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Sto-Rox School Board Meeting, 3/27/25

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YouTube / Sto-Rox School District
Date
2025-04-07
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Allegheny County, PA
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4,494 words · about 25 min
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2026-06-17

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001like to call us making order. Can we have roll call please? Director Cooper here. Director Culliver here ma'am. Director Isowski here. Director Meyers here. Director Roberts here. Director Spriggs. We have five in attendance. 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. Peter man standing for a moment of silence. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming to tonight's legislative voting uh voting meeting. Really appreciate you all. Um before we actually know what I keep going to any public comment unheard items for information the board met executive session discuss personal matters following the board meeting on March 20th and before this meeting for

002the presentations to ask Mrs. Connors from Nutrition, Inc. to come on up for a food program update. Good evening. Now, I have hard copies for anybody that didn't receive the ones by email. Thank you, ma'am. [Applause] Okay. Um, since I missed the meeting, I'm just going to go over highlights of January and February. Um, in January, we had the featured faves. This is all food talk. U, the students tried apple cobbler overnight oats and cranberry chocolate chip protein bars. That was here at the high school. Wellness Wednesday was at all the schools and that was pineapple salsa. H it was a I'm sorry. This is Roger. He's here with me and I'll tell you why in a minute. Um we celebrated Chinese New Year's with sweet and sour chicken over rice and fortune cookies. We

003tried a new pizza, honey uh chicken. That was that went over really well. And our employee of the month for January was Ralph Kazy. He's the one who runs the snack shack. Um does an excellent job for us in the district. He uh has popcorn cookies, pudding parfets daily. And we just started actually this week with Hershey's ice cream. Kids are loving it. I see scooter crunches everywhere. Um so February highlights, we celebrated Valentine's Day at all the schools with a sweet dessert. Um, warm apple crisp was served at the high school and upper elementary. Molly the cow visited the primary school to promote dairy and we handed out yogurt samples to the kids. Uh, wellness Wednesday for February was pasta salad. That's actually a student favorite. Um, we have it on the bar here

004usually once a week or so for the high school kids. Um, let's see. We had a yak meeting here at the high school. Lots of great feedback. Um, a few things we already got put in place. Our breakfast sandwiches were made on English muffins before and they asked for bagels, so we've already done that. They asked for more iced donuts. And when you hear about the iced donuts, they're actually whole wheat and they do fit into the National School Breakfast Program. Um, and they asked to spice things up. So, we put up a new condiment bar with um no sodium, non-sodium spices. Uh that's going very well. And we did away with the pumps, the old system with the pump with the pumps. The pumps broke all the time. We had to end up using

005ladles. It was horrible. Um we actually went back to squirt bottles and it's working fine. So, um we did a Super Bowl menu. Students voted and the Eagles won by default. The Eagles won because they didn't want the Chiefs to win, but I think they I think Hey, crowd, stay back over there. Don't come up and get her, y'all. Hey, I'm just saying what the kids told us. Um, and then the employee of the month was actually Roger. He is our pizza maker. Um, and he was kind enough to come in tonight to bring samples of pizza. Um, I didn't know if you wanted that now or if you wanted it after the meeting. It's up to you guys. I mean, we had a couple presentations in a minute. We can eat it now. I'm

006messing around. I'm It's ready to go. It's our place. Go ahead. And we made plenty. So, there's plenty for everybody. There's a variety of ones that you might want. There's meat lovers that has pepperoni, sausage, and uh what? Ham. Yeah. And there's a all veggie one and there's a plain cheese one. So, uh, let me know which one you want so I can bring them on over. Or do I just meat lovers? I'll take that. Just let y'all know now. Take the meat lovers over here, please. Roger's awesome. He also did a student survey for the kids. Um, and the students voted and he tallied them all up from all the kids here at the high school. So, we got their feedback on what they like. Talk about they like anything spicy. We had Cajun

007pasta on this week. I eat hot chips, too, like crazy. It don't make That's really all I had. Have you been getting any feedback from the kids? Everything's okay. We keep trying to mix it up. Me love, please. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, I forgot about that. We did do the Black History Month at the primary school. We had Thank you. We had a Hawaiian pizza today. It was ham and pineapple. Didn't go too well. But a few of them tried it. That's all I have. Thank you. We appreciate y'all. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Yes. Again, thanks very much. Me start off with food. So, we're I think we're on the right track, y'all. We're good to go. Next person up. You got to beat that. Sorry. Up next, we're going to have

008principal assistant principal Hope Striber for the students of the month of February at the junior senior high school. Well, it's a little hard to beat that with pizza. However, we do want to honor our amazing students of the month for the month of February. The students who earn student of the month, it is not just based on grades. It is based on the whole student collectively. So is that student exemplify for example our PBIS raise habits? Are students respectful, accountable, inclusive, safe and equitable throughout the day? And it's also how are the students involved in our school community? Are they involved in any extracurricular activities, any clubs, any type of certification groups or anything like that. So without further ado, we're going to honor our students of the month. There are two students who are

009here with us tonight. So, I'll have them come up and just introduce themselves. So, first we have seventh grader Payton McBride. Here tonight here tonight we have eighth grader Miracle Ellerby. Ninth grader Alicia [Music] Barnett. 10th grader here tonight, Karma Boxley. 11th grader Maddie [Music] Schmidt and 12th grader Aaron Maguire. And those are our February students of the month. Congratulations. Hold on y'all. Don't go nowhere yet. We going to get a photo. I was looking for Dan. There he is. Congratulations again. Up next, we're going to have the introduction of new hires. Up first, we're gonna have Chris Show from General uh General Cafeteria, Upper Elementary. Is he here? Come on up, please, sir. Come on up. Hello, sir. How you doing? Good. If you don't mind just telling us who you are, where you're

010from, and why why rocks? Well, I'm originally from Hickerstown, Maryland. Uh, I married uh somebody from Ingram and I since I moved to Pennsylvania, I've lived in Stow Township since 2011. Own a house here. Been delivering Halloween candy to the neighbors and just thought it'd be nice to give back to the school district and do the best I can to help out with uh the community. Thank you. We appreciate that. Any questions? Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Welcome. Thank you. [Applause] Up next, uh, Mr. Matt Davis, assistant baseball coach. Evening. How are you? Good evening. How are you? Good. Great to be here. Thanks for having Thanks for coming. You just tell us a little bit about who you are, where you're from, why rocks. Yeah, sure. Um, so I'm Well, I'm reluctant to start

011this way, but I'll do it just to be honest. I'm from Philadelphia originally. Okay. So, usually I lose the room when I say that, but So, you almost got So, you almost jumped on her whenever she said that, huh? When I saw the light, I married a Pittsburgh girl and I've been in Pittsburgh here for for a little overly 20 years. So, um I have three kids. We live in Ross Township. Um I've been coaching baseball in the city, north side city leagues for about 14 years. I've been coaching with or against Rocks for about that time. And and why so Rocks? I fell in love with So Rocks just at first coaching against uh coaches, working with coach Ed, working with the kids there in in Stocks who just they they have my heart.

012So I've been here working with Ed and some of the guys. We run a baseball academy every summer over here at the Rocks and um I just love it. It's like my second home. So love the Rocks. Thank you. Any questions? We appreciate you. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. Welcome. Thank you. [Applause] Up next, we're going to have Dr. Lent, one from the director of alternative education program update. So, we just wanted to kind of uh ask her if she wanted to come in, talk to us a little bit, let us know, you know, what our alternative education kids, you know, are experiencing and what they're what they're going to do whenever they're away from our our building. So, thank you, man. Yep. Hi, everyone. My name is Lysa Lent. I am the director of

013alternative edi. And so I put I gave you guys some um folders with a copy of the presentation. I'm not going to go full into it because I don't want to, you know, take up too much time, but there's a few handouts in there and some examples and I'll reference them. But um I just want to talk to you a little bit about our program um what we do and then our unique um situation here at Still Rocks being that the building one of our buildings is in McKe's Rock. So and do I have to tell you when to that's so it's fine. Go ahead. No one cares about the mission and vision. Or do you? You want me to say it? No. Go ahead. Next. Go ahead. Next. Okay. So, um, what is the

014AP? So, the alternative ed program has been in existence for about 60 years. Um, granted, we are smaller than we once were. Um, we originally started, we did, um, do the education um, at the jail and at Schuman um, at the Hartman Mail Center uh, center at Aubberly. A lot of the, um, shelter programs that were in place. Um but just by kind of politics and and demographics and kind of where everybody's moving in terms of alternative ed, we we now just have um Community School East and Community School West and Community School West is here in Turtle Creek behind the post office. Um what we also like to do or kind of another passion of mine and this is where I have um worked with your school district for probably about four years is

015in that space of community building and restorative practices. and I'm very very um proud of the relationship we have with the students and staff here at your school district. I'm super proud to be with you this evening. Next slide, please. So, the two schools that we have um they operate under Aedy, which is a state uh reggg, which is alternative ed for disruptive youth. And I just kind of uh put the code and everything in here. It's a temporary placement for kiddos that mess up in school, right? Um usually 45 days, but it can be longer. Um, kids that unfortunately get expelled from school can serve out their expulsion in an AEDY placement. Um, it is for it's a behavior placement, but we do have a strong focus on academics. Um, and we would like

016to say that it is a last resort for kids. Um, and the state has it set up that way. So, you know, you have to go through all the processes. So, your due process, your SAP, your interventions, all of the things before you would want to remove a student from uh your school district. Next slide. So these are the placement criteria. There are six of them. Um mainly, you know, your big three, your drugs, your weapons, um serious bodily injury. Um and then really, you know, a criminal act, something that would merit a expulsion, um persistent disregard for school author authority. So it kind of varies, right? So there are some kids that have to go for a minute, right? But there's other kids that maybe you've worked with and it's just not helping. So

017they come over to us um at Community School West. Next slide. Um, in the program it's mandated they have to have 990 hours of um, instruction, two and a half hours of counseling weekly, a behavior assessment within 5 days of um, being enrolled into the program, a formal periodic review, and I have a copy of that in there so you guys kind of know the data that we collect. Um, obviously course credits and um, option for electives. Um they're not just they don't come to uni school and sit and sit in a class, you know, one class all day in front of a computer. There's multiple classes. It's an eight period day. Um 45minut periods. They we have lunch nutrition inc the same provider I think y'all have. I mean so it's, you know, it's

018a school. Um it's smaller and the kids get a little bit of a hug if you will, right? Um and there is that um counseling component. Next slide. So currently this year um we've had 19 still rock students and we do service 7 through 12. Um Aedy is a sixth through 12 program at the state. We don't have the capacity for the little ones so we start 7th grade. Um and right now currently we have eight students that go to West um with one on their way in and I think a couple transitioning out. Next slide. So, um, really what I just want to touch a little bit on is kind of the passion I bring to this in terms of what the AE is because when you think about alternative education, I want to

019work myself out of a job, right? I don't want kids being all that anymore. I don't want kids being in Schuman or the jail anymore. If I could be frank, I've done this work for a long time. Um, I was a teacher, principal, assistant superintendent, all the things. Um, in the Aloquipa school district, in the Woodland Hill School District, so I've seen a lot of things, right? And so what I want to do is make sure that when the kids are with us, they get this experience to where they I don't want to say like school again, but like themselves again, right? So want to stay in school. And so we have this kind of philosophy, the four Rs, the relationships, relevance, rigor, and restorative, right? And making sure that we're challenging the kids academically

020because what we see is this is the first time they really have individualized attention because unfortunately their behaviors mask their intelligence, right? Um, so they're acting out for different things. So, we do try to get to the root, the trauma-informed um, care and all of those things and a lot of the drug and alcohol, too. Um, trying to get to the reason why you can't function without a vape for six hours, right? And so, really kind of looking at those things. Next slide, please. So, um, at West, we have 12 highly qualified teachers. So, I have two core content area uh area teachers, uh art teacher, PE teacher, and a computer/ STEM teacher. There's three counselors, um in each building, three student support specialists, um a principal, and then I have about a ratio of

021a 3:1 student to adult ratio. Um and so, and that's at both buildings because I have um Turtle Creek and McKe's Rocks, we mirror each other in terms of our personnel. Next slide. Um, so for the academics and extra because you're uh Oh, I I think I did a graphic and it messed up. Can you hit the button a couple more times? Look at that. Look, I tried to be fancy and it's messing up for me. So, what we did um for uh the extracurriculars and the academics, we do the math testing um through NWA. And really, it's a it's a growth model, but we do it because we want to get a grasp on where the kiddos are, right? We know a lot of the school districts in Alageney County use map testing. So

022um we use that as um a benchmark and a a diagnostic for the kids. Our core subjects, health, PE, art. If kiddos are enrolled in Parkway, they still attend there. Um and then we have community service opportunities. We have a good relationship with the Salvation Army. We take the kids on field trips because we know that some of them sometimes might not be allowed to go on field trips, right? And so we want to give them an experience, excuse me, to look, you know, out for whenever they return to school. Next slide. Um, and then I just put in here quickly our instructional framework. Um, a lot of times I think there's a myth like all ed they're not doing all the things. I make them do all the things. So we have an instructional

023framework so that every teacher has kind of a a format and a framework for when they're teaching because we know there might be multiple level learners in each classroom. Next slide. Um, and then with their unit and lesson plan designs, we take that off of the SAS website which is um from PTE and they have to put their big ideas, central questions, all the things. um just to make sure that that rigor is happening in the classroom. Next slide. Um and then our behavior goals and interventions. Kidos make smart goals um like their behavior goals which is a mandate from PTE but then what their other goals are right and their smart goals. Um our PBIS program is we are um implementing it tier three with fidelity in both buildings. um PBIS works um especially

024in an alternative ed setting and the kids kind of take ownership of what they should and should not do. Um obviously the classroom interventions and and we kind of expose them to healthy hobbies, especially the kids that um quite frankly are addicted to the vaping, the THC, alcohol, things of that nature. Next slide. There's our PBS. Isn't that a cute graphic? I did it all by myself. Um uh next slide. And then our counseling and interventions. So it's two and a half hours required uh weekly. We kind of do it two ways. There's individual and there's group. Uh we contract with upstreet. Um Turtle Creek Valley endow does a diversion program for the drug and alcohol offenders. Um Dr. Stacey Ford does an intense um intervention with uh DNA kids. Um HSAO that has a

025program with you guys comes and and sees the kids as well. Healing Rivers is a trauma exhibit from the center for victims where we bring kids and and the teachers down to kind of go through that. Um and then we have mentoring with with a few um gentlemen in the county. Next slide. Um and so the collaboration with still rocks is the vibe team will come and meet with the kids um that are with us and check in and do those things. Um upstreet obviously has that individual counseling like we talked about before. your liaison with HSAO will come to the building and visit kids and your social worker Alex who's great I love Alex um I just saw her in the building on Tuesday she'll come in and meet with the so kids that

026are in our building for the um transition and that's just the restorative practices yeah you can go next slide it's fine next slide um oh yeah there you go so in the transition planning um there's goals for academics behavior um we write it we make that connection with the school and community resources and we try to, you know, really do that case management and check in with the kids when they return back. I think I'm almost done. Next slide. That's the formal periodic review. What's in there that you guys have, I'm not going to read it for you, but that's kind of what we go through and the transition meetings to determine whether or not the kids are ready to return. Next slide. That's all. How you guys doing? I'm sorry. I was just It's

027late. I'm a little tired. This is wobbling. So, I'm a little Did you see me doing that? I'm a mess. Do you have any questions? Have any questions, comments? You're just laughing. I'm sorry. It is. This wobbly thing is pretty much my life. Anyone? Everyone good? Yeah. Oh, 100%. No problem. And you have my contact information if you need anything. And again, thank you too for being so eager. So, we emailed you. You responded back immediately. Thank you back. That's how I roll. Yeah, we appreciate that a lot. Um, thank you for this slide about the collaboration of service for restocks and knowing that folks are actually coming to see you all. Um, like a misconception that, you know, whenever kids go to your school, we kind of forget about them, quote unquote. Um, so,

028but it's good to know that this is happening. Since I've been here, we haven't seen you all come yet to talk to us until we asked for it. So, again, thank you for that. Um, now my question to ask you though, um, how often do you see if you can guesstimate it, our kids come back to our district or main any kid that comes to your school um or program. Do you see kids most kids go back to your school district at all or they do? Yeah. I mean, so the way the state has it set up is it can't be a life sentence, right? Um except if they're like they're expelled for as far as like like I'm not going back I'm not going back to that school. I'm going somewhere else, right? No,

029they they they come back. What happens is they kind of like our school cuz it's smaller, right? Um, but we really try our best to prepare them to to come back. Um, you know, now, do we have repeat offenders? 100%. But is, you know, we're we're trying our best to kind of make sure that that doesn't happen and and giving them the um the tools they need to return. Thank you. Is that all? Have a blessed day. Thank you, man. You as well. Thank you. All right. Just want to let y'all know if y'all didn't eat that pizza because we're not that briefing. It was good. Let y'all know that right now. So, uh I'm up next. And first of all, like to sit here and welcome Jay Lv to our school board as a

030student representative. Congratulations. [Applause] Welcome. And now we would like to go ahead and welcome her up to the podium. Welcome her to the podium for a school board report. Senior report. Good evening, school board, Mr. Howser, administrators, parents, community members, and teachers. My name is Jay Ellerby. I am an 11th grader at Chisto Rocks Junior Senior High School. I want to thank you all for the opportunity to serve as a student representative. I would like to share with you all of the amazing things that are happening at Stockox Junior Senior High School. Attendance incentive. Let's run it back to February. If students were present in on time to home room, they could qualify for a sweet treat and lunch. Pi Day. During the month of March, we had a Pi Day incentive where students had

031the opportunity to pie PI staff members for one race ticket. In order to qualify, they could not have any referrals, RC or OSS. Want to know something fun? I know 102 digits of pi. Would you like to hear it? Yes. Hold on. I need my water. She like Now I'm going to sing the pie song for you. 3.14159. This is pi followed by 2653589. Circumference over diameter 79. Then 3 23. OMG, can't you see? 84 62 643. And now we're on a spree. Oh, I forgot it. 38 and 32. Now we're blue. Oh, who knew? 7,950. And then a two. 88 and 41. So much fun. Now we're run. 971693993 751. Halfway done. 058. No, don't be late. 209. Where's the wine? 74. It's on the floor. Then 94459 230. We got to go. 78.

032We can't wait. 1640628. We're almost near the end. Keep going. 62. We're getting through. 0899 on time. 862834. There's only a few more. 82. Then 53 42 11 70. And then after that there's a 9 and an 8. [Applause] speech. Now, the field trips during the Our students, including myself, were provided many opportunities to go out into the community to learn about future careers and plans for after high school. They include the CNX mentorship academy field trips, Rosdale Tech, Masters, Masters Build Guild. Oh, hold on. Master's Builder Guild, Sullivan Plumbing, and the Future Teachers Club. This was my personal favorite since we got to read a Dr. Seuss book and did an activity with K through3 and the Slippery Rock field trip. 18 students from our school were invited to a college prep seminar. Upcoming

033events. Make sure to come see my fellow classmates on their induction to the National Honor Society on April 10th. Janna Depollo, Kelsey Arlada, Nvea Baka, who is here today, and Cordes Simmons. Our spring sports have officially begun. Baseball, softball, track and field, and flag football have been practicing hard. Guess what? We even have a middle school track and field team. The seventh and eighth graders are loving it. Make sure you come cheer on our baseball team at home tomorrow and flag football on Sunday at Ambridge. Looking forward to give you an update at the next schoolboard meeting. I'm excited to be a part of the outstanding team. As I say at my job, it's my pleasure. Thank you. Great job and welcome to the team. Thank you. Welcome to the family. Now we'll move on

034to our non I'm sorry the voting portion of this meeting. Like I say items A1 through F2. A1 through F2. Can I have a motion ready? Have a second. Director Myers, yes. Director Roberts, yes. Director Cooper, yes. Director Culliver, yes. Director Ozowski, five yeses. Motion passes. Thank you. Items G1 self hiring Chris show Cheyenne Ripple season softball coach Matt Davis assistant baseball coach and Cormain Bryant assistant track coach and retirement of Mrs. Beth Harvey, secretary. Have a motion ready. Have a second. Second. Director Roberts, yes. Director Cooper, yes. Director Culliver, yes. Directors, yes. Director Meyers, yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Thank you. Item two, accept the resignation of Dr. Ron Sofo, interim superintendent, effective 21 March. Have a motion. Have a second. Second. Director Colliver, yes. Director Zowski, yes. Director Meyers, yes. Director Roberts, yes.

035Director Cooper, yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Thank you. Now hand it over to our solicitor. I need a motion to approve discipline and dismissal resolutions for employee 1518 effective March 28th, 2025. Second. Next, I need a motion to approve the district settlement in case number GD 22-00009334. motion. Second. Director Roberts, yes. Director Cooper, yes. Director Culliver, yes. Director Zowski, yes. Director Meyers, yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Thank you. Now we'll go into new business. Take item IB1 [Music] through F.F2 IB1 through IF2. Any questions, comments before we vote? Question, comments? No questions, sir. Any admin have any questions, comments about any of this? IB, IB1 through IBF? None heard. Have a motion. Have a second. Second. Director Colliver. Yes. Directors. Yes. Director Myers. Yes. Director Roberts. Yes. Director Cooper. Yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Thank

036you. Personnel approve the complement contract of Mr. Michael Hower. Have a motion. Have a second. [Music] Director Meyers. Yes. Director Roberts. Yes. Director Cooper. Yes. Director Culliver. Yes. Directorski, five yeses. Motion passes. Thank you. Pop it up, Mr. [Applause] Speech. No big long speech. just want to express my uh thanks and gratitude to the uh so Rocks board of education uh to the administrators, to the faculty, staff, to the students, and to this uh community. Uh it's been two years, two unexpected years, but two very good years, and I'm grateful looking forward to the next next several months and however long that might be. It's been a pleasure. It's been a joy. Uh, thank you. Thank you. You went from going from being here for six six months to two years, huh? Thank you for

037the dedication to our district. We appreciate it. Up next, before we approve this next motion, I want to introduce Dr. Irwin Wasidal. Um, you still online, sir? I am. Can you hear me? Yes, sir. We can hear you. Now, we would like to introduce you, sir, um to our district as the interim superintendent going forward. Um if you don't mind, sir, just introduce yourself, who you are, where you're from, a little bit about yourself, your history. Of course. Um before I begin, I can only say, you know, Miss Connor, she made me kind of hungry and I hope I don't I hope I don't mess these up. So, my memor is pretty good. Payton, Miracle, Alicia, Karma, Maddie, and Aaron. Great job, students of the month. And the highlight obviously was the pie song. So,

038that I thought was kind of cool. And to Mike, congratulations. Um, you're a good good man and I look forward to uh working with you. So, a little bit about myself. Um, I grew up in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania. I went to Richland High School way back in the day. Went to Cal State way back in the day and got my science teaching degree. Um, I got my master's, my principal's papers from California University of Pennsylvania. And then I got my doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh. I was a science teacher, assistant football coach, track coach where I taught at Ambridge High School. I was assistant principal, junior high principal, high school principal and then I became assistant superintendent at North Alagany for one year. From there I went to Cornell as superintendent of schools for seven

039years and then I went to Ambridge for five years and I retired from Ambridge. I still work part-time for Keystone Purchasing Network through the Central Susuana Intermediate Unit. And a number of years ago through a recovery program, I went to Wilkinsburg High School for about a year and a half to work as a consultant with their high school for renewal and improvement. Um, we've been married, my wife Beth, for 41 years. We have two grown sons. One lives in Greenree, one lives in Bridgeville South Fyet School District. And I apologize. This was rather uh a lastm minute type of deal here, but we are in Hilton Head on vacation. If I was in the Pittsburgh area back home, I certainly would have come to the meeting, but I look forward to getting to know everybody

040in the Stow Rock School District. Uh, most importantly, I can't wait to meet the uh, principles and the teachers and the children most importantly. And I was telling uh, Mr. Culver the other evening on the phone that uh, Stow Rocks McKe Rocks has a special place in my heart because my in-laws grew up in McKe Rocks back then. If my memor is correct, I believe they went to Stow High School and a bunch of my aunts and uncles, the Leon, and I know the Leon children, which are around my age, all graduated from Stow Rocks. And lastly, I told Mr. um Colliver that a few years ago I got a call from Keystone Purchasing Network, my little part-time job, and through KPN, your football committee, we were able to put the field turf field in

041at your uh football field in your football stadium. So, that was I think kind of cool on our end as well as your end. So, I'm really thrilled and looking forward to next Tuesday bright and early. So, does anybody have any questions? Everyone's shaking their head. No, sir. We're excited to have you. Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate everything that you have done for me so far. Well, thank you, sir. I appreciate you introducing yourself. We're going to go ahead and um open it up for voting to approve uh the appointment of Dr. Irwin Widle as the interim superintendent. I have a motion. I have a second. Director Colliver, yes. Director Zowski, yes. Director Meyers, yes. Director Roberts, yes. Director Cooper, yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Congratulations, sir. Welcome to our district. Thank you

042so much. Thank you. Most appreciated. Hey sir, um our solicitor will be giving you a call at some point in time um when you get back from vacation. Sounds good. That way we can talk about the future and what it looks like. Sounds like a plan. Thank you. Next, we'll go to legal. I need a motion to approve student discipline agreement for student number 300027. Motion. Director Myers, yes. Director Roberts, yes. Director Cooper, yes. Director Culver, yes. Director Zowski, yes. Five yeses. Motion passes. Next, we'll go into committee reports. Anyone have any committee reports like to share? That's where we are financ Make sure that we're on track on that building. Thank you, Dowski. Anybody have any other comments, feedback? All right, none heard. With that being said, our next scheduled meeting will take place

043April 17th. Location will be at the Focus on Renewal Center um out and about in the community. So, come on out to that meeting, please. Plenty of seating. uh I'll be in an agenda review meeting and then after that we'll meet back here on April 24th for our voting meeting. Um with that being said, any other questions before we adjourn this meeting? All right, none heard. Have a motion to adjurnn. Have a second. This means ajourn. Thank you.

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