001All right, good evening everyone. Uh, thank you for coming out for tonight's meeting. Uh, before I call the meeting order, I'd like to u announce for the executive session for personnel and legal matters. At this time, we'll call the meeting to order and we lead us in the allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Call the role. >> Diana Canut here. Dan Chuff >> here. >> Ryan Davis >> here. >> Jen Goldheim here. Rachel Gray here. Mary Keer >> here. >> Chad Klein >> here. >> Chad Malry >> here. >> Lee Dalton >> here. >> Dr. Brad Sterner >> here. >> Dr. Shannon Myers >> here. >> Justin Pier >> here. >> Okay.
002>> Hello everyone. Thank you for coming to our meeting. >> All right. Move on to the next agenda item is the school board vacancies. So at this time I'm turn this over to Dr. Sterner um to start the process. >> Good evening everybody. It's nice to see all of you. I am happy to say that after this evening we will be back to a full board again. So I'm very excited about that. We have one seat that is still open. So this evening we'll be conducting um interviews for region two which is Hunting Huntington Township in York Springs Burough. So at this time I'd like to ask Julie Marshall to come on up. And Julie you can have a seat right down there. All right. Nice to see you, Julie. Thanks for joining us tonight.
003So, it's my understanding you're interested in serving on the board. >> Yes. >> Okay. You're in the right spot. Good. >> Okay. Good. >> We're good. >> Okay. >> All right, Julie. Um, so I have about seven questions that I'm going to ask you tonight. What you are going to notice though is I'm going to be the one asking all the questions and you will see board members taking notes and jotting things down and that's so that they can just capture some of the things that you're saying. At the end of our interview, uh what we'll do then is we'll transition uh Mr. Chuck will talk to see if there's any public comment and then the board will deliberate and then we'll move forward with selecting a new candidate for the board. Sound good? >>
004Yes. >> All right. Great. All right, Julie. My first question is, what motivated you to apply for the schoolboard vacancy in region 2 and what do you believe you can contribute to the Bermudian Springs School District during the remainder of this term? >> So, what prompted me was well, first of all, I did get the letter in the mail that there was an open position. So, I was not looking in advance for that. But I appreciate the fact that that goes out makes people aware that there's a a position open because if you're not looking online or looking under school district, you're not going to know that. So thought about it and I thought, you know, this might be a good time personally for me and also my career, my life, and because my kids
005are grown and out of the house that I can contribute back to the school district that my kids grew up in and they went here. their full term and um I truly believe that it helped develop them graduating from Binian Springs to be responsible adults at the time. >> And your second question was how do you think that I can help >> um for the remainder of the year? I feel that my experience in the community, the involvement I'm involved with within in the community right now and then I I work at ACB Bank. So I've been there for 13 years. I've been in banking for 23 years total. Don't want to give out my age or anything, but it's been a long time. But I have a lot of knowledge, you know, on that
006side as far as the profession, but also being involved in the community. Um, the offices I oversee are all of Adams County, Cumberland, and um, Franklin County. So, I'm very aware of everything that's going on in Adams County that can add value. >> All right. Thank you. How do you define the role of a schoolboard member and what do you believe are the most important responsibilities of that role? I would say leader um guidance and mentor because you not only involving the students and faculty but it's also the community and everybody lives in the area. Um so I feel like that's an part of what the board members would do um anywhere and not just on the students and the faculty but you also take care of finance. to take care of decisions and then
007future decisions, but the kids will learn moving forward. Um, what was the second question again? >> You got it. >> Oh, >> you got it. >> All right, Julie, your next question is, tell us about a time you had to make a difficult decision that involved competing interests. How did you approach it and what guided your decision? I could probably give you about 10 for today, but um most of the decisions, difficult decisions I daily basis are people that are either not happy or they had something happen with them personally that's affecting their finances. Um business customers, we have a lot of business customers in the area in the local communities. So usually by the time they get to me they're not very happy. Um so we have to go through a reason have the
008communication understanding and knowledge big and it doesn't matter what profession you're in school district you know community but I think learning the background of things. So did have a difficult discussion today with a business customer um who was not very happy. um at the end we came to an agreement um per se that it at least helped him made him more aware what he was going through but I also gave him the education of how it looked like what his comments and how he was in the office because there's two sides to >> thank you schoolboard members often hear strong opinions from community members How would you handle a situation where a community member strongly disagrees with a board decision and pressures you to intervene? >> That is also a daily probably item that I
009deal with. Um I think open communication is huge. So I think it's very wise to listen because again there's two sides to every every conversation. But if there's someone that's not agreeing with what's going on, I think it's important whether you're a board member or a member of the commu community or even a parent of a student that you know is going through school here to at least hear them out, understand what's going on, but then trying to reason with them and maybe show them another side of the situation to whatever their complaint or concern is. >> Everybody should be heard. Thank you. How will you ensure that your decisions as a board member remain centered on what is best for students even when issues become emotional or controversial? >> I think it's looking at
010the whole picture, but I think the biggest part of that is taking students into consideration because that's what everyone is here for. Um to help them grow, be responsible, learn, but also be respectful. you know to everyone else too. So >> thank you. Boards sometimes have disagreements internally. How do you approach working with others when there is a disagreement and how do you contribute to productive dialogue? >> I'm going to go back to the open communication. I feel like that's huge. Um, everybody has a point of view and everybody has a perception or their knowledge of a certain situation, but there's always other opinions and and desires and even thought processes on it. So I might not agree with maybe what you you know your suggestion is but I feel that it's important to listen
011because sometimes the outcome is combining different opinions or situations together for the best result. >> All right, last question. Is there anything else you would like the board to know about you that you feel is important as they consider your candidacy? Um, did everybody get the letter that I at least So, I gave you kind of my background, you know, uh, that I I've been living in the Bermudian Springs School District for 40 years. Um, I love the school district. I love how it's grown. I totally appreciate everything it's done for my kids and, you know, and got them to where they are today. So, I really want to see it continue. You know, I'm involved with the community, so I see a lot of the kids that that go to the school, you know,
012and and see what they're doing and how they're growing and what they're learning. So, I just I feel it's important to add different opinions, knowledge, and and go from that point for them. But I do really appreciate everything you all have done and where it is going to this point with the school district. Thank you so much, Julie. Thank you so much for coming out. At this time, we're done asking you questions. So, if you wouldn't mind hanging out in the public um as the board moves forward. Thank you. Open nominations discussion. >> Yep. And then public comment or public comment now? >> Public. Okay. >> Yeah. And then >> and then we'll bring up nomination. Okay. All right. So, >> excuse me. >> Yep. >> Sorry. I um I did submit All right, Mr.
013Pitman, I'm so sorry for that. We just found it in our spam folder. That That's the reason why I didn't respond. So, I do apologize, but but we can move forward with an interview. Absolutely. But would you verify your address for me? >> It's okay. >> Is that hum Huntington? >> It is. >> Okay. Very good. Come on up. Thank you very much. >> Okay. All right, Mr. Pman. Thank you so much. I do apologize for that. So, you were able to sit here to hear the process. So, I'm going to just kind of repeat what I had said to a former candidate is we do have seven questions for you that I'm going to ask. Um, you'll hear me ask them all those questions while you'll see board members taking notes and um, jotting
014down some things just to capture what what it is that you're sharing with them. Um, and then at the end, what will happen is you will be the final candidate. So, then the board will take some time to deliberate and then they'll vote on a new board member. >> Okay. >> Sound good? >> Sounds good. >> All right. Great. Okay. So, the first question is, what motivated you to apply to the schoolboard vacancy in region two, and what do you believe you can contribute to the Bermudeian Springs School District during the remainder of this term? Well, um I also received a postcard in the mail >> uh indicating that there was a a position open and I deliberated on it for a couple of weeks before I started doing some research into what uh is
015required of a of a typical school board. And uh when I when I discovered, you know, all the different types of things that school boards are responsible for, um I thought, well, I'm retired now. I have the time. Uh I literally live next door to you guys. And uh uh I'm like, well, why not? Uh my my I have a senior uh here. I also my other daughter also graduated and my wife graduated from here. So have a a deep history although I've only personally been living in the district since 2019. Um I've seen a lot of a lot of things going on including this school going up and and uh you know all the and the other school coming down. Uh so you know I I want to be a part of that if
016I can. >> All right. Thank you. Your next question is, how do you define the role of a schoolboard member and what do you believe are the most important responsibilities of that role? Well, I think one of the the the overall administration of of the school and handling uh those those things like uh budget and finance and and also uh fielding concerns from uh parents and members of the community. Uh there's the they're the most important things um that are part of a school board's responsibility and the other thing is just to be a uh place where uh free exchange of ideas >> uh takes place so that uh you know and and I figure why not do something new and why not uh do it here. >> Good. Thank you. Tell us about a
017time that you had to make a difficult decision that involved competing interests. How did you approach it and what guided your decision? >> Well, um, one that came to mind, I I used to work for um I used to be responsible for the federal Medicaid budget for um the state of Pennsylvania. And one of the things that that happened on my watch was there was a $158 million payment um that was in properly applied um by the state uh by well by the federal government to the state uh because the uh project was mischaracterized. And you know, as a taxpayer, I'm like, uh, $158 million that the state has to has to come up with to repay the, uh, the government. Um, and also as someone who wants to, you know, the state to succeed
018in their Medicaid program, um, I had to, you know, make decisions and I made it made it on, uh, the basis of what the law said, uh, what the rules were and I presented that argument to both the state and to my superiors uh, within the government. >> That's a big one. School board members often hear strong opinions from community members. How would you handle a situation where a community member strongly disagrees with a board decision and pressures you to intervene? Well, of course, it's important to uh listen to uh concerns from uh people about what's going on with the board, but at the same time uh you need to hear all sides. And most often when those kinds of complaints come in, you're only getting one side of the story. And it's very important
019to understand all the different sides because basically there's three sides to everything. You know, you're one person's opinion, another person's opinion, and then you know the facts. So, right. How will you ensure that your decisions as a board member remain centered on what is best for students even when issues become emotional or controversial? Um, one of the things that I that I was pretty good at uh uh at work was uh being a a team player and being able to smooth over uh issues because sometimes things things uh get get hot when you're when you're dealing with hundreds of millions of dollars of money and and also uh competing administrations within uh uh within the federal government. Everybody does things differently and um you have to you have to make a uh make a way
020to get through that and it's just important to focus on what the responsibilities that you have are. Okay. Thank you. Boards sometimes have disagreements internally. How do you approach working with others when there is a disagreement and how do you contribute to a productive dialogue? I think that that uh listening to everybody's viewpoint and uh and working with compromise as much as possible to allow things to go forward and to to be smooth uh within the uh the board. Uh, I think that everybody is uh is an individual and everybody has um their their viewpoint, but I'm not going to disrespect somebody just because they have a different viewpoint than me. Okay. >> All right. Last question. Is there anything else you would like the board to know about you that you feel is important
021as they consider your candidacy? Well, I I like I said, I think I've already said, you know, that I'm a member of the community. I'm uh I'm right down the street. I'm uh uh vested in the in the school because I do have a child that's currently a me uh currently a student here and uh I'd like to see uh Bermudian Springs, you know, just get better and better. >> Thank you so much, Mr. Fitman. It was a pleasure. If you wouldn't mind having a seat out there while the board deliberates. Greatly appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> You're welcome. >> Appreciate it. >> All right. Now we will open for public comment. Um based on the two interviews that we just had, there anyone need public comment? Doesn't look like
022it. All right. There's no public comment. We'll move along. Um so at this time I'll open up to the board uh for nominations for this position. And and one way you do it is instead of like a ro, it's just a role person each board member selecting the name of the person. >> Yep. >> Yeah. So you said nominations and I think arguably they both could be nominated and both based on but just otherwise. >> Okay. Uh, how how would you guys like to do it? She's she's sort of talking about how we did it last time. >> Sorry. >> You're s you're referring to how we did it last time. How we kind of >> Yeah. >> Y >> that it's a matter of instead of nominating any particular candidate that there's a vote
023because only two >> like we did last. >> Correct. But we should probably have discussion before that. >> Normally we have discussion after we do the nomination. That's why I just want to make sure we're going in the right order. But if it doesn't matter, we can just open up. Okay. Then we'll just have discussion on both candidates at the same time with the board and then we'll go through and uh we can go around like we did last time. Just have a name and if we have a majority at that time uh we can do the actual vote. >> Okay. >> Everybody tracking? I know we have some board members and you guys were on the other side last time. So, it's a lot. >> Now you're on this side. So, okay. All right.
024So, we'll open up for discussion for the two um individual we just interviewed. I guess I can go first. Uh so, uh with our first candidate, um I want to say I did hear quite a few different things. Um, and I appreciate some of the things I heard. Um, your experience that you brought with the the private sector, everything like that. I think it's definitely valuable. Um, and also the way that you're able to interact with individuals on a daily basis. Um, you talked about your conflict and and how you dealt with some of those different things. So, there's great examples. And the candidate too also had a great um examples for those also. So, I did hear both candidates talk about communication, how important that is because I believe that's probably one of the
025number one things that we hold very valuable as a board um is that communication piece with one another and administrators. Um so, that was encouraging to hear. Um there's another comment I had. Uh I like hearing that uh listening, reasoning and um the voices being heard, all voices and everything like that. So and respectful um how you going to deal with conf if you have a disagreement, not conflict, a disagreement with another board member. Um we work very well as a team. Um we like to keep it that way, you know, that sort of thing. It's okay to have disagreements. We all have different opinions, stuff like that. We try to come out um as many times possible with a single, you know, voice going forward. We know sometimes it'll happen, but we try to
026keep professional. So, I need to hear a lot of that, keeping things professional and respecting one another's opinions and stuff like that. So, I definitely appreciate that of both candidates. And I will be quiet and let someone else speak if they'd like to. >> Excuse me. Personally, I appreciate it. Um, both Mr. Pitman and Mrs. Marshall, you both are very open to seeing both sides of the story. Um, Mr. Pitman, you have a daughter in the high school and you have two graduated from the high school. So, there's two very valuable perspectives there. Um, and you each bring a unique set of skills that would be valuable to the board. So, I'm kind of stumped to be honest. You know, usually there's a couple people that really stand out in my mind, but um yeah,
027you both are bringing a lot of good value, insight, open to communication, open to listen to everybody's point of view, being respectful. Um, and I appreciate that. So, thank you very much both of you for your time and your interest in the board, whichever way this shakes out. And I also would like to echo that for both candidates. um your willingness and your appreciation for the opportunity to contribute um both being active within the county and how you communicate, how you want to communicate and how you feel that you would resp uh how you're willing to respect the other person's point of view and come to what will be able I can't even say that word conclusions. >> Um so I also am a little bit stumped but greatly appreciative of the fact that you
028both have come out and uh your willingness to come before the board. >> All right. There's no more. Mary looks like you want to say something now. Well, I just agree with both the last two because you guys the two of you are very similar with your backgrounds, family history in this district. The work experience is kind of similar but different. Um but yeah, it's in the community um volunteer experience. So yeah. Um, but thank you both for having the interest and coming out for everything because it takes a lot to uh put yourself out there for school board whether people want to understand that or not. All right. Well, if there's no further uh discussion, um, now you recommend we just sort of go >> do like a roll up instead of yes, no,
029you >> say a name. >> Just say the name. Okay. So, uh we'll go ahead and I'll let you do call the roll. Diana Cannon, Miss Marshall, >> Dan Chub, >> uh, Miss Marshall, >> Brian Davis, >> Julie Marshall, >> Jen Bhan, um, Julie Mortal, Rachel Bre, Mrs. Starkfield, Mary Kemper, Willie Marshall Chance, >> Mr. Fitman, >> Chad Mill, >> Julie Marshall, >> seven for Mrs. Marshall, one for Mr. Pitman. Our new board member is Mrs. Julian Marshall. >> Congratulations. >> Yep. >> Thank you, Mr. Fitman, for your time and your interest. >> Yep. >> Thank you very much. >> And congratulations. >> All right. So, you just obviously need to talk real quick or >> would you be able to stay for the rest of the board meeting? Perfect. And then we'll connect afterwards.
030Thank you. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Uh, thank you, board. I appreciate the hard work, everything you do. U we've done it a couple times the last few months, so I definitely appreciate um all your input and everything. Okay, now moving on to the next agenda item, which is public comment. Yeah, for anything on the agenda. Is there If there's no public comment, I'm not going to read um my little 30 second blurb. All right. does not look like there's any comment. So, we'll move on to the next agenda item. >> Next is discussion. >> And I don't think there's any uh further discussion right now. So, we're going to be looking Oh, sorry. We're looking at uh A and B, which is the budget presentation and policy 626 update. Sorry. You got
031>> You just told me to stop sharing, >> right? Stop sharing. Knock it off. >> Let me just jump back on. Um so like I mentioned last month we'll be hearing from me related to the budget um from now until through June which is our um final adoption in the budget. So, we do have some updated information. By all means, it's still very preliminary. Uh, but um I also wanted to I know a lot of you know Mrs. Heler. Um she is our assistant business manager, but in case some of the new folks or some of the city board members for a while aren't familiar, this is Mrs. Heller. um she's going to be tag teaming uh the budget presentations with me. Um by all means, she's very knowledgeable about everything. She's actually been in
032the district longer than I haven't. Um and she does a very very good job within the business office. Um so with that, she's going to start off and then we will uh be tagging it. Okay. So, as always, if you have questions, it's probably easier just to ask them as we go through it. Uh, by all means, don't be afraid to interrupt us and we'll go from there. >> Thank you for having me. >> Um, we'll start off with the real estate assessment information. Um, the district's um index needs to have a market value personal income ratio is three and a half%. uh the adjusted funding academic index is 4.7%. Uh based on the district's total assessed value for 617 which is just over 1.1 billion um our mill rates with the 4.7% increase would
033be equal to 1476 which will be a6 increase for the 26 27 school year. How then it relates to taxes. Um this screen shows um the average property assessment for each of the units in the district. The information is based on the background index of the 4.7%. As you can see in the far right column on the top, the average increase would be less than $140 for your average um property. Obviously, there will be some that are less than that, some that are more than enough. Uh the bottom of the screen shows um you know most of our uh properties in the district are residential. Um almost 77% of those properties for the current school year. Uh 65% of district residents qualify for the property tax relief um off of their tax bill just under
034$280 uh per property. >> I have a quick question. Um we talked about the um tax increase. Is that that's a year, right? That's not a month or anything like that. The $140. >> Yes. >> Just to be sure. Okay. >> And actually on this next screen, um different real estate uh tax options that you have. Uh this does break it down um for the average uh property what the uh potential impact of those taxpayers on a monthly basis. Um so Justin has broken out for uh five different options currently. The far last blue option would be a 0% tax increase. Uh obviously 0 impact on taxpayers if you choose to go with this option. um the potential revenue that you uh would be missing out on would be a little over $725,000. Uh the
035far right option would be going to the 4.7% um the max increase of that F1 index. Obviously, you would have zero loss revenue because you would be going to the max. And as you can see down in the bottom, um it's under a $12 per month impact to the average um property in this municipality lease. And then if you look in the middle at the yellow column, um this is the middle of the road. Uh 2.35% increase. Um it would be potential loss revenue would be a little over $362,000 and the impact to taxpayers on the average property would be under $6 per month. Uh the revenues in this budget year um in this proposed budget uh they have a 3.82% increase in that revenue for local, state and federal. Uh the local amount um
036includes the tax increase of 4.7%. Um so obviously if you don't go to that max that number would come down. It also includes uh the earn income tax uh increased to 4.29%. Um state funding which would be basic special ed ready to learn grants um as well as federal funding which would be title one for parkings. These are all projected at uh 25 26 actual amounts that we're expecting to receive and uh expenditures uh currently in the budget. These are a 6.72% increase from the current year. um salary and benefits of the grants includes uh piece contributions of 33.59% as well as um increase of 12% for cross medicine. Um obviously the hope is that um it would come in less than that but our cap is 12% so that would be at the max.
037our general operating um costs that are in the budget. Um we have contracted services where we're seeing an increase in speech, OTP, um there's behavioral specialists, cyber security and legal fees. In addition to that increase in CTI tuition and cyber tuition, uh specialized placements is an increased cost. um whether they are ID placements or other outside uh placement for students. And the last item uh in the general operating is uh tech items. So this would include access point replacement in server and storage replacements. And then the last item on here is our debt service. Um this includes our regular payments according to our debt service schedule along with uh the $450,000 for ACTI. And if not, we'll turn it over to Justin for Justin. I >> had a quick question. >> Y go ahead. >>
038Um on the previous slide, the first bullet, the black bullet 6.72. That's what we're thinking the increase over the next year will be. >> That is what it is current. >> That's what it's going to be. And the max we can raise >> taxes 4.77. So what a deficit from the get go. What would you raise it to? >> Well, you got to remember that the differently there there's two different starting points. So just because that's higher doesn't necessarily mean but your the answer to your question you're asking is 100%. >> Okay. >> But that doesn't always happen. >> Okay. >> Because we were in a deficit when you approved last year's budget, we approved the def >> that required for the fund benefits. So yes, what we have in here which is including what
039is highlighted there is calculating to a 6.72% increase from over last year's budget. >> Okay. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> So what this shows is currently where the the budget stands right now is we're at a $2.6 million debt. Okay. So that's the two numbers that Mrs. Heler just went into detail with you on the revenues and expenditures. The difference between that is where we're at, the 2.6 million deficit. Okay. >> Um now we'll get into some more of the the details of what's driving and and I've talked to the board a lot about cyber charter. Um but I think seeing it in this format highlights it better than anything I can talk to you about. Okay. Um as you can see the students enrolled um the current year we're approaching numbers where we were
040at in co. >> Okay. Um, and I know many board members were thinking that we were going to have savings from the budget uh from last year's state budget uh because that was a proposal that was out there and I mentioned it last month, but I think it's important to reiterate the adjustment that happened uh does nothing to the cyber um let me back up. I'm sorry the brick and mortar. So we have two current brick and mortar charter schools that we have students and that's Vita and Monasuri both those amounts do not get changed at all with the with the adjustments that were made during the last budget of food at the state. There's no adjustment at all. The adjustment that we were hopeful for in the cyber charter was not anywhere near what
041it turned out to be. Okay, there was a slight reduction, but nothing of any obviously we're we were happy that we got some reduction, but it's nowhere near the cost savings or they like to say it's not a cost savings, it's an expenditure reduction. Either way you look at it, it's not as high as we were anticipating. So, um I guess we can be positive and say it's a step in the right direction, but there is a long way to go. Um because our current um tuition rate for our own students at the secondary level is right around $10,000. Okay. And as you can see the amount that we're being charged from a cyber school charter cyber school for a regular tuition it's 14,000 I'm going to round it $200 and step away is 20
042almost round it 27 okay and that has been the challenge that public education has faced for years when it comes to cyber chart that we just want to be treated fairly with them because what this is showing is it does not cost $27,000 to educate a special education student but that's what we are required have no choice in the matter to pay these cyber cyber students. Okay. So it's not about free choice of education. is about we need to be on the same playing field and that's that's where we as public education um entities are trying to get legislation and legislators to understand that fact that and that's going to be the ongoing advocacy that we got to keep pushing because as you can see in that last column the amount that we're estimating for
043this year is by far the highest amount that we've seen in the past 18 years. So the 2.36 million is by far higher than any co >> correct. So in eight years as you can see we've spent as a district almost over 13.5 million. Okay. So as you look at that 6.7% increase then Here's a good chunk. >> Okay. Um, which we are definitely looking at things differently. Dr. Sterner, Dr. Myers, and myself have had many conversations even with other members of our leadership team to really try to get as much pay as much attention to this number as possible. And we're limited as as in what we can do because at the end of the day, parents have their they have the ability to make their choice of what they want to do. Okay.
044But we have to be an attractive piece of that as well. Um and that's something that is always going to be at the forefront as we move forward. But this this is a big big concern and I've talked about it many many times. But as you can see, I I I don't know. The one thing I I always say in my role, numbers don't lie. You know, the only one I mean, that last line, that's an estimate at this point because we still have months to go before the end of the fiscal year, but I don't see anything major changing with the number that is currently enrolled. That 135 is the actual number in gold. That was at the end of last week. So if something happened here in these next first next two days,
045Monday or today, that's the only change it would have been. But I would highly doubt that if anything, it might have gone up a tip and not >> and can I add to that? Um Justin, I so we have assistant superintendent meetings across the county and and every school district is seeing this right now. Um we had an assistant superintendent reach out and say what happened in January because all of a sudden we're seeing just kind of this change right now. So this is not an US. I don't want the message to be that this is just an US issue. It is happening AC not just across the county. I'm sure it is happening beyond the county, but I know for a fact that it is happening within the county amongst the other school districts.
046>> Is there any legislation or any advocacy for this off of the state capital? I mean the the governor continues to put in different um reforms that he would like to see but as I always talk about the the budget and the process. So he performed he he gave his budget proposal last Tuesday. It'll sit in silence for three months and they really won't start deliberating and actually talking and and nailing it together until June. And that's a frustrating piece. But I mean, they'll have budget hearings and things of that nature. But as far as getting things moving to try to get a budget passed because, as we know, we have different leadership. We have a Democratic governor. We have different control in the House, different control in the Senate. You know, they're not all
047together. So, there's a lot of give and take. And what happens is these cyber reforms is one thing that's going to be a give and take because there's other things that when it comes down to it are a little bit more important for him to get ultimately what he wants. So yes, are there things in out there right now? Yes, there are. >> But what will actually get to the final spot before the budget passes? That's a flip co and not I would say based on what it's been in the past I don't think there's a high likelihood that we're going to sense that any major things that are going to be huge savings for public education related to cyber reform is going to make it >> thanks >> I have a general question >>
048is do you see and you don't have to give me the answer now because you may not know it um maybe next month But do you there's a big jump from last year to this year, right? 117 for total enrollments to 135. >> Is obviously you had to total that number up some way from all the grades, buildings, everything like that. Did you see anything like there's certain amount of eighth graders that are >> No, I can answer that. I mean the our the large portion of our numbers are at the secondary level. Okay. Um the the large the the numbers that you see at elementary right now are Monasuri and um Vita and the reality is is that they're they have in-person programs and their programming looks very different than ours does and so
049competing with that is really difficult. Um but what we're hearing and we're digging into a lot of this and having some conversations with families. Uh we have our own online academy but the big difference between our academy and the online cyber charter schools is that they provide live instruction. We don't have the capacity with our current infrastructure to be able to do that. Um but what you will hear from our secondary kids is they like the flexibility. they they want to be able to attend classes, do their work in a shorter amount of time, and then go to work um or do whatever else it is that they want to do. And so we've begun having we have we are and actually have started to do some things differently where we've not in the past
050um allowed for kind of some hybrid options with our online academy where kids are coming in for part of the day but then taking some online classes. we have to think differently. And so we've had some scenarios where this year we have begun to explore what does that look like for us for specific situations with kids that that has become a possibility for. Um we're having larger conversations, but we're just it's it's difficult when you don't have the personnel and so they have the online personnel to provide that live instruction that our teachers are teaching in classrooms. Um, so we have to think creatively about how to keep these kids here in our buildings, but also provide some flexibility while still meeting the graduation requirements and all of the things that we have to do
051from an instructional standpoint >> and we're working on it. Um, but again, that's where you're seeing and and that's where, you know, I wanted to just make sure I point out that that's not just an us thing that especially at the secondary level, that's what you're seeing. the these kids want to attend classes. They're sure they don't have to sit in class as long as they do in the in person. They have um scheduled live classes throughout the week that might just be on a Monday, Wednesday, and then they're working asynchronously the rest of the time, which allows them the flexibility to work, do classwork when they want to do it. And >> so, if I heard you correctly, you're talking about conversations how to maybe address that. So that mean um possible infrastructure with
052conducting full-time virtual and staffing maybe to compete to offset that cost. >> We're exploring what that could look like, but that's a huge financial commitment. Yeah, >> because you have to have full-time staff members who can do that and we wouldn't be able to run a full online live. So what we would in the event that we had, you know, started to explore this, we really probably would have the capacity to do your core classes, your electives. We would never have the capacity to do anything outside of those core um courses. And so yeah, we're definitely brainstorming. Do we have the capacity and the financial? That's why Justin and and we're, you know, trying to just kind of think through what could that potentially look like? Um, and is investing in that now going to
053save us in the long run? Nobody has a crystal ball and that's a risk that we have to, but we want to feel confident in what could that look like if it were even possible before we bring it to you um or you know discuss it more publicly. So, but yes, we just had a whole conversation today in addition to many others um about some things that we are are trying to do to be a bit more creative and provide flexibility uh for our our families who are looking for that. >> Perfect. Thank you. >> Okay. Um so, based off of those numbers, um no, this is something that board to have at the apprenticeship. So this is the fund balance board members are fund balanced and basically our city is of the school district.
054Okay. So the one number um that is 100% solid and will never change is that first number that is the audited July 1, 2025 fund balance number. Okay. Um so that's 6,73473. that number will not change. Um so uh the estimated amount um that you that is going to be used from the 2526 budget which that's the one we're currently in now. Okay. Is the $1,253,020. So the good thing about that is that number is less than what was budgeted what you approved during the budget for 2526. Okay. So what you saw when we when you saw the 2425 audit which was just last month we actually added money to the fund balance survey. All right. That's not what this is doing. We're just not putting we're not taking as much had planned when you
055approved 25 26 budget. Does that make sense? Okay. Now that number like I you will see that updated as every month goes by. I fine-tune that number based on expenses that have happened what I'm projecting out through the end of June. Okay. So that number will fluctuate. I obviously hope that doesn't go up and it would come down. Okay. Uh but I you know I don't have that crystal ball right now but that's that's how that number will work. Okay. So subtracting that off of the beginning balance gets you the 5 million 5.4 million and currently that 2.6 million number is the number you saw earlier which is the current deficit for this 2627 budget that we're working. Okay. So subtracting that off of the 5.4 gets you to the ending estimated fund balance. the
056end of next year. So that's after that's in June of 2027, you would be 2.8. Okay, does that make sense to everyone? So, this this is something that the board has had value with and I think it it helps shows you where we're at financially depending upon what real estate tax option you may select. Okay? And again, there's no discussion that needs to be had, but this is something that as you work through from now to until June, this is obviously what the effect will be. Okay, so again, these are the same tax options that Mrs. Heler went over with the multicolored chart. Okay, same exact. So 0% 1.175 235 3.525 and 4.7. Okay, straight across there. So you have five different tax options. Obviously the expenditures don't change either one of the options because
057we're doing nothing with the expenditures. Okay. The only thing that changes is the anticipated revenue because based on whatever tax increase you start at the act one index and work your way down, you're receiving less revenue. So those numbers are going to change. So this will show you where the deficit falls based on what um option you would choose as a board. So as you can see that red figure down the bottom, that's where the 4.7 you get that $2.6 million deficit. That's the number you saw back a couple slides ago. That shows you corresponding if you go down to the 3525 now you're 2.8 8 deficit all the way down to a zero tax, you're at a 3.3 round to $3.4 million deficit. You bet. So that's the effect on what tax option you
058may choose on the current budget. Okay, make sense? >> All right. So question comes in, okay, what are our what are our balance and budget options? So obviously the first thing depending upon what real estate tax increase or lack thereof that you would decide as a board determine how much you're going to have to have up. Okay. So right now like I've said the current budget has the 4.7% act one tax increase in. Okay. So all numbers you're seeing now are based off the 4.7 that um if you want the numbers basically I mean you can look the previous slide that shows you how much more deficit you will have if you go less of a percentage increase. Okay, make sense? Um any additional funding in the new governor's budget. Okay. And I have a
059slide in here showing you based on what his proposal was what that increase would be. Okay. That is not factored into the current budget. Like I've said, I do not change the budget for the current year until we get much closer to June until we have a better feeling of what actually may stick and what actually may go by the wayside. Okay. I would rather do that than to get put all the new money that he has proposed and then at the last minute pull it out and say, "Oh, now we have another 400,000 we got to make up." Okay. So, that's traditionally worked very well for us. Um, and unless I'm directed otherwise, I'll continue to do it that way. Okay. Um, but like I said, you'll see how much money we I'm talking
060about here in a couple slides. The other thing here is a potential decision on ACTF. Okay, as we know, uh, the board directed me probably two years ago now to step up the amount I budget for the new building potential of ACTI. Okay. The current year budget has 350,000 bud budget as you saw on this slide Mrs. Heler went through earlier. Now it's bumped up to 450,000. Okay. And I'm going, the direction was um to get it up to 600,000. Um so I'll increase it another 100,000 next year and 2720 2728 and then another 50,000 the following to get to that 600,000. Once we reach the 600,000 based on the estimates we've received, that would definitely clear us and put us in a good spot if the current estimate hold true. for the foot cost
061of the building. >> Okay. So that's that's in there. So the 350,000 that is in there now, obviously unless a miracle happens between now and June, we're not going to spend that money on ACT building. Okay? So that money will go into the fund balance because I'm building it up to be able to have that money. And once we get there, then it's not a ouch. they were all done up on budget. Okay. Um and then ultimately the final thing here would be fund balance usage and that's a decision that obviously along with your tax increase is something you have to consider when you're making that final decision. Um but with that I know and this is something the board has has really liked to see um sometime I mean these numbers probably don't look
062very good to you but what I what I show you is where we were last year this coming as well and that's on the next slide. So obviously it's a year different because we're in the current year now. But if you look right now on 2728 so this is as of 2627. If you look at 2728 column we're showing that at that end of that year we'll be a 1.2 in a deficit. So that's not good. Obviously we have work to do to even balance that budget. Okay. We don't have enough fund balance to cover. You look at last year 2728 is showing a $2.7 million deficit. Okay? So we made up, if you will, $1.5 million. Okay? You follow what I'm saying? So 1.2 negative 27 current year. Going to look at where we
063were last year. That number was 2.7. Okay. Now the fact that state revenue has not made my whole health steady throughout all three years is that because there's I do not have a good feeling to know exactly what the state's going to do even this current year. I'm not even going to guess what it's going to do next year, the following year or three years follow. So any increase we get has a dramatic effect on these three-year projections. Okay? Because it could compound. All right? But I I don't want to overinflate these numbers in a situation that will put us in a worse situation financially. Okay? If anything, I want to do the reverse. Okay? because if we're able to push it down one more year every year, that's the position we want to be
064in because we don't want to be where we're at the cliff and we're falling. Okay. Um and that's ultimately my goal every every year. All right. Um so, you know, I don't think those revenue Yeah, I feel confident those revenue numbers and those projections are going to increase. I just can't tell you by how much. Okay. All right. Um, but as you can see, and I've said this for many years, three years out in today's world is it's illustration. It's really not you can't really put any good faith in that in that because there's so many variables that exist that it's more it's more illustration than anything. Okay. >> Year one and two we can focus on a little bit. I mean, definitely year one The second year could be getting a little because again
065what's going to happen to the federal level? We all know that the the feelings at the current administration and federal level is to totally get rid of the United States Department of Education. Will that will any funding still exist? You know, we don't get a lot of money from that at this point, but it's over a little over 300,000. That's that's something if that goes we need to make up. So, um, there's I want you to be aware of these numbers. I don't want you to be stressing out. I don't want you to be like, "Oh my god, the world's ending." That's not what the point of this is. It's just to make you aware of where we where we were last year and where we are this year from 2728's perspective. We're trending in
066a very positive way. Okay. Obviously, we have work to do and that's that's what my job is to get us to that point and provide you with the information that we need to get there. Okay. Um, but that's any questions related to this budget projections. I mean, I hope I explained it well enough for you, but you know, so here this is a look at what is in the governor's current budget proposal. Okay? And he gave that last last Tuesday. So the basic ed subsidy is one of the lowest increases in recent history uh that it comes to. And remember the other political piece of this is election year for the government. Okay? So he wants to make sure that he gets what he needs and he's going to be a little bit more workable
067and flexible with this. And that's traditionally for any governor whether they're Democratic or Republican. Okay? Because there's obviously more motivation associated and as I've said many times at the state level as well as the federal level, it's highly political. Okay. So that basic debt subsidy, it's a $50 million increase. And like I said, that's the lowest. And that's for state profit, obviously. But that calculates to $36,000 increase for us. Okay. So, and real real numbers, that's really not that's penis when you look at what we're at. $41 million budget. Special ed subsidy increase. Um, same thing. But where the money lies is in his adequacy funding. And if you recall the adequacy has to deal with the lawsuit, the funding lawsuit. Okay. So this governor has this would be the third year if he gets
068this passed through in an effort to get the funding levels to where in constitutionally in state of Pennsylvania they're trying to get to. it was in favor of public ed. The challenge was there was no rule set of when they needed to get there or how they were going to. Okay. It's been encouraging that what we've seen over the last few years, we've received this type of increase in that piece. Um, so if we're able to get if he's able to get this through, this would be a a nice chunk of money that would stay with us on going. This is something that so the last two years of the increase that they can't take that away from us. Okay, that's in that's when the budget's passed. That's how it's written. Okay, so it's in
069in addition. So, if it gets this through, then that 362,000 is with us the whole way through. Okay. So, if we would get all three of those items, as you can see, it's $437,000. Okay? Currently, this amount is not in the budget. Okay? Because it's way, way fewer. It's his proposal. There's a lot of things that can happen between now and even in June. And as we know from last year, my goodness, it was November till they passed the budget. >> Okay. So they have that ability. We don't unfortunately. We have to have a budget pass by June 30th. >> So that's that's potential of what we could get from the state if it goes with what he has proposed. Okay. So um this is just generalization. I I've put this before you before. Um
070you know there's ideas These are things you have. Please always open for discussions or suggestions. Like I view my role as providing you as much information as you need to make the decisions that you have in front of you when it comes to this budget. Okay? And I will get I I will either answer the question you have or I'll get that information for you and get it out to everyone. Uh but that's that's my role to help you guys make that decision that needs to be made. All right. So with that, I'll open it up for any questions or discussions you may have related to anything. >> I have a not really a question, but maybe you could explain that was great by the way, but you guys did a great job with the
071explain the budget going forward. Um I'm sure some new board members haven't seen this before. Um don't even know what to ask. So, um I expect they'll probably have more questions in the future months and stuff like leading up to June. Speaking of leading up to June, can you explain um the preliminary >> budget for the new board members? >> So, the way our um budget process works, we work through um up in every month we're going to hear from you. Okay. The first action that the board needs to take is in the month of May. Okay. The month of May. We approved the preliminary budget. Okay. The preliminary budget really puts in motion what you're going to do in June. Okay. There's nothing final. There's nothing um what there's nothing that takes effect with
072your action that you in in met. Okay. the budget must sit for public um viewing for 30 days. So that's why the board meeting in June is an extra week longer. So because from the May May board meeting to the June board meeting, there must be at least 30 30 days for public comment that they have the ability to come in and set. Traditionally, and again, this is not anything written in stone because since we since we approved the resolution that that prohibits us from going above that equin. >> Traditionally, what the board has done is they approved the preliminary budget at that equin index. Again, that has no effect on anything as far as a tax bill, as far as how it affects the community. What that allows you to do is then for
073the month from May to June, then you can make that decision on where you as an individual board member or you can have discussions of where you feel comfortable having the final tax rate at because that decision in June when you approve that final budget that will include what the millage rate is set at for the 26 27 school. That make sense? So this is it's basically a building block. Okay, we're building the foundation and as we get into the closer months into June, I'm going to be giving you more information and if there's more information you need, you just need to let me know. I'll get that support you. So again, it's my role to give you as much information as you need to make that decision. >> Yeah. And traditionally we usually this
074board has agreed upon that it's usually set act one for preliminary um because the downside is if you approve a lower rate something happens and you want to change it for June's budget didn't sit that rate um we don't have the option to raise it. So just want to make sure that you're informed about that >> come down from May to June you can't go How much did you say it was per student for regular ed? >> For our current >> Yes, >> it's roughly $10,000. >> And how about special ed? >> I have to do >> Okay, that's question. You said about,000. Is that going into the fund balance? >> Is it not separate? >> No. If it is within the general fund, it's in our debt service because that's where ultimately when the
075building if the building is under built and we move forward with it. That's where be coming out of this is going to be a debt service payment. Even though you're not going to physically see the building on our campus, we're still responsible for that payment. So the point is every year I'm budgeting $100,000 I wish,000 more until we get to 600,000. We'll get there in two two years. I I mean there haven't been much movement that I'm aware of. And it's going to take that long. It's going to take over two years. If they started digging a hole today, we're not going to have kids in there until two years from now. So I feel very comfortable that that in two years we're going to do that 600,000 we'll have follow any other questions with
076budget >> okay I know I'm uh up again double with um the polic 626. I'll admit this is a little um different than what we used to because we have a policy committee. Um the reason we're coming to you now is because um our food service department had a procurement audit from CD. Okay. And one of the uh corrective actions was that we needed to change five words, literally five words within our procurement attachment within policy 626. So what this is going to do that we we will have this and I'll work with Dr. Sterner to make sure it's on the policy committee agenda. Um but We need to have a graph with these five words taken out to satisfy the corrective action by the end of this month. And that's why I'm bringing it
077to you just as a heads up. Um the words that need to come out are including a request for proposal procedure. That's it. So, I tried my best to explain how crazy this is and they wouldn't budge. So, um in order to not because the the downfall is if we don't do that, there's a chance that they would put our >> subsidy amount that we received for our food service on hold because of that. Now, I think it's a threat that they do, but I mean, it's not it's not changing the policy by any substantially. So, that's why I'm just letting you know that's that's what we're going to do and then it'll be in front of the policy committee and we'll go through that whole process where we'll sit there 30 days >> and
078all that. So, okay. >> Perfect. >> All right. Thank you. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> All right. There's no further questions. Budget or posted 626. We'll move along. Um, next agenda item is approval of the minutes. That's letter A. That's from January 13th's meeting. >> I move to approve the minutes of the January meeting. >> Second. >> All right. We have a first and a second. Any discussion on approval of the minutes? All right. If there's no discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be recorded in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Next is financial reports and we have A through E and they're down the line is bills payables one and two general fund and cafeteria fund. B is a general fund, C's
079cafeteria fund, B's capital reserve fund and E is a sellership fund. >> I move to approve financial reports. A through E. >> Second. >> Have a first and a second. Any discussion on financial reports. >> All right. If there's no discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance we record in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a n abstain. Motion carries. Uh next agenda. Agendum item 10 is correspondence. Um that'll be addressed later in the uh agenda. Move on to reports and related action. First up is solicitor's report. >> Thank you very much. Uh B is superintendent report. >> All right. Good evening everybody. I just have a few items that I wanted to give you an update on. But before I do that, I did want to um again thank
080Mr. Pier and Mrs. Heler for doing an exceptional job. Um the two of them run a very efficient department and I think that shows through every month every year actually as budget time comes around and it's great seeing them um tag teaming and the the budget presentation. So I do want to thank you both very much for all the time and dedication and what your team does um beyond just the two of you. So thank you so much for that. A reminder to the board um to get your financial interest forms in to me as soon as possible. Um, they were mailed in case you're curious. >> Um, if you need another one, just let me know and I'll I'll help you out with that. But if you could get that to me, I would
081greatly appreciate it. >> I do have exciting news that I wanted to share and I guess I'll go off the budget. So, we're not going to talk about deficit, we're going to talk about money we got. Uh, so every year we have the opportunity to be awarded a PCCD grant. Um, and PCCD is from the state and that is very specific on the safety and security and mental health of our students. So, just like any other grant, that's a grant that you have to make a proposal. Um, and you have to put in what you would use the monies for, and then you wait to see, you know, what you're awarded. And it could be a portion of what you're asking for. It could be all of what you're asking for. It's never more than
082what you're asking for. Um, but I am happy to say that we were awarded a little over $130,000. Um, we just found out. And what we're going to do with that, I'm very excited about, is we are able to add additional cameras to all three of our buildings. uh finally able to address what we call blind spots. Um areas in buildings where it's just no matter how many cameras we had at at our current time, there's still some blind spots. So, we actually are in the process of already we didn't have the money for more than about 24 hours until Mr. Pier was already spending it and calling um some people to get them in here, which is awesome. So, our principles are very excited about that to get those installed. And the other portion
083of the money that I'm happy to share is as you know we have three school count I'm sorry four school counselors. We have one at the elementary, we have one at our middle school and we have two at the high school. But through this grant we're able to also fund another one that we currently have um that we did have on our staff, but we are able to use the money towards that as this um position actually goes K to 12 and really is able to focus a little bit more on the mental health side um of our students that are in need. So using this uh grant money, we are able to fund that position. So that's exciting news that we are able to get more cameras for safety and security and also from
084the the mental health side support our students even more. So that's a win. So we're very excited about that. And the last thing that I wanted to make is just an announcement. Um I know the last two days uh publicly have been a challenge um for late notices of having to close school. Um today being another one. It is it is one thing dealing with weather. It is another thing dealing with facilities. And for whatever reason, they don't operate in a timely manner of when you want to make calls about things. So that 5:00 or that 5:45 we have no heat kind of situation is real. And ideally I would like to get calls out much sooner than possible. But I do want to thank my team. Um, and when I say my team, my
085leadership team and especially our buildings and grounds team, the way that they have pivoted so quickly in the mornings and really early mornings to try to figure out why we were not able to sustain heat in the middle school um was a challenge and they never stopped working and just when we thought we had it, we didn't have it. But what I can tell you is a lot of the questions were like, "Well, how is it that you're having a problem in your newest building?" Well, that that's a good question because I'll be honest, I asked the same question. Um, but since this building has been built, we have not had the weather that we just experienced, you know, this last month. And the continuous weather and being able to keep propane from freezing and
086vaporizing the way it's supposed to to go into our boilers is not something that's an easy thing to do with these temperatures. But I think today I feel today was the first time that I heard the C word, which is confident, which makes me confident um that we are able to address what the concern is in our building. Um, but again, it it's our priority to make sure our students are comfortable and the last thing we want to do is put them in a building that is too cold. And the other thing that I don't want to do is bring them in here just to send them home. So, I do appreciate um my sincerest appreciation to our families. I know it's not easy with daycare and I know it's not easy getting a call
087from me at six o'clock in the morning saying we're not going to have school, but I do truly hope you understand the amount of thought and process that goes into making those decisions. Um, and we wouldn't be able to do it without the team that we have here. So again, you know, Justin, please share with Jason and his team how appreciative we are for the work that they're doing and as you can feel it feels nice and toasty in here tonight. Um, so we're good. But I do want to just the community, thank you very much for that. Um, and for also for our teachers for pivoting and trying to make the best out of the situation. So here's to hoping to warmer weather. Um, no more snow would be great and see the spring,
088right? >> Yeah. >> All right, that concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Uh, next is Dr. Wy, assistant superintendent report. >> Just a couple of quick um things. So, this is the time of year where our building principles are kneedeep in what we call our mid-year evaluations. Um, so they are meeting with teachers who are on what we call our differentiated supervision plans to check in and make sure that they are learning and growing in the area that they've identified um as a staff member. And then also meeting with our non-tenured staff who um at each midyear have to go through an actual formal um evaluation in which they receive what we call a 132 131 13-1 um so that we're just um collecting all of those and then Dr. Cerner and
089I will approve them or sign Dr. Sterner will sign off on them and we'll be able to um move forward for the next couple of months until we do our end of year and then go through that same process all over again. But it's a big lift. Um, we do have our building principles meet with uh most of those individuals face tof face um because it's a great opportunity to have those conversations, make sure that we're all on the same track, that our teachers are getting the feedback that they need to continue learning and growing um and that it's not just something that we do to check a box and say that we're done. Um, in addition to that, I'm happy to share that for my first time, maybe I shouldn't share that, in six
090years, um, we do what we call a comprehensive local needs um, assessment for our career and tech programs. That happens every two years. And, um, every year your application gets kicked back for some s some sort of revision. This year, the kickback that I got was just that Dr. Sterner has to sign off and not me. So there were no revisions which I was really excited about because that is um not an area that that is an area I had to become an expert in um was not something that I had a lot of experience with um and it certainly has been a learning curve. In addition to that, um, we are for the first time, well, every six years as with your CTE programs, you have to go through what you call an APE
091evaluation, your approved program evaluation review. And essentially, it's an audit of your CTE programs, how they're functioning, um, how you run the program overall. Again, a huge lift. Um, so I want to thank our CTE teachers who have each spent a half day with me to kind of plan, prepare, and get ready for this audit that we'll have at the beginning of March. Um really the purpose of that audit is not to to to say you can no longer run your programs. It's just an opportunity for them to give us feedback and make sure that we're doing the things that we need to do um in order to receive our Perkins funding and then also um that we're capturing the kids and running our programs um with all of the requirements that we need to
092in order to receive that Perkins funding and run those programs within our high school. Um so some some pretty big things. I feel like uh that is a three-day three days where the state is on site and they're going through all of our documents and um asking for things and when they ask for it I have to be able to provide it. So, uh, working on getting all of that organized and ready to go so that we have a successful, um, uh, evaluation and take any feedback that we have in which we may end up with some corrective actions that we will, one of those that I'm going to avoid, which you will see on the board agenda tonight, is that approval of those OAC committees, um, which I talked about last month. Um so
093just a reminder of of that is what those o those occupational advisory committees guide our CTE teachers to ensure that those programs are um providing our students with experiences that will set them up to be successful in those career paths. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. Uh next we'll move on to old business which there is none. Which brings us to new business. And we have first up letter A is personnel. And we have we'll go through we got one, two, three, four, five, six. So we're going to vote on these um individually. So I'll do uh I'll start with one. So first first one on personnel is approval the following resignations. And there's three. There's 1 A through C. >> 1 A through C. >> All right. I have a first and a
094second. Is there any discussion? All right. There's no discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Number two, uh there's a request administration for approval for the following employed um support staff. We have two of them, letters A and B to a >> second. All right, we have a first and a second. Any discussion for approval for the employed support staff? If there's no discussion, this is a will call vote. All those intention report in favor of the motion unless I hear a n abstain. Motion carries. Number three, uh the administration's requesting approval for staff be granted professional contracts and we have two of them. We have A and B. >> Motion. We have a motion for
0953A and B. Is there any discussion on those items? All right, if there's no discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those intent record in favor of the motion must hear and they abstain. Motion carries. Next is number four, administration's requesting approval for the following employees to enter a contract for the district. And this is for positions for summer camp 2026. There are four of them. So A through D for A through D second. >> We have a first and a second the letter or for number 48 A through D. So any discussion? All right. If there's discussion, there's a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Next is number five. Administration's requesting approval for the following extracurricular contracts
096for 2526 school year. And there's A through E. Move to approve 5 A through E. >> Second. >> All right. We have a first and a second. Is there any discussion? There's no discussion. This is a roll call vote. All in plans to report in favor of the motion unless I hear a nay abstain. Motion carries. And last under personnel is number six. And this is administration's requesting approval for list of volunteer coaches for 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve six. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Is there any discussion on number six? All right, if there's no discussion, this is a roll call vote. All those intent in favor of the motion. Unless I hear nay or abain. Motion carries. All right, moving on to letter B. This is York's
097Adams C uh Academy operating budget. Administration is recommending approval for the 2627 general operating budget. Second. >> We have first and a second. Is there any discussions on letter B, which is York's Adams Academy operating budget? >> Could you tell us what that is? I don't recall hearing about that before. >> Sure. Um, this is not uh the academy is really looked at as like a credit recovery for high school students um that are struggling here. It's an opportunity in a more structured environment. Um, at this time we usually have a seat um that we have with them that if we do have a student that needs to use that as an opportunity for them for a credit recovery. So we don't talk about it often because we don't often send students there. >> It's
098essentially an intervention to help a student graduate who may not within our setting. >> Any other questions for discussion? But we do not have a student experiment. >> We currently do not. >> But that can that can change next week. Yeah. >> That's an annual thing that pops up. >> Yeah. >> So, >> Yep. >> All right. Any other questions? All right. There's no further questions. This is a roll call vote. All those intents report in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nine. All right. Motion carries. Letter C is the high school course guide. Administration request approval for the high school course guide for the 26 27 school year. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Is there any discussion on letter C the high school course guide? All right.
099If there's no discussion, this a call vote. All attendance will report in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Letter D is the 2627 calendar. Administration's requesting approval for the 2627 school calendar we've been talking about for the last month or so. I believe >> motion to approve D. >> I have a first and a second. Is there any discussion? I'd like to make a few comments on the academic calendar, please. >> Sure. >> Um, I realize that a lot of time, effort, um, and and thought went into making our academic calendar, and this is not meant to be a criticism in any way. Um, but I'd like to just give a few numbers for everybody to contemplate. You know, we'll call it academic calendar by the numbers. Historically,
100we had 180 days of school and the maximum potential hours of and if any of my numbers are wrong, please please feel free to correct me. Um, we had 180 days of school and a potential 1,080 hours of instruction time. And we've now gone to the state's requirement of hourly instruction. And their requirement is 990 hours, which has reduced our uh we've reduced our academic calendar from 180 days. And I realize some of those were half days, but 180 days scheduled in person to our uh this calendar that we're talking about right here has 174 scheduled days, four of which are half days. So, however you want to look at it, 174 or 170 days of of in-person instruction. Um, and just not to reiterate, I you know, obviously we weren't expecting to miss school
101yesterday and today, but given the weather situation that we've had over the past few weeks, um, and you know, we're kind of up against the wall because we don't have scheduled makeup days, and I realize there's a plan for, um, flexible instruction days, whatever we're calling them, asynchronous days, but um, I really think, you know, we were kind of sold on this idea that it was supposed to be more flexible and I think it is. You know, what what student, teacher, or parent doesn't want to have a few more days of vacation at Christmas or Thanksgiving or things like that? But I feel as though there's there's less flexibility because we have no built-in makeup days. I I hear from parents that they'd much rather have their kids in here on a on a scheduled
102makeup day than do a do a a flexible day of instruction at home. Um, so I I just wanted to throw some of those numbers out there. I I feel like we, you know, if if 990 is the the lowest the bar can be and our bar used to be at 1080 as far as hours of instruction, you know, I think maybe we could do a little better. Um, and I I think uh just just some other numbers. I know we're I'm pretty sure we're contracted for 175 days of of bus transportation. Uh, I think we're contracted, the teachers are contracted for 189 days. Um, you know, so and and based on our current snow days and and you know, unforeseen building problems, I think we're now down at I don't know 168 or something
103like that. So, um, just some just some just some thoughts and concerns about, you know, maybe we should consider building in some makeup days or um I I just think our schedule has gotten a little bit more lax than maybe it it should or could be. And um, you know, I realize we're here to vote on the issue. Maybe we're a little too late to implement any changes for this upcoming school year, but I wanted to make sure everybody heard my academic calendar by the numbers. >> Can I can I share a little bit of clarification about the 180? >> So the 180 when we talk about 180 student days, it's that is a perception. And so this is what I just I want you to think about. So, when you shift from 180 days,
104when you have an 180day calendar and we have a 2-hour delay, that still counts as a full day. Um, if we have a 180day calendar and we have a half day, that still counts as a full day, even though kids are only here for a half day. Um, what's another there also? Well, I just because there's I'm going to give you some numbers, too, that might interest you. So, uh, in addition to that, when you run a 180day calendar, you can have what you call act 80 days. Act 80 days are built into that 180day calendar that you can count as a student day, but students are not physically in the building because it's designated as a time for some teacher learning. So, while the calendar says 180, so what I did is I broke
105down because I I have the same I mean, we all want kids here. I think at the end of the day that is what we know is best for most kids. Um so I did break down in the last 3 years even though our calendar was built on paper for 1080 hours because on average it's a six-hour academic school day. Um the state defines what instructional time is and there are certain parts of the day that are not instructional time that we can't count. Um, so three years ago when we add in all of the early dismissals, all of the delay days, the act 80 days, um, I was able to take all of those numbers. And while on paper it looks like we had 1,080 hours and that kids were in school for that
106180day period, when you break it down by hours, when you start looking at the number of delay days that we had because of weather, it dropped down to 1051. Um the following year did the same thing and it also it will depend on what kind of winter you have. Um that following year was a a more difficult winter and we dropped down from 1051 to 1046 even though on paper it's 180 days. Um last year not last year the 2425 school year still 180day calendar but we had 134 hours of instruction total. Um, so certainly we'll take the feedback and and direction from the board. I just I think there's this misunderstanding sometimes that kids are in seats for that 180 days. Um, and when you operate on an hour calendar, every two-hour delay counts.
107So if we have a 2-hour delay, we have to make those two hours up somehow. Um, depending on what structure we're using. the early dismissal days, you can only count half the day, not the full day, which is different from the 180. Um, so I think when we talk about the flexibility, the flexibility more or less is the right now our calendar that we have on the agenda for this evening is 1,032 hours I believe in total. Um, off the top of my head here and um, sorry I just lost my train of thought. >> It's 1,32 hours. So,32 hours and that includes um all of the early dismissals. Um but obviously that won't include any of the weather. The minimum is 990 for secondary students. So, the state sets the expectation and that is
108the bare minimum. 990 is what the state is saying your secondary students need in order to be able to access their education. 900 is the bare minimum for for elementary students. And so right now that calendar is built for 10:32. Um I happy to to make adjustments if that's the direction that is provided. I think we all want what is best for our students and to make sure that we're maximizing the time that we have um moving forward. But I just wanted to make sure that you understand that when we when you shift for when that 180 those half days count as the full day even though they're only here for that half day. But then when you're in the hour structure, every hour counts and so you have to be in the seats in
109order to be able to achieve that minimum number of hours the state sets. >> Yeah. Thanks. Thank you for all of the clarification. I didn't mean to misrepresent the 180 days and mean that students were in seats for six hours every day. >> But I don't think that and I and I don't want you to think that that was you. But in general, people don't realize that that is the that that >> those half days count as the full day. taking that into consideration. Uh I still want to reiterate, you know, if we own right now we're up against the because of all the twohour delays and days off, are we up against the 990 hours? That's why we're scheduling >> uh flexible instruction, right? >> So any any time from now moving forward that
110our students miss, whether it's two hours or six hours, we are held accountable for them to make it up. >> Right? So I just want to reiterate whether you know regardless of the number of days if we if we start off at 1080 and we end up at 1050 or 1040 you know that that's not too bad. We can all I think we can all expect you know 30 40 hours of fluctuation based upon the weather. But if we're starting at 10:30 >> which is what I'm hearing the upcoming calendar looks like. If we're starting at 10:30 and and we're, you know, now we're settling at 990, I I just I feel like we are truly settling for for something less than what we could be giving to our students if we put a couple
111days back in there or put in some build-in makeup days, something like that. So, I I don't have anything more to say. If if the rest of the board has any uh considerations, feel free. But I I just wanted to make sure everybody had had those numbers for consideration. >> Well, thank you. >> Uh anyone have any comments or anything like that? >> I mean, I agree with um Brian. It's better to build in a couple more days just in case. >> I agree with that, too. >> And when you're saying buildin days, you're talking about having like the traditional snow days like that. You're you're talking about having traditional snow day makeup days in the calendar. >> I think what they're trying to say that it used to be where instead of the day
112off would be like first snow makeup day or second snow makeup day. They were kind of earmarked on the calendar. So people could kind of predict that okay if something were to happen I need to make myself available on this day just in case for forward planning for jobs for whatever people may have going on our private lives they could be like okay it's now snow season so in January February if you guys and I think this is Brian what you were getting at and some of the things that we've you know people might be saying in the community is that if we had a in January whenever we're off first snow makeup day, the next one could be a second snow makeup day to have those earmarked on the calendar so people in the
113community can see so they can schedule accordingly. >> I think that's kind of the crux of things with everything that's been going on. >> That's my interpretation >> happens now. It's just not on the calendar because those days those hours are still made up, >> right? And see that that's the thing that with the if we schedule under if we if we schedule at the 990 if we schedule the 990 but we have accounted for 1,032 hours then the snow makeup days are already in there but I think the issue is that because it's not earmarked on the calendar now because people are so used to seeing the calendars when it was 180 and >> and the law changed it's not visualize it. Okay, you have a snow day this day. You don't have to
114make it up because we already have the snow days budgeted in. So, it's not earmarked on the calendar. So, it's it's like you can't double budget for something, but at the same time, people want to see when the first snow day could be, the first snow makeup day could be. So, it's like in addition to having having it budgeted in, if we go through all of our budgeted hours like we have this year, what would be the first snow makeup day? What would be the second snow makeup day? What would that look like? I is my interpretation of what everybody seems to be getting at. >> Yeah. I mean, if it's the wish of the board, we can go back. You can pull it and we can go back to the drawing board. Um, what
115I would say is when you put in snow days, you are at the mercy of hitting that snow day. So if you miss that snow day makeup day, you're in the same situation where instructional hours have provided us flexibility that we aren't drawn to just that day on the calendar. And what snow makeup days are going to force is adding days on to the end of the school year. I mean, there's no way to avoid that, which I can tell you from the time that I've been here, that has been the biggest concern from parents that have reached out to me. It was adding days on to the end of the school year. So, that's where the instructional hours came into play. And what I will say is like accountabilitywise, the instructional hours are holding
116us more accountable because of with the traditional days calendar like Dr. Myers was saying, when you it wasn't a true picture. So when we had a 2-hour delay, it looked like our kids were here all day and they weren't. But instructional hours, our students are only here four hours and they're not getting credit for two hours that they weren't here. So I think you know what Dr. Myers is trying to say is that what it looked like isn't what it was. >> Exactly. >> Correct. So that's why I think some of us >> some of us when this law was passed, we felt like the instructional hours were more of a valid way to measure how long our students are actually in school. Um but definitely it the board is the one that approves the
117calendar. >> Well, and I guess I'd also like some clarification because prior to Dr. Sterner part of this conversation that we shifted from bringing kids in on those makeup days because all of those makeup days were tagged to a holiday of some sort. And we ran into a number of issues, not just staff, but we ran into families who had planned vacations and then could no longer send their kids to school. And so there were a number of reasons why we said okay let's then let's think flexibly and we will we will use remote days on those days as makeup days because outside of that the only option so in this year even if we had snow days built into the calendar our only option would be to add to the end of the school
118year >> we've exceeded them we would have exceeded them already >> isn't going to make people happy either. So, it's just it's this balancing act of trying to make everyone, you know, trying to meet everyone's needs and and that's not going to happen. I think we have to make a decision that we feel like is in the best interest of the students. >> That's why I said it's not just that's not the only challenge. The other challenge is I can pull you data to show you that the attendance on those days is drastically lower than what it would have been on a typical day. Uh which was why we pivoted and decided to move in the asynchronous manner so that it allowed families the flexibility to still maintain whatever plans they had but still make
119the day up. >> Yeah. >> And so if the wish is to go back face to face then we definitely have to have a larger conversation. Um I and again I don't I wouldn't argue that it just that is that is a different direction than we were provided based on feedback a few years ago. >> This is the tugofwar we've been playing trying trying to make as many people as we can. What I hear from people that are in their 30s with kids in elementary school or middle school is they'd rather have what I'm hearing from my people that I talk to is they'd rather have their kids in school on a makeup day than uh some online flexible instruction, you know, work on your own time. >> Sure. Um and and I think we
120also have to take into consideration uh what two weeks ago we had a we had two days closed and a delay Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. We we also have to take into consideration the value of the time spent in the classroom on a two-hour delay or a two-hour early dismissal because it's not a 50 minute period. It's a what 30 35 minute period. So, we also have I think you have to take that into I almost I almost devalue slightly uh a half day or a two-hour delay day because you know everybody's kind of rushing around. You get 30 minutes in a class and you know those aren't our best learning days either. >> Sure. Personally, I think that the hours is a better op like the best way to go because the accountability is there
121like you guys said. And you know, let's be honest, this is a really crazy winter that we're having. We had a week of singledigit lows with sub-zero windchills. It's not like this every year. the propane tank is outside which is probably what led to that like with the sustained temperatures which is probably why it may have led and I have no idea but my guess is that it may have led to the heating issues that we just experienced the past two days could be I have no idea >> but bottom line is there's this is outside of the norm and I think the hours allows for the kids to have the day off which is unpredictable >> nobody's crystal ball works very well. So, you can't always plan for everything and with the snow days
122being built in with the patent planned hours, I think is probably a good way to stay the way that we are. But I also hear based on what other board members have brought up is that there's when you have to go to that makeup structure, people aren't liking the remote option, but you can't have it both ways. >> And I mean, that was just my interpretation of what was being brought to the board. And it makes sense. I understand the frustration, >> but you can't have it both ways. And the hours is the more >> accountable for the kids being in their seats learning. The way I see it is I'm not opposed to the hourly >> um >> structure. I I think but what I do think is we need to set our bar
123our bar higher >> where we're not starting at 10:30 and ending at 990. You know, hopefully we're starting at 10 1060 and ending at 1020 or something. I I I just that's what I >> Yeah, but we were saying that we can't control. Well, no, we can if we add more days. >> He's saying add more days to the calendar, add more student days. And so that right now would end up being potentially like that calendar, the current calendar as it sits. We built in that two week um Christmas vacation. And so ideally or essentially what we would do is take those three days, I think it's three days, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and they would be in person instruction days. And then we would get those three days back. >> Yep. is I mean and
124>> I don't know how well that would go over in the >> in the community. >> It went it that's how that's how the academic calendar has been here for 40 years. >> I correct but we made the shift >> in the last year or so. >> Well, and last year last year it was this year it correct this year it was that way because of the way that Christmas fell. >> Correct. It's not the same every year. Y >> it's not >> um I I haven't received any negative feedback on the counter the shift and usually if there's a change um that we did there'll be pretty quickly community people be here for public comment um and are writing the school board or vocalizing. So I do know that again it's not going to
125fit everyone's situation so some people are not going to be happy with it. I get that because you can't appease everyone, but I personally haven't heard anything um to me via email or anything like that or brought to the board or to the administration as far as a concern. Um I do like how it's how it's more clear articulation of actual students and their time with their day, the usage of learning, which is the most important thing here, than them getting credit for a whole day when they're actually only there for a part portion part of the day. So I think we're not doing it anything for the student when we do that. get there's two-hour day there 30 minute periods how uses I get that argument too but I think that our big for
126me again the biggest bang for the student is with the hours I think um until there's any data showing that it's not I don't know if we have data showing that it's not being um >> well official right >> we're in year one >> right >> and it's the most like uncommon year >> that's >> I don't know >> I would be reluctant to change something when we just changed it last year, right? And they have a chance to set in and take an effect and see what it's like. We can always change. We know that we can always change something um in the future. Um I just don't know if tonight's that night that we want to make a change. Um maybe discuss it more for next year and bring up two different pictures
127of what a I don't know if it's a hybrid >> average let it go hours for three years, reevaluate, get some data. I don't know. >> I don't know. There's a suggestion. >> What what I would what I would say to the board to focus on is I think what we're we're doing right now is we're focusing on the hours and the amount of time or the days. And what we really need to be focusing on is what we're doing with our students when they're here. >> And that's all the curriculum work that we're doing, all that development that we're doing, all of the assessment building that we're doing. It's it's more about what are we doing with them when we're here versus well, how many days are they here? the hours are we here?
128Um because you know the question always is too when you're looking around holidays, you know, let's look at the holiday break, the winter break, you know, the day before or whatever that is. What are our students doing those days? You know, and I'm looking at some of you that are parents that are rooms or have been there. You know what you're doing on those days? You're having holiday parties or you're having events or you're having an assembly. It's about what we're doing with our students when we're here. And that's what Dr. Myers and I are focusing on so much um within the calendar. But I again I think you know either direction that the board wants to go in, we can definitely draft options for you. Um the the only option really is the more
129if you want to add student days in the direction we're going to need is which of the holidays are we going to take from or breaks that we're going to take from in order to to add those days back in. Um, and we can certainly do that and draft a couple different options for for you all to look at. Um, I it's definitely a good conversation. >> Yeah. >> Though this year there were no holiday parties, right? >> I'm not saying that. >> Yeah. >> Why the taste for the stage? >> So, right now >> Yeah. >> That's a great question because what we the reason why we have the 13th that is coming up on Friday. I'm sorry. this is your side of the if you want to talk about it. Um the the
130reason why we have the 13th is because our teachers are already working that day. That is an inservice day. So our students actually weren't here that day. They weren't required to come in. So the reason why we're able to do a remote day is because our students weren't it was a day off for them already. So we're taking that day off away from them and we're making it a remote day. Now our teachers are are here working but they're going to be doing professional learning but also working with the students. So that's where we have that flexibility. And then the other day, >> but also historically, and I can use that President's Day weekend as an example, um the 16th, whatever date it was at the time, um that was a a day that was
131an in-person makeup day, and we needed to make that day up and we brought students in for inperson instru um we ended up not having enough staff to support that and so we had to make it an asynchronous day. Um, in addition to that, on the flip side, when we've brought students in, the attendance has been historically low on those days because they're backed up to holidays. And so we had a conversation um at the board level and recommended that if we were going to continue to use those particular days as makeup days that our recommendation at that point would to be m is to make them asynchronous because we needed to be able to balance the needs of families and also have the staff to provide instruction for the inperson. So, you know, ideally
132the again the really the options moving forward would be to shorten Christmas holiday break or add to the end of the school year if we're going to bring students back in face to face or start school earlier and end later. Um, which we are more than willing to have the conversation about. It's just not um we built it based on those historical conversations and just past practice. We as well when we were in school with them, we started school early and we ended school late. Why the change all over the years? Why did we change the It seems like it's more loose than it was back when we were in school. >> It's been 180 days. >> Yeah, it's it's I don't know how long it's been. >> 180 days. Yeah. So, it's always been
133180 days. It's just how you placed those 180 days. >> And the issue that I'm hearing a lot of just folks is the fact that the asynchronous day or even the days that we come in twohour delays, it is not productive at all. You don't hear I haven't heard of a hour delay since I was in school you know >> and it's even that type of thing would be more than 20 minutes in a seat kids think it's silly >> and even with the asynchronous it's a humongous waste of of time for them they don't they don't get anything else >> and I'd say that's more of a secondary um and I'd love to have conversations with teachers. And do teachers view it that way? I mean, I don't want to put you on the
134spot, Chad, but you're a But you guys are are you guys are you not block? >> Yeah. So, you're in the same boat we are with a two-hour delay. Um, but you're also balancing the need to get kids in to account for the instruction. um you know and I don't know moving forward do we need to think flexibly about providing you know again elementary it's a different beast and secondary if if the I don't want to I'm not going to dive into suggestions right now >> say there those half days with the 20minut classes >> not much you can't because even >> half day or twohour delay the and the half days if you look at this calendar we we reduced those for this new calendar so there were more last this current year than
135there are next year. The only half days we have built in next year are the uh report card time uh where teachers have report card time to work on report cards. >> Did you count it? Five. >> I thought it was four, but it might be five. >> I think it's it's the last day and the three marking and then the three marking period. So, it should just be four. January 15th >> November 5th is conferences. So that's the other half day. So it is probably five >> maybe don't go to every single class that day on the first half day you do four classes the second half day >> and so that's conversation like that's feedback I think we can take back and and as a building team they can have I mean that's
136certainly a conversation that can can continue as far as how are we using that time I will say a lot of the times those days are used for club days um and so they run all their they run a club schedule on those scheduled early dismissal days. Um so they do use them creatively to do some of the things that we typically would do on a normal day but not use the normal day. Um so that we're not utilizing that solid block of time. Um but we can certainly take that back to the the secondary team and brainstorm better or different ways to handle that if that's the feedback that students are providing. So we have uh any more discuss we have motion first and a second um for approval of this calendar. Any further
137discussion? Any other questions for the administration? I think the change of accounting calendars at this point is going to be hard to do because at this point right now they're going to be scheduling courses and stuff here this probably this month or next month they're going to be scheduling courses and things like that. It's pretty hard to change things. I I think I think we pass it this year if we want to then look at that again. Maybe next year we look at several different calendars and and and look at it again differently. See, I need to change right now. You save rounds. Anyway, say Oh, military term. Sorry. >> Save rounds. Probably not appropriate in the school. Um, uh, okay. If there's no further questions or discussion, uh, we'll go ahead and Is this
138something where you just want me to do the roll call vote or you want me to call the role or are we okay? You just want me to go with my normal Okay, this is a roll call vote. All intentions report in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear a nay or abstain. >> Nay. Correct. So, now we'll call the roll. >> All right. >> Diana, >> yes. >> Dan Chubbs, >> yes. >> Brian Davis, >> nay. >> Dhan, yes. >> Rachel Gray, >> yes. Mary Kemper, >> yes. >> Chad Fleets, >> yes. >> Chad Bon, >> yes. >> All right. Thank you very much. Good discussion though. Appreciate it. >> Next is letter E. Uh, it's an agreement waiver stipulations for expulsion. for E. >> Second. >> We have a first and a
139second. Any further discussion on letter E? There's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those plans of the court in favor of the motion. Unless they hear nain. Motion carries. Letter F is the CTI uh board. So board recommends appointment. We have to do this annually. Uh Brian Davis as representative and myself as the alternative for the ACTI board. >> Motion to approve. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right. Have no further discussion. This will call vote. All those intent to record in favor of the motion. I'll say hear obscene. Motion carries. Letter G. Uh this is for the Sunday overnight activities and there's two of them. There's one uh request approval for robotics team to attend the competition. Another one's a request for approve for
140rehearsal for the high school musical. >> Motion to approve. Second one second. >> I have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? All right. No further discussion. This a roll call vote. All those in the court in favor of the motionless hearing. Motion carries. Uh next up is letter H which is disposal uh disposal of obsolete equipment. Move to approve H. Second. >> We have first and second. There any further discussion? We have no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All the attention reported favor with the motion unless I hear nay. Obstain motion carries. Uh next is bus and van driver approval and administration requesting two of them. The numbers one and two. >> Motion to approve all one and two. We >> have a first and a second. Any
141further discussion? All right. With no further discussion, this is a roll call vote. All the intentions to report have a motion unless I hear a n obstain. Motion carries. Uh next is letter J, occupational advisory committee. This is what Dr. Myers was referring to earlier. Quest requesting approval um for the 2526 school year. Move to approve J. >> Second. >> Have a motion. First and a second for letter J. Does any questions or discussion on letter J? I have a question. Go ahead. >> No, you go ahead first. >> There's something. Is there board members on this? >> No. >> Oh, >> no. So, these No, it's not another committee for you. >> No, no. So, and that's why I just wanted to just first and foremost, so moving forward, these will be on the
142agenda at the beginning of each school year. This was something we've recently found out we should have been approving um and just haven't been. The uh what these are though are each of our CTE teachers. We have five programs um oh my gosh, a horiculture, a child care, um accounting, and diversified occupations. They are required to have a committee of stakeholders, which typically is a parent of a student who's in the program, a student, and then business and community members who are related to whatever that career field is on their committee to help provide feedback and guidance um to that program overall. So, it could be curricular changes, it could be equipment, it could be industry certifications um and just help make recommendations. They meet twice a year um and it just requires board approval
143moving forward. The ACTI has this also. >> Yes. >> For those of you who are familiar. All right. Um, we have a personal second. Like I said, motions to accept this. Is there any other questions or anything? We got nothing. All right. There's a roll call vote. All those intents to record in favor of the motion unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. That brings us to uh other business and I think >> real quick I wanted to add in that the SER committee met on January 22nd. Um they approved the course calendar guide um for the high school >> course guide for um the high schools. >> Uh we talked about ELA and math and social studies. curriculums. EMF is being updated and reviewed for efficiency and effectiveness. Um, social studies is
144uh currently starting to work on that. And there was some talk about the homework committee, some feedback from teachers in the committee within the buildings about what's appropriate. You're not going to be sending to a grade of home with three hours worth of homework. You want them to go home and play and have fun and be kids, you know, talk homework. no feedback from from people within those committees and that's still a topic probably knowing conversation and that's really about it for Sierra we'll meet again on >> February 19th anybody have any questions promise >> I will put one out real quick uh we will be needing a rep the share committee Um so any volunteers again for the for the uh committees we kind of appoint those here with this board. Um so if
145you have any interest just send me an email let me know and uh we'll try to have that done next month. In addition we also have a vacancy for one of the officer positions which is treasurer. So again next month that'll be on the agenda. um we'll go through that process of uh nominating and electing that person like we do every December I mean for board reorg sort of thing. So um those are the two last thing any other things to bring before the board before we adjourn. All right well thank you for your time. Uh have a great rest of your night and we are journed. Thank you.