001She's welcome to the April 27th school board meeting. Uh first thing we'll do is rise and do pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. All right. Can I get a roll call? >> Mrs. Fichi >> here. >> Mrs. Kingrick >> here. Maros >> here. >> Mr. Clair >> here. >> Mr. Sens >> here. >> Mrs. Walker >> here. >> Dr. Katon >> here. >> Mr. Linder with M. Mr. Bushy >> here. >> Eight members present. >> Thank you. April 27th, 2026 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually. An executive session was held on April 26th or April 27th, 2026 to
002discuss personnel and legal matters. Can I first get approval of the April 27th school board meeting agenda? So move second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Motion approved. Now, can I get a motion for the approval of the March 23rd, 2026 school board meeting minutes? >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. We can go on with the learners of the month. >> All right. Thank you, Mr. Bushie. >> As many of you know, we moved the podium up here so everyone could see when the kids come up. And we're going a little bit out of order tonight because we have a big softball game. So, we're going to start with the middle school. And
003we have Parker Blank, grade seven, presented by Ms. Mariello. It is my pleasure to recognize Parker Blank as our middle school learner of the month. Parker is a true example of what it means to be a differencemaker in our school community. In the classroom, Parker approaches her learning with purpose, curiosity, and determination. As Mrs. Ellis shared, she asks thoughtful, insightful questions and follows through on her work with care and responsibility. Mrs. Mcgarero added that she consistently puts in effort even on the hard days, demonstrating perseverance and a strong work ethic. Mr. Lens described her as diligent and eager to contribute and I see that same commitment in math where Parker challenges herself to think critically and make meaningful connections. Is also a reflective learner who takes ownership of her growth. In math, she regularly will
004conference with me to reflect on her progress and plan her next steps, showing maturity and a genuine desire to improve. Beyond her academics, Parker makes meaningful impacts as a collaborator and a responsible member of our school community. Mr. Len shared that she readily offers helps to other help to others while Mrs. Ellis and Mrs. Sharp emphasized her kindness and inclusivity. Mrs. Mcgarero described her as a strong communicator and a dependable helper. She doesn't just succeed individually. She lifts others up along the way. Parker's dedication extends beyond the classroom as well. She balances her commitment to athletics with her academic responsibilities, continuing to give her best in everything she does. In fact, as soon as we finish here, she'll be heading off to her softball game, another example of her drive and responsibility. Parker leads by
005example. Her teachers note her willingness to always go the extra mile, her incredible potential, and the positive influence she has on those around her. On a personal note, Parker smile brightens our classroom every day. She is a joy to teach and leaves a lasting impact on everybody she meets. As all of her teachers can agree, Parker truly embodies what it means to be a differencemaker. Parker, we're so proud of you. Good luck at your game tonight and congratulations on being our middle school learner of the month. >> This is a first. The middle school went first and the first time someone wore cleat. [laughter] >> Good luck. >> We're gonna stick you out. Okay. >> Okay. Next up, Baron Elementary. Cara Falby, grade four. Mrs. Gaiman. Go ahead. >> [laughter] >> All right. Well, good
006evening and I am so excited to share a few words about our learner of the month, Carly Fali. Um, when I think about the kind of difference makers that our school district values, the innovators, the critical thinkers, the reflective learners, responsible citizens, and the collaborators, I immediately think of Carla. Um, she is an innovator because she's not afraid to try new ideas. She is very patient when things don't work out the first time. Um, innovators show resilience and this is Carla all the way. Whether it's persevering through a tricky math problem um or putting extra effort into her different writing assignments, um Carla does not give up. She's a critical thinker, too. She asks very thoughtful questions. She makes great inferences, and she's a really great communicator. When we are reading a story, she doesn't
007just say what happened, but she explains why it happened. And she's able to connect with how the characters might feel. In math, when students are analyzing their work samples, she always has great things to say. um and she gives great respectful ideas for what students can do to grow um when she's thinking about their work. As a reflective learner, she takes the time to think about um what she can do better the next time with her work, whether it's reviewing her writing, if there's a mistake. Um she always wants to improve and she has such a deep desire to grow. She's also a really responsible citizen in our classroom. She follows our class family values. She helps take care of our classroom. You can see she's helping out with Spudy as we're training him a
008little bit tonight. Um you often see her helping um classmates quietly um in the room as well. Finally, Carla is an amazing collaborator. She listens to others ideas. She shares her thoughts kindly. Um she makes sure everybody feels included. I love when she's working in a group. Um and I'll hear her ask a quieter classmate, "Well, what do you think?" And I was going to say she always has a beautiful smile on her face and she always is someone that everybody wants to work with. Um so when I think about our learner of the month, Perila was who I wanted to pick for this award. Um she shows us every day what it means to be a difference maker and our class family is very proud to celebrate her tonight. Okay, next up, D Run
009Elementary, Jacob Heepler Bar. It didn't take long to realize how amazing Jacob is. Then the first week of school, he cheerfully greeted each fourth grade teacher by their name in the mornings and said goodbye to each of us at the end of the school day with a big smile. Jacob's fourth grade classmates describe him as kind, empathetic, responsible, creative, respectful, honest, funny, and a loyal friend. When asked by his peers why they enjoy having Jacob in our classroom, they said he boosts their attitudes by ma by being happy and they enjoy being around him. They admire how brave he is when he raises his hand to ask a question. Mrs. G, his current art teacher, describes Jacob as a kind, caring, and compassionate student. He always puts others above himself, and he is constantly sharing
010his classmates achievements. Overall, he is a joy to have in class and a model student. Mrs. Eichelman, Jacob's second grade teacher, said, "When I think about Jacob, or also known as glasses J, I can't help but smile from ear to ear. This young man is courageous, kind, hardworking, and spreads joy and kindness in a very special way. He is and always will be an unforgettable light and remember of what is good in the world." Thank you, Jacob, for not only making our classroom a better place to be, but Door Run Elementary, too. With the help of some of his friends, I asked them for advice on how I should end this. They said to simply say, "Everyone needs a friend like Jacob." >> All right, next up from our high school, Jenna King, grade nine.
011Mrs. Swansonet. >> It is my honor to present Jenna King as our April student of the month. Jenna is currently a freshman and was one of my amazing and outstanding Spanish one students from last semester. It is amazing to see how much potential a student like Jenna can have in foreign language acquisition even at such an early level. From the beginning, Jenna showed enthusiasm for the language, especially in our department's immersion style of teaching, um, where students are hearing and speaking exclusively in Spanish, even from day one. I remember hearing Jenna using Spanish both in and outside the classroom. And I was also so amazed when I saw her helping her peers in class while staying in the target language and not reverting to English, even in the early stages and first days of Spanish
012one. Jenna continuously shows great work ethic and pushes herself to learn as much as she can in Spanish class. I enjoy seeing her outstanding work where she goes above and beyond to enhance her learning through the completion of projects such as Spanish My Community, which consists of monthly cultural experiences related to the Spanish speaking world. For these projects, Jenna learned to cook an authentic Hispanic meal and visited a Peruvian restaurant called La Costa. Other activities included um where Jenna showcased her Spanish abilities include investigating and presenting about Fernando's art and creating a family tree where she described her many family members in the target language. Jenna participated in the national Spanish exam which is a test which tests students uh they take throughout the country to demonstrate their Spanish knowledge and she impressively ranked in
013the highest category of gold. Um, Jenna also recently participated in our Spanish club's tour of Lancaster where students were able to visit and interact with Spanish speaking community members at Saka Senior Center. They were able to tour Tech Central and learn about their offered programs and engage in culture by sampling Hispanic cuisine that the city has to offer. I'm so excited to continue seeing Jenna's growth and dedication to learning Spanish. Um, as she will be returning to me next year for Spanish 3 and one award. Not only does Jenna inspire her peers, but also me as a teacher to see such passion for Spanish language and culture at such a young age. Thank you. >> And then we have Dr. Whitel. We have two CTC award winners this time from Willow Street, Jesse High, grade
01412. And from Brownstown, Caitlyn O'Brien, grade 12. >> Good evening. Uh Jesse High is selected as the Manheim Lions Club student of the month for the month of April. Jesse attends the Will Street CTC. Uh and he's enrolled in the automotive technology program there. Um he decided to go to the CTC won for his love of cars, but also he had toured a brothers that attended, so that was a strong influence on uh his decision there. He's uh involved in our volleyball program. He's been a member of the team since 10th grade, and he also plans on um joining the Marine Corps after uh high school there. Um, so he's going to list in the Marine Corps and then looking to be an aircraft mechanic and eventually hopefully if all things works out become a
015helicopter pilot. Uh, so Jesse High from Brownstown. We can clap. Sure. Why not? >> Jesse deserves a clap. And then Katie O'Brien. Katie is an outstanding student along with her peers. She's willing to uh always help any struggling student and any assignments that the teacher provides. Uh, one of her main reasons for being nominated is her devotion on the Skills USA and the the school's club reporter. Uh, the role that she serves there. She's always helpful and that includes uh organizing dress down day folders, rosters, money collections, and deposits and all the communications. Uh, thanks Mr. Sherwood. Good job. I wasn't trying to bark on or embark on any other dog. I'm babysitting dogsitting for Mr. uh Mr. Roth. So, I apologize that we stole the thunder there. Um, but getting back to Katie, she
016also attended the capital recently with other students where she demonstrated her professionalism as well as her positive representation of the school. Uh, following high school, she plans to enroll in Thaddius Stevens in architectural technology program. So, Katie O'Brien, >> thank you. >> Lastly, we have our school feature tonight is our Dough Run Nature Club, Mrs. Still Wagon and Mr. Snavely. >> Hello. We were asked to share a little bit about um a club that we run at DRun, which we uh call nature club. Um it's a natural school club for Dorun fourth graders. Um we meet with about 25 to 30 students two times per month um to lead them through a variety of outdoor and nature themed activities. Um it's funded by MCI. um our purpose and their reason for doing this. Um we
017would like to provide students or we we attempt to provide students with engaging hands-on opportunities to explore and appreciate the natural world and things around them and hope to spark an interest that will lead them to pursue um know additional knowledge about the science um as they continue to to grow older. Um a few of the activities that we that we plan and organize for kids include um al pellet dissection. Um we also teach them compass skills and then help them lead them through an orientering course on the grounds at Dough Run. We um construct bluebird boxes um and then decorate those some of which are then uh placed around um around the doun grounds. Um students take them home and um install them at home and then um some are donated have been donated
018to MCI as well. Um, in addition, we in the springtime we take a trip to Middle Creek to try to time that right with the snow goose migration to show uh show kids um the wonders of what uh passes through here in the local area. >> Um we spend a day identifying Pennsylvania mammals by way of um pelts, skulls, and tracks. Um in the spring the kids build leaf packs that we plant into local streams. Um after a few weeks we collect the leaf packs and the kids practice um identifying macro invertebrates that we recovered. Um our final nature club meeting takes place at a stream where we conduct a stream study. Uh based on the macro invertebrates they discover in the stream. The kids can identify the water quality there um in the stream
019and just an impact. Um we feel like it's we just take such joy in expanding students appreciation and um knowledge of the outdoors also in helping them develop skills through real world experiences and um collaboration. Each year we're just so happy to see siblings and friends um join us and ultimately we just hope to inspire a love of the door uh natural world. Um, we're just going to leave you off here with a brief video that should pop up um from three of our club members. So, we have Gavin, so I figured nature club would be good. And I also like taking hikes and being nature. >> I wanted to join nature club because I like nature and I wanted to learn more about it. >> I want to I wanted to nature club because
020I love being in nature and taking pipes to even a Middle Creek field trip or the bird boxes. >> Mine is probably the um decorating and making the bird boxes. I really enjoyed going to the middle >> um using the compasses. That was really cool. At first I use a compass just looked at it and said needles are spinning. I have no idea what the bill mine's probably using learning how to use a compass or learning that the English house sparrow is an invasive an invasive species. probably never. So these were really hard to find. >> That's natural. >> My report, Mr. Bushy. >> All right. Um, one Can we get one more round of applause for all the learners of the month? to go. You'd like Next be the recognition of visitors. I don't
021think we have anybody signed up. Is there anyone here that wants to speak that didn't sign up? >> All right. >> Move on to Noel. >> I'm gonna I'd like to take A through D. Can I get a move? >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. I want to thank Harold Gleon for 24 years of service and also Charlie Fiser for all the coaching and he's done for the basketball team over the years. So, thank you guys. [clears throat] Next, I'm going to take A through H. >> Move. >> Second. >> I have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Uh, any opposed? Motion passes. Now I'd like to take I through K. >> Moved. Second. >> I
022got a motion and second. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. Next we'll take L through O. I move. Second. >> I have a motion as a second. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Dr. A, superintendent support. >> Okay, just to let everyone know, there's a lot going on at the end of the the year. So, just some things that have happened recently. We had signing day that I got to go to. We had 18 uh athletes going on to pursue their their athletic career in college. That same night, Dr. Flannry got to see a version of Frozen at our elementary school. We have music concerts coming up, Maroon and Gray, school celebrations, obviously graduation. And this past Friday, I had a chance to give a tour to the class
023of 1966. They had their reunion this weekend at the supply in town. And Friday, we opened our doors to them to give over 50 of them a tour of of our new high school. and it was it was really fun hearing their stories and getting to see how impressed they were with everything that we provide our kids now. So that was super exciting. So I just wanted to share we're we're into the almost the last month already of the school year and the pedal's down ready to go. Next we have a brief budget update from Mrs. Martin. All right. Yes. Just going to go through some quick changes that have developed since the last time we talked in the LA in the last week. Not going to go in a lot of detail because we
024have our budget presentation um next Monday night. Um so we'll get into depth on next Monday, but this is just a quick look at our projection where we're at for the current year. This is actually moving in the right direction for us. Um, still a deficit around a million dollars, but um it it is moving a it's getting a little better than what I have presented before. Um, in our over for revenue, we were projected to collect about um $500,000 more than we budgeted and our expenses are um up about $315,000 higher than we budgeted. But like I said, it's it's still um we budgeted um 328 deficit. Um so we are doing a little better. >> I'm sorry about that. >> Okay. So sorry about that. the the additions the updates that I have
025made to the 2627 budget. Um in the last week since I met with the committee um last week uh we met with our health insurance broker. Unfortunately our health insurance um they are projecting a 17.6% increase for next year. I did have a large increase in the budget to begin with, but um I still feel like uh in to honor to honor that projection um I did add some additional dollars to the budget to cover that health insurance increase. And I do have a slide here of future to talk about that a little bit. Then um when we talked to the committee last week, we kind of went in depth a little bit on some of the new properties for the tax assessed value increase. Um at the beginning I had um budgeted a 1.5%
026tax assessed value increase. Some of those um new properties have come up come on the books. We did get an updated assessed value from the county just last week. Um but I still feel like looking at some of the new properties we're not going to see um some as big a dollars as I thought in 26 27. We will see them eventually but um so I did did decrease that increase um for the tax assessed value. said that it does lower our real estate tax revenue a little bit. To dig a little deeper into that, um this this is some of the properties that we're um we're looking at for potential future tax revenue. Um the two values that you see over here are the new additions to the SA tax assessed value that I
027received last week from the county. The Manheim Commons is officially on the books um at $7.8 uh $8 million assessed value and uh Penn Station town homes that that came in at 2.6 $2.6 million and we will get interim we've sent the bills for the interim real estate tax for 2526 so we should see some additional dollars which is part of the um projection that I just shared with you. Um the the properties that I've highlighted in yellow, those are the ones that I'm hoping that we will see in 2627 at some point. Um Avery Squares, my my understanding is it's almost done or it is finished. So hopefully that we'll see that soon. And then the warehouse is over on Strickler Road. Um I did see information from the Jura Coffee uh warehouse that
028that possible opening of September 26. And then I know the core house uh the core five warehouses from what I understand they're almost complete. So hopefully we will see those values this year. And then I'm not going to go through the whole list but these are some other properties that just we're just keeping an eye on. Um again I've I have shown this many times. Um this is updated with um the new projection. Think I skipped a slide. Um, I have a um I still have the 3.5% revenue tax increase in the budget and with the additional health insurance costs and the reducing the tax assessed value, our deficit right now is around $1.8 million. And that um um I know we'll talk about the staffing later, but this this includes or does not include
029some of the staffing that we will discuss. This is where we're at right now. And then I I pro I' have as I've shown in the past I'm just giving you know different tax increases are um I also wanted to give you some information on how how does this affect our taxpayers. Um so you see the same percentage um percentage tax increase across the top as we saw on the last screen. Uh our medium h median household value in Mannheim Central is around $199,000. Um and then you can see at the different levels what that will mean as far as a tax increase for the property owners. So um this does not include homestead farmstead reduction. Um last year our homestead our homestead farmstead reduction was $27 per reduction or per um homestead. Uh we're
030still waiting. We get the final numbers on that um May 1st. So hopefully next week when we meet, I will have some more up-to-date numbers on that. I don't anticipate it to change a whole lot though from what I'm hearing from the state. Um they're not increasing our property tax allocation. So it's going to stay about the same. So the only thing that'll affect that number is we have a little bit of carryover from last year and then the number of properties that are qualify for homestead farmstead for this year. So we just basically take that number and divide it across the number of properties. So, I should have an update on that for you next week. There we go. Um, as far as talking about rising health care costs, um, they, uh, our broker
031has told us they're seeing nationwide health care costs at their highest levels in 20 years. Um, our projection, as I said earlier, is 17.6% increase for 2627 school year. um a lot of what um our cost is is 11 high high claimments that are accounting for about 34% of our total health care costs. Um we we just we have some extreme cases that are that are um um bringing up our claims and that was for 25. Also for 25 you can see the per member per employee per month cost for medical claims was around $1,457. When you compare that to the benchmark of around $815, we are coming in somewhat higher. On the the plus side, our pharmacy is actually doing better than the benchmark. It's around two $299 per employee per month, actually per
032member per month. Um versus the benchmark of $34 per member per month. Um some good news is our our postacute care like the urgent care and the ER visits they are trending down and we believe that has to do with our partnership with so just some facts on our our our healthcare office. >> Thank you. Um, and then, uh, I just like to give you the five-year projection out. Like I said, this is updated with the current deficit that I am showing of $7 million. And just kind of shows you if um, we have 2% tax increases each year, the 1% tax assessed value each year, and keeping our expenditures at a relatively stable cost over the next five years. Um, we will still we will still show a deficit budget every year, which does
033take an effect on our fund balance as you get out to year 2930. Just just some numbers for you to look over. But as I said, I I don't want to get into a whole lot of lot of detail because we do have the big budget discussion workshop next week. Um, so any discussion tonight or questions that I can go to tonight or any any direction you would like to give me as far as numbers go for next week. Okay. So next then we have the distribution of central school district policies 140 218.1 221 236.1 325 332 619 and 805.3 for first reading >> that >> Thank you. Next is the assistant superintendent Dr. >> We're going to start off our presentations tonight. I just have two. The first one is a brief staffing presentation
034um by Nicole. She's going to kind of start from where she left off last time. Just some final touches on where what we're looking at with staffing this year. >> Would you like the program? Is that possible? Yes. >> Y got it. that >> Jen popped out. I'm just waiting for her to come. Oh. Oh. We need to proceed or >> Yeah, >> I don't know where she went. Okay, >> good evening everyone. So, last month we previewed uh the staffing plan for the 2627 school year. Tonight's presentation focuses on the essential decisions in front of us. So, at the conclusion of my report, I'll be asking for like your input on whether to proceed as presented or if there are adjustments you would like the administration to consider. Um, so first off, as always,
035I want to thank our administrative team. We've been having one-on-one discussions with all of our um supervisor and administrators. Um, these have been challenging conversations. Um however they have been um clearly committed to approaching our staffing in a structured and thoughtful way and hopefully that translates here today. So what I want to emphasize tonight is while the budget is presented in numbers my role is really to translate those numbers into real operational impact. Um, every adjustment we make, we do consider whether it's, you know, holding a position, increasing class sizes, or redistributing responsibilities. It's going to directly affect the people that work here and the students that come here every day. Um, just emphasizing we don't make these decisions lightly, but we do want to be cognizant of the budget that we have at hand.
036So, if you want to proceed to the next slide, uh, what I want to present to you today is called a controlled vacancy pause model. Um, basically we're going to tackle two different strategies of preserving um the uh essential positions that we do need to function as a district and pause on those positions that we can see how the year progresses potentially without them. Um so what you'll see tonight is a controlled vacancy pause model. Um hopefully the goal here is to maintain compliance, legal compliance, um preserve operations and give us time to really measure the impact before making like a permanent decision. Um we're trying to be intentional with what we do preserve and where we are flexible. You could proceed please. Um we are trying to preserve those essential positions where we are
037pri prioritizing positions. uh that are tied directly to legal compliance, student services and core building operations. Um so basically like those special ed staffing positions and frontline building support. These are areas where like if we um are underresourced here like the impact is going to be immediate like kids aren't going to get service services um visitors won't get into the building you know like things that like impact us on a day-to-day um basis. proceeded. And then our other strategy is to pause. So this is um we've been having ongoing conversations. We had some retirees this year as far as teaching staff um in order to contain costs. You know, we do have the option to not fill like three full-time teaching positions. Um we're looking at over $200,000 then in a nutritional savings. So that's
038how it would play out. um we need to decide, you know, are we not moving forward with filling those three um vacancies? Are we temp like filling maybe two or one? Um you know, those are the things that we're considering. Um in practical terms though, like that does translate into increased class sizes. So if we're looking at like a vacancy at each building, like that could impact third grade, that could impact seventh and eighth grade ELA. Um and that's really just coming down to um the vacancies that we do have at hand. um that does also look like redistribution of students and responsibilities and therefore then we have like a 15% workload um increase for those affected staff. So this is kind of like a short-term strategy, not a permanent solution at this point because
039we we do want to reassess these decisions based on actual impact as the year progresses. Continue. Uh short and sweet, we're continuing to review non-essential spending, aligned this work with a broader multi-year capital plan. We've already done like a an audit um as far as the savings we can um assess here um at every building level um and try to come up with like a five toyear spending plan. Uh the goal is to ensure that we're not just solving for this year, but building a more sustainable path forward as we can continue to manage expenses um outside of our control. So overall summarize, we're trying to protect that compliance piece and operational stability. We are making intentional temporary adjustments to manage costs. You're focused on managing risks now without creating larger challenges later. Um, this
040approach does allow us to respond to current deficit while maintaining control of future impact. And if I could move to questions, um, I just want to acknowledge that behind every one of these decisions, there are people um, who are also members of this community. So, when we're talking about increasing class sizes, redistributing work, or pausing on positions, uh, these are not abstract changes. We're trying to think about the real implication of every single change that we're trying to make. Um so at this point what I would need from the board is input. Are we comfortable like holding the plan as presented? So Kelly did emphasize that those um three teacher vacancies um those savings are currently in the budget right now. So if there would be any adjustment it would impact the budget as she
041has presented any input at all. If I don't hear any input, I would be >> Well, that's I mean, that's not to say that in the future we could look at class sizes or something and say, can we revisit or are we saying right now we need >> Yeah, I did unfortunately skip that part. Sorry. I did want to like quarterly assess like where these um decisions are landing um and hopefully give you guys more um updates as the year progresses and see how things move along um as we get more and more like students come in like with kindergarten. >> So yeah, like with kindergarten if we get an overwhelming >> Yeah, if we get a flood of kids like we're gonna have to make a different decision here. And if for some reason
042middle school we need help in the the um English classes then maybe adding a part-time position or something like that. Yeah. >> Something that would make sense financially, >> right? >> So we still have options that >> Oh, definitely. Yes. What was like the thought process from the team when you saw that we had retirements and the team was like let's go with this pause like what's been the discussion with that because of the budget because in the past usually we'd be like somebody retires we fill right so like how is that how can you just like kind of summarize how >> I mean budget >> budget's leading everything okay >> budget's a significant part I I think in any paused like this, >> right? >> But this is like front of mind for everybody.
043>> Yeah. And we looked at the fact that it's it's basically one at each level. So elementary, middle school, high school. We did ob we did have positions that we already had to replace just because of filling the needs of the students. So that's why we were looking at something to pause so that we could assess what it's going to look like going into next school year. Also, when we get some of these other properties that Mrs. Martin talked about on the books, that's taking longer than we anticipated. So, it's hard to get like a true number, and we didn't want to put ourselves in a position where we're further in the hole going in when we don't know what those numbers are going to look like. >> So, I'll just say it again because
044I say it all the time, but I'm a huge proponent for smaller class sizes. Um, that being said, with larger class sizes, we could see repercussions further down the road, such as students needing more supports because they're falling farther behind because they didn't have a a a lower ratio that they could have had in pre in early on years. Um, and one of the first slides you said, it just kind of stuck out of my head like special ed compliance. Yes, we want to be compliant, but we also want to just follow best practice as well. And that in my opinion is making sure that class sizes are smaller so that our teachers aren't being spread thinner. We just saw like 15% increase with teacher workload possibility. So while we might think, okay, it's not
045that big of a deal to increase class sizes, I feel that there are things coming down the road that could be a repercussion of that. So that's just my thought. You guys already all know how I feel about class sizes, but that's my only um comment for this. There you go. I think that's been an important decision for us to make too. >> Absolutely. >> I think that's definitely where the tension is because we want to do what's best for the kids, but facing some really tough decisions with the numbers that we just saw with the deficit. So, how do we >> how do we balance that? And I I feel you're Yeah, I understand that tension. I yeah I appreciate the hard work that you guys have done and >> conversation and I think
046your plan is clearly like you clearly thought about it. I mean, everyone's clearly thought about this and I appreciate it and I think that it is like if you had to ch like use this phrase like the least the lesser of two evils or whatever like I think it's option. I just wish we didn't have this option. >> Yeah. And like we talked about this summer Mrs. Martin just this year started a a capital plan so that we can strategically even just replacing equipment, taking care of buildings, and we're going to tie that into a three to five year budget plan looking at projected numbers uh after we know what comes on the books as far as properties. So, our goal would be to be able to adjust this as the next couple years go
047on, but again, there's so many things we don't know yet as far as the economy and pricing and all the things that we didn't anticipate up to this point either. >> Any hands? >> Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. All right, doc. >> I'm sorry if you want to go. >> No, no, you up. >> Okay, one more item from my report. Um, we have Pen Medicine LGH here. Um, so I'm going to switch actually positions and I'm going to go to the pres presentation spot. Um, joining me is Lindsay Tonnie and um, Bill Benzel. Uh we're going to talk to you about a potential pilot idea that um could benefit some students uh in terms of healthcare. >> Um so just general introductions, you know me and I'll let sorry I'll let
048these two uh introduce themselves here first. >> Yeah, sure. Good afternoon, good evening. I'm Lindsy Tony. I'm the administrative director of women and pediatric services for Pen Medicine Lancaster General. Hi, I'm Bill Benzel. I'm a business consultant with Lancaster General Engineer by practice. So, my goal is to bring health care as effectively to you as possible. So, we're excited about this opportunity tonight. So, in looking at kind of what we're trying to do, um our school nurses are having an increasingly difficult time making sure kids health is served. There's a lot of kids that come to the nurse for um general illness uh and their numbers are on the rise and there's families that have not the same access that everybody else does to health care due to some barriers that they might have. Um
049so we're seeing that um the uninsured population has been increasing over uh recent years. We know that school nurses are in short supply and their their jobs are of high demand. um there's a increase where students not having like a primary or regular source of of health care. Um and then we have like a lot of chronic conditions at school and we have like some absentee issues as a result of it. And so from a school system when we're looking at all of these pieces, we try to say are we are we are we um taking the barriers into consideration and providing options for the kids. So an example of a problem we solved similarly was we saw the same thing with dental care um access to dental care and we worked with a program
050called PA smiles. You may remember I reported to this on you a couple years ago and we are able to bring um dentists to kids here that don't have that access to like dental care. Um and so this kind of um if you want to go to the next slide this sort of made us take a look at our health data and it does look sort of small up there from this distance. So, I'll I'll explain to you what you're looking at. On the left hand side, you're going to see a graph that is our nurse visit data from 20120 school year on the left through last year on the right. Um, and what you can see there is the number of students that had illness visits or injury visits. Um, and the illness is
051the higher of the two lines all the time of the two bars. Whereas the top line is the um the total number of visits. So you can see that like we are up upwards of almost you know 31,000 plus visits to our school nurses a year for illness or injury. That's a massive amount considering we only have 3,000ish students in the district. On the right hand side you see the graph of um our medical excuses. So when we look at our absenteeism data, you can see that from that same time period, uh we have had a huge increase of parents writing notes excusing kids from school or getting doctor's excuses from school due to medical absence and it's resulting in kids sometimes not being able to access their education as many times as we want.
052So, um, one, one of the things you heard us talk about earlier in the meeting was how we think the Health Works partnership has been helping our, um, the adult population access healthcare in a way that's cost-effective for the district. It was through part of that partnership that we uh that I met Lindsay and was she was kind enough to kind of listen to my ear about saying like, we have this barrier for kids when it comes to medical care. It'd be great if we could do something for them. um and she was gracious enough to work with Angie and I for the last probably two and a half years on thinking about what could we do that could help some of our students. So the um the piece that she's going to talk to
053you about today on the next slide is a potential solution that we found. Um what we're looking for today is to talk about for you guys to consider this solution and um see if you would approve us to be able to have 12 volunteer families that would um be willing to try this out and see if it works to be able to know is it a viable solution. Uh so that's sort of where we're going, but I'll turn it over her to her to talk a little bit more about um the service, the product, and the method that we think could be a solution. >> Yes. Thanks Amy and thanks for having me. It truly has been a pleasure to have the opportunity to get to work with Amy and Angie and the Manheim Central
054School District over the last two and a half years. As we've said, it came out of a mutual, you know, understanding that we all have the same mission and goal, and that is really providing equity and access for our students and our patients. Um, and how we do that is being innovative. And I think that was really the driving factor of what started that relationship and looking at how can we be innovative in creating patient access and really coming to the students and bringing that care right to them within the school district. So, um, again, just thank you for allowing us this opportunity today. We're excited to share that Pen Medicine is currently partnering with Titleare to provide access to highquality remote care. We've had the opportunity now to implement this in a couple different
055use cases and now we're looking for the opportunity and really seeing an a greater opportunity to partner with the school districts to be able to help our students get the care that they need without leaving the school. So in using the titleare device, we would be able to provide that virtual exam technology where students can connect with the trusted clinician and be able to provide the medical care and diagn diagnosis right there on site while the students in school with the nurse here really being that facilitator. So the image on the far right is an example of what that would look like. This would be provided to the school nurse from LGH. So there would be no calls to the school district. It has the iPad. It would be providing a blood pressure cuff, a
056pulseox, photoscope, tongue depressor, stethoscope as well as a camera and thermometer. Really allowing us to look at the heart, heart rate, ear, lungs, uh, throat, temperature as well as skin and abdomen of the students that would be eligible for this type of service. Go to the next slide. So, what is tare? I I expressed a little bit about that, but I think on the far right are some common conditions that have been treated and proved efficient through other use cases that Tito Carare has implemented in other school districts outside of Lancaster County. Um, TARE really enables the clinician to be able to be that additional resource to the school nurse. So again, it wouldn't take away um the importance of being able to establish them to their primary care or getting them linked to that
057medical home as Amy indicated earlier, but it's really just another support system to be able to empower our school nurses to provide the care as well as the diagnosis to keep those kids in school as well. Um so they would be able to receive an on-site diagnosis and care for common non-emerging conditions such as the ones listed on the far right. And the goal was really that we want students to be in school. we want to keep them in school and it's a way for us to empower that as well as allowing those parents to be able to log in virtually um and not having to miss work. >> So, just to kind of put that into a practical example, if you picked one of the examples on the right, I don't know why pink
058eye is standing up to me, but so you might have a student that uh in the past would be kept home from school um because maybe they had a little bit itchy eyes, they weren't sure. Parents sent them to school the next day. um in the morning they get sent because the teacher's noticing some signs to the nurse. Nurse has to call parent. Parent has to come pick up the kid, has to try to get an appointment, then they're out of school the next day. So, we've had like multiple days of a disruption. And while many families have the ability to pick up their kids right away or have a primary care, we do have a population here that doesn't uh and it's impacting their attendance. So something like this would be very helpful to
059be able to say like on the moment if parent is willing this is something we could facilitate and keep them in school to the degree we can just to kind of talk through an example of that. Amy >> yeah exactly so why tidal care in our school just to expand on the example Amy provided it really is an opportunity to expand to healthcare for those underserved and at risk students. So that's initially how a lot of this conversation started and just establishment of some relationships with some of our primary care offices that are kind of surrounding the school district area. It would be bringing acute care directly to the students at school especially removing some of those transportation or scheduling barriers as well. It supports the school nurses with real time clinical collaboration. Again, not
060removing that PCP relationship, but just really again helping support that nurse and establishing that for the student and keeping students in school learning and engaged. There's a lot of studies and work that's been done that this improves the attendance obviously by increasing absences related to minor illnesses. that chart that Amy showed early specific to the data within the school district. There's a lot of repetitive absences and I think a lot of those are probably minor treatable instances that if we could capture those early, it'd be a great opportunity to be able to allow those students to stay in school. We also had initially talked about opportunities for students that are bouncing around to maybe different urgent cares or you know trying to get back and get it scheduled. So it eliminates those transportation barriers. It
061facilitates the parents to be able to be there at the visit and again it keeps the students in school which is where we want them to be. It decreases truency and early dismissals again increasing really the instructional time and that engaged knowledge and learning that is so for the school district and it really helps us to avoid um unnecessary emergency department as well as urgent care visits. Students who stay in school, as you all know, being in the uh school district, really demonstrate stronger academic performance than peers that have more frequent absenteeism and absences and their um their their school age. And our goal is that we do this as a phased approach really starting with acute care and ensuring that we have a safe manageable implementation. Next slide, please. So, how does it work?
062So using the example that Amy shared, instead of going home and visiting urgent care later or maybe trying to get an appointment with their primary care or their pediatrician, the students can receive that care at school and return to class or go home based on that diagnosis and that recommendation from the provider. Student students would visit the school clinic. The nurse would conduct a quick assessment of the symptoms. Parent consent would be confirmed. We would do that through an annual consent process or reach out to the parent as needed. The nurse would initiate the visit. So vitals would be taken by uh temperature, blood pressure, oxygen levels and that would be the school nurse here that would be managing all of that on the initial part and then they would set up the care the
063on demand visit with the parent and the student with them being the facilitator of the title care application. Um the parents are encouraged and able to join that visit so that they're they're being part of that medical decision- making for both the student as well as what those outcomes are for treatment. Um and then the remote clinician would guide the exam. So they would be linked to that iPad screen that you saw on initial slide with the provider dictating and basically helping facilitate where to put the placement of the tail device based on those symptoms to help drive that diagnosis. Um and then the diagnosis would be able to be determined, prescriptions could be written, guidance could be for what that treatment plan is, whether the student has to return, you know, is able to
064return back to school, which would be the goal, or would be sent home. But it again just helps facilitate the timeliness of getting these patients engaged, getting these patients into the medical and getting that treatment plan to avoid additional time at home and not being in the classroom. >> So just to call out over these last two years, we've done a lot of work really trying to think about all the risks of this and this initiative really does reflect a collaborative approach that we've tried to look at any opportunity where we could vet everything. And the goal of this is that we come back to you after um a pilot phase to be able to present some of that data just to show what we work through and that it's very been very thoughtful. Student
065safety, privacy, and parent consent have been considered and built into the program design. Clinical services are clearly defined and appropriate for school-based settings. So, we would make sure that the nurses have the appropriate education for those patients that would be appropriate for the on demand visit. Legal, regulatory, and data security requirements have been reviewed and met. cost, equipment, space, and IT needs have also been evaluated with sustainability in mind. And what Amy's going to speak on next is really our goal with that pilot approach is scalability, allowing careful evaluation before broader examination and expansion, and really just vetting any opportunity for risk so that when we hopefully come back and are able to expand this, we have worked through all the potential workflows and have it ready to roll. So, our sort of target um
066when we're thinking about our ask is that um while eventually this would be for some of our really um most underserved students in the beginning, we just need some students to try it out. Um some families that are willing. So, it doesn't even have to be uh unhealthy patients at the beginning. So, we would be reaching out to uh a couple families between 6 and 12. We'd be targeting the middle school because Angie is our lead nurse and she's the one that's been working on this the most with us just to try to find families that would be willing to be like, "Hey, would you try this visit?" Um, some of the equipment, see how it works, try to get some feedback to then be able to bring all that information back to say, "Hey,
067with these 6 to 12 healthy and or unhealthy students, depending on what the parents are interested in, this is what we were able to provide. This is what we'd like to do moving forward." We give us a small sample. While this has not been done in our county at all, uh it has been done in senior care facilities. Um and in other states, they have started to pilot something like this. So, this model is something that we have like kind of a proof of concept outside of the county, but we would be pretty innovative in the county and being the first ones to try something like this. Um which is why again we want to start with such a small pilot just to see what it would look like. So, um, with your permission, we
068would just be going forward and like calling a family, telling them the exact what we heard and say, "Is this something you want to participate in?" They could be like, "No, not a problem." We would call someone else that'd be willing to try it with us. So, um, do you have any questions for us? I have one question. Since you've been in contact with Angie, what's her feedback on like the time dedicated to this specific task versus like having 10 other students in the waiting room because they're hungry or tired or whatever. >> Yeah. That's why we think about like the target population being that underserved population because right now they're in the health room anyway. Right. Right. >> Um and so it's taking a big chunk of their time on a daily basis. So
069although it would be some dedicated time to this process, it would be worth it to be able to get them that direct care, we're aware that what we don't what we can't become, what we don't have the personnel to become is, you know, a doctor for every student in the school. It's just not reasonable for our nurses to be able to do that and do daily meds in addition to like emergency care for our kids. Um, so that's why we're looking at it as like a target for either kids that have chronic absenteeism, lack of [clears throat] barriers to um access to regular medical care and things of that nature. >> How do you get paid? >> So for the validation period, there would be no costs to any of our students. So this would
070be just making sure that we have proof of concept as Amy said and working to make sure that this is a sustainable scalable model. Um, after that through our on demand platform, it would be able to be built through patient insurance. If they don't have insurance, >> we would work with financial aid to be able to support that. Same as if they were to go to an urgent care facility within healthcare system. >> Do we accept any legal liability if say something goes or something's missed or I don't know. So say a kid is really sick and it's missed through these and it puts off diagnosis because they're not really seeing a doctor. And I know you're going to say, "Well, he wouldn't have gone to the doctor anyways." I don't know. But do are
071we accepting any legal liability or could >> I don't think any more legal liability than we would have from a kid that goes to the nurse's office and the nurse says, "We think they're cleared to be here." >> Um, I think just the medical any any element of what we do has some element of of of risk to it. Um, but the parent is in the appointment, the parents hearing the information, there's a sign off that it would be just like them seeing a doctor in their practice. So, I don't I don't perceive nor does the legal or legal team that we run it by so far perceive that risk, but I can certainly address it that way to make sure that that's something that we have an answer to. >> Thank you so much.
072Thank you. >> Dr. Kraton treasures report. >> Thank you, Mr. Bushy. So, three topics for tonight. Uh number one, the dashboard. Please uh take benefit of that. Check it out. It's a great tool that we use to keep a pulse on tracking [clears throat] as a school district. Second, the budget. I'll save that for Monday next week. We'll get into the the weeds on what we got to do. J and I appreciate your comments there. It's it's such a dilemma that we're in in the sense of the pressures financially but also the students that we're serving. >> We we need uh need some clever ideas. >> Third is the financial documents. So we reviewed those through them. Everything's in order. tracking to the budget as as we would expect recommendation to the board is that
073we approve those documents. Uh any questions you might have? No questions. Uh is there a motion? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, sir. >> We'll move on to the board committee reports. Uh Mr. Lynman is not here. Is anyone there? >> So, I can go ahead. I'll just chime in. >> Yes. So, we we did have our um operations facilities committee meeting last Monday night. Um some of the topics uh you will see what that we talked about. We we did um have an RFP for a new auditor. I know that's something you brought up before. Um so that approval is later in the agenda. Um we are going with Cherry Becker.
074Um after uh we did the RFP, we did some analysis. Um and we did have uh some interview with um with them, an informal interview. We believe they're the best candidate. So you'll have you'll have that meeting tonight. Um our copier lease or copier printer uh lease this year. Um so we are trying to to work on that. So, we um you will see an approval um also tonight on the agenda for Dossio. Um John and I spoke with Dossio and Marco, which is our current current lease. Um we felt Dossio Gave us a better deal. When you approve that, you will see that it's going to see say a maximumly amount because um John and I are working on uh looking at the footprint. We have 3500 copers in the district right now, but
075we believe we may be able to cut that number somewhat. Um, so that's something we'll be working on, but we wanted to get the approval across tonight. Um, just so we could get the process moving before the next board meeting so we can get the the machines in installed over the summer when the kids are here because works logistically better that way. So, um, what you're approving will be the max amount, but we are hoping that that amount will leave some budget saves. Um the one the one thing we we did uh talk about that the committee approved was um right now we offer two um student athlete insurance packages. We offer a um pool package a primary package which means that insurance kicks in um first for any athletic injuries. That package does cost
076us around 27 28,000. Um, and then we also have another package which is called a full package which is like a supplemental to the to the students insurance. So if they get hurt their parents their their primary insurance will kick in and then our insurance will cover any of the excess costs for the family. I'm proposing um that that policy only costs the district like around $1,000. I'm proposing to try and save money to eliminate the primary insurance um because just because of savings and when you looked at over the history we we do help u maybe two to three athletes a year but we generally the claims don't come anywhere close to to the $27,000 that we're spending for that policy. Um our insurance broker also is recommending uh I think we're the only
077district in the county that still offers the full coverage. um and he he is recommending that we do drop that coverage because sometimes you do get into liability issues dealing with that. So um that's not an official pro approval tonight, but with um with the board's consent, I would like to move forward with that and then when we approve the package in June um that that wouldn't wouldn't be on there anymore, but that was something we discussed. So I don't I don't know if there's any questions about that that I can answer because I know that's a bigger change. Okay. Um and then uh I pro I did present um our first draft of a capital plan to the committee. Um I something I've been working on since I since I started here in July.
078It's it's a fluid document. It's going to be constantly changing, but it was just the first look that we'll be work um digging in deeper over the summer and then probably presenting that to you um during the board retreat. The first look at that. Um, I gave the committee a budget update similar to what you saw tonight and we also had a sponsorship update. Dr. Axe and I have met with Dr. Kenszinger's class and Mr. Govern. Um, we presented what um plan for them and they are in the process right now as we speak creating a marketing plan for us to to be able to take out to um vendors over the summer to um possibly have some sponsorships for the district. So, that was concludes my report. Hey, >> thank you very much. Miss
079Walker with the academic committee report. >> Yes, we had a full meeting um on the 13th. And so if you look on the agenda, you'll see um there's a few things that I'm going to ask for your approval further on, but I thought maybe I'd just summarize in case you had questions, you can ask me questions about each of the curriculum updates. So, first of all, um Dr. Neoth shared highlights of the self-paced math program uh program that's going on in third grade multi-age which is always nice to see kids um talk about their own learning. And then you see here several curriculum updates. Um science steels curriculum team presented their proposed changes and needs for various levels of the curriculum updates. Some changes included incorporating the steel standards, middle school changes to which topics
080would be taught at like the various grade levels. There was some um changes that needed to occur there. And the addition of a high school for forensics science course, which I would like to come audit because it looks sounds really cool. >> Um and the costs for these will reflect highly used items like when you think about science like magnifying glasses and all those things need replaced. Um and textbooks to help with that curriculum shift. So you see you'll see that noted here. Um secondly, there was library science and that team discussed some key adjustments um with aligning their standards into buckets. So kind of like bigger bigger themes across the the levels. And obviously when you're talking about library and textbooks, there's um bigger fees when you're talking about ordering books that need to
081be not just a paperback, but they need to be like a certain level of quality when you have a lot of little hands on them and big hands. Um so some of the key changes would be that elementary will be taking library into the classrooms more frequently. So kind of incorporating that. Middle school will be implementing digital literacy for all students um with some structured times when librarians are going into the classroom. And the high school will be working with the 9th grade to teach digital literacy and ELA classes. The high school um librarian will also work with AP seminar and research as well as some other things. So that is the biggest chunk of our budget obviously because we're talking about all levels, all school buildings needing up updated materials with that. And then
082lastly, the world languages team shared the use of the ACTFL standards and proposed some minor changes to their uh curriculum and outline some needs such as expanding middle school options. Um currently foreign language is offered in seventh grade as introductory and eighth grade and a little more in depth. Um but they're looking to kind of bring it down to the lower grades to kind of get kids exposed to languages early on. um high school changes needed to align and adapt to some more materials such as textbooks for updated um textbooks, digital access and readers in their n in the languages of study which was pretty cool and that um is not noted there as well. And then lastly, Dr. Whitel was talking um about the high school curriculum guide update that would allow for some
083changes to to courses or credit accelerations for some students. And so that's reflected there as well for approval. So before I make a motion, I just want to thank Dr. Neoth and her team. Um it was really valuable information. Clearly the team and staff have put lots of time and effort into aligning our curriculum to be highly engaging, vertically aligned all while remaining fiscally responsible. So we thank you for that. Potential next meeting will be in September. And I would Can I make a motion? Okay. I would like to make a motion to approve the curriculum updates and the budget and the course selection guide for the high school if there's no other questions. I know that was a lot. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I.
084>> Any opposed? Motions pass. Thank you, M. Walker. Next, Mr. assassinated with the activities committee, >> right? I wasn't able to attend the meeting, but I'll give my report and if anybody else wants to jump in and fill in any gaps, they can. So, our meeting was also in April the 13th. Uh Scott ran the meeting. Scott Govern um talked about that he had a guest speaker come in, Cliff Crosby, uh from the care and transformational care, uh came in and spoke to some junior and sophomore uh student athletes. just talked about motivation and and goal setting and uh some good feedback on that. Um they're looking at the WellSpan contract for the orthopedic contract with the the school, it ends in the spring. Um there hasn't been great satisfaction with it and looking into
085other options as far as that is concerned. Um the whole issue of nonboundary versus boundary schools. So basically private schools and public schools when it comes to sports, it's in the state legislature looking at some states have put it the separate tracks. So you know private schools compete against each other for the championships and so forth. Um a lot of the championships are won by schools. Um so that's a that I think would be a good thing. Uh there is a new logo coming, new Baron logo from my from my understanding. Uh so keep look out for that. Um and Scott just gave me an update today that these teams made it to districts, girls and boys tennis, boys volleyball, baseball, and softball. They all made it to uh districts, which is which is awesome.
086Um and then if you remember the uh ski club and looking at funding that, we have to fund that now. So they they were able to look at other clubs uh some clubs that there was a stipen for it but it wasn't being run and using that money to do that. So that was something positive and they're continue to look at those those clubs and activities. Um also Cinderella the the show that Tyler Shaw put together with the kids um was an awesome show very well attended. Um, and it was it was full almost every night. I mean, it it was packed and it was a great turnout. You can just keep going to be there. Um, what I think I talked about this before when being around it for four years and this wasn't
087really my world at all. um you start to really appreciate what they do and and and how much effort they put into it and how much they grow in that those four years and and and the quality and the let's talk about in sports like the reloading like the this year was oh that was awesome and then the next year the next group steps up and and uh does it so if you thought that I put my daughter up there twice as Cinderella I didn't that's two different Cinderellas they double they double cast that which is actually very cool there was one scene where the fairy godmother whatever the wand thing and you know she turns into the the blue dress. It was really cool how they they both did it. They one spun out
088and the other one spun back in. I didn't even catch it when it happened the first time. I asked my wife how did she do that anyway? No, it was very cool. Very good show. >> Um >> so we have three action. Is that in the later in the voting or am I making a motion now? >> You're making a motion. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Uh so club approval proposed high school club uh a national speech and deate debate club uh Miss Hannah McConnell he running that Mr. Mc Mr. Claire actually volunteered to pay the fee uh because we don't put any money to it the first two years at the probationary period. Um Baron stage approvals the the fall play and the spring musical. We're not announcing what those are because Tyler Shaw uh
089does a review and I think it's June at some point. Um but the fall play is November 19th through the 21st and the spring musical is March 17th through the 21st. Um, field trips approvals, field, uh, band trip to Orlando, Florida, led by Jake Heepler. Football summer camp, Blue Ridge School in Virginia, uh, led by Dave Han. And girls basketball, James Madison University, led by Mike Smith. And I think that is it. So, I'm looking for a motion to approve those items. >> Make a motion. >> Second. I >> have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any >> opposed. Motion passes. >> I I also want to thank M and Jack and Claire for contributing to pay for the first round of debates for the National Speech and Debate
090Club. >> Thank you. >> Very welcome. >> Hey, a little side note. I don't know if you noticed that uh Evan Simon and Nate Reed got invited to NFL mini games. >> The Giants and one somewhere else. >> The Raiders, I think. Yeah, the Raiders was Raid was the Raiders and and uh Simons Giants. >> Giants. He took took both of them, >> which is kind of neat. >> Yeah, it is. >> All right. Now, we'll move on to the general action items. I could I'd like to take A through [clears throat] E. We want to make a statement about the um all musical. >> We're not telling them >> secret. >> We know. Yeah. We have to so they can move forward. Sorry. No problem. >> Oh, you need a motion? >> I need
091a motion. >> I make a motion. >> I got a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Now I'll take FNG agenda. >> Second. >> I have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Now I'll change each through K. >> Second. >> Motion has a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. And I will take L through O. >> Second. >> Have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion passes and then we'll take P and Q. >> Move. Second. >> Have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. That will move on to the board representation reports. Miss Beichy with
092Lancaster Leon. So our last meeting was on April 7th and um something fun that Stephen and myself got to go to the spring bazaar there at the line for I1 l I13 there we got to visit there's three different tables set up with different students who had created um fun crafts and ideas things that they had um very creative with. So got to show them, you know, our appreciation for all they do and we got to a couple fun things there. Yeah, just grateful for all the teachers and, you know, and helpers that help these students learn and they get to like handle the money. It's fun to see them. They feel pride in what they do. And that day there was 51 businesses represented, um, over 300 students and $10,000 in profits made from
093all their hard work. And then another fun day for me, um Kesha and I got to visit over 40 students at four different classes in DO Run. I don't have any pictures for that. Um but just to go show them, you know, how much we cared about them and to spend time with each of the classes and get to meet see what they're doing and learning. It was great um great morning going to do a run that day. So, um I'm grateful to be a part of the you know sit on the board for I committee and then our next meeting is May 27th and that ends my report. >> Thank you very much Mr. Marinero with the CTC. >> Yes, we had actually two meetings since our last time here. Uh so during that
094time uh we actually presented and voted. There's a new CDA agreement now um for CTC that goes through the 2030 2031 school year. Uh that whole process ran smooth. Um earlier tonight um we had our learners of the month here. Katie Burn was actually the student of the month also for the Brownstown campus for the CAD program. Um she was there that night and her family. Uh it's actually really neat when you go there and they do the student of the month. We have our exec session. Then they bring the families in. They have the culinary program. They make dinner and then they make desserts. Um and then they let the families like take everything home. So, if you ever get a chance to go, it's actually really nice. Um, the welding students, they had
095a project um right here, not right here, over in Mount Joy. If you ever been to Kungle Field, uh they did some improvements over there. So, they had the welding program make new railings and then the carpeting students actually went ahead and installed them. Um, so if you have like baseball or anything over there, I know I have my boys play over there. So, we have a tournament there in June. So, if you get to go enjoy Kungle Field, um last time I talked about the new program, property maintenance building program, it ended up being approved. Uh so, there will be a new program at the Mount Julie campus for 20 slots. Um in March, they looked at hiring a new instructor between March and April. They already found somebody. They're signed on. So, that
096program is good to go. There'll be 20 slots uh that they're going to look to pull from the waiting list from some of the other programs, which I'll talk about in a second. Um, one of the other changes that they made, um, just in case you see this, it used to be the introduction to visual communications. Uh, it's going to be changed to introduction to visual arts now. So, they're looking at more of a branding, uh, name to spark more interest in that. Um, and then as far as enrollment numbers, because I said about pulling from weight list, if you look at some of the weight list that we have, um, electrical and construction technology at Brownstown is 75 students on the wait list for that one. HVAC at Brownstown, 56. Um, intro to construction
097careers, 32. You look at every other campus, there's some of the same things. advanced healthc care at Mount Joy 29, culinary arts 22, welding 40, uh construction again there's 30 and down the line. So there's a big need for these programs uh especially for this uh property maintenance program. So they might actually add another one as well because of these weight lists. Um capacity for next year is at 1721 and total seats filled at this point is 16007. Um, and the last thing, the I don't know if anybody's familiar, Fly on the Run. Uh, that's one of their main fundraisers. Uh, so that's going to be on May, it's actually two days. May 6, they do a banquet over at Mount Choy. And then May 7th, it's actually a fly fishing tournament at the Milport
098Conservancy. Um, so they use that to raise money uh to provide scholarships for students, uh, workforce grants, uh, financial assistance, um, and 10% of the net proceeds goes to the endowment fund as well. Uh, so last year they raised $130,000. So they're hoping obviously to exceed that this year. That concludes my report. >> Thank you, sir. Miss Gingrich, PSBA. you. Uh the Pennsylvania House has passed 53.3 billion budget. That was on April 14th. That plan is a 6.3% increase. And of that about 700 million is to boost education funding. Um which increases some um increase in both basic education and special education funding. There's also some adequacy um increases that are to match last year's contributions based on um the Commonwealth Court ruling about the funding disparities. So that net that that now goes to
099the Senate. So we'll see what happens from there. I'm sure it there's >> changes. >> Yes, it's just the the beginning. Um, a few of the recent Pennsylvania education bills right now four have passed have been advanced out of the Senate education committee. One is called curriculum transparency and that requires student I mean I'm sorry schools to post course curricula textbooks and syllabuses online and they are supposed to provide parent access to instructional materials. Another one is student data privacy. It creates rules for collection, storage, sharing, and deletion of student data. Requires parental notice and limits thirdparty access and emergency anti-seizure medication. This authorizes voluntary training for school staff and allows designating staff to administer rescue anti-seizure meds to students with disorders. And the last one is PMIA flag display. It requires public schools to
100display the flag alongside the United States and state flags on school grounds. Uh there are four that have been referred to the House Comm Education Committee. Um I won't go in quite as much depth. One is about experience-based specialist certification. Um that's to make it easier to get some some um certifications based on their experience. Another one is certificate fee reductions, charter school funding adjustments, we can all hope. Um, CTE curriculum modernization grants round out the top four that happened in the last month. Um, and then May 4th is our advocacy day. If anybody wants to join us as we go up and and speak to our representatives, still do that. Just talk to Dr. tax. That concludes my report. >> Thank you. Um, everybody had a chance to view the enrollment board if they
101wanted to. >> Oh, Mike, I forgot all about Did you have a meeting? >> Yeah, I'm without a um run down. >> Yeah. So, the budget passed. We approved the LCA budget tonight. Nothing changed on it because it's a set amount that we contracted over a span of years and both locations are going well. Last meeting is the 27th of May. Uh so I'll be a little late to Maroon and Gray because that meeting is going to be before that. >> We have graduation >> 3 the Saturday the 30th after our graduation. Yeah. Now, one thing I did uh see uh we only paid for half a year of tuition. That's so 27 or next year is 55 something. >> You have that in the budget. >> Oh, you did. The one I saw had
10220 sheep. I tell you that it's um unbelievable how one one committee can do so much when you have a good person running it. So anytime you want to get over there, the easiest one to go to is Park City. And that's really neat. You don't have to worry anymore. You go down the escalators. Before you had a look like you were going back in the broom closet. It's not that way anymore. So that's about it. It's nice over there. Thank you. >> Enrollment report was available for you to look at. Upcoming school board meeting. Um, there will be a a special board workshop held on May 4th at 6 PM in the Mannheim District Office and the next regular schedule board meeting will be held on May 18th, 2026 at 6 PM at the
103district office. Uh, board comments, Mr. Clair. Great comments from everybody. I think everybody's doing a great job coming up to the end of the year. I want to recognize uh Mr. Claire. He was given an award this weekend at the Wrestling Hall of Fame for outstanding leadership. So say plus years I never got nobody was able to really match me. I could always somehow find the awards in that. I was completely stunned. completely stunned. >> Great. Miss King, anything? All right, meeting a journ. Thanks everybody.