001to call tonight school board dire of directors in session. Hope everybody is have a good air conditioner at home or we can stay here tonight. All right, I'd like to u you please rise and pledge the flag and a moment of silence, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Mr. Howlet, for the last time, roll call, please. Absolutely. Mrs. Beichy here. Mrs. Gri here. Mrs. Walker here. Mr. Bushy here. Dr. Craig here. Mr. Ghart here. Mr. Linder here. Mr. Sensen here. And Mr. Claire here. Nine members present. Thank you. Right. We uh again would like to announce that we did have a uh an executive session before this
002meeting tonight and it was to discuss personnel matters. Uh June 23rd, 2025 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually. Um, I need a approval or a motion to approve the agenda for the night. So moved. All in favor? I I now need a approval of the minutes 19th. I'll make a motion. Motion. Second. No. Okay. All in favor? I I am now turning it over to Dr. Axe who gets to do all the good stuff. Yep. This is a fun night. We have a lot of ex of success to recognize. All right, guys. Come on in. the boys. You'll be in the in the middle in the horseshoe. Not only are these state champions, they're ranked 15th in the nation by USA magazine or whatever. So, we just
003wanted to publicly honor these kids and the coaching staff for an amazing season. Um, those of you who didn't get to see them play, it's such a fun group to watch. Uh, all over the floor, it felt like there was no ball that was ever going to hit the floor because of how quick they are and how aggressive they are. And I told him on the bus before they went, um, the most fun is when they're just playing fun and free and loose and you can tell these kids really care about each other, and that's what makes a great team. I do have to say I my family's upset because I said I have to schedule my family vacation now around volleyball. You guys being in states all the time. I'm at the beach getting
004these updates and it was killing me. But I love that we what you guys stand for and uh just as a token of our appreciation from the district and the board uh we got each of the kids and coaches uh a flask with the so that they have something like from us forever. I know, look at a lot of accolades, medals, all those sorts of things, but we want to recognize greatness and and these kids definitely capture that. I know you're going to the capitol tomorrow, so enjoy that trip as well. Um, so let's give them a hand and we'll talk. So parents, if you want to get a picture and then if the board, you want to stand like on the sides of them, get a picture here. Steve So parents, feel free to
005come in right here. Couple pictures. Not that we're bossing you around. I am getting a good one. We're gonna Mr. Govern has your your water bottles on the way out. Coaches, you get one as well. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Everybody, thank you. Yes. Good to see you, too. All right. Now, on to more celebration. We have our recognition for end of school year recognition. So, this year, our elementary facilitator of the year is Eric Snavely. Where's Eric? Eric. uh when you go in his classroom, there's always activity. There's always kids engaged. He takes it a step further with with his uh interest in what would you call it? Like environment envir environmental life like fish. Yeah. The trout, eels, all that sort of thing. So, it's an extra way of
006engagement that that Eric takes that extra mile. So, we appreciate him and and congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate it. The middle school facilitator could not be here tonight. Jess Trimble, give her a hand. The high school facilitator of the year, Tyler Shaw. So, I would say for Tyler, congratulations. Uh, not only is his classroom very engaging as far as what he does, I know at the end of the year you did that rock and roll rock and roll project. Uh, also all the things he's involved in theat in in theater. Uh, the kids love it and the performances this year were phenomenal. So, another very fitting tribute. Congratulations, sir. Our support staff of of the year is Tina Snider. The cool thing about Tina is she's everywhere. Um, and she's always smiling. So, you can tell
007that that means she enjoys her job. And we appreciate and I know the staff really appreciate all she does for the kids. Let's give her a hand. And now I'm told that we have someone here to say a few words about our Champion of Children award recognition. This is from Pleasant View and this is Aubrey Smith and Ron Lou. So Ron and Aubrey, come on up. Let's give them a hand. Good evening. My name is Teresa Brisco. I work in the life skills class um over at Mannheim Central School District. And we just had a couple words we wanted to say about our honores tonight. Each school year, the Mannheim Central School District honors an individual who has gone above and beyond normal call of duty to positively influence a child's academic or social development
008or who has demonstrated commitment to the well-being of the students in our district. This year, we are proud to recognize not just one individual, but a dynamic community partnership. Aubrey Smith, director of volunteers at Pleasant View Retirement Community, and Ronald Lash, Pleasant View resident, as recipients of the Champion of Children. Aubrey has partnered closely with Mannheim Central High School life skills class, dedicating her time, energy, and creativity to developing meaningful and enriching learning experiences for the students at Pleasant View. She has fostered a safe, welcoming environment where life skills students have flourished, growing in both job training and social skills. Through her efforts, students have had the opportunity to build lasting connections and contribute to their community to their community in meaningful ways. Importantly, Aubrey has laid the foundation for opportunities that will extend well
009beyond high school and helping the students to bridge into adult life with confidence and purpose. And for Mr. Louch, as a resident of Pleasant View, Mr. Louch has been a tireless advocate, enthusiastic supporter of Mannheim Central students. He initiated First Friday ice cream days to recognize and celebrate the contributions of the life skills Pleasant View work crew. He has rallied fellow residents to engage with students, deepening the bond between Pleasant View and the school community. Mr. Louch has also organized an endofear recognition ceremony that brought together the Pleasant View staff, residents, life skills, families, and district administrators to celebrate our students accomplishments. In addition, he extends his support to the youngest learners in our community by serving as a reading partner at Dun Elementary, spreading the joy of reading and connection. Together, Aubrey Smith and
010Ronald Lou exemplify truly what it means to be champions for children. Their dedication, compassion, and collaborative spirit have made a profound impact on our students lives. Working alongside these exceptional individuals has enriched our learning experience for so many in our district and their contributions make us all proud to be manhung. Well, I just gonna thank u Mr. Hollinger from Pleasant View as well. The partnership at Pleasant View has been incredible and this is a perfect example. I got to be at that ceremony that Ron set up at the end of the year and the kids were just over the moon about being recognized and you gave them ice cream, right? Ice cream prizes which we could use this evening. Yeah, it's just an exceptional program up there and and we're really excited about where this
011can go from here. So, thank you both. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. I have I think we have one guy up there. He's older than I am, but we were went to school together, didn't we, and I'm Central Grads 1965. You pay yet. So, Mr. Claire, I think they would be excused as well. Yes, absolutely. Unless you want to stay. Thanks everybody. Good evening. Dr. Ash, how are you? Very well, thank you sir. You need me to help him with anything tonight? Oh, I did miss sorry I missed the secondary support staff of the year, Sean Odell. He's not here either, so I missed him. I apologize. He's exceptional as well. Right, John? [Music] have a serum going into personnel. He said nobody to speak, right? deal. Uh I think on the personnel go through
012if I have a motion second. All in favor? post and I think we take seven E F through F second. Okay. [Music] We have a number. So as soon as we approve this, we're going to introduce teachers that are here. Yep. All in favor? I post. All right. Do you want to go ahead with the So, let's uh How about all the staff that are here, please stand? Our new staff and we'll just go from my left across. Introduce yourselves where what you're going to be teaching and where you'll be teaching. I'm Mad Merl Thomas. I'm going to be new school counselor at the middle school. Hi, I'm Amy Felman. I'm going to be fifth and sixth grade learning support at the middle school. Hi, I'm Emily Herder. I'm gonna be a second grade teacher
013at Do Run. My name is Lucy Coller and I'll be a third grade teacher also at Do Run. Hi, I'm Kayla Brooks. I'm going to be teaching kindergarten at Do Run. Welcome. Excited to have everyone here on the team. Uh I got to meet all these people personally and I'm excited to have them at it for our kids. So, welcome to the team and and manhigh. And by the way, he always has candy in the office. They saw that when we met him. And they could be dismissed, Mr. And you may be dismissed if you would like. Thank you. Thank you. Looking forward to seeing you next year. And I think we could go 7 G through M. Make a motion. Second. Second. Do we have uh any questions? All in favor? I opposed. Thank
014you. Superintendence report. I'd like a we superintendent Dr. X. Yeah. Thank you. Uh just end of the year review graduation was exceptional. So I want to thank uh Dr. Whites on his team for that. Uh those of you who got to attend it was it was just really well done this year. We had state champions in volleyball, state champions in Agg. So just a great way to end the school year this year. uh all the celebrations at the end of the year was just a lot of fun. Um I do want to I did let the board know this. I just want to let everyone publicly know that Rod Bren is moving on to uh Chambersburg High School as their principal. Uh the bittersweet part about that is we're going to miss him severally badly,
015but he's now going to impact kids positively somewhere else. And when you work with good people, sometimes this happens. He's going to be closer to family. So, we're happy for him. But uh we'll definitely miss him. Uh but he was okay with me saying that publicly and and I wanted to thank him publicly as well. Also, Brian Howlet, this is his last meeting. U I talked to Brian earlier this past month and I said, you know, you're leaving the district better than when you got here. And that's the goal. That's why we're all here. We do that for kids. We do that for the community. And Brian has exemplified that. So, uh, all your efforts are greatly and I've really enjoyed getting to know you over the past three and a half years. So, thank
016you, Brian. Appreciate it. Just a reminder, there is no board meeting in July unless deemed necessary. If it is deemed necessary, we'll make that announcement. Uh, and we are going to have individual meetings with I'll be meeting with each board member individually in preparation for the upcoming school year. So, if you haven't got any of those dates, shoot me some dates that work for you. Either email, text, however you want to do that. Um, all right. That's the end of the year report. Yeah. Next. So, I just wanted to publicly let everyone know that we're going to go to um the print instead of a printed newsletter and calendar next year. We're going to go digital with that. We are going to have some copies here in the office at the burrow office at Pleasant
017View and maybe some other locations around town for people who want the copies or people are going to be able to reach out to MissGisinger for copies. Um, but we'll be saving almost 25,000 just by going digital. Uh I talked to the Mannheim Chamber of Commerce and they have some family me like families in the district and they said at the elementary level everyone's used to that already. Um we think that we want to try it this year and see how it goes and then move forward from there. We're talking about a possible subscription model where people could register to get of the color copy sent to them that they could print or we would print it and mail it to them. But the glossy print that we do a lot is just super expensive
018now. And with things going digital, we just think it's it I just wanted to say it publicly though so it's not surprising to anybody uh to open the school year when people say, "Why didn't I get my calendar? Why didn't I get my newsletter?" So that's the plan uh moving forward. Any questions on that? And just print it out if they want. Yeah, they'll be able to print it out or if they don't have that capacity, we could print it for them. if they reach out, we'll get it to and we'll do something we'll do some kind of mailer like a just a slip of paper to the entire community letting them know that that's how this can be found because that otherwise they wouldn't know. They would just know they didn't get it. I
019think would you send it out to the whole community or just uh students? Anyone on the mailing that gets the newsletter or the calendar? Okay. Yeah. Everybody they look they look for that calendar. Yeah. I mean, it's it's time to to go this direction. So, okay. Last is uh the final budget report for the school year. Mr. Howland, last time we're have to listen to me do this. I noticed you clap before I presented. No. Uh and just I'm just going to go through same slides as we did May. Just updating some numbers. it did tweak up a little bit um from from the May numbers just as we got some more information. And so in looking at our annual forecast and again um I'll qualify this by saying we have expenditures and revenues that
020flow up until what October sometimes uh that are attributable to this year. So obviously this is it's not a wild guess, but it is our best qualified guess uh at what those revenues and expenditures are going to be. Labor, we feel pretty good about it because we just paid our last payroll of the year and the only thing left there are the remainder of the contract for uh the professional staff. So we feel good about the labor numbers. Uh so it looks like we're right around zero. $135 uh,150 up is the exact number it says there. But again, I think that could move a h 100,000 or more uh better or maybe slightly less, but I think we're going to be in or above zero uh for that number. looking at looking at the fund
021balance uh analysis. If you if you look at 2425 with the updated number in there, one of the things I just want to point out is we did use uh a large chunk of our fund balance to pay for the athletic project. Uh we didn't issue new debt for that. So, we used leftover we used leftover money from uh um the high school project as well as um uh cash reserves to pay for that project. So, I wanted to point that out. That's the reduction down here uh in the uh forecasted uh um fund balance section. Looking at the uh the budget summary, here's the actual 2223 uh through the projected 2425 and then in 2526 at the 2.75% proposed final number uh we're looking at uh a little over $1.1 million uh budgeted deficit
022and again that's a budgeted number. So uh obviously we budgeted a larger deficit last year and we came out a little bit better. That's what we hope for. Uh but at this point we have a budget deficit of 1.127 with revenues of 73 million55,000 and then expenditures of 74,182 uh,000. This is a look from 0 to 2.75 and and where that would uh put the surplus deficit. And uh so obviously if we raise less revenue at a 0% that would significantly increase our our budgeted deficit. Uh and again every percent uh pans out to a little over $400,000. So you're talking about the the drop from 2.75 to 2.5. You'll notice it's a it's a little over $100,000 there to make that change. So that's what we're dealing with. So if we were to go
023275 to 175, you'd be talking about 45,000 higher than that. I do want to point out again uh the homestead farmstead because it's it's it's not a small thing. Uh that amount is higher than it was last year and that has a kind of a reducing effect on the percentage increase. And I just kind of cranked through the numbers. Uh there's medians that they talk about, but I think a more appropriate look is the average assessed homestead value of 215,000. And if you look at that number at 2.75%, uh the net tax bill increase is about 2.1%. Uh just because of the homestead offsetting. Ron, I got a question for you on the homestead. Yes, sir. Is it us or is it the county that's monitoring who's getting approved for the Homestead Act? Uh that's
024done on a county level. We we uh we send that out through the IU13 does that. We send out the notices, they apply, the county would approve them. Okay. The reason I was asking from the county because of additional properties that are going up for rentals for the Okay. the district and my guess is there probably a lot of them are still on the Homestead Act that probably shouldn't be potentially but again that's not something we that's something we get from the county. I I think that might be a good point um but uh not not something we have over. Thank you. But a good point nonetheless. Then I wanted to point out this just because I I do think it's notable. So if you look there in 1516 when we started building construction, there
025were 10 years since that time where we built this district office we're sitting in right now. We built uh Doun Elementary and we built Baron Elementary and then we remodeled and did a major addition to the high school as well as an athletic project. five times out of 10. So 50% of the time we taxed under index during that 10year span and twice we went to 0% during that time when we were doing all that construction and building. So I think that's that's notable for uh this board, prior boards, administrations that have been able to provide those types of facilities um to our students and still be uh very responsible to our taxpayers. So, just wanted to point that out because I think that's a good story. Um, point out because a lot of times
026you see people exceeding act one to afford projects and you hear districts that are going to have to, you know, tax at three and a half 4% to afford that. We were able to pull that off during that time only five times going to full index and never exceeding. So, that's it. Question probably my shortest one ever. Um, any questions? the the increase. Just to point out the increase, we we looked at uh substitute uh teaching those numbers uh exceeded budget for the current year and so we did uh we did upgrade that. uh commercial insurance quotes came in and that that bumped up the budget a little bit and then all the comingings and goings of of labor adjustments got put in and then just a few small tweaks um mostly in the benefit
027side led to that increase from May 19 we showed. Any other questions? On your last graph where you have the the assessment uh line that turned yellow because it's still projected. Yeah. Um, where did you come up with that 2%? Uh, I'm assuming that's an educated guess, but I'm just wondering. No, no, I didn't I didn't grab it out of the air, but it's it is an educated guess. And that's just that that chart's only showing the increase percentage wise year-over-year. Um, I really the one thing with a lot of the properties that have gone up in our area, they're commercial rentals and and residential rentals, they're assessed based on profitable profitability potential. And so not not uh like market value like like it well it's market value but it's an income based market recurring
028revenue. Yeah. It's recurring revenue basis. And so how much rental they can get out of the units. Um so really what I did was I I pulled similar units and then tried to kind of take an educated analysis of where that might end up. And then of course we're going to get the one big spike and then it's going to level out year over year. So that is not a fully scientific number there. It's just kind of trying to point out that that's that there is going to be a spike. Um you know I think it could be oh I think we we think what 800 to a million dollars of uh net tax revenue uh based on the assessed value is what we think could come our way. Um I do also expect I
029was telling Mr. clear before the meeting uh that we could essentially have a flow of cash next year because obviously these places are are being, you know, lived occupied right now and lived in. And so from the time that occupancy permit goes out, we should be due taxes on that. So we could potentially get a one-time flow of revenue next year for at least a portion of this. So I do want to put that out there as well. We have one or two buildings still going up out at uh the shade room, not triangle out there. Taco Bear. There's one big huge warehouse. Oh, that's the core the core five buildings. Yeah, all those buildings are in our school district. Yeah, those buildings are in our school district. There's something being planned out near Fairland
030uh elementary in that area there. We've got the the two large uh well, we've got the one on Oak Street and then we've got the one kind of behind Twin Kiss there and behind Cattyshack in that area. Um and then uh the one down south of McDonald's. Uh they're still talking about the one in Ratho Township uh still stuck in development, but there there is some good development there, which I think could could help provide a little bit of a lifeline as well. There are a lot of commercial property going on across from sheets too. Um I have another question. When real estate is sold, you know, I sell my house for what percent do we get? So there's a 1% transfer tax that's that's assessed on on the sale. Uh half of that comes
031to the school district and half of that I think either goes to the county or or the municipality because we had sales of about $8 million last week. One big one of $4.5 million property. Yeah. That's that that's that's assessed to 1%. So we get a little Yeah. And what transfer taxes are, you know, anywhere from I mean it it's dependent on the real estate market obviously, but we could get, you know, 800,000 750 to 800,000 out of transfer taxes. Any other questions for Mr. Howard? Okay, we'll go and then um treasures superintendent report, you're done. Yep. My that concludes my report, Mr. Claire. Thank you. Sorry. Treasures report. Dr. Ken. Thank you, Mr. Claire. And just want to echo what Dr. Axe said about Brian. He's it's been a pleasure to work with him,
032talk with him. I learned a lot from you. So, uh, thank you so much. Best of luck. Appreciate it. And I think you you definitely left us in a good spot. So, thank you. Um, there's four sections uh to approve tonight. And I did not speak with Brian or Dr. Axe about these sections or these reports, but I did go through them. They all appear to be in order. My recommendation would be to approve, but I wanted to open it up if there were any questions that we could try to with documents. Is this pretty much the end of the construction? Yeah, this is these are some of the final payments. The only thing I will say on that I knew these the are we almost done with the knockout list or they the punch
033list is still going. Okay. Yep. They're uh they're we're not meeting anymore about it, but they're keeping Alexis updated and she's letting us know if there's things that still need to be fixed. Are we withholding any funds yet? Still there's no retainage at this point. So, all the retaining has been released. Uh the the items the items that they're working through, uh we expect them to take care of. It'll just be on Alexis, too. Yeah. It's it's chase them down if need be. Yeah. I mean, on on any project once the payments are made, I mean, you want to get on it as quickly as possible if there's anything that you see develop over and a lot of times you don't start to see some of the issues, you know, for a couple months after.
034Yeah. you know, you get that and then we want to get on that really quickly so that um they come out and take care of it under warranty. Yep. How long is the warranty? Uh it varies on different systems, but uh there's there's a warranty on most systems that that they would have to come in. Yeah. So, it could it could vary based on whether it's the HVAC system or some of the electrical or Okay. types of items. Sounds good. So, make a motion to approve the four A through A through D. A through D. Yes. I'll second. Okay. Any questions? If not, all in favor? I I posted. Very good. Board committee reports. This should Mr. Linder. We have uh business ops. We have not had a meeting and our next meeting is to
035be determined. Not sure of a date, but I know it'll be time. Okay. Academic Mrs. Wal. Right. We have not had a meeting and our next meeting is to be determined. Okay. Thank you. Activities committee. Mr. Sens report is the same as theirs. Okay. All right. Now we get down to the general action item and uh the one the first thing we're going to come up with is uh a approval to adopt the final budget of the Manam Central School District for the 2526 fiscal year in the amount of to include millage rate of increase of include an increase what we're going to raise. Yeah, we right now um our fiscal adoption for next year is $74,18197181972. Yeah, 74,181972. And that's to include a millage rate of increase of All right. Now, 275. That's what
036we said from the last board meeting. Yeah. 275. Where was the last index? If you wanted to go any lower. Yeah. I I I'm still where I was at last month. And I'd still like it to be 2.5. And I was the one that had said 275. And I think I'd be in agreement with Steve. I'm going to throw out a different number. I'd like to be two and a quarter. I All right. Anybody else before we make a motion? I was thinking 25 also. 25. All right. Do we have a we have a motion or a motion for any opinions? Yeah. Might as well throw them out there now. No, I mean I I looking at the information tonight and with the optimistic attitude of having some possible income soon, I would feel comfortable
037at 2 and a quarter. Um, looking at the what is proposed, there's not a significant difference between 2.75 and 2.25. And just knowing that 2.25 25 would help the community more. I would support that. I'm on board with 2.25 for it's it's not significant enough for us, but I think it would help families out and help the community out. And that's kind of what I'm thinking. I'll make a motion for 2.25. Second. I just like to make a comment. We have the work cut out for us. We got to We don't want to be deficits. Yeah, you know, I would agree. We 2.5 2.25. I think we're we're fine there. You ask a whole What does that do? Go to like, hey, I'm out of here. Now, I mean, it's it's still it's still a
038deficit, right? I mean, a deficit is a deficit. It's it's about $200,000 worse than the number I showed you. Yeah. So, instead of 1.126, it would be 1.36 or 1.33, but I I think we're going to get a million dollars in real estate. I'm optimistic. And I also think that, you know, when Dr. Axe and who were you with us when we went to the capital? Yeah. And Mr. Bushy, when we went to the capital, like it's important to note that we're still the what the bottom four with our tax increases. So, if we can limit the financial hardship on our families but still being fiscally responsible, I think we should do it. Great. Great. And we can maybe get some relief from online learning. Well, it's going to be a lot of things that
039are going to have to uh be worked out for him because um he almost I I trust the board. So, we'll do whatever we have to do. Okay. It's going to be it'll be a fun year. But um uh all in favor of 2.25. I opposed. I Anybody else opposed? Nobody else? 8 to one. Okay. Um then we go to 2 2.25. That's a half a percent less than what we So that'll be nice for the for the people and we need to maybe we could get that on the front page of the record. We went down a half a percent. All right, everybody okay on that? We'll go on to It's the millage rate. Okay. Then we have this one annual tax levy. Yeah. Okay. So the uh the tax levy on that is
040179429 and that is the annual tax levy and that would be the next thing that we need to approve that B is still okay. All right. So the millage rate in B is is uh 174 29%. And you need a motion to approval. I'll make a motion. Second. Any questions? All in favor? Opposed? I you Michelle. So that's 7 to two. Was there two opposes? Yes, Michelle and I. The third one we have to take separately is the approval of the 2025 Homestead and Farmstead illusions resolution. I'll make a motion. Second. Are there any questions? Okay. All in favor? I I post move. Okay, now I think we can go 11 E through I through I make a motion, but I have a question also. Yeah. Um Brian or Ryan. So the three for the
041brackets at the three of them is that still being covered through the state. Yes. See Amy shaking her head back there. Okay, while we're talking before it um you know take a note there is no price increase on lunches anywhere which is another positive step for our our family. It's not much but it helps. Can I just add something here while we're talking price? I I just wanted to point out um that uh our food service director Sarah has done a wonderful job this year. We we are looking I think we're still on target to potentially break even in our food service operation this year. And if you recall this time last year, I was here complaining about our losses and going back on the program and everything. And so that's that's a that's a
042nice budget item to go back in there and not have to worry about. I can't promise that for next year, but I think she should be commended for that effort. It was it was really impactful. More kids than ever by this year. Not not only that though, Brian, but the other things that she's added value into the community with she brought in with the the food donation that came out and then all also last summer with the feeding program. This summer. Yeah. But it was last summer when she started the feeding program. So, she's doing a great job. Yeah. they had. So, um, we'll go back now. Uh, a motion for 11D through I. Yep. We just need a second. A second. Second. Pip. Any. Any questions? All in favor? I posted. And now I
043think we take J through B. So moved. Second. Okay. Any question? All in favor? I oppose. And then would like I think we can take W through DG. Second. Uh any question on it? I have a comment if we move it. All in favor? I opposed move. Look at uh look at CC Dr. Whitel. He went ahead and he has a fiveyear contract for the problem at the same price. So and same location at the same location. So, you know, it's uh that's he doesn't have to go out every year looking for uh it is. And we go to GG. Um last year we went to what? Double double F. So, we're not that bad. Anybody? Uh let's go back. And that I think we have uh any board comments. Oh, that's right. I board
044our L and IU13. This is our next meeting is this Wednesday, so I don't have anything to report now. Okay. TT Mr. Ghart. Yeah, I had the I went to the graduation, the Mount Joy graduation was over at the LCBC. It was great. It was a great turnout. They had uh Oh, what was it? Around 21,00 people there. Filled that place up. Amy Amy was there. And uh uh it was just a great It's great to see all these, you know, me, I like these working kids. I love and uh we had uh 13 students there and they're working at different places. I just had a couple just wanted to reach some of the places that are working. Hower, you know, when they already got jobs, these guys got placements already. You know, Hower, Homies
045Car Wash, Guardian Electrical, Solder Eggs, Hailor, Strasburg Railroad, Garden Spot Electric, Hoop Service, MVE Group, which I don't know what that is, Kilgore, know them electric, ECI service, Holdman, just know that's just where ours are going right now. A lot of electrical, MB's electrical place, Middle Valley Electric. And uh probably the one thing we had here, I'm not going to tell you what they brought. I could tell you what the whole school, all the CTC's put together and all the 16 different uh districts brought in. They brought in for the first time students earned a million dollars for themselves. They broke a record. Unbelievable. Uh and I asked him, I said, "How how did you know we're talking 11th grade also? How did 11th grade work when I said, "What about the child?" you know,
046the child act, you know, you have to be 18 and all that. And uh they have a they have what they call CTC training plan agreement. If you're in 11th grade, you sign this thing, they kids have to do a safety thing and then they're allowed to go ahead and work and make money in 11th grade going into, you know, through the summer before they go into 12th. It's a great it's a great plan. So they're half days and they do good. So they get around those laws. Um, so it was just it was really remarkable. And then then they have one thing that you know being on the board that I am down at the Joocc all the CTC's they do have one problem which is going to be a big one if I
047don't get impeached. Uh it'll be we have uh uh we have enrollment of uh 1,75. I'm talking all the districts, 175. But the bad thing is we have 944, you know, on the weight list. To me, that's too many. That's way too many. That, you know, here's how I looked at it. I said, you know, I wonder if our school right here, let's say we have 300 kids and you send them down the cafeteria and we say, well, 500 of them. Well, you can't eat. We don't have enough food. You know, so what are you going to do? You got to do it. The these kids have their uh these kids want to work. And if you miss that year, you know, if you missed a year where you're I mean, some of them try
048to substitute in other other things. But they miss that change to work. They're missing a lot. So my I guess my mission for the next six months, and I'll be with Ryan on this one a lot. I'm going to push this one hard down there, is to try and if anybody has any ideas, you guys are smart. It's uh there got to be different ways to get to get more kids in there. I know I was I pushed one guy for the director down there and why I like the guy because he had ideas ideas about doing theory work like some of the book work he do do it online you just run two she like an AM and a PM and have whole new staff come in for a PM and see that's a
049your capacity overnight. Yeah, that's a that's the kind of stuff they'll have to do. But uh anyway, or you're going to do the theory part online, leave the leave the room, the lab open, you know, for them to do it. So that that's way too many, you know, you see where I'm at right there. That's going to be on my crawl. So in my crawl, but uh so that's for the next six months, I'm going to be pushing that hard. So Ryan, you might get some static back. I agree. Yeah. I mean, that's just too many about it at superintendence, too. Yeah. I mean, that's almost a thousand to get a new director and some fresh ideas. Yeah, I think the guy there has a lot of ideas. That's why I'd like But we're gonna
050I think I'm going to try to get together a committee down there and get it that's let's get it down and you know they everybody talks about but nobody does anything. So now we got to make some action get it done. So I'll be reporting back on. So I'm excited for the next, you know, for the next school year going and raising Kane down Midnight Run or whatever you call hammer. Very good. But thank you. Enjoyed it. I had a great year with them. The kids are doing great. So great. Looking forward to the getting them going again. Okay. PSBA legislated report. Mrs. Rick, we have talked a lot about the budget uh Pennsylvania and also here, but uh one of the things that we talked about when we went up to meet with uh
051the fee was cyber charter uh reform and house bill 1500 has passed the house and it it directly speaks to reforming cyber charter school funding and policies and establishing a flat tuition rate and enhancing accountability measures for cyber charters. Um like I said, it's passed the House and right now it's sitting with the Senate Education Committee. So, they're considering it. So, um we can get a hold of our senators and uh well, if especially if they sit on the the education committee, um try to get that out of committee and and to a vote and hopefully passed also because that would be huge. Um, as of today, Pennsylvania is getting pretty close to our budget deadline, but it seems shockingly that um they're at a stalemate. So, you know, we'll just wait and see what
052they decided to do. I understand I heard that maybe wasn't aware of some of this stuff that what somebody the little things that are causing the school uh that she's going to be a champion to correct some of the little things that are making more money for us. Yeah, I think we've I think it's good. we've opened lines of communication and I think it has helped us understand some things and her to understand some things. So it was it was a really good meeting and things have sort of um it yeah communication is definitely better. That's that's no ma'am. Yes. Yep. So that is a very positive very positive my if we can get Mr. on the same little he's not there anymore. So yeah, he's not there anymore. That's why he's more Yeah. Okay.
053Um I'm sorry. Do you have is that under your board? Is that in your report? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Lancaster County Academy. Um, Lancaster East Campus, which is a Park City, uh, is with the lawyers now, um, to make sure their contracts all set up. L Peter Strasburg and Mannheim Central donating all the furniture. Uh, it's used furniture that are in both schools. It's in in for the garbage anyway. So, there's a big um big help in the academy that you don't have to buy desks and all that. It's LS and Mannheim. Great news. Um and now I have my report upcoming school board information. uh schedule board meeting for July of course will be only as needed and there'll be regular scheduled board meeting on August 25th, 2025 at 6 p.m. here at
054the district office. Board comments and thank you for all you've done so enjoy the drive. draw the Tesla. We uh we had we had some good years together. Bitter years. Some of our early years when he was on school board and I just got on, we had some uh but we all got to the right spot, didn't it? Absolutely. He was real well down there. Any other comments? Meeting adjourned. Thanks everybody.