May 2026 Board Meeting

001I'm just waiting for it to start. All right. Good to good evening everyone. Welcome to tonight's meeting. Uh before we start, I said put a disclaimer out real quick. We just came out executive session for personnel and contracts uh discussion. All right. With that being being said, Jen, will you lead us in the uh 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. >> Thank you very much for that. Can you please call the >> Diana? Can >> Dan, >> she's out. Yep. >> Dan >> here. >> Brian Davis >> here. >> Jen Goldhan here. Rachel Gray >> here. >> Mary Keer >> here. >> Chad Kleinets >> here. >>

002Chad Mallerie >> here. >> Julie Marshall >> here. >> Dr. Sterner >> here. >> Dr. Meyers. >> Justin Pier >> here. >> All right. Welcome to the meeting. >> All right. Thank you, Jen. Our next item on the agenda is public comment. Is there any public comment for this evening? All right. No further comment, we'll move along. Next is uh some discussions. We have three things. Uh first is going to be the math curriculum resource presentation followed by the community eligibility provisions and then lastly the 2627 budget presentation. So I will turn to you. >> Thank you very much. Um as you stated we do have uh three presentation topics this evening and I'd like to kick off this evening with our math um curriculum resource presentation. Dr. Wales, our director of curriculum, is here

003with us this evening to present the work that um our our math folks have done throughout this year to where we are now at the point where our curriculum is written and we need a re resource to enhance the curriculum for our students and that what that is what Dr. Wales is here to present this evening. Um so without further ado, Dr. Wales, we'll get you situated. Right. >> All right. Great. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Before I get going, I'm going to hand out some resources. you have something in front of you that you can look at while I'm referencing some of these materials. So, give me a moment to do that. Try to get a good smattering. >> Yeah. One over here, one over here, two over here. So,

004I'll be referencing some of these. Here's a teachers. Wait for it. Let's go with >> Thank you. Thank you. >> This is a team. So we have two vendors in front of you. One is a Hills reveal math and the other is a vendor called Edge Gems. Before I kind of dig into the particular components of each of them and talk about uh I want to walk through kind of the timeline on the screen to give you some background as to how we got to this point where we're requesting uh new resources. Uh so when I came on back in June, part of the summer work was to look at the curriculum maps and to plan for what our professional learning and what our curriculum writing experience was going to be as we started the

005year. So that initial professional learning and curriculum planning started in August and September. Through that process, we you know we learned a lot about where the teachers were. We have essentially all four core subject areas and one or two additional areas that were writing curriculum, which is a lot for any district to take on. our math department was in the midst of kind of finalizing the learning goals of their unit maps and and it seemed like they were ready to move on to assessments, but after kind of diving back in and doing some kind of review process and some quality control, we realized we had to backtrack a little bit and do a little bit of relearning on kind of solidifying that process. And by October, we realized we kind of had to pause what

006we were doing and do a little bit of alignment work. Uh meaning that what was going on K through 12 and the kind of uh the articulation as students were moving through the grade levels, we needed to talk about what parts and components of the standards they were on and how they were moving on to another part or component of those different standards and where we were aligning them within the courses. Um, so that led to sort of a needs analysis by November. And what we realized is that we, you know, part of the structural kind of the systemic issue we have as a district is that within each grade level, we may have teachers that are teaching somewhat different standards and we didn't have common assessments. So right there, you know, and when you're

007talking about curriculum, there's multiple ways you can have a misalignment. You could have a misalignment with the standards and what you think you're instructing on. You could have a misalignment between what you're instructing on and what the assessments are actually kind of trying to assess with the student. Uh you could have misalignment with the resources that you're using, what you think you're teaching, what you're assessing, and and all sorts of that. And so we realized that on multiple fronts, we had some disjointedness. Um one of the issues that we saw also was that the resources that we have are not consistently used across a grade level. the teachers have resources, but it was pretty much their role and responsibility to kind of sift through the variety of resources that we have um and to construct

008a kind of teaching and classroom environment that doesn't necessarily align with their neighbors. And this was part of that process. If we wanted to get to where we would like to be as a district within a relatively short period of time uh and not go through a multi-year process of alignment, it becomes all the more necessary to look at and that's kind of we shifted focus to looking at curriculum vendor materials. Now Dr. Stern will be the first to kind of approach this as this is you know what you get in these workbooks what you get in these manuals these teach it's not the curriculum we have control over what we're teaching but it doesn't mean they don't influence it heavily and they do because that alignment is done behind the scenes for you the

009kind of articulation and vertical alignment of how it moves from kindergarten through 12th grade by these curriculum vendors it's not perfect but they do a lot of that work for you so it expedites the process So they are just materials. It's just resources. But I'm going to dive deeply into them to show how the material resources are aligned with what we want to see as best teaching practices. Also, the assessments will give us a foundation of common assessments that everyone will be implementing so that we're going to start the year off. Even though it'll be a transition into a new curriculum research, which is going to have a tremendous influence on what these teachers are teaching, how they're teaching, and how they're assessing our students, it'll give us a solid foundation to begin to gather

010data to see where we are now out of alignment. So, that is kind of the big overview. We began the initial vetting after I developed the curriculum vision cycle which was presented to Sierra back in December and then we started looking at resources. Now I like to take a little bit longer a time to do that and I know the department felt the squeeze but we needed to get where we needed to get to by the end of this year and I'm confident you know when you look at curriculum vendors they they really do their research and they really bring some of the best minds in that industry together to create a product that is very useful. And as I go through this, you're going to see that we have two very different vendors um

011in in the sense of like finding them and and and seeing what is what and what they're presenting, but they all kind of do the same thing. So there's there's best practices out there and they're incorporating them in. Some incorporate one or another best practice to a greater or less degree to kind of give their curriculum product a flavor so that they can sell it, but they all have a lot of similar attributes. We are at the point where we're presenting on two curriculum vendors after going starting with a process of looking at seven and getting seven presentations from seven different vendors, getting teacher feedback on those presentations, looking at the curriculum materials. If you go into my office, it looks like a warehouse at this point and most of that stuff unfortunately ends up

012in the trash can as we all know as you just toss out the samples they are more than happy to send you. Um, but we are at the point where we're asking for your approval on these on these products. Does anybody have any questions about how we got to where we are? Okay. So, if we go to the next slide here, um, what I'm doing is I'm not I'm trying not trying to set up a comparison between these two products, but I want you to understand the details that are embedded within them and some of the uh the alignment between them because though we have two products, it is very similar. They're very similar in nature. um and they complement each other nicely. We are looking at the same product and you might ask well

013why are you going to two different ones? You could have one you know that extends K through algebra 2 which is really the core of what we're looking at here. We have the similar we have the same product reveal which is this McGraill product from K through 5 and from algebra 1 geometry and algebra 2. The other product we're looking at is specifically designed for middle school and that actual vendor only builds stuff for middle school. They don't do anything else. Um I think they're they're starting to put materials together for K through 5, but they're they're a few years away from that. So on the left I have some of the attributes. The the big picture view, bird's eye view, both of them are nationally recognized. Both of them have been approved and vetted.

014Now, Pennsylvania is kind of catching up to this. Um, and they're there with structured literacy and some of their ELA. You'll see me here uh probably at the end of next year to talk about ELA resources that are now legislatively mandated for our ELA update and that's coming this coming year that we have to implement in the following year. So, you'll see me here again talking about ELA stuff. But many other states have approved and vetted through their agencies, through their um you know, through their departments of education. Uh both of these resources, they're both nationally recognized. They're both approved and vetted by multiple states um you know, across the union. Uh Ed reports, which is a kind of a clearing house, a quality control mechanism that is developed by educators and teachers. They all

015have what's called all green on ed reports which the curriculum vendors will advertise freely that they're all green on ed reports which is good. Um they all have an online component. They differ subtly in well not so subtly in some cases but they both have an online component that gives students access to materials at home. It gives teachers access to extra materials aside from what you see in the traditional paper materials. and they both have professional learning that comes at cost uh which we would be asking to utilize. If we dig into the unit features, which is why I handed these out, um there's really a unit view that I want you to be aware of for each of them, and there's kind of a lesson view that I'd like you to be aware of.

016When we look at the unit view for EDGEMS, if you have any of the EDGEMS materials around you, uh what you're going to find is the units are designed very similarly. There's a routine for every unit. It starts with a self assessment for students. Um, in reveal, it goes not so much a self assessment, but their their other side of that coin is kind of a notice and wonder. So, they they invite curiosity with each unit. Uh, where they're asking kind of big questions. They're trying to make authentic connections. Um, and they do have this kind of track your progression on a proficiency scale or learning target chart. Edge Gems also offers that where students are going to be encouraged at different lesson points throughout the unit to go back for the sake of clarity

017and look at exactly what it is they're supposed to be learning in the unit and where they can assess themselves. Edge has this kind of interesting storyboard approach to the units where the unit and and this is where curriculum is kind of going not just ELA curriculum but all curriculum science is meant to tell a story about a unit. Now it is a story about how phenomena are interacting and how they represent these basic principles of nature. Social studies is you know the push towards social studies is to develop a story for these units. Same thing for math. What is the story of these math principles? Why are they collected in together to what we call a unit or module in this encapsulated piece of time? What is the story here? Why are we learning

018it? And that's really to answer the question, why are we learning this? Um within each of them on the right side you see reveal and if you're thumbming through any of the workbooks or any of the teachers you'll see different points where it wants you to talk about math. So the language of mathematics edge gems com you know kind of comparison point to that is they incorporate math language routines what they know from research. Students have to talk about math and the concepts of math to actually understand math. not simply routinely do problems but they have to sit and they discuss the application of those problems the concepts behind those problems and how they are utilizing them. Uh so that's all baked in there. The vocabulary of math is baked in there and the lesson

019sequence they have is identical unit by unit. What you're going to find is that each uh each lesson there's a certain number of lessons per unit for reveal and a certain number of lessons per unit for edge gems. They usually tap out around 145 to 150 lessons. And you may ask why we got 180 plus or 170 plus uh day school year. Well, there's a lot of flexibility in the size of those lessons and there's a lot of days that kids won't see the the math teacher that we have baked into the schedule. The lesson features and this is very important for me as a curriculum director and for us as a system is you want to understand the features that are being applied in each lesson because it influences the teaching practices in the

020room. What we know about best practices in math are much of it are baked into these lesson sequence activities. When you open up the workbook, and if you're just thumbming through, you'll see, oh, there's a lot of problems in here. But there's actually by design problems that make students and ask teachers to do specific things. One of those things is that each of them, if you look at the top, there is some sort of interest grabber, which is standard lesson procedure supposed to get their interest. And it gems. It is a choice board that the teacher has to say I'm going to implement this activity for reveal. It is a be curious moment. So it's designed to get them to inquire to ask a big question about what they are doing or to see some

021sort of application in an authentic context. After that, both of them have this explore, meaning they are now going to take what they just had as an inquirybased kind of snippet, a a little 5 to 10 minute thing, and they're going to explore it a little bit more deeply. And that's where you kind of get started into your lesson presentation with Reveal, where you have more of a traditional approach. And these are these are fairly traditional approaches to the curriculum for math. Some that we looked at are not traditional. They're more inquiry based, more like, okay students, we're going to give you some of the raw materials. We want you to figure it out. This is not that. And I like the fact that this it has inquiry components in it for the students to

022really question, but most of the time they're getting what we know is the gold standard, which is explicit instruction in this material that the teacher is modeling it. The students have a chance to apply it in a guided setting and then they are given independent practice. They both have, if you look on both sides, they both have application of fluency baked into the lesson. They have assessment practices baked into every lesson so that the teacher can gather data. They have independent practice and they have choices for the teachers to implement each of these segments of the lesson. So, if you just scan down there, you're going to see there's kind of for many of these, there's a onetoone component where students are asked to talk about it or they're asked to summarize it. They're asked

023to independently apply it, but they're given differentiated options for students that just need enrichment, for students that need some fluency practice, and for students that aren't understanding it conceptually. One of the things that um I want to particularly talk about our need as a district is for data. This both of these allow for data at all points throughout the unit and at many points within the lesson. So the check for readiness if we have a student in the class that does not need that lesson because they have not necessarily tested out, we don't have a system for that, but they've given the teacher enough data to realize you don't need a deep dive on this. You already have this pretty mastered. Baked into the lesson also is differentiated opportunities for that student. And that's one

024of those things we want to train and really give our teachers some professional learning in is that this system both of them have ample ability to gather a lot of data on kids and to really personalize what that looks like for students. We are using through McGraill a program called Alex which I'll talk about in more depth. But Alex allows for personalized learning for students much in the same way we had been utilizing I Ready for all of them have unit summitive assessments. Both of them provide reviews so that you get that kind of spiraling effect so that you're not just learning a topic and dropping it that there are baked into the lessons and into the unit reviews a hearkening back to the units that came prior and some of the lesson activities there.

025So good practices, we see fluency practices, we see per opportunities for performance, opportunity for self- assessment and an authentic application. All of the hallmarks of what you would look for for a well-designed unit to have a teacher build this. And this is why we go to curriculum vendors to have a teacher build this themselves or even a collection. And some of the classes we teach, we only have one teacher, maybe two teachers. It would take years to get to that point. So to expedite the process we are pulling this in and and requesting this the online experience is there for both of them. In edge gems you see something like that flu that board to the left. Um teachers and students have access to that. Most of the materials are put into these workbooks. However

026there is an ample kind of extension. The essential materials are in the workbooks and the teachers edition, but the extension materials, the choices that teachers had games that are included are in the online version. And then for reveal and I'll leave this in the presentation because you can actually if you click on if you have access to the presentation PDF or the live version you can click on you can use those uh passwords and actually go in and look at the materials and and play around with them and see what they offer which it's kind of exciting to see because it you know what we're using now and what we might be hesitant to move away from these two vendors offer that and then so much more for us to work with. And so I'm

027excited to really, you know, in my mind what we're thinking about for the future. We're thinking about over the summer. How are we going to plan for our teachers to come back and get the professional learning that they need to implement this? How are we going to set up a system so that we can check on fidelity of implementation of these products to make sure that when I walk into a teacher's room to see how it's going, I have a nice checklist or or or kind of boxes that I can say, "Oh, you're doing the fluency practice because we know kids need that. Oh, you're offering differentiated for student differentiation for different students at this point within the lesson. And we have our grouping set. We're gathering data on virtually a daily basis that we

028can track as students progress through it. I think that might be Yeah, that's it. So, what I want to leave you with uh about this and then answer any of your questions is that both of them are well-designed products. Edge Gems is in the middle in the middle school. they design middle school curriculum and we wanted to give our teachers some voice in this. What we didn't want to do is say, "Hey, I went through I looked at seven. You're you're you're getting that. I hope you enjoy it." But we also wanted to make sure that in the teacher's choice that it was quality product. We're sure it's quality product at this point. Now, what we have to ensure is that the ongoing professional learning and the implementation of it lands. And that's really where

029the work actually starts. We're asking for a six-year purchase for this product, which if you look at the cost analysis, which we didn't break down, it'll be even under what we're currently paying for some of our for some of our materials. So, um I don't know if you call that, a reduction. What do you call that? Savings or a reduction? You're the you're the account guy. Yeah, >> he calls it whatever he wants to call it. But, um I I this is uh not only it is it responsible for our curriculum and for our students, but it's also financially very responsible choice. So, um, right now if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. >> I don't have a question so much, but I just want to say thank you for the

030tremendous amount of work that you have put in in looking at all of these books, the time being financially responsible in looking at the books and how they offer the financing and everything through the course of the years. You have taken on a lot >> and >> my pleasure. Thank you for letting me >> genuinely appreciate everything you're doing. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Any other questions about the materials? If you have any questions when you walk away and you start or you want access to that, just anybody reach out to me. Be more than happy to give you access, send you a video on how to access the stuff or answer any details. Um, if this goes forward, we'll be under review. I'll be, you know, after tonight be collecting the materials. They'll be

031up at the district office for anybody come in and check out and if any residents want to come in and check out be more than happy to sit with them and go through and explain the operation of these things because I think that that's absolutely necessary. >> And just a little note for uh Sierra is the third Thursday of the month for the most part meeting dates and times they're always here six o'clock for the mo if there's any changes it'll be posted but um third Thursday of the month and they're posted on the website. They are open meetings. >> They are. >> All right. Thank you so much, Dr. Wales. And I agree wholeheartedly with director Gold Hanwent. She stated um her appreciation >> and um what I'd also like to add there is

032Dr. Meyers and Dr. Wales have spent a tremendous amount of time on this, but I also want to highlight the amount of work that our teachers have done. Okay. Um with sitting by Dr. the whale side in vetting these products. Um it can be very overwhelming and they've done a really good job to sort through everything. Um and I think at the end of the day we came out with a very good product um that will enhance the curriculum that our teachers and Dr. Wales have written over the course of the year. Um again they will be on display in June. you will be voting on this um so that then once you approve the resources, we will be able to move forward and um order those and get those in the hands of our

033teachers as soon as possible um so they're prepared for the next school year. So again, thank you so much Dr. Wales for being here with us tonight. >> Yeah, thanks. >> Thank you. >> Okay, I'd like to move on to our next presentation, which is our budget presentation. So let me just get that all set here. >> Are you okay if I touch on C first? >> Yep. All right. Um, so you're probably wondering why C is on here right now. Some of you might not know what C is. So, real quick, C is our program for all lunches being free, no matter what your um designation is. So whether you're free, reduced, or or paid. Um, in our district right now, we all students get a free reimbursement lunch. Okay? So that's what C

034is. Um the reason I brought it up for discussion now is we've re we have received notification from uh PTE uh which governs our food service department um that we are eligible to look at our percentage rates of reimbursement um based on the amount of free students we have. And remember, C is all based off the direct certification. It's not based off of the applications that individuals fill out, okay? It's direct certification. So, what we've noticed is that we have a slight increase uh district-wide, not every building. Uh, ironically, the elementary school is showing a reduction of the percentage of free students through direct certification. The other two buildings have an increase uh but districtwide we have an in increase in the percentage of free students uh through direct certification. What that means is we

035have the ability to gain greater reimbursement through um the federal government because that's what C is funded through is through through the federal government. PTE is re is advising school districts that with the uncertainty of the education department at the federal government that as their recommendation now is that if you see the benefit of a increase in um reimbursement which we would have to take advantage of that. Okay. But what it does is it resets the clock of your C. So C is a four-year every four years you have to um re >> certify. >> Yes. Okay. So right now if the bottom line what it comes down to is the board comfortable with us keeping the C in place. Okay. And some of you were on the board when we went to C. Um,

036and back when we went on it, we talked about how once we get on it, it's going to be very difficult to get off of it because right now parents do not have to pay anything for a reimburseable lunch. Now, if kids want a cookie, if kids want chips, if yes, they pay for that. Um, we have zero debt, lunch debt, because all reimburseable meals are free. if we would get out of this, our negative de debt would skyrocket. Okay. Um I that's just my gut and I I mean all districts are dealing with significant negative balances. So obviously the benefit is we get a higher reimbursement. um the C uh would reset and so it' be from 26 27 another four years we would be locked into if you're okay with us doing that.

037I don't know of any negative to it to be honest but obviously I need your approval to move move on that so that we can get that done uh and have the application finalized and we're we're set to for the 2627 school year. Can I just have a quick refresh? If I remember correctly, we were negative anywhere from like six to $10,000. I think on average it was $1,000 a month >> and because the um the cafeteria fund couldn't, >> right? So, it wasn't a month. I mean, to be honest, we were by far the lowest in around us because we had donors that provided us checks. Um, whether it was churches or um other local organizations that that gave us that funding. Um, but I mean we were for the year we were between

038five I mean I don't think it ever rose to $10,000 in a year, but at the end of the year we were definitely hovering between the 5 to7,000 negative um balance. Uh but and then those people we would turn over to collections which we would not see much out of that because there's really no teeth to that. But so that's that's I mean that's the gist of what I I need I need you guys to be comfortable and approving me to re certify if you will us for that 26 27 and then that starts the new four-year period moving forward >> and those shortages would come out of our general fund that we need to balance our budget every year because that is correct >> underfund it not our cafeteria fund >> no because our

039cafeteria fund's already >> um >> it's exhaust Correct. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Yep. >> And you need that tonight or next meeting? >> No, you're not. There's no official action that needs to be taken because you're already we're already in it. >> Doing it. >> Yes. So, you just need to give me This is basically just me coming to you and asking is everybody okay if we do this? There's no official board action that needs to be taken. >> Yeah. Is there I guess there's a question, you know, it's your time to ask questions of the administration about this program, especially if you're hearing about for the first time. Again, some of us were around when we originally decided to go this way because the reasons they laid out. So, guess I would look

040to Chad and Rachel and if you guys have any questions or anything, you know, you guys comfortable with moving forward about Chad and Mary and Jen, Ryan. >> Yeah. >> Yep. >> I think we need all the help we can get with the budget. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. All right. Then we'll move on right into the general fund budget uh preliminary uh that you will be approving here shortly after we get through my presentation. But I hope throughout this whole process since January um like I said and I hope everyone sees the benefits of it. It's like a building block. Okay, you start with a foundation. and we keep building upon it and I provide you more and more information as we go through and I've been saying since the beginning if there's any

041information you need please let me know as we work through this um because obviously it's it's one of your biggest decisions you have to make as a board um that decision comes in June um again this one isn't as important because you still have time depending upon if you approve what is on the board agenda tonight to make adjust ments. Uh but again, we've laid out what we feel are um the key parts. Um but with that, I'll get started and if any point throughout this you have questions, please stop me and that that's just have a discussion. So with that, I'll I'll get started. So um the budget changes um since April. Okay. We had a decrease in our salary and benefits due to our staffing plan that uh was already shared with the

042with the board uh in the amount of $31,399. We've also uh increased our earned income tax as a result of more information that has come through uh with um having more data. Um, we're definitely confident that I can bump that in increase in our earned income tax, which remember is our second largest local revenue source, okay? Outside of our tax uh real estate taxes. Um, the bad part about a reduction in sal salary and benefits is you get a reduction in your reimbursement for retirement and social security um because they're tied together. So we get half percent uh back from the state for both retirement and social security. So if we're getting less of an expense that means we're getting less revenue as well. Obviously it's not nearly the hit uh that we have on

043our decrease but it does bring it down slightly. So as you can see here our total impact positive on the on the budget is $356,347. Okay, does that all make sense? All right. So, this is just some background information. Uh, you've seen this before, but I just think it's um important to go over again. Again, the board gave me the direction to bring the preliminary budget, which is what you're approving tonight at the act one index. And remember that act one index is 4.7%. Um, there's our total assessed value. And the act one index uh mill rate at that act one index is 14.4276 mills. Okay. So with that um this is where our expenditures stand along with our revenue. Um and then that would be the fund balance usage the 2.1 million um to

044get us to a balanced budget. Again that's at the act one index the 4.7%. Okay. So here's a look at the um summary of revenues. Um so obviously this shows the balanced budget. Um so it's factoring in the fund fund balance usage of the 2.1 2.1 million. Um but if we pull that out, the actual increase between budget to budget from last year's budget to this year's budget is just under 4% in revenue. Okay. Um the one thing to note, um I think it's important to see that roughly we're about 60% locally funded, which is no surprise. Um that's traditionally what it's been. We're just shy of 40% in um state funding. And then the federal revenue, which I've we've spoke about this uh for the past couple months, is minimal. It's just at about

0451%. And keep our fingers crossed. I'm not really hoping, but I don't know what next year will bring with the federal government. So, that could be zero, but we'll see. This year, at least we have something and we'll take that as a win. All right, moving on to our expenditures. Um, as you can see here, this has come down. It was over 6% prior to those adjustments in April from April to May. Now, we're just above 5.5%. Um, with the majority of this, we're roughly about 65, just under 65%, and this is what I've been saying all along, of our our people. That's what makes Bermudeian Springs. So, salary and benefits, okay, that's all staff. We're roughly about 65%. Um, and then that lovely 500, that's for your transportation, that's your cyber charter, that's all

046your tuition. Um, that's the next highest. It's roughly 15%. and that that amount continues to grow. Okay. Um and then followed by our debt service which is the 800900. So that's roughly about 10% just over 10% of our budget. Okay. So I think it's very critical to look at this. Um our number from the last time I think it was in February I showed this we did reduce I think two people two students um which obviously any reduction is good but that number is still high very high if you look at that cost estimate for 2526 it by I mean we're 400,000 more than 400,000 more than we were last year. Okay. Now we're we've eclipsed the $2 million mark and for a budget our size that's significant. Okay. So that's why some of the

047things that we've discussed to try to address this cost is why we're doing it. Okay. Because this this is hard for public schools and it's not just Bermudian. This is something that is anywhere around us is dealing with this. Okay. Statewide. Okay. but specifically here anywhere. York, Adams, Franklin, they're all dealing with this. Okay. Um and we're all trying to figure out how we can there's no other b way to say it compete because that's what we're doing. They're they're competing against us. Okay. And we have very little say on what we can do. Okay. When it comes with if they've selected this, we know that we're paying those 14,000 for regular ed and over 26 all but 27,000 for special. Okay. So again, don't like beating a dead horse, but I think it's important

048for you to understand because once they get here, there's very little we can do. Okay. All right. So, this is new. Um, and for the new board members, this is our homestead farmstead credit. Okay. So, this is based off the property tax relief funds that we received from the state. Okay. So, what that is is There's no other way to say it, but all the casino and gaming funds. Okay. The initial reason that that was put out there was for property tax relief. If school districts received all the funding from that, that number would be significantly higher. What has happened over the years is the piece of the pie has gotten cut up so much that more than just school districts get funding from the property tax relief fund. Okay. Um now I will say

049last year as you can see with these numbers with 2526 that was the highest increase we received since it's been in place. Okay. I mean we would see less than a dollar uh adjustment from year to year. Last year we've we significantly increased uh as you can see from 245 and 2425 to 279 in 2526. This is an automatic tax relief for all approved homestead farmsteads. Okay, so 65% of our residents, okay, are approved homestead farmsteads. A lot of the ones that are not have multiple properties. You can only have one homestead farmstead. So, if you're a landlord and you have 10 properties, you're not going to be a homestead farmstead on those. You'll be on one of your primary residents only. Okay? And the thing that we're required to do every year is in

050like between Christmas and New Year's, we mail out to all the un unapproved, the people that have not done it. They get reminders to do it. We can't force people to do it, but we are we're required to send out notices. So, that's happening every year. So, they're being contacted. They're being told like this is free money if Now, some of them, like I said, might be land land owners and landlords that have multiple properties and they can't they don't qualify. But, so 65% of our uh of our taxpayers automatically for this year get that $27,9.17. So, as you can see, it's actually an 8 cent decrease from last year. Um, so we had 14 14 more properties approved from last year to this year and we only received an additional $3,618 from the state.

051Now, there was a huge increase last year. So, that's that's reasonable. It's not out of line. Um, but with that, I mean, you take your total number of properties and you divide it by the total number of property tax relief. That's how I get that that figure. So each homestead farmstead will see that automatically off their tax bill. Now what it'll show in your tax bill is the actual assessed value. Okay? So depending upon what you guys approve at the June board meeting for our millage rate, then I calculate off the millage rate, what amount of that millage rate equals 27917. And the cessed value is what you'll see will come off of your property tax bill in July. Okay, that make sense. Yeah. All right. So, just recap from for the last three years,

052we've had an increase of $34.14 in property tax relief. And again, like I said already, this is an automatic savings uh for all the approved homestead farmstead property owners. All right. So the next few slides here I break down it's the expenditure side just in different views. Okay. Um I think it's it's helpful just to have an idea and looking at different things. So um I'm not going to read verbatim on this. I mean you guys have the information uh but you know I'll just highlight some of them. So the utilities as you can see there is 621,000. So that's going to be your electricity, our fuel oil, our propane, our electricity. That's all of that. Okay. Um extracurriculars right there is about 1.2 million. I talked earlier about our tuition payments around 1.2 million.

053Our contracted services, um there's our our uh chart charter cyber. So what I'm estimating this on the previous slides I showed was 2.2 2 million for this current year. As you can see, I'm estimating 2.4 next year. Okay, that's I mean that's what I have to go off of. Okay, until we see something different um that we see a trend going in the opposite direction um I don't want to be caught on the other end. Okay. Um so our healthc care expense uh we already talked about where we were locked in and we were very good to have the cap uh at 12% and then the um with our um increase in the deductible brought it down to 11.15. Um so our total healthcare that's medical, dental, vision and life is just under 5 million.

054Um, special ed budget, I we've been talking about this since January, continues to skyrocket. Okay, that's based on the needs of our kids. Special ed, I've I've said many times, is very unique. We got to take care of what we need to or it's going to cost us a heck of a lot more. Okay, so that's just under $5 million right now. Um, the debt service. So, this also includes the additional funding for ACTI, uh, the debt service piece that I continue to increase. So, this current, uh, year, it's going to be 450,000. Okay. So, I'm increasing up 100,000 every year. Um, so that's baked into there. Um, because what the board's direction to me was to get it to 600,000. Um, so it'll be another year and then year and a half, if you

055will, to get us to 600,000 total. Um, but we're definitely in a much better position than we were not having anything. Okay. Um, the retirement again, that's an that's something we have zero control over. That's a mandated cost that we get right from piecers. Okay. Now, what blows me away is we continue to see that number decrease. I don't know why they give us a little savings, but the projections still show it going up to almost 40%. All right. Um, but we'll take any little savings we can get. Um, so this is I mean we've we've this is looking at the percentages. You're just seeing it in a different way here. Um, but um, we've touched on all this. So, all right. So, I mean, this this is something that I think as board members

056sometimes it's helpful to be reminded because very little in a budget that we have ultimate control over without having to really affect people's livelihood. And what I mean by that is making difficult difficult decisions of any job losses, program um reductions, okay, things of that nature. And we never want to do that as much as we can. We want to stay away from that, right? So the things that are non-discretionary um total about 90% of our budget and that the things there are your salary and benefits, your student placements, that's special ed um charter cyber tuition. I mean we've talked about ways we're trying to combat that without doing some difficult decisions. Um and that's what we're hoping will drive the cost down, bring more money back to us as a district. um our debt

057service payments. I mean, we never want to default on a debt service payment. That definitely affects our bond rating, which has a direct effect on everything we do. Okay? We start defaulting on debt service payments, which I highly recommend we never do, but um that would have a detrimental effect on us as a district. Um, so again, this just highlights that we basically have 10% of the budget that to to really look at as far as specifics that we may want to adjust. And you know, if that's the case, I would have heard hoped that we would have heard from you by now, but obviously there's still time. But it's not something that's easily done at this point. Um but I think it's just important to highlight highlight this fact. So the board I think

058it's very good to understand our fund balance and remember our fund balance is our savings account. That's the best way to think about that. Okay. So this is a 10-year history. Okay. And you can see the numbers speak for themselves. So, the lowest that we've ever been in these 10 years was 2122, which was $5.7 million. Okay. Um, and where we're currently at is that figure that you've been seeing for the 2425 year, the 6.7. Okay. So, I think that's very helpful for you as we work through this process. So, the taxing options. Yep. Go ahead. >> What? Sorry. What was the estimated usage or addition to the fund balance for 2526? >> Uh, so last year. >> Well, no. Well, I get >> Oh, you mean you're showing you're showing the >> Yeah. Yeah,

059I see what you're saying. >> Right. What's the current >> Well, hold on. Let me get there. So, the estimated usage is $786,181. You jumped. You jumped me. >> I'm sorry. >> About five seconds. >> Oh, there it is. I got it. >> Five five slides ahead. It's all good. We'll touch on it when we get there. Got it. >> Yep. Thanks. >> Yep. So, you've seen this slide the whole way through since January. Okay. I just boxed in the the act one index because that's what is on the board agenda for tonight. Again, tonight is not the final budget, okay? But that shows what what it it is uh tonight. Um so that's where you're getting the 2.1 deficit uh at the act one index. Um and then there's the adjustments that I showed

060on the first slide on the bottom there. Salary and benefits, the increase in EIT, and then the decrease for retirement and social security. Okay. All right. Okay. Here's here's this beautiful picture. Uh a lot of colorful uh picture here as well. This is what you've seen since January and I said then it would never change and it's not. Um so just highlighting the five different options that I've that I've shown. Um but this is the effect. This is more for you for June. Um because this is the effect it would have. So, you're gaining $725,122 at the act one index and that's the maximum we can go to. Um, anything below that. So, as you can see, option B, you're losing revenue of 120 181,8280. Option C, you're losing 362561. Option D, you're losing 543842.

061And option E, you're losing all of it. $725,122. And then you can see the breakdown by municipality and that's for the average assessed value in each one of those municipalities. So that's the per month cost increase it would be. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. All right. So here you go, Brian. So again, this is taking the beginning fund balance which does not change in any of the options, okay? Because that that's a set number. Um that's audited and that's not going to change. The amount of fund balance usage is not going to change based on because that's based on our current budget right now 2526. Okay. So that brings you down to that figure of estimated for TW uh June 30th, 2026. And this is the number that Brian was asking for earlier. So

062that's the 5,948,92. Okay? From this point forward, as we move down, that number is going to change now. Okay? because the amount of uh money that you need to balance the budget changes based on what tax rate you choose in June. Okay. So that will show you what the ending estimate of fund balance would be at the end of next year 2627. Does that make sense? So it would range anywhere from 3.8 8 if you were to select the actin index all the way down to just over 3 million at zero tax increase. Make sense? Okay. All right. So now I'm just going to go through the budget projections based on each tax increase. Okay. So all five of them. As you can see at the act one index what it would look like. Um

063obviously we're good in 2728 from 2829 on the picture doesn't look great. Okay. Now, like I say on these, I mean year two and year three, they're very challenging because based on what the state budget and everything comes in because right now, as you know, and I'm I've said this many times, my current state budget in the budget is what we received this current year. Okay? That's what it is. Because there's no certainty that we're getting anything. All we have right now is a governor's proposal. Okay? we have nothing else. And they don't even start talking true about the budget until after you have approved your final budget in June. That's when the budget discussions really heat up. Okay. I've been talking to our legislators about that. They're all in agreement about it, but there's

064nothing they can do to change it because very I I can't remember the last time they've actually done what they're supposed to do and approving a budget by June 30th. Okay, for example, last year it was November when they approved their budget. Okay, so we'll go through this. So this is option B. Okay. So, I mean, option B still for 2728, obviously, it's very manageable. It's not as good because we're still negative, but it's under 100,000. Um, but year two and three, each one pictures gets a little worse. Yep. Option C, as you can see, we have work to do for 2728 because we're just shy of 500,000 negative. Option D, it's getting closer to a million. And option E, you're over about 1.2 million deficit. Okay, so that's the effect longterm on the projections

065based on what decision you make in June. And I'll f I'll end with this just to reiterate our school the school code allows us to reduce our millage rate from May to June. It does not allow us to increase. So that's why based on your recommendation we have the approval for the preliminary budget which is tonight at the act one index because we can't go any higher than that. Okay. So what that does is it allows you time to make your decision in June that if you want to bring down the millage rate from the act one index that you have that ability allows you more flexibility. Okay. Um and again I'll reiterate the final budget is what det was what sets the millage rate for the 2627 school year. Not tonight the final budget

066in June. Okay. And the reason that the June meetings basically a week later is because the budget needs to sit 30 days. Okay? So, I'll have it available in our admin office um for people that they want to come in and look at it. They're more than welcome to, but um it has to sit by school code. Um so the one thing I would ask before I would turn it over to questions is um are there as far as the preliminary as far as the final budget is concerned in June are there do you want me to bring all five options as a potential for approval? Um that's what we've done in the past. So um sometimes the board has given me the direction to take some of the options off the table. Uh because

067what happens is we'll start with the highest um one that you want me to bring forward and if the board is is there a majority of the board that votes for it then it stops. So that's that's the direction I need from the board tonight as far as how how many options or what options you want me to bring forward in the final budget. um for June. >> Oh, is there any I guess are you okay with the options saying they are do we I have my own comments but um is there do you want to see a different option? I think there's something between 3.25 and 4.7. You know, you could do we could change it up now, but this would be the last do that bring it to the board next month. Um

068personally, with all the different things coming up, um potential ACTI stuff with infrastructure here that we know is on the horizon need to be attended to. I just don't think it's smart%. Um, so I mean I go from there. If not, we can leave it on there. Option D is relatively low, too. Um, but I'm open for discussion on these different things. Um, I personally think that this is going to be one of those years where we would have to um considering uh a higher option to start funding some of these things in the future that are going to come possible. So, I open up for more discussion. >> Again, this is just for next meeting if you should take some things off the table or if you want to see a different percentage. Right,

069Jess? Yes. Yeah, >> I actually have some numbers that I researched with um Justin's help >> and I just wanted to point out that before you guys consider and give thought to percentage of taxes that you want to increase, want to bring to attention that we are legally mandated to fund PERS, the cyber tuition, special education, transportation um among other things. But Lanc also was in there was a 20% reimbursement for eligible projects such as buildings. Uh the building we're now would have been eligible if Plan Con was funded, but they stopped funding it back in 2019. Um HVAC basic building maintenance is eligible. So, I'm going to go through some of that and um I'm going to go back as far as 2021. So, in 2021 2022 school year, we were underfunded with Pasers

070by about 50%. And it's standard that we pay whatever the retirement amount is and then they kick us back half, which I think is inefficient, but that's irrelevant. Um, we were shorted. We had our contribution was we were underfunded by $2,217. Let me try this again. 2,217,690. The cyber tuition budget would,37 with zero. special education was3,4,28% of 1 million9,844. So we were short 2,220,184, 65% underfunded that our taxpayers had to pick up in this district. transportation, we were underfunded by $587,000 plus. Plan con would have helped us with a total of $516,51. All total, this this district alone was short at $6.7 million just in 2021 2022 budget year. 2022 2023 pasers we were underfunded by 2.3 million cyber tuition 1.5 million special education we were underfunded 2.3 million transportation 522,356 total that's 6.7 plus

071million just in a 2223 3 budget year. If you add Plan Con into that, which at that point would be for the middle school build that we're in and the renovations to the elementary school, that would be a savings to this district of 516,480 for the total budget shortfall of underfunded underfunding from the state by $7.2 million. Next budget here 324 teasers we were underfunded by 2.3 million cyber tuition zero reimbursement $1.7 million and I'm just rounding I'm not going for the exact numbers in the interest of time special education $2.6 6 million. We were 66% underfunded. Special education transportation. We were underfunded. $636,131. When you add in Plancon, the shortage there was $646,216 for a total budget shortfall in unfunded and underfunded mandates from the state of Pennsylvania at $7.9 billion. 23. We all

072know about the court ruling stating that um the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania found in favor of I think it's a William Penn school district and other districts who sued the state saying that they weren't paying their constitutionally required 50%. So in addition to all the numbers that we have talked that I've already mentioned we so 2425 we have our first our unfunded and underfunded mandates were paser at 2.4 4 million8 million special education $3 million transportation we were underfunded 633,000 Landcon underfunded $656,576 for a total of $8.5 million just in the 2425 budget alone. Last year for Pasers, well, let me start with the additions 2526. Our adequacy funding for last year was $362,75. In mandated expenses, we paid pasers. We were underfunded by 2.3 million. Cyber cyber charter, we were with zero reimbursement, $1.9

073million. Special education, we were underfunded, $3.2 million. Transportation, $568,31. Plan Con, we were short $658,390 for a grand total of a shortage last year, $8.7 million. This year, 2627 budget adequacy funding, we are budgeted $362,61. We are mandated to have iter budget. We are short 2.4 million. Cyber charter 2.4 million. Special education 3.5 million. This is an underfunding of 70%. This is the same percent as last year. Two years in a row the state underfunded us in special education by 70%. Transportation budget, we were underfunded $518,000. plan con we were underfunded $660,000 two 660 $6 660,260 for a grand total of $9.6 6 million just this budget year. We are underfunded by the state of Pennsylvania through all the mandates we have to pay. Personally, it sounds to me like the state is not paying

074their fair share. The burden is going to the taxpayers because we have to pick up 70% of the special education fund. everything for short in teasers which is 50% all this education charter and contour from districts who need to maintain their age there all of the other things that can keep it was in 2019 19. With that takes of money or indirect or whether purposeful not a lot If we were fully funded leaves us to the tune of this budget $9.6 million it really leaves us no choice to raise taxes. What we need to do, we need to clear our higher elected officials have them have saying work on something set in some kind of limit where we can they have I think that's not reasonable. Maybe they do. I don't know. the rainy day

075fund is dwindling. So, I don't know, but that's just something that something about when you consider. Yeah, that's >> all of these numbers are great and we can all go lobby our legislators to raise our but when we fund fundamentally look at the pool of money and whether it's coming out of our local citizens. If we if if let's assume every school district is underfunded by eight million dollars 500 state and state revenue well that's billion dollars but if you think that state budget should go up $4 billion a year and that's sustainable still coming the taxpayers of Pennsylvania and maybe maybe it would be distributed more equally or evenly but who knows it might it might be worse so I but we need to be financially sustainable regardless of I mean if we if

076we got eight more 8 million more dollars from the state of Pennsylvania budget flows are not good you know but this is so it's unfortunate that we have to rely on people with fixed income to to fund us. But the money is coming from our taxpayers either way and whether it go through the state of Pennsylvania first before it gets to us. I I just not wasting underfunded focus cut spending where we're able to fund our district. I don't think looking at these numbers were a waste of time. I think it was kind of highlight fact of the severity that we are underfunded. >> Um I mean even if they kicked in just 100% of paying for special education >> that would help us. Do I expect everything 100%. No, I don't. But it's a

077little ridiculous that this is mandated by law. Our state budget has a lot of other things that are not mandated by law that are paid for out of taxpayers money when this is mandated by law and it's not being funded. That's that's just where that was coming from. So you may think it's unnecessary to point this fact out. Clearly I don't and I don't know if there was any other benefit for anyone else here. But it was just to highlight the egregious amount that we are underfunded and especially special ed being underfunded because that requires us to raise taxes because we got to pay for it. >> Yeah. Well, I'm I'm guessing every district in the state of Pennsylvania is in a similar situation. >> They are. They all are. >> So, and our our

078legislators apparently aren't getting the message. So, I don't know what else we can do. >> Agreed. Yeah, thank you both your comments. Chad, >> I have some questions. >> Um, so just just so I understand all this. So the fund balance over the last 10 years have ranged somewhere between, you know, 57 5.7 and 7 million. And then what you have showed us in the next two years or so is like is going in the negative. Why is that happening? >> Well, so are we. >> Yeah, like I like I've said, I mean, right now, so I have no increase us receiving any increase in state funding for um this budget year. Okay? Because all we have right now is a governor's proposal. Okay? As we know how budget process goes, there's concessions on both

079sides that take place. Um, we've been fairly lucky, I should say, up to this point where we have not seen a decrease in funding by any stretch. Okay. Um, but even if we get the numbers, okay, that are in the governor's proposal, which I don't think we will, but if we do, that number is only roughly over $400,000. So, you still have a $1.7 million deficit with, let's just say you get $400,000, okay, in state funding. That's obviously going to make those outer years look a lot better, okay? because it compounds. We get it this year, that number is going to decrease significantly, the deficit in the next year and again. So, it it adds on. So, that's how it we've been able to continue to kick the can down the road, which we continue

080to try to do. To be honest, I don't trust the legislation and that's why I don't budget any increase at this. I haven't done it for many years because I have no guarantee. We have a split. We have a we don't have a controlling like the Democrats aren't in control up there. The Republicans aren't in control up there. So, you know, you're not going to get everything that a in this case a Democratic governor wants. So, what that number is I we have no idea. And they don't start talking about it until you already have made the budget final. And it's that that's just not Bermudian. That's everywhere. >> Okay. So the reason that it happened, I mean that we've been able to do it is we've been successful in being able to secure more

081funding, state funding. Okay. I will say our basic ed increases have dwindled over the years because it's very enrollment driven and as we've seen many many presentations, our enrollment continues to decline. So, we're not going to see the basic ed subsidy increases. Special ed, which Jen was just talking about, that has been, >> and again, this is not a Bermudian Springs thing. This is statewide, has been significantly underfunded for ever. I've been in school business for 26 years. It hasn't even come close to covering the cost. Okay. So, but the expenditures keep skyrocket, okay? Because there's nothing in a school district can do. We have to meet the needs of our students. And if a student comes in with a disability, we have to. And if we don't, it's going to cost a heck of

082a lot more than it would be to place that student to wherever he needs to. If we say no, they need to be here, they'll go through due process. And you know what that is? That's a lot of money. A lot more than the difference that we we're getting now. So it's like a rock between a rock and a hard place to some degree. But to answer your question, a lot of the main reason that we are um have been successful in maintaining our fund balance levels are based on the minimal increases we've been able to get out of the state. Okay. I will say we haven't had the potential of what ACTI has to bring to us, you know, and that's going to be long term. That's if that goes through and that happens,

083which all signs are they it will, but we'll we'll find out. That's a 20 year. That's not two years and over. That's a 20-year thing. We're looking at the feasibility study in the high school right now. What that comes back with. I mean, ultimately, that's going to be your decision as a board what what you want to do. But we all know construction costs. We know what this building costs when it was 5 years ago. With everything going on in the world and the pricing that's going to take that times two, you know, I mean, so we definitely have a lot more potential expenditures. By no means are they final. That's a decision that you as a board are going to make. But we know that the potential of a lot more expenditures moving forward

084than we have any potential of extra revenue going forward. >> And how do we how do you go about figuring out the expenditures from from year to year? Like how do you estimate? So what I do is I look at the prior five years of each one of those categories and I take an average unless I know something that's going to be coming forward in the next three years. Okay? So for example I look at um for utilities and the reason I do this and you're probably thinking well that's probably not smart to use the 5-year average. The way we purchase our utilities is much different than what you are able to do residentially. We hedge our like I already have all of our fuel oil hedged for next school year and I got it

085much cheaper than I have we are currently paying now. You would never think with that when you look at the fuel prices now but I know what our rates I know what our budget is for next year already because of the way we purchase. So, we take average five-year averages and I mean my predictions on the expenditures have been I mean for three years expenditures projections they've been fairly consistent and fairly I'm not going to say they're spot on by any stretch. I mean no one's that good but they've been pretty reasonable. >> So you take each category >> each category I look I go out I go back five years and I take a percentage and boom. >> Yes. >> Right. I guess my last question we have what 9.55 is the discretionary spending

086like how much of that could we shave off possibly? >> Well I I mean that >> so go ahead. >> Yeah I was like what do you mean like are you asking for an example what that goes towards? >> Well no I mean I understand it doesn't go towards the salary and benefits and stuff like that. So that 9.5 is like supplies and all this other stuff I assume. >> So, so basically what that comes down to is that's something that would affect directly affect not the pockets of our employees but it would affect teachers what they are able to utilize. It would affect kids and what they're able to utilize. I mean, that's that's what it comes down to because that I mean, you're looking at supplies, you're looking at equipment, you're looking at

087um things in the budget as far as that the buildings utilize. I mean, it's not going to be contracts and things that we're already locked into. That's we don't have we don't have that potential of that at all. Um, >> so there's still not like there's no real wiggle room. Well, I I will say this because, you know, >> yeah, >> we could we could eliminate and by no means am I saying recommending doing this at all, but we could eliminate all building budgets, okay? Which would 100% affect our students and our teachers and our support staff and everybody and it wouldn't even come. We would still be over a million dollars in deficit. So there that's that's the best example I can give you. >> No, thanks. I appreciate that. >> It's literally kicking

088down the road till there's some kind of rule reform done. >> So, our job is to um you know come up what's obviously in my opinion what's best for the the students in the district. There's many states that are obviously affected by that. But that's why we're all here is make those tough decisions. That's why we were all either appointed or elected um to take all these tips and things in consideration. >> So it sounds like with the state not funding us very much, we are kind of we're having to ride on the backs of our local people in a way. >> Unfortunately, >> it's been this way for decades. >> Correct. >> And we're not left much >> to Jen's point and Ryan's point. Um it's it's not doesn't look like it's going to

089change anytime soon. You know, it's just two different ways of looking at sorry looking at it and they're pointing their point across um about whether it's how it's being paid for by the taxes coming flowing through like Brian said or what the shortfall is every year. Um they're both really saying the same thing, but they're just looking at two different ways. falls back on us as the local taxpayers to offset whatever the deficit's going to be. So I in the past we have done very low during troubling times like I talked about before which is to my I know you said there hasn't been a lot. I think that is lost income over time. We just the statement said a little bit while ago like we haven't really lost from huge decreases from the state

090um other than what you're pointing out but by by us not raising taxes we are losing a big decrease and extra funding over time as it >> oh yeah I mean >> double triples >> sure any any anything that >> this this is what I've always said and again it it's a decision that comes down to the school board But anything that you do below the Aquin index every year, you're losing out on money and that compounds year after year. >> That's yeah, that's the my biggest takeaway from um the biggest budget, >> right? >> And I mean ultimately that's what act one did for you as school boards >> and that was back that was enacted in 2020 2006 act. >> So I guess back anybody else have questions? These are great questions, by

091the way. So, the original question is uh what Justin's asking for uh moving forward for next month is do you want to see anything else taken off the table? Do you want anything changed as far as another percentage? You okay where it's at based off the I recommend taking off the at least the last two if not last three. I feel like there's only really two options, one option um moving forward. Um, that's the way I'm looking forward for next month having further discussion on it. Um, but after hearing everything he's presented for the last few months and all the other great details people brought up, um, it there's not a lot of options. What I'm saying again, we can discuss it next month. Is there anything change? Do you want him to take off

092or change? That's the question. Again, >> I'd be okay with the zero and the 1.7 >> coming off. >> Taking off. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Is that a good consensus or do you want to see anything else added on? I think we're good with taking those off, Justin. >> Thank you. >> Now, what would happen? So right now we're gonna move forward with those three >> A, B, and C. >> Right. Okay. What would happen if there's no agreeance on those next month? And can you propose a new percentage on the spot? >> I I mean I would have I would have to. >> So just remember that >> um next month if we can't come to agree I think we will. U just remember there's some work to do if we don't adjust

093have to step away and work on numbers to bring those things back. So again, this is the time if there's a different percentage you want to see possibly put up for vote next month. If not, you can still do it, right? It's just giving him 30 extra days. All right, I guess that's our way forward for right now. >> Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you. >> That concludes our presentations quickly. Yeah, thank you very much. All right, moving moving forward to our next agenda item, which is approval of minutes from our last meeting, April 14th. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion on approval minutes from April 14th? There's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. Those in attendance be reported

094in favor of the motion. Unless I hear nay or abstain. Motion carries. Next is agenda item um number eight which is financial reports. And we have A through E. And those are bills payable with one, two, and three which are general fund, cafeteria fund, uh cap reserve fund, B the general fund, C the cafeteria fund, D capital reserve fund, and E scholarship fund. >> You're doing these all together? >> Yes, sir. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> All right. We are first and second for financial reports A through E. Is there any further discussion? All right, with no further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance report in favor of the motion. Second. Motion carries. Next is reports and related action. Starting with the solicitor's report. >> Good evening, Dr.

095Sh and the other administrators in the building. We'll be getting promotions from our firm about um summer training, summer professional developments for principles and administrators. So, and title N and other sorts of training and fun issues like that. So, uh those are forthcoming includes my report. >> Great. Thank you very much. Next is superintendent sports. >> Good evening everybody. Um May just like every other year is extremely busy um with every as far as wrapping up the school year, but one of the greatest parts about May is just all the cool events that our students are engaged in to highlight the things that they've learned throughout the year. Um it also gives the school district the opportunity to highlight all the accomplishments that our students have had whether it be academically um or through athletics.

096So been attending a lot of great celebrations throughout this month. U most recently um attended the middle school spring coral concert, the FFA banquet, and one of my favorite times of the year is prom. Um that was great. Um President Chub, you were there at prom as well um as a chaperon board president. very well. Yes, it was very well done. It was excellent. So, >> um I just want to commend our students. Um I've been to many proms in my career and I have to say that our proms are one of the best. Um our kids are there to have a good time. Um they're very well behaved. Um very appropriate and just have a great time. And I appreciate all the planning and organization that goes into that um with our prom um

097prom planning committee. Um so that was an awesome night. A couple things that are coming up in case um you have some free time. Tomorrow evening is our athletic awards event um which starts at 6:30 and then on the 14th is our academic awards um which would start at 6:30 as well. And of course one of the most important things and my most favorite is on June 3rd which is our graduation for our class of 2026. Um ceremonies will start at 7 o'clock and I am going to anticipate amazing weather for that. Um, if we do need to have alternate dates, we have those already planned out and I'll share that with the board. Um, which you have approved those dates last month. Um, but a lot of great things are happening at Bermudian Springs

098right now. Our students are thriving. uh met with tons of seniors and they they're ready for their next journey and their journeys look very different and I'm excited for all of them and looking forward to seeing you give them their diploma and shaking their hand um and releasing them onto that concludes my report. All right, thank you. Uh next is Dr. Mars. >> Correct. So that's it for that agenda item. Moving on to next one. Number 10, old business. There's none. Which brings us to the new business. And of course, that starts with personnel. It's our first order of new business each each month. Um, we have looks like there's what, eight different things. So, we'll do each one of these individually. So, the first one, uh, the administration's requesting approval for, um, some resignations.

099There's three of them. those A, B, and C's. Motion to approve uh one A, B, and C. >> Second. >> I have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? With no further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance floor in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Number two, uh uh administration's request approval for transfer of Dr. Danielle uh Kery from the position of elementary school principal to the position of coordinator of student access and online learning. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. I have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> All right. Without any further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those intentions report in favor of the motion. I'll say here and abstain. Motion

100carries. Next is number three. Uh administration request approval of transfer employment of the following administrative professional employees and there is A through F. >> I move to approve 3 A through F. >> Second. >> Julie. >> All right. We have a first and a second. >> A bunch of seconds for them. >> any further discussion? All right. No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance report in favor of the motion. Must I hear a name abstain? Motion carries. Number four, administration's requesting approval of some employed as summer district custodians. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance will record in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a

101nay, I abstain. Motion carries. Number five, administration's request approval um with uh Aiden and Hafner to be employed as sub staff for the remainder of the year. >> Motion to approve five. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? With no further discussion, this a roll call vote. All those intent to record in favor of the motion. I must say I hear a n abstain. Motion carries. Number six, administration is requesting approval of the following non-athletic supplemental contracts for 2627 school year. Six. Second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? With no further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those in attention to record in favor of the motion must say I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Number seven, under personnel administration is

102requesting approval of a contract for um Bin Sporter to serve as kindergarten teacher for 2026 summer camp. >> Motion to approve seven. We >> have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear nay abstain. Okay. Motion carries. And last under personnel is number eight. Administration is requesting approval for extracurricular contract for varsity head varsity head girls basketball coach. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. We have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Why is it that stipens are different throughout? >> Great question. >> Different types of >> coaches and >> so that that's set by our collective bargaining agreement with our teachers. So that would be the

103extracurriculars um or athletics. So what they do is there's a starting point and then depending on as they progress there would be a percentage raise each year for those those individuals. Um but it it really is off of how many years they've been in that position um that they would gain um a salary over years >> and that's in addition to but that that individual is a teacher >> if they are now this individual is not um a teacher in the district. So it just it depends. We have some coaches that are teachers, some coaches that that are not. >> And if the if the coach is not a teacher in a district, do they automatically get paid? >> Correct. Yes. >> Yep. They're >> payition. And that's within a how like why do they

104get paid if they're not under contract with the school in the school district? >> Because they become an employee because they're a coach. >> Okay. Second is under >> with the >> so like if I decided to coach baseball >> you would you would sign a contract >> but I can't because >> you're a school board. >> Yes. Right. If you sign decided to coach softball, she would sign a contract and then in a sense she's underneath that umbrella of >> but as a as a stipend person, not a full on employee, but as a personular >> that one specific thing for that one period of time >> and then that is a x amount of dollar based on >> what's set in our CBA. >> Okay. >> Yep. just because if they're not a

105teacher, they're not set by the CBA. >> Well, it's like there's so much so much difference in dollar amounts. Like there's some folks that are volunteer only. There's some folks some assistant coaches get it. What kind of bothers me when it comes to the athletics and the coaching and this and that is the fact that we have parents that coach their kids >> and I find that there is a major conflict of interest. But when it comes to saving money and this and that, if you my thought, if you're going to play, if you're going to be a coach that coaches your kid, you should be doing it just like you would little league baseball and you don't get paid. That's my thought. But that's beside the point. I guess this whole budget thing got

106me gang. Holy smokes. Oh, it's a good question. Never mind. Sorry. Thank you. Sure. Of course. Any other questions about uh number eight? >> Chad, if you look at the contract that's out there, it does have the different prices for different sports there. Everything is different in there. It's all based on the contract. >> Okay. >> There's no way around that. >> Well, it's all bargain. >> I mean, for the next five years, >> well, can we give an example? What an assistant an assistant coach is probably only $3,000. depends on the sport. >> Wrestling football, >> right? But this this would be this guy's first year coaching. So this is his this is his starting base. >> Correct. And he would have >> $6,000. He's the head coach of the girls basketball team, >>

107but he has experience in his first year here girls basketball coach. >> He's worth every bit of it. >> Other win states is what you're saying. Good chance. Yeah. No, it's based on experience like uh just saying there. So there's range. Okay. >> You'll see a fluctuate over the next couple years. >> I got you. >> Okay. Any other questions? All right. There's no other questions. Uh this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear a nay or abstain. All right. Motion carries. Next, moving on to letter B. Uh, appointment of depository. So, reappointment of ACMB of East Berlin, PA as a general fund. >> I move to approve B. >> Oh, that's right. >> Don't worry. I'm blind. All right. So, we'll go

108and pull the wall. >> Got it. >> Okay. >> Can Dan Chub, >> yes. >> Brian Davis, >> yes. >> Jennifer Goldhan, yes. Rachel Gray, >> yes. >> Mary Keer, >> yes. Chad Klein, >> yes. >> Chad Mallerie, >> yes. >> And Julie Marshall, >> there you go. >> Okay, thank you. >> Vote passes. Next is letter C. You pull it up. >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Uh, next is Lincoln Intermediate Unit supply bids. So, the administration's requesting approval for athletic and health supply bids through the Lincoln to the IU um for the 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve C. >> Second. >> We have first and second. Is there any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intentions record in favor of the motion.

109Unless I hear any abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter D. District art supplies administration's request approval for district art supplies for the 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> First and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear a nay or an abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter E. This is the tenative adoption of the 2627 um budget. So the administration is requesting approval for following and this is basically um the preliminary budget at the act one index for next year. And do I have to do we have to vote on one and two separate? >> Yes, >> for this even this one. Okay. So we'll start with one. Um and this one

110is going to be the actually the revenue of local and state >> motion to approve E1. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second for E1. Is there any further discussion? No further discussion. This a roll call vote. All those in a chance to record in favor of the motion. Let's say they hear an airplane. Motion carries. Moving on to E2 and this has to do with the millillage again based off the act one. >> Motion to approve E2. >> Second first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intents to be record in favor of the motion must hear abene. Motion carries. Next is letter F and administration is requesting approval exonerating district tax collectors from the collection taxes the following amounts um

111for 2526. I move to approve that >> second. We have first and second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in record in favor of the motion unless I hear abstain. carries. Letter G, delinquent tax collections. Administration's requesting approval to turn the 2526 delinquent taxes over to the appropriate tax collectors. >> Motion to approve G. >> Second and a second. Any further discussion? All right, no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. I'll say here abstain. Motion carries. We are only halfway through the agenda. Next H is the Homestead Farmstead resolution. Administration is requesting approval for adoption of resolution to implement the Homestead Farmstead exclusion for 2627. >> I move to approve age. >> Second. >> We

112have a first and a second. Any further discussion? >> No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance report in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear name abstain. Motion carries. Letter I. The administration is requesting approval for personal wages consideration for the 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve. I >> second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? >> No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intents required in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear nay abstain. Motion carries. Letter J, yellow. This is uh the old breaches education center agreement approval. So the administration is requesting to enter into an agreement with the old breaches education center for 2627 school year. >> Motion to J. >> Second. >> All right, we

113have a first and a second. Any further discussion? This is a roll call vote. All those intents record in favor of the motion. I second abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter K. Administration's request and approval to enter into agreement with the Mar is that >> Mary Pennsylvania for the 202627 school year. >> Motion to approve. Okay. >> Second. >> We have first and second. Any further discussion? Actually, I have a question. what what is what are various services? >> So, uh, Mari is just like Yellow Breach is. It's a option for us to place students if we can't meet their needs here. Um, depending on on what that need would be. Um, most likely special education. Okay. All right. Any other questions or discussion? All right. No uh no more discussion. This is a roll

114call vote. All those in attendance we record in favor of the motion. I say here nine. Motion carries. Next is letter L. Lincoln edge agreement 2026 27 administration is requesting approval enter an agreement Lincoln Edge for the uh 2627 school year. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? >> Question real quick. Is this the first time we've used this >> for Lincoln Edge? >> Yeah, >> we do it so it reserves a seat for us in case we do need to use it. Um where we try to use Eagles Academy first um if there's a student in that situation. Um it's asynchronous obviously Eagles Academy is but Lincoln's Edge actually has live teachers um that it might be a better fit for a student depending on what the need

115is. So we just have we sign the agreement annually with them. Okay. Any other questions or discussion? All right. With no further discussions, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay abstain. Motion carries. Letter M. River Academy Agreement. Administration is requesting approval to enter to agreement with River Rock Academy for 2627 school year. >> I move you approve. M. >> Second. You got it. We have a motion first and a second. Is there any further discussion? All right. Move for discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear a name seen. Motion carries. Moving on to letter N, which is the River Rock. Is that an acronym? >> The EEDY. Y

116agreement. >> I was going to pronounce it. Administration's requesting approval to enter into the ADY placement agreement with River Rock for 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve letter N. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> All right. No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear name. Motion carries. Next is letter O. This is the new story school agreement. Administration is requesting approval enter to agreement with the new story school uh for 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Is there any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance of the court in favor of the

117motion. Unless I hear nay abstain. carries. Letter P. Uh, Sapphire software agreement. Administration has requested approval uh to renew an agreement with Sapphire Software. >> Motion to approve letter P. >> Second topic. Mayor's next. >> We have a first and a second. Standing further discussion on P. Sapphire software agreement. >> No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those antennas record in favor of the motion. Unless they hear a nay abstain. Motion carries. Letter Q. Uh comply agreement administration's request and approval agreement between the district um regarding the district's use of comply and it's a compliance software. >> Motion to approve Q. >> Second. >> We are first and a second. Any further discussion? With no further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those intentions recorded in favor of the motion

118unless I hear any abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter R. I'm assuming this is PA EAP agreement. So we do pronounce that one. >> Y >> administration is requesting approval for agreement between the district regarding the district's use of PAP which is electronic teachers evaluation portal. >> Motion to approve or >> second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intentions recorded in favor of the motion unless I hear a nine. Motion carries. Letter S, which is the master service agreement administration's requesting approval for the master service agreement between the district and Lincoln uh inter unit 12 for the 26 27th school year. I move to approve S. Second. >> Have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion.

119This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless they hear a name abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter T, the pen education association's agreement. And this is uh request the administration request and approval enter agreement with central pen education associates regarding bilingual psychoeducational testing. >> Motion to approve the >> second and second. Any further discussion? All right. No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intent to record in favor of the motion unless I hear abstain. Motion carries. Next up is letter U and we have two um memorandums of understanding. So twous. Uh the first one's request approval for um use of district facilities as an emergency evacuation site for daycare for the 202627 school year. And number two is the administration's request and

120approval forou regarding the use of district facilities for emergency evacuation site for Little Life Enrichment Center 2627. >> Motion to approve >> second >> one and two. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second for letter U one and two. >> All right. for is there any discussion? There's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attention record in favor motion must say here and they abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter V. Uh we have some memorandums of agreement. So MOAS there's two of them. The first one is um the administration request approval um but MOA the American Red Cross use of district facilities in the event of a disaster. And the second one is administration's requesting approval for MA regarding dental services provided by the district by family

121first mobile dentist for 2627 school year. >> Motion to approve V1 and two second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion must hear nay or abstain. Motion carries. Letter W, security service contract. Um, this one administration is requesting approval of security services contract with GeForce Investigations for the 2627 school year. >> To approve letter W. >> Second. >> We got our first and a second. Any further discussion on letter W? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intents to report in favor of the motion unless I hear a name abstained. Motion carries. Next is letter X. This is school security officer agreement. Administration's request approval for the GeForce

122security solutions to provide one district for the district with one armed security officer for 26 27th school year. Oh, actually 26 27th and 29 school year. >> Motion to approve letter X. >> Second. >> Ryan gets this one. Mary already has. >> We have a first and a second. This is Ford's letter X. Is there any discussion? If there's no discussion, this a roll call vote. All those intents report in favor of the motion. I'll say here. Motion carries. Next is letter Y, second read. So this is a revised board policies. Uh the policy committee has requested approval for the following revised policies. The policies were posted for review last month's meeting and this is one through 23 and unless you want me to read them off. >> No. >> Um >> okay, good. >>

123I move to approve Y 1 through 23. Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion on letter Y? There's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear a name abstain. Motion carries. We're on the final page. Next other business committee reports starting with UCI. ACTI is moving forward with the potential purchase of a parcel of land and um our current executive director will be retiring at the end of June and the new director is on board in training and um so I think that's all there is to report at the moment. Thank you. Any questions for Brian at ACTI? Next is Sarah committee. We met last month. We talked about social studies curriculum that we are reviewing now.

124Math, we looked at the math books which everybody looked at this evening. English, we talked about homework. And that was about it. It was a bit of a long one. Social studies covered large portion of the time. That's all I have for now. And we meet again this month, next week. >> Oh, thanks. Any questions for our Sarah committee? >> Doesn't look like there's any questions. So, we'll move on to policy committee. Um, as you saw, there's a bunch of things from last month up for what we just voted on. Uh, we did not have our meeting this month, >> which would have been, it's usually the week prior. >> Um, and that was because there wasn't >> the SBA didn't have the stuff. >> We're waiting. We're going to be tackling the 200s next,

125though. >> They have not um released their drafts yet. So, as soon as we have that, we'll be back. >> We decided not to meet for no reason, which we're always on board with. So hopefully next month um we should be good to go. I don't know. Do we take a pause in July? >> We keep going through the summer months. All right. Any questions for policy committee? All right. Move on to the last. I guess I should ask is any other uh business be brought for the board? Usually ask that. Usually there's nothing but I'll bring it up. All right, that being said, we are journ. Thank you very much. And we will be going into executive session talking about uh personnel. Thank you.