001name. to order the February 23rd school board meeting. Uh first if we could stand and do the pledge of >> allegiance and a moment of silence. >> United States of America stands one nation under Godisible and justice for all. Roll here. >> Mrs. Gingrich, >> Mr. >> Here, >> Mr. Clair >> here. >> Mr. Sensky >> here. >> Mrs. Walker here. Dr. K >> here. Mr. >> Lind. All members. Awesome. The February 23rd, 2026 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually. An executive session was held on February 23rd, 2026 to discuss personnel and legal matters. I'm first looking for the approval of the February 23rd school board meeting agenda. >> I have a favor uh first and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any
002opposed? >> Passes. Next, I'll be looking for the approval of the minutes of the February 2nd school. >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Third and the second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Perfect. >> Um, recognition presentations. >> Okay, we're going to do it a little little different tonight and a little bit out of order. We're going to do the Baron spotlight first because we have Sputnik here tonight, which is our new Baron elementary facility dog. Where's Sputnik at? With Mrs. Gaiman. And the reason we're flipping the order is because Mrs. Gaiman's daughter is playing in a district playoff game tonight at LS at 7 o'clock and she was still gracious enough to be here with some of the kids. So, we're going to let her introduce Sputnik
003first. Well, good evening. My name is Allison G. We can come up here. >> I should have said that. We're switching this if you were here before. It's for the learners of the month so that they're up front and all the parents can take pictures and not pictures of their backs. But >> but all right. Well, good evening. My name is Allison Gaiman and I'm here with Carla, with Abe, and with Carly. So, thank you for giving us the opportunity to share um about Baron Elementary's facility dog, Sputnik, this evening. Um if you want to go to slide two, that would be great. Um so, I am here tonight on behalf of the Baron Elementary facility dog team. So, in addition to me, our team includes seven dedicated secondary handlers who help care for Sputnik
004and support his work throughout the school day. Um you can go to slide three. When Sputnik isn't working, he enjoys life on our farm at home where he is well loved by my husband and our four kids. Um, and you can go through the next four slides as I share. So, in January, we welcomed our school dog, Sputnik, Sputy for short, to our campus. And he is part of a support team that includes administration, classroom teachers, specialists, our school counselor and support staff. And we are so thankful for a full team and many great hands-on help. Each staff member has been trained by PAD which is Phoenix assistance dogs and we are attending monthly training sessions for the next few years to continue our training um sweaty and also growing in knowledge ourselves. So it's
005really fun to model for all the students um the lifelong learning with this new adventure of our facility dog. Um you can show the next seven slides as I share but since bringing Sputy to school three weeks ago um we have already seen so many incredible positive benefits. Um, students are showing improved self-regulation, increased confidence, a greater willingness to take academic risks. Um, we've also noticed students using Palmer voices, demonstrating kindness, and building stronger peer connections. Um, you can see some of the specifics on the earlier slide about how students who were having a rough transition from home to school, um, helping improve attendance. Um, I've heard many kids say that it's the best part of their day getting to greet spy in the morning. Um, students who have been struggling to read are now
006willing to read. um because they got to read to study. Um during that was just our first week. During our second week, um we also were seeing some initiative for kids who were maybe having a harder time starting their work. So, it was a reward to get to work with Sputy when their work was done. Um some students with anxiety were showing some improved behavior. Um and then tonight, I have three of the fourth graders in our class family to share with you what Sputddy means to them and to our school community. So, Gabe, you can go first. Good evening. My name is Gabriel Harroth. I'm from I am a fourth grader at Baron Elementary School. Our school dog's name is Sputnik or Spuddy for short. Sputnik got his name because he was part of
007a space letter. He has siblings named Low Dipper, Galaxy, Jupiter, and Eclipse. In school, students can see Spudy in the hallways and classrooms. >> Good. Good evening. My name is Karly Found. I am a fourth grader at Baron Elementary School. Our school dogs job is to help students feel calm, safe, and ready to when students are nervous or upset, spending time with Buddy helps them relax and focus again. Kids at school spend time with Buddy by getting to pet him in the hallways or in their classroom. Teachers can sign up for Spuddy in their classroom. H is also available. >> Good evening. My name is Karly Taylor. I'm a fourth grader at Baron Elementary School. Buddy makes people happy if they're sad. I feel happy and excited when when Buddy is around. Like having Spuddy
008at the school cuz he is like our family and I'm sad because I miss my parents. I could say, "Sputddy, come here." And and I feel better like having Sputy here cuz he makes us laugh when he does silly things. >> As we wrap up, Spuddy isn't just a Baron Elementary celebrity. He's becoming a bit of a Manheim Central community celebrity, too. Um, you might spot Sputddy out and about making new friends wherever he goes. Um, he loves attending the different sporting events. Um, right now, as you heard, basketball is his favorite sport, of course, and he's excited to go cheer the Lady Barons on a little bit later. Um, and he also enjoys making routine stops at Wise Markets, at CVS, Mannheim, BIC, Hilltop. Um, and he is very happy to accept any smiles,
009waves, the occasional compliment wherever he goes. Um, but he's very proud to represent Baron Elementary and just share a little extra joy with our community. So, thank you Okay, so that is our spotlight for this evening from elementary. Thank you, Mrs. Game and good luck to the girls tonight. Next up, we have our learners of the month. We have Hezekiah Bear, grade four, Dr. Mori. Mr. Fair was unable to be here tonight, so I'm presenting Kai on behalf of the 34 multi-age team at Baron. The third and fourth grade multi-age team at Baron Elementary has nominated Hezekiah Kai Bear as our learner of the month. It is truly a pleasure to recognize Kai and celebrate the hard work and growth he has shown throughout this school year. Kai has worked hard to set a positive
010example for his peers and consistently shows determination in the classroom. He approaches his learning with a strong effort, especially in his favorite subjects, math and STEM. Kai also demonstrates excellent participation during lessons and works extremely well with others, contributing positively to group activities and classroom discussions. One of Kai's greatest accomplishments is that he successfully reached all three of the goals he set for himself earlier this year. He earned a football trophy through dedication and teamwork, worked hard to master long division, and he continues to stay focused during lessons. These achievements reflect Kai's perseverance and his commitment to becoming a better learner each day. Beyond academics, Kai is a well-rounded student with many interests. He enjoys playing football and basketball, watching anime, drawing, and spending time with his sister. Kai brings creativity and energy into the
011classroom, and his positive attitude helps create a supportive learning environment for everyone. One quality that truly sets Kai apart is his gratitude and respect. He consistently goes out of his way to say thank you when he receives extra help, which speaks to his character and maturity. Kai values learning and appreciates the support of others, making him a joy to teach. Kai's hard work and positive growth have not gone unnoticed. His efforts are recognized by teachers and staff throughout Baron Elementary, and we are very proud to nominate him as our learner of the month. Kai exemplifies the dedication, perseverance, and respect we look for in our students, and we are excited to see all that he will continue to accomplish. I'm proud of you, Mr. Fair. All right, next up we have a group project and
012we have HBY that right? Okay. Sheepard Bronworth and Landon Weir presented by Miss Saxon. >> Good evening members of the school board, staff, family, and community. I'm honored to speak on behalf of the three for multi-age team at DO Run to recognize three outstanding third grade learners, Colby, Landon, and Shephard. Kobe is humble, kind, and always ready to notice when someone needs support. Her compassion turns small moments into meaningful ones. Landon models curiosity paired with unwavering integrity. He askful questions. He's a great big brother, follows through on his commitments, and shows others what it means to be the right thing. Shepherd brings a calm confidence and natural leadership to everything he does. He steps forward when a group needs direction, listens to others, and helps keep everyone focused on success. Individually, they're impressive. Together, they've
013gone above and beyond. Recently, these three heard about a younger learner who needed extra help. Not a brief assist, but consistently decent support. The trio jumped into action, returning to their one-two classroom for just a few minutes daily, but making a big impact. Their teamwork and selflessness, a few minutes fall over recess, created a space of growth and belonging. What stands out most is that their actions were not about recognition. They acted because it mattered to them. They created space for another learner to succeed. Demonstrated empathy, leadership, and responsibility in real everyday ways. That is the very heart of what we hope to see in all of our learners. Stephard, Colby, and Landon, thank you. You have made a meaningful difference in our school community and we are so proud of the care and leadership
014you show. Congratulations on being our learners of the month. >> We get this one weird. >> Okay. Next up from our middle school, Eliia Boore, grade eight, Mr. Freley Hog. >> Well, good evening. Uh, yeah, when asked to select our learn of the month for February, um, IA was one of the first names. It was a no-brainer that came to all four of his core teachers minds. Uh, and then when asked who wanted to present him, it was a no-brainer for me to jump in and say, "Yeah, I'd love the opportunity to go brag on Elliot for a little bit here tonight." Uh, because I've actually had the opportunity to get to know him for the past two years. Uh, not only for class and academics, but also this year in Baron Time. Uh, but
015previously as part of our nerdy board gaming group, the Mele People. Um, it's been such an exciting honor and joy to get to see Elliot grow over these past couple of years that I've known him. um and to the the quiet leader that he is here in the middle school. And I'm just so thankful for the impact that he intentionally makes on his community. Uh seeking to leave each place better than he found it type of mentality. And it's just been really fun to see him step up as a leader and and as he prepares for high school and months ahead. I've got notes from each of his four core teachers here, which I'll kind of summarize tonight because there were some pretty common threads through all of those. Uh one of those being, and
016don't worry, you get a copy of this afterwards. One of those being his attentiveness and his diligence in academics, right? Elliot does not uh settle for just a surface level understanding, but truly seeks to know the content inside and out. For math, that's like a seeing him go from just a being able to do an algorithm to figuring out, well, why does that algorithm work? What does it connect to that I've learned from before? And it's so fun seeing that take place. Uh, another common trend was the fact that he is a role player, right? and sets himself high in terms of academic excellence, but more importantly moral and ethical excellence. And I think he seeks to leave each place better than he found it and truly be a model for others to follow. Uh
017he enjoys rising to any challenge. Again, all four of his core teachers noted that where we can throw stuff at him and he just rises to whatever that might be. Whether it's in science class looking for extra uh projects after the fact after you've conquered something or whether it's in math class being thrown a insane equation and still wanting to try to persist through to the end whether or not he actually makes it there, right? Uh but it's just it's fun seeing who Elliot has been to. So it's with that that I'm excited to on behalf of the eighth grade team um bestow Elliot the honor of eighth grade minor here tonight. Sticking with our group theme, we have from the high school one of our clubs that Mrs. Troutman and the club members who
018are here are going to present. While she's handing those out, we have we're honoring Noah Templan. Geneva Conlaro that one and this is connection club. Charlotteman, Maddie Gaiman, Ava Goodart, McKenzie Pearson, Braden Linder, Mason Sergeant, Hayden West, and back to Nome. So, we have some of the members here tonight. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, uh, I'd like you to take a little walk down memory lane with me first. If you would, I'd like you to take a moment and think back to your high school days. Think about what made your you excited to come to school. Maybe it was the classes you were taking and what you were learning. Maybe it was participating on a sports team. Maybe it was being in the band or a theater production. Maybe it was a club or activity.
019or maybe it's just to come and make connections with your friend. All this is typical, almost expected as part of a high school experience. But for the students in the life skills class, that always seems to be a little bit at arms distance. Many times in many ways, I had attempted to facilitate involvement for these learners and always seemed to find challenge for a way to fit in. However, one special Mannheim Central High School senior saw that challenge and thought, "I can do something to improve that." And that senior is Noah Temple. Noah came Noah came to me with an idea. An idea to form a social club no other purpose than to build friendships between life skills learners and regular education peers. Noah talked it up among friends and recruited members with a similar
020vision. Together the connection club was born. So twice a month a group of students joined together to make crafts, cook, play a game, but most importantly to form connections. Noah's vision along with the support of his friends have created an opportunity for the life skills learners to not only connect and build friendships but to connect to their high school so that they may have the opportunity like yourselves to someday think back to high school days and remember what it was that made them excited to come to school. And thank you to Noah and the other members. It's the connections. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. On a side note, Noah Templan just won district wrestling in the gold med right when you're not doing the club. Right, that concludes my Oh, yes, Addis Weaver. Sorry.
021CTC, Addis Weaver. Dr. Whitel, uh, his daughter's sick tonight, so I'll be presenting Addis. The Brownstone campus of the CTC is pleased to nominate plumbing program student Addis Weaver. When not delving into learning new plumbing procedures for school, Addis works part-time at Wegman's in the pharmacy department. He also enjoys fly fishing and pretty much anything to do with the outdoors. His future plans include possibly applying to Thaddius Stevens College of Technologies water and environmental tech degree program and always to continue to work art. So congratulations to Addis. We get one more round of applause for all the learners. >> You all are welcome to leave if you'd like. Okay. Uh before public comment, I do want to share a statement. Uh, we did get a lot of families reaching out about um our partnership with
022LifeTouch, which is a picture company. I did want to let everyone know and the principles know and I know they've been sending some messages out. At this time, we're going to pause any pictures that were scheduled with Life Touch this spring so we can get more information and determine what our options are moving forward. One thing I just want to say publicly, you know, I really appreciate this community because of the way that they reach out when they're concerned about things. Um, it's not aggressive in any way or malicious. It's because they care. And this is an example of that, which is why, you know, we want to take our time with it and we're going to end up doing what's best we can. So, I did want to say that ahead of time because
023I know uh there were families that reached out throughout last week about that particular situation. So, I wanted to let everyone know that publicly that that's where we're at right now. So, all right, we'll move on to the rec the visitor com and public comment. This board encourages citizens from the district to come before the board to present their petitions, inquiries, and other communications of interest. The board publicly invites citizens of the district's comments on any topic within the board's jurisdiction. As outlined in board policy 903, the board requires that public participants be residents or taxpayers of the district. Do we have anybody that's signed up? >> Awesome. >> That's me. >> Yeah. >> Welcome. >> Hi. Uh my name is Odessa Freriedman. I am just popping in about Lifetouch. I know you already said
024and thank you so much for saying about that. That's great. Um I am just showing up uh because I have signatures of some parents um again and we had already signed and I was like well by gum I'm going so I don't know who I can leave this with should leave it with. It's not anything crazy. It's exactly what we talked about. I was definitely one of those people blown emails but yeah trying to trying to be nice because we're all a little bit it's all a lot right now. Life is a lot. Okay, thank you very much. That's all I have to say. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you for coming. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. Now, we're going to move on to personnel. I'd like to take A through C.
025>> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. I just want to thank John uh Mr. Brack Bill for all the years he's given um to the band and everything. He's a truly great guy and we will miss him. So we wish him luck in his new venture. Now I'd like to move on to go with take D through G. Second. I have a first and a second. All in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed? Motion passes. Now we'll take H through J. I'll make motions. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. And now we'll move on to the superintendent superintendence report. Okay. So tonight, uh, I just have a budget update through
026Mrs. Martin. I want to thank our admin team, our cabinet, our staff for all the work they do with our fiscal accountability and I'll just hand it over to Kelly from here. >> Thank you, Mrs. Mark. >> Um, and just a quick quick update right now. It's still early in the process, so there's a lot of changes. Um, but I just wanted to kind of give you an idea of where we're at in the process. So, this first screen fund balance analysis, you've seen it before. Um, oh, and as you all know, uh, our auditor was supposed to be here tonight. Um, they they're still not complete with our audit. So, I was told March, so hopefully we'll have final numbers for 2425 in March, but um, those are the most updated figures that um,
027have right now. Not much has changed. Oops. Not much has changed with that. Um, I'm working on a 2526 projection at this time. It's still early in the process for a good a good projection. So what what you see up there um there is do this there is um a deficit of 1.4 million but that is right around where um the budget you approved. It's um a little little more than you approved in um June last year but that's um we have had some extra expenditures over the winter with the extremely cold weather. So, I have those included in this updated projection. I'm hoping, like I said, as the year goes on, we'll get some um better figures on what that um where we'll land for this year, but that's the best I can do.
028Um preliminary budget, what you see up there, um it is a deficit of $1.9 million. In this budget, I did include a 3.5% millage increase, which is the highest we can do. Um that was what you had approved in December. Um the reason for that is if you would ask me right now where we're standing right now, I believe to be fiscally responsible, that's probably where where we should land right now. Um and also in this you will um in this budget that I'm presenting tonight is some of the staffing um information that we'll present to you later and the special education update that you're going to also see later in the meeting. So all those numbers are in there with that budget and also the governor's proposal. So that's where we this time. Um
029this just you've seen this screen before. I always like to show it because it kind of gives you a good history of where we've come from, where we're going. Just kind of shows you have two years where our revenue increased um by you know 5 10% here. And that was of course our ESSER dollars that we got from the federal government. Those are no longer available. So then you you see we have a decrease in revenue and then some increases um going out to 2627 and but it also shows too our expenditure growth and how where we've come from um 56 million and sorry 20 uh 2021 and now we are up to over 70 million. So it just kind of gives you a good idea of where we have come from and where we're
030going. um to talk about what's in the revenue budget. Like I said, I do did include a millage increase of 3.5% because I I do believe at this time that that is something that we really need to consider for this year. Um but there is also in this budget an assessed value growth at 1.5%. I do have a list of properties that I'm keeping an eye on that are in um under construction that I I hope to that we'll see some of those properties come on the books um in this 26 27 budget year. So I um that's where I I come with that that growth number plus the normal growth which over the last couple years has been around 1%. Um this just this screen right here I just wanted to give you an
031idea of um different military increases just so you can see um that if we did a 0% increase that would be around $3.4 million deficit all the way up through um the the 1.9 million at 3.5%. And it is for every percentage increase it's about $42. That um adds to our budget just for your reference. on the governor's proposal. So, I know we were waiting kind of to see where the governor was going to land um on his number. So, I kind of this uh screen just gives you an idea of based on 2526 where they settled and then his new proposal. So, as you can see, there's not much of an increase in basic ed funding, not not a whole lot of increase in special ed funding. Um, but the one thing that he
032did include in his budget is another adequacy payment, which would be an additional $478,000 for the district. I do have that in the proposal right now because I'm I feel a little stronger that um we are going to get that money since this is the third year now that that that they have proposed this. So, I felt comfortable at this point to put it in. But, of course, we'll still watch as they go through all their state budget hearings. Um, and as we know, the state never pre presents the budget as the governor proposes, but it's usually close. The last couple years has has been close. So, this is what we know right now. A small decrease in our CTC funding, but I think that's due to enrollment, too. And then um also this now
033the state property tax reduction allocation as we remember this doesn't affect the school district at all but it does affect our taxpayers that or um apply for the homestead farmstead exception. The the governor has proposed no increase to that this year. So um as a point of reference that is uh 1.445 445 million that we get from the state and that gets all allocated out to our taxpayers that um apply for the homestead farmstead deduction. Um and as just for a point of reference uh last year that was $2659 that came off each homestead farmstead um uh property tax bill. Now that number will could go up or down depending on the number of properties but that whole amount does get allocated out to taxpayers but they are not proposing an increase in that this
034year. And then additionally in the governor's proposal um he does have some additional cyber school deductions to the tuition formula which we hope will save us um some money in the cyber expense. Although that expense is still over still close to $2 million even with um these deductions. that they are moving in the d in the right direction but it still is a big part of our budget that we have to consider. Um federal revenue just wanted to not much has changed there. Um we had those two high years with that the esser esser dollars but then it has gone down and it's um probably going to be about a million dollars. I don't see any changes, anything significant in our federal dollars for next year for expenditures. Just kind of um going to give
035you a list of items that we're we're looking through and considering right now. Of course, we'll hear the staffing presentation here tonight in the special ed um proposal update, which I know we've talked about before. I know I've mentioned health insurance. Um I'm keeping a close eye on that. I do have about a 10% increase in the 26 27 budget and I was hoping to lower that, but we're we're having a rough year this year with our health insurance. So, I'm gonna I'm going to hold on that just to see where we land. We do have um several cases that will probably hit our stop loss. And so, the um expenses as of right now are a little higher higher than they are usually. Just keeping an eye on that and going to watch that.
036our utility costs. Our utility costs were um were high are high for this year because of the unusually cold winter we've had. And of course those rates seem to be keep increasing as I'm sure you all know on your own utility bills. Um so another thing that we're watching and then cyber school again too still it's a big part of our budget that we have to consider. Um, I just put this slide in too because I I know we've talked about it several times um tonight and before, but this is a the live birth worksheet from the PA Department of Health. Now, this goes by zip code. So, all these students that you see here um that that encumbrs more than just our district. That is of course local other surrounding districts like some Adon
037kids could be in Warwick um and other schools. But the reason I put this up here is um so 27 and 28 are the two years these students um these babies will hit kindergarten age. And as you can see it is slowly increasing the next two years and then it does decrease a little bit when you get into 29. So that is just something that we we need to consider. Um oh I guess it is kind of small because it can sell you're all I don't know if I can make it bigger. Um but I can send this out to you so you can review it. Um, but it's just one of those things that we even though we are trying to cut staff as much as we can, we do have to keep in
038mind that this might be something we have to deal with in future years. >> Can you go back and check how accurate they have been? >> Sure. >> Yes. A lot of the stuff they're going back and I'm I'm not saying this is or isn't, but a lot of the numbers they've been throwing out a lot of things they've been correcting later. So, I'm curious how accurate that >> I mean, this does come from the software that I did just pull it up, >> but I can see if that matches some other that are out there. Um, and then just just what's next here. Um, we are as an administration, we're going to continue to keep finding savings wherever we can for the 26 27 budget. Um, we have the state budget hearing. So, um,
039keeping an eye on that to see where they think the budget's going to land. I've heard there's no chance it's going to pass on time. So, again, we're going to be guessing, um, in June what what that revenue will be. Um, I'm going to keep working on updating our current year projection and then also I'm hoping to present to you in next meeting a five-year projection going out just to see to see um, you know, what that looks like. There any questions? Any discussion? >> Just curious with uh CPA any update where where we're at with interviews or any of that type of stuff? >> Oh, we did send out an RFP and we're having um a question and answer session um this week on Thursday with some of the county districts that are in
040the same situation we are. Okay. Um, and I know that I we sent it out to multiple CPA firms and I know there's some interest that they're going to show up on Thursday and plan on giving us a proposal. So, >> Okay, great. Thank you. I >> have a question about the healthc care. though I think this was like three years ago when we voted to implement that other health care program that was this was before you that was supposed to cut cost some costs of health care and allow for staff to use that facility that is coming back yeah thank you I couldn't think of the name of it is there any way we can look at how that's being utilized see if the cost of that is worth it or is that something
041that >> yeah I can I do have actually a presentation on the utilization of that and we what we're finding is um if I remember these numbers correctly there are about 65 of our employees that are using it but the one thing I'm noticing from that um presentation was they're using it often like there's over like 200 and some visits so um I know uh Nick Nicole and I have talked about like a way like how do we get this out to our employees again and let them know like hey this is available this is a great opportunity for you because I do believe it say it does save us money in emergency room visits and urgent care visits when they know they can just go and use this facility. So >> I think that
042it was is it like a contract like three year three years or five >> was it? >> Five. >> Thank you. Yeah. >> I think we're only like I think we're actually like two >> Was it only two years ago? >> It was a while but I think this summer it'll be two years. >> Okay. Anyway, yeah, that would be cool to see the numbers of like how that's affecting that >> especially because I was gonna say a large percentage of our staff live with Patrick. So, it's close for them. >> Yeah. >> The math that would be challenging to figure out is how many of them don't have to take a half sick day go because they can go >> scoot over to the facility, >> right? because we're we're we're saving on substitutes
043as well. If they can go lunch or during prep real quick or end of the day rather than taking a sub because they have an appointment. >> That would be the math that would be a little trickier >> unless we could see like if it was an ER visit, you could just assume they're going to be out. >> They can't scoot over at lunch for an ER visit. >> That's true. >> And share that with >> Thank you. That concludes my report. Bushi, >> thank you. Um Dr. Flannry is the assistant superintendent. >> Yeah. So two two reports this evening. I am both on to other people. Um the first one is our um staff based presentation specifically to what Miss talked to you about last month which was our changes in special ed and
044our plans. She had presented you with three plans consider she's going to go into a little bit more detail on that. After her um Miss Miller will be coming up and giving uh her general staffing presentation for the year. Right. >> Thanks for having me back for round two. the next slide. So, just as an overview, some of our challenges of facing here in special ed is um a large growth or an increase over the last 10 years. Tonight, I'm sharing with you a new statistic where we're seeing a 3% increase just in the last three years. That's approximately 75 kids that have been identified as in addition to needing those special ed services. Um, right now with our current structure, we're not able to accommodate our learners with autism. Um, and so we rely
045on those outside placements which are costly and right now very saturated. So we're finding ourselves in a position where we don't have availability for students. If you recall, we went over three proposals last time. Proposal A, we would open up the own district owned autistic owned autistic support classroom and include some supporting staff that is needed for special education overall. Proposal B was looking at New Story Consortium, um contracting with them to open up that autistic support class and again adding in some supporting staff that we need for special ed or proposal C choosing not to open that autistic support classroom but move forward with um some essential staffing that we need for special ed. And I want you to continue to consider those questions from the last time. But in addition tonight, I think
046what we're really looking at is how do we support those two questions while remaining fiscally responsible. And so what I wanted to show with you tonight is our overall operational cost. That was something that all of you were very interested in understanding what the true impact of these spaces would be. So what I have outlined for you this evening um is three different models. The every model includes the operational costs of those classrooms as well as adding in those additional staff, the special education consultant, an additional school psychologist, and another administrative assistant. So, if you're looking at the top with the district-owned class, we would also need to hire a BCBA to help support behaviors in the autistic support classroom. If we were to open up this space, uh, I did include the option of
047having two PCAs in because that's fairly typical for a class of that size, we as a district would be on the financial hook for $832,000 approximately. Um, if we move forward with that district-owned model, what you are seeing is the cost if we were to keep seats. So based on enrollment that we have right now with our incoming kindergarteners, we have five students who are in need of this space. Of those five students, we could choose to um sell the remaining three seats, which is that bottom line. So we could potentially bring some tuition into our district at around $147,000 to help offset that cost of $832,000. Uh however, my recommendation would be if we went with this model is to have six seats where we we buy we keep six for ourselves. That leaves
048one on reserve in the event that we have a kiddo move into the district needing that uh type of classroom and then selling the other two. And you can see the potential in uh tuition income from there would be $98,000 in our middle model which is us partnering with Newstory to start that autistic support classroom. eight total seats, including those additional staffing would to take us to $858,000. Again, you can see if we were to hold six seats, that would give us one reserve, that would cost us as a district $717,000 with a potential tuition income of 141. And if we were to sell all three seats that we uh currently don't need in that last model, we would spend just over half a million dollars with potential tuition income around $330,000. The last model
049you're seeing on the bottom is if we continue to move forward with utilizing the IU as our primary supporting um placement for students with autism. Um, so the five seats that you see highlighted at the bottom is currently where enrollment is at and that includes those other three positions in that model. We would be at about 570,000. Um, obviously the IU is significantly less cost. Um, however, in this past year, we've experienced an increased risk of not having a placement for our students. Um, so while we might still utilize the IU, we really want to put ourselves in a position where we can provide our students the education that they deserve at the right placement. Go ahead. And so this next part I want to share with you some additional information regarding those um additional
050positions. So you can see here on the left hand side I laid out for you all of the roles that our school psychologist does. Um and I put a quote at the top because I want to help you understand that our school psychologist has one of the most pivotal um roles in deciding how our students are serviced. Um they drive everything that happens after that initial evaluation. Um so their role is really important in making sure our kids are serviced appropriately. Um, some of the duties that they're a part of are daily, weekly, or monthly. They do play a large role in costreventive measures, um, such as being a part of our MTSS system, which really helps target interventions for our students before they get to special education. So, if we're doing those things well
051and they're a part of that team, we can really help to um, hopefully decrease our special education numbers over time. some of the things that we're really not getting to because our school psychologists are um really driven by all of the due dates that come with an eval. Um and those eval are for special ed gifted as well as all of our non-public students. Um, we're not getting to some of those costreventive services such as pushing into classrooms, giving coaching to our learning support teachers, general education teachers, targeted coaching for individual students to really ensure um least restrictive environment for our kiddos. This slide here, I wanted to lay out for you um what where we're at in terms of a school psych to student ratio. The national recommendation for school psyches is one student
052to every 500 in your student body. Um, right now Mannheim Central is one uh school psych to every 914 students. If we added another school psych, we would put it would put us at one to every 686 students. The green band that you're seeing in the middle are schools that are similar sized to us. Um so you can see outside of Donagal school district um we are in a we our numbers are high for that school psych to student ratio. Um and Donnagal has also confirmed that they're also interested in um reducing their school psych ratio by adding an additional psych. So you can just see how we compare um as a district locally and what helps us remain competitive. Um in the top here I wanted to show you a different way to kind
053of look at case loads. So if our if our school sites are completing just evaluations over the last three years they average around a 100red a year. Um, with that current team of three, they're averaging around 33 to 36 um, IE initial evaluations each year. If we add that fourth team member, that takes them down to around 25. Um, in terms of time, that means that if we had a fourth team member, they would gain back between two to 300 hours, work hours, um, to be able to do some of those duties that I talked about on the previous slide. Um that could also equate to 30 to 46 work days uh which is a huge gain for our district um and making sure that our team members can be a part of those costreventive
054measures. Did also take a look at what it would cost for us to subcontract. There are times that we do subcontract out eval especially if we need something that's bilingual. Uh again, we'd still be subject to the availability of a subcontractor, but I wanted to share with you if we would subcontract a quarter of that case load, um evals do run between $2500 to $5,000 a piece, which would put our spending around 62 to $125,000 if we were to subcontract a quarter of that work. Um some of the things that we don't get when we are subcontracting is for example the liability of the district remains on us and we inherit the liability of that subcontractor. Um so if they don't do a good job we could end up paying for it in the end.
055Um our school sits still need to review and analyze and type that report into the system. So it's not a oneanddone um report. We still have work on our end that we need to do. they're not necessarily aligned with our district or understand our offerings. Um, and a subcontractor is not going to be able to get back to those other duties that I shared on the first slide, but the SEC role I took the same approach. You can see on the left hand side all of the things that the SEC helps us do from a K to2 lens. Um, their main driver is making sure that we are in compliance with all of our documents. Um, but there are lots of other things that an SEC does to help create robust special education services. Um,
056some of the things that we're not getting to in this moment with where we're at is again that instructional coaching and targeted coaching for individual students and teachers. Uh, being able to broadly collect data to understand where our professional development really should be targeted. Um, again, that's a costreventive measure. the more our teachers, the more our our staff and students, parents know, um the better we can do to serve our kids in a costreventive way. Um building up and leading to some of those transition services as well. Um two things on that list that are strategic is if we would add an SEC, I would be um asking those SEC's to attend more outside provider IEP meetings as an LEA and help coordinate some of those outside placements. Um, as you're aware, that takes up
057a majority of my calendar. Um, I'd shared with you over the summer. And so, if some of that time could free up, it would also allow me as a leader to have more oversight into our interventions, our programming, um, and again support our building administrators as that instructional coach. This is a similar chart with our SEC. Um, what I did do was I removed student population and compared it to the total amount of students receiving special ed education services. So, right now, Mannheim stands at one SEC for every 531 students. If we were to add a second, we'd be at one SEC for every 267 students. That green band in the middle again is um looking at ratios locally around us. Um and you can see that our current ratio is quite high in compi
058in comparison to like uh like size special education departments. Um some people are structured slightly different. So you'll see that I have some notes off to the side to help you understand those different structures. So as a last part of this, my current recommendation still stands on moving forward with the new story consortium contract. Um, I would be asking for you to vote on that at the March meeting. Um, this contract is also contingent on the hiring of that school psychologist, the SEC, and the admin assistant, which have been included into the 2627 school year budget. Um, I know I threw a lot of information out at you tonight in a short amount of time. So, if you're interested in more information, let me know and I can certainly run anformational session for you. Um,
059other than that, if you have questions at this time, I'm happy to answer. >> And for the B model, just for everyone's understanding, Etown is already interested in the possibility of two of those seats. So, that would automatically, if you go back to that model with the money. Yeah. So that would automatically make the new story if we just get two seats sold and reserve a seat. We would be at 141 where the IU is 570 436. >> Sell somebody else's seat too. >> We can sell seats available seats to other districts. We do that with that agriculture that's >> so with the new story model or the district own model we could open up the additional seats to surrounding districts and charge tuition >> that is at cost and not necessarily at an increase.
060>> So So Kesha could you make a table or a matrix that would compare level of service by each one of those models? Yes, I actually have that in a document that I can send you after this. >> Yeah, Kesha's thoroughess on this is is spectacular as far as when he walked us through this. This is the most comprehensive special ed road map that I've seen. That's the only way to say it. So that's I just wanted you to understand like all we have to do is tell sell two seats in B to be better off than what we currently do. So question for you. At what point would we say okay July it doesn't look like we're having anybody we have an open seat instead of running all year that one seat open. Would
061we have a timeline that we're to say okay doesn't look like we're going to have somebody I'd rather fill it than if we're going to look at this model than to just leave it go all school year without it being filled. we could take a risk and say, you know, after the second half of the year that we'd be more willing to sell that reserve seat. My um tentiveness would be that kids come and go frequently. So, for example, we just got a kiddo um from another district that's in a multiple disabilities class that like now I need to find that spot and they that seems to be as one comes another another goes and it never really stops. Uh but that could be something where we would internally say, "Okay, at this point we'd
062be okay with taking a risk and selling that final seat." >> Yeah. My reservation on that is just all the developments going in and the odds of like the possibility of that spot being needed. But I'm not saying like year one, but at some point if we went this route like we have open space. >> Another example of this is like we pre- purchased seats from River Academy. Um, and at the start of the year we had no one in it and now every seat is full. >> So, and we hit January and it's just that's where we're at. So, it does end out also. Can you email your hope? >> Which Oh, sorry. >> Which building would this be in? >> That hasn't been determined yet. Um, but it would be between Baron and
063Doun >> and it's kindergarten or is it K and one? So, this would be a K to2 model, but we would start with our incoming kindergarteners because we know that we have five. Um, that will also help ease the opening of that classroom because they'd all be kind of giving the same curriculum. >> So, if we went with Newtory, they would be providing the teacher and we would be providing everything else. >> So, Newtory provides a teacher um for additional staffing. So, in our world, that looks like pairs and PCAs. in their world that they don't really do PCAs, but they have four staff that would come and help support that room. We would get a percentage of a BCBA that would be shared regionally as well as a regional director that would come in
064and make sure that classroom is really lifted. There's a lot of pros to that because it this opening a VB class is not an easy feat at all. Um, and if we open our own, it does um impact our administrators, my position, our SEC's. It it does have a heavy impact because it's a heavy lift >> and they would be doing the hiring. >> They would be doing the hiring. That's why we're looking to vote on this in March because they would start that in April. >> And then what is their rate of hiring right now given that this is a tough class. >> So across this isn't just news story but across special ed IU included they are emergency certifying their staff. um that might that's has a high probability of that being our
065case. Um but with New emergency certified they must immediately enroll in a program that works towards that certification. Um I was able to go in and see a new story class that had an emergency certified teacher for the year. Um and I was impressed with the quality um given the level of need that those students can have. >> And are there any other I for you think I think you mentioned it but what other districts are operating with that model right now? So um Newtory has generally their consortiums are down in Boiling Springs. So that's where we actually travel to to see they're trying to break ground into Newtory. There's um one other local district that's very close to us that's um looking at opening two classrooms with them. >> And I just want to
066confirm this is the first time I've seen some of these things so I might be catching up here. So just to use well any of them your the total cost is what you have in the yellow uh let's just go into the district owned at 832,000 and then as you go down that's subtracting that potential >> yes >> tuition. So no matter what we're we're paying that top one no matter what. >> Correct. >> You're on the hook if we don't fill those seats >> would be the expense in our budget. The tuition be on the revenue side. So yeah. Okay. >> When we're thinking about like news story and this is just like logistics. I don't know how this works. If a te if we lose a teacher, if we lose support staff, who's
067responsible for getting a substitute new story? >> So, that is a huge benefit with going with Newtory um because they're going to bring in trained staff. Their regional director is also somebody that's going to be able to fill in um if needed. Whereas, if we're in a district model, we'd really have to think about who's going to fill in in a classroom because you wouldn't just be able to put any old sub into a classroom of that stature. So, there is an administrative relief that does come with new story for sure. So this might come out in your matrix but the middle news story model >> you for one seat you have that much you have that valued higher than the district owned almost by 50,000 or 40 >> I'm sorry >> the middle of
068story >> no new story middle line six seats so the 141 compared to district own middle row and 88,000. >> I think what he's asking is why is the tuition different between district owned and new story. >> That's right. >> Okay. So, the Newtory >> Yeah. So, the Newtory classroom and you'll see this in the spreadsheet when you get it. Um we pay $480,000 to Newtory that gets distributed across all eight students in the district model. um at eight seats I included two PCAs so you could see the potential of potentially having to add those PCAs. So that would be an additional cost. So that is why the district own model is slightly more um at the top but then at the middle it's built in. So it becomes it averages out. >> There are
069schools in the news story model that have to pay that portion of >> the new story tuition. So you haven't quite like if we had a district-owned classroom that would be what tuition we build the other district would be would be something we'd have to talk about with the district on what services how we're billing. >> Yes. So for example if you were in that district owned and somebody was purchasing a seat from us and that student need a PCA we would be billing that district back for that PCA. So that's not um you're not seeing that in the middle line. I was trying to give you apples to apples and something that's very apples and oranges. >> Yeah. Let's look at your file and then >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Good
070job, Kesha. Thank you. >> Oh, deep breaths everyone. That was a lot of info. >> Uh, my presentation is not as colorful as Kesha's, so bear with me. >> Two colors, black and white. >> You couldn't have went and gray. Like, there's no savings on printing on this one. >> You caught me there, Matt. All right. So, uh, I am presenting our 26 27 staffing um, presentation. Um what I do every year is meet with our administrative team and go over kind of like their wants and needs. Um considering of course that we do have a deficit this year. Uh we did preview the idea of what that would look like when it comes to their buildings or their department. Um overall I want to give you the uh what is it the 20 foot
071view here 200 foot view I forget whatever the saying is. um overall and then we're going to dive into some details at the building levels and then I kind of want to finish up here by sharing kind of like what's going on in our mind at the district level when we need to make strategic decisions. So overall, uh we're not asking for any new positions other than the uh presentation that Kesha just shared with you and those asks um I didn't know um if you gleaned from her presentation that there would be additional staff regardless of whatever uh decision you do move forward with. Um and then also just considering too the retirements that we have on hand as well as the resignations. Um, this year we did not replace an ACT 93 administrator. That
072is our maintenance director. We did move staff around to um accommodate the needs in the maintenance department. Um, but just making sure that you're aware that we did not replace one of those administrators um in anticipation of trying to save some funds. Um the other part here is that we have six professional staff retiring or resigning um and making the decision of um whether or not to replace those uh positions. And then we do have additional support staff as well resigning or retiring and looking at those replacements. Additionally needs I kind of wanted to share kind of a basic um tiered uh approach here. Our highest need is obviously special education considering um the needs that Kesha highlighted here. Uh moderate level would be um our secondary and elementary teams. Um there are some retirements
073there that we took a look at. Um and then we also always want to keep an eye open on enrollment in those shifts. Um Kelly highlighted that there's an increasing birth rate. uh we need to look at those numbers and just be aware that um also uh new incoming students to the district. So at the elementary this whole presentation is very simple. Um so at the elementary level you know if we don't replace the the one retirement that we have um at Baron Elementary um we would be monitoring those class sizes. Um, obviously it would uh bump up the class sizes in a certain grade. We'll try to keep that away from the lower levels and uh focus on maybe um concentrating that effort on our third grade level at Baron Elementary. Um, again, that's
074going to be in the works. Uh, so keeping an eye on that. And then kindergarten, uh, we're not anticipating, um, anything other than what's already, um, anticipated. Uh, trending on par with last year, but could be higher. We won't know those numbers until later in the school year. Middle school, we did have a retirement in our ELA department. If we don't replace that individual, that does look like incre increased class sizes um or individuals teaching multiple grades. You know, we're just exploring all options at this point. Um you know, trying to be strategic in how we uh navigate staffing. So considerations, we're gonna talk about holding on filling that position for now. Um, we did kind of throw around the idea of a partial replacement. Um, you know, maybe like a 0.5 that would be
075incredibly hard to fill. Um, just so you're aware. So that's things we need to think about. High school, um, another ELA opening, um, with a retirement. So again, if we don't replace, we need to think about um what that looks like for the course offerings. Um that individual also did some coaching for our staff as well. Um so just figuring out how um you know, would those duties be limited? Um kind of thing. Some considerations again holding for now on staffing. Um putting a big pause button right there. Then maybe talking about partial replacement if we would be able to find a 0.5 I call this a controlled vacancy pause model where we are just holding on filling those uh vacancies due to retirements. We would be looking at reassessing this approach before the June
076board, but we need to gather the data and see if this is an like a reasonable application um if pausing is necessary. And I'll kind of dive into that a little bit about the things that we're going to be thinking about as we think about replacing or not. Um, front of mind is that special ed budget piece in that autistic model adoption. Obviously, we need to um concentrate our efforts there overall. and then just continue to work on a capital budget plan so we have like a five-year model to like follow um as retirements come up as resignations come up and hopefully getting us back to neutral when it comes to being budget. These are the things that's kind of in the back of my our minds as we're thinking about like the hidden costs
077of non-replacement obviously like class size increases. One of our core values is having um less than 20 in a class. Um if we go beyond that, kind of breaking out of that model. So increased grading load for our teachers as well. Overload may come into play if we're offsetting those vacancies uh duties to other individuals. And then we're just talking about overall culture. Um so if we start talking about non-replacements, what does that carry over into um you know everyone um picking up extra duties uh the culture overall with turnover recruitment substitutes um all of that. So those are just the things that we need to keep in mind as we think about who and why. That's essentially it. >> I would love to hear any questions that you have. Happy to help. >> Email
078us. >> I apologize. The enrollment that's linked on our agenda. Does that outline how many kids are in each grade? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. gift. >> That includes my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Kraton. Treasurers reported. >> Yes. Thank you. So, uh, two things for tonight. Uh, number one, I would like to make a plug for the the dashboards that Kelly and the team have pulled together. They're very good. I was on them again this past month. So, I encourage the the board as well as the community to get on that, check it out. And then, uh, we have two sections of financial documents to be approved for tonight. I've gone through them and viewed them. They're tracking to uh the budget that we had approved and uh they're prepared using the
079GAP rules. So my my recommendation is to approve those documents unless uh there are some questions from the board if you want to talk through the motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion passes. We'll move on to the board committee reports. Mr. business ops. We haven't had a meeting recently and our next meeting is to be determined. >> Thank you, ACT Academic. Miss Walker, >> we've not had a meeting and our next meeting is scheduled for April 13th at 5:00 PM >> activities. Mr. S, >> we did not have a meeting and our next meeting is to be determined. I have a couple highlights of things that have happened in the district as far as activities. Uh the boys basketball team
080went to districts. They are now done, but they congratulations to them. The girls basketball team competed at districts. Uh they're actually is playing tonight >> uh for fifth place and they have qualified for states. Um the following wrestlers qualified for districts this past weekend. Cooper Sher, Barrett Kefir, Henry Von Stettton, Noah Templan, Brandon Linder. Uh Noah as mentioned earlier was a district champ and Barrett placed third and they both qualified for districts uh sorry states. Um the following bowlers have qualified and competed at districts. Daphne Odman uh Kiara McI about pronunciation. Um congratulations to them. The rifle team is section champs and Aubrey Meyers individually placed third overall in the section. The following swimmers qualified and will compete uh in districts. Sam Kefir, Kayla Kefir, and Leo Nefert. Um we also had some chorus students.
081Uh you have county chorus and then district course regional and states. Um Carly Knap, Lydia Sensenig, Sophia Klene uh were at districts and then Carly Knapp and Lydia Sensing qualified for regionals which was this past weekend. Uh so congratulations to them. Um I'm sure you're getting tired of me talking about my daughter. But some of the motivation behind that was um she came to me a couple ago or a month ago with a with a narrative that I've heard my whole life. The narrative is well the school really values this program more than ours. And let's just be honest, like it's usually football like and I've heard that as a player in high school and college and and as a teacher and a coach and I always thought about that. I like well I don't
082think we do but yeah I kind of feel bad about that or whatever being at this level as a board member like I can say that I've never once ever sensed that from anybody in the school district and and it's almost the exact opposite where we're trying to find opportunities for kids to be involved in things. So I told I said don't don't buy into that because that's just just simply not true and some of that is a societal thing. Like if you look at ratings of football, basketball, whatever sports, it's a societal thing. Um but it it really is not something. So told her don't buy into that and push back when you hear that. So I'd encourage community members and parents and students to not buy in because if you if you kind
083of buy into it then whenever something happens you just feel it's that way. But I do want to try to make an intentional effort to recognize those students that are involved in things and because it's I think we're doing a a great job here at Mannheim. So, thanks. >> Thank you. All right, we'll move on to the general action items. I'll take A through C. >> All right, I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> You have one question first. >> Go ahead. Dr. on the pass through for the reimbursement. I'm assuming that's if we get approved like any type of grants or whatever that would be a pass through the IU that >> this is justeneral >> right >> the one I dro when I read it was actually
084about grants and like if we got approval for grants on certain things that that's a pass through directly. >> Yes. Yeah, the the IU manages the districts and passes it to us. >> These are guaranteed amounts as long as we spend dollars. >> Anybody else? All in favor say I. >> I opposed. Anything passes. Now I'd like to take D through H. Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. Both. Motion passes. Uh, now we'll move on to the board representative reports. Miss Beichi with you. >> Yes. So, our last meeting was February 11th and our next meeting will be held on March 11th. Um, one thing to note is there's a spring student bazaar happening on March 26th from 9 to 1 at the conference and training center
085at the IU13 that students and their all their out and support them and just the students with all their hard work they've created and yeah just show them how amazing they are. So >> I'll put something in the update to remind everybody and >> that concludes my report. >> Thank you. Uh, Lancaster County CTC. Mr. Marinel. >> Yeah. Our next meeting is this Thursday uh at the Mount Joy campus. Uh, Dr. Axel will be with me this week as bring your superintendent uh for dinner. So, that should be a good one. Um, there was a CT expansion committee held last week at the high school. Um, Dr. Axe was in that meeting you shared with me. Uh, they're looking for creative ways uh to provide more spaces uh since the space is obviously limited right
086now. finding more ways to get students access to that. Um, Mrs. Travel's class opened the Baron Bloods Cafe, served the guests that day. Um, when they showed them around the facilities, they were shown the a and teched departments uh so they could see those spaces, those renovated spaces. Uh, and they were very impressed with the new uh wood they had. >> They they took a lot of pictures because they're trying to get ideas as they expand. pictures of our equipment, pictures of our layout, all those sorts of things. So, it was really it's always a sense of pride when you get to show off and and I said this before when when the CTC's asking to come here to see what we have, that's that's really enjoyable. So, it was a really it was a
087great meeting. >> USBA, Miss Gangrich, >> as we all know, Governor Shapiro gave his budget proposal on February 3rd. Uh basically he the increase in funding for education is aimed mostly at the adequacy gap uh because of the Supreme Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that talked about some of the inequalities that are of how our schools are are funded. So um he most of that is looking like it's going to go towards basic education and special ed. seen that in our budgets proposal and um it's a also some will go to school safeties and and mental health but yeah we're seeing not a huge increase to this point. Um the biggest legislative mo movement that we've seen in school policies is on the third uh the Pennsylvania Senate passed Senate Bill 1014 which included provisions for
088a phoneree policy in schools. So that's interesting. Um this legislation now is going to the house for consideration and it's aimed to reduce distractions and improve student food. See how that works. Um, so it's now gone into the education committee and then we'll see where it goes from there. >> Just to piggyback on that, Mindy Fee did come in last week and spoke to our amnesty group uh that that Mr. Campbell runs and spent at least an hour talking to his kids about getting feedback about the bell-to-bell cell phone. It was really interesting to hear the kids perspective and then I got to speak to like an administrative perspective and Mindy kind of talked about uh you know why it's there's such a push for this. So, it was really an engaging discussion and it
089went to the point where we were all like the bell rang and we were the time was up unfortunately. But our kids were great and I again just bragging on our kids and how they handled themselves and the questions that they asked and the thoughts the things that they brought up that as adults we don't always think about. Uh it was it was a really engaging discussion. So I want to thank her for spending that time and also thank the kids and Mr. Campbell for setting that up. >> Mr. Claire, Lancaster County Academy. >> Okay. Uh I'm g have to have the boss over here because I haven't been to a meeting because there wasn't any >> Yeah, we haven't had a board meeting since the last one. Uh same thing. We're holding steady on
090the number of of schools participating and continuing to grow in an appropriate manner. might have stuck a meeting in there that I didn't >> not without you ML. >> All right, I'll move on to theformational items. Everyone have a chance to see the enrollment report? If not, you can look you can find it uh up the next regular scheduled schoolboard meeting will be held on March 23rd, 2026 at 6 PM at the Mannheim Central District Office. board comments. Anyone have any like >> No, >> I just I mean I'm just grateful to be a part of Central community and to see all the students that were here, you know, recognized tonight and every month that we do it. But um I also got to go see is that placement they made. It was so special
091to me. I love to see how kids put their creativity and kindness into things and I wanted to go meet them and thank them just because it made it meant a lot to me. Um, it's just neat to meet the students and the teachers, the teacher that day and just speak into their lives how special those kids are and just encourage them because I know there's so many people hurting out there. I mean, just I want them to remember that they're special. That means a lot. So, that's all I was going to say. We have awesome people in Mad Central. >> Sorry. Yes. I I didn't realize it remember till I looked over there. your report very good and I think it the covering the swimming the bands no matter what uh I think it's
092a good thing so people can see what's happening so thank you >> I'm going to say the connection club that they uh showed us earlier I think it could be a model that we could hopefully show the community that other schools are doing maybe they are I don't know but I've never seen something like that so I thought it was you know, great show for our district. >> I just wanted to thank uh Mr. Breell for his investment into our kids. Daughter had him for sparing time and uh they have a so it it's just fun and I I understand he has a new haircut. I don't know if anyone's seen that. Hopefully we'll see that at one of these upcoming uh >> performances. What's up >> to >> I also want to say too
093that just to jump on the back of that I my those my daughters had tremendous experience with Mr. Brack and kids all the kids loved him like he was such a tremendous impact but I also understand too that sometimes a change is good and so I just wish him the best and and we'll we'll miss him. While we are extremely blessed here at Manup Central, we do have some really tough decisions to make looking at the budget. So, I don't think any of us take that lightly, but yeah, we're we are going to have to have some hard conversations and not looking forward to it. But, uh, yeah. >> Well, I'll speak into the connection club. I just wanted to piggy back off what you said there. Um, they're doing a great job. I mean,
094she really has targeted towards each student. My son uh is paired with uh another student and that student, they were looking at having a gym day and that student has ceiling height issues. So, she planned out something specific just for that student so that they weren't that student wasn't going into the gym that day. So, I'll say she's really uh targeting and tailoring that to to every student in there. So, >> yeah, it does look like a nice program. >> Yeah. >> Kisha, I just want to thank we asked you for some information and you definitely went above and beyond. So, we appreciate that. It was helpful for me, probably everybody else here too. Um, I just want to thank everybody for the time that they put in. That's it. We'll just say meeting adjourned.
095>> Thanks, everybody.