001Let's bring the May 28th meeting to order. Salute to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Can I have a roll call vote? Mr. Cullen here. Um, Miss Curran here, Mr. D'Angelo here, Mr. Poly Africa here, Mr. Perolo here, Mr. Smith here, Mr. Stiltner here, M Paggle here, and Mr. Chickaletti here. Okay, Mr. Solicitor. Yes, Mr. President. Uh, an executive sessions uh was held tonight starting at 6:30, ended just before this meeting started. All board members present here were present in the executive session along with several administrators. Items were discussed related to collective bargaining, litigation, and personnel. That's my report. Thank you, Mr. Solicitor. You're welcome. Uh, approve the,
002uh, complete agenda with set addendums. There are none. I have a motion, Mr. D'Angelo. Second by Mrs. Pagleion. All those in favor? I. Nays. Abstension. Motion carries. Reports and presentations. Dr. Davis. Yes. Just to let everybody know, tomorrow is the prom begins. It's the end of the year, so both schools are being very busy. The ending of two two months of testing with the Keystones and PSAAS. uh that takes a lot out of these staff as well as the students. Um and then we'll just spend the next few days with seniors preparing for their finals. Um and each in each school uh beginning to do the end of the year activities and programs. Uh kids hopefully we can get better weather so the kids can get outside uh and play their games and all the
003other games and activities that the teachers and administration u put forth. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Davis. Public participation. Anyone from the public? Hello, my name is Dory Morgan. Um, I am the parent of a fourth grader, a seventh grader, and I wanted to share some of the accomplishments our wrestling team has had this year. Um, my seventh grader served as a manager for the wrestling team and I want to make sure all of the athletes get the credit they deserve for this. Um, so this year our team consisted of 25 athletes. Of the 25 athletes, six were recognized by the National Wrestling Coaches Association with their high school scholar All-American Award. This award is given to students who demonstrate outstanding academic achievement with a minimum 3.5 GPA while participating in varsity wrestling. Uh the
004wrestlers that were had earned this award were George Sar, Emily Puritette, Lorenzo Dixon, Barry Chat Chatrinko, Aiden uh Candal Candelaria Candeleria and Armando Barakol. In addition, five wrestlers and one of the managers were rec recognized with the character and leadership all-American award. the character and leadership all-American honors high school juniors and seniors who exemplify the core values of dependability, judgment, endurance, initiative, tact, integrity, unselfishness, loyalty, and courage. The pillars of strong character and effective leadership both on and off the mat. Those individuals are Matt Driscoll, Emily Purit, George Sar, Lorenzo Dixon, Styles Collier, and Kylie Yarnell. If you are not already familiar with these awards, they are not easily earned. In particular, the Character and Leadership All-American Award was earned by 1,136 students nationwide with 76 of those students coming from Pennsylvania. No other school
005in our state had six athletes recognized on that list. Wow. Um, I wanted to share this with you because when I was digging on the website to better understand it, a school of our size, a district, an upand cominging program, having six of our athletes recognized for character and six recognized for academics needs to be applauded and shared with the community. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All of that. Wow. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. Anyone else from the public? Hi, Scott Brown. I live up on Radcliffe. I used to coach the wrestling team. Um, so the wrestling program, as as stated, is is back and it's back in a big way. Um, when my tenure was wrapping up as a result of COVID and everything else, our numbers were off. As you recall,
006the numbers of football were off quite a bit. At one point, there were what, less than 25 kids on the football team, if that, on a good day. Um, but the coaching staff has brought this program back like you wouldn't believe. Um, we have more kids participating than we ever have in the past. In my biggest years, we had we were able to fill 12 out of 14 weight classes. Current coaching staff has got them all covered with depth. they are contending. U the quality of the kids, the quality of the wrestling is way up because everybody's got a training part. It is a sport where you very quickly understand the person you're dealing with. And those of you who play golf know that when you're playing with golf with somebody, you can understand very
007quickly when they're cheating. You can judge the quality of another human by how they handle a round of golf. or how they talk about themselves. This coaching staff builds kids. They build young men and women, the people that are going to run this nation in the future. And I can't say enough about what they've done as coaches in wrestling. It is a long season. It is a challenging season. And we as coaches take dings. I've broken five ribs, cracked three, dislocated a shoulder, sprained an ankle, gotten a concussion or two from coaching. We all go through that. I don't know of any football coach around that's going to throw a helmet on and mix it up with the on the on that line, but we do it every day. You understand the people that are
008around you, and his coaching staff is first rate. Absolutely first rate. and the acquisition of our new head coach has been the best thing that ever happened to this wrestling program. I can't say enough about it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, this closes public participation. Let's go on to new business. Okay, Mr. President, I motion item for item A to approve permission to make an application to the Pennsylvania Department of Education for a flexible instruction day FID program for the 2025 2026 school year. If approved by PDE, it will be the district's discretion to include these in our count school calendar. Second, Mrs. Pacman. Dr. Davis, can you explain this? Yes. every school district that um when we have inclement uh weather, we now have the utilization of our
009naturally keeping our students home and uh we can conduct instruction virtually. Uh in fact, our original um application wasn't due until 2026. Okay. Uh, Miss Moore and I received I think from Chris uh uh a a a email regarding with the new administration that the if you did not submit an application for the uh the additional five days by June 1st which means couple days uh will not be able to get the flexible instructional days. So that's why it's on the agenda tonight because we had that special meeting. If we waited till the 13th of June, we would not even be here. Okay? They have helped immensely. That way I don't have to continually redo or re revise the calendar each and every snow day and those kind of things. So what we're saying is
010we're entitled to five five days. They could be snow days or whatever the case may be. to have a winter storm and we feel that it's a problem we can use our virtual instruction and it helped us immensely. Okay. And does that keep us from having to extend the school year? That's correct. Okay. And we and we also build days in, right? We have a couple built-in days or we don't do that anymore. I have a built-in day. Yes. Fortunate that we never had to use it, but it's built in. So, you really have six, but I never had at the most right now uh at the next the last two years three. So pre previous to this is what we would do is just we anticipate a snowstorm coming take home your Chromebooks. Yes.
011We could do it that way. But now to the parents you can only do five of these. Yes. Okay. Yes. All right. That's reasonable. Weekends don't count. So but that would really help us immensely. I just got a couple two questions. Uh so what uh Mr. Chickleti said. So, if we uh know ahead of time and tell our kids, take your books, take your Chromebooks, and that's that's a synchron asynchronous day, right? Correct. What is it? It's asynchronous. Asynchronous do work. But it also allows for a synchronous day, whereas they would just say, you know, we we didn't have everything out. You didn't take say it was on a Monday and they didn't take their Chromebooks home. And so, you could say it's off. And so on a synchronous day, you would push out the
012assignments that how would the kids like you still have to do something, right? So you still have to push it out. So you have the option to do either and uh you don't have to do uh and that's a credit to Mr. Hington. Yes. Absolutely. Well, I that's why I was thinking because you know what what do we have? You know, we have 1,200 kids, right? Think about a district that has 10,000 that have to have the infrastructure, have the pads, have the online capability. So, uh, no, no, this is good. And, and they're just the other thing is that you're making an application now. They they just don't say, "Yeah, they say, well, don't they don't in your application, don't you have to say, well, you know, this is how we're going to execute
013a day?" They ask a lot of questions. And so you have to it's not just they're just going to grant it to you. No. So you have to have something set up whether it's synchronous or asynchronous that those kids are going to have assignments and there's going to be some work done on that. Okay. Thank you. It also takes the pressure off of you then getting up 3 4 in the morning listening to other superintendent. We had still does that. We had that conversation this year. The news report at 4:00 in the morning and nobody and and everybody's telling different stories. Yes. So it takes a little bit and I don't listen too good because we still we still do what we need to do and what's about. Okay. Thank you. So we need to
014vote on this. So all those in favor I nays abstension motion carries public participation. Anyone from the public? Okay. Information and discussion. The next public meeting is Wednesday June 11th. Yeah. And then we'll break for the summer and we'll be back at the end of August. Do we have that date yet or we'll we'll set that? Yeah. August 21st. Okay. So, August 21st. Okay. So, let's go around the horn here. Mr. Smith, I learned. Uh, yes. I'd like to congratulate the wrestling team and all the coaches with their success here. And I'd like to wish the graduates, the kindergarten class, the a great class, and the seniors good luck on their graduation coming up, class of 2025. That's it, Mr. Curran. Um, what Tony has said um and that just everybody has a safe and
015um successful end of their school year and a very safe uh summer break. Thank you, Mr. P. I'll follow them. Okay, that's it. Nothing else. Okay. And nothing else. Okay, I'll follow them. Nothing else. Mr. Polyfa, I'm good. Okay, you going to follow them, Mr. Stilton? Just what they said. It was a great school year so far. It has been a great Yes. Congratulations to the seniors um to the sixth graders that are moving up. Um I know one of them that's nervous, but uh it's going to be good. I'm sorry. We're going to be here in the 10th, right? 11th. It's a Yeah, Davis. Wednesday the 11th. Yes. Um, again, like to echo, it's been a great school year. Regardless of our the issues, the little things that that come up uh as a
016board, as administrative, staff, we deal with them respectfully and we do what we have to do uh to make things right uh and continue to move forward. So, at the end of the day, we had a a good school year, and I thank the board uh for their support throughout the school year. Thank you, Dr. Davis. Mr. Trula, hard to believe through another school year already. The time really goes fast, but uh I' we've enjoyed working with you again and and look forward to the summer. Mr. D'Angelo, Mr. D, I think the boys baseball game play, they play tomorrow at the Sales University. And I know you you told me that the girls play next Monday. Monday. We don't not sure yet. When you find out, would you ask Mr. Pops to put a blast
017out so people can see the the location? And uh so now it's time for our teams to advance. We had a great track team. Again, our wrestling team had a fantastic year and uh good luck to everybody and uh I'll see you guys at graduation. Okay. Thank you, Mr. D'Angelo. Uh real quick, I had the opportunity Mr. D'Angelo was there. I don't know if anyone else was to be at the concert. No, it was very very nice. Mr. Who else was here? Dr. Davis was here. Yeah, it was very nice. They they did a great job. Was standing room only. There you go, buddy. Yes, I saw you there. You did a good job. And and speaking with Dr. Mounty, you know, we have over between the chorus and the and members in the band
018there there could possibly be over 350 students, which is about 17 or 18% participation. That's amazing. Total in in both schools, which is is really um is really great. Uh an update on the track. I think that soon um they'll be doing some construction back there. Hopefully, it'll be done by the beginning of the school year. I I haven't had any uh updates on that. And I just want to read a thank you note from the Dulio family. Um Aldo Dulio was a longtime employee in the school district and um she passed away and I received a thank you note from the family. To our friends and family, we thank you so much for your thoughtfulness and prayers through this very difficult time in our lives. All the calls, texts, visits, messages, meals, sweet treats,
019flowers, cards were greatly appreciated. As we try to navigate life through without the rock of our family, we find peace in knowing that we have been an amazing support system. Our doors always open. Thank you for everything. And may our beautiful angel rest in peace. Love and gratitude to the Tulio family. So with that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. Motion motion by Mr. Polyapco, second by Mr. D'Angelo.