001Okay. Call to order the December 22nd school board meeting. First thing we should do is pledge allegiance to the flag and a moment of silence. >> Algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all. Thank you. >> Martin, >> here >> Mr. Sun >> here. >> Mrs. W here. Dr. Kra >> here. >> Mr. Le >> here. >> Mr. >> Here. >> Other members present. >> The December 22nd, 2025 school board meeting is open to the public and is being streamed virtually. An executive session was held on December 25th, 2025 to discuss legal matters. And I get a motion to approve the meeting agenda. >> I'll make a motion. and first and second. All in favor say I. I. >> Passes. Um,
002can I get a motion for the approval of the November 17th school board? >> I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any nays? Um, can I get a motion to approve the school board reorganization minutes? moved. >> Second. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> We have any uh public comment? Okay, we'll move right on to personal Mr. Campbell. >> Okay, Mr. Campbell. >> Yes. So, it's my privilege to introduce to you Mr. Nate Campbell. You want to pull one up? And Megan Flint. You didn't see the Lancaster newspaper. I know I sent you the video clip. Me was honored. uh named national language teacher of the year uh and went through quite a rigorous practices to get there,
003but it's welld deserved. What I would say about what I see in Mr. Campbell's class, anytime I stop in his room, whether it's prep or not, kids are there and they're interested and engaged. And he's also a great advocate for just foreign language for kids across the board. as you've seen from the trips he's taking kids on, um the the how well our kids do in the language classroom a couple years ago on our diploma. Now, the kids can get recognition for being bilingual, which not every school district does. And that's all things that Nate has spearheaded in his time here. So, it's really an honor. It's a it's a huge deal. It's hard to capture like winning the state in something is way different that this is a national recognition. So, I asked Mrs.
004flinch ball to introduce him because before she was an assistant principal for years they were colleagues and I thought it would be more authentic for her to kind of share what she knows about Mr. Campbell. So >> the Spanish band back together [clears throat] >> I'll try not to cry. Um you can hear me getting choked up because it is such a pleasure to recognize Nathan Campbell this evening. If you have been in his classroom uh or you have a child who has, you know, the learning experience is rich in language, culture, and connections. When students in Seenora Campbell's classes learn Spanish, they are immersed in Spanish, but they learn more than just vocabulary and grammar, pronunciation, and spelling. They learn the beauty and our similarities and our differences. They learn the importance of human
005connection and they learn the value of multilingualism. And every day, whether in Spanish class, Spanish club or the SID panika, which is our honor society for our Spanish students, they learn a little more about themselves and their place in the world. I worked alongside Seenora Campbell for the first 20 years of my career. Sorry. And I know firsthand that in addition to being a really outstanding teacher. Sorry. He is a committed professional, a thoughtful colleague, and a really invested collaborator, and I missed that. I could spend many hours, but I will not. I'm apparently crying. um but also sharing much more about the ways Senor Campbell empowers his students, enhances the profession and contributes to the Mannheim Central School and community. Many of you may know him outside of school as well. Seenora Campbell, we
006are very lucky to have you and I congratulate you on being named national, it's so incredible, national language teacher of the year. you have to say anything. [laughter] >> Uh, well, I as Megan pointed out, we worked our entire careers just together up until, and now I'll cry if I keep talking about that. Um, and as much as I appreciate this award, I could not have done it without Megan. Megan and I collaborated our entire career together. We made each other better people, better teachers. We challenged each other. And of course, I miss that, too. Um, but we all move on. We keep going and we still have each other. Uh, but yeah, it's it's been an incredible process. It's been an incredible journey. The support of this administration, the school board has been everything
007to me. Um, because I could not have done any of it without all of you. I could not have done it without the support of the administration who continues to support me and support our programs. And so as much as I am the recipient of this award, it's a recip it's an award for Manheim Central and the commitment that this district has had to world languages and to investing in our students into this program. So thank all of you as well. >> Thank you Nate and Nate. >> Thank you Nate. >> We wanted to honor you tonight but feel free to I know you just came back from uh quiz bowl. >> We didn't have our quiz bowl today. supposed to be and it keeps getting >> we did as you can all tell that
008was way better than if I would appate [laughter] what Mrs. Flinchball did. Let me >> just say something before he leaves. Like I I I didn't do well in Spanish in high school and college, but my daughter Lydia loves it and has had both of you. I didn't really grasp it until this year. The level of what you guys are doing. We had a college visit down at Liberty and at it was a higher level college class and she was sitting there and talking and helping the students with their work and I was like, "Wow, I didn't. It's impressive what you guys are doing." >> Thanks. Cool. >> Great. Yeah. >> Thank you. >> All right. We're going to move on to personnel. >> I would like to take A through E. >> I'll make
009a motion. Second. All in favor say I. >> Against passes. I just want to thank Miss Locker and Miss Fleck for their long years of service to Manheim Central. We appreciate everything you've done. Next, I'm going to take F through H. >> I'll make a motion. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Passes. [clears throat] I'm gonna take I through K. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Passes. Finally, I'll take L and >> I'll make a motion. >> I have a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Passes. Dr. A, superintendent report. >> Yay. Thank you. Just to let the public know, we've had a lot of fun holiday activities the last few weeks with concerts. Uh Dr.
010Flannry and I got to serve lunches at every one of the buildings. That's always a good time. There's events across the campuses. Uh so that's all been really fun. We want to thank the staff and all the volunteers who have come in over the past couple weeks. Uh just a note, next month is board appreciation and we're going to take the lead of a suggestion by Mr. Linder and we're going to do a dinner before the board meeting next next time for all of you for board appreciation. Sarah Payne has a a really good meal that she is planning. So, we'll have that. And the association um MCA is going to do the dessert. So, uh just so you're all prepared, come with your appetite. Don't eat before the meeting next week. >> I have
011one thing to add. I did hear from the students that they would love it if you came out and dressed up every month for lunch [laughter] >> theme. Well, I think >> you could use the help. >> Dr. Flannry, he could do theme months. I don't know. [laughter] Good. >> So, m had the same I had the same outfit every day and hers was awesome every day. But anyway, it was a good time. We had Grinch to sticks on Friday, right? I was calling them and of course the kids were arguing with me, but that's the fun part. Um, so just as an extension of our uh reorganization, we did publicly announce all the the committees, the co-chairs, the chairs for this upcoming year. We appreciate the board's willingness to serve. I don't think that
012everyone realizes that it's not just these board meetings. It's meetings that are happening outside of these board meetings that even Dr. Flannry and I don't attend that all of you are required to be a part of. So, it's appreciated the time that you give and I just wanted to make sure that that's public. The next thing for me is the budget update. So, I'll hand it over to Mrs. Barton. [clears throat] >> This is kind of our official start of the the budget process for 2627. Um later on the agenda, you will see that we are going to have a resolution for act one um that you'll need to approve. And basically you're approving that we are going to um opt out of the the intent the accelerated budget process and not raise taxes over
013the index which is 3.5% for the the upcoming budget. Um this slide just kind of a little gives you a little explanation about what act one is. Um uh it was passed in 2006 amended in 2011. um it establishes an index or a cap for districts that um that the um the independent fiscal office of the state um comes up with the index and they believe it's it's a good u a good percentage increase for schools to stay within the tax increase. Um if we would choose that we we would want to go above that index. It's an accelerate accelerated budget timeline, more complex process and you can require um you can uh seek exceptions to the act one index. We have never done that here at Mannheim Central. I don't believe that is necessary
014this year. A new new caveat to the taxpayer relief that was um instituted with the passing of the 2526 state budget. Um now we are getting the adequacy money um as part of the fair funding formula and our portion of that is 478,658 and if we would choose that we would want to go above the index and uh file for the exceptions you would have to forego your adequacy supplement and get give up that deny that money that funding um to to go above the exceptions. So we also that is not something we want to do here at manip. So just a new new part of the act for the future. The next slide I just wanted to give you an idea of how much money does that generate for us at if um the
015full 3.5% and at the current tax assessed value right now that would give us about 1.5 million or $413,000 for every 1% increase. Just to give you an idea of what what that means. And this was a slide I kept in here. I um this was something I'm sure you've all seen before um that Brian had shown, but I think it's a great slide and I kept it in here. Just kind of shows you the blue line is what the actual index has been since um the uh 20 2010 2011 year when it was shooted. Um the green line is our is our assessment value which you can see over the years it ha it has been decreasing which is not a good thing for us. Um and then the maroon line is where we
016have come in at with our tax increases. Two of those years you can see we did go 0%. Um several years we have gone under the index and some years we have have um tax increase at index but it just kind of gives you a good example of the history. And the last um slide I have for you is I just wanted to kind of give you an update. Normally at this meeting, our auditors are here and they give you a report on our our uh prior year. So 2425. They are very short-handed right now, so we haven't um haven't received our final audit number. So they I'm hoping they'll be at the January meeting, but um uh Amy and I did calculations on what we believe our uh 2425 numbers should be, and we
017believe we're very close. I don't think there'll be much changes once we do get the final audit report, but I wanted to give you an idea. Um, we did end up the year a little better than, um, was projected in the spring. Um, I broke this out here a little bit for you. As you can see, our total revenue, a little over 71 million. Our total total expense is 72.3 million. Now, if you just take out just the operating our um, we did have a surplus just on the operating portion of our budget, that was around $285,000. And additionally, this 1.5 million was transfers that you had all approved, I think back in January. We transferred some money to food service and we transferred money to our self- insurance fund. So that's the 1.5 million.
018So our overall deficit is 1.2 million, but we were we were planning on the the 1.5 million transfers. And then also in our fund balance down here, we did move $7 million from our committed fund balance for capital projects um to the general fund to pay for the which that was all in part of the planning process. But so we are we are ending the year with close to $20 million fund balance which was what we we projected in the spring. So, um, and then I just included this is just the budget column, this last column here on the budget that you had approved in June. And we are projecting, um, I didn't see it on my screen. Um, a $1.3 million deficit. Hopefully, we will come in better than that. Um, but we'll see
019as the year goes along. In the spring, I'll start doing projections and give you a more accurate idea of where we're going to end up for this current year. But just with the budget, we should end with a fund balance at the current year of $18.5 million. So, I just want to give you an update of where we we already are right now. Uh, I can answer any questions anybody has about the resolution. >> And we already honored Mr. Campbell. So, that concludes my report. >> Dr. superintendent assistant superintendent support. >> So the first thing we're going to talk a little bit about tonight is um calendar preview. I mentioned last meeting we were kind of going over a little bit about what we calendar. So at this point we've kind of reviewed it with
020u the association to get their feedback. We did it through a little bit of a lens of athletics and with some of our administrative team to kind of show you what we're looking at as a a calendar. This is not up for vote tonight. is just to give you, you know, a preview to get any feedback you have and our goal is to bring you the calendar to vote on in January >> for you. Any feedback on the switch of the half days? >> Uh, yes, we did get feedback on the switch of the half days. We sent out a survey to staff after the first half day to see kind of how they were feeling about it. Dr. Neoth sent that out. We didn't get a ton of um feedback anywhere. They were they
021were appreciative of the time. um from the community. I haven't received any negative feedback. Dr. Ax, have you? >> No. There was one elementary school that had some parents that said, you know, the morning daycare is a challenge, but not like not to the level that even got to our office. >> So, it definitely has helped us save some time in terms of um funding substitutes. For example, this year a lot of that time was given to this um new initiative. The state has given us this rule we have to apply to ADA standards for everything that's online. So all of all of the um content that's online has to be ADA accessible, which is a pretty big task. Um and so we've been able to give the teachers time to work on that instead
022of having to pay them for extra days. So there there's we've seen some benefit to it. >> I know students I've heard really like it because they get to sleep in. >> Well, the secondary students in particular. [clears throat] >> Yeah, secondary students definitely enjoyed it. Yes. I say my kids are still up at six o'clock. [laughter] >> I'll trade you. >> It'll be quick. Goes quick. >> Go quick. I'll kind of tell you uh what's new, what's different, and then give you a month by month look at it. Um so what's new? There really are no major changes this year. It looks very similar to what you um saw last year. We're working with that same general uh pattern for the next year. So then what's different? You may be saying, "Well, Labor Day
023is really late. It's as late as it can possibly be." And of course that's paired with Easter being as early as it could possibly be. So that just gives us some different challenges to work work through. So it kind of give you a month by month. The first decision we had to make is when we would recommend starting the school year. Um and with Labor Day being on uh September 7th, the date that we're showing you as a proposal is that first Tuesday there. Um my eyesight isn't that good to the side, but I believe it says that is the 25th of August. Um you may say why are we starting on a Tuesday and not a Monday there every little decision in the front end of this calendar impacts decisions later on. You may
024know we have a day contractually here that's a little bit unique to our district called the 9091 day. This is the day between the first semester and the second semester where teachers have a clerical day to get exams graded and that type of thing. by starting the the the year on a Tuesday there lance over to January which is on the top you'll see that the 9091 day which is on the 19th there that green day puts it right up to Martin Luther King holiday so it's nice for families that that would be an extended weekend versus if you start a day earlier the the day continues to move and we could get a gap between um so that's the recommendation for that Tuesday start um also gives the kids a little bit nicer of
025a slow start instead of having to go from summer stamina to 5 day a week stamina. Um, kind of cold turkey like that. Um, in September, there's really nothing to discuss there. The green and blue days you see represent the Labor Day weekend. And then the 24th would be the uh first of three two-hour late starts that we would be proposing. October, we did confirm that's farm show week. So again with the half day for the kids um for the parade and then Thursday and Friday Friday for them to enjoy farm show while we're having PD. November reflects uh Thanksgiving. December you have your second half day there or I should say late start on the 10th and then you see what we have there for winter break scheduled for the students. January. Um, nice
026clean kind of end there with the 1 of January being on that Friday. So, kids coming back from break on the 4th. [clears throat] We already talked about the 9091 day there falling on the 19th of January. February, looking at pairing um some time there for professional development up against President's weekend is a nice way to give kids that weekend but still allow teachers to, you know, be in work learning. Uh March reflects our spring break there, as I mentioned, when the holiday falls. The pink day, as you may remember, is one of our built-in snow days. So that's on the spring break Monday. Um if we would have snow days ahead of time and we needed to make up those hours for the students, that becomes a day of student for those students. Conversely,
027if it's a day that the students don't need the hours, but the teachers do, it becomes a teacher inservice day. uh April then we we don't really have a need to have a break in April because of the holiday falling in March, but it is a long stint then for kids in that spring to have that time. So, we built in sort of a another spring break there. Um one day there on the on April uh 23rd to just give a tiny bit of a break. We did that this year in March, but it's in April because of the flip-flop months of the holiday. Um, the other thing that you'll see there, I'm sorry, back to April is one the final of those two-hour late starts there in April. And then we're finishing off May
028with that Memorial Day weekend with a final day of school projected for June 3rd. Potential snow makeup days or PD days for teachers on the 4th and 7th. That does build us a 180day calendar. you know, the state doesn't require that many days anymore, but we like to build it in, get them in if possible, and then if we have decisions to make, we have extra hours we can look at if we, you know, have snow or other types of emergencies uh to be able to play around with. Um, so that's the that's a preliminary look at the calendar. If you had any um any feedback before I would take this uh to the to the January uh board meeting for approval. >> And we did review this with the association. >> Yep. And we
029looked at it with um with the govern through the athletic lens. Um HR looked at it from the teacher lens. I'm trying to think who else we looked at. So we tried to have kind of a large variety of feedback before bringing it to you as well. Okay. So I that'll be on the January agenda. Um the next thing I have on my report is program updates I believe is the next piece. Um so for program updates I just wanted to kind of give you a little report. You may know that we had the Atalo program for youth. It's a leadership development but mentor program for some of our youth. That program concluded um last week I think for the fall. They do not have a spring semester. So it kind of gives us a
030little bit of gap for our kids. So we found um a program that we're going to be bringing in. Redstone Lancaster um uh partnered with Touchdown Foundation um for a grant for a program that would be providing some mentorship to students. It'll just be like kind of a talo was volunteer. Kids don't have to participate, but it'll be a service they're available to them if it's something that, you know, they'd be recommended for in terms of leadership development and or just mentorship in general. Um, and it would be a free program through the grant. Um, that we don't even have to apply for it. MHA got the grant. So, it's kind of nice. They're just willing to donate their service. So, that's something we're looking forward to starting in the spring, seeing how that goes.
031And then the final the final part of my update is about Act 44. So, there's a bunch of um different laws that kind of have gone through in the last couple months with schools. And Act 44 is a change in how schools are required to notify um when there's a weapons violation. So, currently um as I'm sure many of you know, if there's a an incident involving a student bringing something to school, it could be as something as simple as a replica weapon like a water gun or something like that or could be more of a traditional what we can be considered a weapon. We have processes processes to deal with that with threat assessment and notification of that family and everything. Um, and for reasons that, you know, are obvious, it stopped there because
032we're trying to limit exposure of students personal information to larger audiences. Uh, but the state looked at it and said that if a weapon is brought to school, certain people have a right to know that. Um, and so if a weapon would be brought on school property, the new state policy is that we are required to notify anyone who was impacted. So, let's say that a student um had would have some type of weapon um maybe I don't know, they had a pocketk knife in their bag or something like that. Um, and they had it on the bus. Uh, and the bus had a bus route that involved private school students and our students um, from three buildings. It was a bus that happened to have elementary, middle school, and high school students on it.
033Let's just say it was an elementary student and it went to school. They didn't realize they had it in their bag and by the end of the day, um, we we find it for whatever reason. They tell us it was reported, etc., etc. Well, the way the law is is indicating it would say that we would have to notify everyone in the school, everyone that was on the bus and their families, but we're not allowed to really say anything or because it's still private information. So, just so you know, a weapon was found at school today. Can't tell you anything else. Have a nice day. And that doesn't feel great. So what we've been working around um as an internal team is we're waiting from some direction from PSBI on policy and things like that
034to say like okay we understand the intent of the law let's look at how this kind of falls out in policy and they're working on those pieces. Um in the in the meantime what we've decided is it does make sense to inform families if there's an incident that rises to a level of concern. Um, and so if we had an incident that would be something that would be involving a medium or high level threat assessment, something that would be more serious, we have some templates we're working on today that tell families, hey, the law is changing. Just so you know, this is what we would be doing it and following through to that. What we're waiting for direction is more of that first scenario I told you about where it's something that is, you know,
035at an age appropriate way that wasn't a direct threat, wasn't serious harm um through our threat assessment process. is that something that we need to notify um in that same fashion. And so that's what we'll be holding on until we have a little bit more of direction from the state. So our our plans on our next step is to just include a little bit of a statement for parents in the next set of newsletters that go out letting them know that the law is changing, that we're working through this process. As you know, we don't have many times where we have a weapon brought to school with a serious intent. So we don't think that this will be a huge change in practice, but we know if it did happen, it would be very scary
036to parents to read without any u prior knowledge. So we're going to do our best to kind of pave that way so parents are understanding the changing of the law. And we're waiting to see how PSBA policy changes in terms of defining truly what an incident is. Uh but that's going to be our approach that we're going to try moving forward. And we would of course notify the board if we were in a situation where we had that first report where we could follow those protocols just so that you'd be prepared to answer any questions. >> Any questions on that? I know that's a a big one. Have have we reached out maybe through other schools and see about talking to state reps and going back to let them know where this is and what
037>> Yeah. It's been talked about at the last three superintendence meetings because we've been asking for direction and everyone has policies that read a little differently. Yeah. >> So it makes it like what's an incident? who are the people that are directly impacted? Like there's a lot of language that everyone's interpreting differently. Um, and you know, even like the the transportation question is a good one because we transport private school children, but they don't have to report like that. Like if a private school kid, they don't they're not required to report the same way we're required. >> Right. Yeah. So, it it's it's been very tricky to navigate and everyone is interpreting it differently and the IU is trying to be the kind of the hub of like going through them to get the interpretation
038that we're kind of all waiting for and asking for, but we've already reached out as a superintendent group to say we need clarity on this, this, and this. Um, but in the meantime, we still have to follow the law, right? So, we want to make sure that we do that with due diligence, but also don't I guess our biggest concern is it's not it's not going to be difficult to do the math for families to figure out even though we're not allowed to say who it was. Um whether it was an innocent thing or not and that's where we're kind of challenged right now. >> Yeah. So, we're working through it. Um [clears throat] and like I said, we have some templates that are trying to inform. So, keep the word out there if people
039like you said call me directly. um you know, as I'm like in my role with safety and I can talk to them through what we're we're trying to just be honest with, you know, what we have to do and disclose things without raising an immense amount of alarm um to families who have been like maybe not knowing that this has happened at school before, um whether innocently or not. So, uh that's the final piece of my report for tonight. >> Thank you, Dr. Flannry. >> Treasurer's report. Dr. Craig. >> Yes. So, uh, Kelly, Dr. Axe, Michelle and I got together together later earlier today and we spoke about the, uh, financial documents. Um, I have reviewed all the documents that were there and they are all in order. Um, we did cover some of the
040the topics that were reviewed earlier by Kelly in regards to the budget outcome for 25. So the recommendation is to approve 9A, 9B, 9 C. So if there are no questions uh from the board, I would ask for a motion. Second, >> I'll I'll make a motion for A, B, and C. >> Second. >> We have a motion. Second. All in favor say I. I. Vote. S's we'll move on to the board committee reports. Mr. Linder with business ops. Uh nothing to report at this time except our next meeting will be January 12th in the district office at 5:30. >> Miss Walker academic. >> Our next meeting will be on January 12th at 4:00 at the district. >> Mr. Sens activities committee. >> Our meeting will be the same day at 4:45. Sounds like a
041busy day. Sounds good. Now we'll move on to the uh general action items and I would like to take A through D. >> I'll make a motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Passes. Uh, I'm going to take E and F. I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> I have a motion and a second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed. >> Motion passes. I'll take G through I. >> I'll make a motion. >> I have a a motion, a second. All in favor say I. >> Opposed. Passes. Um, I'm gonna let we just stop it. I'll go >> J through L. >> All in favor say I. >> I. >> Passes. We'll take M separately and move the change. >> Yes. So, I
042I caught an error there and it's um it's actually an error that goes back on the policy that I intended to have up for review was 209.3. This is a and I think to the um policy committee, this was our do not resuscitate policy. Um the policy 209.1 is a different policy that we're not reviewing currently. So I just wanted to be transparent and say I just noticed there I apologize. It does go back to the first reading for the last month. So I would um I don't think we're necessarily it because it's incorrect. So I think we're just striking it. >> Uh we can actually correct it now with the new model with sunshine and >> but it technically the first read under the policy. >> I think the best thing would be to
043scratch it, add it to the next. >> So, well, I don't I don't know enough of the rules of order to say are we voting. >> No, you don't vote and then we just end up voting at the end of the board meeting to close the board meeting because we didn't actually meet every agenda item >> and the president can table it and we'll note it for next time. >> Okay, that's great. So, I apologize for that. I noticed the 209 and it looked right before the point and I had the point wrong. So I apologize for that. So we'll start over with that with the first read uh next time. >> So could I get a motion to table? >> All right. All in favor say I. >> I take n by itself. >>
044Make a person a second. All in favor say I. >> I opposed. [clears throat] Passes. Uh board representative reports. Miss Beichi is not here. So we'll move on to Mr. Marinara who's really probably doesn't have anything. >> Just our next meeting is January 22nd. I will be serving on the personnel committee going forward. So I've been in touch with them. >> Great. >> And they did name a new executive director. >> Yes, they did. >> So they we after over a year of searching, there's finally a new executive director, which is a positive. the person they hired I think is gonna >> BSBA Miss Gingrich >> just a few things have happened uh as far as up on in Harrisburg voted out of the house has been a Keystone Fresh Act. That's legislation that would
045incentivize school food authorities to increase the the quantity and the variety of local products that are sold and served in schools. uh that's going to the Senate for them to consider. Now, there's also something called the Imagination Library Program. This would partner Pennsylvania along with the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. They're hoping that that partnership would help inspire the love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five within the Commonwealth. resolutions that have been adopted by the house. Um, one was recognized in 50 years of IDEA. So that's the individuals with disability education act. So that was a resolution that they passed. And also another resolution was um education for students experiencing homelessness. It recognizes the week of November 17th to the 21st as the Pennsylvania Education for Students
046Experiencing Homelessness Awareness Week. Voted out of the House Intergovernmental Affairs Committee is a right to know protections for those with disabilities. That's House Bill 802. Um, this legislation would amend the right to know law to create a specific exemption to cover those who require disability accommodations by exempting documents prepared by a public official using tools such as braille to accommodate the officials disability. So, that was a mouthful. Um, and they are still uh looking at somehow restricting the use of cell phones for students within the schools. So that would we'll see how far that goes. So but that that could be very beneficial if the state decides to actually act on that. That's the extent of my report. >> Thank you. Um Lancaster County Academy Mike's not here. Um do you have anything? >> Yeah,
047they I mean we we had our board reorganization. Mike will be on as vice president. There's a new president who is actually Sileno school board's president. Brian Muser is also going to be the LCA president. So, we did reorganization. Again, we continue to add different schools and our seats are over 60% full, which is really high even this time of year. We'll probably have three January graduates. Uh so, all of that's going in the right direction. Um we just appreciate everyone's support on that. Yeah, Miss Walker is joining the >> Yeah, and Mrs. Walker is the the uh the backup for the Langster County Academy. So, thank you. >> So,formational items. The next regular regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on January 26, 2026 at 6:00 pm here at the district office. Uh board
048comments, anything, Mr. Leer? >> Merry Christmas everyone. Richard. >> Yeah, I attended one of the performances and it was fantastic. Was really pleased with the orchestra, the band, and had a great time. So, just wanted to pass that out to everybody. Saw Dr. Axe there. >> Middle school did fantastic also. >> Yeah, those middle schools was great. >> Yep. Mr. Marin, >> thank you everybody for welcoming me. I met with Dr. Axe, Dr. finer. This is Martin the admin team happy to give you over and I just want to say what Dr. Ax said. I just want to thank you guys quickly stepping up to serve on these committees. Um there it's a whole bunch more work that people need to understand. Not only are they all doing this and and doing their regular job,
049they're also going all these committees and spending a lot of time. So, I appreciate that. >> Is that it? Meeting adjourned. >> Yeah. >> Motion because we didn't complete every agenda item. >> I have a motion to >> I'll make a motion to all in favor. >> Merry Christmas everybody.