001Mhm. >> I was stating the order if everyone could please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, thank you. May be seated. >> [clears throat] >> We have a number of people here tonight. That means we're either in in the dog house or or we have a lot of people to recognize. So, uh thank you all for being here. Um Susan has done the roll call. We have all board members present except for Mrs. uh Syrian uh Councilman Syrian. Syrian? Syrian. Syrian. Yeah, sorry. >> [laughter] >> Uh apologize. Um so, just just as a reminder, all or a portion of the meeting may be
002live streamed, recorded, and posted on the district's YouTube channel for the purpose of public broadcast and according to board policy. The district disclaims any responsibility or liability for any defamatory or slanderous statements expressed by any member of the public. Any unauthorized recording or rebroadcasting of any video, audio, and or still image of this meeting is strictly forbidden without the written permission of the board or superintendent. Um do we have any public comments? >> not. No. Okay. So, we are going to move on to presentations. Our first presentations, I will presentation, I'll recognize Mr. Gill who has uh some students here from the Minecraft challenge. >> Yeah, I would just like to introduce this this is Mary Ann Feder, who is our gifted coordinator. Um Mrs. Feder does a phenomenal job with our gifted kids. She
003deserves a lot of credit for their successes in and out of the classroom, and uh I'm going to have her speak about her group. Thank you. Mrs. Feder. Feder. Good evening. Good evening. My students and I are excited to share some of the projects that they've been working on this year. Last November, a group of three students entered a Minecraft Education Challenge. Vincent Richardson, Truman Hill, and Jace London are here tonight to share their experience. I'm Vincent Richardson. These are my classmates, Jace London and Truman Hill. We want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to participate in the PSCEA Minecraft Education Challenge. We were very excited to be able to use one of our favorite video games in a way that was educational. The regional challenge title was building Pennsylvania's future through sustainable
004agriculture, and our goal was to design and build a farm in Minecraft that could feed and support our community. The challenge was designed to connect Governor Joshua Pierre's five key areas of economic develop development for Pennsylvania. We spent a lot of time researching agriculture in Pennsylvania and ways to include sustainable farming and how to use renewable energy sources on the We designed a farm that included crop diversity like wheat, carrots, potatoes, berries, pumpkins, and corn. We built a barn and a greenhouse. The barn included sections for the animals, shelter for the animals, and places for the animals to eat and drink. Our greenhouse included plants like tomatoes and cucumbers and included an automatic watering system. Our build included an irrigation system, wind turbines, solar panels, and solar lights. They also built a food bank where
005surplus food was stored and made available for people in need. We are in first place in our region for our build and are the spot at the state finals in Lancaster on Friday, February 6th. At the state tournament, we competed in the middle school bracket, which included students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. There were eight teams from across Pennsylvania competing in the final competition. The challenge title was building Pennsylvania's factory of the future. Our objective was to build a factory that utilizes advanced technology and sustainable energy to strengthen Pennsylvania's manufacturing industry. The reason for this title was because Governor Josh Shapiro's economic strategy highlights manufacturing as a high growth opportunity for Pennsylvania. The middle school prompt was to build a factory that uses a decarbonization hub with renewable energy like wind or solar power
006to power your production. The prompt told us to consider building a sorting system that shows how your factory can change its work to meet to meet what people need and include a water system to show how you are keeping the environment clean while you while you work. While we were working, we added solar panels, a water wheel, an automatic sorting system, and an automatic decor maker. The automatic decor maker used redstone, which is the wiring component in Minecraft. You could select the decor that you wanted and it would be made and be put in a chest that you could take from. We built solar panels on the roof and then and in a field so that we could have energy for the factory. The whole experience was absolutely amazing and I can't thank you enough
007from the bottom of my heart for letting us participate in it. We are very hopeful that we will have the opportunity to do it next year. Well, congratulations, gentlemen. Uh we're very impressed with with what you've done there. Um it's exciting to learn about and hear about and we wish you luck in your future endeavors. Thank you. >> Thank you. Last week, um ACE students participated in the Keystone STEM Challenge in Clarion and they're here tonight to share their experience. >> [clears throat] >> Hi, I'm Caitlin. On Thursday, February 26th, eight students from PAS competed in the Pennsylvania Keystone STEM competition criteria. The day started with the host explaining the expectations for the day and announcing the prompt. Our prompt was to brainstorm and design a change that could improve Pennsylvania schools. Once we were
008given the prompt, we began researching, planning, and building our project. We were given 3 hours to complete our project. Each team was allowed to use one internet-enabled device. Both of our teams used an iPad. Teams were allowed to use a variety of materials including rubber bands, paper clips, tape, scissors, binder clips, pencils, pens, Sharpies, paper, and sheets of cardboard. Chop saws were provided for us to cut the cardboard. We all thought it was fun to use the chop saws. Each school that competed in the competition was given a chop saw for their school. My name is Anna Hoffman and when teams completed their project, teams presented their prototypes to a team of judges. We were told to present as if we were on the TV show Shark Tank. If you ever have watched Shark Tank,
009you would know that creators are only given a few minutes to pitch their idea and sell their product to the judges. My team included Ivy Overly, Caitlin Copenhagen, Anna Hoffman, and myself. Using the prompt we were given, we brainstormed and came up with some ideas we could use. Our final idea was to make a project that would prevent water bottle spills and hazards of disposal in Pennsylvania schools. First, we got all the resources we needed before beginning to build and create. After we had all of the materials we needed, the process of beginning creating began. We all worked together to cut cardboard, tape the pieces together, poke holes into the cardboard, using the paper clips and rubber bands to attach all the pieces together, and make it look nice and presentable. We were able to
010name our project, and we decided on the Bottle Bin. During the award ceremony, we were given the award called Systems Thinking for Creative Project Design. My team was Aaron Willman, Jace London, and the chairman Phil. Our STEM Challenge design was the Classy. The Classy helps students check grades, assignments, contact teachers, put in attendance, and more. Every Classy has a pin locked to the phone that is linked to the student's lunch number, so that no one can access someone else's Classy. Main partner to the Classy is the Classy Tag. In every classroom, lunchroom, and any room in the school a school would like is the Classy Tag. The Classy Tag lets you automatically put in your attendance, instead of telling your teacher you're there or having to check attendance. Simply tap the Classy on the Classy
011Tag to automatically put in the attendance. It also simplifies buying lunch. Again, simply tap your Classy on the Classy Tag to buy lunch. At the end of the day, or when needed, simply charge your Classy by laying it on the Classy Tag. The Classy package contains 18 Classys and one Classy Tag. The Classy also comes with an optional package for customization, so that students can change their class their case for the Classy and their home screen. The package works like this. When a student is doing well on tests, being good in class, and has good attendance, that student will earn reward points. Reward points allow students to buy cases and other things to transform and customize their class ring. We believe that the class ring could become an actual product in the near future. Out
012of the 20 teams in our division, we got first place. Thank you for the opportunity to attend the STEM challenge and for allowing us to come tonight to share our designs. Thank you guys. >> [applause] >> You have to put them on working with Matt. Great. Thank you guys very much and thank you again Miss Feder for working with with these students. We appreciate it. Okay, moving on. We have Mr. Gold to uh >> [clears throat] >> All right. Uh winter sports achievements. >> I always have to follow that. That's that's awesome to see. It is. From the elementary students. So, uh I just want to present our winner accomplishments for our athletes this year. We had a lot again. Starting off with our competitive spirit, our cheer team. Uh they finished second in districts.
013They made it to the state tournament this year. Um two of the girls are right here standing. Uh Alexis Kobach, Alexis Runyan, Jaylin Bish, Jenna Bitner, Madeline Perry, Savannah Burton, and Tia McAfee along with others. So, they finished I actually got to I went down to Johnstown and watched. And I got to hear a lot of Katy Perry stuff, but it was [laughter] uh They did a great job. They worked so hard. They basically start in in May and carried all the way through. So, congratulations to those girls. >> [applause] >> For girls basketball, >> [applause] >> we had a Central League All-Star, Bo Thomas. In girls basketball, the girls, we had two Central League All-Stars. One is here, Grayson London. And the rest of the girls, go ahead and stand up, too. And Natalie
014Burket was a CENTRAL LEAGUE ALL-STAR. [applause] THESE GIRLS ALSO WERE DISTRICT 9 CHAMPIONS, once again. Finished with a record of 24 and 2. Their coach, Mike Carlston, picked up his 200th win earlier in the season, as well. So, they had another great season for the girls. For indoor track states, two of our participants, Ellie Casto and Adam Manners, both went to indoor states and qualified throughout the winter. Ellie Casto Casto actually medaled at sixth place in pole vault, I believe 12 ft. 12 ft. So, yeah. >> [laughter] >> And Adam Manners actually went in seeded 20th and finished 10th in the triple jump. So, he really Also in indoor track, we had the the TSTCA championships. That's kind of the league that they run on their Saturdays at Edinboro or Youngstown State. Poncey had 14
015athletes finish in the top eight. Ellie Casto, Adam Manners, Aiden Bish, Aiden Anthony, Quinn Homan, Miles Conrad, Grady Snyder, Christie Tricoli Miller, Emma Conrad, Marin Martin, Keno Kennedy, Snyder, Riley Miller, and Maggie Geddes. So, pretty nice year for the indoor track and no carried right through to outdoor track, which started this week. Swim. First ever district medal this year in second year swim by our 200 IM. Three of those young ladies are here. They're standing in the back. THAT IS UH >> [applause] >> AS I GET MY PAPERS HERE. THAT'S UH KYLA AND HALEY WHO could not be here. Then there's Sophie Henredon, Miley Presley, and Elise Polly finished second. Very first race of the night Friday night I was there. Very exciting that uh we were able to do that. They had uh also
016some other people to place during the weekend. Uh Gabby Kendricks here, she finished uh fourth in the 100 backstroke. So, another great year for swimming and it was uh very well participated and they did a great job throughout the season and I appreciate everybody that we had five home events. I think they went very well. Um and uh each time it got a little better for us and we were able to move along. So, we appreciate everybody's support with that, too. So, congratulations, GIRLS. >> [applause] >> OUR WRESTLERS ALSO UH UH I'M not sure if it's the first time ever, but it's been a long time since we had four District 9 champs at one time. We had um Joshua Dobson, we had Jordan Rootan who's three-time uh District 9 champ, Logan Morris a two-time
017District 9 champ, and Sage Burkett. Sage Burkett actually finished fifth in the regionals and he's actually participating in the state tournament right now. Uh he just wrestled his first match uh and he's continuing hopefully go on until tomorrow and Saturday. So, we'll see how that goes, but uh Joshua could not be here cuz he's actually with Sage. And then uh Logan is actually on a college call tonight and uh Jordan could not be here, either, but congratulations to those guys. In the girls department, we had three girls move on to the regional tournament. Ellie Boatman, Evelyn Neil, and Kaya Griederwall. Evelyn finished one place out of making to the state tournament. So, another good year for our girls wrestling, as well. And finally, I just wanted to uh mention to you guys that we have
018had nine uh college commit signings already this year. Our senior class is 104. We've had nine that are that that have actually came and signed. I know of a couple other ones that were just like, "Oh, I'm going to college to play, but I don't want to have an actual signing." And I know of at least three to four other ones. So, we're going to end up probably having around 15 uh girls and boys in that senior class that are going on to play athletics in college. So, that's uh pretty incredible for all the more students we have in the class. So, I'm uh grateful for that. I'm going to try to get them guys here. I don't know if I'll be able it in April because of the variety show, but certainly, man, I'd
019like to try to get them here as many as I can just to recognize those >> Absolutely. >> those folks as well. So, again, appreciate you guys. Good luck in the spring, and thanks for your time. THANK YOU. >> [applause] >> OKAY, GREAT. THANK YOU, GUYS. WELL, BO, you were supposed to go before all these people, but I wanted to take some of the pressure of the audience off of you. So, uh we have Bo Thomas here to give us a student board report. What's going on at the high school? Uh powder puff is coming up uh March 17th. All the proceeds are going to Camp Friendship. Um everyone's pretty excited for it, and the team names are the Jackpot Juniors and the St. Patrick Seniors. Um plans for prom are underway. It's May 2nd
020at Oliver Township Fire Hall, and the theme is uh Midnight in the Mediterranean. Uh variety show practice started last week. >> [laughter] >> Uh progress is being made. Uh although we are currently looking for a stage manager. Um and plans for Field Day uh and as of right now, Queens Beat Queen Bees is scheduled to come to Field Day. Great. Thank you. Any questions for Bo? And I saw your picture in the paper for your signing, so congratulations to you. >> Thank you. Okay. Um I don't believe we have any unfinished business. Um we will ask for approval for the minutes uh from the February 5th and the February 10th meeting on Tuesday. I'll ask uh well, Mr. Gold, if you want to come up here. We have a resignation for the cheerleading coach, and
021we have some individuals to hire for several coaching positions there. Um, you want to talk about the athletic handbook and the holiday basketball tournament. >> Yeah, just just real quick on the coaches handbook. I think you all have gotten a copy of that, and that's just kind of a rough draft that Dr. K and Mr. Nickel and I have been working on. Something that we think is very important that we have. It's going to be something that we'd like to look into policy and yearly looking at it. Just kind of look through some things. There may be some redundancy and so forth. I've been actually been able to Mr. Nickel's giving me some ideas. I've looked at some other schools and kind of started putting some things together. So, this is just kind of a
022rough draft look. You know, obviously, if you think of some things or as we're each day something comes up that we can put in this, but I think it's very important that we have a coaches handbook in place that we can, you know, provide to all the coaches and and yearly if we have to or need to yearly >> [clears throat] >> look at it, make some changes, and go from there. So, that's kind of the thought process on that. Great. Thank you. And then, the [clears throat] other thing real quick, the holiday tournament, it's coming along. I got three teams each so far. So, both Punxy teams and then and the girls Purchase Line and Clarion Limestone. On the boy's side, it's Punxy, Clarion Limestone, and Marion Center right now. Got some emails going
023out. Should be good. You know, you get your teams missing that one year. It you know, it's going to be a little bit, but I think we're going to be able to get a group. Um Like to call it I think I did till I did I think I mentioned the 28th and 29th or the 29th and 30th. It's going to be the 28th and 29th of December uh for one reason uh having that 30th, if we have a snow, instead of making that snow day the 31st, which is tough you know, New Year's Eve. So, having that little break there. So, it's going to be Monday, Tuesday. Um looking to call it um I know Chuck Daly Foundation is very wanting to be involved and with awards and so forth. So, something along the
024lines of Chuck Daly Holiday Classic, Holiday Tournament. Um you know, we can get that all finalized, but just to let you folks know that it's moving along and we should be good to go. We're going to get some you know, nice teams and some different teams that we don't normally play to play in it. So, hopefully we can make it happen. Thank you. Appreciate your work on the Holiday Tournament and Glad to see that back. Yeah, you've all received a draft of the um coaches uh handbook handbook. Uh so, if you have any feedback uh please give it to DJ um either either now or or through email and we'll continue having discussions on it. >> that's something that's in the process, but wanted to let you all know that we're working on that to
025get it going. So, Thank you. Any other questions for DJ? I'm still stuck on the 12-foot jump. Yeah, I Yeah. [laughter] Stan, I'll see you already left. Yeah, at least I've always been schooling. She's she's better than I was, I can tell you that. >> [laughter] >> Yes, that was uh I talking to Coach Snyder that was she was completely on that day is what he told me, but to go with the to that finish sixth um I believe uh Coach Snyder told me that we have not had a place in indoor states in quite a long time. And to just have two of them make it to qualify to get to the state tournament was big. So, yeah, that's it's been a great it's been a great year and spring is going to be
026coming right along with baseball and our softball teams are pretty strong and we We all these kids in track still. So, it should be another good season for us here in in the sports world. >> Tennis is starting now, right? Pardon? Tennis is starting. >> Tennis, boys tennis, yes. Yep. So, I'm looking forward to the next 3 months. >> I walked by the other day and I saw them out there hitting balls and I thought, man, it's too cold out. We [laughter] just need We just need to rain this stuff a little bit so that we can get some practices outside, so. All right, thank you, folks. I just have one other comment, DJ, if I may. So, I would I know it initially said about the swimming thing, but it was all winter sports.
027So, So, I know, you know, we >> [clears throat] >> dedicated a tremendous tremendous amount of resources to the the pool and the swim team. My concern is I I think at some point we have to get younger kids involved and start with them. We were I will be eternally grateful for Mr. Sircola and Mr. Cain. It's kind of hard to start a swim team when we don't have coaches and we were lucky to have them as coaches. Now, we are having some of these kids that have developed into swimmers. They know the program, they know the sport. I don't know what this looks like with a youth program, but I'm happy to help in any way we can. I know I've had some conversations with Dr. K, but if we don't start planting some
028seeds with younger kids, not that I I mean, I'm not in any concern of of the swimming program failing, but I think it's important that we have some younger kids involved, so however these discussions transpire, you know, I think it's time to consider them. Yeah, and I I think that's why it's important with the basketball, getting those elementary rec programs going and continuing those through [clears throat] as many sports as we can. Absolutely. Thank you. All right, thank you. Under transportation for Kelly, we have approval requested for a new driver and permission to bid propane for the 2026-27 and 2027-28 school years. Any questions for Kelly on those items or any other? Seeing none, uh we'll move on to uh buildings and maintenance with Carmen. Wait a minute. Uh yes, go ahead. Um we're we
029were talking about the traffic patterns and that's something that is still ongoing for like the afternoon. The traffic pattern, you know, we're we're still working on that. We are, yes. Um we're going to meet on Monday to discuss um with some different stakeholders, the um and my leadership team, some different options or the options that do exist to dismiss our kids safely and timely. Yep. Okay. Okay, thank you. Uh we have an agreement with uh Gilliland landscape for fertilizer and weed control services. Um any questions for Carmen on that item or any other? I I have one [clears throat] question, Carmen. Was this bid out for local uh landscapers to bid on also? Was that Was this uh bid out for local landscapers to It's open to whoever would They're the only ones that that
030are around that would bid on it. We had someone else and they their business went under and these are the only ones that do the bids around here. Okay. Thank you. Okay, anything else for Carmen? Okay. Uh cafeteria, I don't believe Lindsey is here, but uh we have a approval requested for uh US Foods and Premier Direct Parent Participation Utilization Incentive Affidavit. It's a mouthful. Um any questions on that? I don't know if you want going explain any of this. What exactly is this system that we um collaborate with them to do the bidding for us through US Foods and there's a rebate program within there. Okay. And Lindsay's at the state tournament of Sage wrestling. Okay. Great. Okay, under federal programs and curriculum with Dr. Gaston, we have approval requested for two purchase orders
031that would come under federal funding. The first is the Studer Education District Leadership Accelerator package and the second is the On Hand Schools data management. I don't know if you want to explain any of this or if anyone has any questions, Dr. Gaston. I know we've talked about it before. Yeah. So, Studer Education District, remind everyone of our last discussion, is some PD specifically for our administrative teams to help us build systems of success and accountability starting at the top and working our way [clears throat] out. Um it's a a three-year program. Each year is renewable. Um you know, or we can cancel that every year. On Hands Schools is a company that provides EdInsight data management. This is a platform that we're very excited to get in the hands of our educators to give
032them real actionable time data of the students sitting directly in front of them to help them make decisions with instruction and assessment to help move our our kids forward and empower them in the classroom. Thank you. Any questions for Dr. Gaston on that? Is it the data that is received and is it will it be will it be given out to parents too or is this strictly in house for teacher use? This is that can be used as a tool with parents. This is a um I'd explain it as a high-end engine. So, what it will do is collect all of our state data, any data we feed it inside the school district, teachers can create things. So, really what we're looking at is where are the students performing in a way that helps drive
033instruction. So, I can look at my class and use it to create small groups for instruction. I can look at them to um determine if they've met this specific standard or goal and how to revise that. It's um incredibly detailed. So, it'll help create that overall picture for parents, but this is definitely more of a um educator use. Cool. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you. Okay, moving on to the superintendent's report. We have approval requested for uh some conferences and field trips, for an agreement with uh Ruon. Is that what >> Orwan. Orwan. Okay. And Riverview IU6 for internet and transport connection services. We have a um letter of agency for participation in the Riverview IU Ruon E-rate consortium. Uh we have a uh MOU with Special Olympics for the Unified Sports Program, and we
034have a couple uh board policy revisions uh regarding the discrimination and Title IX sexual harassment [clears throat] affecting students, and also the policy affecting staff. Uh the last item on there is for calendar revision uh for March 20th to make it a flex day. Uh before we get to the discussion items, do you have any comments on any of those or questions? >> yeah, just a couple things. Just um Uh number four, the MOU for the Unified Sports. Um I described that uh um in our previous meeting. And um essentially what we're going to do, there's there's two kind of two components to that. So, there is uh first of all, reviewing what Unified Sports is. It it is a um school-sponsored PIAA-recognized sport. Um it would be under um Mr. Goldsborough's view to handle
035it as a any other sport that we have. And they have some criteria within there that it would be, um, you have to have a certain number of children with, um, some, uh, disabilities. So, we would be collaborating with our special education department and, uh, the other students, um, cannot be participants in other winter sports or the seasonal sports. Um, and it's a full sport. We're going to have, you know, uh, tickets at the gate, the cheerleaders are there, and um, there will be officials, um, and and, uh, they have uniforms, a coach, everything. Um, we have built into the budget transportation. They have to have, um, both home and away matches. So, the first sport that we would consider is bocce. And, um, Special Olympics will, uh, pay for the coach, the uniforms, all
036the equipment, uh, everything with the exception of transportation. We have to handle that. Um, and they, uh, in this MOU, you'll see that, um, it, we can start with an intramural program, which would be, um, this, um, spring, so that we can learn how to do it, learn how to play, which would allow us then in the fall to, um, have a coach and, uh, have a team and be ready for, um, interscholastic competition. So, uh, that's the, uh, nature of that MOU. Um, the two policies that we have there, uh, they're not new policies, they're revisions. They are, um, uh, have red lines on it so you can see where the changes were. They're also live for, um, the public viewing, uh, for them to see as well. Um, it it's just some general
037language recommendations from PSBA, uh, no nothing really [clears throat] new or, uh, you know, a large change in there. Um, also naming me as the Title IX coordinator in that, um, the calendar change, uh, there's two changes in there to draw your attention to. One is uh, that we had a snow day, unfortunately, um March 3rd, and um that day is then going to be tacked to the end of the year, which is going to be our last student day is June 5th. It's Friday. Um and then the request of the calendar calendar revision is to create March 20 as a flex day as we have used earlier with the specific intent to do our formal training for PSSA prep and for uh Keystone exam prep. Um the state releases their criteria and and uh
038we have to go through a number of things. Dr. Gaston's our um assessment coordinator, so she has to have a training, which then turns into a training for all the administrators, who then have to train all of their staff and small group proctors. So, um there's a lot to do with buildings as large as they are. Any questions on any of those items? Um for the the Special Olympics piece, do we is there a specific number of participants we have to have? Do we have fillers out? Do we have enough participants? Are we going to make it be able to go? We're going to We're going to do a um uh uh Natalie and Kate are going to reach do some um outreach. Um I think we have 14 students who would be eligible. I
039don't know the interest of all 14. You have to have a minimum of three on a team. You can have more than that. Um you can have um I believe it's as high as eight on a team without a disability. You can have two teams if we have enough interest. >> Mhm. Um So, I I think we've talked we we wouldn't we don't believe we'll have a problem having at least three. Good. I'm stoked about that. That's going to be awesome. >> That's what we need. I It What will be fun is there's at least four other schools that I know of that are neighbors of ours that have teams. So, we'll be able to uh compete. And you know Yeah, that's really so cool. Um I'll move on to our discussion items. The first
040one that was asked at our last meeting we talked about is flexible instruction days. So, um a couple things on that uh um >> [snorts] >> It would we'll start first with terminology. So, you might have noticed out in the public that there is uh the term remote days that is used. Some schools use that, some use FID days. They're they're ultimately two separate things. And the difference is is the following. FID days are specific days that PDE approves. There's an application process. It's the application is for 3 years. And you have to very specifically indicate how you're using your days, how they'll be assessed, and and so forth. Those were uh it was applied for and approved. We have this year, we have next year. You get 5 days for specific reasons, snow and
041weather of course being one of those. Um remote days is one that most superintendents in the area in the region are using. Um and it [cough] falls under the purview that um superintendents have the authority to um decide the venue or of where education happens. So, as long as you take attendance and you have properly certified teachers. Um so, with remote days we have flexibility to uh design those days as we believe that they should be designed, not in adherence to an application that was done 2 years ago. Um which I think would serve us better if we choose to do that. Um So, I'm going to use the phrase or use the terminology remote days cuz that would be my recommendation for this. Um and we can use as many of those as we
042need to. But, my recommendation uh Well, if I pause for a second, I'll get to my recommendation in a second. So, um so, I did some research on this. Um Uh Mr. Curry and but Miss Sachsman both designed a web page elementary high school that was I found to be pretty comprehensive. Um it provided the opportunity to account for each grade, multiple days, the attendance provision, uh children with special needs of a um a wide range. Um and everything was comprehensively situated there. Perhaps um I'm I'm just assuming that some of the challenge that that we experienced earlier with our through trial [clears throat] run of this was that we used a lot of those days. And so, a lot of the activities and a lot of the things on there probably were consumed. And
043because they were back-to-back-to-back, you didn't have a chance to sort of recharge them or vent them or build on. So, that could have been a challenge that we experienced. Um So, I felt that, you know, a lot of work was put into that. I thought that it was easy to follow, easy to access. The other part that I would add in there in terms of um our remote days is that the collective bargaining agreement is very clear that the it [snorts] is asynchronous. So, meaning that we're not requiring teacher we're requiring our staff to be available for communication with our kids, but they're not going to [clears throat] be teaching live lessons. So, because of the unknown internet service or the inconsistency [clears throat] with power perhaps, that ultimately means that there's going to be
044kids could access the site, but they will have packets available to them with appropriate materials for grade. Um, so that that's going to always have to remain as a design feature of this. So, um, with that being said, and I'll I'll make my my recommendation is we built a calendar with four snow days in it, and I believe that we need to use those four snow days first. If we exceed four snow days, um, it would be my recommendation that we consider using remote days for two days. Uh, if we exceed that, we can always revisit that. If we get into day seven or eight, then we would add them to the end of the school year as we um, have done this year. So, if that is the wish of the board, we would
045need to get consensus to make that be Are we only able to do two remote days? >> We could do as many as we want. Um, we could do five FID days that we're approved for. We can do more remote than than that. Um, I was just recommending we start with two and be sure that we do it well and build from there as We don't have to put those on our calendar. >> We do not. Okay. And I And I agree. I would like to see at least to use you use those four snow days and then using something so that you don't have to tack on the days on the end of the year. Um, you know, this is you know, we we're now at June 5th, and we're only in the beginning
046of March. So, you know, So, this is >> want this to happen again next year. Yeah, I mean, I I don't want to have this spiral into a, you know, whole big conversation of FID days that we've had 50 times already. I think what this is is sort of uh, uh, I don't want to say compromise, but you know, look, I think the best way we all have sort of acknowledged is to build days in the calendar. Um I think it's also a If we were to vote on FID days, I'm not sure that there is the votes here to say, "Hey, let's do five more again." I don't know that there's doing that. I think this is sort of a again [clears throat] a bit of a compromise to Hey, if we get in
047a pickle where we're we're at four days, we have to add two more. I think two more is a little bit Last year, the reality is that five days was a lot. It was I think [clears throat] it was just a bridge too far for people and it was, you know, the bussing issues and things like that. So, I I'm hopeful that the four days will cover it. We don't even have to bridge this, but it is a it is something I would be willing to consider. And I appreciate Dr. K, you know, putting this together. Anything beyond two days, I you know. Hopefully we won't have to do that. Right. Yeah. And we have to remember, too, that we [clears throat] have the ability We don't have to commit to anything necessarily. That we
048can see what the weather brings us next year or circumstances, um you know, uh floods, winds, whatever. And uh if we need to adjust or change things, we certainly can as the year So, just for clarification, we don't have to then apply for remote learning days through the state. You have the flexibility of doing that as Is there capacity to do that? >> to take attendance and we have to have certified teachers do that. >> Okay. And how how many days are you allowed to do that? Do you Do you have a The state The school calendar As many as you want. suggests. Yeah, so And so, when you see like school districts I'm sorry, Jessica. When you see school districts like when it flashes on TV remote learning day, is that they're going this
049route? And what's what's their benefit from going this route? Is it because they weren't approved by the state or is it >> You just have the You have the flexibility to The FID days you have to in your application specify, you know, you're going to have Google Meets and you're going to have them for for amount of time and you're going to teach certain things and assess it a certain way, so it's very specific. Um sometimes they're written with a little bit more um open-endedness, but if you put that in the application, that's what you have to do. Remote allows you to adjust and be flexible, too. Um what your needs might be. It's a lot of technical jargon here, but same Now, with special education [cough] um students, um are they are you know,
050your the remote days are we going to be able to give them what they need, you know, to you know, go by you with their >> [clears throat] >> to their IEPs? We won't. Now, we the I'm suggesting we tackle this into next year, so we have enough time to build this properly. We weren't planning this this year, so you know, this the skeleton is there. They have these conversations, but we don't have things uploaded and things prepared right now. So, but yes, that I think we would do this in collaboration with all those teachers to make sure um that we have things that are appropriate for for all kids. I think we need to try something because it's it's I I don't like to see days tacked on to the end of the year,
051you know? How many snow days are we up to this year? Is it four or five? >> It's five. >> [snorts] >> So, and we only >> only we're only extending the school year by three days. Three days. Right. We only had two built-in snow days. >> of them were built-in, so it's really just three days on the end. So, this remote days idea. There There would be a website that the kids would need to access on a remote day. It would be available that they could, yes. So, that's how they would count attendance? They through that or by completion of their work. And they would have an opportunity to have three days typically to have their work completed, demonstrating that So, >> their attendance was by virtue of completing their work. So, if we
052knew like my granddaughter in Philadelphia when the big storm was happening in January, >> [snorts] >> Friday afternoon, my second grade granddaughter took home her took home a laptop. Figuring that it was going to snow on Sunday and she would be off at least Monday and maybe Tuesday. And my grandson took home a packet cuz he's in kindergarten. >> [clears throat] >> You can't trust them with laptops. Which she was very pleased to tell her brother, "You got a packet, not a laptop." But we would would we if we thought something like that was coming, we would make a we would probably be able to do, you know, send home technology if they wouldn't be able to access or That would be the hope we could. >> Mike and I talked about that. Yes, we
053can. Um now, we we would need to work together as part of the you know, additional planning on this to make sure that, you know, we're properly insured and we we're we're able to manage what might happen when we lose power cables or breakage, loss, um you know, all those kinds of things for certain units, you know, and that would be a That's a reality that will likely happen. So. Have Have you talked to the, you know, like your teacher, your head teachers, you know, about this, all of them, you know, just to see what they feel is going to be, you know, the best for the students, you know, in that aspect of, you know, the flexible instruction days compared to a remote instruction day? I mean, that's From the teacher perspective, it's it's
054the same. This is really It sounds like it's semantics, right? Truthfully. Sounds like it's the same thing. It's not affecting the instructors at all. The thing I would ask is maybe a little more oversight from either the building principals or the or you guys just hey, this is what we're doing, this is what we want to do, not just I think there was some disappointment in in some some materials that were decided last year at some of the grade levels. So. Any other questions or discussion on this? I mean, I'd like to see it done. I I'd like [clears throat] to see that done just to to you know, just so that we don't have to tack the days on at the end of the year. You know, they're just not going to get anything
055in the last few days of school. Are you able Well, I I I want to I want to say something about that cuz that drives me bananas. Just because we can add two days on the at the end doesn't mean we should have four days of doing nothing. You have two days doing nothing, watching movies. I I I shouldn't even say doing nothing, watching movies, whatever you're doing. And you know, the the last two days are the last two days. It doesn't make it six days or four days or whatever. It shouldn't be. If if if our our mindset of our teachers and I I don't want to disparage anybody here, but if our mindset is when we're done testing, we're done learning, that is a terrible attitude to have. We should be learning up
056until the very last day of school. And I'm not saying, you know, hammering on stuff, but we should always be learning something. I agree. Yeah, so I agree. I didn't mean to get on a soapbox. Are you able to give us like a presentation of what they made, like a webpage that they could utilize? I can share with you what they built last year and and I was I was sharing earlier, we it's you know, we don't we don't have anything prepared right [clears throat] now because right now the board we're still operating under the previous vote that we're not using them. So, we would need a motion to reconsider this if that's what the consensus is to add that to the agenda. Um but yes, we we we could build that out and talk
057about what types of um Yes. uh activities they'd be doing and >> [snorts] >> by packet and and so forth. So, so we would be asking for a motion on Tuesday to add two remote learning days at your discretion to the calendar. Is that We would need a motion. I'm sorry, not to the calendar, but to We would need a We need to get consensus to um add a motion for Tuesday so that we can give me the authority to begin planning to use two days. Remote [snorts] days. Two days. Are they remote days? I'll make a motion. And I will second. I'll second. Well, doing it on Tuesday. Does that everyone Does anyone else have any comments about this or I'm good. I I I'm I'm a no flexible instruction kind of thing, and
058I don't know how I'll vote on that. I got to think about it, but if I do vote yes, I'm trusting that it's going to be way better than what we did last >> Right. That That That will not get me to vote yes to let you do that. I have faith in you though that it's not going to be like it was before. Right. I think you will build the system so that There's some meaningfulness to it. some rigor Good. Yeah. Good console. Okay. Uh so, moving on from there, uh cyber instruction. Yeah. We had a um cyber school Yeah. There was just a request from my papers here. Okay. We had a request at our last meeting just to uh talk about cyber as it's related to budget and um you know, numbers
059of kids and so forth. So, this is more or less just an update and there was some change in the legislation as well. So, [snorts] currently right now we have 168 students in outside um cyber. We have 87 in our e-academy. Um there have been 68 students this school year or since uh the end of last school year rather that have enrolled in outside cyber, and 10 have returned out of that group. So, it's it's 58, which um I I don't have the numbers of >> [snorts] >> the exact comparative numbers, but that's that's a ballpark of what other schools have experienced. Um So, some the question is often, you know, what are we doing about this? And and so and uh how are we working to improve that? So, a couple of things >>
060you one second? We have 68 additional students enrolled this year than last year. Um >> [snorts] >> 68 kids have enrolled there this year. So, we have we have graduated some on Okay. And and we've had a number I think there's eight kindergarten kids who have never come to our school. So, it's not necessarily they've left and they're just enrolled out. Have enrolled in [snorts] outside cyber as of summer time. You don't have an exact net gain loss. It's I'd have to >> I'm sure. I'd have to look at how many kids we graduated on. >> It's put that way. I think the numbers you gave us a couple weeks ago showed that it has gone up. I don't I think it's net or somewhere. About We're going to call it about 60. We we've
061got some kids back as well. Um So, [clears throat] there's been some legislation change um involving cyber charter. Um so, one of the provisions is that there's a residency verification that now has to occur March 1st and November 1st. So, we just did our first round of that. Um parents of uh children in cyber charter academies need to re-register with the schools and with us so that we can verify that they're students within our school boundaries. So, that's that's important so that we're certainly paying for the students who are ours. There's a truancy provision. Um this is a big one that students who are habitually truant may not transfer to a cyber charter school this year. [clears throat] So, those that would account for the students that um you know, we're working through the the
062you know, the magistrate and doing truancy elimination plans and then [snorts] they become upset that you know, with that process and then they leave. They can't do that anymore. So, that's that's an improvement. Um the cyber charter schools have to have attendance policies now and that includes reports to PDE through the PIN system. So, they did not have that before. So, they're um you can be a cyber charter student and you know, that they really with that wasn't being accounted for. That There's also a requirement for wellness checks. So, there has to be a minimum once a week of a check-in face-to-face with each of their students who are in outside cyber. That wasn't occurring before. >> Who does that? They do. Their teachers they It's a requirement now that they have to or before
063they might not see them maybe ever. And then uh there was a change to the cyber charter funding. So, it is um it's kind of complicated, but there is a one-time formula Larry reduction and adjustment. Uh for us it was a savings of about 100 or I shouldn't say savings. It was an adjustment down about 180,000 and it's based um hopefully I say this right, Susan, but it's based on our expenditures, not on our published budget. No, on our budget, not our expenditures. >> On our budget, not our expenditures. Sorry, I had it backwards. Um Now, that even with that adjustment, it may go up over time as the number of students change and our budget changes. So, the cost will change. Um and and it will likely go up. So, but that's uh number's
064sake, it's $180,000 less this year. Um So, so two things that we're working out right now. Um Dr. Gaston did an outreach um uh earlier this year uh wrote a letter to all the families that were in outside cyber, gave them a survey for some feedback, you know, what can we do [snorts] differently? Is there anything that we could change that might uh make you want to come back and join. Uh you know, is there anything that, you know, we could talk about, discuss, those kind of things. She had two responses um from that. And and and there were some, you know, one I thought had some thoughtful responses on, you know, some programmatic [snorts] changes perhaps. Um and and that's all that we had for that. Um I would just add to that if
065anyone out there is watching on YouTube or knows a family that that is making the choice for an outside cyber, um please give us a call. Even if the decision isn't to come back, we would still like to learn about why that decision was made so that we can improve programs for the people that that are finding that is a tipping point for them. Um I guess the final comment that I would have on this is that we have the list of the students in particular who left since summer time and um we're going to continue to review those students with my leadership team. Um you know, in many of the cases we know why they may have left. There may be some on that list that we're we're not sure why they left and
066we'll continue to reach out and uh uh do our best to uh connect with them. So, any questions on any of that? Thank you for for taking [clears throat] my recommendation to try to get these kids back to face-to-face education. I'm I'm very adamant about trying to get get them back into this school system here, so. And I appreciate you sending out the letter and trying to get information as to why they left. I'm disappointed that you only got two responses. I really was optimistic that you would be more willing to tell us why they moved their kids from our school. It's sad to me that they didn't feel the need to respond to that. Certainly some positive steps on accountability on some of these uh students [snorts] or parents, maybe maybe both. Um but
067okay, I appreciate that. That's all I have for my session. Okay, moving on to uh building principal reports. Uh Mr. Gill, you have a uh item to discard uh some library books here. I do. Uh they're library books. There are some that are multiple copies. Most uh the reason for this is because um they're either out of date or they're just not being keep kids aren't signing them out for instance. Um so that would be Does anybody have any questions about the discarded books or ones we would like to discard, I guess I should say. I know we've had some discussion on this in the past. What's the What's the general rule we I think we've done everything from setting them out on the tables and letting kids take them to passing them on to
068nonprofits then. >> Yes, we can do whatever you like. We've had some people come in and take a look at them and take the books that they uh they would like. As it's written um Mrs. Robson has put in here uh to donate to nonprofit nonprofit books, things [snorts] like that. An- anything we can do to get a book in somebody's hand um might be useful to them, we would love to do. Okay. Any questions on any other issues for Mr. Gill? No, I would like to say thank you for inviting um putting out invitation through your teachers to come in and be guest readers during Read Across America Week. I read to the kindergarten first grade today and it was great fun. Well, that was the first time I did it. I was worried
069about my reading skills >> [laughter] >> cuz it's been a while since I've had kids. >> Read aloud to you. I loved every minute of it. I went in and read two books and then that up reading the third. Um this has been a great week for us to start off reading across America. So, thank you for coming in and for all those who did come in. Um a lot of work goes into it. Um our teachers do a fabulous job. Um I'm so proud to be part of this building and the things that they do and I just cover little things. I shouldn't say little cuz they're all big. Like I I talk about things that we do within our building and that you allow us to do. And you know, the leadership team
070you have hired has has allowed us to do these things, too. Uh so, thank you. You deserve a lot of thanks, too, for for allowing our students to have these opportunities. A staff member mentioned to me the other day in the gym on this snow day that she walked by the room and saw Dr. Case sitting in a little chair reading to kids and she said, "It was JUST SO ADORABLE." >> [laughter] >> HE SAT DOWN, GOT RIGHT UP. I sat down, I got to have it. >> [laughter] >> YEAH, I PUSH A LITTLE BIT, TOO. Those seats Some of those seats are kind of low. Um Today we had uh uh one of the first of our two science programs from Carnegie Science Center. Carnegie Science Center, they're just formerly I still call it
071Carnegie Science Center. Um it went over very well. Because of the snow day, we missed our one on Tuesday and we will be rescheduling for those grades that were supposed to see it. Um so, that will happen. The presentations were fantastic. Uh Walking Wednesdays have finished and we had over 30 different [clears throat] walkers who walked a total of 8 181 miles. So, that's great for um for us. Uh held a Winter Creek Queen's Court Parade of Excellence for academics, um achievements, DECA, and athletic events. Um you know, we work well together. Um Mr. Kutz, who puts a lot of this together for us, And he a lot of credit. The high school staff, it's very good for our kids to see the older kids. And then I think it's as we do this more
072and more, it it it builds a connection between the two buildings. So, if you have any ideas, we're always open to listening for those. Um but it's a fantastic thing that we do together. Um we're celebrating, of course, we just talked about Read Across America, which started this week. Uh students in grades 4 to 6 will be going to the high school tomorrow to get a sneak peek of the musical Matilda. Uh and then Mrs. Never Gives all those students that come down one ticket for them to get in free if they bring a parent, a brother, sister, something with them. Um so that that's that's another great thing. You talk about us working together in in in the buildings. Uh Later this month, uh our spring student pictures are March 10th. March 9th is
073our expo, our kids expo, which is fantastic. Looking to get a big turnout for that. Thank you to Representative Smith and our PTO. Um and and and you talk about the science center and the PTO. Our PTO is fantastic. Um they ask questions. They come in, they want to do things for our kids that are kids that are beneficial for our kids, and I greatly appreciate uh our working together. Um March 11th, STEM night for for K to 2 it's from 5 to 6, and for grades 3 to 6 it's from 6:30 to 7:30. That will be at the high school cafeteria, I believe it is. Rick? Yeah. Um we do have one of those snow makeup days on March 13th. March 24th will be our family fitness night. Uh towards the end of month
074we're going to be have starting with our concert. I call it the concert series because second grade will go and then and then on on the 25th third That's on the 25th, the third grade's on the 26th. We have a band day that will take place on the 27th. We've got a lot going on. And you talk about we always we talk about athletics, we talk about the gifted like we did tonight. You know, the arts are the same way. Um, these are reasons why kids come to school. And it's for us to be able to show off their talents and their hard work means a lot. So, I appreciate the fact that Mr. Praw, Mrs. Santini, and Mrs. Nepper, you know, they do a lot of cross crossovers in the two buildings. Uh, Bingo
075for Books will be starting at the end of March and go through April. April 9th is our fourth grade concert and then April 13th is our parent night for book fair starting at 6:00. That's what I have. I try to go up until the next board meeting and then go back and move forward. Uh, are there any questions for me? I greatly appreciate you and thank you for the opportunity. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. High School Report, Dr. Spelko. >> [clears throat] >> Um, we have some items for approval. Um, last month Mr. Gordon and Mrs. Gordon took our DECA students to the state competition and we were very fortunate. Um, Jenna Farkas is number one in the state for DECA and Beth Valley, who's one of our board reps and our junior steering committee
076member, took second. So, they have the opportunity now to travel to Mrs. Atlanta, Georgia. Georgia. Yes, to Atlanta. And we have a proposal on there for them to be able to attend that competition and compete at the national level. Um, the Moonlight Drive-In has offered to donate passes to all of our seniors. Each student would get a pass for a full car load of people to go into the drive-in for and it's reusable, is my understanding, for the summer. So, for 20 it's about $20 a piece, but each senior would get one of those those tickets. Um, we have some purchase orders for you. Um, Lum Master and Warden, Dex Robotics, and then the official approval for the teachers that want to participate in the scheduling rates on the 11th and 12th. Are there any
077questions on any of those items? Okay. Um just a quick update on all things. So, we have our reality fair today. Um it was wonderful. Uh Priority First came in and they were there from They came in at 7:00, but the reality fair started around 9:00. All the juniors went down to the gym, walked around, did the reality fair activities, had their budget sheets. Many of them are vowing to always live with their parents in their basement because they realize that they're going to be broke. Um but it was a great event. >> [laughter] >> It's every year. They're They're never leaving their parents. Mr. Bliss has been there and heard them. >> [laughter] >> Um we got a lot of really great compliments from all of the volunteers telling us how wonderful our students
078were, and >> [clears throat] >> that's always good to hear because we do have great kids, and they were well received by all of the volunteers and and everybody from Priority First. As Mr. Gill mentioned, we have Matilda happening tomorrow, Saturday, and Sunday. Tomorrow night and Saturday night are at 7:00, and there's a matinee 2:00 on Sunday. And that is the reason our musical students had to be bumped to Tuesday night. They're all in Matilda except for one student. So, we want to be able to make sure they can come and receive recognition and and be honored [snorts] for for their accomplishment. So, um I also think that shows a really nice carryover between our band and our our chorus programs because many of those students are in are involved in both. So, they will
079be here next week. We had a follow-up meeting on the scuba program earlier this month, and I was talking to Dr. Gaston today. We are hoping to get that started within the next couple weeks. Um my goal is the 19th or the 26th of this month will be the first time that the students can actually start participating in the scuba program. We have a number of activities planned. They would like to do a couple field trips with the kids. They would like to bring in local businesses that would work with in conjunction with underwater scuba underwater walking things like that. So, that program is getting up and running as well and we're really excited. We're looking at having a total of about 12 students to to get started with that program. We have our parents
080nights next week on the 11th and the 12th. The 11th is going to be very busy at the high school. It's going to be hopping with people. Elementary school will be in the cafeteria. We will be in the library. And the parents nights are going to go through the curriculum guide and all of the changes that we had in in as much detail as possible. We're going to plan for about an hour and a half for us to really be able to dive into what changes we've made and what that means for students in for scheduling. The counselors are picking up scheduling papers this week so that we can get course requests in. And then the master schedule will start to take form and I'll be able to to get [clears throat] people placed and
081then get that going as well. Um what else? Or this is something we just had happen today which I felt like I needed to make sure I let everybody know. Mrs. Conner, one of our new social studies teachers, took 14 students to the National History Day competition. This is the first time that they have competed. We have six students that made it through regionals and will be competing at the state level in April. Um so, we'll be we'll be discussing that as well and we're pretty excited. They had a very short turnaround time to get everything ready and they did very very well today. So, we're pretty excited about that. >> That's awesome. That's awesome. And I think that might be it. Does anybody have any questions for me? No questions? Just one comment that
082I've went to that meeting on March 11th that you do. I know for us board members that trying to understand this curriculum stuff is difficult. Going to that, I think you hear the other side of things from parents and the students that be the people that have to live this. So some of the feedback there is good that that you hear. So if um it's it's a nice night to attend. And we had our teacher [clears throat] night on the 24th. Um we had a employment expo in the cafeteria and we also had a scheduling Q&A, not as in-depth as the one that we're going to do next week. And I was thrilled. We had quite a few parents and students come to the library to hear and ask questions and I thought that was
083great. So I anticipate we'll have a good turnout as well. The 11th is the night for the sixth grade students and parents to the concourse, which is usually pretty well attended again because that's that transition from elementary school to high school and we'll be able to answer any questions. So if anybody does happen to ask you about And the 12th is the 8th through 11th. 12th grade [snorts] or the 12th is 9th through 12th. It's all high school. So the 11th will be incoming seventh graders and eighth graders, so those sixth and seventh graders this year, and then eighth graders through 11th graders will be on the 12th. >> What time do these go? We are going to open the doors about 5:30 so we have time to get everybody in and situated and then
084we'll start the presentation off right around 6:00. Okay. In the auditorium or the We'll be in the library because of the STEM night in the cafeteria. And variety show practice will be happening in the auditorium. The high school's popular. We got lots of things. >> [laughter] >> Lots of things happening all at once. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Smelko. Yes. This is not for her. Um >> [laughter] >> I saw I saw online last night um someone who was asking, do we have dates for kindergarten registration? I believe that we do. Do you Do you know them? >> happen to know what they are? Yeah. April 8th we will open the online registration. Parents There's been flyers that have been dropped to the daycares, um preschools. Um April 8th will be online registration will be open.
085The parents can start uploading their information and make their appointment for May 13th. May 13th is going to be kindergarten registration here at the Central Office. I just saw somebody ask about it. Yeah. You made me think of something. Do when uh I know SAT testing. So, we do it once here and kids can go to Due Boys in Clearfield. Do we push that information out to students or is it only they have to get on the SAT website to register? Is that >> This is why the community gets the PSATs and the SATs to the students that are eligible to take those tests. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Okay, moving on to the financials. Um Mrs. Robertson, we have approval for the uh financial summaries and board reports and we have a budget transfer request
086um for elementary trap elementary travel to Well, I don't know what that means. Probably just shifting money from one account to another. Okay. >> [laughter] >> We're uh anyways. Uh informational uh about the budget uh at the April meeting. I'll turn this over to you. You can No, I just wanted to make sure that you're publicly announcing that the the formal proposed presentation will be at that April meeting and approval. Does anyone have any follow-up conversation or questions for Susan after our meeting the other night? No. Um just Pardon? I wasn't there. Oh, okay. Yeah, just again thank you Susan to you and your team for the work that you've done or did have done on that. Uh good stuff. Um if anyone has questions again leading up to this budget presentation, please send them
087to Susan. Personnel under Dr. K, we have additions and deletions to the substitute list. We have a two retirements, Mrs. Gevidoni and Mrs. Laney will both be retiring at the end of the school year, high school teachers. We have a resignation under the cafeteria workers and we have some individuals in the cafeteria to hire. We are also naming or a motion to name Dr. Krainbroker to serve as a temporary Title IX coordinator and we have three awards for RFPs for professional sub services, cafeteria staffing and custodial services. And we have the termination of employee A. I know you want to speak a little bit about the RFPs and whatever else. Sure. So, there are three of them and you have them at your uh in front of you there. Uh so, the professional sub service,
088um there as you'll see there, there were five that were presented. Um and we have the summaries that are that are there um um before you. Um you know, of those, the recommendation uh first of all, for this one is not something that we need to get into until um summer time. Um and I would just reinforce that uh this would be one that uh any of our current subs would certainly have would be included in it. So, we're not going No one would be left out who wishes to sub here. Um largely the the nature of the sub services that they manage all the employees and clearances and evaluations and all those certification areas and everything that's necessary. Um the quick summary uh the one that um that would be my recommendation is um
089ESS on here. Um and the uh rate for a uh the increased rate the [snorts] quick summary of it is is it would be an increase uh of $16.95 per teacher per day uh for them to handle that service. But this is the summary of the others who are also there. Okay. Can you explain what that $16.95 is? I didn't follow. That's largely their their markup on it. This So, we set the sub rate which is consistent with what you know um uh or or the the pay rate for the teachers is $120 a day. >> Okay. Um and then they have a markup to handle the management of all of that. So, they would be using the Frontline system that we currently use now. Okay. Um so, we would be able to uh enter
090absences and they would be able to fill the absences, but they manage all they manage all of the HR functions of that workforce. Okay. So, the bill rate is what we would be paying them. >> Mhm. Yes. That includes the 16%? Yes. And is that a savings to us, Susan? No, that's what he was saying how much That's how much per day more it would be, but we won't have to pay $16 more. Yes. Okay. >> but we won't have to pay for the our frontline subscription anymore cuz it's included in that price. Okay. So, that's about 16,000 that we'll be saving overall as well. So, it won't really be much more. Got you. Understood. Thank you. >> okay. So, the the the markup the difference here is $37, but because we're backing off on
091that service, it's really only a 16 or 17. >> Correct. Well, the comparison was what it cost us a day for a sub when we add in the Pacers and our taxes. The difference he told you the $16 is actual cost difference between what they're going to charge us and what we currently pay, and then we're also going to save the the frontline subscription on top of that. Oh, okay. All right. Thanks. >> sense. Okay. Um and then the RFPs for both um custodial and cafeteria, there was only one um uh uh company that submitted an application, which is ESS again, and you have the summary of their services there as well. >> [snorts] >> And um there is a markup. However, the wages that they're presenting for their employees are uh what what we're
092currently contracted with our our uh people right now. Do we get a vote Do we get a discount for multiple multiple things? multiple systems We use three of them. >> Probably makes it easier that you're using the same company for all three. We'll ask them. We'll ask. Don't worry. >> [laughter] >> That would not surprise me that you would ask that, Susan. That's a good thing. And so that these employees will be making the same amount as our employees make with exceptions of the Pacer's contribution and uh unemployment or what was the Was there another one? Well, they they won't When someone starts to work for us as soon as they're eligible, we have to start withholding the Pacers. Okay. >> And even the lowest amount And what percentage is that? like the 8.25 Okay.
093So, when they work for these outside services, they don't have to pay that. They can choose if they want to be in a 401k or retirement plan and how much they want to contribute. So, I think that's why it's more attractive um for some people to go there. Some of these companies, they give them some PTO on day one. Another advantage to us is obviously their their employees and they're on their worker's comp and all of that as well, so. I would just add two things to that as well. Um first is that this is still um only in a response to emergencies that we have where we can't staff properly and we we need to be able to um serve food and have a clean environment to have school in. So, when we reach
094that, then that would be the intention of this. This isn't just for you know, a secondary purpose of just increasing our workforce. And then the additional part of that is is that the workers that would be working for ESS are our local people. So, you know, the likelihood that someone is driving from far out of town to work is is unlikely. So, we would still be employing Oswegonian folks for this, so. Someone who doesn't care about the pension as much may be more inclined to go work for ESS to get that Perhaps. small difference. Um do these uh service providers guarantee us workers when we need them or they >> [snorts] >> We tell them we need five or four cafeteria workers >> [cough and clears throat] >> were guaranteed to get four cafeteria workers
095or are we getting what they can find? They may only have two. It might be what we end up with. Okay. Okay. And their business is built on finding workers because you know, we're Right. When when they're able to fill a position, they're also getting paid. >> And we don't pay any like retainer for any of these services. We only pay when we we use them, correct? Like is there an initial retainer for they any of >> Not that I'm aware of. Not that I'm aware of either. I will certainly check that but I did not receive that. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Moving on to reports of special committees. Um Doug? You probably saw in the paper where they're opening the refrigerator farm to farm refrigerator but other than that I haven't been up
096there so Trevor? Yeah, it wasn't really in depth. It was it was pretty quick. Sure. Yeah. Okay, appreciate it. And Heather's not here tonight so we'll ask her on Tuesday if there's anything from the IU. Anything for communications? None? We will pay the bills, the general fund and the cafeteria fund as presented. Anything under new business? Nothing. Okay. Well, on that motion I guess we will move to adjourn. Thank you everyone for being here today. It looked to me like you were expecting me to say something.