001Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> May I have a roll call, please? >> Mr. Rockington. >> Mr. Brockington is out. He gave prior notice. >> Miss Catalini >> here. >> Mr. May >> here. >> Mr. Mr. Murray >> here. >> Mr. Smith >> here. >> Mr. Smith is out. He also gave prior notice. >> Mr. Dur >> here. >> Miss Getty >> here. Mr. Miller >> here. Introduction of others present. >> Dr. Andrew Der, superintendent of schools. >> Also, business manager. >> David Trulo. Bill Walker. >> Thank you. Um, we did have an executive session. We've had actually two of them since
002our uh report this evening. Uh, since our last meeting and Mr. Mr. True Love, you've got the notes from both of them. >> Yes, I do. Thank you, Mr. President. There was an executive session at the end of the last meeting attended by all members except Mr. Smith, Mr. Brockington, as well as Dr. Doster and Mr. Hower in my office. Items discussed with litigation, personnel, andformational items. And that executive session started at 6:45, ended at 7:08 p.m. Tonight, the executive session started at 6:15, concluded just before this meeting started. in attention were in attendance. Excuse me. Were all board members uh president tonight except Miss uh Sterling was uh in a another uh function >> function. Thank you. My brain is not quite working yet. >> Sounds like >> but exactly. Yeah. Along with Dr.
003Doer, Mr. Powski. Yes, I was present for that executive session even though it may not seem like it. Um and items related to personnel information items were discussed at that executive session as well. That's my report. Thank you. Uh we have no student spotlight for this evening. Our committees of the whole were actually in last week, but we'll go ahead and give those uh reports when uh time comes this evening. So we'll move right on into the liaison reports. Uh Miss Stern for the IU and legislative reports. >> Thank you. Uh both September and October uh reports are attached to board docs. Uh we met September 16th. Um we also met last night, October 21st. Um a lot of really amazing things happening at the IU. Uh they opened a new facility. Um we're meeting
004there next month. Uh it sounds beautiful. Um we meet again on Tuesday, November 18th. anything in the legislative wide? >> Yes. I'm so sorry. Uh it really just that um all of the governments are shut down and um that's really the the the long and short of it. We have no state budget uh going into our fourth month here. Um and I think everyone's aware that the federal government is also shut down. So not a lot happening. >> Thank you. uh public relations commun uh communications committee has not met uh tech school Mr. Murray on September. >> Make sure you're using your 29th past Monday. Last Monday, >> we accepted administrative directors that are intend to retire effective August 2026. Nominated committees scheduled for their first round of interviews for the position on October 13th.
005Okay. And last date is the date for graduation at Kina as June 1126. Next meeting will be Monday 27. Thank you. Any questions regarding the technical report? Anything from PTO, Miss? >> Um, yes. The PTO wants to thank everybody that participated in the trick or treat. Another fantastic event. Um, and they are having their next meeting on Wednesday, November 5th at the Grand View Cafeteria at 6:00 p.m. and are encouraging everyone to attend. And they would also like me to let you know that they are now selling pencils. If you're unfamiliar, it's a smelly pencil. When you sharpen it, it smells. uh different goods not uh but they are selling those forms went out. You can find their forms on Facebook if you need a copy. Uh but the sales are due Friday, October 24th
006and they will be delivered on Halloween, October 31st. That's >> Thank you. Hopefully it's better than markers. Uh the uh Mr. Brochington is not here so we don't have a rolloff report. And the joint committee between burough council and the school board meets uh next month November 5th at 7:00 here in the uh moving on to administrative reports. Dr. Dostster. >> Thank you. Um just a couple of updates for everybody. everyone that I continue to be in contact with our state representatives and working with legal counsel as well as the IU executive team on any movement and progression with the state budget. As M Stern just mentioned, there has been none. Um, and we will be holding a uh site for Senator Santa to have a press conference here out in front of the high
007school this coming Friday in 2 days at 100 p.m. And uh that was arranged uh today midday. And the point of the press conference will be to highlight some of the uh impacts that are had and felt by students and school communities with the state budget not being passed. So the discussion will really center around um you know funds not going into programming and field trips and and things like that for our students that they normally would and uh they're they're coming here um and they're going to highlight basically the impact felt around the county for all school districts. I will have an opportunity to speak and I will be focused on the impact here for specifically Morrisville students um as that is my concern and my focus. So, uh, that's going to occur Friday
008at, um, 1:00. Also, I just want to say that to this point in the year, our students have really adjusted and adapted to the the Chromebooks being kept here in district. We've had um a really positive response by our students. We've also uh it's allowed our teachers to have some great conversations with kids and make some adjustments for work that needs to get done and made up. Um and it's being handled at each level I think incredibly well and the number of uh tickets through our uh IT department is certainly down in comparison to last year. So my hats off to the job that our students have done in adjusting to this change in Chromebooks. And then the last thing I have is that in speaking with the uh superintendent um at uh Brislboro, we
009are playing our Thanksgiving Day game at their field. Uh it was originally this year was supposed to be at Morrisville, but due to the game being cancelled last year, that game will be held back on their field um as they would have had that game last year. So it will then come back to us in uh November of 26. So, and that concludes my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Tosser, and thank you for the um continued uh pushing of our state legislators and and that bringing the bringing our uh district to their attention and um explaining to them the the effects of this budget impass our students. Thank you. uh from the business office, Mrs. Mosovski. >> Um it's a short report. We continue to um we continue to do daily operations for the school
010district in the business office. Continue to strategically pay our um our vendors and due to the budget impass we are continue to do rolling forecast um and moving forward. >> Okay. Not a lot. Thank you. Uh any questions regarding either of those reports? Thank you. Uh moving on to enrollment figures. Grand View 209, intermediate school 187, middle school 205, high school 2011, and out of district placement of 150 with a total enrollment of 952 students. Public comments. There is no public here, so we'll move on to action items. 9.1. A motion is in order to approve the minutes from the June 18th, 2025 work session meeting. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Getty. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 9.2. Okay. Motion is
011in order to approve the minutes from the June 25th, 2025 business meeting. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Miy any discussion? Just so you know, the reason why we had um this one was tabled was primarily because uh there were some corrections that needed to be made. Any other discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Stain. Motion carries. 70 9.3. Motion is in order to approve the minutes from the August 20th, 2025 work session meeting. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mrs. Getty. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose abstain. Motion carries. 70 moving. Uh we Oh, facilities. Sorry about that. Uh Mr. May the committee report Dr. We reported that the back providers have been installed. The change over from AC has been
012completed. The newition to our playground middle school has become very pursu. Two classrooms have been added to the inter school lights to make sure they're operating. The next board session will be here. That's all I have. >> Thank you. Any questions regarding the facilities report? None. We'll move on to the education report. Mrs. Catalini, sorry. All right. The education committee met on October 13th at 6 p.m. here in the LGI. We discussed the following topics. We talked about curriculum. The district has been getting support from the Bucks County Intermediate Unit as we utilize new programs that were adopted within the last two years. The district does not have a curriculum coordinator. So, the Bucks County Intermediate Unit has been a helpful tool in adopting these new curriculums for our district. We discussed the inservice day.
013The staff will have a virtual inservice day on November 4th. In the morning, the staff will participate in learning about AI in schools as well as literacy based learning. In the afternoon, staff will complete their annual trainings which are due by November 21st. We also discussed student life. Administration and staff have been working their way through daily life for our students. They are looking to improve learning throughout the district. This consists of teachers working on building and demonstrating certain teaching skills that build on one another. The administration has been completing walkthroughs to ensure consistent learning and execution of these skills by our staff. We also talked about Chromebooks. Chromebooks have been remaining at school this year and so far cost for damages and replacement are significantly down from previous years. This concludes my report. >>
014Thank you. Any questions regarding the education committee reports? >> Hearing none. Moving on to human resources. Human human resources committee has not met. So there's no report. So we'll move on to the action items. 12.2. A motion is in order to ratify and approve the tuition reimbursement for the 2425 spring and spring I'm sorry spring and summer semester of the academic school year as presented. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second Schmidt. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 12.3. The motion is in order to ratify and approve the tuition reimbursement for the 2526 fall semester as presented. So moved. Do I have a second? >> Second byman. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 12.4. A motion is in order to
015ratify and approve the personnel matters as presented in the personnel reports. So move. Do I have a second? Mr. Murray. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70. >> Finance committee reports. Mrs. Getty. >> The finance committee meeting was held last week during the board work session here in the LGI at 6:15. Um, as been stated multiple times tonight, we discussed the implications impact on our district because we don't have a state budget and federal government is currently shut down. It is impacting day-to-day decisions regarding payment of bills and other expenditures. The superintendents of the Bucks County Districts are working together, facilitated by the IU, in reaching out to the Commonwealth representatives and senators and urging resolution to the budget. Um, Dr. Doster was slated to present the applications for
016the Morrisville School District on 1017 to the Bucks County Superintendent. Did you do that? Um, we reviewed the budget timeline for the 2026 2027 school year, which is interesting since state doesn't have one. Um, the act one index will be was supposed to be available tonight. Do we know it yet? Gee, with the state shut down, we don't have an act. Imagine that. Meetings will begin with each of the departments to discuss needs for next year. Mr. Miller asked our business manager to evaluate whether we qualify for exceptions to the act one index. Um, he asked for it by January 28th, 2026, if not sooner. Uh he also asked the board members if they have any ideas for cost savings to get them to administration now so they can be evaluated. Dr. Doser will be
017coming to the board with a plan of action options and his personal recommendations. We also saw documentation that the trans loan has been paid off and our next meeting will be during the board work session in the LGI on Wednesday, November 12th starting at 6:15. >> Thank you. Any questions on the finance reports? Moving forward. 13.3, which is a consent motion for 13.4 through 13.6. 13.4. A motion is in order to approve the investment report as presented. 13.5. A motion is in order to approve the treasures report as presented. 13.6. A motion is ordered to is in order to approve the payment of bills for uh September of 2025. uh general fund 1,33,57945 AC 301,3185 athletics $3,75 legal $31,236 and the cafeteria $99,326.13 with a total of1,468,536.33. So moved on 13.3. Is there a second?
018>> Second by M. Schmidt. Oh, sorry. >> Okay. >> Any discussion? All in favor? I >> I >> oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 >> 13.7. A motion is in order to approve the Homestead Farmstead District Agreement with the Bucks County Intermediate Unit number 22 as presented. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second. Mrs. Getty. >> Any discussion? All in favor? >> I >> oppose abstain. Motion carries 70. Policy committee met on uh Monday, October 11th, 7 o'clock here in the LGI. Uh we discussed a number of policies. Uh we moved a number of them into the first read. They are on our agenda tonight as well as those onto the second read which are also on our agenda this evening. Uh administrative regulations and attachments uh were uh set for approval for tonight
019as well. They are also listed as well as on our agenda. Uh there are two policy or excuse me two administrative regulations that uh PSBA recommended to be retired. Uh those are listed there. They're no longer needed. So um that is also on our agenda. We discussed policy 105 curriculum, but uh we need to table that for next reading u next month so that um it's more in line with what we need to address. And our next committee meeting is scheduled for Monday, November 10th at 7:00 here in the LGI with a number of policies and administrative regulations to be uh addressed as well as our continuation of uh the review of our 900 series policies and administrative regulations. Any questions regarding the policy committee report? just blazing along there. Uh right. Um 14.2, which
020is a consent motion for 14.3 through 14.6. 14.3. A motion is in order to approve the first read of the policies listed below. 14.4. A motion is in order to approve the second read of the policies listed below. too soon. 14.5. A motion is in order to approve the administrative regulations uh listed below. Cross out the word board 14.6. Motion is in order to approve deleting the administrative regulations as presented as per BSBA's policy news network plus report. So move. Do I have a second on 14.2? >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 670. M voters, the box that came up for voting said 14 uh 14.5. >> Okay. I don't I don't know if that translates into your minutes. >> Yeah. Uh moving on to old
021business 15.1. The motion is in order to approve the minutes from the May 21st, 2025 work session meeting. So move. Do I have a second? Second >> by Miss Schmidt. >> Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 15.2. A motion is in order to approve the minutes from the May 28th, 2025 business meeting. So moved. Do I have a second? Second, >> Mrs. Getty. Any discussion? >> All in favor? >> I >> oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70. New business for this evening. 16.1. My motion is in order to approve the 202526 school year stipens as presented. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> By Mrs. Getty. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70 16.2. A motion is in order to approve
022the memorandum of understanding with the Morrisville Educational Support Personnel Association as presented. So moved. Do I have a second? >> Minister Murray. Any discussion? >> I assume this is for the van that we purchased >> for bus driver. >> Bus driver. bought the bus. >> Okay. I thought it was just an enlarged required. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. I thought you meant was this motion for the bus. This motion is >> driver of the bus and the wheels that go around. We do a round of this. Um, any other serious discussion on this? All in favor? >> I >> oppose abstain. Motion carries. 70. Uh, we have no public comment here. So, we have no public uh comment in the non-aggenda items to address. Any announcements? Nothing listed. Any announcements from the board at this
023point in time. Election day is coming up. Don't forget those who currently serve on the board. Your official business is still here until Monday, the first Monday of December, despite whatever happens in November. Just a word of warning. 18.2 motion to adjurnn. So move. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Fed. All in favor? >> I oppose. Abstain. Motion carries. 70. Good night everyone. Thank you.