001[Music] We'd like to call the meeting to order. Roll call. Ms. Derof. President. Mrs. Kratz. Here. Miss Nyman here. Mrs. Scott here. Mr. Brad Upgove here. Mr. Roger Uptogrove here. Mr. Mr. Zvada here. Mr. Broofphy, Mr. Penerella here. If we could 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 it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Good evening. Recent board meetings have included comments and behaviors that do not align with board policy 011, principles for governance and leadership. This policy clearly outlines expectations for how board members should conduct themselves, including the following key guidelines. Demonstrating respect by listening attentively and refraining from side conversations. Avoiding any behavior that could be perceived as
002berating, belittling, insulting, or otherwise disrespectful towards fellow board members, district employees, or stakeholders. It is essential that all board members take time to review and reflect on policy 011 and its operating guidelines. The decisions and actions taken by this board have meaningful and lasting effects on our classrooms, staff, and broader district community. Furthermore, while community engagement is a vital part of our governance, I kindly remind all community members attending our meetings to participate in a manner consistent with meeting protocols and to be mindful how you approach board members when leaving meetings. This ensures that everyone's voice can be heard safely and respectfully. Thank you. There were no previous executive sessions at this time, which leads us to the recognition showcase. Good evening everyone and I'd like to welcome all of our guests here in port
003in in person as well as our virtual guests. My name is Dr. Scott Davidiser, superintendent here in the school district and I have the honor this evening of recognizing uh three different award winners and we'd like to start with our silent servant award. Tonight's recognition showcase comes to you in three different parts. Our first two showcases feature students who have chosen education as their desired uh career path. And we begin with Cameron Erbassic. Cameric Cameron who cannot be with us this evening is Boyer is a Boertown area senior high's first recipient of the Silent Servant Scholarship Award by the Peter Marsh Foundation. The scholarship is intended for students who recognize their intrinsic value, have developed empathy, maintain emotional well-being, foster a peaceful school environment, and have made significant career decisions. Bash selected Cameron for her
004compassion and understanding. She aspires to become an elementary school teacher and has participated in our internship program at New Hanover Elementary School where she is gaining valuable experience working with students. Additionally, she has dedicated numerous hours to community service through her involvement with the National Honor Society, Green Cord, and Link Crew, and we sincerely hope she will join our district as a teacher here in the future. We want to congratulate Cameron and we wish her the best as she moves on to Westchester University. Unfortunately, Cameron was unable to be with us this evening, but we do have a certificate that we will be getting to her uh tomorrow at some point. So, congratulations to Cameron. [Applause] Next, we would like to welcome Payton Blake, Melanie Calbertt, Rachel Serva, Sydney Peterman, and Hayden Reich Snider to
005the podium. Ladies, if you would come forward. These young ladies are the first five Bash students to participate in Kutztown University's Early College Academy program. Mrs. Landis is also here with us this evening and she represented our administrative team as Kutztown inducted these five women into the program on April 30th. And I'm going to have Mrs. Landis share a little bit more about the program with our audience. Thank you. We're very fortunate that our high school has several different opportunities for students who are interested in going into education. Um, prior to this school year and including this school year, we have students who attend BCTC for early childhood education. We have internship opportunities throughout our district. As you heard for the student that was just recognized, um, we have dual enrollment intro to education course
006that's offered at Bertown High School and through Montgomery County Community College. We have job shadowing experiences as part of the graduation project. Um, we also have a preschool program at BASH where students in our FCS classes can go and volunteer and help in our pre-K counts classrooms. And then we became aware of a new opportunity for students and that is through Kutztown University and it's called the Early College Academy and we are going to be participating for the upcoming school year with their education cohort. This was a new program that KZtown just started this past year. Um, we did not participate in their inaugural year. We had a few details that we needed to work out with Kutztown, but we are pleased to be able to offer this opportunity to students for the upcoming school
007year. Um, the five students that you see behind me have applied for this program through a rigorous process. They need to maintain a certain grade point average and they also need to be able to work their schedule in such a way that next year during their senior year of high school, they will go up to Kutztown University three mornings a week in person to take college classes. They will take six credits in the fall and another six credits in the spring. So at the conclusion of their senior year of high school, they would have completed 12 credits, which is equivalent to a semester of college. And then on Tuesday, Thursday mornings, the other two days of the week in the morning, they will do internships in our schools back in district. And then in the
008afternoon, they will still attend high school and fit in their remaining graduation requirements to complete their their requirements to graduate from Boyertown High School while simultaneously participating in this program. Um, when we when we looked at doing this, we thought, you know, we might have one or two students choose to participate. That's what many of the other districts that did it last year had was kind of one or two per district. So for us to have five the first time we're doing this is absolutely phenomenal and we look forward to hearing great things about the work they do at Kutztown and how they represent Boyertown through this experience. So congratulations. And we also have certificates recognizing your entrance into the program. So, if you just give me a minute, Payton, congratulations. Thank you. Look forward
009to seeing you back for five years here. Melanie, congratulations. You as well. Rachel, congratulations. Welcome into education. Sydney, congratulations. Well done. And Hayden, congratulations. Thank you. Welcome aboard. And that takes us to our final recognition of this evening, and that is a special recognition for our senior board representative, Liliana Meyers. Liliana, congratulations on making it through to your senior year and your contributions over the past couple of years and the assistance and certainly the noteworthy things that you've allowed us to hear from the student body through you and uh how you've rep represented yourself here um through your role as a board representative. So, thank you. We have some other guests this evening that want to be here and have some words to say on your behalf. So, I'd like to invite Mr. Hal and
010Mr. Sparks to the podium. And we also have Mrs. Kratz who will be making some comments this evening as well. So I'll turn it over to Mr. Hal. Hi everyone. I'm Eric Hal, one of the assistant principles of the high school. And I have uh probably the easiest task I have is to be the principal that works with the student board reps. Uh I don't really have to do much of anything other than assign them a room once a month. Uh so first of all, Liliana and Alison, thank you for all your work this year. Uh they do a lot behind the scenes. I know you see a brief snapshot at the meeting, but they really do work tirelessly and they do it independently. So, they do a phenomenal job. Uh, so I look forward
011to working with Allison and our well, I won't take their thunder, but our newest board rep for next year uh in the future, but I do want to thank Mrs. Kratz meets with them monthly. Takes a lot of time on her schedule to do so. I know the girls appreciates that. So, thank you, Mrs. Kratz. Uh, thank you, Dr. David Heiser, Mr. Stout previously, and also Miss Kramer because they kind of coordinate all the things with the student board reps and it takes a lot of people to, you know, make sure we're on schedule. So, uh, thank you for them. Uh, and then Liliana. Uh, I've been kind of working with Liliana for a year and a half now, and I can say it's really easy to work with her, um, over this time, but
012I have observed her. She's such a self-motivated, uh, student. Uh, she's involved with many things. I'm not going to list them all. Uh, but Impact Club is one she spent a significant amount of time with. She was a president as that as well. She's part of NHS and a number of different roles throughout our building. She does all these things while balancing many highle APD courses and also a job throughout the week. Uh she truly exemplifies the characteristics portrayed in the Bordertown portrait of a graduate and I wish her the best of luck in the future. Uh currently Liliana is planning on attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania to major in political science/homeland security while also being accepted into their Cook Honors College at IUP. Uh Liliana was also honored was receiving the William M. Hoffman
013scholarship this year and after college Liliana her current goal is to work in the some type of field of homeland security after graduation. So Liliana thank you for everything. Yeah. [Applause] Yeah, just wanted to say thank you for your time, your commitment. The two of you, you put in a lot of long hours. You come in early to do meetings. Um, Liliana, obviously wish you the best coming up here in graduation. It's hard to believe your last week is is before you. In fact, your last day at Bash is only two days away. Not that I need to tell you, but congratulations. I appreciate everything you did, and I wish you the best. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Okay. I just also wanted to thank Liliana for her service as the school board senior representative
014this year. She did an amazing job in both preparing and presenting her reports. Um she's also been a kind and encouraging mentor to Allison who will thankfully still be with us next year. Something that I've observed about Liliana is that um she's both positive. She's positive and idealistic while at the same time being realistic and practical. And I think that's a rare combination that will serve her well in college and in life. Um, thanks again for a job well done. We wish you all the best and we will miss you. [Applause] Liliana, I'm going to ask you to come around and come forward. We have a special gift on behalf of the district. So, one of the recipients of our newer tote bags here, one of the first to receive and I think you'll find
015the contents inside very uh very acceptable for you on on your next step and a and a special certificate recognizing uh your service to school, our district, and the community as a student repres representative to the board of school directors. So, thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Liliana, you're back up. Student representative report. Good evening, board members and meeting attendees. This year has flown by. I still remember my interview for this position as though it were yesterday. And it's hard to believe that this is Liliana's last board meeting. Liliana and I can both agree that this has been an extremely rewarding experience, allowing us to come to a considerable understanding of how the school board helps turn the gears that define the inner workings of our school district. So for Liliana's last time and my
016last time as your junior representative, we will be presenting you with the achievements, activities, and events taking place within the high school for the month of May. I just want to take a moment to thank Liliana for her guidance this past year and wish her well in her journey to college. But on a less sad note, what a better time to introduce our a new friendly face that we will come to know next year, our new junior representative, Audrey Clemson. Audrey, I'm not going to make this too awkward, but if you want to stand up and just wave just so that they see your face before next year. Audrey, from the moment she began to speak in the interview room, was a clear voice for others. Her passion and confidence in speech absolutely blew us
017away, and her passion for representation and supporting her peers made her an even more qualified person for this position. Most of her time she is committed to her job as a hostess at Doc's Irish Pub, but in her free time, she enjoys reading, crafts, baking, and cleaning. Her current future plans include obtaining a bachelor's degree in either neurobiology, communication sciences, linguistics, and a master in neural linguistics. We are so excited for her to take over the position of junior representative and we wish her the best of luck. This month, seniors got a break from their senioritis as one of the most looked forward to events occurred early this month, prom. At the Sunny Brook at the Sunny Brook ballroom, seniors got to dance, have fun, walk down the prominade aisle, reminisce on the years at
018Bash, and celebrate with friends and acquaintances. One fun edition of prom this year was over 50 raff raffle baskets. Each Bash senior got several raffle tickets to place in the baskets and got to collect their winnings at the end of the night. We hope that everyone who attended prom had an amazing time and is so excited exciting to see all the beautiful dresses and suits. Crunch time has started. Finals are starting soon and graduation is occurring on June 6th. With less than 10 days in the school year, the bittersweet feelings are starting to settle in. Seniors are preparing to walk across the stage into a new stage of their lives with many opportunities to come. As a senior, I can attest that the feeling is surreal. Receiving our caps and gowns for our class picture
019solidified how soon graduation is. While finals might provide a bit of stress, the freedom that summer provides will hopefully motivate students to end the year with a bang and do well on finals. The Bash music department once again hosted Trills and Thrills in which younger students throughout PA came to perform and get judged on their performances. After getting their scores, they all got to go and hang out at Dorny Park. Many students helped the event thrive and had lots of fun at the event these last few weeks. We thank the Bash music department staff and the student volunteers for making this event possible. Keystone testing taking place the week of May 12th has finally concluded. We are back to a normal schedule and students not taking the state tests unfortunately can no longer sleep in
020two more hours. Despite this, we are still proud of all of our Keystone test takers and we hope that testing went as smoothly as possible. We can't talk we can't talk about the Keystone testers without speaking of our AP students. After working tirelessly in their classes all year, AP students were able to display their knowledge on the AP exams throughout May. Allison took five exams this year, and I'm sure she is ready for summer. Congratulations to all AP and Keystone testers. We would love to tell you that we can't wait to introduce Bash's best moments next month. But as this is the last meeting of the school year, Audrey and I are excited excited to report to you all next school year. And once again, thank you to the board and especially our leaison, Miss
021Kratz for being so very welcoming and supporting of this position. Thank you very much, ladies. Appreciate it. Public com period number one. Donnia Savage budget. Tonight, you'll be voting on the budget with a 3% tax increase and taking $1.8 million from your fund balance to balance that. Um, there's some really good stuff in there for students. I think it looks like a good budget uh for this year. Um, so what I'd like to comment on is the process or lack thereof. I have a lot of questions and you don't have to get back to me. These are rhetorical questions, but what's the long-term plan? What's the big picture? What costs are out of your control and are increasing faster than your 3% increases like special ed? And what's the impact on that long term? What's
022the long-term capital project strategy beyond the Boyertown air conditioning and roof and possibly turf fields? Why aren't you advocating for the $1.4 million proposed in the Pennsylvania budget for adequacy funding when you know that our representatives are probably not in favor of that? Why are you advocating I'm glad that you're advocating for a cap on cyber charter, but why only 10K? Why not 8K? that's worth $1.5 million to you. Why aren't you discussing innovative ways of generating revenue and reducing expenditures? I feel like this is not the fiscally conservative board planning that you've gotten here yourselves elected on. Um I don't even feel like it's fiscally responsible. And no, Mr. Pan, Mr. Dr. Panerella, this is not getting all being taken care of by the strategic planning committee, which may help the board understand the
023community's goals, goals, and priorities and set goals for the school district, but how it's paid for is the sole responsibility of the board. Thank you for listening tonight. At this time, we'll be looking for the approval of the May 13, 2025 committee of the whole meeting minutes. So, I move. I'll second. Miss Diroff, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad, Up to Grove, yes. Mr. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Panorella. Yes. Motion carries. That takes us down into the discussion information section. We do have one item up for discussion this evening. And this was an agreement that came to us um after our last um committee of the whole meeting. However, does have some timeliness to it. So, I've asked Mrs. department to come this evening uh
024to just share with you some information about access and the access program itself and any questions that you may have. You will see this item um later in the agenda as it is in the um itemized section. Good evening. The school-based access program is a cooperative effort between the Pennsylvania Department of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It allows schools to request reimbursement for services provided to special education students who are eligible for medical assistance. Reimbursement is made from a special fund administered by the state department of human services in cooperation with Medicaid. This contract that we're looking for you to approve will allow us to participate in the school-based access program for the upcoming school year. Mrs. N question, what is the rate that
025we get back? I mean, is it worth our participating in this that we're getting enough back or is it just we're going to be using money to get the information and we're not going to get enough reimbursement out of it? I don't have the exact rates. Everything is build differently. So, we can bill for one-on-one power professionals. We can bill for transportation. There's different aspects. We can bill for speech and language therapy, occupational therapy for students that have medical assistance. I don't have the exact dollar amounts for all of that, but I'm sure I can get that to you. Mr. Rolf, for instance, how much did we bill last year and how much did we get back? That'll tell us. I don't have the exact information to share, but I can I can get that
026to you. Do you have it for last year? Not on me right now. I don't have the exact for last year. Okay. Thank you. Sure. Thank you, Mrs. Barman. Item B is just a a generalized uh fund snapshot that um has been listed in in the past and you can see both the um fund balances that are there along with capital reserve. That takes us down to finance reports. Good evening. Tonight I will be presenting to you highlights from the April 2025 treasures report. For our local revenue, delinquent tax collection was approximately $148,546.16. Earned income tax collection was $1,429,11457. Transfer tax collection was approximately $99,15560. And for state revenue, basic education subsidy received was 2,86,152. Our prek count subsidy was $48,375. Rental reimbursement subsidy was $149,19321. and our health services subsidy was $115,79546. And for
027expenditures, our salaries, benefits, and professional services accounted for about 80% of our total expenditures for the month of April. And that concludes my report for this evening. Thank you. Thank you. At this time, we'll be looking for a motion to approve the treasures report as it is presented. Zana seconds. Ms. Diroff. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Miss Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad. Upgrowth. Yes. Mr. Roger. Upgrowth. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Panerello. Yes. Motion carries. takes us down to item nine, the superintendent's report, the itemized agenda. And we begin with item A. Recommendation from administration for the board to approve the 25 202526 final general fund budget as presented and listed. Zana moves. I'll second. Miss Doff, the way it's presented with a lot of questions not answered. I'm going to have to vote
028no. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, no. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Uproveve, yes. Mr. Zelada, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Takes us to item B, the Homestead Farmstead property tax relief. And administration does recommend the board to approve the Homestead Farmstead property tax relief as presented. My name is Miss Doff. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Uptogrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Penerella, yes. Motion carries. Just a quick comment before we go to items C and D. And if you recall, we did have participation from both the Pennsylvania Economy League and Steps to Achieve who presented at our last work session involving the enrollment or proposed enrollment studies here in the district. So, we have listed both vendors here. Um
029the actions um we're asking for uh the administration is asking for this evening is that you um vote one of these vendors in or none of these vendors in through your actions this evening. So items C and D. So under item C, the board or administration recommends the approval of the Pennsylvania Economy League to conduct an analysis of demographics, community growth patterns, and enrollment projections for B Boy Bertown uh area school district at a cost of $30,000. That is the adjusted rate that they came back with. Excuse me. Economy. Was that the first one that was presented by a woman? Yes, it was. I'll move discussion. Go ahead. If we don't vote for either one of these, what happens next? So we will have to um you know readjust the RFP go back out for
030an advertisement with regard to um it we can look at other vendors that also submitted during the process that that took place. Remember we the administration recommending bringing these two vendors in for an interview since they met the scope of services that were required. Um, and as an additional component, we asked them to come in to to interview and ask questions and see if there was any adjustments and flexibility to any of their rates and such. So, we could always go back to u the vendor list of those that did submit uh proposals um for this. And there were some others um many of which did not meet the full scope of services that were listed. Is it Darl? So, you're saying either way have this done. Well, it's up to you if you you
031you know said if we don't vote for either of those if you don't vote for either of those then nobody proceeds in in terms of uh you know a vendor for the study. We'd have to go back to the list of vendors that did also um submit proposals. There were other uh I believe there were six total that submitted proposals. These were the two that met the scope of services and the administration felt were most um in line with what it was we were asking for in terms of a study. So what I'm saying at the end of the day we're going to find someone to use it would it would be the recommendation of administration to have that done. Yes. Thank you. Kevin, um, you said there were others that submitted and you said
032some of them didn't meet the scope of the work. How many others that did meet the scope of the work were there? I have to go back to uh was there anybody else that met I know that there was nobody else that the specs that we put in the proposal. I think it was four others that did not completely meet the scope of services um in their proposal. But, you know, maybe if we them a little bit, they could come into meeting what we wanted. We we could certainly go back to them. I did make a a couple calls of reference with regard to the PA Economy League and have confidence. I would agree with probably most of you that the presentation you heard a couple of weeks ago was not the type of presentation
033that we would um hope to hear with regard to that. Um, but on my calls of of looking into the PA Economy League, I did find and and some confidence in terms of the work that they would that they could complete the job to the satisfaction of what we're asking for. Could we table this and have them come back in and talk to us since you've talked to them and it wasn't that great of a presentation? We can certainly ask them. we'd have to you're you're in the middle of a motion, so you'd have to vote this motion down um for it not to be selected as a vendor and um I I guess Mr. Sultanic, would we still need to take item D as a motion? Item D is the steps to achieve as
034the other vendor. If the board wanted to table this nexus between steps to achieve and the Pennsylvania Economy League, there are two separate vendors who were in two weeks ago to interview. Oh, so it's I see. Um the motion right now is to approve the Pennsylvania Economy League. Correct. before we go to further options, we would then have to vote to steps to achieve would be my understanding to see if there's a majority uh vote of the board to support that. But if not, then uh we would have to you either go back and do a new RFP or right, we're we're still in the status quo. Yeah. So I think what Mrs. Nimon, you're asking would we u would PA Economy League be interested in coming back for a second round to u share
035a little bit different approach to I believe we used them before and they were they were pretty right on and I would like to see a better presentation of it and what we're going to get from that. I don't think that presentation was what it should have been. Okay. Um well, we are the motion is on the floor. So that motion will need to be voted on right now. And I would uh also suggest that we move then to item D to vote on steps to achieve. And if both come back as nos, we could take that direction and into consideration if that's the direction the board wants us to move in. Mr. Gratz, did you make phone calls um about steps to achieve? I did not. You did not. Okay. And the reason for
036that was they had uh not completed an enrollment study to date. Their scope of services were met um but they had not completed an enrollment study to date. So I did not feel the confidence level with regard to them. Is it the administration's recommendation to move forward with the Pennsylvania economy league? It is. Miss Dir. Um, right now the motion is economy league for the economy league to yes or no to approve the economy league. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Miss Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrowth. Yes. Mr. Roger Uptogrove. Yes. Mr. Zelada. Yes, Mr. Panorello. Yes. Motion carries. takes us to item D, steps to achieve. And um re recommendation is to for steps to achieve to um to be approved for the to conduct an analysis of demographics, community growth patterns, and
037enrollment projections for the Bertown Area School District at a cost of $24,950. Panel moves. Miss Dro, no. Mrs. Katz, no. Miss Nyman, no. Mrs. Scott, no. Mr. Bradupro, no. Mr. Roger Upgrove, no. Mr. Zelada, no. Mr. Panerella, no. Motion fails. M. No, I mean, I will take your your response there and and request and I will speak to them about coming in um soon to be able to deliver an updated just kind of a a get to know you presentation and a little bit better of what we would expect from them. Like I said, they did a good job before, so I would just like to see a better presentation. Understood. takes us to item E, the 202526 targeted school improvement administration recommends the board to approve uh of approval of the targeted school improvement
038TSI nine non-title one school plan as presented moves I'll second it Miss Diroff, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Roger Up to Growth, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Pinerella, yes. Motion carries. Item F, the memorandum of understanding regarding preK counts program. administration recommends board of directors approve the memorandum of understanding regarding the prek counts program as presented. Move. I'll second. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad, upgrave. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Panorello. Yes. Motion carries. Item G, the settlement agreement for student 10149. And as the recommendation of the administration, the board approve the confidential settlement and release agreement for that said student. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes.
039Mr. Brad up to Growth. Yes. Mr. Roger. Up to Grove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Pinerella. Yes. Motion carries. Under item H, the 2025 26 BCIU and Bertown area school district special education services agreement. As a recommendation by administration, the board approve this particular service agreement as listed. So, a move. I'll second. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgroo, yes. Mr. Roger Uptogrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Under item I, the 202526 special education annual service agreements. And as a recommendation from administration, the board approve the 2526 special education annual service agreements as listed and presented. I'll second. Miss Diroff, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgroo, yes. Mr. Mr. Roger Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr.
040Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Item J, the 202526 PA school-based access program agreement to participate and is the recommendation of administration. Directors approve the access program agreement to participate as presented. I'll second. Okay, Miss It would have been nice to have some information on this as to where we stand with our refund bases if it's actually worth our time. Um, I know Mrs. Bartman said she could get us that information, but that's going to be after the vote. It would have been nice to have it tonight. Miss Nyman, this Well, we we don't have the exact numbers tonight. the services that are provided that are um access eligible, they are not services that would go away if we chose not to participate in the access program. What it does allow us to do is bill um
041those expenses that are eligible for students that are eligible to provide that revenue back to the district. If we would say we don't want to participate with access, that doesn't mean we would eliminate expenditures um that we're currently claiming. I understand that part, but we might be putting out more money in personnel trying to do the access account to get the refund than we're getting back. I don't have the exact numbers, but I know we've received more than what that person's salary is. Okay, that's helpful. And we can get that for you. I would appreciate. Okay, Miss Diroff. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to vote no without that information. Mrs. Katz, yes. Ms. Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Penerella, yes. Motion carries. takes
042us to item K, the 202526 Richard Kern Foundation Agreement. Again, the administration recommends the approval of this foundation agreement as presented as it does um help to assist our student assistant program and team processes. That all moves out of seconds. Miss Dir. Yes, Mrs. Kratz. Yes, Miss Nyman. Yes, Mrs. Scott. Yes, Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes, Mr. Roger Uptogrove. Yes, Mr. Zawada. Yes, Mr. Penelloo. Yes. Motion carries. Item L, the 202526 board of school directors meeting calendar and we have provided the updated version. boxes do match and um so the administration is approving um the requesting the approval from the directors for the this particular calendar as presented at our last meeting move I'll second Miss Dro yes Mrs. Kraz yes Miss Nyman yes Mrs. Scott yes Mr. Bradup yes Mr. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr.
043Zawada. Yes. Mr. Pinerella. Yes. Motion carries. Item M, the esports program and administration is recommending to the board of school directors the board esports program and administration to develop this particular in con in conjunction with the CBA. Again, um that is your vote this evening u would be to designate whether we move forward with creating anou um consistent with the CBA for this particular program. And just real quick, uh, to update the board, we did have an inaccurate annual stipen figure announced at our last meeting, um, which was $6,836 for fall and spring semesters combined for next year. That's a recalculated uh, number um, which is actually $5,514. So, it' be an approximately $1,300 savings um comparative to what was reported out at our last meeting. Pen rolls. So, I just seconds. Is this going
044to be just a club or is it going to be a course? It's both. It currently is, but it is um a course. It's an elective option at our high school. Students can take it as an elective. What we're asking for is it for it to be a sanctioned club to which we would then create anou with the CBA um allowing it to be a sanctioned and paid for um for our facilitators and for the program itself because I got a lot of calls about what are we going to do something about our scores? What are we going to have clubs or more courses to get? We're 39th in the nation right now with our scores. Warrior Town is not We went up a little bit this past year, but we just keep adding clubs,
045clubs, clubs, clubs. Well, if you recall, we are a comprehensive high school, which involves a number of different things, which does also include clubs and activities part of that. So our expenses are Thank you, Ms. Dro. Going to have to vote no on that one. Sorry. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Pinerelloo. Yes. Motion carries. Takes us to item N, the Middle School East Auditorium Sound System Project. And it is administration recommending to the board approve the Middle School East Auditorium Sound System Project as was presented. Um there were some questions and um once a motion is seconded I can update the board on some other additional information with regard to this. So I move second. So, the Boytown Middle
046School East sound system equipment, including the soundboard, amplifier, hanging microphones, monitor system, and additional accompanying equipment are all 15 plus years old, with some pieces existing over 20 years. As they were not part of the renovation project back in 2005, current equipment has served the building well with changes in technology. Our sound is no longer available to able to support our wireless microphone systems installed in 2022 23. The quote proposes a full upgrade of the sound board to digital instead of analog programming. It upgrades the amplifying system and connections to our wireless microphones. Additionally, it replaces the hanging microphones, many beyond repair, coral microphones, and includes a new monitor system to ensure coral and musical productions can continue at ease. Since it was last updated, since the quote was last updated in early April, a
047few manufacturers had price increases related to tariffs or other increases, and that is reflected on this update. And you do have the most recent update and it equates to an approximately five $500 uptick in costs. So the project cost for this $22,460.19. Miss Dir. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Miss Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrowth. Yes, Mr. Roger. Up to Grove. I have a question. I'm looking at the warranty on this stuff. $22,000. And am I reading this right that we only got a 90day period of warranty on 22,000? So, the additional information to this is that it is a 90-day warranty. There are um service blocks that can be purchased um based on hours um that are also in addition to that would have to be the decision of Middle School East once
048installed, but it is a only a 90-day fully covered warranty. And then there are diff additional service blocks. So for those blocks, 15 hours is $2,200. In addition, for the 24 hours, it's $3500 and for 40 hours, it's $5,400. So, there are some additional service blocks that can be purchased in order to help with that, but your full warranty is covered for 90 days. You are correct. I could over that on a coffee maker. Don't cost me 22,000. I'm going to vote no. Mr. Zawatada, yes. Mr. Perella, yes. Motion carries. Takes us down to item O, the cyber charter tuition rate resolution. And is the administration recommends to the board of directors to approve the cy cybercharter tuition rate resolution and supporting letters to our legislators um here in Pennsylvania representing Bertown. So, how move
049Ms. Diroof. Yes. Mrs. Katz. Yes. Miss Nyman. Yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Pinerella. Yes. Motion carries. takes us down to item P, the 2025-26 sports student accident insurance and his recommendation the administration for the board to approve the 25 2025 20226 sports accident insurance as presented at our last meeting. Moves second. Ms. Dir. Yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrowth, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Under item Q, the first reading of policy 807, opening exercises, moment of silence and flag displays, and is a recommendation by the administration for the board to approve uh the first read of this policy 807. I'll second Miss Dro. Yes. Mrs. Kretz, yes. Ms. Nyman,
050yes. Mrs. Scott. Yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawatada. Yes. Mr. Pinerella. Yes. Motion carries. Item R, approval of board secretary. It is administration's recommendation for the board to appoint uh Mrs. Patricia Bedanakola as board secretary effective July 1, 2025 through June 30th, 2029. Parallel moves. I believe it was D off. Miss Dro, yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgro, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. Under item S, the approval of board treasurer is the administration's recommendation for the board to approve the appointment of Mrs. Carrie Fox to the position of board treasurer for the 202526 fiscal year. I'll second Miss Dro. Yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgove, yes. Mr. Mr.
051Roger Upgrove. Yes. Mr. Zawada. Yes. Mr. Panorello. Yes. Motion carries. Item T. Uh, it is a recommendation of the administration. The board approve a overnight trip as listed. And if you recall, Mr. Pennington was here to share a little bit about the Bash TSA and our national students who are moving on to that competition. [Music] Ms. Duroff. Yes. Mrs. Scratz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Uproveve, yes. Mr. Zawatada, yes. Mr. Penelloo, yes. Motion carries. Item U, the May donation list. And um it is the recommendation administration board approve the May don may donation list as accept and then the board accept those five donorships provided. I'll second you. I can certainly read those. Uh Martin Stone Quarries is um donating $8,100 for science curriculum. The Foundation for
052Bordertown Education donating uh $1,290 toward a re a variety of reusable sensory items. Foundation for Boyertown Education donating $6,712 for grades 9 through 12 precision precision measurement tools for engineering technology research. The new Hannover Upper Frederick Elementary PTCA donating $320 for eight costumes used at field day. And lastly, the Giant Company of Gilbertsville, um, their 2025 feeding school kids initiative, uh, earned a donation, a match donation of $6,561. Um, that was, uh, have already been presented to the BASD food service department support, supplement, and support and supplement, the school district nutrition programs. Thank you, Ms. Dro. Yes. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes. Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Upgrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Panerella, yes. Motion carries. And item V, uh, the administration recommends the board of SC, uh, school
053directors approve the following personnel actions, including all the resignations, employment appointments, change of status, leaves of absences, and supplemental contracts as per the attached. I'll move second. Mr. Don't we get the U dollar and cent amounts when we hire anybody anymore? We used to be on here, but I don't see any. Mr. Han, can you respond to Mr. D? Who are you looking at? The only one that doesn't have any um dollar amount is transfers, which means there's no dollar there's no change in in salary there. Under professional hire, first one, there's a salary supplemental there's no change when they go to a different position. So there's there's no change for for any of those individuals there. It's teacher to teacher. Okay. Okay. Miss Dro, no. Mrs. Katz, yes. Miss Nyman, yes. Mrs. Scott, yes.
054Mr. Brad Upgrove, yes. Mr. Roger Uptogrove, yes. Mr. Zawada, yes. Mr. Penelloo, yes. Motion carries. So, just a few comments with your approval of this personnel agenda this evening. Um, one of our newest appointments um is here this evening and I wanted to recognize her. Mrs. Stephanie Petri, who is the current building principal at Gilbertsville Elementary, is here this evening. And beginning uh July 1st will be our new director of the office of teaching and learning replacing Mrs. Landis um who is retiring on June 30th. So we we welcome Stephanie aboard and uh we uh we are we're well prepared and and ready for Stephanie to hit the ground running and there'll be some transition times between now and July 1st and getting Stephanie prepared. So thank you for joining us and and welcome aboard.
055In addition to that, we have a resignation of a of a long-term uh member of our administrative staff, Mr. Scott Shield. Scott is here this evening as well. Scott serves 23 years here in the district and we wish him well in his next steps and endeavors um in his new new school district to which he's going to be employed. But we do want to really thank you for all your time and energy and commitment to the school district through these 20 23 years. came right out of high school right here at Boyertown as an alum and um um moved moved pretty quickly through those 23 years. So congratulations to you and we wish you all the best. Thank you Scott. That leads to public com period number two. Miss you Savage board effectiveness. That leads
056us to board comment. Mr. Upgrove, no comment. Miss Nyman, uh, I didn't hear anything on the fish rodeo. How was that? The fish, we were actually going to be presenting doing a presentation at our June committee of the whole meeting, but it went extremely well. um going out and visiting that we probably had I would say upwards of 40 students out there and probably twice the amount of members out there assisting and helping. So it was a fabulous little chilly chilly out there uh fishing but uh it went extremely well and uh you know thanks many thanks to our our special education department and leaders and Mr. Hal and and setting all that up and Quigley and their transportation services and getting folks out there and most especially Bortown Rod and Gun Club. They were
057they were magnificent and uh just speaking to a lot of those those members, they they they enjoy it as much if not more than some of our students in terms of being out there and being part of that. So very neat. That's why I'd like to see a different group go every year so that other students get the privilege of being out there. It's a wonderful thing. The guys do an awesome job out there. They clean the fish and send them home with the kids. I mean, it's an awesome job. So, it's definitely well worth it for the kids. Thank you. Nothing. M. Nothing. Mr. Mr. Lada, I'd like to take this time to thank Scott for his dedication and loyalty our school district. I mean, from starting, you saved, you know, by taking your
058time to get all the certifications, you saved this this district a significant amount of money and whenever we had a need, we picked up the phone and you answered right away. So, I feel we have a huge loss in the district right now, but I wish you the best because everything works out for the best in the future and I hope it really works out best for you, sir. Thank you. Yes, Scott. I'd also like to thank you for your service. 23 years is a long time. Um, I appreciate it and to uh welcome Miss Petri into a new role. I hope hope it all works out and we get this district moving in the right direction. All right, that takes us down to the announcements and just a couple of announcements for um for
059everyone including our public. We have um two meetings in June. June 10th committee committee of the whole and June 24th our legislative meeting and they'll both be hosted here. And just a couple of uh updates for the board. Um please by Friday if you plan on attending the commencement ceremony, please send Mrs. Kramer uh an email so that we can plan appropriately for you for seat reservations and such. And if there's any members of the board that need any planned u transportation services to also please let Mrs. Kramer know by Friday so we can make those necessary arrangements as well. No helicopters. No minivans only. Motion to meeting adjourned. [Music]