MCSD Board Meeting

001e e e I e e e [Music] out of we're gonna get if we're gonna get violin here'll be the meeting must begin all right what what a great opening I'd like to call to order tonight's Manheim Central School Board of Directors meetings and we' like to please U rise for the Pledge of Allegiance at a moment of silence United States of America to the for stands one nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you Mr how roll call please salutely Mrs beachy here Mrs genri here Mrs Walker here Mr bushy here Mr CL Dr CRA here Mr Gart here Mr Linder here Mr sens here members present thank you the May 13 2024 school board meeting is open to the public and is also being streamed virtually motion for approval of

002the May 13th school board meeting agenda we'll move to Second all in favor I post right I'd like U to have a uh motion to approve approv the April 22nd school board meeting minut so moved second all in favor oppose X all right we have our Learners of the month this month be the last one for this school year so first up we have Baron Elementary Georgine Breen grade one Mrs Bean fine fine yes thank you I got on the same strand there sorry you want maybe she needs to come up and just finish the meeting all right I chose Georgie to reprend Bar's learner of the month because she demonstrates all of the quality of a difference make so I've written an acrostic poem so for Jay joyous it is evident that Georgine enjoys

003learning and she adds a unique element of fun to our classroom o for organized Georgine demonstrates that she is a responsible citizen which is one of our Difference Maker qualities by caring for her belongings and those of others she's always thinking ahead and planning for what's next R for reflective another one of our different trats sine reflects on what she has learned and sets goals for the future her current goal is to finish all of the first grade math road maps and I think you have one to go J for judicious I have never once observed Georgine using po judgment and she often influences those around her to show self-control and make good choices e for empathetic Georgine's strong empathy makes her a friend to everyone in the classroom and a great collaborator she has

004been a especially welcoming to an elll that joined our classmate here and she sets an example for how to treat others the next e is for Earnest Georgine shows sincerity in everything that she does she always strives to do her best but she also has a growth mindset and sees mistakes as opportun to grow last I have noteworthy geene is noteworthy because anyone who spends time in our classroom will note her caring nature and Natural Curiosity Baron is lucky to have her and it is my pleasure as a multi-age teacher to get to spend two years watching her grow I'll have her again next year as a learning facilitator it is part of my job to create a safe and respectful learning environment for everyone kids like Georgine make it easy to do so and

005that is why I'm so glad to honor her as Baron Elementary's learner of the month all right next up from do Run Elementary eloin cromley grade one Mrs is her well thank you for allowing us to um uh recognize this wonderful student and her name is eloen cromley she is the dun Elementary first grade learner of the month and she is the daughter of Allan and Brandy cromley and I too created in a CR poem um so this is her name with each letter and this for me thank you and the letter E in her name stands for extremely helpful eloen is a terrific helper with her peers and school jobs she keeps our areas safe and usable she helps other students with finding words on the word wall or repeating directions for students who

006sit near her and forget what the assignment what to do on the assignments she is respectful and helps in a quiet non-interruptive Manner and she sees that when things are completed she does it out of the kindness of her heart so the letter L in her name stands for loving heart eloen is very caring and giving and honest with others she treats others with respect and compassion she uh with teaching them the character traits too and she automatically does this out of the kindness of her heart she is respectful with nature and classroom environment and she shows empathy with her peers who are showing sadness frustration or excitement she likes to celebrate with them and congratulate them when they have accomplished milestones in their reading O is for observant she notices things around her especially

007when someone needs help um she's willing to problem solve and clean up areas that are unsafe she is recognized by other adults like in the cafeteria or on the playground when she notices that they need attention for safety reasons and she brings it to the adults attention in a respectful and appreciative manner W is for works hard she is self-determined and goes above and beyond the expectations of the assignment and gives her best effort for her classwork and projects she strives to read at home and at school and has success in her Ela um she pushes herself to learn her math backs and Concepts to earn her specific Badges and she is proud of herself and I'm proud of her why is for URS for knowledge Ellen is eloen is always looking for new and

008fascinating information about whatever topic she's interested in she is selfmotivated and shows excitement when learning something new and she likes to share her knowledge with others and I enjoy learning from her as well and is for nice to others eloin treats everyone with respect and genuine points even if a peer has special needs phys physically or intellectually emotionally or socially she will be patient and assist this friend and talk with him or her and in a calming compassion voice and it makes the child feel appreciated uh when I ask as her friends what they thought of her uh they said eloen is always nice to me she plays with me when I am by myself she is friendly she helps me with spelling a word when I'm writing and eloen gave me a Band-Aid when

009I hurt my knee outside of school eloen enjoys playing with her brother playing outside making friends at the park doing gymnastics going to field hockey camp and making crafts so eloen is a trific role model a true friend and a conscientious student and I'm honored to be her teacher and Pres center with this award congratulations Ellen all right from our Middle School Eden Merrill grade five presented by Mr Brooks hello members of the school board and administration I'm Christian Brooks and I'm here to present Ed Merill from our Middle School um this brings me to the end of my 27th year in education 26 years in fifth grade so this is an age that I know very well um people outside of Education often ask me if kids have changed over the years and my

010answer is usually no yes I see some small differences but I I always feel like kids have always been kids they haven't changed a whole lot I've always seen students who excel in the classroom and students whose lie in unexpected and unexplored areas I've always seen students that try too hard to be funny and those that are hilarious and don't even know it I've always seen students that give their best effort to everything they do the first time they do it and those who need their best efforts coaxed out of them what I don't see often are students like Eden Merill they are the nebulas of Education an unexpected and Brilliant phenomenon that we only come across once in a while while only 11 Eden has maturity Beyond her years she's very intelligent and does

011well in her classes yet you would never hear her brag about her successes she's a Fierce and loyal friend to many yet she doesn't seem to care a wit about popularity or status Eden oozes empathy and kindness toward others yet her actions are subtle and she doesn't ever do it for reward manhem Central values differen makers I assure you that not only is Eden Merrill already making a positive difference at our middle school but she will be making our community better for years to come so please please join me in honoring Eden Merill a young lady whose talents are as big as her heart all right from our high school na sophan Ren Mrs N hello thanks for having us tonight the student of the month for May comes from the high school social studies

012department and is adav I have had the privilege of teaching adab both his freshman and sophomore years and he has proven to be a student of History he is adept and well read on a variety of historical topics as well as current events and speaks multiple languages shout out to nad's parents who are here tonight for all they have done I'm going to miss conferences next year when I no longer have him in class he is quick to respond during class discussions offers assistance to others and enjoys collaborating with his ears this is a student who picked a particular cas study to pursue in our course and he wanted access to a variety of materials that we we did not have on hand he learned the ropes of inner Library loan and acquired books journals

013and articles from different colleges in the area to further his own understanding of a topic this is a testament to nad's love of learning nadav is also involved in the school and is part of the track and field team and is hoping and is helping sorry to lead a group for international culture today needless to say his love of history and the social sciences is apparent in the effort he puts fourth in class and his constant desire to learn and grow his own wealth of knowledge congratulations M all right and we had a late entry the CTC just notified us that they had um a learner of the month so I want to present who that was she's not able to be here tonight because of the late notice and I'll just read a little

014bit that was said about her from the CTC so from the CTC Carly Hess uh presented by Mr lockoff one of the teachers at the CTC and he said Carly's one of the best and brightest a shining star in our program she's always on task ready to learn and a friend to all she stays busy looking for things to do to help our program and her classmates in any way when the teacher asks can someone she's the first to volunteer Carly has a kind heart is always respectful her grades are exceptional so let's give uh Carly a hand you one you know all right that's making be dismissed and then we have two all right you would like to uh leave and go get your picture taken out there and enjoy the rest of the

015beautiful evening Be Our Guest hey recognition of visitors and public comment the board encourages citizens of the district to come before the board to present their petitions inquiries or other Communications of Interest the board invites public citizens of the district comment on any topic that is within the board's jurisdiction at that line in board policy 903 the board requires public participants be residents and tax pay taxpayers of the district anyone wishing to address a board during public comment will need to be in person if you wish to speak to the board please sign in prior to the meeting public participation in the meeting is um prerogative of the ma of the board president who will establish the amount of time allowed for speaking out of respect for time comments will be limited to under three

016minutes uh for your convenience a time will be up here and you'll see the time going that now I understand we have two people that wanted to and I don't have the names yeah sure okay would you you know give us your name then too oh yeah sure um I have a paper to hand out first can I do that um um can you give that to the uh okay I have everybody's name on so oh yeah we'll have to do that after the meeting yeah no no no it's all good I wasn't sure thank you my name is Kathleen sailor and I live on cider Press Road in Manheim and that's well when my kids went to school here they they always called it the boonies because we live far out out of out

017of out of town near mastersonville if anybody knows where that is um my husband went here lived here in meim all his life and I'm I guess a transplant when I got married we I came here to Manheim set came in the district and our children attended here and now my grandchildren are attending here so and I've been attending Schoolboard meetings for probably about three four years so the subject I'd like to talk to tonight is about uh Title Nine um I want to bring to your attention recent developments regarding changes to Title Nine regulations proposed by the Department of Education which may have significant implications to our school district as a concerned Grant grandparent within the community I feel it is essential for our Schoolboard members to be aware of these developments and their

018potential impact on our educational environment the Department of Education has recently released a revised Title 9 rule scheduled to go into effect on August 1st 2024 this rule expands the definition of sex discrimination to include various factors such as sex stereotypes sexual orientation and gender identity furthermore it mandates changes in school policies related to access to facilities do process protections for students accused of sexual misconduct and the use of preferred pronouns by teachers and students while these changes are slated to take effect in August it is important to note that there is an anticipated legal action including requests for preliminary injunctions which may delay the implementation of these rules for some time additionally school districts are not obligated to align their policies with the new regulations at this time as a grandparent I am deeply

019concerned about the potential implications of these changes on women and girls are constitutional protections and fundamental parental rights to be clear this new rule strips parents of their fundamental rights to direct the upbringing of their child no secrets should be kept from parents especially concerning matters that directly impact the well-being and education of our children it is essential that parents are fully informed and involved in decisions that affect their children's schooling experience furthermore I want to uh I would appreciate any information you can provide regarding how Title 9 has been handled within our school district up to this point and any changes that have been proposed or may be considered in response to the proposed rule change transparency and open communication are crucial in addressing these important issues I urge the school board to closely

020monitor these developments and consider the potential impact on our students staff and educational programs it is crucial to ensure that any changes made to school policies are transparent respectful of parental rights and in the best interest of all students I appreciate your attention to this matter and would welcome the opportunity to discuss it further thank you for your dedication to serving our community and ensuring the well-being of our children thank you very much our next speaker good evening I just wanted to say my time at manim Central is coming to an end my Barons are all going to be graduating and I wanted to say thank you every body's hard work and I really wanted to compliment Josh whitel my husband and I walk every morning at 5: a.m. and his car three to four

021days a week is at the school at 5:00 a. then I go to a post prom meeting we don't get out of there till 9:30 p.m. and he's there till 9:30 p.m. um that man just is dedicated to the school he's dedicated to the students he was the first one to help clean up post prom roll up those heavy mats and I just know a lot of times you don't hear the good stuff people come to you when things are wrong and I just wanted to say you guys are doing a great job but especially him and thank you for my time at Manheim Central thank you thank you and I'm going to a meeting because I think he's there if he's not here he's there he's there thank you very much thank you okay

022we'll go to the personnel think 7 a b and [Music] cations seven a b and c motion second second any questions the side note for C our new employment uh was one of Andy sing's students back in the day and uh very complimentary of Mr sensing as a teacher all right any if none all in favor I I post so move like I think we take 7 D through f d through f for motion I'll make a motion have a second second any questions all in favor I I post thank you um GNA take seven G by itself just so everybody knows um what that is and Dr ably we yeah so that's anou that if there's something in the summer that we need staff for that we're able to reach out and compensate them

023if we have a situation with a family something that's unique uh that needs to be address sooner later okay we have a motion sure second yes doctor all right any questions all in favor I I opposed thank you and the last one on Personnel is uh H supplemental any questions all in favor I oppos the Dr X all right so before we have our student Representatives tonight just wanted to share we had a really awesome prom and post prom I want to compliment the families that helped with the post prom the way they converted the new high school into uh Route 66 was what they did and they had a a ton of prizes for kids they had a cheese steak food truck soft serve ice cream I mean it was incredible and they had

024the highest numbers that they've had in like five years at the prom and post prom uh so our kids want to be around which is really cold our Awards night was in the new audit the newly refurbished Auditorium and that was really well received a lot of donors from the community so we want to thank the community for that uh this Friday night is the Elementary carnival um putting my challenge out to all elementary children to try to dunk me in the dunk tank Friday night around 6 pm and I'm just hoping it warms up a little bit just a little bit so we do that at that's across from the high school you don't get any tickets what's for yeah so uh that being said I know the board appreciated when we had the

025uh representatives from the club last time so we're going to do that again this time with the high school and then next year is when we'll start rotating through the building so we'll have Elementary children present middle school children uh probably next step maybe CTC so we're going to look at all of our different representatives to have different groups kind of present to you authentically what they're doing so that being said let's have the Science Olympiad good afternoon my name is Danny Cruz and I'm a senior I'm the president of um science club and co-president of Science Olympiad my name is sted um I'm in 10th Grade and I'm the secretary of Science Olympiad uh my name is Bryce stake and I am the vice president of science club in Science Olympiad um and our

026club adviser is Miss Lori McClair in Science Olympiad we compete in invitationals throughout the year to prepare for our regional competition which then usually proceeds to states there are many different events in which we do we will complete tests build devices such as a plane or a tower to test at the invitationals and we will also complete laboratory experiments there are topics such as Earth and space science chemistry physics engineering and general science knowledge many of the events include subjects that we do not learn about in school and exposes us to learning more different more complex fields in science so I get to share all the fun stuff that we do um we so this year we competed at two invitationals one was at North Pocono and the other one was at Valley Forge which

027is Koga High School uh generally we attend like two to four invitationals a year which are like practice runs for regionals um and regionals are held at Millersville this year we got fifth in the region which allowed us to go to States um um and we placed in quite a few events um some honorable mentions are first place in of an event called disease detectives and third place in geologic mapping which are in two completely diverse Fields so it's interesting to see the diversity that we get to learn um states were held at Penn State Altuna this year um this is was this was our ninth year as a team going consecutively so we tend to show up a little bit um and then typically we have like three to six uh events metal at

028States um but right now we are uh kind of in the planning stage and now that the building is being completed we're thinking of starting our own Invitational at the high school so um even if it's a middle school competition but just trying to get things back in works so um and so now I'm going to talk about science club and so science club our mission is to enable students um to enable students to have opport unities to explore diverse aspects of stem and participate in engaging community activities um and we also provide membership for science National Honor Society through science club um and so in science club this year we visited fener polymer be close by um we we learned about future job opportunities and got a tour of um how they make the

029polymers and what kind of job like all the jobs it takes to make that happen um which is cool and then also we held or we help at the elementary science night we hosted it um it was a group of high school students that we planned and ran engaging stations there were a lot of stations there was like a chemistry room biology Anatomy um physics I think and it was like Student Life the students chose what station what activity to do and we kind of did demos for the little kids um and we had over 400 students and parents attend so that was really awesome and we have also done some library library stem events in the past so that's a little thank you very good we have had how many students do you well

030science club and Science Olympiad uh they have been separated in years past they were binded um on Science Olympiad you're only allowed 15 people to compete so but I think we had 14 compete this year um and then science club is a little bit bigger I think we have around 30 students in science clubs from all I four grades we could always use more Ms you real quickly just uh go back through the last several years and what you've done at States remember um I was gonna say we've had a like three years ago we were 11th in the top 10 metal for like and things like that so we've had all sorts of different events uh win through the years I guess last year well you all of you up with a metal to

031yeah my sophomore year I we won first place in one of the events they do they do an excellent job and thank you anybody else have any questions proud of all of you what are your career what are your future plans how about that I'll be attending Princeton University to study molecular biology you follow that Soph I plan to focus on public health um and I am thinking about astrophysics or physics excellent thank you thank you thank Youk you thank you and lastly before we move on I just have a thank you note I'll pass around from the baseball team they appreciated the field this year not having issues with weather all those sorts of things so uh they wanted to pass this along as well and as we get into the budget before I

032hand it over to Mr Howard I just wanted to share with the board uh we did meet with our leadership team NE La last Thursday just about ways the next year we can continue to look at our spending efficiency our fiscal you know fiscal responsibility uh we're going to be looking our staffing and capacity looking at class sizes uh for instance you know once again this year our kindergarten numbers are really low they're lower than they've been in the past uh so we're going to keep an eye on that as an example um as we have resignations and retirements we're going to look strategically at our schedule to see what we really do and don't need to refill um our operations groups are going to be looking at equipment and Furniture um also overtime uh

033we're hoping that now that the buildings and everything is are getting more complete we should need less of that uh also overloads that we use for teachers sometimes to cover we think we could be a more efficient in that regard uh and then moving forward as we've said after we let a year settle in we want to look at field rental and sponsorship as a way to generate Revenue not just for our district but possibly for our community depending on what we're able to host here so it was a much more lengthy conversation than that and our next steps will be as a team we be meeting with each of those department leaders individually looking at when they have a resignation or a retirement uh moving forward what that looks like or if there's ways

034that they feel that we can be more efficient with some of the things that we do that being said I do want to credit our group and I know Brian's done in the past uh we're not Big Spenders in many way shapes and forms and we don't have the mentality of we still have 20,000 in our budget we spend it just so we don't lose it that's not the philosophy the philosophy is we you know spend what we need to spend and then we don't go beyond that if uh if at all possible so I just wanted to share that Dr fler an that okay before I hand it over to Mr not as not as many slides as we had a week ago so for all of you so really what I wanted to

035show is the the expense profile hasn't changed at all in in just a week you may you may see a slight different different number I think the other one was maybe $30 or $40 off last week when I put these numbers into the State reporting uh document it rounds it differently and so sometimes it comes up with a slightly different number than what my spreadsheet numbers going in uh say so if you look I started at 3.5% and went to 5% uh by a quarter point uh 3.5 at the low end uh we show 1. n59 million deficit at 5% at the top end uh we still show a 1384 uh million dollar deficit and just talking to Mr Claire a little bit today one of the things to keep in mind for a onetime

036revenue Source we have that Bond F refinancing we talked about uh which could be 3 to 400,000 but that's a one-time Revenue flow but I do want to point out that that's an opportunity for us at least for next fiscal year that won't stretch into the 25 26 budget but not not on a recurring basis but it it is an opportunity for a one-time Revenue stream those numbers are not reflected in these numbers uh simply because it's not a short thing and uh you know it's based on what the Market's doing and the amount is not reasonably estimated at this point so that's not in there but I wanted to point that out the second thing is the state uh still uh kind of debating back and forth about the budget uh I have about

037260,000 I think estimate uh state state funding in there assuming a $200 million uh investment by the state that could very well be double um it's not going to be what Shapiro necessarily presented but we could have an extra two to 300,000 there above what I budgeted that would be recurring Revenue so if if the state comes in let's just say they come in with a half a million dollar increase that would be recurring revenue for us and it would be a rate of about3 300,000 more than what I have budgeted in there so I did want to point all that out before we moved on the what's that how many years is that for that would be uh that would be recurring so that that would add to our base basic education funding and

038then that would be that would add to our base each year um see moving on to this model this is our fiveyear model or forecast model and I did the same thing I went from 3.5 uh to 5% and then forecast it out the years now you'll see up at the top the assumed future years tax increas is there they're just there for conversation pieces I had to pick some kind of a number to put in there I could rerun this model at zeros I could I could run it at maximum index um next year the index is supposed to be somewhere around 4% uh so so but I I chose those numbers right there um if if you want these run a different way I can certainly run those with different numbers moving out

039any kind of combination really and at 3.5 you can see after at 28 29 still have forecasted a pretty strong deficit now of course that's with that's without any kind of savings we talked about trying to generate and if you look up at the high end at five we hit the we hit back into the green forecast wise on 2829 I will uh say that if you look back at the last five years of budget presentations these numbers are very fluid uh as cost profiles change as healthare changes as fuel costs inflation these numbers can move and change the further out the less accurate sometimes they are because there's a lot of more assumptions being made uh out of 28 29 and as we have seen uh in the past five years A lot can

040change in five years um both uh in our lifestyles or our environment and our economics so I just wanted to point that out as well this is just the expense profile I won't go over it uh but total expenditures we're we're proposing are 71,3 then this is the expenditures by object showing the impact at each percentage on uh our community members our taxpayers yes sir taxpayer savings that's based on the median is that correct that's based on the median Homestead value there so this is just at at 198 950 median value uh at 3.5 it's it's a $112 increase at the other end of the spectrum at five it's $160 increase per taxpayer and then I just wanted to point out again uh where we currently stand and I know that some of you are

041concerned about where we are with the rest of the districts some aren't but I want to put this in here so that uh everybody knows kind of where we're currently at of course once a new round of budgets get approved will either move up or down or somewhere in between so right now we sit at the 13th lowest millage rate in Lancaster County what's next we'll continue to monitor the budget I mean we could hope that the state gets something done and we find out what kind of Revenue that would really be great I mean if the state if if I could put a number in here that we knew was the actual state revenue we were going to get the increase that wouldn't that would give you a lot more clarity when you go

042to make a decision we'll refine we'll continue to refine the current year projections we're approaching halfway through May right now uh so uh probably we'll take a look at at May before it's even completed so we get a look at where we're at and then at the June meeting June 17th we'll have a final budget approval tonight I just want to stress you're not committing to a tax increase so you're doing a proposed fin fin budget you would do that at a certain millage increase and then that can be changed it has to be posted for 30 days for public uh perusal we'll put it on the website we'll also have a physical copy copy if someone wants to see it and then we will um we come back June 17th and approve the final

043and all I would say is I would probably go as as high as you're willing to go I would approve the proposed final tonight it's you can always come down usually not a good look if you go up from what you what you approved tonight so I would I would encourage you to keep that in mind a lot of not a lot but some districts will go index with their proposed final to re reserve the 30 I'm not recommending that but I'm just re recommending you keep that in mind as you uh decide about the numbers tonight so any questions in regards I know I kind of book through that uh pretty quickly but and we were just here a week ago and nothing really has changed expense wise we're on a revenue profile when

044do we discuss that number is that now or I I would say when when it comes up for so someone would someone would make a motion to approve a budget a certain M grade and then second and then there be a discussion we're not going to do that till June notion we're not going to do any major discussion on that tonight yes oh yeah yeah okay you want to wait till then oh well tonight on the general action item there'll be a yeah I I would think majority of the discussion should be this evening on that action item there's my report thank you Dr fler do you have anything don't have anything L okay thank you Dr kraton yes so uh there's a lot of financial documents that have been issued for this month's report

045the have any questions on any of those documents so I know I've been working with Brian we didn't prepare any special slides for tonight to review the the contents but uh they follow a very robust process to create those documents always followed so if everyone's okay with those documents then we would I would recommend to approve I've gone through them and they look like they're in order so I'll go through the different list here we have 10A which is budget transfers 10B which is monthly invoices 10 C which is high school renovations 10 G which is the project invoices 10 e which is the approval Athletic Field change orders so if if there's a motion to approve I would request that you make that motion second any questions that that mobile unit brought up is

046that that's part of the building is that what you said this is part of science I I can so on the initial design there were peninsulas and it's kind of hard to explain without a visual but there were Peninsula tops that that were the primary work surface for the High School classrooms science classrooms specifically uh upon second look when when they looked at that uh they decided the peninsulas were very limiting uh in the classroom and so what they did was they said uh we're going to look at these mobile work stations that will be more flexible uh now I think I think those are on the agenda for 26,000 yes we we had te here we got a negative change order for the peninsulas in $ 27,7 so what we did was we asked

047them to remove the peninsulas from the base building contract and we went out on our own and got these mobile workstations and looks like we banked a savings of a little over a thousand dollars from the initial um design so that was basically a design change based on when people started to see what it was going to look like they said oh those aren't going to work if the architect drew it up we need to get that changed Andy it's from two different buckets but it's still for the renovation okay and we had a motion second and are there any other questions if not all in favor iOS move thank you very much all right we'll go back now we go into committee report and business office Mr Linder our next meeting is to be

048determined at this time thank you very much uh academic Mrs Walker yes so we met and and we have a lot of things here on the agenda for approval did everyone get a chance to look over everything that's being requested um so this meeting was um several departments were up for curriculum and their curriculum cycle so this was a lot of reviewing the curriculum curriculum alignment um both vertically and also curriculum quests so um we would be asking for approval of the art curriculum so I will make a motion to approve the request for the art curriculum the music curriculum FCS curriculum and the social studies curriculum second second do you have a question questions yeah I just another thing of like looking in the future of cutting costs is that I remember as a

049teacher being like well you can't get new textbooks this year you got to wait another year or two you know it it um I've had a few people reach out you guys reach out and ask that as well something that I I think you and I talked about was maybe considering the timing of all of this is not ideal um requesting $4,000 worth of materials when we're in a budget deficit is challenging I unfortunate um just one more thing it's just unfortunate because the timing of their Cycles happens to be this year and and at this time so I'm wondering moving forward if there would be an opportunity to maybe as they're doing the review you know as you're having these meetings say we're going to need X Y and Z so that it's not

050me we're making these decisions maybe like a little bit of a heads up change the timeline change the timeline slightly because you know I've sat in curriculum writing and curriculum review and there's there's opportunities probably as you're doing it to say we're going to need $30,000 worth of textbooks let's let the board know is that a possibility that we could do that so it's not like May we're in a budget crisis and we need $94,000 worth of materials I might add U and Mr M fa you can if I'm saying anything wrong we approve a correc in budget every year and as long as the curriculum budget stays within that number be okay I understand what you're saying but what Andy's saying being in the field I think what you're saying is there's years as

051a teacher where you're told sorry guys don't sign up for any trainings don't sign up for extra books just keep it really tight this year I think if I I don't want to speak over you but I I feel like I I've voted yes on everything since I've been on the board because all this stuff is really good like this curriculum stuff and new textbooks it's really good but I if I'm asking the community for a tax increase and I'm asking the administration to find costs to cut well then I need to be uncomfortable too and be willing to vote no on things I don't like voting no but I also want the budget to work out so that's the stuff that I need to feel like we just need to start talking about yeah

052things up I think that's fair and just like I I taught in some of the same windows that that's why curriculum Cycles are now uh in the past it was more like our department needs this our department needs that so you structure a curriculum cycle so the Departments know okay the next four years after this this is what we're using and producing and getting while other Cycles start so as far as fiscal responsibility Dr fer and I have talked about do we look at our current curriculum cycle timeline moving forward and looking at like Dr nth who's up next in this next round and what do we want to do with that moving moving forward but the whole point of a curriculum cycle is so that teachers don't get stuck you know I've had these

053tattered textbooks from the 80s and I need some well it's not your turn yet or we didn't budget for that that's why budgeting ahead is is the appropriate way to do it um so that might not answer the question of right now with with these price points but moving forward that is something that we can look at like the timeline and yeah for me it's not really the timeline of like when they're coming up but the discussion of maybe we start talking about this in September of the school year coming up to May so it's sort of being talked more often than it's April academic and then it comes up at the May board meeting I think that's what you and I were sort of both it did feel I mean it did feel they're

054doing all this great work throughout the year and then we hit the bill like here you go and totally I and I understand what you're saying Andy and I will always things that are going directly to our students will almost always vote Yes so all of these materials I am Fair confident are going directly into the hands of our students um I'm I'm willing to vote Yes on everything tonight I just know that in the future like I I probably shouldn't like on everything like we got to get this figured out well I think it's a great question and I think it's something that maybe we could talk about moving forward um if I could um the curriculum cycle like Dr X said it exists so that we're not asking for requests from all the

055different departments at one time um when I first got here I got into some good discuss with some people because they're like in the past we were just given blank amount of dollars and we could just spend it on whatever we wanted and I said oh no that's not how it works so they all know that they're coming to me you know with things that they need and not just things that they want um I know too that like Mrs Walker just said that these things are going in the hands of our our teachers and our kids I live in the district I'm going to pay taxes um and nobody likes a tax increase but you know we've passed a lot of things and it's hasn't gone directly to kids and students and this hits

056everybody K to2 social studies K to2 art K to2 music and then the um FCS at the high school and it is materials that teachers need and that are going to go directly to help kids learn so that's my feeling is that yeah the timing maybe could be better um what happens though is you're doing a lot of preliminary work and then when they look at the text books it's usually in the spring but um so that's where like that's why it's April and got May so um I hope that helps so Brian is this already included in the budget or not yeah this would be an and this current fiscal Year's budget would be approved and one thing I note is when when the budget is set the Cycle's known and there's kind of

057money that's allocated and that's how the numbers kind of arrived at per perhaps we could do a better job moving forward communicating the budget process up front as to when the budget set what's kind of included in that budget process would that would that be helpful perhaps well for me it's not just the numbers it's also the content and having time to look through that so for me it's not just a number thing that I want to look at because that's not my decision isn't just based on a number so for me I mean I think the one thing thing that I would say a lot of people want to cut right off the bat is Art music and I think that's a horrible thing to just cut that out every time because that's like

058an easy one but uh yeah so me for me it's not just that part of it yeah I was at like the meeting where they did their presentation and most of this these stuff it wasn't like three-year-old material it was like 10 I think on year eight you know it's not like these guy they're coming to us every other year with brand new material it seemed like it was pretty long yeah J uh I don't know the exact years well social studies the last they Shar that was like 911 was the last thing in the books which I'm not that's what that's exactly my point maybe we should be looking at a little sooner different time your point you're saying maybe it well and I'm agreeing with you if if I'm hearing you correctly that

059it would be helpful to say these are what you're voting on but this money is already allocated to come out of the 2324 budget is that what you're saying well what I was saying was what what I thought and what I thought you were saying is it rather than surprise with like you said surprise in May with a with a with a bill that up front earlier we would say here's the budget number we have and that includes uh like and tracing and I have this conversation that includes maybe 100,000 for math or this year we have to do art and that's going to be around 40 to 50,000 and so maybe doing a little little bit better job sharing that information up front during the budgeting process might be helpful but to answer your

060question this money was already budgeted this year and that's helpful to know yeah and there is a lot of money in that curriculum that has not spent because went over that when I asked today a lot but we can't we can't do it I mean that's just but that's how close they do to toh try to get it right I think this is this is really good this discussion of being willing to like just slow down and ask the question even looking at some of these items individually rather than just you know flying through each night you know because nobody wants to cut anything but we got to fix the budget so I we agree and it was an excellent meeting that she had I me was excellent the presentations I mean they were right

061on there was some laughter because they were using books or what 124 eight eight or 10 years old yeah so uh I nobody had any I didn't see anything on there doubt but I agree with what everybody's saying too you in that meeting I was not at that particular meeting it's just timing you need to know what's what's going in what you need you don't have the number we don't know yeah I like the idea of upfront going to next year saying here's what we have budgeted for this curriculum cycle here's and you know Dr Nemo would be able to share with us what is up for up up for the turnning the cycle and so forth that would be helpful Tracy does that sound good to you to know up up you know earlier

062on yeah I think that we can give you an idea yeah all it just needs a budget number it's Brian has that because we meet at the end of the year for the next year of a year okay so he already has that for even next year it's in there I cut my budget good that's thank you I'm just one more thing you know before the recording of how they do things in accounting standpoint we would get we would get com uh we would know that the curriculum budget had was approved for $750,000 and then they knew it's not that way now but we still can give you know good ideas been doing what everybody said let everybody know ahead and done right I made a motion a oh it's seconded okay a first we

063have a second if we don't have any more questions all we need is all in favor I opposed still moved Activities Committee Mr s to report no meeting meeting in uh beginning of the school here okay and the general action items I will take one at a time if there's anything that we have here that uh if not anybody have any questions we will just do it and move on but there are some things here um so here we go um 12a approval of yellow breaches at a private school to provide special education and related services to students for the 2425 school year move second and I have a question we're using all of those seats correct this reserves the slots but this is an area where I can tell you we would most definitely

064use the slots it's very hard to get placements these days so thank you okay any other questions all in favor I I oppose and we go to B approval of River Rock Academy as a private school to provide special education and related services to students for the 2425 school year some move second questions again the same as the other one all favor I approved everybody said I it's approved all right see approval of the Lancaster Lebon iu13 special education legal Consortium agreement for 2425 so move second questions I didn't see a fee associated in the contract is that accurate is this just an like agreement usually they have I saw names of school districts but I couldn't identify like what the purpose was talk about C yes if I remember correctly and maybe Mr how

065you can back me up on this I feel like this is the general agreement we agree to and then terms are established in a they s us actually the finances separately that correct yeah I think that's the way it works I'm jump yeah I was gonna jump in here Dr I thought it was that because then they wait to see how many are going to jump in and then they divide it amongst the schools to discer and what the cost is going to be so this is the agreement before the yeah so we then for the agreement yeah pre agreement okaya the terms of how we divide you don't get to know until okay any other questions all in favor I opposed so move D approval of the agreement with Billings VI bilingual LLC to

066provide document Transportation or transaction services for the 2425 school year so moved second second I have a question are we required to use a service like this I miss from reading it it's just a translation service like we can't can we use anything on our own like Google translator or anything like for our um English language learning fam yeah use a variety of services so informal documentation we would use Google translate something for free like a medical transcript it look like an IEP or even a conference or a very technical conversation with the family when we would go to either a translation service or a company such as this for assistance so this is kind of a higher level of support okay thank you any other questions all in favor I opposed and now we

067come into the uh e the approval of the nice Collective mobile cabinet quote for the high school school science room the 26520 which we talked about earlier I'll make a motion second any questions all in favor iose no move F uh where do you want to start per approval to adopt and advertise the proposed final budget of the school district for the 2024 2025 fiscal year as presented on form pde 2028 to include a millage increase of and expenses in the amount of 71,0 682 excuse me 71 million 682,000 69 I've never seen so many numbers so those will be the expenses what we have to fill in that to a discussion but what we have to fill in is a percentage that could be changed between now and our June meeting yeah but we

068want to have a high number and go you don't preferably that's up to the board I was saying it's generally better if we're going to change the amount to come down from an amount rather than go up to an amount I will make a motion that we go to 4.75 to start with anybody else have any thoughts on that I I would prefer to make a motion at four and a half really I would like to be at a four but four and a half would be the highest I would like to go you're you'll before while we still discussing on that you're going to resend your motion sure okay so we have a 47 and a four5 475 and a four four five any other any other people who thinking going a little bit

069higher and then we could come down to where we need to be but I to me I I looking at it for my opinion I think it's four and a half as high as we would need to go but that's my opinion I agree with that I would agree with four five for now I want it before we vote on the mill I was going to ask a question because Dr ax mentioned a couple of activities that you were focusing on have we Quantified the amount of savings that we can capture in that activity no but I mean I think we can get close to what you said last meeting without promising but again without being able to completely prict res na retirement r that are going to be offered um but what we are

070are focusing on is making sure that this summer our teams are looking at efficiencies and things like that so I I think it's in one week would be I would be making the number up honestly but I can share that we're committed to doing so and Brian doesn't he hasn't reflected any of that Savings in the budget the the budget 17th have a probably a trer number that I mean it's not going be exact but yeah I mean we have our Leadership Retreat and we'll be talking about some of that and we'll have a better idea you know people may give us a heads up on what their plans are for next school year as far as their careers are concerned they're not required to though right yes so you know we're not going to

071put out a survey or anything but uh we will probably hear a little bit more of that maybe we'll get some numbers from the state by then sometimes in June or July we get indications of what grants are going to be coming down the road next here so working my updates will hear any of that that comes through so the shortfall though Brian's not it says 1.5 million if we did 4.5 Bri slide y yeah so we would have to make up that Gap with Dr A's activities Plus plus the state money plus would be a fund balance fund balance yeah so whatever is left over so if if if we did do a bond refunding that would offset that amount if the state came through with some higher dollar amounts that would offset that

072any savings we were able to come up with would offset that amount the remaining amount would come from our fund balance to balance or maybe we have a fantastic healthc care year or something like that and we're on the positive side of zero all of a sudden you look at page three 475 or five or 4.5 if we're able to chop the budget close to 500,000 I mean we're back almost in the green by 26 27 so I'm fine with either one of those making I mean I think either one of them Amy what's your already in the green I'm praying for a miracle yeah I don't think we're going to need a miracle no I'm just praying for a good result from the state I'm just saying like just praying for good you know

073this is the 15th year I've been on the board as you all knows and we have always we projected million2 million loss and lo and behold at the last minute we get that windfall Brian is now the CFO doesn't like that anymore but hasn't that happened in the past it has I will say I will say this year um the revenue budget is a lot tighter than I normally go um any kind of Municipal or school or government budgeting uh you can't count on revenues you don't have so you have to be you have to be conservative when you're when you're doing Revenue budgeting and then also in the expenditures obviously for something like Health Care they give us an Actuarial a Val you know amount and that's what the claims could be or what

074they're thinking they could be we really have to budget that amount and hope for something less so yeah there has been Revenue coming through we had some Amazon warehouses and some other things and some big delinquencies paid in the past I I will say we're a little bit tighter and if you look at the last few years we've been a little bit tighter with the revenue budgeting but um there has been some windfalls at times and we did share the first activity and business Ops meeting would be combined over the summer we're going to look at the sponsorship and um field rental like I said earlier and we you know in the fall we'll get that ball rolling as well but we wouldn't see that next year uh we would be putting that in place

075for that possibly that next summer that might you know that might work for a banquet pay for a banquet but unless you get the big $350,000 like hfield has you can put several different places you know it's going to take a lot to fill all fences up with $200 I don't I don't think that's what we're going to be looking at Mike I think it's it's really not going to be bank it's going to be the for up yeah for upkeep of the the fields themselves yeah I know the toughest part tough part is now you have we're gonna have to look at what hasn't already been named it's not just naming it's rentals it's all it's going to be a whole plan but we'll get up yeah be good so Brian you comfort 4.5

076I mean again I I said last I said last week that this wasn't a crisis but I I feel like 4.5 puts a solid amount of Revenue in place and puts us in Striking Distance should some of these other things come together for us the state so I mean and if you look at the difference between 475 and and five and 4.5 it's not a massive amount so if something happens and some of those don't come through it's not like you know we're having a fire sale or anything um uh I I feel I feel good about that number I'll make a motion that we approve what if we what if we went to 4.75 and then came down to four in the future that would just be the board's preference on at that point

077anybody else have any thoughts on that I I personally at this point in time and we still have that month and a half or a month to work on it um I just my personal opinion is I can't I can't go with a 475 4.5 is I can I would put a plugin for my staff so we we have our tax bills printed by an outside agency the sooner we can get them a number that's kind of said the better so we would give them a preliminary number so they can get started if that number changes then we have to go back to the drawing board and they have to rerun everything so if you're going to end at a 4.5 I would prefer that you just do 4.5 now so we can kind of

078get that process initiated um I mean that would just be our preference of course if the board would rather leave some room that's certainly your prerogative make a motion that we approve a 4.5 second any questions uh preliminary 4.5 for increase for next year and the expenses and the amount of 74 excuse me 71,2 69 no other questions I just want to say one thing I mean that the the choices that we've made with the high school Renovations the school correcting staff are all the right all the right decisions and now it's time to pay for it and it's not fun for anybody but well you know it isn't fun but you know what looking at all of us we we did everything we could do it's the people that were outside that couldn't make

079the decisions that have left all schools with this problem yeah I I don't think really have that much of a problem to be honest with you so thany all in favor post G approval of a 3.75% increase for support staff salaries and a 1% increase to the support staff salary range for the 2024 2025 school year effective July 1st 2024 pending satisfactory evaluations I'll make a motion we already agreed to this right pretty much this is actually for support staff so the uh teachers contracts agreed to Second just to clarify this is in your budget right plan yes uh the numbers that are here are budgeted they for next next year year okay any other questions all in favor iOS H approval of a 3% increase for administrative staff salaries and a 0% increase to

080the administrative salary range for the 2024 2025 school year effective July 1st 2024 p satisfactory evaluations and I have a question what is explain the zero increase to the administrative so when we when we hire new staff we have ranges that we use to to hire those staff so what we're proposing is because we recently rid the administrative ranges that we're recommending that we hold on those ranges so if we were to hire a new administrator for whatever reason next year they'd be at the same range that we would hire this year um and then the same thing up there with the support staff we we we did the lower amount uh to make sure that our our inside employees um nobody gets hired that uh is making more than one of our inside employees

081with the same experience motion motion second second any other questions all in favor I oos I approval to designate Fon bank and the Pennsylvania School District liquid asset fund as depositories for the manome Central School District funds so moved second questions all in favor move J approval of the appointment of benon as the tax collector manam Central School District second questions favor iOS move okay approval to designate Lancaster newspapers in corporate adds a newspaper of General circulation for the Manheim Central School District second any questions what exactly does that mean that means anytime we have too our meeting or what else goes in there Circ also they deliver public we have to I think they also papers to us as well oh gotcha if you go on vacation and you have to stop your papers

082for a week tell them to give it to Manheim Central Ander Bike R um questions any anybody else questions all in favor iOS so moved okay m are we going to have graduates approval or the recommendation of the potential graduates for the 2023 2024 school year no second any questions at the present time I think we're setting it set at 204 which is a substantial problem okay all in favor I post all right m not g I'm not going to read that whole paragraph I think all of you have seen it and either need a motion or questions I have a question is this something that um since our staff are presenting on that we looked into some kind of like are they being paid for their services their presentation we're paying a lot need

083to go present to staff the teachers that are attending this are not being Comm volunteering their time so their conference is paid for but we're not paying them like up DM or their hourly rate right but my I guess my question I didn't um say it right the the national Mass customized learning conference are they offering or paying for any of our staff to come like hey I want you to come speak at our thing I'm gonna pay you I believe that they do not cover registration costs for presenters is that correct Tracy I think some of these kind of things would be looking at in the future like can we cut that back a little bit or um like again it's all it's a really good thing I I had times where I went

084to conferences it was really good just even just having a day off school is healthy just to spend time with other teachers but um in the summer St for giving up their time um you know and this is one we just talked a little bit early about projecting our budget and you see this is for the 2425 budget so that would be Dr nemith committing a portion of her budget because she thinks it's important or we think it's important for this group to go um this is a k through2 initiative and you know while we have presenters going they're going to also be able to go to other presentations and you know Andy kind of alluded to that um I talked last time about us not traveling a whole lot but if that's because if

085we're committed to something we would like to be able to do some of these things um you know that would be my plug for this one especially because you know as I've shared and I'm proud of the direction we're going with this uh and the fact like last week I think I shared we had a group in from Pitts they brought 11 staff members down to see what we're doing um which doesn't happen to everybody so if you look at the all all encompassing it looks like a big number which I agree but then if you look at how many people get to go and what they get out of it um and the fact that they're willing they're this committed that they're willing to go on their own time uh I think is significant

086as long as we're as long as we're starting the conversation from top to bottom looking at all these things and saying where did we right agree with you 100% as somebody who values professional development and encourages professional development this has me torn a little bit because I think I really what you said is sticking in my ear Andy so that's your fault um about if we're asking the community if we're saying we're going to tax the community it's just that's a there's a big chunk of money and um yeah that's kind of resonating in my mind right now a lot of these a lot of these things are interesting timing with what's presented in front of us it's a hard decision as a board member yeah and I guess like for the board will have

087to decide on this one but for future reference for us is it better to save this for the fall or or in at a different you know if we're talking about timing and timeline obviously you wouldn't be able to do that because it's this summer but um you know if this is presented in October well yeah and for planning purposes it's hard to say what you want to do in summer and fall can do it yeah I don't even know what I want to do tomorrow but talked about that I think we can do a better job is is that by the time you see things things present in front of you you might not be aware of the things that we've said no to or how we've honed it down to a reasonable am

088so I think part of what we can do is try to bring to light thees that we we have um so in other words perhaps there were three requests put forward for different conferences and we were and that's not the case here but I'm just giving an example and we look at them and we're like well money's tight so let's focus on this one like that's the work you haven't really seen up until this point and in in our conversations this week we're trying to figure out ways that we can bring that to you without it being overwhelming and also still trusting our professional judgment but just so that you can see the effort that you might not realize is is being put into like the final presentation so Ryan is that in already in

089this curriculum budget yeah that would that would be in the budget that's that's allocated for next year and we and we have them we have I know it's hard I agree with what everybody's saying and we're going to have to take a step back going forward but the money ends there for there's professional development money in the budget yeah and this would come from that right and it's in the contract and I appreciate all that it's valuable but maybe I guess what I'm saying is I I kind of feel like sometimes I'm still learning budget and I'm getting like a conflicting message I'm getting a message that we're in the red and then I'm getting a message that 13 need people need to go to this conference you know what I mean so maybe having

090that information ahead of time would be helpful and then I'd be like yeah that's great um but just having this like internal dialogue of being fiscally responsible and also encouraging staff to move forward so you said that it's from the professional development but here it says it's from the curriculum budget well there's a I I meant the line item sorry um it's it's within the curriculum Budget on that line item within that budget so within the curriculum budget there's a supplies line item there's professional development there's employe training so I I kind of was confusing when I spoke spoke that but so it's from the curriculum budget earmarked in the curriculum budget for professional development and I I I have to say and we have to give kudos to Tracy on this because this isn't

091everywhere I've been um and I'm assuming crystal is going to continue with this like the fact that it's in the summer we don't have to get subs is a big deal um we don't have to get subs for people that we do when when they're willing to do professional development on their own time in the summer um so if you look at us if you look at a workshop like this during the school year you're doubling that because of the substitute um so that would be another consideration of like how we're trying to be fiscally responsible and still training our staff at a high level I have a question it it pertains to this but it's not just this it would be all do we have a process right now for all the professional development

092that when they're coming back hate saying a form but a for or something and to see what the value is that are we truly getting the value of what we ended up paying for on that one to be able to look at it each one in the future to say yeah well we did get something out of this one but that one we don't want to send it back to that Again Tye thing yeah part of how they register is through program called my learning plan and in that when they go to professional development they're required to fill out like a PO survey let's say okay kind of does that very thing and lets us know the other thing we do with staff is we have them kind of share that learning forward so if

093they're going out and and having something they're bringing it back to a larger group and not just holding it in so that know when be one person goes but they're bringing it back for a department for example which is why this particular group is spread out throughout the district to be able to make sure that info kind of hits more than just the 13 that are going so we can compound that value right yeah and the last thing I would say for consideration and I appreciate this dialogue is when I was in the classroom and went to professional development I never got to go with Elementary and Middle School staff like I never got to hear anything and that was a different time and place and I understand that but the fact that we're able

094to send and K through 12 is is very valuable too for bridging across our whole District I think I'm struggling with how many are going I mean I very much value what they're doing here and it's an honor to present and everything it just seems like 13 people it seems like a lot like five people to present at one time you know I've been to seminars and I've in leadership courses and never had five people at a presentation so maybe that's just an education thing but it just seems a little excessive so to me like six people I could see that that makes sense to me 13 seems like a lot I don't know anything about it but what I do like is the diversity you have here people talking about it you know because

095now everybody's listening and they're saying now you're thinking about it Tracy if you could just speak to sorry CH go ahead no that's all good how big is the conference and how many teachers are coming and those type of um so uh the conference is a national conference for Mass customized learning I'm not sure how many people will be there it just depends on like the registrations there's people who come all the way from California some come from um the Vermont um some come from Pennsylvania some come from um I think it's North Dakota like there's a there's a wide range of people across the country that come to it um our folks are presenting we were specifically asked to do two breakout sessions on um badging and also on um our learning walks that

096our coaches do at the middle school and the um Elementary uh the reason that we chose the 13 Dr nth and I said down and we looked K to 12 at who we thought like could benefit who could be a pivotal person to bring it back and also you know with some of our administrators switching buildings we thought it would be good for some of them to attend we also wanted Mrs watts to attend with special ed just because she hasn't done that before um this conference really goes along well with our comprehensive planning and we haven't um like Dr planner was saying like we we don't request a lot of conferences and that's why because this is one that we feel like is really important and that our staff get has always said in

097the past like Mr Linder asked you know how about the evaluations of it and when we've gone in the past it's highly you know valued by our employees our teachers um and our uh administrators and um they get a lot that they can bring back and share with others so um when we have our community of Learners in October many of them present sessions around what they learn uh they'll bring it back and sometimes present at their faculty meetings and um like you all like we've been talking it's all already in the budget like Mr Howard said um Dr nth and I sat down and went over it and um really figured that out how we could make that work so I thank you tras sure I know it's there's you know it's it's tough

098but I look at it this way it's 21,000 if we do it during school year we could still cut down people but then we would pay them plus we'd have to pay subseed quick question um just looking at I think everybody's looking at a big number are we flying or are we driving most people are flying some there's a few that are driving so maybe that's a compromise to and can we compromise on I just tell you so I know where you're getting um or is the flight's that cheap that it's confence two years ago and I got covid so I couldn't go but we actually at that time if you looked at the IRS reimbursement rate for mileage it would have cost us more cheaper so I would say we could they need to

099do whichever is cheaper that would be yeah I just would hate to say no I I I absolutely get your point on that with the IRS rebate so has the budget item that budget line is it remaining the same like we don't have access to that so I don't know so has it up Tock $220,000 because of this or is it remaining the same from this past year uh I think it's it has more in it it has more in it but then there's other categories that were lowered and then more money was allocated towards this overall curriculum budget is down over curriculum budget is down okay um about $70,000 last year last year's budget and even with this with with this I I didn't know this was specifically in there all I know is

100that this is under the amount that's allocated for PD and and education and and staff development travel so it's part of that number that's in there do we even make a mo no there's no motion I'll make a motion we have a motion well yeah I mean I'm just saying when I first saw this obviously I look at the 22,000 I'm like whoa but I mean listening to the staff listening to you guys seeing everything that that is done I mean this definitely seems like something that's pretty important so I'll make a motion that we approve I'll say second I see a value to it any other questions all in favor I closed still moved okay and approval for Jennifer to attend the Keystone Summit through Shippensburg University in July 22nd to 26 cost of

101this training is a total expenditure of $259 22 to be paid out of high school staff development that also is in been in the yeah all these all all the again I don't know what the specific one is or can't speak to each specific one I I just know that there's an amount in there that's allocated for these types of training I'll make a motion motion I'll second second questions all in favor I you put a few of them together they're getting down to other stuff would you like me to do that I would yeah all right uh notless somebody has a particular question motion o through r p q o o o p q r i have it Circle o p q and R I'll make a motion second questions all in favor oppos

102moved uh we should have got St yeah St and you to be able to go all together so I'll make a motion questions all in favor I CL only one F trip so move board Representatives report Lancaster Le and IU Mrs be our next meeting isn't to all this next next Wednesday the 22nd me students last month thank you um DTC a whole lot but we got a couple pictures on the show all the students though but uh the uh over to protect the services they did get a uh an ambulance which is really cool I couldn't make the open did anybody go to that they get that donated from somebody you know I don't know I supposed I wanted to get it but I couldn't go over there when they presented it and all

103that I think there's a go ahead with a couple pictures but what it you know I talked to some of the you know the teachers and stuff they it's so nice to have the student or if you're going to be an EMT get in there you know now you have a real thing to show it to them it's not like they're in a classroom or something get in there and get the real feel I don't know if they take them down the road 100 m now or not but I hope not but anyway I think that's a great thing for the our Protective Services seems to be really kicking in so that's pretty much all I have for that one of the users there or the one of the head ons I think it's great

104thank you all right thank you um psba legislative report Mrs Ginger there are a couple things that caught my attention this month one was that Governor Shapiro has said that the state's going to be moving all standardized School assessment tests to online um he says that this is an effort to save classroom time for instruction and they also claim that it will enable them to create a userfriendly exam for students and hopefully relieve some of the burden from teachers administr administrators on giving the administration of the test so we'll see how that works out um the 20 May 21st there is forgive right what May 21st there is a 1hour uh webinar on right to no law um so if you're interested in that that would be they're saying that they're going to give an

105overview on right to know fundamentals guidance on day-to-day issues and pertinent case law on this uh during this one-h hour webinar and it's also going to talk about how it applies to social media materials so if you're interested in doing that um you can register on your my psba um just to be able to be part of the ACT uh also was the the new Total nine regulations and I very much appreciate the update that we have earlier in the meeting um she went way more into detail than I was going to um but it was uh we need to um obviously I'm sure that you guys are aware of that administrators um but we do need to be aware of it um at this time from what I understand it's not addressing the sports

106side of things and they're going to be coming out with that soon so that could create some challenges um I also attended the PSB a um artificial intelligence webinar last week it was very interesting and yes my head was Swimming by the time I was done with that one um some takeaways that I had from that were uh some legal discussions that they had um well they discussed some legal concerns of the use of AI and two of the main ones was protecting students data privacy and bias and employ employment related considerations of the use of AI um in that it's understanding that AI is a tool and not just the ultimate answer regarding questions uh when asked chat GPT it even States this was the statement that it gave while we have safeguards in

107place the system May occasionally generate incorrect or misleading information and product and produce offensive or bias content it is not intended to give advice so we as a district need to be proactive and professional development for staff and students regarding Ai and its response and its responsible use um we also um need to be evaluating and updating our acceptable use and privacy policies regarding artificial intelligence um there was a lot of information and I very much appreciate that Dr a was is going to be addressing all of us regarding it at our board retreat and I think we'll have some good conversations around that so basically my takeaway from those several hours were that AI is a very useful tool and we're already using it in our world it's part of our classroom in a

108lot of ways and it's going to become more and more integrated into our everyday lives it's crucial that we teach how to responsibly use this technology and how to CR critically assess the information that we attained from it yeah and I was able to piggyback on that and I appreciate that I was only able to be in about an hour and a half of that but the rate that everything is improving in that space is incredible they gave a couple data points like a year ago on the SATs the chat GPT scored six in the 60th percentile and this year in the 95th that's how fast it's advancing on the bar exam this year it scored in the 90th percentile which means it would pass any it would be a Boyer um and they did

109they had an MBA contest I don't know if you heard this part at a college where they had chat GPT and kids submit business plans and 35 of the 40 that professors selected were chat GPT pered so it's just in and and the thing that I've stressed many times with our staff and our team is like my kids in college are delivering this now like this is their reality like chat GPT Ai and that's where we need to get on board because it's not it the rate that it's in in increasing is incredible so I yeah I appreciate that too so thank you Michelle yeah what I find it being very powerful to do is it'll get sources that identifies that in it's little Kickback which is very careful because that's part of original research

110is referencing who has done that before you would prove that I think it's pretty yeah it if it's used as a tool um if it's if we don't keep up with it and it's used otherwise like you can get a five-page paper and APA citations written F it's just the reality so yeah we'll be we'll be getting into that at our Retreat and we're going to be working with our admin team and our staff going into next year I have a question about Title Nine now that she mentioned it do we have any meetings coming up with stock and leader that they could provide us with any updates I'm going to a webinar it's either next week or the week after that they're hosting I think it's in actually it's either Nikki or I that

111are gonna go it's um it's in New York but we can go virtually so I'm hoping to kind of hear an overview there to be able to decide what how to kind of unpack all of this update the board be our next and then and then figure out from there how to how to bring everybody in the loop so thank you Title Nine for athletics is on the uh a website and you can go in there and see every sport guys women amount of money that's being put in amount of money which is being put in by booster clubs the rec the stuff the booster clubs have to agree upon and that has to be uh submitted every year so until they make the change again but right now we're we're okay yet for athletics

112yeah we'll determine if we need Executive session in the fall depending on what we're learning okay ler County Academy I will read a very short paragraph that I received just before the meeting things at LCA are quite busy right now the staff and students are working hard as they approach the finish line for the end of school year we will soon see the list of students who achieved graduation graduation status as a 12th grader and look forward to having commencement on Saturday June 1st and that ends my report enrollment reports everybody could see that one I have is I don't see anything about numbers for next year for kindergarten there where we at at this point so I think we talked about the that today our to run numbers are around where they were last

113year at this time baren numbers are a little lower bar didn't see it last minute ations over the summer we just talked about that a little bit of using under average for Baron so get another public call please register your children and see where that number lands actually that brings up another question because you talked about like removing staff as needed based on numbers and I saw that we had a kinderg teacher resign so then would we hold off on filling that at this point okay the next regular scheduled board meeting will be held on June 17 2024 here in the district office at 6 o'clock and that is when the final budget will be approved board comments anybody I just like to say I appreciate all you board members this is is good I

114love doing budget stuff you tear something apart each one of you were on different items and I like that it's very it's very healthy you don't have to do every little one but you know your questions we should continue I this way don't have to do them all but it's always good to tear a couple AP everybody sees something different I love it especially we when we have this many uh good for the administration to see how it work for you on s I'd like to Echo that too I really appreciate being able to talk it through and process out loud very good anybody else have any comments I have one you know as we challenge our Administration to look hard to save the district some money I think we need to look at they

115need to look at the IU budget and CTC budget you remember the CTC or the IU budget went up how much for us tremendous well well they well that's a loaded question I know I know I know it's a loaded question and that's a loaded question because the only budget we really get to approve is the instructional Media Services and and their kind of their administrative uh budget which which increased very small amounts but where we really incur the large part of our expenditures through the IU are for services and that is not based on a budget that we get to approve that is based on rates that they set for that particular service so those numbers could go up more significantly than the actual budgets we get to approve just bringing it up for

116bring a thought that's a good point anybody else the Cyber Point well that's a that's another thing before we close we have there are so many things that happen this year with extra money going to this organization cyber school and and when you put all that together um B right on so I do I I I do want to thank Brian because I know he's he's done everything he possibly can and um I appreciate that motion to adjourn move second all in favor I