001Good. Okay. All right. Thank you. Right. I would like to call tonight's school board of directors to order. To stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Roll call, please. Absolutely. Mrs. Fiji, here. Mrs. Kenry, here. Mrs. Walker, here. Mr. Bushy here. Dr. Craig here. Mr. Ghart here, Mr. Linder. Mr. Sensing here. Mr. Claire here. Eight members. Thank you. The May 19th, 2025 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually. Um like to just let every be aware that an executive session was held on May 19th, 2025 to discuss safety and personnel matters. Uh I need
002to have a uh motion for approval of the agenda. Second. Okay. All in favor? I um well now need a motion for the approval of the minutes. Second. Okay. All in favor? I recognition presentation learners of the month. Right. Thank you, Mr. Claire. We're going a little out of order tonight because we have one of our learners that is in a concert this evening. So, first up from our middle school, Carson Peters, grade five, represented by Miss Palmer. Um, so I am Carson's school counselor, her fifth grade school counselor. Um, I collected information from all of her teachers and I had to condense it because I know I only have a few minutes. Carson Peters had deservedly nominated as learner of the month and it's easy to see why. Her kind nature shines through in
003her interactions with everyone, and she's always the first to offer a helpful hand to classmates. Carson's attentive presence in class ensures she grasps concepts quickly, which she then reinforces through her consistently hardworking approach to her studies. She always gives her best effort and goes above and beyond by helping others without being asked. Her strong work work ethic shines in everything she does. Whether it's tackling a tough writing assignment or lending a hand without being asked, Carson takes her work seriously, but also has a good sense of humor. Her eagerness to learn is contagious and helps create a positive classroom learning environment. She is one of the most responsible students we've had the joy of knowing. We can always count on her to follow through and set an example for others. Beyond her academic dedication, Carson
004displays a remarkable maturity and maintains a positive attitude that uplifts those around her, making her a truly exceptional learner. One example of her thoughtfulness is how she sets out art folders for classmates who may need a little extra support. This shows her genuine care for others and observant eye to notice how she can make the world a better place with small gestures. She brings a positive attitude to school every day, lifting the spirits of those around her. One of my favorite things about Carson is how much she loves to help with classroom jobs, especially hanging up the stars outside of a teacher's classroom. Carson, thank you for being such a bright light in our class. You truly make a difference. Carson makes a positive impact wherever she goes and there's no doubt she's going to
005do amazing things. Thank you. All right. Next up from Baron Elementary, Keegan Snyder, grade four, presented by Mrs. Crater and Mrs. Bole. I am Pam Bole, um Egan's reading specialist. And I'm Christy Crider, the special education teacher. Um it is with great pride that we recognize Keegan Snider as Baron Elementary's learner of the month. Keegan is a motivated and enthusiastic fourth grader who exemplifies what it means to be a dedicated learner. Since arriving at Baron Elementary in second grade, Keegan has made tremendous academic and personal growth. His journey is a powerful example of how hard work, perseverance, and a positive mindset can lead to remarkable progress. Keegan approaches each day with curiosity, and a willingness to learn. He is engaged in his lessons, actively participates in class, and always puts forth his best effort. His
006teachers describe him as a well-rounded learner who is respectful, focused, and eager to improve. Whether working independently or in a group, Keegan demonstrates leadership and a strong sense of responsibility. Keegan is more than just a great learner. He is a differencemaker. His positive attitude, kindness towards other and commitment to doing the right thing set a powerful example for his peers. He contributes meaningfully to the classroom community and helps create an environment where others can thrive as well. Outside the classroom, Keegan continues to shine. He plays baseball where he builds teamwork and sportsmanship, and he is also an active member of the Young Marines program, showing a commitment to service, discipline, and community values. Keegan is a role model and a source of pride for our school community. We are thrilled to honor him as the
007learner of the month and celebrate the outstanding growth, character, and impact he brings to Baron Elementary each day. And next we have from Door Run Elementary, Kiara Laredo, grade four, Mrs. Baird. Hello, I'm Mrs. Baird and I'm Kiara's special education teacher. Creative, passionate, kind, hardworking, positive are a few words to describe Kiara. I first met Kira last spring during her tour at Doun. She had a big smile on her face and was very outgoing. If you pass Ki in the hallway tomorrow, you will be greeted with that same smile and outgoing personality. Every day, Kiara comes to my room for a snack. Many of those times I have to be on my toes for her arrival due to her goal of scaring me. She has been successful a few times. About an hour later, Kiara
008and I have a daily break together. During this time, we chat, create virtual calming rooms, or she keeps me educated on the newest Smiling Critters, Dandy's World, or a show that everyone is talking about. Like the first day that I met her, she always greets me with a smile on her face and a positive attitude during her break. She doesn't know, but some days those 10 minutes with her is the best part of my day. We usually end our break with her planning our agenda for the next day or ask me a question that again keeps me on my toes. Kiara asked me last week, "What power would I want?" Most of us would respond with flying, being invisible, or super speed. Not Kiara. She responded with, "I would want to duplicate myself so that
009everybody would have a friend in the world." That just shows what kind-hearted she is. She has made such tremendous progress during her time at DOR run to making good choices with her words, mastering goals, working hard in the classroom, creating posters to spread book back, book bag and lunchbox safety awareness, and much more. I'm very proud of the young learner and lady she is becoming. Thank you. Now on to the high school we have Maria SOA grade 10 presented by Senor Campbell. Good evening and I have to tell you that when we first got word from Dr. Whitel that it was our turn to select a student, it was unanimous and very quick that we made this decision. Though it's my distinct pleasure to recognize an exceptional world language student, Maria, for her outstanding achievement
010in Spanish. Maria is a passionate, conscientious, and engaged learner. From the very beginning of Spanish 1, she has demonstrated a deep commitment to learning the language and understanding its cultures. I had the privilege of teaching her in Spanish 2, where I got to see those firsthand, and now she is thriving in Spanish 3. In class, Marie is focused, curious, and thoughtful. She listens and reads with intention, asks insightful questions, and applies new learning confidently in her speaking and writing. She embraces Spanish immersion in the classroom and prefers that her teachers not use English. So, we apologize for this tonight. She truly welcomes challenges and sees them as opportunities grow. Her current teacher describes her as diligent, positive, and always willing to help others. She makes up missed work proactively, participates actively, and fosters a welcoming,
011enthusiastic classroom environment. Outside the classroom, Marie is an active participant in our Spanish club, and is leading a group in this year's World Cultures of Debate Day event as a sophomore, and she just accepted the nomination of vice president, which will lead her to president of our club as well. Maria is a model student and we are thrilled that she will continue her studies next year in AP Spanish language and culture. We are proud to honor her tonight for her dedication, leadership and love of learning. All right. And Mr. Ghart, you'll be pleased to hear that this this month we have two CTC honores. First from Willis Street CTC, Cameron Echelman, grade 12. Dr. Whitel. Good evening. This is a custom here for every month we have someone from the CTC which is great. One,
012as Dr. Axe said, we have two individuals. So, we have Cameron Echelman. Uh, so he's the Lions Club CTC student of the month for April. He's enrolled in our diesel technology program at Willow Street. Obviously, he loves the handle hands-on portions of the program and he plans on continuing uh into the workforce. He is currently working at Solder Eggs where he's a diesel mechanic and so he's going to go there after or continue there after graduation. Congratulations to Cameron. And then our second award uh student of the month is Kaylee Dockerty. Kaylee is in the advanced health careers program at the Mount Joy CTC. And again, she loves the hands-on aspect. She's been very involved with that and working with nurse nurse O um at the high school but then in continuing that at the
013CTC. Um she's planning on taking a little bit of a gap here just to continue working and getting some experience. Currently she works at Landis Homes but has really enjoyed her time at CTC and she's even taken on a leadership role. Um at the CTC they have their Skills USA competition so they look for student leaders. This thing's like rad. Um she does she has a leadership role there that they really appreciate and wanted to recognize her. Um but in her free time she enjoys spending time with friends, family and hiking and shopping all things we can enjoy. So congratulations to Kaye. For all you uh honores uh tonight the learners I'll give a nice applause to your parents who helped through all this. So congratulations. He helped f the um you may be excused
014now unless you want to sit through the whole meeting and some of these have to stay, right? The ones that can leave may certainly leave. have nobody who signed up for comment tonight. So, we'll go right on to need a personnel. Uh motion from 7 A through D. Move. Second. Second. Sorry. All in favor? I I posted. Okay. We have three We have some of our new teachers here to introduce themselves. All right. Well, our three new teachers that we just approved. Just come on and come up and and introduce yourself. Introduce yourself. I know that Carter Anstein. Um, high school English language arts. Terry Hess, middle school learning support. My name is Kaya Swanson and I'm high school Spanish. And Yiana, where did you graduate from? Yes, I graduated from Anaheim Central. So, let
015me just say as a graduate, it is an absolute honor to be back in the department in the district. Um, and it's a dream come true to be able to be part of the district where I fell in love with the language and the difference that my Spanish teachers made for me is what inspired me to be a Spanish teacher. So, thank you so much. Thank you guys. We have a surprise for you. All three of you may leave now if you want. Where do we stay? We originally was going to go uh introduce them first, but I'm thinking, gee, we introduced uh them before they're approved. That's why I approved them first. All right, we go. I think we handle from 7E. I make a motion. [Music] Anybody else? Uh oh. Second. Anybody they
016have any comments? If not, all in favor? I and E2K is approved. All right. Superintendent report. Yeah. Before we get into my first part of the report, I do want to share to with everyone that I had the chance to uh the class of 1970 had their reunion on Saturday at the high school. So, we got to give them a tour and show them all that we have at our new high school. Uh over 130 of them attended and and went on the tour. So, it was it was an exciting time and we're appreciative of the class of 1970s donation to our backpack program. They donated money as a class to our backpack program that feeds families in need on weekends. So, I want to thank them publicly for that. So, this is what Mr.
017Claire was so excited about earlier. Now, we have the Baron and Middle School student representatives sharing their art monsters. I'm sorry ladies and you were excited. Excited. Good evening and thank you for this opportunity to share a special project that has been has brought so much joy to our school community. My name is Julie Hitchman and I am one of the middle school art teachers here in the district. And this year we piloted a project that we lovingly called Little Monsters. The idea began with just a simple conversation and it grew into this fabulous collaborative opportunity. The concept was inspired by connections by pairing a kindergartener along with a middle school learner's creativity and we brought these little drawings that the kindergarteners brought to us to life um by turning them into a 3D soft
018sculpture. The project would not have been possible without the partnership of Mrs. G, um, one of our elementary art teachers. Her enthusiasm and support and dedication made this collaboration not only possible, but truly joyful from start to finish. So, I'd like to give Sarah a chance to talk as well. I am Sarah Gassu. I'm the elementary school art teacher at Baron, and this is Bristol. Um, being able to work with Julie and her middle schoolers was a joy. My kindergarten students drew their monsters in August when we first came together and asked every art class when they were going to get their plushies. Um, and just seeing them together with the middle schoolers and having them in their hands was such a special experience. Like if you were there, I know Dr. Flannry came, there
019were a few other people there. It really was a magical moment and it was such a great way to see a connection between the two buildings and kind of bring our district together. So, in the end, we made about 50 little monsters, each complete with their own birth certificate. And to then give the seventh or eighth graders something tangible because they were willing to give their project away, a pin was made for each of the seventh and eighth graders that represented the sculpture that they made. I could not have done this without the help of two really special eighth graders. I have Eden Schwarz with me today and I have Jessa Hershey and they're going to talk a little bit about their experience with doing our little monsters. So, this is Jessa. Hi, I'm Jessa
020and I've been helping with the little monsters project since the beginning. I contributed by making more than one monster. I really enjoyed sewing and adding all the little details that helped make each monster special and unique. I also helped by helped make sure each monster had a birth certificate and was placed in the correct bag. One of my favorite parts was seeing how excited everyone got when the the monsters were finished, especially knowing that we were making something for someone else to en it was a lot of work behind the scenes keeping track of drawings, matching colors, and helping other students figure out their pieces, but it was totally worth it. I've never done a project like this before and I love how it combined creativity with kindness. It felt really good to be a
021part of something bigger than just a regular art project. Hi. Hi, my name is Eden. One of my main roles in the Little Monster project was helping to organize everything, making sure we matched each kindergarten learner with the correct middle school artist, as well as double-checking the kindergarten teacher and the monster name. We worked hard to help Miss Septman get everything ready for distribution, especially leading up to our visit to Baron Elementary at the beginning of April. That day was amazing. Seeing the kindergarteners meet their monsters for the first time made all the organizing totally worth it. I also loved helping to make the pins that we gifted to the middle school artists. I think it was a nice way to say thank you for all their hard work and to give them a tangible
022memory of the day. And if you go through the PowerPoint, we do have a couple other pictures of the monsters. And Bristol, do you want to show everybody? You want to show them your monsters name? They did name them all. We had some great names like George, Little George, Pika, Pika, Pika, Pika. I love it. It's amazing. Awesome. Nice. So, that was our pilot. It went well and we're going to expand it for next year. So, for next school year, we're going to include the kindergarteners from Dough Run as well. So, they will also have the same experience, which is a big feat. It's going from 50 to 220 probably. So, We're ready to to hit the ground running. Yeah, we're ready. Thank you so much. We're just warning to the public, more monsters are
023coming. More monsters are coming. And you don't have to you don't have to feel obligated to stay if Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I think she'd like to stay though. He could be in charge. shower. All right, next part. Uh, K through2 summer audit. Just to let everyone know, now that our buildings are done, our leadership team is going to take the opportunity this summer to review our schedules and staffing to make sure that uh we're using everyone at capacity and being as efficient as possible uh moving into next school year. So, I just wanted to say that and share that publicly. Uh, and now, Mr. Howitt, final budget report, please. Okay. So, the stuff we're we're doing tonight, and we did do a presentation two weeks ago, but this is going to be
024a very abbreviated U presentation just to update some numbers. Uh the step we're taking tonight is to approve a proposed final budget and that's not our final budget. What that is is that's uh stating our intention to approve this budget in its current form and we advertise that and then we also display it for 30 days and then in June meeting we'll approve it. So just go through uh some of the numbers here that have changed. If you recall a couple weeks ago, I said when I got some more numbers in, uh, we might get back to break even. It looks like we are going to get back to break even. We're at least a little over, a little under. So, uh, we'll know a lot more when the when the May numbers load in.
025We'll we'll get we'll be able to laser in on a little bit. But uh one one of the things I just want to talk about is if you recall we made some changes to the food service operation where we got on the national school lunch program and then we increased the prices just a little bit. Uh we we are close to Amy I think breaking even in the food service department which is the first time actually the first time in the last 10 years I think we've uh we've broken even there. So uh that that's a good thing. We had we had uh a couple hundred thousand in there uh budgeted to bridge the gap there. Whatever the food service department uh loses or whatever their loss is, the general fund subsidizes it. So, we
026generally budget some money in there. We're not going to need that. And that's the major that was the major thing in turning that number. Also, labor might come in a little bit lower than we've been projecting um in in previous projections. And that could be any number of reasons. Uh we we have extra pay that we budget in there. Uh we have positions that people have left and aren't filled. Uh so they were budgeted but perhaps not not used at this point. Looking at the fund balance analysis, uh if you look here, there's the 104967 projected for this year. And then uh right now we're currently sitting just a little bit above a million dollar deficit with a 3% uh increase uh baked in there. Budget history. Here's the details. And you'll notice uh on
027at your desk you had uh this budget summary which is the proposed uh budget in detail. Uh so this is just a summary of that. And if you look here, total expenditures 74 million 11,465 with uh revenue of 73,98,365. This is our standard look at uh various uh millage rate increases. Essentially, every percentage is a little over $400,000 of revenue. So, here in this example, if you went from three to 2.5, you'd be talking about roughly 200,000 uh dollars of revenue that we would forego by going to 2.5. If we would go up to one, we'd make an extra or to four, we'd make an extra $400,000. Quarter point is 100,000 and so on. So little easy way to break it down though with the rate. Looking at just the the uh percentage of our
028revenue sources, federal sources have gone down a lot since the funds aren't in there anymore. It's basically title funds and medical access funds that we get. State sources has uh gone above 30%. Usually that's in the 27 to 28% range. It's gone above 30%. And then uh local sources 68.21%. The proposed budget uh this is the breakdown of the expenditures by object and you'll see just under 62% is our salary and benefits. A large piece of our budget and then the $100 baron bill here. Uh just looking at kind of what we used it for instructional was 56.7% of the budget. You can see over here uh debt service 11.6%. Transportation a little over 6%. So on effective millage uh increase on the taxpayers and this is a kind of a multi-slide uh look the
029199,000 is the median homestead assessed value and the 215 is the average assessed value of on the homestead. And you can see at the average assessed value of 215,000 that'd be $1 an8 gross increase. And on the median of 199 at 3% we'd be looking at $100. But this year, the amount that the state provided us for homestead farmstead reduction has gone up and that has created an additional $27, a little over $27 of additional savings to our taxpayers. And so what does that look like uh at at the end of the tax bill process? If you look here 2425 versus 2526, you'll see that uh the change for an average assessed home is $108 uh before the homestead farmstead, but the additional 2707 uh in there. Uh the net tax bill is only going
030up by 818 for a 3% increase or a net of 2.37%. So that homestead farmstead acts to reduce the amount that uh each individual homeowner would have to pay. This is a a look again of our of our act one our tax millage increase versus the Pennsylvania uh act act one index. And you can see that more times than not we've been under the act one index. And the act one index is calculated using using various uh wage data. And what it's supposed to indicate is that that based on that that's the amount that wages are roughly going up. It's an average of two uh wage pieces of wage data from the state. But you can see more times than not we've gone under. We've never exceeded our act one index in spite of all
031the construction projects and everything we've done. We've never gone above and in fact during that time if you can see where the building construction started right here uh we've gone zero twice since we started that process. So um I think it would be tough to find many districts that have that have done that. And again, uh I don't have a slide in here, but I would point out that we have the fourth lowest millage rate uh in the county. So I think I think we uh provide pretty good value. The green line down here is the assessed value. You can see everything to the right of the red line is projected. The act one index is projected to decline uh over uh the independent fiscal office does that measurement and that projection that's uh projected
032to go to settling around 3%. It will probably go lower than that. As you can see uh down here it's gone down into uh the high ones and the and the low twos in the past. And then assessed value. I I do expect a spike in excess in assessed value. I'm hoping it comes next year. Uh, and that's going to be all these apartment buildings and some of the commercial warehouses that you see going there. We're hoping that could generate in excess of a million dollars moving forward of recurring revenue. Although that's not going to come in at one shot. It will probably phase in over a period of of uh a few years. Brian, is that a percentage or is that a dollar value? The US value. That's a that's a percentage increase. So
033the the reason why I like to look at it as a percentage is if you kind of be before you would raise any millillage, if assessed value went up 2%, you've effectively gotten a 2% increase in your local real estate tax revenue without even touching the um the millage rate. And so we like to look at the combination of that assessed value growth plus the millage rate increase would be the total increase to the local real estate tax base. So, what's next? We're going to continue to refine the current year projections as we get a new piece of information like the food service information. We'll modify the current year projection plus next year's projection. Uh we'll adjust budget lines if needed. I know uh still waiting for final commercial insurance numbers and there's some other
034numbers out there that are still flying around. I don't expect them to have a big impact on the budget, but there are some numbers that need be firmed up a little bit before the June meeting. And then in the June meeting, we'll ask the board to consider uh final budget approval. Again, tonight, this is just uh approving the proposed final, which is basically an intent to approve the final budget. Uh does not lock the tax rate in tonight. Uh only the June meeting locks the tax rate in do the final budget approval. Any questions? I have one. Um, you have in there 3%. Um, would you like to go less than 3%. We can put that in for tonight. We don't have to wait to June. You do not have to wait to June. If
035you'd like to consider a lower number tonight, you that's certainly the the board prerogative. So we could go to 5 to 7 tonight and June if something else happens it can be changed again. It can be I I would not recommend you change that number up but it can be it can be lowered as well. Yeah. Anybody have any thoughts on is everybody happy with the 3%? Like to see 2.5. Uh, I also would like to see 2.5. We went 275 and then the option to drop it to 25. I mean, what if we went with 1575 with the option to drop it 2.5 then be along with that? As long as long as we don't go three, we deny it 75 2.75. We'll take that motion in general action. Just want to make sure
036we don't have any other discussions with anybody else. Is everybody okay with that? Didn't mean to change it up there. Does anybody else That's a good I actually was like 2.5 what I wanted and I would go up to 2.75. That's what I I was That's why I went 25 but I was going to go 275. ladies. I think since we have the option to lower it, I'm good going a little bit higher. Yeah. All righty. We have the option of raising it too, but it just looks bad. Correct. Yeah. You know, the other thing like that. The other thing is if you remember the last assessment, uh people got hit hard. There were houses in in Mannheim that went from well they went up to 250 300,000. Ryan can attest to that here. Yeah,
037Mannheim Burough uh during that reassessment which was 1718 um Mannheim Burough. So a reassessment which is coming up and I could address that quickly. It's it it's revenue neutral for for the school district. So whatever the percentage of the of the reassessment is, let's just say homes go up 15 to 20%, that is our current tax base, not including new homes, then we have to lower our millage rate 15 to 20% so that it's revenue neutral. However, it may not be revenue neutral for an individual taxpayer. So, uh, Rafo, Penn and and Mannheim Burl all kind of fared out a little bit different and the homes in the burrow did get, uh, raised pretty heavily during that reassessment. So, um, I I think because they're now committed to doing that every 10 years, I think
038the changes in that that reassessment before I think was 13 years, 18 or something. It it it was way beyond the 10. So, um, now that they're on a 10-year, uh, cycle, it should be, uh, less of an adjustment, hopefully. We'll see, though. So, we need to keep that in the back of our minds because the people are going to get hit possibly hard twice. So, all right, we'll do that in later. Mr. Howard, do you have anything else? You done? Hey, distribution of policies 249, 311, 317, 320, and 718 for your reading. And that concludes my report. Okay. Okay. Dr. Flannry. Yep. One moment, please. Um I I have one three facing members for tonight, but I'll start with with what's printed in the agenda, which is about the clear programming. So this is
039something that is on the agenda for tonight for approval. I believe it's section item F, if I remember correctly. Um the Clear is an online investigation software um that will allow us to determine if there's evidence that a family is no longer living in the district. Specifically, what we're looking to do is be able to identify cyber students that we think should not be paying for they should not be paying for and notify them that we are no longer responsible for their cyber schools tuitions. One of the hard things is once they're a student in cyber, we don't have a great way, right, to be able to track where where they're living necessarily. So, they could be living in a different area and we're still paying for their tuition. So, school district is currently using
040this program and in the first month of use identified nine families that were not in the district. Two of them were even out of state. Um, Eleno is also using the program and on their first screening they found 11 families. So these return rates would more than cover the cost of the program. The cost of the program is 13,500 approximately for one year. So one myth student would give us more than our monies or back uh in that investment. Uh an additional factor for your consideration is at least twothirds of Lancaster County schools are in the process of purchasing this software. So, if we don't get on board, we could be getting kids kicked back without a way to fight that on our own. Um, so this would be a good way to make sure
041we're staying in line with the other schools to know that we're billing and charging appropriately or our funds are going approved in December. So, that's the first item we I had on my report for this evening. So, I have a question. When you find that, you can immediately throw them out of our like is there a process you have to go through? Yeah, there's a process you have to go through. So if we suspect that someone's flagged on the system, we'll have a letter or a notification that goes out and it's their responsibility then to prove their residency. And if they don't, then they would come off of our books and we would notify whatever district. It's a little trickier out of state. Um the instances from the two districts that Amy me Dr. Flary
042mentioned the only way if a someone moves out of state is to go after the family for tuition which is a little bit challenging because the cyber already like we have to pay them incrementally. So the garden spot school district or the Eleno school district only discovered it this month and they paid all the bills. So the only way to go after the family that's out of state is to go after the family for tuition. So now if you're if it's someone that's still in state but they've been off they've moved a year ago can we get our money back for that we can build the district where they're at now and that's the so there will be some internal Lancaster Lebanon swapping because someone could be using our cyber but living in Donnagle so
043that could happen too which is why with threearters of the districts doing it there will be some trading that'll be amicable but You got to cut one or two out of state or out of the county and you get your money back. Why is this not being identified through like the measures that are already in place with like truency and things like that? Is it because this like if a student's in a cyber school, they don't have the same protocols as like what we do or so if they're if they are in a cyber school currently, the person that's tracking their attendance and doing all of those functions are the cyber schools themselves, right? So, if they could be attending and everything looks like it's normal, but maybe they've moved. Well, our intent's not to
044prevent them from getting that education, they should have it. That move is, that's the district that should be billing. So, we just don't have a a measure right now. Like, if a person's renting and then they go rent somewhere else, we don't have a way to contact all of the landlords and say, "Is are your renters the same as they were?" So, if it if they're moving, it's a little different. We have records of sale and things that we could look at, but but it's not always that straightforward. So, we're relying right now on the on the families to tell the district for the most part. And they probably half of them probably don't even know that they're supposed to. Well, the cyers have no interest in reporting them. Well, they Yeah, they're getting they're
045paying us and we're paying them. So, they have no there's no accountability for them to report that. Even if someone would change their address on the cyber, everything's digital. So all their mailings are digital. Everything is I think if I think if they would change their address like through their cyber I have no doubt that the cyber need take care of that. It's more about our families knowing to or openly sharing their address changes. Gota have you went through this clear program to see how it does? That was a demonstration of the clear program at the intermediate unit for all of the districts. We've followed that up with a phone call just to see a little bit about what we're getting. And the last superintendent meeting is where they did a show of hands and
046uh over three quarters are a great idea. You said there was another one that tracks uh license plates. Does that addition? Yeah, that that's an additional charge. Yes. Does that get more people or quicker? Really? I think we would like to see how this lesser expensive like how it does to see if we have to do that or not. Yeah, they have different years of contracts for this and we thought we would just try it for a year to see what we get before the the three-year contract was I think maybe discounted by 10% if I remember correctly, but we thought let's just see what we get for this rate before we make a long then if as long as we get one student we're we're ahead. We have five. Yes. The other part of
047that strategy is if some of the cyber reform comes through that is being put out there, there may be more accountability for the cyers to have to report. So we might not need it down the road, but for now we feel like it's important and who would be monitoring or utilizing the program. So we get about I think we get three or four identified users. So we were thinking about registration having access to that student student registration here. you know, myself, Dr. Axe, and there was one other, they thought about a fourth person, but it would be a very central group of people, not trying to burden principles or anything with that information. So, you'll just get an email this person suspected. I think my understanding is they run batches at different times of the
048year. So, they would be running a batch, you'll be getting a list of names to be able to take action on, and then later, you know, you're not going to check that every moment. Doesn't make sense. But later in in the cycle, they have the batch run. I think we get Three batches a year. Yeah. And the batch is all the cyber students. So it's all the cyber students and their addresses. It runs it. It flags the ones that looks like aren't living where they're saying they're living and then we send the notifications out from there. But we're doing more than cyber students. Or are we just doing cyber students? Cyber. There's an additional component of the program that uses additional layers of artificial intelligence, let's just say, or investigation software to be able to
049come up with something beyond that which would be be used for regular residents. Well, that's not what we're interested in at this time. We're really just looking for this cyber component. We have pretty good methods in place for people that live here to be able to figure out if they're not how to report that. I'm sure there's a couple that could get through, but our our our main priority is to try to get some of those cyber dollars being charged to the districts that should be paying for them. What are we currently doing to bring back students from cyber school that doesn't involve like this in terms of bringing them back in house? I mean, I hate to use the word monitoring, but how are we ensuring that the students that are in our district
050receiving services from cyber schools are still in our district? Are we doing anything right now or is that hard to monitor? No, I think well what we're doing now is what we would be doing for any student which is you know if we move the part of a house sale or things like that. Um there's sometimes residents will call and say I I think so and so moved. All of those things are are currently in our repertoire. We don't have a way beyond that to say such and such student who said they were living here. We're going to do like a random residency check for example to ensure that they're still living there. Yeah. um that can get pretty pretty difficult. Yeah, I think that I mean something that we all ask frequently when looking
051at enrollment in cyber schools and all of that is how are we continuing to get all of the good things that we're doing here out so that we can bring some of those students back um if they want to come back. Obviously, it's not right for every family, but are we still using those? Um but you guys were doing a great job at like reaching out to families. So, in terms of how we're trying to get cyber students back, I know that um Mrs. Spasek and Dr. Nemoth went through and called families that were on cyber lists for a couple years trying to say like, "Hey, you know, did you have an interest? Do you know that this is what we can do for you?" Some of the feedback we've heard from families is that
052um a lot of the cyber schools do often like offer like a live person for that that in-person component, which we don't have the ability to do in our model. Um some parents have had a negative experience in one way or another and you know have have are not interested in coming coming back because of that. Um so we have made those efforts. We just haven't seen it resulted in a large rate of return. We do see people come back to us at times but um I would say it's less from our reach out and and more from their renewed interest. I don't know Dr. Neth if you had anything. I can say because we've had some of our students who come in for certain things like um the extracurricular whatever it might be um
053that's been a drawback but it has been really difficult. Um it it's like that when they've made up that decision to change over to charter it's hard to pull them back because they have that live person on the charter end of it. So it makes it really difficult to say like for trying to bring them back to our cyber program. Um that's been the reason we hear the most is that there's a person there alive. Um, but cyber are we allowed to to not let them play sports if they're not in our school or if they're if they're if they're on a cyber like playing doing cyber and playing football for us. Are we allowed to say if you don't if you're not in Mannheim school or Mannheim whatever you can't play sports or do
054we let them sports? No, they're able to participate. We can't we can't take that away unless they don't live here. It's a policy. Yeah, it's a state rule. Yeah. Yeah. Again, some of the reform if it goes through could help us with this, but right now we would like to to do this for a year just based on the results that other districts are having. And there's a lot of districts that are jumping on now so they can use it over the summer to notify families over the summer, which is what we would intend on doing as well. So that it's work we can do in the summer rather than next school year right away. That made me think of another question. Do you have to let families know that we have this technology and
055that we'll be utilizing it? I mean, I'm we don't have to, but I'm okay with saying it publicly because now then people might if they catch wind of this know that yeah supposed to be I wasn't sure if there like legally if you had to notify or you just did. No, I mean I don't know what other districts did, but you like our approach is always we're putting it out there. We're looking at this. Yeah. And I and I would also say that I don't wouldn't want anyone to think that I feel like families are trying to be evasive either. I think sometimes just people don't know. They don't know that, you know, that if you move that that bill goes somewhere else and they think, well, I'm still getting this service. It's like, you
056know, if you move from here to Pittsburgh and you were going here as a person, it's very obvious that you can't still physically go here. But if you have a device and you're still getting your your piece, it might not be as clear to them that, hey, I'm in Pittsburgh. I need to do something different. So, it could be an educational component as well. And like I said, this won't prevent anybody from keeping that choice that they want cyber. It would just get the bill going to the right place. And if you think about how cyber is advertised as taxpayer funded or free, why would they think that moving impact that free? I mean, my kids can still log on and do the So, okay, that's the point. Um, and then I have two other
057updates that weren't um on the agenda. The first one was just a shout out for the farmers market. So, um, thanks to the student, staff, and board of members who volunteered this past Friday to make what we hope will be our first annual farmers market a great success. Uh, we were able to give away thousands of pounds of fresh produce with the generous generosity of Highark and the Central PA food bank. um the efforts of our team supported so many families from our community and we're happy to say that the small amount of food that was left over, we worked out today with how it's helped that we were able to donate that to the Mannheim Food Bank to be able to give out today. So, um just a great night and I know so
058many of you came and personally helped. I'm so appreciative and um thanks to everybody that was involved. Yeah, it was just over 8,000 pounds of produce given away in no time. Four tons of food. I think all that was left over was cauliflower, which I don't blame anybody for it not being their favorite. There was a lot of cauliflower and then a couple large bags of potatoes. So, we were able to give that to the food bank today. It was awesome. Do you think we could keep doing that? Um, I don't necessarily think like during the carnival, but I just think that if there's another event going on, having that was really helpful. That's what they suggested when we worked with them. They this project started out west in in Pittsburgh and this is like
059the first time they're kind of moving it over this way and they said that's how they found the most success which is why we picked Carnival. Um so we would work to do something like that again where it's a big exposure night that parents are already out and have it right there and they're not having to make an extra trip. The only feedback I had from some community members was it was very close to like where just you know reflecting on it u maybe putting it farther down the street that way if you're picking up food and you have to leave you can leave and then everyone else can go to the back. I didn't see it myself. Was it crap? It wasn't terrible. I'm just sharing what feedback I'm just trying to get the
060function of it was okay. Were you there? I haven't shared. We were talking about we talked about signage where when people come up we could say farmers market elementary carnival so that people would know because Danielle ended up going to kind of the end of the row and saying if you're coming to the farmers market you're going here. This is the carnival line. So, we talked about somehow putting some signs up or something to indicate because it was everybody came to the here first and they're walking around with huge bags trying like I could see that mean like like little kids had huge bags of shopping cart. It was and I was about halfway and I would tell if you're going to the carnival down there. This is for the food bank. And that went
061fine until I fell off the curb backwards. Well, I um I think it was awesome and a lot of positive positive feedback I got. I wasn't there the whole time, so I was probably We must have missed each other. Yeah, you guys just crossed. Anyway, there were enough I mean I signed up for the last two hours. You probably signed up for the first. Oh, so when it stormed that was convenient. Well, I I was the guy that c that put everything in my truck and put in the uh but it was No, it was great. And the the Thank you to the high school kids who helped. Yes, they were great. That was awesome. It was very smooth and efficient. I when I went up to the introduced myself, they said that the truck
062came at what one o'clock. It came early and no, there was nobody around. So they I guess called Dave Han and said any way we can get people unload the truck and the people from um High Market that said all of a sudden you see all these boys running out of the school and they got their truck unload in 15 minutes and went back in. The kids that had weightlifting I think helped and there's always a person behind the scenes keeping everything really smoothly running and um with Sarah Payne and I having a day off that day. Danielle uh Gisinger here really did a standup job in just keeping everything moving. So, a personal thank you to her as well. One break. Um and then my second note is just to get it in the
063minutes that we did have our annual safety report delivered at tonight's board executive session. We need that in the minutes just so that the state knows what we did, what we were supposed to do. So, that is the purpose of that element of my report and that report. Thank you. Go to committee reports treasurer Dr. Kraton. Yeah. So, tonight we have three sets of financial documents to approve. Um, I have reviewed them. They're in order. I spoke with Brian this morning, Dr. Axe this morning on these statements and we're prepared with the best practices. Were there any questions from board members on the financial documents? The only question I have is do we know is that the uh this the last bill for the approval of the bill or do we expect any more invoices?
064It is not. There's still some retainage left on that. So there's there's it's a it's a small amount. Thank you. So with that we is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion to approve. Is that A, B, and C? A B and C. And do we have a motion? We do have a second. Okay. Any questions? If not, all in favor? I posted and we could go on to committee reports. Uh, Mr. Linder is here. I understand there is no report. um academic committee report. Mrs. Walker, I understand you have some real goodies for us. Yeah, we had a great meeting. Um thank you to Dr. Neoth and her curriculum team for all their hard work this past year. Um if you guys had a chance to look over the agenda, um the
065minutes that were sent out, you saw all of the good things that are happening. Um, our biggest item is the ELA curriculum that needs to be replenished. Um, as you know, ELA is all-encompassing of all of our students in the district. So, that is why we see the biggest uh request from them. So um we also have tech ed curriculum being requested, business curriculum being requested. Um so all the total ask is 160 53448. Um so let me just summarize this and then we can do I need to make a motion for those. Okay so let me summarize this first. Um and then also the approval of the linket which is it's like a a data management system which will replace some other things that they have. So Dr. Namoth did a nice job of
066looking at what is being used and what is not being used so that we can kind of um identify some savings there. So the remaining cost of that new system would be 6 68525. Um, so with that, I make a motion that we approve the total curriculum budget. Is that what I'm do two through six? Yeah, I'm requesting that we approve two through six under the academic committee report. Still moved. Jen, quick question. Yes. Is Is this included in the current budget? Yeah, it's in the curriculum budget. It's already Yes. Dr. Neoth did come under budget on her curriculum cycle this year, which is impressive. BLA especially. That's a good question. Second. Yeah, sure. Um, she seconded. Anybody have any questions on it? Okay. Yeah, there was a lot of information. It was a great
067meeting. Um again thank you to everyone who worked hard on this. It is it is a big task. Um and our next meeting will be in the fall sometime. All right. Well then we will call for a vote. All in favor? I Okay. Great report. Do you have anything else? Oh, I'm sorry. That's it. That's fine. I know. Um activities committee. I imagine no report. We didn't have a meeting. Did we or do you have some? We did not have a meeting. Nothing to report. All right. Uh okay. Let's go into general action action items. And going to be a little slower on this so you can see what I'd like. Um, I think we can go from 12 A through F. I have a question on a couple. Let's Okay, before we go there,
068uh, why don't we take it by at one at a time and then when you get to those, we can All right. So, we have a motion for uh um approval of 12A. Second. Second. All in favor? I uh approval 12B. Move. Second. Any questions? All in favor? I see. Approval of the contract with the IU13. I have a motion for that. This is one I had a question on. Okay. Uh what is this? So this is we have um do you remember at the academic committee I said that Tyler had gone to a training. I don't know if you recall that but it was on high impact and strategies. And so that's going to be our focus for the upcoming year is really focusing on those high impact strategies. So for an option the
069IU is actually coming here to lead a Mannheim central focused session and we're doing two of those. um it would be like a June and July where they would kind of tailor it for us um and run two full sessions. So that's what that is. Is it optional for stop or is it it is it is an optional one. So like we do it um in learners if we don't get the interest then we just say we can't do it if we have a number under like you know 10 people, six people whatever it might be. All in favor? I closed. Did we do that twice? We didn't do that one at all. Okay. I now uh do you have another one? My only other question is the next one. Okay. Indeed. Um and it's
070actually not a question, but is this when I was reading through this um is this kind of like that understanding that if we have a special education student who needs to go to another school that placement, that's kind of like that understanding of This is an agreement between Etown, Bronco and Norah that allows us to um have their students come and fill our programs tuition rate for those students and vice versa. Um it is cheaper than going to the IU. So if we can service within our those two districts, is there opportunity to expand upon that to other districts? Yeah. So I reached out to a school district in Lancaster for example. Okay. I've heard that they had some need I'm waiting to hear back from that but that is something that we could continue
071to expand. Do you this is like off top of your head but do you know how many students are utilizing this agreement? Um so right now we have uh three students who come to us um from another school district that's at a different placement. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Do we have a a motion for so moved? Second. Any questions? All in favor? I posted. Okay, let's go. 12 E through G. Motion for E through G. Second. Second. Any questions? All in favor? I I move [Music] uh 12 12 U. Yeah, wait. I'm just 12 H through K. H2K. A motion. Second. Okay. Any questions? All in favor? I still. Okay. Um M have L. Oh, didn't do L. Okay, then we need to go um 12 L so okay all in favor I now we
072need I think look at uh M separately to um need a motion to what percentage you're going to start 275. What's the amount? Well, the amount stays the same for the expense. So, I am going to put in and make the change. And here's what it says. Approve to adopt and advertise the proposal final budget of the school district for 2025 2026 fiscal year as presented on form PDE 2028 to include a millage increase of 2.75% with expenses in the amount of 74,11,465. 5 motion for that. Second. Do we have a second? Oh, we have a second. Okay. All in favor? I post. to 35 and we can readjust that in the approval of uh 12 N go N through S. Second. Any any questions? Any time that No questions. All in favor? I opposed.
073Thank was [Music] within in that that we just approved Kelly Wharton the approval of her returning to Vanheim. Uh, it's as board secretary. That's board secretary. And we already approved her. We approved her last time. I'm sorry. They were actually get a young lady in here and kick the old man out. No, we're not. We'll miss you very much. All right. We went all the way to Z, did we not? We're see right now. All right. Approval of 12T approval the recommendation of potential graduates for 2425 school year. Second. Second. All in favor? [Music] Good. And I think uh we can go 12 U through D. Okay. All favor. I post. We are take a look again at the uh the new policies they're put in. All right. Board repres you. Yes. Our last meeting
074was on the 14th business month. I missed the majority that night. Our next meeting and let's see. So we have did that in the minutes you can miss the meeting to your daughter's getting married. There are beautiful pictures in merchandise too by the way. All right. Uh here's one we three CTC Mr. Ghart. We have some pictures. We're down at Will Street. These are the last three CT students that we have. So, see what who comes up there. Carter Carter Brandt, he's a senior and he's in down at Will Street. He's into diesel equipment technology. Uh, and he's these guys, they get in there, but sometimes they don't always do what they're doing, but he's he likes to work. And, uh, so he's he's not going to do a co-op. He's actually going to work
075at his dad's business. And uh it's he does basement. He's out of manhine here. They do basements where everybody's been in a wet basement, but they his dad and he's getting into where they cut in the concrete and bring it down, put the sump pumps in. That's what he's doing. So he really likes doing it. So he's going to keep doing that. And uh he's working. It's called the Great Shelly Company. Anybody heard that? Oh, I did. Yeah. Okay. That's where he's That's his dad. And that's where he's gone. and uh he his what he likes doing. So he's you I don't know what the equipment technology had to do with it but it all he likes doing he's learning that's what's counts he likes fishing and he uh plays baseball right now until he
076school's out he's working at the mad chef and he's Pete and uh I could believe it they they were making 18 bucks an hour just starting there so and he likes going to the Outer Banks in Michigan they go there every year in July that's Carter Okay. And this is Brody. He's into diesel equipment. He's a senior also. He's into diesel equipment technology. And uh after school, he's they're here again. He's working in diesel equipment. But he likes the building end. He's right now after school working for Rafners down in Lits. Anybody hear that? Ra. It's a you know building company. He's working down there and uh and he he works down there under after school, but he also co-ops. He's trying to get in and co-op with Dr. Krger. So, they have a long
077they really get a lot long list of guys in there from CTC. So, he's waiting. So, he's he's anxious. He's ready to go to work. And he likes dirt biking and he likes going to his cabin in Lycoming County, deer and turkey. And he plays baseball for Manhattan Central third base. So that's pretty. Here's the one that keeps escaping me after three times. It's Haley Peterson. And I never did get to that's the only one I didn't get to interview. I tried. So I did get a little bio on her. And uh Haley's in uh animal science at Will Street. She's she was student of the month at Manheim Lions Club. That was back in January. I remember that. and Haley's pleasure to have in the class and has a positive attitude. Haley was on
078the first marketing period honor role in class and is a team player. Haley's serving at the chairperson of our little street FFA week committee. She also helping to coordinate dress down days. I guess that's nice. And a teacher lunchon as well as car and truck show for February. So that's that's an old one, but we finally got her. So, and that winds up all the CTC students from Man Central. We'll see what's next next month. Thank you. The SBA legislative Mrs. Kinder Claire. Uh, right now the legislation is in session. So, there's a bunch of things floating around. I'll just try to give you a quick synopsis of some of them. I don't know that they're much clearer on a budget, so we don't really have a lot to talk about there. Um some of
079the things that they are talking about are um one is called um it's Senate Bill 10 and it's to create a Pennsylvania award for student success scholarship program. So basically it's a program that would make parents with schoolaged children who reside in the attendance area of districts at the bottom 15% of performance that give would make them eligible to receive a scholarship for alternate education expenses outside their local public school. Um in essence this would kind of essence it would be creating a type of voucher program. So that's what that's about. Another one is Senate Bill 127. It's a Holocaust education. Uh it's just talking about that um schools will be required to give instruction on the Holocaust genocide and human rights violations. And so that would be part of the the curriculum. Another one
080is FAFSA universal FAFSA completion which is Senate Bill 310. I'm not quite sure how I feel about this one, but anyways, uh basically it would be educ a graduation requirement uh for kids to complete the FAFSA or to complete an opt out form. So, uh yeah, that's that one was put forward by Scott Martin. So, um anyways, and then there's one regarding uh weapons in at school campuses. Uh so that would it's would require schools to notify all parents and educators when a student, parent, educator, or anyone else is found in possession of a weapon on the school grounds. Another one is literacy achievement for Pennsylvania students. Um it just says that schools will be required to adopt evidence-based reading instruction curriculum and approved professional development training programs. Another is I found interesting also it
081would require instruction on cursive handwriting. So um yeah I thought that was interesting. Uh so that's a bill requiring that. Um, another one would be uh automated external defibrills requiring that that they are in the school buildings and also uh accessible for any um intercolastic events and that people would need to be trained on that how to use them appropriately. Um, there's an increasing efficiency and transparency in school transportation bill that specifically talks about streamlining administrative requirements and collecting necessary data as it applies to modernizing our student transportation laws. Yeah. And then there's also um a House bill that they're looking at that would make it possible for education support professionals to receive unemployment compensation during summer months. So that one was interesting also. Um another one would be eliminating BMI screening in schools which
082revealing wage. They're also talking about making changes to splitting different rates and also adding some things into that as far as um HVAC duct cleaning and custom fat offsite fabrication. So, but the one that we are probably most interested in is one that is called House Bill 1372 and that addresses all of our long-standing concerns regarding accountability and financial inefficiencies that are tied specifically to cyber charter operations. Uh so yeah they're looking at that trying to uh give more transparency financial transparency when it comes to cyber schools and also um yeah just hold them try to bring in alignment their their um funding so that it's more closely aligned with our actual costs within uh online education. and yeah, the different online educations. I someone the chief advocate from PSBA was there testifying before the
083House Education Committee just talking about how cyber charter schools and the the costs there that and how they're affecting the school budgets. So, uh they're advocating for us. And we also had an advocacy day that we we attended and Mrs. Walker is going to speak of that a little bit what we did there at the end of the meeting or if you want to know or not whatever. Okay. No, I was just going to share because I forgot to me we forgot to mention that but um Mr. Bushy, Miss Gingrich, Mr. Dr. X and myself uh went up to the capitol, talked um on behalf of our our school district um and just it was just a great opportunity to um talk to Mindy Fee about our concerns with I don't want to I hate
084to use the word like accountability, but really what we're what we're trying to do is Dr. Drax always likes to say like we have an amazing school district and we want to like promote our school district and we want to brag about our school district and we want all of our students to come back to our school district. So really um you know we were just talking about the points of like the increased cost um to the district when students go to cyber schools. What else do we talk about with with Mindy the the mandates and the specialled funding transportation? Yeah. About and also Yeah. Go ahead. No, no, go ahead. And we shared some things that we do to give back the community with the reunions and so forth. And she actually after that
085did reach out to to me to visit uh this month to see the high school. Yeah, I thought it was a good meeting. I thought Mindy was very open to hearing our our points of view and I felt like I felt like yeah it was very constructive. I'd like to say thank you to you guys for setting that up. It was good. I felt it was good. It was cool going up there seeing a lot of people advocating probably for the same thing. Um I definitely felt like we were heard. Yeah, it was it was we definitely told showed Mindy some things that she didn't understand or see before, but she's definitely here to help us here in Mannheim and hopefully they can get some good something good passed. Yeah, I thought the three of
086you did an exceptional job just presenting and advocating for Manip Central and public schools. So, I was appreciative. We grieved the weather and the and everything else. So, uh, it was it was a very valued trip. Yeah, it was good to hear that, you know, it was it's a bipartisan issue, right? It's not just, you know, talking to Mindy Fee about certain things. It's it's an issue about public schools and our students and we need to keep that in mind and what's best for our students and we want them here and we have a lot of great things. We're doing a lot with increasing facilities and curriculum updates and just want everyone to the best choice that they can make for themselves. Come join us. Join us. And then she shared with us like most
087of her constituents are older people on a fixed income and our decisions on a with taxes and everything on a school board mean a lot to them. And so we went over all that with them and tried to explain everything that that Brian explained where where we've bid on the bottom, we've done zeros, we're in the bottom four. So, and I think she's going to be bring that back to her constituents and maybe Yeah, she requested the handout that we they'll learn as we did. Yeah. Only positive things came out of it. Great. Apologize I couldn't make it. I got to work. You have the handout. You have a copy. I think he sent it. It looks like this. It has like a chart with the numbers on it. I attached it in the last
088update. Yeah. And also, can we share this too maybe or? Yeah. I mean, it's nothing we don't talk about publicly. Yeah. I know. I just think that when when Mindy looked and saw the numbers, she was like, Yeah, she was. Which Never mind. Yeah. What are you there besides Mindy who you got to talk to or just her? Uh, well, I had I met with Senator Malone with a number of superintendents the week before and her his chief of staff was available but he wasn't. So, since I had met with him and shared all this the week before uh we decided we didn't need to stay for that uh because it was his chief chief of staff. You're right. Everybody's on it, right? All it's it's aware of it. Yes. Very aware it's a problem.
089Good job, guys. That's good. Thank you. I would because of the weather and having to figure out how to get up the steps at the capital. It wouldn't have stayed home. It would have not been easier. That concludes my report. Okay. Thank you. You like the county academy. Um, our year is going very well. Our second location is going to be back in Park City. Um they get a lot of concessions in pricing and there's a nice um uh nice part that we have and we can dig out walls and stuff like that. So that's going to be our second location. We have graduation Saturday the 31st at Crossroads in Mount Joy. Uh we will not have anybody graduating. Our kids graduated in the December. Um, that's all I have. I mean, Mike, thank you
090for everything you do for the academy and uh, thank you for your your new award that you're So, thank you for all you've done. We appreciate it. Well, thank you. And and the kids in Mannheim and everybody at the academy thanks you. Thank you. It's it's a um a long time getting to our our point with who had the next nickel, who had the next dime to spend, but uh we're going to be helping an awful lot of kids. And that's my report. Uh, everybody know the enrollment report. Upcoming schoolboard meeting will be June 23rd, 6:00. And that's one that uh we probably need to know if anybody's not going to be there for that because we are going to have to sign the budget if we don't have a quarum. That's pretty certain. Yeah.
091All right. And then then July 28th will be the regular school board meeting and that is now cancelled. Board comments. I I have the first one which I think you'll my apologies to all of you. You don't know why I I apologize for that. Does anybody else have any comment for the board? I think everybody's doing good. Deciding two weeks. I think there's an action every night. Sometimes two and three times. It's going to be a fun two weeks. Journ.