Boyertown Area School Board Meeting: 6/24/25

001[Music] like to call the meeting to order. Roll call. Yeah. Mrs. Diamond here. Mrs. Scott here. Mr. Brad Upgrove here. Mr. Roger Upgrove here. Mr. Zawada here. Mr. Broofphy here. Mrs. Dro present. Mrs. Kratz here. Mr. Panorella here. All present. We all rise for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silence. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Going to start with com public com period number one. Donnia Savage strategic plan. Good evening. I just wanted to make a big shout out to Dr. David Heiser and his whole team that made this strategic planning process involving the public um happen. Um looking forward to see the presentation. I believe it's been about nine

002years since the community was engaged to such an extent on planning for the future of our school district. And fun fact um that time there was one board vote not to do it and it was a person who sits on this board right now. But um back to the back to the comment. I have heard from quite a few participants in the process and their feedback has been very positive. While most people agreed that it was a lot of ground to cover in several evening meetings, they were impressed by the presentations and the diversity of perspectives in the room and they appreciated being invited and noted how much they learned about our school community. So thanks to Dr. David Heiser again and all of the staff involved in making this happen. Thank you. Ruth Baker,

003strategic planning. Good evening. I was grateful to be involved in the strategic planning process. It was not as focused on academics as I would have hoped. And um in particular, unless the goals have changed since what we had last week, the impactful goals for curriculum are a process. There is no numerical or measurable goal associated with them. I was told that the comprehensive plan that is on the website has those numerical requirements, but many of the other uh areas in the strategic plan do have numerical goals. And considering what our performances on the PSSA, not that it's a nationally test, but um the goals from the current comprehensive plan aren't being met either. um there was a desire for 20% improvement and I can give you some stats here that would be of interest I

004think and the other thing that I thought was interesting was at the last meeting um superintendent David Heiser said that there would be motions coming to the board for approval based upon this document and so I would urge before this document is approved please make sure it has some teeth so that we can actually improve our academics in this district. We really need to Thank you. This comes from the uh PTE website. This is our eighth graders. There you go. Excuse me. And you'll see what the goal was in the current comprehensive plan that is done next year. And I think that's my last. Thank you. Excuse me. At this time, we're looking for the approval of the June 10th, 2025 committee of the whole meeting minutes as presented. I'll second. Mrs. Nyman. No. Mrs.

005Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Broofphy. Yes, Mrs. Deroff. Yes, Mrs. Kratz. Yes, Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion passes. Okay, that takes us down to our discussion information section of the evening. And our first item um is on the final draft strategic plan. And I'm going to make my way I'm having a little computer difficulty here. I'm going to make my way up to the podium just to be able to give a brief presentation. Okay. Hey. Well, good evening and um I'm happy to present this evening our um draft final strategic plan for 2025 2030. And really what I wanted to do is just walk you through as a board tonight and our community a little bit about um our planning and our processing over the last four

006and a half months. So again, what is a strategic plan? It's really a framework, right? It's creating a vision for the school district. Um it's in I was trying it's including a um a number of items and areas to which we want to focus on as a school district and you can see listed on this slide the numerous focus areas that we intended uh through the last four and a half months to focus our attention on. Uh we conducted five meetings spread across February through June. Uh we began with and had invited nearly 120 participants uh throughout the community that involved stakeholder groups of students. It involved teachers. It involved administrators. It involved support staff personnel. It involved uh parents. It involved community members that may not have any school age children living in their

007homes themselves. And it involved um some board members as well. And um the process really kicked off with some survey data that we um retrieved from our community in January. Uh used that as a kind of a a a kicking off point to a certain extent. And our first couple of meetings really um allowed us an opportunity to create a baseline with all of our participants throughout the planning uh team itself. So that we went around and and allowed uh participants an opportunity to go through each of the focus areas with facilitators hearing the same things within different groups so that they were able to understand some of the dynamics and the working conditions inside of a school district and you can see those listed there on the slide. Our focus areas were curriculum instruction

008and professional development, finance and facilities, student services, technology and human resources, and school and community relations. And they were really the areas to which we we we we wanted to to foster all of our efforts and our focus on. So, uh, you know, identifying what what's part of that planning takes a lot of energy, takes a lot of effort in terms of that. I want to thank our facilitators for um maintaining that through the course of 4 and a half months and that's a that's a lengthy time period to sustain a project and encourage great participation and we had great participation out through all five of our our our meetings. um we wanted to figure out what were were priorities from our stakeholder groups as representatives of each of those larger stakeholder um entities and

009we wanted to implement a plan with support from hearing from all of those stakeholders throughout. So uh we began with looking at the current vision mission and were at the time what were called goal statements and you'll see on the on the the next page those that were listed there. Um, and we we went through some editing processes. We went through some SWAT activities, understanding what were strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats throughout the school district in defining that vision for the school district. And we were really able to um edit that down to something that um we feel confident in and what we want as a vision for our district moving forward over the course of the next five years. Along with that, a more comprehensive mission statement. and then what we determined to be

010uh value statements, not necessarily goal statements, but value statements for our school district and what we value um in terms of the conditions and the things that we have our students involved in. So that took us through until about meeting three in which we really then started to look at the focus areas. We generated um pillars, three pillars when it within each of our goal area, our focus areas and within each of those focus areas, we started establishing goal statements um in the smart model that really allowed us to hone in on some of the things that we want to focus in on throughout the course of the next five years. One of the things that I think um our community has to understand is that when you're develop developing a strategic plan, you're developing

011a very large plan. It doesn't drill down into the weeds of specificity to the certain degree. There are other plans, i.e. as our our our um public commenter came to say uh is a comprehensive plan which does in fact really drill down to measurable goals as it relates to achievement and growth. Um and we use that as an incorporation inside of larger goals that we need to accomplish. Yes, a strategic plan becomes more process in nature in terms of some of the things and efforts that we are we're working on. But please understand that behind the scenes of these 30 goals are nearly hundreds or thousands of other goals that will be that will be developed and worked on and accomplished throughout the next five years in order to simply accomplish these 30 goals. It's

012a very systematic way to to comprehensively look at your school district and really start from the top of what are those big umbrella goals and then work our way down into those real finite goals um that we can accomplish. Certainly all of our goals are important. Our ones dealing with our achievement and our growth are most notably, but that doesn't necessarily trump our facilities, which deals with safety and security. Doesn't necessarily um trump any others that deal with the supporting nature to how we finance the types of programs and services that we want to have helping have help be part of this as well as the necessary supports along the way. um and the things that are driving the technology of today's um marketplace. So overall we and I and I focused in our last

013meeting with our um steering committee in kind of mentioning one goal. One goal that's really woven between all five all five of the focus areas is this idea of MTSS multi-tiered systems of support. And this is a large framework that we're going to incorporate over the next five years that encompasses the types of things across all five all five focus areas that are going to be needed in order to accomplish the types of continuous improvement that we need in our growth scores in our achievement scores in the development and protections of our students safety in our well-being of our students in the financial picture to be able to support this but be considerate of what our community needs are as well. They're all mindful inside inside this MTSS system which is really trying to figure

014out how do we do things in a tiered system with supporting our students. Tier one is how do we address what are all the things that we need to be doing for all of our students. That's nearly 80% of our students every single day. Whether it's in the classrooms, whether it's in clubs and activities, whether it's in the cafeteria, whether it's in any type of focused activities and things that we're working on those students, what are the concentrated things that we need to be doing and doing with fidelity and do we have the resources in place and do we have all those positioned properly in order to do that to be able to challenge our students but also support our students in the same way. Then we start thinking about what are those tier two

015more targeted approaches to maybe smaller groups of students and what types of things do we need to be doing with fidelity. One of the challenges that that come in a large school district is the multiple buildings that exist. And are we doing things in one elementary school in a grade level the same way that we're doing those things in another school in the same grade level? And are we doing those with fidelity? Are we using the resources the way we intend them to be used? Are we doing the types of delivery systems of instruction that we've trained our teachers in doing? And are we doing that with fidelity? Right. What we're going to plan to train our teachers over the next five years are on are less is more. We're going to get really good

016at less things and incorporate over the next five years and compound those over the next five years. So each year, it's not an overwhelming component and strategy of how we train folks, but we gain the confidence of those teachers in the way in which we're training them and developing them to impart that onto our student success. And if you multiply that out across five years, we're going to get really good at a lot of things across the next five years. So this plan really lays the framework for that. Certainly measurable goals and metrics are important to look at and we we do have metrics layered into all of these types of of things. The comprehensive plan which is a state mandate across Pennsylvania ties directly into achievement and growth. There you'll see the types of

017things if you think about statistical information and the types of things that we want to see you'll see those in that area. We're also going to be um starting this this coming school year with a measurable goal goals matrix that's going to sit right alongside the the uh strategic plan that will incorporate the scores that were reported that our students just took through mostly through the spring whether it's PSSA Keystones APs uh SATs and we're going to layer in the measurable goals that we expect to see throughout the course of the year and the types of strategies that we're going to utilize in order to get there. That doesn't land necessarily in a large general strategic plan, but it gets very very focused. And our committee meetings starting off this fall and our work session

018meetings will describe those documents and the types of things that we're working on through professional development with our teachers and the types of things and goals that we hope to accomplish within those summitive examinations that we have. What I think we also have to be mindful of and we'll be informing the board and our community are all the formative type formative types of assessments that are constantly going on throughout the the classrooms in our district. Those really inform the nature to which we adjust our curriculum and the way in which we adjust our teaching um and delivery systems with regard to teachers and the types of things that we need to be doing daily and the types of shifts that we need to be doing daily. So all those things are really going to be

019talked about inside of this strategic plan. And it's exciting information to know that we have what's c what what we have in in in place would be a framework and a vision for what's out there and what's next and the types of things that we're expecting to be working on. So as you work your way through that document talks a little bit more about some of the membership that's there. Excuse me, I'm going the wrong way. The five focus areas and its goals and really a little bit of what's ahead. And what's ahead is a lot of what we're excited about as an administrative staff. I know a lot of folks involved in the strategic planning, we're excited about that. And I really do want to thank our community for their effort in coming out.

020It's a great commitment to sustain the types of uh commitment that that that the membership had throughout February all the way through June to bring a final product to you that we're very very proud of that will give us a lane as a board that we can stay in and focus and that we can utilize as a very good working document for ourselves. Any good strategic plan doesn't sit on a shelf. It's a malable working document for us to look at and adjust through time as necessary. And all the different types of goals that we're doing behind the scenes, I can promise you um uh are going to be in the hundreds to thousands of goals behind the scenes that folks are going to be working on u right away. And we're already starting to

021do that this summer already with um starting those meetings with principles and teachers reflective of some of the achievement data that's starting to come back in. So I appreciate the time uh and allowing me to present a little bit about of the accomplishments of the strategic planning team. So this will be on um a little later in the meeting for your consideration of approval. Any questions? Scott, as you move along with your teams, will you be keeping the board informed as to what you're doing? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. The the measurable um uh the measurable goals template that I mentioned, something that's going to be visible and will be there for for us to look at. Um what we hope to do with nearly every work session is to bring to you a very uh not

022a not a long but a brief presentation about something directly related to teaching and learning that we're working on that relates back to this that relates back to some of the measurable goals and some of the achievement data and some of the growth things that we're working on. Um the exciting piece about MTSS is that it's new to everyone and it's going to be something that's new um even for our administrative staff, let alone our community. And one of the first things that we're going to do toward the back end of this summer is really start to communicate and explain the idea of MTSS and the types of things that we're going to be focused on throughout the the course of the year. So we will certainly be presenting out a lot of things to

023you as a board as well. As Mrs. B Miss Baker said in her thing about the the math and that if it's not written in here, even if it's in another portion, it doesn't mean anything. We can't go back and say, well, it was supposed to be in this part of it. Is there any way we can incorporate that in here? What we can do is uh link the comprehensive plan to this document. The comprehensive plan is a is a is a board approved. Three members of this board two years ago sat on this um comprehensive planning team and approved that. That's a stateisssued document. It's also a document that later this fall our new director of OTL will be starting a committee to create the next three years of a comprehensive plan. So my

024suggestion would be that we can connect and link that comprehensive plan which is required under under school code to this particular plan and as we develop a new uh plan we will incorporate that new plan into it as well. So um there are hundreds if not thousands of other types of goals. If you if we created that voluminous document, this document would sit in some on somebody's shelf and would never be opened. We need a working document, something that's understandable, something that's generalized enough so that we can make specificity out of it as we move through it. Um, and we plan to do that and we're already starting to take a leap into that the action planning sessions that are that are taking place already this summer. But we all know if it's not written

025somewhere, it didn't happen. So if it's not written in here, that's why the comprehensive plan can be linked. Therefore, it's a linked document that's already been written. That can that can be you're going to link it. We can put that in there. It's an easy thing to do. Absolutely. Any other questions? So there there's a lot of goals and there's a lot of timelines. I'm just curious of uh your confidence in meeting these over a 5-year period. Well, we would not have created these. Um, part of the smart model is creating goals that you believe are achievable, right? Part of that part of that a in smart is are are they achievable, right? We have to be realistic at times and um understanding what our capacity is as a district, understanding the resources we have,

026understanding the alignment of those types of things. So yes, um we wouldn't be presenting something to you that didn't have that confidence behind it. Um the goals were created at the will of the people so to speak. Certainly it was led by administration, but we gave we we created a a a good feedback loop with regard to that. So um do we feel there there's great challenge with these? Absolutely. Some of that comes at the feet of the board in um the types of resources that we may need and that we may require and that we may be asking for as it relates to this. One of the neat things that we're going to do when we put together a final product of this, right, we're approving all the goals and all the the languages

027to this um hopefully tonight. But as we kind of recreate this, we're going to put it and designate with certain numbers and letters so that board motions are completely tied to the types of things that we need to get accomplished in these goals. So that you have a connection as a board in understanding the the the the the integration of this to actionable items to which we are uh bringing before you that we hope truly brings continuous improvement in in all five different areas. So, uh, with Tony's point about there being so many, I know you basically said that each goal would really almost deserves or gets the same amount of focus, but would we as a board be able to drive if we needed something focused on a lot more than something else like

028like test scores example as opposed to another part of this? Yeah, a lot of your action um the actions that you take will determine some of those types of things. So, we can hyperfocus maybe. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. I wouldn't suggest that we lose focus of all things entirely and certainly we all bring perspectives of of what may be more or less important. Um and when I say equal, you know, we we develop a plan that has equality, you know, and equity across it. But we certainly we know that there are some things that probably stand above some others. Safety and security. I don't think we can argue that one is f first and foremost, you know, um as as we look at achievement and a growth. Um we're right there, but we need all the

029other compounding things to support one another. So, it really works intric intricately with with all the focus areas. Jeff, is this going to become a yearly thing for us? I I'm not sure what I understand. Well, bringing the public in like this three times to discuss future goals or where because times change and you want to keep it a living uh document that yeah, you know, different things come up and you know we can. So our our plan is to report out midyear in relation to the plan in its in its entirety as it relates and the types of things that we've done andor accomplished in in trying to meet some of these goals and an endofear final report. I think we'll have to see um you know whether we need to re reconvene to

030say do we need to shift anything through time you know if there's large episodes that happen um throughout a a community or throughout the world and we've you know 5 years ago went through one of those and I would say that probably resets some would have to reset some things based on on some of those things. So, I think I I don't know that can answer your question, yes or no, but I think it's an idea of which what we want to look at and maybe at at minimum at least halfway through the plan to be able to look at it from a perspective and gain some other thoughts and ideas as to how people think things are going based on the data that we've been presenting back to them. Yeah, I'm sure because if

031when this works out, more people would want to be involved. I mean, we had a great with a 100 people of the community come out, but that's border town. I think if more people get to know that this process and they can be more involved with that's why I think maybe maybe even just having an overall one meeting for the public at the high school saying, "Hey, this is what we've accomplished." Yeah. and and some of the end of year or midyear um reporting might be done that way, you know, where we have a town hall where we can report out on a lot of different components of those focus areas as to where we are. Um you know, we're kicking around ideas as to how those communication, but one of the focus areas in

032there is is school and community relations, right? So, it's connecting with our community in the best way. How do we keep people informed about the types of things we're doing? Um, so that's that's a consideration to be able to do um in person or at least a video. Okay, thank you. Okay, that takes us down to item number two under discussion and information. Um, it is the audit entry/adjustment entry authorization. So the audit entry authorization is required to allow the financial records to be closed out as of June 30th each year. The audit entries are standard PD and Gazsby governmental accounting standards um board that will include acrewing state subsidy revenue for those amounts that are received after June 30th but that relate to the prior 2425 school year. The Gazsby required closing entries also

033include the acrual of amounts related to OPEB other post-employment benefits and Paser's unfunded liability. So essentially this is the approval for us to make adjustments. Um we we'd love for everything to finish neatly. Um that's just not a possibility when when you're talking um you know invoices and things that might be and coming in and checks and balances that might be came in coming in a little later. So we are going to be seeking later in this m meeting your approval for um this authorization item C um under 202526 general supply bid awards annually the district u requests bid pricing for classroom and other supplies. The bid awards on this evening's agenda include supplies for art, AV the audiovisisual which well sounds like it's not us but uh connected to AV computer general library science

034technology education and wellness and fitness for the upcoming 2526 school year and you can see those listed there and we will be seeking your approval of those bid awards. It takes us down to item D. Uh this is the suburban water operator agreement and um with the uh departure of our uh former director of facilities who held a number of certifications within the district. We do have four uh buildings that operate off of wellwater and uh two um needed for waste and that do have wastewater. The suburban water operator agreement that's being presented uh to you is necessary as a current district personnel do not have all the necessary certifications the district is required to maintain. Earl elementary, Gilbert'sville, New Hannerville, Upper Frederick and Pine Forge. While some of our employees have water certification, a

035lot of things changed in I believe it was the year 2005. Um the water certification that they have is for distribution only. Department of Envir Environmental Protection requires um general distribution licenses 7, 8, 10, and 12 to have the operator's license. So, Mr. Sheiel um our former director of facilities um does and has kept we have asked him and he has um obliged in keeping his operator license hanging through the balance of this month. We're at that point needed to contract with um an outside contractor that will handle and have the operator license. And uh we have quotes there from Suburban Water. We did reach out to one other local who um did not um have the capabilities to travel to some of our farther reaching west uh elementary schools. So we have before you

036the suburban water um operator agreement. Um there are many other licenses that um are are needed through through time. We are pesticide license. We have an underground fuel tank license um that Mr. Shield maintained as well. Um currently our supervisor of facilities is um working on completing that license so that can be transferred over to him. But Mr. Shield was kind enough to allow us the time needed to um transition a few of these licenses over. Uh but we are going to need to contract outside with um contract to service agencies that handle this. You will see that on our um agenda later for approval. Mr. Han, I'm going to leave items E, F, and G to you to explain a little bit about our Crest, Kelly Education, and GHR contract agreements. Thank you, Dr.

037David Heiser. So, our first agreement, letter E, is for our Crest agreement. So, this agreement is a three-year agreement. Goes into effect July 1, ends uh June 30th of 2028. Uh some of the high points of the agreement is obviously the increase that we discussed in January or February for the $1 um per hour increase for all of our PAR professionals. Um you will see in the agreement that um it ended up being a $125 increase. Um, and the way that we offseted what we budgeted for and the 125 was it was not an increase after their annual evaluation 3%. So to put it in layman's terms, if someone was making $15 an hour, they would have got a 3% increase to$,545 and a dollar on top of that, which takes it to 16.45. Um,

038it's just a $1.25 straight across the board. So, we're actually paying less than we would have if it would have been the 3% and then the dollar. We also received a savings in regards to the upcharge. Last year, our upcharge was 11%. Um, this year, Crest is giving us a 10% um upcharge. So, it's a 1% reduction. Um, in addition with the three-year agreement, um, we are locked in at for the next two years beyond this year, a minimum of a 2% increase and a maximum of 3% increase for our power professionals. Um, and as we presented in the wintertime, we had roughly about 175 um, power professionals that served our most fragile population um, in all of our schools um, in the 2425 school year. So, those are just some of the highlights of

039that agreement. Um, I'll take any questions that you have before I move to our Kelly services agreement. Have you heard about cutting back hours on some of our powers powers? We basically had the increase and then they got I've heard this that a couple teachers or powers got hours cut back. I'm not aware of that. No, Mrs. Scott. So, um, not sure how to put this. So, I went on Crest to see what positions were out there for PAR professionals and Bertown had had theirs and a few other schools. I didn't see a lot for Paris. I saw the behavioral te technician that seems to be a a bigger need in the school districts, but the the hourly wages, we are so we're lower than those schools and they're they're not far away. So I

040I really think that needs to be looked at. you the the dollar to me is is not enough because I think we've gone up very slowly with our paras and maybe I need to get more information from you to see how have they like someone who's been here 15 years where are they now in what they're being paid. I I think I need to see that to be able to make a better decision on that dollar. Yeah. And we can we can set up a time to meet. I have the ending rates from 2425 that I can I can share with you. Yeah. Yeah. I would like to see that because we look it looks like when I look on there that we're not doing oursel any favor. We'll never build the workforce that we

041need and we absolutely need Paris for student achievement in the classroom today with all the differentiated learning and the needs that are there and and we just need them. So it's it's it's part of student achievement really to have that workforce. So um yeah, I'm just not real happy with that. So I I need to get more information I guess from you. Sure. Okay. I'll move on to um Oh, sorry. Sure. Um you said 125 pairs that we have about 175 consistently last year. Consistently. They weren't all 30hour people, but we had roughly about 175 folks in and out of our buildings. So it'd be hard for you to give a you know the number we need, right? Do you know what we're lacking? Mrs. department and I are obviously we're looking at what will

042be communicated to um Crest in in addition to anything that we already had in place last year. Um obviously we will be solidifying that probably sometime in the first to second week of of August. Um we are continuously meeting with Crest. I meet with Crest. I met with the HR director there this morning. Um we're continuously looking at what we're doing for all of our building level um administrators as well as the the special ed teachers to provide the adequate um support required for the students. So I I don't have a number today um but Mrs. Bartman and I over the next month will have that number. Yeah. Is it is it possible also to to get information about um the turnover rate of our paras and where they're going and why they're going? I

043don't have access to exit interview data, but I can ask the HR director if he can share some some highlights with me as well as some some of the the raw data of turnover. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Okay. So, our next agreement is the Kelly Services. Um, it's letter F. Obviously, we use Kelly services for our substitute teachers. Um, the only thing that is different with this revision is the addition of ESY teachers for this summer. Uh, based on the student numbers as well as the number of Bertown teachers um that signed up to participate in ESY, we needed to add um ESY teachers to that that revision um is is is there for just that. The rates did not change uh for day-to-day sub or extended sub. Um and the markup is still

044the same as it has been in previous years. So the only thing that has changed is the the the addition of ESY teacher. Yes, Miss Nman. How many did we have to get from Kelly for ESY? I believe we received two. Yes. Miss D. Reason we couldn't get them ourselves. Number one. And number two, we also added prek some stuff for there, too. That wasn't last year. That's a new one. Not on the agreement. The only thing that's new on the agreement is ESY teacher. I guess I didn't read it right then. Yeah, that's the that's the only addition. Um, to answer your first question about the um why we weren't able to obtain uh teachers, obviously Mrs. department and her staff um did everything that they possibly could from an advertising the the program.

045Um this year we just had a few uh additional folks that chose not to participate which required us to go to to Kelly Services. I'm not crazy about that. Any other questions about Kelly Services? Okay. Uh letter G is our GHR um addendum. Uh the addendum, same as with Kelly Services, there is no change in rates. Um for those of you that don't know, we use GHR for our um staff nurse coverage and some CSN coverage in our um East um middle school. Uh so the rates have remained the same. The only thing that has u changed is the previous addendum had weekend um rates and hours which was removed. So, we have same rates for GHR um this year as we have in previous years. And just uh to make the board aware, um

046Dr. Horton and I uh have a meeting with um a potential CSN candidate uh next week and if that individual chooses to accept the position, we will have no GHR CSN's in the district next year will be fully staffed with Boyertown certified school nurses. Um, and we will only really have a a very uh few number of staff nurses uh within within the buildings as well. So, um, we're looking to be fully staffed with our with our certified school nurses. Any questions on GHR? Thank you. Next, we have the treasures report. Good evening. Tonight I am presenting to you highlights from the May 2025 treasures report for our local revenue. Delinquent tax collection was $215,86.33. Earned income tax collection was $335,7326. transfer tax collection was $98,347.94. And for our state revenue received uh for basic

047education subsidy, we received 5,228,762.73. Special education, we received 1,471,2335. PreK count subsidy, we received our monthly $48,375. For rental reimbursement subsidy, we received $29,9525. And for charter school reimbursement, we received $245,562.551. And for May's expenditures, for salaries, benefits, and professional services, it accounted for approximately 78% of our total expenditures for the month of May. And that concludes my treasures report. Thanks. Thank you. At this time, we're looking for Oh, sorry. Here's a question. The room. Um, what did we get from the state for Did we get our state money yet from the budget? Was that most of it? Yeah, I think here. Let me pull up the treasures report. So, we're still waiting on I think it's estimated. Yeah. Um I can get the numbers okay to you. Um I did see a couple payments

048that were pending that are still coming. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anyone else? Thanks. Takes us down to Oh, I'm sorry. Looking for a motion to approve the treasury report. Second. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad, up to Yes. Mr. Roger Up to Grove. Yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Brophie, yes. Mrs. Diroff, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panorella, yes. Motion passes. takes us down to number six, superintendent's consent agenda. Under the consent agenda this evening, we have a number of items. Items A through E or settlement agreements. The board's been given information with regards to and discussed in executive session. Item F, if you recall, is a um request to and the proposed budget for the middle school musical at Middle School East for next school year. our 2526 agreement between our uh sending tech

049school BCTC and the district in its school nutrition program agreement. Um item H is theou with regards to the delivery of virtual instruction um during the school year for 2526. I is the potown health and wellness foundation grant award and if you recall that award helps to uh to supplement the um nearly 50% of our health and wellness coordinator role here in the district. The tuition rates for um 24 uh for the 2526 school year have been established and are listed there by PTE. Um be seeking the approval of the investment institutions listed. the Lincoln Center annual service contract that um was uh reviewed at our last meeting. Um that has a number of our family-based uh counseling um components and positions involved with the cont with the Lincoln Center or listed inside that service

050contract. We have a number of health service agreements and annual special education agreements um listed. None of those have changed since our last meeting. the June donation list um as as listed there and we are seeking um and recommending the board to approve the consent agenda as presented. So water moves. I'll second Mrs. Nyon. Yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes, Mr. Broofphy. Yes, Mrs. Diroff. Yes, Mrs. Kratz. Yes, Mr. Panerella. Yes. Motion carries. Under superintendent's report item. Under superintendent report itemized agenda. Item A, administration is recommending the approval of the 11th grade government and economics online textbooks as presented at our work session. I'll move. I second. Sorry. Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. No. Mr. Brad Upgove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr.

051Brophie. Yes. Mrs. Mrs. Deroff, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Under item B, recommend the uh the approval of the new Hannover Upper Frederick Elementary School roofing project proposal as was presented at our work session. So, I move. I'll second. Mr. Panor second. Mr. Okay. question. Uh, why don't we ever uh bid on metal rs? Why don't we always do the phones? I've been asked that question by several people in the community and I didn't have an answer. Yeah. And I don't I don't have an answer for you either. I'd have to seek out that information for you. Um, I think cost is probably a large contributor to this to that. Um, Well, yeah. So, let me let me do some digging. I can do some research on that for you. Let

052me talk to facilities a little bit and find out where some breaking points are probably with regard to that. Darov, I did have a building with metal roofs and the problem is it expands and contracts so much that it does start leaks here and there after a couple years and I had a ton of issues and it was a big roof. It was under a 30,000t foot building. Simon and all are we going to have the um timeline here that it's not going to disrupt our school? Did they verify that? Yes, they did. And um so let me just read a little brief summary that put together. The estimated cost of the restoration of all spray foam areas on the building is uh approximately 1.7 million. The estimated timeline to complete the project by June

0532026. The extended timeline has been developed to minimize student disruption. So this year July through August um scarification and spray foam work to be completed by the first day of school. Um and then August through October, non-disrupt disruptive project work is going to take place. Um but should not disrupt any of our traffic patterns or any students or any learning um areas. And then starting back up in May through June should be the completion of any work um pending weather um and where we can fit that in. So we are expecting to be able to have this done in time to start the 26 27 year um without any disruption. That's it. Okay. Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Broofphy. Yes. Mir. Yes.

054Mrs. Crafts. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. Under item C, the 2526 food service budget. Administration is recommending approval of the food service budget for this coming 2526 um school year as presented in work session. I'll second. Nothing. Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Broofphy. Yes. Miss Dro. Yes. Mrs. Kratz. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. Under item D. Uh the Boytown School District all day kindergarten RFP request for proposal. administration is recommending the approval of the request for a proposal for the Borertown area school district all day kindergarten um RFP as presented at our work session. So Autumn moves I'll second Miss Diamond. We already know we don't have room and yet you want to put an RFP out which is going

055to cost taxpayers money. I would rather use that money to help educate our students now that are here. It's not in a five-year plan or 10-year plan and it's just being pulled out and we know we don't have the room. So, I'm going to have to vote no on this tonight because we already know we don't have the space and yet you're going to go out there and ask them, "Well, where can we put them?" It's It's not a wise wise move. I think one of the reasons that we should vote for it is because it is in committee in at our state legislature body. And if I were a betting woman, I would bet that they're going to go with this from the people that I've talked to. Either way, I think that we

056need to see what it looks like and to see what kind of room we can make with that other um RFP that we have out there now as far as redistricting or what we have to do. Um it's better to be kind of ahead of the game. We're not voting for all day K today, but I think we need this in this information to make a wise vote. Mr. Groove, good deal. I was just wondering since when do board members feel that they should be doing surveys of their own in social media? I thought we were a board of 10 nine voting members. And when I see board members doing a survey all by themselves on social media, is the next election going to be Republicans, Democrats, and social media? I think it's very unprofessional.

057Rodri, you have something? Yeah, I still had reservations on this as far as um spacewise and getting teachers uh helpers and everybody else. I mean u to put it out there and spend the money exactly how much was it to uh our this RF um to put it out there. Do you remember? Well, it hasn't been put out yet. Um, so we have an RFP that went out for a demographic study. Um, that was u $25,000. If you recall, that's the PA Economy League that's working on that dem demographic study. And we've been sending information to them. They're going they're going to come and present at the July 22nd meeting an update of where they are as we had promised for them to come back before their project had concluded. This is an RFP to

058go out to to study the feasibility of incorporating an all day kindergarten program in the district as it is now. So, it's looking at options, most notably related to spaces to be able to give suggestions and ideas as to what the district could do as possibilities if they so choose to chose to move into an all day kindergarten program um in the future. So that was spacing. What about staffing? Was there staffing in there? Well, we had already uh presented Mr. Stout and his team had presented about staffing and had given the estimated FTEEs that it would take to do that. We're estimating um around 10 FTEES um that it would take to staff that across the district, give or take. um we were more concerned coming out of there as it relates to our

059facilities, our capacity and enrollment. So handinhand with an enrollment study, we expect that enrollment study to be done early fall if the board so chooses to move into um an agreement with regard to a targeted feasibility study for kindergarten. That would probably extend till nearly the winter break. But in the hands of the organization to whom if if it were to move forward, they would have the enrollment study data to to really have some more accurate data um moving forward for for projections um for themselves as well. That ends it. Mrs. Diamond, no. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, no. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Broofphy, no. Mrs. Diroff, no. Mrs. Katrz, yes. Mr. Panorella, yes. One, two, three, four, five. One, two, three, four. Motion passes. takes us to item E,

060stopfinder. Um, and the administration is recommending uh the board approve stopfinder as presented. And just as a reminder, stopfinder is an additional software module that's available through our bus routing software, transfinder. Stopfinder is a notification tool provided to parents to track school bus locations and other in information. Previously, the district had used here comes the bus for the stopfinder will work much more seamlessly with our transportation routing software than here comes the bus did. The C annual cost of stopfinder module is 17,472 and is included within the transportation budget for 2526. Non moves Nimon. Is this going to be just as safe as Transfinder that just not anybody can get into it? Yeah. Yep. It's protected. I mean, I don't want Yeah. And and and again, we're we're looking at it as something that's going

061to be what we believe a little bit more seamless. Also, I know if you have a different bus, is there any way of tracking that? Because they're tracking, as far as I know, they're tracking like if it's bus five, they're tracking bus five, but if on a specific day they don't have bus five, they take another bus and it's bus 25, can that still be tracked? And I I see Brian is here, so Mr. out or or certainly Mr. Quigley if you have an answer. Mike, do you have an answer to that for us? Um the nuances that go along with that, Mrs. Nimman, I know that is an issue um with Here Comes the Bus because of the um like Dr. David Heiser said, the se the the transition between Transfinder and Here Comes

062the Bus is not seamless. This is operating off some of the same database scenarios. Um I believe there's going to be um the need for manual changes like if there's a change of a bus in a morning that something internally would have to happen but um we are looking at it being a little more a lot more efficient than what had happened in the past but I can't speak to specifics but we did pose those questions that it should be a little more seamless than what had transpired in the past. Yeah. Mrs. Nyman. Yes, Mrs. Scott. Yes, Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes, Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes, Mr. Zawada. Yes, Mr. Broofphy. Yes, Miss Diroff. Yes, Mrs. Kratz. Yes, Mr. Panorello. Yes. Motion carries. Connected with that is Zonar. And um again the administration is recommending to

063the board um that they approve zonar GPS units um the proposal as presented. And just again as some background the contract the zone our contract covers replacement of our current GPS systems within the buses and vans utilized in our student transportation systems. The annual cost of the contract is $67,386 is included within our transportation budget for this coming year. The current GPS systems have been in place since 2019. As as with all technology, it's prudent to update technology periodically and this falls into that scope. Go ahead. Is any of this grant money? No. No. Um the these don't fall inside of and we've looked at a number of different things. We Quigley has applied on behalf of the district for um stop arms that's grant money for safety security types of things. These are a

064little bit more alleart so to speak than not necessarily in in the funding realm. They're a nice to have. They're not a need to have and they're not necessarily related to safety as much as some of the other things. and hence um um that we don't see a lot of grant money toward these. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Brophy, yes. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Mr. Panorella, yes. Motion carries. does take us down to the item G 800 AR1 and this is our ret records retention schedule and administration um um based on the board conversation is recommending uh a change to that records retention schedule as as presented to maintain recordings at the board level to be permanent. Um that's when

065the browser is working and YouTube is up and working. Um so yes uh we are recommending approval of a 800 AR1. You're off second. Okay, Miss Diamond, I do see here in the schedule like the feasibility study the retention is three years. Um, wouldn't we want to hold on to the old one just in case there was an error somewhere for we do? Oh, okay. We we we go way back. So yeah, we and and in fact the last large full district feasibility study was really um 2011 12 I believe when the last large scale we there was a smaller targeted one done when uh uh right sizing was done in the district later in the in uh 201819. Um so we do have those copies. could we maybe change that and put down indefinitely

066because it might be good information in there to go back on. So here here's what I would recommend to the board is that um you know when we have our policy committee um these are great things to bring at at that particular time. I I I would ask the board to really go through that schedule of um records retention to take a look at. These are recommended through um PASBO through their legal division and come to us through them. So I I would ask that you go through those and if there's any changes and when we have this fall our first policy meeting um we can take some of these in a little bit more full swoop rather than just oneoffs and we can focus the attention then. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr.

067Mr. Brad Upgove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. No. Mr. Broofphy. Yes. Miss Diroff. Yes. Mrs. Kratz. Yes. Mr. Panorello. Yes. Motion carries. Item H. Uh, the board tenary school district and crest agreement. Administration is recommending um the approval of the crest agreement as discussed earlier in this meeting. I'll second. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Uptogrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Brophie, yes. Miss Diroff, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panorello, yes. Motion carries. Under item I, the Kelly Education Agreement, and the revision to that as presented, um the administration is recommending the board approve that Kelly Education Agreement. So moves. I'll second. Mrs. Nyman, Miss N question. I saw that Crest gave back 1%. Has Kelly given back anything? They have not. Have we tried to see

068if they would? We have. And they did not give anything back. No, it stayed the same. It's been 33%. Okay. Mrs. Diamond. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Broofphy. Yes. Miss Duroff. No. Mrs. Kratz. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. Under item J, General Healthcare Resources Administration has recommended approval of 2526 General Healthcare Resources addendum as presented earlier. So move. I'll second. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Brophy, yes. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panorello, yes. Motion carries. Under item K, Suburban Water Technology Incorporated operator agreement, and the administration is recommending the board approve the Suburban Water Technology Operator agreement as presented earlier this meeting. I'll move secons. As that was

069part of our facilities person when we hire somebody, is that going to be part of theirs again? Uh, no, not necessarily. Um, it's very specific. Not a lot of districts have um operator and water issues the way Bertown does with regard to that. I think that would probably really much restrict our ability to hire um a director of facilities if we had that in as a requirement. So, we did not post with that nor are we seeking somebody for that. However, we have incorporated a number of questions and related activities regarding that for their information and knowledge, but it would be something that we still need to seek outside of our school district. But if they had it and were seeking it, why would we want to go with a three-year contract here where they

070could be doing it, which they've it's already incorporated in their contract unless we're going to take that out and give them something else to do. So, so one of the things that in looking at the individuals we have, we have not found an individual with those credentials and operator agreement licenses that have applied with us thus far. Mr. Alter, I'm sorry, Mr. Group. So now we're going to have to pay $1,700 a month to have somebody certify our water. That is correct. Yeah, it is really a shame that um somebody on this board had to go off halfcocked and wound up losing a man at the school district. We're not doing that. Point of order. I already done it. Enough. Enough. Enough. Let's stay on topic. Question. Are we pl we're so we're not planning

071on trying to train anybody again to take this over as we have them through the contract? We have had a number of individuals that have tried for testing have not accomplished the testing and failed the testing toward it. It is a very comprehensive and difficult test. We are encou encouraging folks to continue on that. Um but we've not been successful to date with individuals. Um we do have two individuals. Another license that we do have is waste water. We have two um buildings to which we must have operator license for waste water and we do have two individuals inside the district whom have those operator agreements and which we utilize for those services. Um, so as we bring another director of facilities on, part of the job will be for that individual to look to

072creating secession plans as it relates to those those types of things. But, um, it's been my understanding that, um, we've not been fortunate enough to have anybody pass some of those. Okay. So, we have two different durations in this contract. There's one that says they're going to do a monthly charge monthly as a as a contract entity and further down they're doing a three-year. So, how do we have a a monthly and a three-year contract in the same contract? So, there are two verticals. Let me open up the contract here real quick. So the first um version or excuse me the first component to that is um it's an annual contract but it's it's based on monthly payments. So you're locked into a with monthly payments as a if you see at the bottom it's

073got a July 2026 through June 2027. That's 20 June 2028, I think. Right. And then the second is June 26 to to that per month. Yes. Um I need to get some clarification on that. Can you make it a little clearer? Yes. I think I think what it what and and I apologize because I missed that as well. I think what they're saying is this is a lock for the year, not in the first line should be per for the year. Does not say that. It does not. and I can I can make sure I have that amended with regard to them. I I also think if there's any way we could look at training someone here to do that would probably be in the best interest of Oh, I I I don't agree. And

074it's not just training. It's getting them to the the literal tests and exams that come with that. It is um extensive. It's extensive with with a lot of study um with regard to that. So, it's not training them necessarily. It's getting them prepared enough to um to do that from a literal test of knowledge. Um when it comes to that is is my understanding. I've not been presented with the exam itself, but um it is extensive. Yeah, it's it's a typical certificate certification exam. Yeah. Um I can I I will go back to them and have that um amended. I believe what they wanted to say was uh for that to be for the first year. Um because part of this was us saying to them that we are trying to work on secession planning

075and they would give us a per month after the first year. They just get it clear. I will. The other thing is uh the people that the two that have licenses now for water wastewater wastewater that has to also be reertified or redone. Have you talked to them? Are they going to keep them up? Um, as as of right now, they have been. I don't know. I haven't been part of the full dialogue with regard to that. We need to have our director of facilities on so we can get those conversations going and have a plan worked out so that we don't necessarily find us in in a position where we don't have anyone certified any longer. That's my point. The other thing is that that price doesn't include um collection of required wear samplings

076either. Yes. So we we we do that ourselves and we're able to do that ourselves. We can it doesn't have to be the operator to do that to collect the samples certificate or anything to do that. We we we utilize our own folks to do that daily collection. It's it's really the oversight of the testing of those to which the operator agreement license has to be in in effect. Have certificate to do that question? Not to my understanding to to just simply do a collection of it. because I would like to know they said they could alter the pricing if they had to use them. What would that price be to to for them to go and do the daily collecting? That's what it says here. Yes. Yeah. I I don't know. Um my hope

077is we never have to go down that path with regard to that because we shouldn't have to go down this path. Right. Well, part of that is making people have to be able to pass the tests that are aligned there because all the ones that were leaving, they're the ones that had to certificate. Yeah. Yeah. And it's most of that changed in 2005 where D came in and operator licenses became um where those that were just simply had a certification were familiar with it were grandfathered in as we u lost some of those individuals through retirement. There hasn't been secession of people being able to pass some of the qualificating qualific qualifying tests needed for that. So something we're going to work on in the interim. We have to D will shut us down. They'll

078find us. Um it's a cost of doing business with regard to that. So is there anybody who recently retired from us that still has their certification that maybe we could offer them a part-time job to do that? Um that I'd have to investigate. I do not know. I don't know. Can I make a suggestion? You know, we have a couple different changes here that possibly we withdraw this and wait and vote on it when we have a new contract. It can't be waited on. Um, we have a deadline of making sure that we have coverage come July 1 or can we do just a one-year contract instead then? Well, we do and I I think and this is where I missed this in the line. And I think the first year or the first is

079is meant to be a year and the other of the mess for a year. I I would highly here here's what I would suggest to the board due to the timing of this um and the necessity to this is that you approve this this evening. I will make sure we get an addendum um or this modified um uh pending your approval of for tonight and that we work on making sure that we get what I'd like to see would be a year coverage for us um and allow then a monthly thereafter with the hope of trying to create some secession chain with employees. Um we certainly hope to have a director of facilities um in house within that year's time to be able to create the secession plan that we need for that. So um

080timing is of the essence here. Um we were put into a predicament upon the resignation of the director um who was like I said kind enough to keep that certification with us for the balance of this month. Can we go to a year contract instead of three year? Well, let me see what I can do. I I will work on trying to vote on this tonight if Well, you don't vote on tonight. We don't have a contract. And we don't have compliance with regard to that. So, vote on just the year contract, I guess. Well, I'm going to ask legal as to I haven't seen the contract. got I have it the right way. Um, so I'm not sure, but if there if there's a provision in there that would allow us to make a

081modification to the contract after, then I think that you could be you can modify it with their agreement to a shorter time frame. Well, if it could be amended, I don't know why we wouldn't just vote on it now and have it amended afterwards. Is that what we could you saying? If if it can be amended, I would suggest that you vote on it now and then move to amend it after. Can we do that? Well, if we if it can't be amended, we could always revisit it like right then and there. Do you have voting on it? It's not voting on it right now. It still needs to be signed by everybody. And once it leaves here, we give the contract out. That's a binding contract, isn't it? Once it's signed. If it's signed.

082Once it's signed. Yeah. I haven't signed it yet. So we so can but if the board's telling me again well we'd have till the 1st. So we we definitely would figure it out by then. Miss Mint Miss Mintz, is it possible for us to approve the um contract this evening with um authorization for me to work on amending this to be a one-year contract? Yes. Okay. I would suggest we do that and I will work on that this week and letting you know as time again time is of the essence here a little bit. Okay. Yep. I do see just as I'm reading through some fine print here, either party may give 30 days notice to the other party of their intention to terminate the agreement. So there is an exit ramp on this within

083one year. Yeah. It doesn't specify anything within any time period simply that with 30 days notice. So even if we're they were to be unwilling to change this, we certainly need it come July 1 and therefore could terminate um or announce our our termination. you know, if if we can't come to some agreement on amending this to something appropriate for a year, we could amend it and still have coverage through July and possibly seek some others. Um, one other party um locally was was not able to to bid on this though. I would agree after reviewing and I do see that provision as well that um and I apologize I'm repeating what you just said but it does say either party can give 30 days notice to the other party of their intention to terminate.

084So if you approved it tonight as it is and later changed your mind you could just give them 30 days notice to terminate the contract. Thank you. Could Couldn't we just pass it say yes to it? passed it tonight with the provision that you're going to work on the contract duration times and get back to us back to us before the final signing. Uh I don't I don't think that would give approval and authorization then to be covered in in license. I think that probably the best course from a legal standpoint is to approve it as it is with the knowing that you have the 30-day termination and then you can terminate it, you know, 60 days from now, 90 days from now, 30 days from now, you just have to give them 30 days

085notice and the contract is terminated. So that gives you the option to look at other options, get that other option in place and then terminate the contract. I think that's probably the safest legal way to handle the situation and still be in compliance as as you need to be by July 1st. Correct. Okay. So then then we're going to do that and I should expect to see this back on the agenda at the July meeting. Uh I So we're going I'm I'm going to work on amending this to be a year contract. Um, we're going to approve the contract tonight with the provision that it's amended. Would I bring back the amended contract for another reapproval of that amended contract in July 22nd meeting? Okay, Mrs. Nim. Yes. So do do we need to read

086officially that uh the amend the the motion the amended motion? I would read the amended motion. So the amended motion should be the administration um recommends approval of the suburban water technology operating system contract with the proi provisions of amending it to be a one-year contract period. Okay, Miss Nitz, I had a motion. I had a first and second on the original motion. Do I have to do anything else? Do I have to? May I have to be able to We already had a first and second. We should be asked to update it to this one. Do they agree? I think you're amending I think it's fine if you're amending. Okay. So, they agree to the amended motion. Perfect. Thank you. Full recall. A full vote. Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove.

087Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Brophy. Yes. Miss Dro. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. Okay, let's hope this next one is not as difficult. So, the audit entry adjustment entry authorization um the administration recommends the uh approval and authorizes uh ask for the authorization for the entries to the financial statements for the school district after June 30th, 2025 move. I'll second Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Uptogrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawatada. Yes. Mr. Brophy? Yes. Mrs. Dro? Yes. Miss Katz? Yes. Mr. Panerella? Yes. Motion carries. Item N. Uh the administration recommends to the uh the board of directors approval of the 2025 2030 strategic plan as presented in both document form and through presentation this evening. I'll move a second. Yes, we did.

088We're going to I did. So, we're gonna follow through with this and then I'll go back. I My apologies. Wait, what are we on? I'm I'm on M. We just did the strategic plan just now. Okay. Let's bring it to the four first. Yep. All right. I'm sorry. Can you repeat the first and second? I think I was the first. Thank you. So, we are going to make that correction there. include the link of the comprehensive plan. As long as that correction is added in there, I'm okay then with it. Okay, this is for item N. Mrs. Ninman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgro, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zelada, yes. Mr. Brophie, yes. Mroth, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panorella, yes. Motion carries. Again, my apologies. We'll go back to item M.

089Um the 202526 general supply bid awards and the administration does recommend the approval of um the general supply bid awards for this coming school year. A lot of a lot of moves. A second. Mhm. Thank you. Nothing Mrs. Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zada. Yes. Mr. Brophy. Yes. Miss Diroff. Yes. Mrs. Kratz. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. Takes us down to item O, personnel. And we do recommend the approval of the personnel items as presented. I'll move. I'll second. Thank you. Um, so you have the for the new budget that we had just passed for two counselors. Is that both of them on here that we covered or just one and a half or what what did you cover on here with that? So we

090had our two halftime counselors. Okay. At Earl that are moving into full-time. Correct. Right. So, one is going to stay at Earl and the other one is going to be the new one at Bees. And then these are obviously the um additional 1.5. Okay. Um and then as far as on that budget, we had I don't know how many teachers, so help me. For special special ed, did we have eight that we were hiring? We had eight FTEEs for special education. Better. So, can have we hired any can we see that on here that we I I know you're marking it over here. Have we hired any of those yet? We have. Yes. Okay. Yes. How many? And we're continuing to interview. We had second round interviews and first round interviews today. Uh we still

091have Mrs. Bartman, can you can you help me out with the total that we still have to hire you? Correct. um elementary autistic support, emotional support, elementary life skills, and a split learning support between Washington. Yeah. Four years. We need four yet. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Mrs. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Brophy, yes. Miss Drooff, yes. Mrs. Kratz, yes. Mr. Panorella, yes. Motion carries. If I could, I'd like to point out, um, our new school police officer, um, obviously 30, how many? 37 years. 37 years. Um so um through a lengthy process um we we vetted Chief her um who is leaving um Laureldale as the chief and he's going to be joining us and he will be our new school police

092officer at Middle School East. So I just wanted to welcome him tonight. Can I address the board? Absolutely. I just want to say uh thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to uh be part of the the school district. Um, been a Burks County resident for almost as long as I've been a cop. Uh, just a little bit about myself. Uh, just want everybody to know that, uh, was born and raised in Lock Haven. So, I'm a I'm a country boy and, uh, came down here to, uh, start my career full-time in law enforcement and been in Burks County now for 36 years. and uh went through the academy when I was only 19 years old. Graduated when I was 20 and became a cop when I was 20. Uh grew up with

093a father that was in law enforcement and uh that poor soul, he's still doing it to this day and he's uh going to be 80 years old coming up in December and he's down in Delaware as a constable. So uh I led in his footsteps and uh and continuing to uh you know follow his footsteps to the end. So, I just want to say thank you. Um, I'm very impressed with uh everyone here tonight and how the uh the school board is conducting themselves. And uh what was nice to hear was how you include the public. And that's one thing that I'm very impressed of because in 37 years being in law enforcement, that was my big thing was including the public in uh everything. And uh Mr. Han will uh tell you that uh

094the one big thing that I stressed was team. Team means together each achieves more. And uh if everybody works together, we will be the best of the best. And uh I'm here to uh do whatever I can uh give my expertise anywhere I can uh in the public safety and uh I'm here also for the community and uh I will try to do the best that I can uh to make all of you proud of myself but also of the school district and hoping that the public will uh see all of that. So uh again thank you very much and look forward to uh working with all of you and uh the teachers staff and working with the students. Thank you. Thank you. Welcome aboard Chief Warner. Thank you. Now you have all that NASRO

095training to look forward to through July. Public com period number two. Donnia Savage board effectiveness. I'll pass. Okay. Um Ruth Baker, budget and turf. Good evening. I know that we've heard of tax increase every year and I'm wondering what can we do to at least not have the same rate of tax increase every year? I have asked for years, can't we economize on our assistant principles at the high school and certain staff that we have here at the ed center? Every vice principal is a fairly expensive administrator. It's not millions of dollars, but it's something. And what I see is that they are focused on specific grades within the high school rather than in the old way there was one for discipline and one for academics. and seems like when you have a class advisor

096as a teacher as well, that's sort of a dual duty. So, please give that some thought. The other thing that came out in the Strat plan uh groups that I was in was that there's a certain amount of vandalism of laptops going on and I wondered how much that's costing the district. if it is a minimal thing or is it something we need to be charging the parents for uh more than the initial fee of $20 I think it is or something like that. And um one quick thing on the strategic plan handout that I gave you that is the 8th grade results. So that's what's coming into high school and the comprehensive plan right now does not have a math goal for improvement. I hope the new one that you're working on will but

097right now there is nothing and as you can see from 2015 we have had not very stellar results in math every year. So anyhow on the on the astroturf business I had um asked at one time um if the board would consider having an upgraded natural grass field to at least see what it would cost. So, I got a quote from Hummer Turf. I mentioned that I was a private party. I offered to pay for the quote. They did it gratus regardless. The other thing that I wanted to clarify with our state rep, he sent that to his research unit in Harrisburg. Um, what is the purpose of the capital fund and what can it be used for and can money be taken out of it? In fact, money is required to be taken out

098of it if a project is not done. In fact, it is specifically for buildings site acquisition and building expansions. So, I wanted to give you that information as well. Thank you. So, this is the school code excerpt and the public quote as I dropped one on the floor and zoom. Thank you. Thank you. Board comment period. Mr. Drop the roof. Yeah, I'm I'm reading in here um what Ruth Baker just handed out. Here is the provision providing by our research staff in Harrisburg. And I do not see any evidence that supports Mr. Upper or Mr. Zawat's claim that the state law dictates that money cannot be removed from capital project funds. When did I ever say that? That was when you were on the phone with me. Probably about a year and a half ago

099or so when you were discussing this. It took me a while to get the research. I took a while to get back here to a meeting. You'll see the date of the remember of the email. I don't remember this email. I don't remember having a discussion on with you on the state law dictates that money cannot be removed from the capital project funds. That was part of the argument for using it for artificial turf was that it was there and couldn't be taken out of the fund at the time. Well, it can be taken out, right? Only for capital projects. Yeah. And so that defines what a capital project is. You'll see the highlight of the text. Just give your comment, Rob. All right, I'm done. Okay. Uh back in January, I met someone who

100uh apparently is a member down at Lower Marian School, and she was very nice to say that yeah, we may have gotten a good superintendent as long as you like to spend money. And tonight shows it because we're spending money on kindergarten to do an RFP to see if we have room when we know we don't have room. So, I have to find out who that person was and call them and thank them for the information they gave me. On another matter, I thought we were adults here. However, after last meeting, someone claiming they were giving us a message from someone on the board, uh, this unknown individual came over to to the table, slapped the person next to me on the back, and slammed a cup down saying, "Here's a shot of vodka." But

101the waitress would not put it in. Excuse me. We're doing comments. Give comments about the board. No, this is nonsense. We're moving on. You're done. Next. No. Yes. You're done. You're done. You're not entitled to it. Yeah, I am. No, it's a joke. No, it's not. It is. It's ridiculous. Discrimination then against probably for allowing me to whatever you want to say, but that's done. You're up. Um, I believe this is Mrs. Lance's last meeting and I just wanted to thank you thank her for her many years of service and to wish her well in her next adventures. [Applause] Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Landis or Stephanie. I guess we can call you that now, right? And welcome Chief Homer as well. Welcome. Thank you, Mrs. Landers. And welcome, Chief. We will call you Chief now,

102right? No, you can call me Brian. Thank you. Okay. I also want to say congratulations to our 2019 grad, Terry. Yes, Cavage, who is now pitching the double A New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the farm team for the Toronto Blue Jays. Hope I got that right. Upon his call up to the Fisher Cats, he pitched against the Phillies doubleA team in Reading. Great job, Trey. Keep up the good work we at Breer 10 are so proud of you. So, there's another one that uh he'll be back to uh to remind us what a great education he had here. Um the other thing I wanted to say and don't stop me. Well, we'll see how it goes. No, don't stop me. I was also harassed after the last meeting. And if you have something you want to

103say to me, I have nothing to say to you. If you don't have comments, then we're on to that. That's not a comment. Yes, it is. No, you're talking about stuff that can be done outside the boardroom. It's not board comment. It's not board comment. It's a private It's a private conversation. M. Look at you. Look at Why don't you act like an adult instead of sending other people to harass me like you're No one's harassing you. Yeah. Well, I have proof. Okay. Mr. Rophy, I'm going to discuss it and I'm bring it up as a board security issue. Last after the last meeting, three of us were approached by an individual at this meeting. No, after the meeting, it's a board security issue because we we were threatened. You were threatened. We were threatened

104through an act of intimidation. Okay. So, that being said, it is an issue and it's an issue for this board. That's This is not what I expect to see in Bordertown. I didn't expect to see anything like that. I don't think our people Did this occur in Border Town? According this occurred in Boyertown. It doesn't matter where it occurred. Just let it occur. We were approached. It didn't occur. It did occur. No, it didn't. It didn't. No. What are you saying? I'm saying that I don't believe what you are saying. That's I'm going to finish. Now I'm really going to No, you're not. Just now. When we were approached, it was a threat by intimidation of simpler. We're watching you. We know where you go and we and we we know what you're doing. So,

105here's how this works. I'm taking that as a one-off. I'm taking that as a one-off. You're just You're just rambling right now. I'm not rambling. No, you are. I'm taking that as a one-off and just a deranged individual who was acting out. But here's the thing. I will say if it does happen again, I will contact the proper authorities to take the proper actions. You your your handling of this and dismissing of it is to me subject to I don't understand that you do not care that board members were threatened outside of here. I really don't think I Well, you know that that's not true. So, we'll go with that. It is true. No, that's not true. Okay, now I'm done. I got you. You're done. Good. I have nothing. Mrs. Landis, congratulations. I hope

106you enjoy it. Chief, congratulations. Look forward to you taking care of our students and our teachers. I did have a conversation after the last meeting that was brought up by Miss Savage about House Bill 1500. Basically, she asked me to to give this information. This week, a rush piece of legislation was pushed through the House in a matter of three days. The bill was so poorly poorly drafted that it had to be amended by the appropriations committee. In addition, due to expedited timeline set by the Democrats, the proper channels were not followed. Finally, the dismissal of procedures allowed them to bring the bill to the House floor for a rapid and highly political induced vote. Nothing was more f frustrating to her than to see House Democrats destroy the bipartis bipartisan that had been developed

107over the cyber charter reform since the passing of Senate Bill 700 last year. Moreover, they reversed House Bill 1500 to such extremes that the loss of the affirmative vote of 20 House Republicans had previously supported this measure and the bill the bill was dead on arrival in the Senate. She voted for cyber charter reform last year with the passing of HB1422 which was later infused into part of SB700 which became school cold for bill 8 act 25 act 55. It was the first time in 20 years that the real compensation comprehensive cider charger reform was passed in Pennsylvania. It directed $190 million back to brickandmortar public schools and districts that made great strides in financial adjustments, transparency, policy, and governance. With regards to how cyber charters are run and going together, HB 1500 had many

108demands that turned out to be a bridge too far for her. Especially when you recommend you remember that cyber schools support 65,000 public students across the Commonwealth. Instead of focusing on a realistic tuition rate amended on both sides, the House Democrats called for a 5-year moratorum on all cyber schools, which will stop any new ones from being created. In addition, over the course of the next five years, they devised a plan that would likely shut down cyber schools altogether by bankrupting them along allowing along the arm of state government to take back reserves from their general funds. So, basically, there's more I can read. It also allowed um the state to take into our um funds, our capital funds to take money out for a project, a pet project for Shapiro to put solar panels

109for school districts. So there was way too much as typical. It was never a clean bill to be passed. And when a clean bill comes through, she will vote for it. I want to congratulate um Mr. Mr. Per, can you have this publicly corrected? He said Donna, you savage and he meant to say Donna Jordan. I didn't hear when you started. You said D. I said you you had presented information that said that Donna did not vote for this. Our three representatives did not vote. You did not say all that stuff. No, you didn't say it because this was the rest of the bill. Okay. Miss Petri, congratulations. I'm sorry, not Miss Petri. Oh my god. But do you want to leave now? I would want to leave now. You're gonna have to put up

110with this in your new position. Miss Landis, congratulations. Miss Petri, this is what you get to look forward to. Officer, congratulations. I welcome you. I want to talk to you afterwards if you don't mind. I'd love to chat with you. And I want to thank Evan who's over there working the camera. Evan's been with us for years and he was away at college. He came back. He's home on break. Came here to take his time out to help us out. So, we appreciate it. Thank you. We do have uh three upcoming meetings. Our next legislative meeting will be July 22nd hosted here. And then we return to our regular structure in August. August 12th is a committee of the whole and August 26th legislative meeting. All starting at 7:00 here in the education center. Motion

111to adjourn. Meeting adjourned. [Music]