001Good evening. Tonight is Monday, uh, September 8th, 2025, and I'm calling to order the discussion meeting of the Mount Lebanon Board of School Directors. It is 7:30 p.m., and we're present in room D205 of the Mount Lebanon High School with public participation also available via Zoom. Uh, roll call, please. >> Mrs. Berdick, >> here. >> Mrs. CrarAel, >> here. Not that I don't know your names, but I wanted to do them in order and I lost my screen. Sorry. Miss Fleer >> here. >> Mrs. Gellman >> here. >> Mrs. Gensel >> here. >> Miss Guth >> here. >> Mr. Hoffman. >> Miss Johnson >> here. >> Mr. Wland >> here. >> All present except for Mr. Hoffman. >> All right. Thank you. Um, this evening our presentation will be a technology event. a a technology
002event. So, we're expecting a lot um a technology update from Mr. Stangle. >> I like the event. >> Main event. >> Okay. >> Hi everybody. >> Hello. >> I don't know how to make it an event. I don't have pyrochnics or anything. Sorry, but uh maybe next time. So, it's nice to see you all again. Um this thing on. Uh this is a uh a presentation uh along the lines of one I gave last October. So, some of the numbers you'll see are a little lower. I'll explain when we get to them. Um but I have lofty goals for those numbers. But it's nice to uh sort of step through what's going on in technology, what the department is supporting, what we've got going on, uh what might be new this year, what we're looking
003forward to, etc. Um hopefully everyone remembers this map. This map is available on the district website under the technology page. Uh it is how we sort of keep track of everything that we have in play. All the balls that we have up in the air, uh we've sort of laid out in this faux uh subway map. Uh, and we categorize everything along the lines of hardware, software, Google workspace, cloud applications, multimedia, training and integration, telephones, and our tech theater services. Um, so I've got slides on most, if not all of these to go through. So, hardware. Now, we've got a lot of students hardware out there. As you know, we issue uh Chromebooks and iPads to our students in K5. The kindergarters and first graders get iPads. Students at grades two through five uh get
004Chromebooks. Uh this year we are uh enabling um QR code login for students in grades two and three and once you get grade four user ID and password time. So it's a fun skill building time of year. Uh and we're excited to have a new system which I'll talk about later that'll help with that as well. Um we also our BYO for our secondary students. We require students to bring a non uh cell phone device with them to school every day charged. Uh and that can be, you know, an iPad with a keyboard or a laptop or a Chromebook. Um but for those who like to borrow from us, we uh have Chromebooks that we loan out. Um and uh we also have classroom PCs, uh laptops, printers, copers that we maintain. We don't own
005those. uh document cameras, TVs, and large screen displays in all of our classrooms, data projectors, interactive whiteboards. Uh it's a lot to keep track of, but we try to keep it fresh and going. So, uh to the BYOT and uh student device numbers, um this number is fairly static. About elementary devices uh out there in the world, all of them liable for accidental damage. So, we're going to get into the EP thing right at the bottom there. But also, grades six through eight, we saw a little bit of an uptick over last year in terms of number of students who are borrowing at the middle school level. We're up to 88%. Uh, and 68% just a little bit over twothirds of our high school students borrow. That's about on par with what we've been seeing
006over the years. Um, so here we go with the EP, the equipment protection plan. Best $50 you'll ever spend. I don't need to pitch it to you all. I'm sure you've all bought already. Um, but I've been uh sending out some reminder emails. Uh, next one is due out tomorrow night. I'm trying different nights of the week to see which ones get better response rates. This is where the numbers are a little lower than last year when I presented to you because it was in October. Uh, so we're only up to 28% of our elementary uh, devices are covered by EP and only a third of our secondary devices are covered by EP today, but there's a lot of time between now and October 1st, which is the cutoff. So, um, plenty of time if
007you haven't already. Uh, and if you haven't already, look forward to my emails. They're strongly suggestive. Uh, and hopefully tell a tale of a sad, uh, occurrence when a family had a break on their device and did not have the EP purchase. >> Testimonial. I'm stunned to hear that just one small little brokenoff uh, headphone jack uh, can mean a motherboard needs to be replaced. So, um, cautionary tale. I had two boys of my own. Best $50 you'll ever spend. Okay. I mean, I still have them, but they graduated. So, okay. Uh, I didn't want you to think I lost my children. All right. Uh, so we also have a bunch of hardware uh down in the data center, which none of you know where that is, and that's fine with me. Uh, it is
008a large collection of servers and racks and sands and, uh, network switches. Uh we were able to uh finish up our three-year replacement of our network switches this summer. Um the first iteration of that project came from the high school renovation. Uh so we were able to break out the replacement over a threeear cycle, three summer cycle, and we just did summer number three of three this past summer. So all of the new switch work that we purchased with the uh original renovation of the high school has now gone through uh one iteration of replacement. So it's all up and running. Um, we maintain visitor management stations with Raptor. Those are the things you drop your ID cards into at the door. Um, backup and disaster recovery. We have uh double and triple plans in
009place where uh things are backed up to the cloud and we've got uh something going on over at Foster in one of the closets uh and a lot of other um ways that we protect our data and can back it up. Um just this past weekend we lost a little bit of data uh with a blip and we're able to recover it quite easily this morning. So uh glad to see that in play and it's good that we practice it uh as we do quite often. So moving on to software. I'm going to talk fast. I'm sorry. Uh I don't want to keep everyone here all night but I could talk for a whole day about this so take me out after. Um but for software this is on premise software. We have uh P
010school as our main student information system. Uh we have uh Forinet uh which is our firewall and we provide VPN access for our employees that need to actually tunnel into our servers here at work. Uh we have a intranet page which is entering its final years of life. We are keeping it on life support until the strategic plan goal of a new intranet kicks in and we're very excited to see MTLSD home set sail. It's had a nice long run. Um but not this year. So telephone uh systems of voicemail are located on premise as well. Uh we are an Alcatel Lucent shop. Uh I'll talk about a forthcoming capital project we need to do with them at some point. Uh we have our own uh technology and facilities work order system. Uh and we
011manage all of our devices Apple and Chrome uh through software that we have here on premise. But we also have student uh software installed. Uh, a lot of it for our teched uh, classes are creative cloud, Adobe, the AutoCAD. Uh, we have Mo boards everywhere and Smartboards everywhere. Um, a few outposts of Microsoft Office still linger around and we're happy to support them, but I'm I'm not going to out them here. Uh, we have a a bunch of music technology that's installed on computers as well. So, um, but we're also very cloudheavy, as is the world. Uh we are a Google uh apps for education shop. We're actually a Google recognized uh district. Um in terms of Google thinks that we are doing it right with Google products. Uh so they've given us a gray
012badge. Uh that means they can ask they'll ask other school districts to give us a call if they need help. Um so we're happy to be a resource to other districts who are learning their way through the Google Workspace. Um, B Internet Awesome is a uh a great uh family safety program that Google puts out. It's good for home and classroom. Uh, and I believe uh our uh library programs are are borrowing from that content as well as they teach digital citizenship and online safety to our kids uh K through 12. Um, so we have Chrome, Google Assignments is there, that's that's how we fit Google Drive into um Schooly. Uh Google meet is our preferred um web uh uh video chat platform. No more Zoom just here in the board. Okay. Uh so more
013cloud things. This is quite a scattering. Uh P school is actually made up of a lot of components that are in the cloud. Uh school messenger allows us to send out delays and emergency notifications. It also lets us uh chop up and send out schedules uh via secure PDF at the beginning of the year. Um, Navvian uh secondary parents will uh families will know uh is owned by powers school as well. Uh we have uh elements of p school that let you do um parent teacher conference planning. Uh MBA is for our fees. Aurora e-collect forms and enrollment expressed are new this year. You've heard us talk about online enrollment. Um those are all plugins and components that we've brought into power school. Uh libo ID is brand new. I've talked about it uh before
014in our school readiness. Um but I love talking about it because I think every day we're finding out new things that it can do. Uh in fact, families this morning should have seen a new icon appear on their family dashboard, which is a link to uh all of our district newsletters. Um staff have a similar link on their staff uh launchpad as well. Uh and we're discovering new things every day that we can do with Libo ID. So, as we get our feet under us and we gain comfort with using it and and uh getting through some of the growing pains of instituting such a large uh scale project over a summer quite rapidly, uh I'm really excited to find new ways that we can make it valuable to all of our people uh staff,
015students, families, uh etc. So, uh Libo ID has been great. Uh Harris is our uh beloved HR finance system. Uh we integrate with that actually through Libo ID. So, uh, it does all of our, uh, account creation. It starts in Prosoft and makes its way all the way down to Lebo ID for our staff. Um, final site is our, uh, uh, website platform. Uh, we'll be hearing more about that throughout the year. Uh, as Miss Smith and I do a lot of fun new things with our brand new looking website. Um, Schooly, as you know, is our learning management system owned by P school. Um both portals for powers school and schooly are through the libo ID family dashboard. That's a busy slide. I'm sorry. Um so we also do a lot of cloud and
016fil cloud cloud-based filtering and um protection soft uh software. We uh utilize GoG Guardian uh in a couple of different ways. GoG Guardian is our web filter for all of our students um basic blocking system. It allows us to block websites that are not appropriate for students. uh and allows us to um uh offer to families the uh ability to use GoG Guardian Parent. Uh any families who are interested in GoG Guardian Parent. Uh that is a link off of the district website, families technology uh onetoone all the way uh at the bottom, GoG Guardian Parent. Um or just send me an email. I'll point you at the link. But basically, you can sign up for it through your Power School dashboard. uh and then the next day or two you should get an email
017with all the directions on how to install it and use it etc. Um, we've also instituted one tech last year uh during this presentation. This was uh soon to come uh and it's actually here now and uh just over the summer they've released a lot of new um capabilities with one tech. But one tech is a uh um a collection of app and software reviewers nationwide uh who go through and scrutinize software for its attention to privacy uh compliance with laws like FURPA and COPA. um whether or not it's good software, bad software, does it have ads, etc. and provides a whole rubric for a district like us to decide do we want to approve this use? Uh is this approved software, not approved software, etc. So, it's going to allow us to um run
018a couple of different dashboards which will show uh this software is good and approved and then hopefully those things will all flow nicely into libo ID where the people for whom it's approved can just click it to uh log in seamlessly. That's the vision. uh and in a number of cases we've already gotten there and uh I know this year we're going to get there with a bunch more software. So very excited about th those products. Gaggle, just to add, um Gaggle is more of a um a back-end monitor. Gaggle watches our student Gmails and our student Google drives and uh for students in the high school, the Google chat uh and monitors them for any number of concerning, alarming, not good activities. Uh, and when it finds what it thinks might be such a
019thing, it runs it through a human being, which is something I really love, uh, because it's priced the same as all the other competitors that just use AI. Um, so I'm not being endorsed by Gaggle, but I mean, it is a it is a oneup on their product that a human has reviewed this and said, "This is this is a problem. This is something you should be concerned with. It's not just some AI um kicking out warnings, which we also have. We have those, too." But uh every time a student uh class does research projects about uh um uh chemical dosage levels of aspirin in human bodies, our alarms go off 200 times till Sunday and we look into all of them. But uh it was just that one class and it's driving me crazy.
020But so Gaggle has the humans that are smart enough to step aside uh and recognize that that's the sort of activities going on. Um but that's okay. We'll take them both. We'll take the AI alerts and we'll take the gaggle alerts as well. So we use those two things uh together and uh it's been a pretty good system for us but it's a lot of work to stay on top of. We also have a multimedia department uh one and a half of whom you can see in this room at any given time. Uh and uh we do a number of uh uh support for events where we're filming and streaming and recording and rebroadcasting on our public access channels, our website channels, etc. um inbuilding digital signage, telephones. Uh last summer we not this past
021summer, the summer before we compete completed a transition to uh SIP trunking, which is nerd speak for internet phone. Uh so it brought down our local longdistance calling uh quite a lot. Um we're still on the hook for copper lines for our emergency systems for elevator and fire alarm, etc. Not much we can do about that. But for the actual telephone calls, uh we've cut down costs about half with that move. Um so we should be breaking even this year already from it. Um and uh we when we um renovated the high school, we switched all of our phones here at the high school to what's called IP phones, which are different than digital phones. I don't want to get too nerdy, but um uh digital phones have had their run. We've had these phones
022since before I got here. They are in the other nine buildings. Um, and what we've been able to do actually at the time that we renovated the high school, so what was that? 2013. Um, we put uh IP converters at each building. So within the building, these digital phones all speak to each other with digital phone talk and then at the edge of the building they're converted to IP data talk and that gets sent back and forth here to the high school for processing. Um, so it's worked. It's been great. Um, but it's been like a 20-year run on those phones. So, um, if I were to say pending capital project needs, um, replacing those nine buildings worth of phones is definitely on our near horizon. Um, we also have a distributed antenna system both
023here and at Hoover. Uh, two areas where cell phone reception has been somewhat uh, limited. I would offer that the high school is just based on architecture. Um, and I don't know why Hoover is so low, but Hoover is a not good cell phone place. Uh, so we have an antenna system that amplifies those signals. Uh, Verizon and T-Mobile have for no charge brought their signal to our amplification system. Uh, so Verizon and T-Mobile should be fully accessible throughout the high school and Hoover uh, where this distributed antenna system is in place. Okay. We also have Tech Theater. Uh, many of you know uh, Dave. This is a a recent graduate of ours who uh was helpful uh with a lot of the production things we did. Um but we maintain uh audio auditorium equipment
024space. Um so your uh your speakers, your soundboards, your microphones, etc. Um and we uh assist with production design and theater tech production uh for our student productions here at the high school. Okay. So last year I did a capital needs uh chart, this has been updated a little bit. Um if you're looking at the PDF that at some point went into board docs, uh different numbers, sorry. Uh I didn't know it was going to be PDFed. My bad. I'll get you all updated once. Um but uh uh it's essentially similar things. Uh we were able to cut down the remaining network switch replacement cost uh by half over what we estimated a year ago. Uh and that did finish out the project. So that was great. Um and uh yeah, so these are the
025things we have to replace every so many years. Student devices, classroom devices, um projectors, etc. Things hanging on the walls. Uh auditoriums, uh we've tried to break it out over a uh six, sevenyear span. Uh we're doing some of these projects this year. We're doing the Melon Sound um revamp. Um and there are a lot of lights in the high school little theater that are very difficult to find and expensive to replace when they burn out and they burn out because they're not LED. So, we've been uh over time parceling those out and replacing those as we can uh with LED lights and we have more to go. So, there's a little bit of that in each year. Okay. So that's just all of them added up. Uh on average, not including any telephone estimates,
026uh you know, capital needs are in the 780 to 825 850ish range, but we'll see what prices do over the years. It's hard it's hard to predict outside of 3 4 years what the prices are going to do, but >> okay, those are all my slides. >> Questions for Mr. Singer? Kudos. Yeah. >> Thank you, sir. Um, question about the equipment protection plan. >> Yeah. >> So, do you I don't know if you know this off the top of your head, but like do you have any data in regards So, last year based on what I saw, it was like less than 50 just under 50% of students opted in. At least that that was what was in in here. But anyway, um an idea of how many devices or how many students or parents
027or how much they had to pay for broken devices. is like, do you have any of that? >> Yeah. >> Data. >> I have all that data. >> Okay. So, I'm assuming it's a lot. >> It is a lot. And it uh I will say it peaks in middle school. >> Middle school is the most significant percentage of breakage that we see. >> I was happy to see that high adoption number. Oh, no. They took they took a lot of devices. >> Yeah. >> They still got to enroll. There we go. >> Yeah. >> So, when a student gets a device, do parents have to sign off on anything? Uh well in theory secondary stu parents are the ones who have requested it. >> So in the request for it is a number of things
028they've signed off for. >> So my question is ultimately is it possible to have an optin like on a on a sign off for your kid is getting a device. This is the rules and here here's an opt in or opt out. Like they have to actually check the box. >> I'd be happy to work with council on whatever the parameters are for that. The current the current issue is is that it goes through a portal and that's the issue is that we have to have them confirm and pay for it and one's a piece of paper or a digital form that doesn't connect with the payment portal which makes it hard but I think I mean Mr. Stangle you should share like how many we had three years ago as opposed to last year.
029I mean, I think it was a significant increase because of your campaign that you do to inform families >> for certain. Yeah. Two years ago, it was nowhere near the half. It was probably 20 25% of the families had had purchased this two years ago. >> And our goal is to increase that every year. >> Yes, it is. >> Right. I was just thinking if you if you're able to opt in by signing off on something and then maybe get them and the next step is to go to the portal or something like that because otherwise it's just it's just a separate >> it is separate and it is uh sometimes clunky. I mean I will not stand here and endorse arbiter as user friendly right >> I was a parent myself >> um it
030is something that can be done and gotten through but uh it's not the >> it's it is extra and I would love to make it more speedy >> and it has to be done yearly we can't yeah it has to be >> they can't commit for the next four years they have to do it yearly >> correct are there any school districts that mandate parents having like an equipment protection plan. >> Um I mean I would equate that with a technology fee. >> Yeah. >> Um I don't know any off the top of my head, but it'd be hard. I'd have to guess some do, but I don't know of any personally. >> Thanks. This is great. Thank you. >> So I have a question with uh with GoG Guardian. You've got GoG Guardian, GoG
031Guardian Parent. We've had some community members come and talk about GoG Guardian teacher. Is that something we've thought about or is there are there pros and cons that you know of about >> yeah I meanizing that >> in the context of safety I would not put Gogardian teacher in that conversation. Uh it's a product made by Gogardian and it is what's called a classroom management software which lets teachers have greater control from a computer over the other computers. M >> um it doesn't necessarily um add any additional level of blocking or um incident reporting um but it allows teachers from a computer station to um exert control over it. So we've looked at it. It is not free. >> Um if someone decides it's worth the price, it's certainly something we could do. But >>
032yeah. Do you want to talk about what we have done though to control the concerns that came up last school year with usage of the devices such as limitations on what they can see as well as the >> Yeah, I mean we're constantly evolving what it is what it is that we uh are able to uh block and and prevent students from doing that's not related to school work on those machines um through the GoG Guardian filter itself. Um and we have have I I think a I don't have that data. I mean at the tip of my tongue I do have that data. Um but the number of uh families that have signed up for like a guardian parent where they can apply additional limitations uh to their students outside of school hours has
033has risen as well. >> Doesn't single sign on also um limit kids access to um websites that might be a distraction during education? I mean it it doesn't force the students to go through that single sign on but in theory I can see it being more cumbersome along the lines of Mrs. Gelman's uh if you got to click more it's more of a hassle. Yeah. >> Yeah. But I think also what she's referring to is the access point. So we used to have to access YouTube to sign in. So when families their student >> Certainly. Yeah. Yeah. So any any service that used um Google to authenticate um up until this year schooly was one of those systems. Um Google for some unknown reason throws traffic at YouTube to authenticate. Um so when families had
034YouTube blocked at home, it was blocking authentication to good things like Schooly and anything else that was using Google as an authentication um source. So with libo ID uh underwritten by classlink we've gotten rid of that entirely. So now classlink/ libo ID is the authority provider for all these systems. Um so families that don't want their students to have access to YouTube can do so and not be blocking um the things that we need them to get to through their libo ID. And after our meeting in May, I believe is when this there were people that came and gave feedback to us on sites that we didn't know were problematic and we removed those sites >> and removed um YouTube shorts which were very popular amongst the students. Those no longer can be accessed through
035our devices and we're currently working on a system to only allow so many tabs open. Um what we find is is they'll have a bunch of tabs running and we're working on addressing that which kind of speaks to your point about the parent or the teacher um access. When the teachers have that they then are required to go on and monitor everybody's page. I think expecting teachers to do that is a little bit um irrational for 30 people. We want them to be instructing. So we're looking at other ways to limit access and our partners have been fantastic. Um, just to give some numbers because I think like this goes to Chris's work around all of these items. Um, last year we had 346 unique parents and 552 students that were monitored um using the
036GoG Guardian parent that they signed up for. And then um in terms of like our access for gaggle and getting updates, we received um last school year 30 um I'm sorry, 51 high severity gaggle incidents. So when a high severity gaggle incident occurs um many of us at this table get an alert um and then we contact Mount Lebanon police who go out and we'll do a well check if it's something that is um going to present a danger to a student. And then medium or severity um gaggle incidents we had about 671 and those incidences are um talking about different things that may not require immediate access but may be something like um inappropriate images and things like that. So, we've done a lot of work around trying to kind of manage, I guess
037I would say, the use of the devices. Um, but we still need famil family's help because we can put all of these into place, but without support at home, um, it makes it kind of challenging for us to to do much more. That's a good plug for the upcoming uh Libo University technology edition which is uh there's information or there's been information in the weekly email about signing up for that um to learn more about some of the programs we're using but then also some tips for things that you can do at home either with district devices or your own um hardware and software to help >> and those are all >> support the kids >> up and ready to go. So anybody that's interested in attending they can sign up. There are session names,
038descriptions and who the presenters will be and they speak to the use of go gaggle or go guardian and gaggle um as well as schooly libo ID um power school so that families can be well informed about how we use the different products. Yeah, also some sessions on Apple and uh Android >> for those families that don't want Apple families. >> Yeah, we have um parental controls and maintaining tools for Apple products and the same thing for the Google family link. >> And just a huge shout out to the tech department for their willingness to help us with this because there's almost every member of the team is running a session. >> That's great. Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions on the technology update? >> Appreciate it as well. >> Thank you. >>
039Come up with you know how to reach. No. >> Okay. Uh the next section of our agenda this evening is the policy discussion. Um so I will turn this over to Miss Goo. >> Sure. Um this month we are going to be voting next week on adopting several new policies including 627 which is commercial activities and partnerships. That's pretty um lengthy that you all can read. 137 which is home education programs, 207 which is confidential communications of students. 218 which is student discipline. 218.1 which is weapons. 2182 which is terroristic threats. 2183 which is discipline of students convicted or adjudicated of sexual assault and 222 which is tobacco and vaping products and we'll also be retiring numerous policies that are listed there. >> Um can I add one thing just for 627? I know that
040there's been community discussion about uh the farmers market and how our spaces are used. If um people are using our spaces like the sidewalk for the farmers market in commercial activities, it talks about giving out flyers. if you're on the sidewalk, you can give out flyers. So, we're going to make sure that when we talk to the municipality um that that's the case, that they know that. But then also, say for instance, if they um start using the part of our property that's like close to the auditorium at Melon, we'll issue a permit for people to be able to use that. Okay. Any um questions, comments, or discussions on this suite of policies for adoption and retirement? All right. Thank you. Uh the next section we have is our finance section. Um starting with our
041treasurer's report. The treasur's report reflects cash transactions for the month of August 2025. The first document is our treasurer's report. Page one is a list of our main bank accounts with their ending cash balances as of August 31, 2025. This includes the general fund, payroll, capital projects, our real estate fund, and cafeteria fund. uh page at the top of page two is the top of the page of our investments as of August 1st. And as you scroll down to page three, you will see their ending balances as of August 31st. And page four is a list of our smaller accounts with their ending balances as of August 31st. The second report in the treasur's report is our 202526 year-to- date and estimated final expenditures for fiscal year 2526. Um there has not been much there
042is no change in the projection. We are predicting um the same budget as being the final. But I do want to point out in our year-to-date column under revenues, we have uh local revenue coming in, but we are seeing very little revenue from the state. We did get uh half of our gaming revenue in August, which is nice. That's that 1.454 million. Um, but there has been no other state funding allocated or approved for our school district because of the budget impass. >> And I think too, um, Mrs. Conley, can you explain like how that may impact us say 3 months from now? Yes, Mount Lebanon is very fortunate to have um a robust local revenue stream in our real estate taxes and that has all been coming in through June, July and August and
043we'll continue to go through till about December. At that point, um most of the people that are going to pay their taxes has paid their taxes. The discount period will be gone. The phase period will be gone. and now they're getting into a situation where we're heading into delinquent. With that dried up, we can, you know, our expenses are mostly tied up with payroll and benefits, um, utilities, technology. We will be seeing some cash flow problems eventually if the state budget is not resolved. And our neighbors who don't have a as a robust as of local revenue, they're already feeling it. So, um it's a it's having a major impact in southwestern Pennsylvania and across the state. >> Well, and and this is um you know, as we mentioned, we can weather this for a
044time, though not indefinitely. Um the state budget was due June 30th. So it would be um a great time to advocate to your state representatives um that we expect a state budget uh to be passed to fund public education and other necessary programs across the Commonwealth. >> And Mrs. Mr. Farter, I just also wanted to mention that the 2425 audit is underway and our auditor from HOSK spec will present to the board the final audit in October the second meeting. >> Excellent. >> Any questions, comments or discussion on the finance on the treasurer's report? Okay. Except it's the monthly list of bills. >> The monthly list of bills reflects checks authorized to be drawn between August 15, 2025 in August 29, 2025. All checks have been reviewed by the administration. The superintendent recommends approval of
045this list. >> Excellent. Any questions or comments on the monthly list of bills? Okay. Um, and then the list of unusable equipment. >> The list of unusable equipment includes filing cabinets in fair condition, metal rolling bookshelves in fair condition, floor scrubbers in poorest condition, a carpet extractor in poor condition, an orbital floor scrubber in poor condition, and economics textbooks in fair condition. The superintendent recommends approval of this list. >> Excellent. Any questions, comments or discussion on the list of unusable equipment? Okay. Uh our next category for discussion is the um human resources. Uh first up is the personnel report. The personnel report details personnel appointments, changes in assignments, leaves of absences, resignations, sbaticals, and retirements to be considered by the board. Excellent. Any questions or comments on the personnel report? >> Great. And next up,
046we have an item for PSBA officer elections. The board is asked to cast their vote for PSBA endorsed officer candidates and the officer candidates are included. Um the board has received the list of candidates. Typically there's only one person who runs for these officers per region >> and this would be a uh a vote at next week's meeting. Are there any questions or input on the officer for PSBA? I think I did note that our region does have two candidates. So, that's exciting. >> Um, and we have their their candidate statements available. Um >> any other questions? >> Which region? >> We are region um sorry uh W3. >> Okay. So our ballot um will only be for that for the um sort of global officers um I think the president and vice president and
047then the um representative for W3. The >> people are Antonio Paris from Riverview School District and Eric Meredith East Alagany School District. So consider those options carefully uh and we'll cast our vote next week. Uh if I skip this item, does it happen? >> Uh the final human resources item is a notice of intent to retire. >> Um Dr. Davis has notified the board of his intent to retire at the conclusion of the 2025 2026 school year with the effective date of retirement of June 30th, 2026. And it's too soon to say goodbye. >> Way too soon. >> Any uh discussion? So, we have to vote on that or just an FYI. >> No, just checking. Well, obviously there's going to be a lot of um kudos and thank yous and and celebration of Dr.
048Davis's time here with the district, which has been substantial. Um uh but this is just the notice of intent so that the board and the community is aware. Any discussion? Temper tantrums. All right, our final uh discussion section this evening is curriculum and instruction. Um we have a series of crowdfunding approval forms. The first is for the Jefferson Elementary bingo bash. So we have four different crowdfunding approvals. The first one is Jefferson. The board has asked to approve a request from Jefferson Elementary PTA to crowdfund for their bingo bash event to benefit students, teachers, and community of Jefferson Elementary. And I recommend the approval of this request. >> And do you want to just review the remaining three? >> Yeah, absolutely. Um, and then we have one from Markham Elementary to crowdfund to support field
049trips, PBIS incentives, the helping hands fund, teacher discretionary funds, make your mark shirts, field day, and other events, which this is also recommended. And then Foster Elementary is requesting to crowdfund for the purpose of soliciting book donations for the library and this is approved by myself. And then finally, how is requesting to crowdfund to support various PTA funded events, the purchase of classroom supplies and activities for how students. >> Okay. >> And can I add one thing about PTA? uh we met last week for our first PTA meeting of the year and um I suggested that if they know all the events that they're going to do throughout the year, we can submit one crowdfunding form so that they don't have to worry about doing that multiple times throughout the year just to give some
050ease to their to this new practice. Excellent. >> Any questions, comments, or discussion on the crowdfunding requests individually or as a group? Okay. And then we have a uh uh sorry, a trip uh for the varsity cheerleading uh group. >> High school administration's requesting permission for varsity cheerleading to travel to Orlando, Florida for the UCA National Cheerleading Championship from February 5th through the 9th, 2026. Students are responsible for the cost of the trip and will miss three days of school and I recommend the approval of this trip. >> Okay. Questions or comments on this trip or school trips in general? Okay. All right. Um we are now open to the uh section for public comment. Uh from residents, presentations or comments are to be limited to 3 minutes. Uh does anyone wish to make a
051comment? Anyone online? Okay. and announcing the upcoming public meetings will be next Monday, September 15th, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. We'll have the board's regular meeting uh in room D205 of the high school with public participation also available on Zoom. Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So move. >> Second.