001I >> they're not logged in because Zoom wasn't live, but it is now. >> We're good. >> All right. I like to call this meeting to order tonight. Uh, Secretary, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Secretary, you call the role, please. >> Diana Canap >> here. >> Dan Chubb here. >> Brian Davis here. >> Jen Goldh >> absent. Ruth Griffy >> here. Mary Keer absent. Chad Mauy >> here. >> Matt Nelson >> here. >> Neil Tate absent. Uh Solicitor Lee Dalton >> here. >> Dr. Sterner >> here. >> Dr. Meyers >> here. >> Justin Pier here. And uh thank you
002to our visitors in the audience. Thank you, Brian. Uh next up on the agenda is public comment. Is there any public comment for this evening? All right. Thank you. Moving along. Uh next item on our agenda is discussion. Is there something that we wanted to bring up for discussion on here? >> Agenda. Okay, moving on to approval of minutes. Uh, the first item to be voted on is the June 17, 2025 regular meeting minutes. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> I got a first and a second. Is there any further discussion on the approval of the minutes from last uh two months ago? All right, there's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. opposed to in favor of the motion nay or abain. Motion carries. Next, we're going to move on to
003financial reports. Uh we have A, B, C, D, and E for bill payable, general fund, calculator fund, capital reserve fund, scholarship fund, and activities fund. >> Motion to approve all of those letters. >> Motion to approve A through F. Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be in favor of the motion unless I hear nay or saying? Motion carries. Next item is correspondence which will be addressed later on the agenda. Moving on to reports and related action. We have none. Which brings us to administration reports. So, we'll start with uh solicitor. >> Nothing to report this month. >> All right. Thank you very much. Next, uh Dr. Sner. >> All right. Good evening, everybody. It's good to see
004all of you again. It seems like it's been a little bit of a um time lapse since we've seen each other in June. You all look rested and ready to roll for this start of the school year. I see some smiles. That's a good sign. Um just a couple updates for you. So, first of all, I'm really excited as a superintendent to start this school year. um starting here in December in the middle of the year was was kind of weird um because I didn't get to meet everybody like and kick off the beginning of the school year. So, I have been waiting for this for months to actually be able to start the school year here at Bermudian Springs um and just celebrate the start of a school year with everybody. I do have
005a couple updates. Um next week we're welcoming 261 professional staff and support staff members um back to school. Like we're ready to roll. Um we do have our opening day planned with um many inservice time uh opportunities which Dr. Myers will share with you here in just a bit. Um I am happy to say that we do know the start is here because Dr. Myers and I just came back from our kindergarten back to school night. Um which was great, very well attended um at our elementary school. We got to see a ton of parents, very excited kindergarten students. Um that really I think they were hoping school started tonight. Um, so all of our kindergarten teachers were there along with Dr. Kerzy and Mr. Murphy and some other teachers there supporting the families that
006are coming in for kindergarten um back to school. Next week we'll have other events um for the high school and middle school and elementary school as far as welcoming other parents um back into the school year and along with our students. If you didn't have the opportunity, something that we do here to see something that we do here that is very unique to Bermudian Springs is we allow our seniors to design their own parking spots if they wish. Um, so when you pull into our campus and you look over at the admin building and the high school, if you see all that color from a distance, um, I really urge you to take some time to just drive over there. I am beyond impressed with what our seniors have created. Um, they come up with
007a an idea and design that gets approved by high school administration before they do it. Um, but they have been out there in the heat. Um, some of them were getting some really good ideas of bringing like canopies to work under. Um, but this is a really big deal. We see parents coming in dropping food and drinks off to their kids and then they leave as they're out there designing. Um, but very very creative and something that I I highly recommend you take some time to check out. And then my last thing is our fall sports are underway. Um, we had heat conditioning um for our student athletes just to get acclimated with the heat and getting back into um being outside for our activities and everybody's looking great and looking happy and very sweaty.
008Um so we are excited for this um season. I looking forward to a great season in all of our sports. That concludes my report. >> Great. Thank you very much. >> Hi, just a couple of thing Yep. Just a couple of things to add. Um so last week uh we welcomed gosh on Monday was our new staff orientation and we had um about 10 new staff members um here on campus where they just received information their technology. They met with BSEA um and had lunch and met with building principles just to kind of go over some general information. And then on Tuesday, we hosted our very, well, not the first, but in a long time, um, we've kind of revamped our new teacher induction. So, when we have new staff, some staff members come to
009us and have already been through Pennsylvania's induction program and school district don't require induction, but typically brand new teachers or teachers coming from out of state have to meet certain requirements um, under PA code within that induction program. As a county, we worked together as assistant soups and with our instructional specialists and coaches throughout the districts and were able to kind of revamp and create an induction that we're really excited about this year where teachers across the county will have multiple opportunities to be able to collaborate with each other. So, when you have small districts and you're the only first grade teacher, uh it can be really hard to really develop a full understanding of of what that first grade year might look like. And so now um we have groups of teachers, K through2
010bands and three through six bands where they can really work together throughout the school year to just understand what teaching looks and sounds like for someone who's brand new. So really excited with a huge success that day. Um we ended our uh staff new staff induction on Thursday. Yep. Thursday of last week and had a and actually had an opportunity to take Dr. Cerner along with us where we took a bus ride. Um, we've been really fortunate. I have to give a shout out to Peter's Orchards, to New Horizon, and to Lucky Us Farm. Um, they have for several years now welcomed our new staff to their businesses, and they've um really again just kind of provided a warm welcome, shared some information and some history about the district and um oftentimes our teachers have
011walked away with um I think fruit baskets and um coffee and and all the things. So just a really great way for them to see the district as a whole. Uh we certainly are unique but then also be welcomed in a really warm way. So uh that's been a really great partnership. Um additionally this summer and later in the agenda um we did meet as a Sierra committee and are really excited about the opportunity to approve this um ELA and science uh curriculum draft frameworks that we're going to continue to work on and further develop this school year under the direction of uh Dr. Wales. He has been super busy this summer. Um really helping with developing our PD and curriculum plans this school year. He's been such a great addition and um has accomplished
012a tremendous amount in such a short amount of time. We're really excited about the the PD that we have planned next week and the choices and opportunities that our teachers will have to either continue to expand and develop our curriculum or further their own professional learning goals um on their own with a self-guided plan. So, uh next week we welcome everyone back on Tuesday. Yeah, I'm having trouble with my days. on Tuesday. On Tuesday, we welcome staff back and we have um this year again just really happy to have three full days. Um that fourth day is a what we call a swap day, but to have actually have three full days with teachers, I think is is going to be huge and create a space where they're not feeling as overwhelmed and crammed with
013information as they have in the past. Um so can't wait to get started next week. I think it's been a really productive summer and we're looking forward to the start of the year. Great. Thank you. All right. Moving on to next agenda item which is old business nine. So moving on to new business. Uh next item vote on personnel. Um we have a um one which is some resignations and number two is uh granting a professional contracts. Uh they have to do be done separate. I think for voting uh but there under one there's three of them there's AB and C and under two there's AB and C so we'll do the first one uh 1 A and C resonations >> motion to approve 1 A B and C >> second >> we have a
014first and a second any further discussion okay this is a roll call vote all those in tennis be in favor of the motion must I hear any abstain Motion carries. Next is A2. Um, A, B, and C. Motion to approve to A, B, and C. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? >> All right. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be in favor of the motion. Must I hear any abstain? Motion carries. Number three, um administration's recommending the employment of following support staff employees and we have letters A through F. >> Motion to approve 3 A through F. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Is there any further discussion on the support staff employees A throughF? All right. No further discussion. This
015is a roll call vote. All those in attendance recorded in favor of the motion unless I hear a name abstain. Motion carries. Four uh for approval um the substitute nurses and substitute support staff for the 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve um 3A through F. >> You're on four. Yep. It's okay. So, you want to >> a motion to approve four? I missed that one. >> That's all right. Thank you. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Any further discussion? All right. This a call vote. All those in attendance being in favor of the motion le or abstain. Motion carries. Number five, administration's request for approval for teacher mentor the 202526 school year. That's number five. >> Motion to approve five. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Any further
016discussion? Okay, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance will be reported in favor of the motion. Bless abstained. Motion carries. Next is number six. Um requesting board approval for the following list employees for the teachers teachers of Eagles Academy for 2526 school year. Again, this is number six. >> Motion to approve six. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion about teachers uh for Eagles Academy? All right. There's no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance report in favor of the motion unless I hear a nay or an abstain. Motion carries. Number seven, u requesting board approval to resend a few uh extracurricular contracts this upcoming year. >> Move to approve seven. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion to
017approve 7 A and B. Any further discussion? This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be reported in favor of the motion unless I hear a name or abstain. Motion carries. Number eight, administration's requesting board approval for extracurricular contracts for the 2526 school year. And this is A through F. >> Move to approve A through F. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Is there any further discussion? Okay. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be recorded in favor of the motion. Must I hear a nay or abstain? Motion carries. Next is number nine. Administration's recommend approval for the district athletic game help 2526 school year. Motion approved. Nine. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Is any further discussion? Okay, this is a roll
018call vote. All those in attendance will report in favor of the motion. Let's hear a nay or an abscene. Motion carries. Number 10. Administration's requesting board approval for the list of volunteer coaches for the 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve 10. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right, this a little vote. All those in attendance, we report in favor of the motion unless I hear a nain. Motion carries. All right, that finishes uh the personnel section. Everything under A. So now we're moving to B. Um we'll start with the cafeteria fund budget. This is uh for the approval for the 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve B. Second. >> We have a first and two seconds. Pick one. Is there any further discussion? >> All
019right. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion must hear abain. Motion carries. Moving on to C. Capital reserve fund budget. Again, this is for approval the capital reserve fund budget for 202526 school year. Move to approve C. >> Second. Have >> a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? Any questions? All right. This is a roll call vote. All those intent in favor of the motion must hear and they abstain. Motion carries. Letter D. Next is the bus and van driver approval for EMB transportation the school express. This is of course for the 2526 foyer. >> Move to approve D. >> Second. >> First and a second. Any further discussion? All right. It's a roll call vote. All those in attendance will be recorded
020in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Letter E, 2526 school bus um routes. And this is um the routes for the high school, middle school, elementary school for the 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Is there any further discussion? Right. motion unless I hear nay abstain. Motion carries. Next is letter F. So this is approval for the nonpublic transportation contracts for 2526 school year be paid uh 70 cents $7 per mile. >> 70 cents I say. It was expensive. $70.7 cents per mile by the IRS. And that's uh there's five names on there. So F and then one through five. Motion to approve F1 through5. >> Second. >> We have first and a second. Any further discussion?
021>> All right. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. which carries. Moving on to G. Uh this is the ELA curriculum framework that we were talking about earlier. This is approval for that adoption of the framework the 25 26 well actually going forward. >> Motion to approve. >> We have a first. Is there a second? Second. >> We got our first and a second. Any further discussion? >> All right, this a roll call vote. All those attendance record in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear n abstain. Right. Motion carries. Next is letter H. Uh the science curriculum framework. Again, this is adopting this framework moving forward. >> Motion. >> Second. >> We have a >> I'm going
022to motion. You can second. >> Okay. We have a motion for letter H first and a second. Is there any further discussion? All right. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Unless abstain. Motion carries. Um is that me? >> No. >> Oh. Uh real quick, I want to take a pause. I want to say thank you to the SR committee um with Jen Ruth, Chad, um Dr. Myers and her team and everything you did. I know you spoke early about it and everything, but uh all the hard work put in to come forward. It's nice to see the fruits of the labor and that. So, >> again, congratulations and thanks for all the hard work >> and we're excited to so after the official approval um
023the way that we have published math on the website ELA and science will also be published. >> Okay. >> Um so it'll be accessible and everyone will have the opportunity to see it in the same way that we've seen math from the last school year. >> Great. Well, thank you. and Chad Ruth, you guys are here, so thank you very much. I appreciate it. >> And Jen, I know you're out there in ether. Thank you. >> Next, uh, letter I, uh, ProAre therapy service agreement. And this is an enter agreement with ProAre to provide part-time speech language services to our middle school and high school students as need basis. 2526 school year. >> Motion to approve. I >> second. >> We have a first and a second. Is there any uh further discussion? Letter I.
024>> All right. So, roll call vote. All those in attendance report in favor of the motion unless I hear nay or an abstain. Motion carries. Moving on to letter J, license agreement. This is between the district and Adams County Head Start regarding the use of district elementary school building throughout the 2526 school year. >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Yeah. First and second. Any further discussion or questions? >> I have a question. The this agreement is it is yearly, so we'll have to renew it each year. And is the expectation that we do foresee this being an ongoing thing that could go on for many years or >> we hope so. That's the the expectation is we hope it to go on >> long students and we have space. It'll come down to space
025and making sure that we can prioritize them. Um but in the event that we were to run out of space, they understand that they would no longer be able to >> have no follow. Perfect. Thank you. >> All right. Any other further discussion or questions? >> Okay. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion. Unless they're here, nay. Motion carries. Next is going to be uh the new story school uh agreement and this request approval enter into agreement with the new school new story schools for the 2025 school year. Um a motion for approval for K. >> Motion to approve K. >> Second. >> All right, we have first and a second. uh any questions or discussion? I will turn over to Dr. Cerner because we talked
026ahead of time and he wants to um speak about this a little bit. >> Sure. I just wanted to inform you just of this type of an agreement. I know as a board we don't want to retro approve retroactively approve any agreements or contracts, but when we have specific students that come to us um that have special needs to the point we can't accommodate their needs within this setting um within Bermudeian Springs, there are going to be times where we do need to look at alternate placements for those students. Oftent times we don't have time on our side as far as knowing when we're going to have those students enroll. So there are going to be times where a student's going to enroll in between board meetings or they're it's not the timing of it
027is not going to be perfect. So what you're going to see when we have these placements, which we we don't have many of them, they may not say that the placement starts on the board meeting night, meaning that's when we typically approve agreements and the agreements start on the evening or after the evening of your vote. Depending on the placement or the organization that we're using, they go as a year. So their contract is from the beginning of the school year to the end of the school year. So you might see that in front of you. This one does not mimic that, but you could. That does not mean that you're retro approving the agreement. What you're saying is we are we now have a student that is going into that program and you're approving
028that placement of the student, but the date won't change because they will only be placed there within that year. And then if they're going to stay there, then we would renew that agreement the following school year. and you're only paying for the time when the students enrolled. So it's you it's a full year contract but only the time that the students enrolled at whatever school like this new story. >> Yes. >> Thank you. You're welcome. >> Um any questions or discussion with regards with Dr. Service and what's on motion this vote once >> I guess. Can you I didn't >> you didn't explain I just >> I was waiting I saw I saw one >> I was the wheels were turned inside. Can you just in general explain the type of services that that News
029Story? >> Sure. Um so Newstory is a pretty intensive program um and what they typically deal with is more of the emotional side and the emotional um support that a student might need that we can't provide that intensive support here within the school district. Um, so that's why when you're looking at ultimate placements, it's just it's a better placement. They have more staff that are specialized um than than we would. An example would be like ProCare. We do have a full-time speech um speech teacher here. However, her case load is is way larger than she can do. So then we will we will outsource. So we'll we'll partner with like a proare. New story is the same way. We we have services here. However, we can't provide them um and meet the needs because we
030don't have the staffing and the specialization to do that. But it's our responsibility to find a placement for that student that can meet the needs. >> Perfect. Thank you very much. >> Sure. >> Any other questions or discussion or letter K? All right. If not, this is a roll call vote. All those in attendance record in favor of the motion unless I hear nay or abstain. Motion carries. Uh, next item is other business. Is any other business be brought for the board? >> Senator Cern has one. >> Yeah, just just an announcement. Um, a person I wanted to recognize and he just so happens to be here that's sitting behind you. Um, Mr. Tyel, which is our software application specialist um that you approved earlier or towards the end of the school year. Um, so
031he has hit the ground running this year and he was here tonight obviously to get you set up with your iPads, but I have to take this time and I know Dr. Meyers and um, Justin will definitely agree. He has been exceptional for our school district from the second he stepped in here to where he is now. Um, he came in from the business sector, so education is a bit different for him, but he was tasked with rolling out almost 2,000 devices. Um, and when I say rolling out, if you have any experience in that, it's not just turning it on and handing it to a student. Um, and I I do want to just point out this one funny thing about Tai was if you do recall over the summer when we lost power
032for three days. If you do recall that, >> the expectation was that he could work from home or he didn't have to be here. Well, I came in that day and was working like on iPad stuff getting that ready. never asked him to come in and I open the door to this pitch black room because remember we have no electric and he is reading serial numbers into his phone so it's dictating it onto a spreadsheet with his flashlight on looking at all these iPads. He was never asked to do that. He did that because he knew it needed to get done and it was the right thing to do. It just goes to show Tai's dedication to our students here at the school district and we would not be where we are right now without
033him. Um but our devices are ready. They are we've increased and enhanced our process of deployment for our devices. Um I am confident to say that all our devices are now inventoried. They are all asset tagged which means that we can scan them and tell whose they are. We now like when a student grabs an iPad or a teacher their name is on the screen which we didn't have before. Um, so we are definitely taking the investment that you agreed for us to do, taking it seriously and Tai has been spearheading that and I just wanted to take this time to personally thank Tai for all his hard work. >> Thank you. Hey, thank you very much. Appreciate >> you, Todd. >> Welcome for uh, you know, from the board everything we need to do.
034>> Definitely appreciate you >> drinking out of a fire hose. >> Um, anything else? Any other board members on this side? Diane, you have anything or >> No. >> Brian, you good? >> No. >> Ruth, Chad, Matt. >> All right. Well, I have one more announcement before we adjourn. Um, we're going to be going into executive session um with legal advice. And with that being said, we are journed. Thank you.