if not one of us, two of us there, right? This building that you're in right now, this is like the hub for the community. You got someone that works here, the executive director here as well, and interim tech director right now, and someone who thinks they work here sometime. You know what I mean? So, like we're I work upstairs. Exactly. Exactly. You know, so we're we're all here to be of service of support and we can tell you're here to be of service of support and we appreciate that. Um this is our team and we usually have a student here as well who sits on the board
032as well. So we can hear the the uh student's voice as well. You know what I mean? So you got anything sir? Pleasure to meet you. Nice. Pleasure to meet you. We missed her for about six months. Oh, we will um so what happens today is we met you, we talked to you next week meeting as well. Um but that's our voting meeting. Okay. So we will be at the high school. Okay. Um and then there we'll actually vote. Okay. So at that meeting we'll actually vote um to say yay or nay. It sounds like I don't want to say but it sounds like what it's going to be. But, you know, we we vote at that meeting to decide whether we want to bring you on the team or not. Okay. And then we'll
033go from there. And then you and I will be talking a lot. You and our secretary over here be talking a lot. Um, and going in the right direction. Okay. Yeah. So, again, appreciate you. Thank you. You're welcome. [Applause] You don't have to leave. You don't want to. I'm just [Music] saying. That's what I'm talking about. All right. Next up, we'll go into our agenda. Um, any questions about the meeting minutes of Parkway West and Stow or our district from last month? Any comments from Parkway West? Not financial management. Mr. Agnner, uh, yeah, you have the two lists there in front of you. uh one for general fund, one for the cafeteria fund. Certainly happy to answer any questions. Um pretty standard expenditures, you know, for the general fund. The larger items there are transportation,
034um tuition payments, and health insurance. But I had a question. Okay. In the um general fund, don't kill me because I did not write down which section it was. Um, look at me. It was It was the Toshiba Renault. Toshiba Renault had maybe these are not the It was um Don't kill me, y'all. I'm sorry. I was just wondering it had um principal. It was like rentals. But Toshiba we the software, right? Uh it's our it's our copier lease. Okay. And that was one for each building. What threw me off. Here's what it was. Like I know what Toshiba what threw me off was the way it was written. It was um rentals something something in vehicles like what vehicles are we running? It was well if I mean we could look through here and
035I can I mean I may not know off the top of my head but we can certainly it's the machine right? Yeah. Like it threw me off with this right here. So called a vehicle. Yeah. I was like wait. So, so these are just the descriptions of the expense accounts. Um, I would I mean those I would I would focus more on the code, but the the description would would just it just encompasses equipment and vehicles and that's what threw me off when I saw vehicles. I was like vehicles for each building. That doesn't make sense. I had never picked up on that before. For some reason, it caught my eye and I don't Yeah, that's that's the uh the copier lease there. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Next, we'll go into operations. Uh, number
036one, approve the following ABC employees for 2024 25 school year. Uh, Al Lima Bozer, Al Lima Boseman, Wallace, van driver, monitor, Mark Prior, and Joy Troll, both van drivers. Any questions? Number two, accept donor's choose projects awarded for Elena Hall classroom project emotional regulation tools and Claire Teddy classroom classroom project empowering math with evidence-based interventions. Any questions? Van driver and monitor. She's gonna drive a van some days and other days. It depends. She's probably like f to fill in as a monitor. She's the one as a monitor or she could be a van driver. So, she's she must have the driver's license to be able to do whatever they need, whichever one they need to do. Thank you. Number three, approved a securely quote for 16 3750 to provide past core online program at the
037Junior High School from July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Information can begin this year at no additional cost. Any questions? a little bit like is that something we're using now? Like how's that work? How to come on up. Do you think it'll be beneficial with wildly? Um so all right, I won't get too deep. Um but so it's essentially it's a digital hall pass. And so right now like even when we look at the data within the building about our discipline challenges the biggest challenge is tardy to class and skipping like astronomically larger than uh physical altercations or you know what we think is happening. Uh the digital hall pass will allow us to right now we're tracking students right but it is very subjective. If I mark a student tardy, it's because like,
038oh, I marked them tardy. And meanwhile, the other teacher might not know what's going on or might not know where they are. It tracks students according to and the student IDs will come back into play. The one:1 ratio will come back into play. And so, in order to be able to leave the classroom, I have to be able to sign out. And so, then I get to see who's in the hallway all the time with the same people. Um, when it comes to assigning, it tracks it all. like we're working so much harder and not smarter. Um, and it's 2025 and it can do it for us. So, it's wild. Like it's like Christmas. Like, please say yes. Yes. Yep. All of it. And then also parents can have access to that information, too. So,
039I'm always trying to communicate. I do like this. What are y'all doing? Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I was going to ask you about the badges and how it all worked out. But no, not now. I'm just saying I'm glad you said that. Thank you. Thank you. Approve. God bless you. Approved the renewal contract of the Nutrition Inc. to provide food service management services for next school year. District approval is subject to final approval by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, Division of Food and Nutrition. Number five, approved the facility usage request from Pittsburgh Basketball Club for May 21st, 22nd, 27th, 29, June 13th, and 15th for a varsity summer league at the upper elementary gymnasium. No one's here, but usually they do though. Usually it's teams from all over. I don't
040Yeah, no one's here to talk about it unfortunately, but that's a good question. We got to pay. Years past we didn't years past we didn't Star Rock didn't have to pay if we weren't improving it. But just don't say this. So yeah, we get basketballification. So So years past our school didn't have to our kids have to pay because they're using our school. Okay. So they have to pay like the registration fee to play in that whatever tournament it is. Yes, ma'am. But are they paying to use the facilities? Oh, yes, they should be. Yes, but I will find out I'll have um Sandy clarify about the registration fee for our team to be in previous school districts where I worked. John Giamarco is the head of the Pittsburgh basketball club and they did pay
041the facilities and I'm almost positive that the host school I believe he waved but I can't say that. They have here before they have they but it's really it's a good program. Has it always happened at the upper? No, not always. Sometimes the upper the upper is here here's what I'm going to say and I I want to be respectful of the upper if you're coming up there you have to have a reason you can't just get to easy access and I think that's why got me number six approve the facility you use request stars of the Vikings for the demora hamlin youth activity summer community event from June 12th through 15th that whole weekend at a junior high school field. So, how what's going to happen? So, on June 12th, the kids playing allar
042game. They're going to have practice that night. The 13th, it'll be the youth event for the kids. That Friday morning, the youth event for the kids. Um, Saturday, there's no event on on that Saturday on the 14th, but the event will be the um, celebrity basketball game at a location to be determined yet. And then the 15th at the high school will be the All-Star game. Any questions about that? Which is also why I think partially why the Pittsburgh basketball club team is up at the upper because those weekends only they they always go up there too. They're always up there. Number seven, approved Presley Ridge CSBBH agreement to provide services during ESY this summer. A approved Capri glass estimate for glass replacement in the gym doors and hallway auditorium for 2768 broken. It needed
043to be That's a good question. This says gym door some door so old. Probably not. Is is Mr. Is Mr. Simpson on? Is he virtual right now? Yeah. Can you hear me? There you go. We can hear you a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. Um I believe there is five panes of glass in the doors going into the gym. Uh one was just uh was spiderwebed recently with a baseball. Uh the other ones were previously broken. And then the hallways where the locker rooms are going down towards the auditorium, there's a spiderweb in the window there. That was an older break as well. Thank you for that. Absolutely. Thank you. Number nine, approve the CDC ambassador facility request for June 11th from 5:00 pm to 8:00 p.m. at the GNC High School football field. So, we
044asked a question. I don't know what they're doing yet. So, we're getting feedback coming back from um Yes. It's defining free around here. So, there's there's um four different groups. Group one is like our kids as far as um school activities. Group two, for example, is like the little leggings. Um, group three is group three and four I get them backwards at least sometimes, but the basic outside entities coming in to help the to use our facility basically. Group four would be like at some random Three would be the passion. Four would be like some random football group somewhere wanted to come and use our field and they just put in for put in for it and we say yes. Yes. commercial, you know, um that that's like a fully outside, not really us at
045all. At one point in time, we had pit come and use our field before as well and they were paying, you know, that's like group four. They just pay all the fees, which would be if it's nighttime, lights, the booth, locker room, stand everything. And custodians, no matter what, get paid. So, um no matter what, approve learn well agreement. Um, I'm sorry. I'll come back to this one. Sorry y'all. Next, we'll go into co-curricular leadership. I meant to talk about approved. Can you go back to that one? Oh, I'm sorry. Whoops. Approved the Sunlife financial renewal notification effective July 1, 2025 for specialized employee benefit plan. There is no rate increase for the for this year. I will come back to number 11 in executive session. Next. Yes ma'am. Next under coerc leadership approved the
046field trip measures as presented. It's a lot of um field trips and this looks amazing. And then you're right about that. This is amazing. Any questions about that? Any comments about that? Say it again. Next, under board policy, approve board affirmation statement for school reconfiguration plan to add Dr. Irwin Widle to the interim superintendent. Okay. So whenever you guys voted to add him on, so then I have to upload a bunch of papers to the state PB suite site and then in that they say, "Okay, you've approved and you voted them in. Now you were doing a reconfiguration, which is only adding an interim superintendent to replace somebody and now you have to approve that plan that I'm submitting." We're just saying he's our superintendent. Yeah, that's all that it's all that's saying. That is
047a requirement by PDE because as we all know that you have to have a superintendent of schools. And then number two, approve modifications to the 2025 26 school district calendar. U wait so we're going to come back to this because the conversation will lead to executive session. um conversations. [Music] Next, under educational leadership, approve, ratify the the professional development matrix as presented. It's amazing. It's amazing. Good. Good. Any questions, comments? Number two, approve the AIOU head agencyou from January 1, 25 to December 31st, 2025. And then number three, approve the IDEA part B use of funds agreement 2025 2026 with the AIU3 for July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Any questions for approved the notes of adoption of approved LEA policies procedure and use of fund by school district with AIU3. Five, approve Millersville
048University of PA affiliation agreement for field placement. Six, approve service agreement with the Watson Institute for an autistic support classroom at the primary center for a 2025 26 school year is seven. Accept the donations of the to the Viking pride program. The following individuals Ed Pierce, Lauren Fraonio, Joe Kajovich, and Bender Cox. All of these people be teachers for two of them being so we're going to say this um and we've talked about it before but one thing that we really want to do um in hopes that it comes here pretty soon we discussed when we were creating this Viking pride thing you know before we got to the board or whatnot I know one thing that we were looking to do um was to expand this to the community. What I mean by that
049is I think originally the idea was 10 people donate 10 grand and I'm not going to lie, I was like it's going to be steep for a lot of people, right? That's not that's not going to work. Like it can work out, but that's not you mean it's not feasible. So what about us opening up to 100 people then 100 bucks or even going to the community and say hey community this is what we have here you know open for donations if need be and then that way you got the community buying in to what we're doing here at the district level and then whenever they donate they might want to pop in sometimes and or schedule hey can I come in and check on this team can I see what's going on because you
050give some more buyin from the community and now they're like you know what now we're invested let's make sure that we're going in the right direction, you know, with with these kids here. Um, so we want to eventually branch this out to the community because it shouldn't be just teachers, it shouldn't be just admin, it shouldn't be just district personnel, it should be the community as well being able to buy into this program for our kids, us taking care of us. That was so so that was that was what we originally said. Dad right now Dan's ear is perked up right now. He's like, "Wait, what?" Um, website. So, we did push this out there. I don't know if it came down to you and I don't want to throw nobody under the bus in
051those regards. I I I just know that that's the route that eventually we want to get to and there's no point in no longer holding this in and it's not coming to you all yet. like this what we want to do. Yes ma'am. For football and basketball to get in. Yes ma'am. Season pass options. Can that be like an incentive for that? We might. So whenever that's a good that's a good question, but I can't speak on what um AD Phelps is doing right now. I just Okay, good. Cuz I know whenever Mr. Bushley was here. He was talking about trying to go that route. Um but but he's not here no more. So um if that's something that AD Phelps is going to, that'd be amazing. Cuz we even Yeah, we even we even
052talked about like different seating. Um but it was like liability. We talking about like like roof seating, stuff like that, right? We talked about all that. You know what I mean? So yeah, that's I might like a little liability on insurance, what not, but yeah, we talked about a lot of things before. So it's a good thing your adopts is working on that too. Do you want to jump in by chance about this? Jump in um recovery talks about development of a foundation and that would be ideal to keep the money separate, right? And then you would have the foundation that would develop its own committee that would make decisions, policies and so forth. They could also award many grants to teachers who had special projects, field trips, and things they wanted to do, but
053I think it's a cleaner way to do it where you're keeping it separate from the district and not the funds. So, that's something to Yes, ma'am. Thank you. What was what was the suggestion? Somebody commentar What was the suggestion on the tickets for students? We were discussing the Viking Pride program. So, I had asked if there were currently season tickets for like the basketball, football, baseball games, and if not, if it was something, Principal Davis told us it's something that you are working on. Um, but in my head, the idea was to incorporate it into a donation fee incentive or a donation incentive for people that want to participate in being in the part of the Viking Pride program. Okay. Yeah, that's all money to get into the games. Where does that go to the
054district or does that go to athletics? Referees. Yeah, you got referee payments on that too. Where does that money go? Does it go to street to athletics? Yeah. Yeah. I I don't want to speak for him. I'll let him address it. But I want to say though, athletics and referees, they get paid to pay referees, all that good stuff as well. But cool. For sure. They go really fast. Um I told her that portion right now like you know wait till next week without voting right. So with that being said, if there's no other public comment um for us, we are going to break for personnel for executives executive session. Can I talk? Yes, ma'am. Am I talk about um somebody like an admin? I can say something good about admin, right? For sure. I'm
055about to talk about. So we I work upstairs at the family center and we had an event the other day. It was a story time event for community and families. Um it was really cute and Dr. Mau came. She was our guest reader for the kids. She dressed up like a dinosaur and read we donate our classmates and it was adorable. She was a fan favorite. Everybody loved her. The kids loved her. She was fantastic with our parents. Um she helped out all through the whole event. And I just wanted to give her a little shout out her dress. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Can I piggy back really quickly? Jacob, I know you know Jacob. He's a kindergartener and he loves her. Loves her office. Loves the treasure chest. Comes home every day talking
056highly of you. And as a parent, I enjoy your weekly messages on Friday to let us know. Have a good weekend. Stay safe. I love those. Whether it's email or the robocall, I noticed it. Listen, Jacob, love you. That means something. Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Mewell. Um, so again, we're going to break for personnel. This is going to be executive session. We will not be coming back um after this. Um, our next meeting will be uh next Thursday at the Stur Rocks J High School unless otherwise save anywhere else. Um, but again, thank you all for coming to tonight's meeting. Please be there next week. Bring your family to home now if you want to, you know, for free. Um, but thank you all. The meeting will
057be a journey. I don't know. I was like, wait, do they usually? No. At last, my tooth started to hurt and I started the elevation. Like I was like, oh come out. And then I always felt like I had brain farts. Please take pizza on the way out. Please take food on the way out. one of them blue.