001How much does it educate a kid? If they're regular or special regular really get to like Definitely not blood spatter. Huh? the meeting. Yeah, perfect. Thank you. in the tonight's meeting of the school board of directors is now open. Uh I will tell you that we did have a uh executive session for personnel for this meeting. If you would please rise, pledge allegiance. A moment of silence. Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you, Mr. Howard. It will be. Let's uh let's see. M is this going to be your last roll call? You got several left. A couple more. We have a couple more. Okay. Go ahead. Who exactly? Mrs. Beachy here. Mrs.
002Gri here. Mrs. Walker here. Mr. Claire here. Mr. Bushy here. Dr. Kraton here. Mr. Gart here, Mr. Linder here, and Mr. Senate here, all nine members present. Thank you very um I jumped a gun under announcements. Again, we'll tell we had an executive session prior to this meeting and for the uh uh discuss personnel matters. Uh at this point, I need to have an approval for the agenda tonight. Second. All in favor? I opposed. We now need to have a motion to approve of the March 24th, 2025 school board meeting minutes. I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I Okay, Dr. X. Okay, we have our learners of the month this month. So, first up we have from Baron Elementary, Aubry Gray, grade four, presented by Mrs. Gay. Well, good evening. I
003am so excited to share a few words about our learner of the month. When I think about the kind of difference makers that our school district values, the innovators, the critical thinkers, reflective learners, responsible citizens, and collaborators, I automatically think of Aubrey. Aubrey is an innovator because she's not afraid to try new ideas. She's very patient when things don't work out the first time. Innovators show resilience. And this is Aubrey all the way. Whether it's persevering and solving a tricky math problem, working hard to decode a new word, or putting in extra effort with her writing, she doesn't give up when things aren't easy. She's a critical thinker, too. She asks thoughtful questions, makes great inferences, and is a great communicator. When we're reading a story, she doesn't just say what happened, but she explains
004why it happened, and she's automatically able to connect with the characters. In math, when students analyze work samples, um, she always had great things to say about what students did well or respectfully what they can improve on. As a reflective learner, she takes the time to think about what went well and what she can do even better the next time. When it's reviewing her writing or talking through a mistake, she always sees it as a chance to grow. Um, she also leaves little notes on her work to always let me know what she's thinking so that I can help her um, later after an assignment. She's also a responsible citizen in her classroom. She follows her class family rules, helps take care of her classroom, and she's always looking out for others. Um, you'll often
005see her quietly helping a classmate or picking up something that is not hers and finding out who it belongs to just because it's the right thing to do. Um, my favorite trait about her is um, her shout outs. So, we have a shout out wall in our classroom and Aubrey is always noticing other kiddos and what they're doing well um, and writes them encouraging notes to go on our shoutout wall. And finally, Aubrey is an amazing collabor collaborator. She listens to others ideas. She shares her thoughts kindly and she makes sure that everyone feels included. I love when she's working in a group and I hear her quietly invite other people to join in on a conversation by asking, "What do you think?" Um, she always has a beautiful smile on her face which makes
006everyone want to work with her. Um, and this is why all these reasons are why I chose Aubrey for the award. She shows us every day what it means to be a differencemaker and I'm really proud to celebrate her tonight. All right. Next up from Dorun Elementary, Lilo Wright, grade four, presented by Mr. Snavely. Hello, my name is Eric Snavey and I'm a fourth grade teacher at Dun Elementary. It's my pleasure tonight to introduce you to Lyra Wright, Doun Student of the Month for April. When the DO run fourth grade teachers were asked to choose the learner of the month, Lyra stood out to me as someone who needed to be recognized because of the excellence that she demonstrates each day in the classroom. Lyra's leader within the classroom and our school building. She is
007someone that both younger students and her grade level peers look to as an example of a Baron's best. The effort that Lyra puts forth in all academic areas is second to none. Whether it be reading, science, social studies, math, or probably her favorite, writing, Lyra strives to do her best on every task that is presented to her. She's accepting of challenges. She takes feedback to improve herself. Just does everything that that you would ask and expect of a of a fourth grade learner. In addition to the academic excellence that Lyra exhibits at school, she's also incredibly kind, empathetic, and compassionate toward other students and the staff at Door Run. She goes out of her way to help others when she sees or senses a need. These traits have served her well in her role as
008a reading buddy for first grader throughout the school year just and as well as during her uh interactions with others in the classroom. Along with being an outstanding student, Lyra has also has a variety of interests that keep her busy. She's a tremendous artist and loves to display her creativity through her artistic creations. She also recently had roles in two musical theater performances. Lyra is a very well-rounded child. Her friendly smile along with her empathetic and cooperative nature make her a very wellrespected member of the fourth grade and we are very proud to have her represent Dunan this month. All right from our middle school Silus Fulmer grade six presented by Mrs. Farmer. Why haven't aliens visited Earth? It's only rated one star. Oh, I decided to start with a joke because one of the
009first things that comes to mind when I think of Silus Fulmer is his many science puns and jokes. Many times this year, he's made me laugh by sharing a joke that he's found about something we were learning about or just one that he found funny. Silus's sense of humor is one of the many ways he stands out in our sixth grade class. Another way that Silus stands out is his love of learning. He has some very specific interests, and I have loved hearing about a variety of topics, ranging from fossil hunting to viruses. He's eager to share the things he's learned about. In class, I can count on him to add positive insights to class discussions, to work well with others, to find creative ways to solve problems, and to get excited when he gains
010new understanding. From his ELA teacher, Mrs. Bleacher, who says being a differencemaker means using unique qualities to inspire and impact others. And Silas does exactly that. His technological expertise allows him to solve problems and even teach me a thing or two about new technologies in the classroom. With his sharp wit and great sense of humor, Silas is is an engaged learner who makes all learning experiences in ELA fun. His creativity shines through in his unique choices for writing collaborative projects and his innovative solutions or thinking outside of the box. Earlier in the year, Silus focused on a call to action essay raising awareness about pathogens. Currently, he is researching and writing an essay about James Harrison, a blood donor who saved over two million babies by donating blood with Rh positive antibodies. Most importantly, Silas's
011positive attitude uplifts those around him, creating a unique environment where growth, curiosity, and collaboration thrive. From his math teacher, Mrs. Moore, Silas is a talented math student who always strives to do his best. Silus is ready, is a steady worker, and always wants to understand the why behind the what. He asks great questions and is quick to point out any discrepancies or new patterns he finds while solving problems. He is kind to others and inspires others to do the right thing and work harder. Silas is confident in himself and displays the qualities of being a differencemaker in his responsibility, critical thinking, and innovation. From so his social studies teacher, Mrs. Renick, Silus stands out for his inquisitive nature, always eager to ask thoughtful questions and deepen his understanding of the topics we study. His kindness
012and willingness to help others creates a positive environment for both his classmates and teachers. Silus shows a genuine interest in learning and demonstrates an awareness of the world around him, often making connections between classroom lessons and current events. Most importantly, Silas approaches every task with his best effort, setting a strong example of perseverance, curiosity, and character for all. And finally, from his STEM teacher, Mr. Funk. Silas is an exceptional critical thinker and does not take shortcuts in processing his STEM projects. He wants to achieve the ideal solution to each challenge and gives maximum effort toward the intended goals of the project. Silas is incredibly kind and thoughtful. He goes out of his way to make others feel comfortable in a group setting. He has a very high level of intelligence, but he never makes others
013feel inferior or like their voices don't matter. Silus asks relevant questions when working through the design process. They are questions that are showing a level of higher level thinking. Finally, Silus is an extremely creative. Each time he proposes the SAM challenge, I am excited to see the way Silas is going to process a unique solution. Silus really does exemplify the differencemaker attributes and core values of what it means to be a baron. And up next for the from the high school, we have Katherine Kolsnik, grade nine, presented by Dr. Whit. Good evening everyone. Fortunately, Mrs. Nol couldn't be here. Uh, busy coaching softball, but the social studies department has nominated Katherine Coulsnik as our April student of the month. Uh, Mrs. Nol shared the following that she had Catherine during AP US history freshman year.
014She's adept. Uh, she's well read in a variety of historical uh topics, possesses a keen historical mind for connecting context, developments, and themes within and across multiple time periods. Uh, Katherine is quick to respond to class discussions, offer assistance to her peers, and collaborating with others. She's also involved in a number of curriculum through Baron Stage. Uh, so she performed in You Can't Take It With Us and then Mama Mia. She's also uh started a club well with another with several other students, a speech and debate club just for 9th graders, has 30 members already um and still growing according to Mrs. Nol. She's also involved in Interact Club. So, needless to say, Mrs. note wrote uh her love for history as a parent and her effort she puts forth in class and her constant
015desire to learn and grow as an individual. So congratulations Catherine. And then we also wanted to let everyone know that from the CTC in Brownstown, Sean Holland, grade 12. Yeah. So Sean Holland is a award winner from the high school keeping that string alive of CTC award winners. Uh and he was nominated by his teacher Mr. Piper and Mr. Piper wrote the following. Uh Shawn has been at the top since the very beginning of the school year and has uh held fast with that with the challenging class. His grades have been great all year, applying himself to the work he's been given. He's been able to take what he has been taught and apply to everyday class uh needs such as assignments and projects. Uh he is a leader with his knowledge uh and he
016shares with others. So congratulations Sean Holland. I think we had a student from Mannheim Central every single month for CTC. I think uh I think this school year I think it's probably about right. Yeah. So CTC kids are doing awesome. Yeah, they are. Thanks Dr. White. Okay, that's it for me, Mr. Claire. Okay. Um recognition of visitors. No one. Okay, very good. We're going to jump right in. Uh to personnel, I would like to have a motion for Oh, yeah. Didn't you want to stay for the rest of the meeting? I don't know why you want to go home now. Go ahead. He's getting excited. Thank you very much, everybody. Parents, congratulations. still and then there was still then there was five six was coming. All right. Uh, I'd like to motion clear personnel for
0177 A through E. 7 through P. Motion move. Second. Yes. Any questions? All in favor? I post. Scott, you're on the hot seat now. Scott Govern is the new director of athletics and activities. Say anything? Uh, first of all, I want to say thank you guys. It's uh this has been a long process because of where your board meeting fell. So, it's uh you've been sitting on us for a while. I've been sitting on this for a long time. So, it I got to tell you, I walk up here and you have children playing instruments in a board meeting and I'm thinking, "Wow, they do this every board meeting and it has nothing to do with me. This is amazing." I'm just so impressed with this school district. That's the reason I applied in the
018first place. So, I'm honored to stand in front of you and to receive your your votes and especially that they were unanimous, which is even better. Um but I'm also humbled at the same time and I look forward to uh elevating our students and because of its not just athletics and it is also with extracurricular and act all the activities that gives me the opportunity to impact and enhance the experience for as many kids as I can as possible and to make their middle school and high school experience a positive one and that's what this is all about. and uh you'll find that I'm very approachable and I'm very passionate about working with kids and all activities. So, I can't thank you guys enough for this opportunity. I will put my head down to the
019ground and get to work for you guys as soon as I'm allowed to. And I really appreciate you guys giving me your vote of confidence. So, thank you very much. Put on one more. I don't know do you remember it stood with me the last question in the interview what that question was and your response. I don't know if you remember that. Why Why Manheim Central? Yeah. I think if you might tell the rest of them why they weren't there is that stood out to me. It really Yeah. This is uh why not Mannheim Central? This is one of the best. This is the crown jewel of the Lancaster Lebanon area school district and I I've waited for opportunities like this. I've been around, this is my 26th year as an athletic director. And you
020know, I started talking to uh Dave Han because he was the acting interim athletic director at the time. And once we started talking, I'm like, this is a tremendous opportunity for me and this is a great place to be at. These are tremendous students and your community facilities are beautiful. Like you've guys vested into the kids. So, you tell me that that that tells me that it matters to you and the facilities, the culture that we have, and then I was fortunate enough to talk to some of your kids. I didn't know that they were on the uh third round of the interview, and that was even better. That's that's where I'm going to shine the most is with your with your children and the opportunity to speak with them and what they did to
021describe what Manheim Central means to them because I asked them I asked them a lot of questions. I basically turned an interview around. So it was on them more or less and I was interviewing them and the things that they said toughness, competitiveness, empathetic, um, kind, like these are the words that your kids in your district expressed to what Manh Central was to them and that's the same values that I have. So I knew it was a great fit with the kids and uh, can't wait to get started with you guys. Thank you. Thank you guys. meeting room. And just so everyone knows, Kelly Martin couldn't be here tonight because she's presenting their budget at for a board meeting, but she did want you to all know that she's really excited to becoming a Baron
022again. She's excited to come back. So, want all of you to know that as well. She said she'd say hi to Dr. Akenforce. Um Scott, if you talk if you talk to uh Dave or any of them guys. I'm sure they can uh fix you up with some maroon and gray. Yes. Or already have they? Well, they haven't yet. Okay, they will. All right, let's go on. Uh we'll go u F through J. Motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second questions. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. Somewhere along here we uh holding down. Yeah, I made a note on here and go ahead superintendent. Okay. First, we want to thank the middle school orchestra that came and played for us on the way in today. Um, that's pretty neat to have our student report be live
023music this time. Um, I also want to remind everyone there's a lot of end of year activities coming up. Uh, in we just had our egg banquet on Friday and now we get into a lot of the concerts and awards. Uh, we have our barntormers night on the 6th of next week. If you want to get tickets, your principles have sent that out in the newsletter. Uh, and we're really excited about all the end of the year. Also, teacher appreciation is coming up, so make sure you thank your teachers. Uh, they've done a tremendous job this year, and we're we're really honored to have them here with us. Um, as far as other things, the monsters that were supposed to be coming tonight, the art monsters are coming next month now instead of tonight. uh
024just yeah, you'll have to wait for another month to see those monsters, but we will see them for sure next month. And that's why we're happy we had the uh orchestra here tonight. So, I want to thank everyone for an awesome year. We have a month to go. Let's keep it up and enjoy enjoy the home stretch with all the fun activities we have coming up. So, since we don't have monsters this week, we're going to the budget. Ironically, it's a kind of monster. Yeah. Um, so we we do have our our big budget board budget workshop next week, I think. Right. The Y. So, this is this is a bit of a teaser for that meeting. So, it's um, so we're not going into just a week apart. Not a whole lot's going to
025change, but I don't want to go too far into stuff tonight. Kind of this is a preview for that. So, where we currently stand, and this is after March uh 31's numbers are in. Uh Amy is working feverishly on April, and she said she's going to have it ready to go, which is a pretty big feat. Uh so, we can look at it where we ended at at April and what that does to our numbers. But right now, we're looking at we're head we're heading for just under 400,000 uh deficit uh finish for the year. Now things can change there. Some of some of these things go in. I do tweak a lot of the numbers but things like transportation, cyber charter, some of those items have big ticket numbers and if we see a
026change in the in the movement of those, it may come up or down. Um we we might scratch out a break even here. Um if if the numbers if the numbers go our way. Uh but uh at this this point it looks like it's going to finish under uh zero. Um if if you do recall, we did have a bond refinancing of about you know close to 600,000 of savings. So uh if you consider that as we look at this number as well. So kind of the topics and concerns for the budget and the things we're really keeping an eye on uh state funding the adequacy piece. So that's been talked about a lot. Uh that's the bulk of if that adequacy piece comes through that's going to be the bulk of our increase in
027state funding. Uh not just Mannheim Central but a lot of districts need that funding to come through especially with the way costs have have moved cyber charter reform. you may be seeing some article I've seen some articles uh in the paper about uh the value of kids being in the classroom and I think I don't I don't think that's you know um a surprise because I think there's a push uh to try to reform the cyber charter funding and what that would do is just put a cap on the tuition for regular and special ed uh students. Uh the the initial cap was around 8,000 that they were talking about. I highly doubt 8,000 is going to be the cap. I think it's going to be closer um to, you know, 135 or 14. Um
028the increasing need for special services. We've talked about that before. More and more kids are being identified as needing special services and that's uh putting some financial strain uh as a as kind of the uh side effect of that uh slow assessment growth. So, we're watching that. Mr. Linder and I had a conversation today was asking about some of the new commercial development and the apartments and town homes. I checked looked at the inter room bills. They're not being added yet. Although some some of them like the ones across the road are still not on our tax roles. I do have some of that built into our future projections. Uh but uh I will look into that and kind of find out where that number is going to settle for us, what that means. So
029these are just kind of four things we're looking at. the really main drivers of our budget right now. We'd really really like to see the adequacy piece and it would be really helpful for Cyber Charter to have a flat tuition. That would be big for our budget. So, revenue assumptions that I currently have in the budget, we talked about this. I currently have a 3% millage increase in there. Each 1% is yielding about $43,000. Um, collection rate is the actual rate for 2425. That's been a kind of a little bit of a bright spot. Uh, that number's been down on the low 96 end. Uh, it's up almost to 97% 2425. So, we're going to use that collection rate moving forward. And again, the majority of the new development not in the current assessed value.
030And then the adequacy piece, I did in in uh include that in the budget numbers. So that number is baked in uh as if the way it was intended to. So it would add on to last year's uh base amount. Where we're at, I have the projected number there of 38858 down for 2425 with a 3% increase. We're still looking at uh a $1.37 million uh deficit. I know that's really tiny. Um but that's where we're currently at. We're still tweaking numbers back and forth. Budgets are changing. Dollars are coming in and out. We're looking at one of the main things we're looking at now our benefits cost. Uh Miss Miller and I have a have a meeting coming up where we're going to discuss rate increases and where we need our budget to sit
031there. uh that could if if anything that'll most likely ring about, you know, 100 or two off of the number potentially as we lower the rate on that. The one thing I want to point out there if you look at that is the 2324 actual numbers are uh the net the net change the deficit spending of 780,000. And what that really means is the new expenditures exceeded the the new revenue. So whatever revenue we added, we spent more money than that. And it looks like we're also heading that way for 2425. And a lot of that is due to the ESSER funds coming off of our we were riding the ESRE funds for several years there. And so now we've had two years in a row where our new recurring expenditures have exceeded uh the
032new revenue. And that's a trend that will probably continue into 2526, but it's something that we'll need to address moving forward e either through revenue growth or through expenditure uh elimination or reduction. And then so what's the plan? If we're going to have a deficit for 2425 and we're projecting one for next year as well, what's the plan? Well, we do have healthy fund balances and reserves and so we're going to use the reserves to uh balance out the small deficit in 2425 and then we'll also use that to balance the budget in 2526. Uh but again that's a trend that can't continue moving forward. That's not sustainable after a number of years using fund balance to balance the budget. So that's something that we'll have to focus on. Um you know getting some efficiencies
033and also finding some revenue as well. The effect of uh millage increase on taxpayers. I always like to put out to the board what it means to a taxpayer when we do a tax increase. And there you can see various millage rate increases. 199 is the median uh assessed homestead value. Um, and add 3% that would be about an increase of 100%. It were a $300,000 assessed value that would mean an increase of $151. Real quick, I don't know if you guys know, do we know how many people that are eligible for the homestead that that are not actually taking advantage of it within the school district? Is that even a number we can bolster? don't know that offhand, but I think that that report we could probably back into that number. If there is,
034I mean, I think we should make those homeowners know that that's available for them. Take advantage of it. All eligible homeowners do actually get a notice uh of of Okay. Yeah. That gets sent out. That's a service that they that we do through the IU13. They send out a notice to all eligible uh taxpayers. So um thank you. They are notified. So what are the next steps? Uh next week as I spoke about the board workshop uh that's specifically uh for the budget and then on the 19th when we come back to the school board meeting we'll ask for an approval of the uh proposed final budget and then the finally the final budget approval we'll ask for that for the board to consider that on June 23rd. So, any questions? I don't have a
035question. I do have a comment though. um just being stewards of taxpayer dollars. I think not only, you know, are we going to have to look at possibly a tax increase, but I think just to do everybody service, we really need to look at our expenses, all options, wherever they're at, and where can we create savings long-term expenditures, look at everything because where we're at now, Brian's painting the picture, if we don't change the direction of the ship, it could be uh really bad in several years from now, I think. So, we need to start having those conversations while it's a much easier time right now than agree. Brian, you'll have hard copies for us on the 5th, right? So, we can go through them. Yep. And Brian, you projected 3%. And the max that
036we could increase is only 5.5. It's four actually this year. So, REO, the base index act one is 4%. And the 3% yielded a deficit of 1.7 million. 1 36 36 36 And that if we would go to four, that's even going to be.9. Yeah, that'll be well each 1%'s about four 403,000. So that would be somewhere around 900,000. And again, admittedly, as most business directors have to budget conservately on things like healthare and those types of things, but we hope there's opportunities there for savings in those numbers, which is why a lot of times you'll see the actual numbers perform better than the budgeted numbers. But the what I look at is trends. And when you look at some trends, we've had a downward, you know, was kind of a shrinking surplus over a
037number of years. So now we're maybe at the point where we're going to we're going to tilt under zero for a little bit. So I'm I'm looking more about the trend. Um but yeah, I mean obviously the budget number of just under 14 there. We're hoping health insurance comes in a little bit lower. We're hoping other benefits come in lower. Um may maybe some other labor numbers come in a little bit better. So, we're always hoping to outperform that budget number and we're hoping that by by next year at this time a lot of these properties are on the books and that there cyber charter reform is in has come to fruition. Now, those are things, you know, we can't say for sure, but we're hopeful. I mean, we know for sure the properties will
038be in the books eventually, but we don't we can't we don't control the cyber. We're all trying. I know we're doing advocacy and all those things, but I shared the numbers in our update this week. So we know what that looks like for all your advocacy that you're doing on I know you've been leading the the one one of the things we don't know and so you know we we can keep our fingers crossed for but sometimes we'll get a a large delinquency uh you know a back real estate tax payment or we'll get a a larger than expected earned income uh flow in in July or August that will acrew back to this to this year. So those are the things. Local revenue is kind of our X factor. We could potentially still get
039additional local revenue that would help balance out this year. Did you say you were going to try and put a roundabout estimate with all the potential new properties that are should hopefully come on in the next year or so? What that number could a generalized number? Yeah. What we can do is sit down and and we'll look at some comparable properties. Okay. Uh so like we have some of those apartment complexes going in. We have a large apartment complex out on Holly Tree. Uh so we can look at that and see where that that that nets us a little bit over $300,000. So we can kind of look at what we're getting there and how that might project to the other properties of that. So that's definitely something I can build in. I know you
040can't project when they'll hit the roll, but maybe what the dollar will be. Yeah, there could be there could be a nice cash flow from that once you know we get the interim bills for that. you know, when they all get high or have rented, you know, do a lot for our cash flow. I I do feel an important point for the board and for the public that if we look at the teachers association agreement that's negotiated every three years, we make commitments. We have obligations in that agreement and that's roughly check my math here Brian but 70% of our budget is roughly tied into that agreement. Uh not not necessarily that agreement that's a large part of it. 70% it would be our total uh labor and benefits cost and that would be for
041like administrators for support staff and for teachers. But the teacher contract does drive a large part of so a lot of times the benefits that get negotiated within there flow through to the rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest rest of the staff so but it it is a labor and benefits are a large part of our budget so 3% is in that agreement and that carries over year-over-year something that we I think it's three this year five I think it's 3.5 Five 3.5%. Yeah, it actually is a little bit different this year. It was higher at the beginning and then it came down. Um when when does it renegotiate? 26. Yeah, I think that's the next next fall we or in two falls we start not this fall and
042next fall. So I think in the context of Matt's comments and getting on a sustainable path, it's we have to be aware of commitments we're making. Yeah. that are we are planning in July with our leadership team to do like a K through 12 audit for efficiency similar to what we did this past year where I was giving you updates on different savings that we're finding and we're planning on doing that again this year because we found some success doing that as a group this past year. I'd like to see it being able to tighten the ship and have the income coming from the new apartments going in rather than hitting our um land owners. You know, they get hit enough but uh you know it's you can hope. Okay. All right. And then next
043up I have distribution of policies for first read 108239 808 and 913.1. I know Dr. Flannry sent you the highlights for those policies for next time. And that's my report. Thank you Dr. Flannry. Yes. Before I start with my first official item that was printed on the agenda, I have a positive I wanted to share with the group. Um we're really excited Mrs. Pain from food service has uh been contacted by and we've been working with IARK and PA central food bank. Um they have done um a farmers market successfully in the western half of the state for the past couple years. Um that is a free service to families. Um and we're excited that it'll be the first year we were able to bring that here. So on May 16th, which is the same
044night as carnival for elementary, we paired it that way because there'll already be so many people out for that event. Um that takes place at the farm show building. We will have there uh the central food bank with about they said the food on average is between 2,000 and 8,000 pounds of fresh produce. Um and so we're just trying to promote that um in two levels. We need about 10 to 12 volunteers that night just to help keep boxes stocked. That's the only function. What night was that? May 16th, the Friday night of the elementary car. So if you know anyone that'd be interested in volunteering, you can get that name to myself or to Mrs. Spain. And then secondly, just to promote it to the public and let people know that, you know, as
045grocery bills get higher and higher, this is a time that, you know, they can get more than just canned or preserved goods. This will be fresh food that's that's donated from the food bank. So, we're we're really grateful for this opportunity. If it goes well, it's something we're hoping to be able to do again annually. Great. I'll put I'll put a reminder in the next update to let Amy know if any of you are interested in being able to volunteer. Just like to give a shout out to Sarah. She has done a lot of uh in new things within the cafeteria over the last several years and it's brought a lot of uh benefits to the community. So, she's doing a really good job. Is that open to all families or any man home family?
046Yeah. Okay. How many volunteers are we looking for? We're looking for between 10 and 12. 12. And it's in the Farm Show building. So, it's uh I don't know. Uh Mrs. Dr. Moly, if you can tell me. I know they were going back and forth with the PTO. It was going to be in the building or outside in the parking lot. Do you don't happen to know? I don't know if that's been decided yet, but it'll either be in the building where like the reptile guy normally is outside next year. Probably weather permitting. We're trying to just figure out if they'll Well, and the carnival takes up like that whole area. So, so they've been working with the PTAs, PTO's to be able to figure out how to share that space. So, that rid of
047that dunk tank. I'll be volunteering in the dunk. Oh, I think don't we always put one of the new people in the dump tank? [Laughter] Welcome to Mannheim. Uh then for the two printed items on the agenda, the first was just to um give a shout out to several people that um you made it a very successful site visit. So, one thing we're particularly proud of here at Mannheim is when we can show off the hard work that our teachers and our learners have been doing. Um, and through the work of Dr. Nemoth, we were able to partner with the PA um, student centered learning network to be able to show off all of the hard work of our staff. This was on Tuesday, April 1st. So, kudos to Dr. Neoth and her team of
048teachers and instructional coaches who opened up our district, their buildings, and their classrooms for a site visit surrounding what we've been working with. Um, in terms of personalized learning, we had seven different schools from two different intermediate units and 15 total educators come around. We also had school board members there. I know Michelle Gingrich was there. I'm going to have her speak into that a little bit, but we just wanted to um, you know, shout out about the journey that that they got to see with our students in in terms of badging, self-paced courses, inquiry based learning, and more. Um, and thank you for like attending that day. The organization from Dr. Neth was outstanding. Um, and so I'm going to turn it over to her and also to uh Mrs. Gingrich to just talk
049a little bit about the day. Great. So I don't know, Mrs. Gingrich, if you want to share um a little bit about your experience, that would be great. Absolutely. It was it was really just a fantastic time to be there because I have not been in a classroom for a little while. So I gained a lot of valuable knowledge. Uh especially when it comes to the personalized learning. uh it kind of opened my eyes to to how it actually works in the classroom because I I couldn't quite picture how it worked. So, it was very valuable for me to see that. And you know, I really enjoyed just that aspect of it. Um, the kids I was, I don't know if I want to say pleasantly surprised, but they were just so engaged and helping
050each other and working together and just sort of collaborating and that's the beauty of it. And so just being able to see it uh actually working really made it uh yeah made it a special time to to interact with them and see how they learn because I think you know when I think about how boys and girls learn and how it's different um you could see how they could customize it depending on the kid. Uh so I think that that's really really valuable. And the last thing that I really gleaned was our teachers are phenomenal. I mean, I knew that, but just seeing them in action, I truly was amazed. I could not do what they do and they do it so well. So, it was it was a really good day. Appreciate you being
051there. She was a trooper. Stay till the debrief and everything. So, it was great. Mr. Claire was there for the um the intro, but um as you know, we've been on this journey for personalized learning. And what's really exciting is in the state of Pennsylvania, this network, this Pennsylvania student centered uh learning network is all trying to create this common definition um for personalized learning. So, this is districts across the entire state of Pennsylvania. So, you have all of these people joining together in um I would say like bimonthly meetings. Um, and they started the goal was to create the these site visits then. Um, and so for us, we were the first site visit in the IU13. Um, and so from what the IU shared, we really knocked everyone's socks off, which was great.
052Um, it was a great start for the IU visits here. Um, but there were um, as as Dr. Dr. Flannry shared there were seven different school organizations and some were from Manheim Township and Epherta, Elizabeth Town, IU13, the CCIU which is Chester County and then we had um two unique ones. Our Lady of the Angels came to check out what was going on for personalized learning. They're trying to do some new things and then we had um Elizabeth Town College join us. So they're trying to make a connection. Um they want their professors to try some of these learning walks. So they wanted to see this model in action and they were very excited about what they saw. So, the way we structured the day was everybody started at the high school. Um, we did
053a little like walk through Mannheim Central's personalized learning journey and then everybody got to choose which level they wanted to go see. Um, and then they broke into those levels. So, we had people at at every different level, every different building across the district, which was really fun. Um, and so they got to do six walk through six different teachers classrooms and then we came back together to do a debrief where those teachers could ask questions of our teachers. we had some of our teachers who um were were visited at the at the debrief and so it was just a really nice collaborative learning opportunity. Um it was it was so good that um Epherta had said they want to come back and see some more at the high school and so we're trying to
054set that up as well. Um so it just it showed u what we have here at Mannheim Central and the hard work and dedication of our teachers and um it was just a really proud day for us. So thank you for allowing us to come and talk about it. Yeah. And on top of that, we now have a superintendent cohort from York and Lancaster County that is coming at the end of this month to do a similar type of learning walk and progression because of the work that Dr. Neoth and her team has done. So, we're really proud of all these efforts. So, thank you. Thank you. And then the final item on my report today is just our staffing report. So, as we kind of continue our journey to the budget, uh, Mrs. Miller
055is going to take a deeper dive into our proposed changes to staffing this evening. So, I will turn it over to her. Good evening. Brian, thanks. Yeah. Okay. So, today's presentation outlines the staffing recommendations that we have for the 2526 school year. Uh this is what we previewed last month. Um we're just going to review the professional retirements and a restructured position um to address increased student needs over at the middle school. Um we're also going to review staffing for kindergarten and potential ESL special education needs due to projected uh enrollment increases. And then furthermore, we'll review the financial impact of these staffing changes. Um, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of recognizing our administrative staff for all of their hard work and the input into this plan. U they they've had to make some
056really difficult decisions this year uh to meet the needs of our students while also acknowledging the necessary budget constraints. Uh so I do thank them for all of their efforts this school year. We'll start with the overall view of the plan and then dive into some specifics. You can please proceed. So this is the slide I shared last time. Um we talked about the retirements that we actually had this school year. Um so we had like three elementary teacher retirements. Um we'd be replacing all of those. So three for three. Um we did have a full-time media specialist retire as well. Um the one change here is that we are actually looking to replace onetoone. We had thrown around the idea of a half-time part-time replacement. Um but that actually wouldn't work out. budgetarily wise.
057Um so we would be looking to replace one to one. Uh we also are looking to restructure a computer science teacher into a counselor position due to uh increased student needs. I'll be diving into that a bit more here with this presentation. Um and then to review an additional ask is at the kindergarten level our enrollment numbers are skyrocketing. Um so I'll break down that for you as well. Um, and then just kind of like tapping you on the ESL special education situation. We're just seeing an increased um, student uh, need in those areas as well. So, this is that restructured position just to illustrate some of the rationale. Um, the elementary level has three counselors. Our middle school, which is actually more students than the high school, um, has only two counselors. Um so
058uh I can share some statistics and everything but basically um they're inundated. Their case loads are overwhelming. Um and they are kind of like that at all levels. But obviously adding an additional counselor to the middle school would help mitigate um those intense behaviors that we are seeing but overall it would not be an ad. So these this is like kind of like a top priority issues uh regarding the middle school counselor ask. Um so right now the recommendation overall for um case loads is 250 students to one. At the middle school we are currently looking at double that. Um as well as we're seeing um almost like a bottleneck in appointments. So those appointments are student requested. Um we did notice like a decrease in this coming like this past school year. But basically
059it it looks like looking at the data uh our counselors are inundated um with staff referrals, safety meetings, discipline. Um they're they're spread thin. So they're asking for additional help. Uh just to make you aware what's going on with kindergarten, we are seeing the COVID babies um come into kindergarten. So, for the past couple of years, we've been around the 1778 mark. This year, we're seeing a a drastic increase. Um, so we are asking for an additional position at the kindergarten level over at Baron Elementary. Um, if you want to continue to the next slide, um, this is just kind of like a breakdown from year to year of where we're at. If you can look at the pre-registration um, line, you can see last year at this point in time, we're at 19 kiddos.
060Right now we're at 53, which is where we're currently at at Baron Elementary. Um, so if you can just think like over the summer we still get kiddo enrollment. Um, we're just anticipating like the need for an additional teacher over at Baron Elementary. Um, then we'll see how do run pans out as well, but we're looking at an 8% increase uh to those numbers. ESL. Um we're looking to do some internal movement to address these needs, but reality this is a trend that will not be going away. Um we're seeing an increased need continuing um throughout the school years to address um English uh learners, English language learners. All right. And this is the slide where um we just kind of break down how staffing looks. I've kind of made it super simple so you
061can see how the staffing moves uh would pan out as far as our like snapshot budget right here. Um overall there are some um attritional savings um that help us to uh keep the staff that we have um and kind of you know make make the necessary changes that we need. But overall, good luck. Congrat. Um, can you put together and send out I'd love to look at a historical looking at staff levels and student enrollment. Could you go back 10 years and give us what we'd be looking at enrollment wise, grade levels, and then what staffing looked like. We went that including the Yeah. 10 years back, the whole thing. Yeah. just to be able to look to see trendwise where we were at student enrollment, staffing, and it it just to me it
062works out well to look at trends and see where we're going right now, where we've been and where we're going, like our ratio. Yeah. Exactly. Yep. Like we talked about, there's new buildings going up. So, there's definitely going to be a incoming influx of kidos. So, this is a good thing. Any other questions? Sorry, I have a question. Maybe two. So, looking at uh the middle school, you talked about removing that computer science person and moving or filling it with a counselor. You good? Yeah. Okay. Um I swear, John, I didn't break it here. Just put it in the budget. Um when you look at that role, are we still having computer science for those students or are we taking that away? Like how does that look? Yeah, the trend is really to go into
063like STEM rather than just computer science. So, we're kind of like expanding upon that and that's going to be like a multi-year transition. Okay. Yeah. And Dr. Neoth will have a report at um academic. Okay. About some things that we want to do for without going too far because we're just having preliminary conversations to give kids more voice and choice. So, it'll open up um some options the way that we want to. But I again I don't want to go too far because we were starting to look at it. So does a function more like an elective versus like embedded STEM? Um so for seventh grade that's where computer science was. So um it wouldn't be an elective there. We're looking at the choice for our five six. Um so that's what we'll kind of
064talk through more and that STEM would be at 78. So it would have stem um K the whole way to eight. So it would be like a nice Yeah. And then my other question was regarding the media specialist. Can you tell us a little bit more about what that role is? Well, you mean it's both at Doon and Baron Elementary. They go between buildings. They go between buildings. Um there is an instructional piece there, but it's mainly like helping the kids pick out books um and also like helping staff um with their instructional needs as well. And they also teach uh classes. Dr. Mori can speak to the courses they teach. So at both buildings they teach um each grade level in the special block. So the librarian is at Baron uh for five out
065of the six cycle days and then they go to do run for one day. Um so they are teaching between um like four to five classes a day. So it would be a little bit of a change with the special rotation if we were replacing that person. And at the middle school and high school level, both um Mike and his team and Josh and his team are looking at um different capacities for the media specialists as well. Again, like we're just getting into that now and that would be part of summer audit, but academic more of that report. Yeah. Well, thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Treasures the report. Great. Yes. Thank you, Mr. Clair. Yeah. So, we have four sections tonight. I've gone through these reports. They've
066been prepared to the uh standard procedure of finance team and they all any questions that the board members had on any of the reports that were presented. My recommendation would be to approve. So we can motion you doing sorry just to go back A through D. A through D. Yep. Just kind Brian, Amy, you guys do a great job every month. So, just thank you for all the work you guys do into it. Appreciate it. All in favor to approve. I post. Thank you. All right. We'll go to the board committee reports. Oh, business ops. All right. So, we had our meeting on April 14th. Uh really the next the biggest thing is is uh policy reading 913.1 discarding regarding advertising and sponsorships. And that really comes down to really looking at ways that we
067can generate additional revenue uh based on our facilities and grounds. So, uh, Scott, you and I will be working hand inand to really look at that and how we can not only, uh, take advantage of what we have to put some money back in coffers. So, yeah. And we have two people, uh, Scott Govern and Kelly Martin, who have experience in some of this, so they'll be able to bring their, uh, seasoning to us with some of the advice on direction to go with that. Uh lastly, just our next meeting is to be determined. We'll have Thank you. Question like a uh maybe you already have it like a camera like the base or you know base plate for baseball to look out and watch the game like a uh we were talking about that
068before but I don't think we're there yet putting a camera. We later on I think you were talking about that right? Why I'm saying that why I'm saying that is that they have one down at DW Lampard Lamper because we're sitting in the board meeting the guy beside me watching the baseball watching the game and it only gives us it was kind of cool. I know I can only speak to youth little league level like my kids are nine and 12 but a coach can put their phone and do that and that's like sometimes how I will watch it if I'm away you can watch the live feed of but it might depend on like I'm sure there's fancy you get. Yeah, it's a little fancy. This was nice. It had the, you know, the
069game changer. The huddle came in the people wanted to play. It was kind of cool. We have huddle at the turf soccer field, but not the baseball field, right? Uh, it's to be installed at the turf. Okay. So, we can look at we have it coming to the turf. I know there was conversations about the baseball field eventually, but I don't know where we're at with the budget and stuff. I was there. What are you doing? You know, Sure. All right. And academic is what? Yes. Our meeting is coming up May 5th here. I didn't realize that's the same as budget. Yes. That's come for the five o'clock meeting. Bring a snack. Track. Stay for the board meeting. Last track me. That is where Dr. Neth will be able to share with me detail of
070the middle school schedules and what great That's it. All righty. Activities committee report. Well, I have a long one. I know. Um, we we had a meeting on April 14th. We went over a lot of stuff. I'll try to go over as quick as I can. Uh, we got an update on the athletic director, Scott. Thank you. Um, uh, Mama Mia raised over $19,000 in ticket sales. Uh, was it was fantastic. I think everyone saw it. Congratulations to Tyler. Senior night was Senior Citizens Night was a big hit and they're considering doing it in the for the fall show. Um we got filled in uh on the fall and spring musical. The fall play will be 1120 21 and 22 and the spring will be 3:25 326 328 and 329. The shows will be revealed
071later this spring. And then uh Miss Han Gabby did a um a overview on a a pro a product called healthy rosters where it's it takes all the medical records. So the trainers, the physicians, the school can communicate with the trainers, the coaches and parents of just medical conditions and like house all their approvals and stuff like that. Sounds great. Uh just so anybody sees also you can upload your child's physical object. You can upload your parents can do it. Nobody else can but they makes it super easy and then they have everything. If someone's allergic to something, they have that information right on their phone at the field instead of having to go back and get it. So it's and they're going to start using that I think now. Yeah. Um and then Mr.
072Han went over a summer coaches seminar and workshop with a tenative date of June 23rd. Um the content will be se seminars from presenters that are current coaches, former graduates and specialize in their field of injury prevention. Um then we had a couple of field trips. Mr. Campbell came in and request for a request for a foreign language chip trip to Japan. Um they would fly from Japan to Japan on July 24th and return on or June 24th and return on uh July 1st. They're hoping to have up to 32 students with six adults. It'll be going through the EF tours. All the insurance and all that stuff is is on there. And the approximate cost is 57 $5,700. And Mr. Campbell also told us that they're going to Barcelona this year, which we've already
073approved, and they have five exchange students leaving for Barcelona this year. And then Miss Hecman requested a a FFA trip to Italy on Italy from June 25th to July 4th for FFA students. It's also run through EF tours. They're going to be seeing all kinds of farms and how people are are doing agricultural over um in Europe. Uh the cost of that's about $5,000, but they have a anonymous donation of $1,500 per person, reducing the cost to like $3,500, which is great. Um and then the football uh is requesting to go to a the Blue Ridge School in Virginia for a summer camp. Um it's out of state state overnight trip June 27th to the 29th for the football team coaches and five chaperones. The team would participating in in steam uh team building activities.
074The total cost is $16,000 which is donated by the football booster club and the touchdown club. So the prices to the students will be zero. We also had one club proposal. M Higgins and Tyler Berno is starting a staying active and fit club. There's no other clubs like that. They're going to be voting on it and playing stuff like basketball, floor hockey, etc. The club advisors would be Mr. Sheen and Miss Crider, and the cost of the club would be zero. Uh we we went over a rental update. Dr. Flannry uh indicated that the direct the director facility program has continued to receive multiple requests. People are working on that. Uh we have some important dates to note. On May 28th is the maroon and gray awards. I think we all got something inviting us
075to that. May 7th is the year end awards assembly. Senior graduation is May 30th. Step up day for the eighth graders is is to be determined. The last day of school is June 4th and we will have another activities meeting in the fall of 2025. And then just two little side notes that we didn't discuss in the meeting. I uh I went to Unified Track and that was awesome. If anyone ever has a chance to go to Unified Track, it's definitely good. And then I also had a chance to go to the um A banquet. I was invited to the A banquet and it was awesome. I mean, these kids, it's like a whole meeting that the kids run the whole show and there's awards and everything. It's really, really good. So, if you have
076a chance to go there, I would highly recommend it. And that's it for our reporting. Oh, actually, that's not it for our we have to vote on some things. So, um I'd like to make a motion that we approve the club, the Stay Fit Club. We approve the Baron Stage uh fall play and spring musical. And we approve the field trips to Japan and uh Italy and the summer football camp at Blige. And I just want to let you know on both of those trips to Japan and Italy, it there's no funds that we're paying for. The kids come up with the they get their own money and they pay for everything. So it doesn't cost tax pay taxpayer payer and it includes insurance. It includes all the insurance that's all guaranteed. Yeah. Chaperons as
077well. The chaperons have to pay for their own. Okay. Yeah. Everyone pays for their own. It's it's a little bit more expensive. Okay. For them. So I make a a motion that we approve all the all that stuff. I'll second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Any questions? All in favor? I I thank you. No, you did very well. General action items. I'm going to do this one so we don't forget it. the uh we have to do a resolution for the board of school directors and every uh school district has to do it and it's adopting and approving an amendment to the articles of incorporation of Lancaster Lebanon joint authority and proposed by resolution of the board of said authority setting forth the proposed amendment and authorizing set authority in proper officers
078out. We have Thank goodness I don't have to It was okay. I All right. Well, then go back to the auction items and I think we take uh A and um well A through E. I say one thing. Sure. the guys from the uh Lancaster from they they came out from IU came out and I mean I don't know if anyone had a chance to they were here they they explained all the stuff they do I mean it really is an amazing organization that they they're letting us use their fields they let us do a lot and obviously we all know that but he just came to tell us and it was he did a nice job he did a nice job yeah and they have some things that they're putting in place especially with
079different options to reduce costs. So hopefully in the coming years we'll see additional savings. Yeah, I think Matt will do a good job. Sorry, Mike. No, no, no. You said A through E, correct? A through E. I'll make a motion. Motion. Second. Second. Dr. Ghart. Any questions? All in favor? I posted. Okay, very good. And then I think we can go F through M. F through M slow. I have a question quick. Um I forgot to ask it. What is G? What is smart UPS backup software that John? So yes, piece of hardware to replace uh our current system. Um, it's it's end of life. We can't get parts anymore for it. What is it? It powers our whole data center. Okay, that's important. I was just curious. Sorry, I forgot to ask before. I
080do want to point out significantly cheaper than replacing the existing unit to come up with a less expensive solution. And if you're the the business ops meeting, I missed it. Sorry. He saved the tons of money just left. Yeah. John, we need to give you a what? A badge and a boy. You go in his you go in his office and it's back to him and then you look up and there's one, two, three, four screens or and he's working at home here. Out of Doge. Can you explain uh item F being? Yes. That um it's the approval that during the summer time it would give the uh uh superintendent authorized to um do anything that needs to be done just over the summer. Just over the summer when everybody else is gone, right? And
081because we don't we only have a meeting in July if necessary. And as always, if there's something big that comes across, I'll be contacting everyone anyway. So, and this is standard the standard of school board. Looks good. Okay. Any other questions? We'll second. Now, we can ask first. Steve made the motion. I second it. I thought you made it. All right, we ready to go. All in favor? I vote. All right. And then I think we can take uh M through P. There we're proving your field trips again. So I know those are different field trips. Yeah, they're different. I'll make a motion that I'll second. Go for it. Second. Any questions? All in favor? I I move board representative reports. Lancaster Libdon IU13. Mrs. Beachy. So, the 2013 has their prom this Friday at
082Ben Creek and students are looking forward to that. Spring Bazaar for Langster was a huge success. There was a lot of students who had their many businesses represented. We're excited to have um all the things that they made there for people to purchase. And then um there was also last week was a business partnership lunchon was well represented with over 100 people and there was a lot of students who gave very moving speeches that day. So that was a great event. Um I13 is and they're still struggling as Matt Stem had shared um with getting enough teachers and staff currently let alone they have to fill 10 more rooms potentially for next year. So they you know it's really hard to fill out the school district any districts for any regular schools as well. Okay.
083Thank you. Lson County CTC report Mr. I have a a meeting May 5th to finish up our students kind of they're harder to get rounded up because of all the work and going out with. So, I got May 5th, I'll get the students for our next meeting. And they they did have our Skills USA. That's they put it in into the wrestling firmly going to the states. And uh we have one from Manheim Central, Ethan Crider. He he placed third in the States. But the CTC as a whole had whole had seven state champs if you think of it that way going to nationals. So, they did uh they did really good. And uh I will be attending the certificates award at the Mount Joy. I don't know who's if anybody's gone or not, but
084Mrs. I'll be going to that. And I guess the big thing is that the CTC's gone AI and I got a question AI training and here found out it's artificial insemination. Jesus everybody. We got a good kick out of that one for the for the animals. And we do have uh administrators going to each of the three CTC graduations like always. PSBA legislative report. Mrs. G. Thank you, Mr. Claire. Big thing that PSBA is talking about, you probably got a lot of emails on this or at least I have um has been mandate relief. Um, so they are lobbying pretty hard and they're asking us to also lobby the state for this this mandate relief. They feel that it's a integral part of reforming our public education and that relief from some of these mandates
085could save school districts and taxpayers a lot of money which would result hopefully in more efficient operations. Uh just a little bit of a of a example as to what this mandate relief well what the mandates and and the and the burden that it's putting on the school district is. So between 2009 and 10 school year and 2022 and 23 school year uh public schools experienced an 86% increase in special education expenses. But during the same time, the state and federal funding for the special education only increased 10%. So that leaves us the school districts with uh very limited options is how to pay that difference. So in 20 in 2009 and 10, the state federal special education revenue accounted for about 38 a little bit over 38% 38.1% of all special education spending. But
086in 2223, the state and federal spe special education revenue only accounted for 22.5% of all special education spending. So you can see um that gap is widening which is falling directly on us which makes it very challenging to try to meet our budgets. So that all goes into all of our budget conversations that we're having right now. Um, you know, PSBA is just asking uh anyone really, but schoolboard members and community members to to try to um just reach out to legislators and say, you know, these mandates are very difficult to uh balance our budgets. And it's not just Manheim Central, it's it's all the school districts in in the state. Uh, so they're they're working at helping to identify costs and maybe some of the outdated mandates that don't make sense anymore and try
087to make some legislative changes for some of those that would eliminate or reduce some of the mandates that directly affect our budgets and our operations. Um, other than that, if we do have our spring advoc advocacy day, which is May 13th, I know some of us are signed up to go up and talk to the legislators. Um, and obviously we'll be talking about mandate relief and then also charter school reform. Um, so if you're interested, you can sign up on online uh through your PSBA portal for that. And lastly, uh, PSBA is also looking for some more, uh, an alternate delegate. So, I'm still willing to do it unless somebody else wants to do this, it's totally fine. But, uh, we also need an alternate. So, if anybody wants to to step up and do
088that, just let me know. I thought we had an alternate, but if we didn't, apparently not. I'll put something in the next update and then you can let Mr. Claire know if you're interested. I just want to make one comment on the mandate part and that is with the mandates even if we got the federal funding it's still coming back to the taxpayers. So either way whether it's federally funded or not funded the taxpayers are paying for it. So the mandates we really need to get out there and talk to our legislators about it because either way it's still coming back to the taxpayers. I just had a comment about that. You guys might you might have been talking about already, but you can sign me up for that if you don't mind. I don't
089get on the I'll go on the 13th, but I was maybe you guys were talking about it, but it'd be interesting. You know, I'm always about that charter school what it cost per per pupil. I hear it's coming down a little bit, but we don't know. But what's it cost? I think somebody told me, but I'd like to be nice to have it on a paper or It was in his It was in his update. Was it Was it in a chart, Mrs. Kefir created in the okay it's about 16,000 for regular ed 37,000 for special ed okay and for us it equals 2.5 million okay I saw that part but per per student yeah that's in the chart at the bottom of the update and we will we have something like that to take
090on the 13 we can yeah I thought it'd be nice if you're going to meet with them we might as well have something to look at you know say hey this is there's the raw make it real simple you know once we get the the time. We didn't get anything back yet. I was told we'll get an email telling us the time if we register. Then I'll see about getting a van and car pulling up and we can put some data points together. That concludes my report. Thank you. Thank you very much. I tried to get on there and sign up, but I couldn't figure it out. There's a little block that say I tried to spell it out. There's a little block that says my PSBA like sign up here at the front top
091of your login page. Once you log in, there's a little I think it's a blue box. If I can't do it, I'll just come down. Stop. Were you able to log in? Yeah, I was able to log in. All right. Okay. uh Lancaster County Academy me uh we it's it's unbelievable the growth and what's being done in the Lanster County Academy. Um we just got a contract War Warick added five seats uh which will take pla the place of Colombia that that dropped out. Uh we're still looking for a second location. Uh we can't stay at hack because they're I mean I don't they they might think we're all millionaires but uh so we are going to have to find another spot. We think we have it. Um so but adding Warwick we added uh
092Calico. Um help me out is in in process. Yeah, Mckanssky is uh and these are all schools that at one time were in it and and left and they find out that the Lang County Academy is the most inexpensive for kids to get or for the schools. So, uh, we keep improving. Again, our, like I said, our, uh, our director was the assistant principal at Pen Manor and, um, excuse me, Seno and she left Seno to become the art executive director and she absolutely loved it. my report enrollment report. We have up and cominging school board meeting. Uh there will be a special board workshop meeting held on May 5th at 6:00 pm in the district office. Next regularly scheduled board meeting will be held on May 19th at 6 pm at the Mannheim Central
093District Office. Board comments. I just want to thank the String Spruce Orchestra for their uh rendition tonight. They did a really great job and want to thank everybody uh within the district. I know we're doing all that we can and we'll continue to do what we can to create additional savings and uh write this ship. So, thank you everyone for all you do. I have one go to the order if you don't mind. I went to a breakfast. I always go on with food if you're not sure why I do that. But it was to Bible to school. They had a big breakfast and I met with uh Stephanie Smith. She's a CFO. I could you know her. I saw her in the play. She was doing something up front. Don't you blame but anyway
094she said a big thank you to all administration for the way you guys work with her. And uh just a couple things. I didn't know it. I didn't know it was founded in 19 or yeah 1979 here in Mannheim at the elementary school. I don't know if it's Stagle or whatever it was. And uh anyway, we have 189 Mannheim Central students that go there. My wife volunteers there. So that's that's a really it's like a really big thing and 39 volunteers. So I just thought it'd be nice maybe once a year to mention how many kids go there. But probably my biggest takeaway was there. They had a they had a saying and maybe you guys already know it but I thought it's good for any teacher. It says open the child before you open
095the book. I thought they were talked about the Bible but I think that would be fit for any school. You know open the child get to know them first before police third. Thank you. Here's a good breakfast teacher. Well you always like breakfast. I love breakfast. Anything else? Dr. Freedom, you looked like you wanted to I want I want to just welcome Scott and just thank him for his passion and excitement he has for our district and for the students. I didn't get to meet you before, but it's great to hear you and share, you know, how passionate about what you are going to be doing for our school district. So, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. My daughter was one of the ones in that interview process that she said that immediately when he walked
096in, he just made them feel comfortable to talk and open to share and so she really appreciated that. Yeah, my son said the same. He brought up the same thing that Matt brought up. The exact same question. Thank you. Thank you guys. All right. None else tonight.