001to order. If you could all rise for the pledge of allegiance and then if you could please stay standing for a moment of silence. And I know I saw you back there, Mrs. Fields. Would you please lead us in the pledge of allegiance? My pleasure. I pledge algiance 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. Thank you everyone. Again, I'd like to welcome everyone that's with us this evening. And if we could have roll call, please. Here present here. Here thank you. I'd like to let everyone know that we did have an executive session. It was held today, March the 27th of 2025, immediately prior to this regularly scheduled meeting for purposes of personnel matters, including
002but not limited to performance and or discipline, negotiations, and legal issues. Uh this evening, uh we need to have a nomination for a representative to serve on the Colonial IU Intermediate Board. Um, and I would like to place the name of Rob Clark as our nominee to serve for the three-year term from July 1st, 2025 through June 30th of 2028. Um, could I have a motion? So move. Second. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Galler, seconded by Mrs. Zip. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. At this time, I'd like to have student of the month. And I know Mr. Pompet you. It all starts at PB. Yes, it does. It all starts kindergarten here. PBE. Welcome everybody. Thank you for
003coming. Uh I like to start off every time I I before we go K12 all the way up. Every kid that's going to get nominated get get this tonight. It doesn't happen without an awesome home life and you guys sitting that environment home for parents. Thank you so much. This award is like for all of you for the whole family. Thank you. Um, I have three amazing, awesome, I get the award from those cute kids. Sorry, Netflix. So, I want to start off with awesome first year teacher, Miss Chrisman's gonna come up here. And can I have Danielle Bower and the whole family come on up? You're gonna go right in front of Mrs. Giski over here. Come on, guys. I want you're coming up. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on, Christian. You're
004over here. like here. Okay. So, I wrote this little blurp about Miss Danielle over there. Um, I got hired in January and it was definitely a new environment for me and a new environment for Danielle as a new classroom. and she's here tonight because of her unwavering dedication to our academic success. She's a kind-hearted student who always makes sure to include everyone in class activities and is ready to lend a helping hand to her friends whenever needed. Danielle leads by example. She's staying focused in class, demonstrating excellent manners, and showing true empathy towards her peers. It has been a privilege to be her kindergarten teacher and to witness her growth into the confident first grader she will be. With her der with her determination and perseverance, Danielle is more than ready to take on any
005challenges that lie ahead. Congratulations, Danielle, for being chosen as a kindergarten student of the month. [Applause] She is a hugger. [Laughter] All right. Next, I'm proud to announce first grade student of the month. Can I have Henry Satwait and the whole family come on up here and Miss Baker come on up. First grade teacher. [Applause] Hello everyone. This is Mr. Henry Saty and he is what we call the big kahuna student of the month because he is the first grade student of the month out of 300 first grade students. So you really have to be a very great shining star to earn this honor. So this is a very big deal. So he does have a quite an impressive resume. He is an official word detective with badge. He um just a couple of weeks
006ago became a paleontologist with an ID. He's an incredibly hard worker. Henry loves the challenge, right? Like really loves it. Yeah. Um he is a very kind and helpful friend. He is a very talented engineer. Okay. That's a good thing to have on your resume. He's an artist. He's a lover of books and information. He just cannot get enough learning. He loves truly loves to learn. He is a rockstar listener and he's super neat and organized, which I love. And um a bonus is he always gets my jokes and sometimes the only one That's not what I And what I honestly truly love about Henry is his deep love of family and this is a tribute to your family. Um, I have to give a shout out to his sister Zoe. Um, she I know
007all about her. She's 23. She lives in Philadelphia. He talks about her all the time. He idolizes her. And I'm sure, Henry, that she would be so very proud of this very, very huge honor if she were here tonight. So, I'm sure you'll give her a call tonight and tell her all about this amazing moment. Look at all the people that came out here to see you get this honor. I mean, you have to call Zoe. Okay. Okay. Don't cue the music. I'm almost done. So, I have to tell you all that this is not the last time you will see Henry Sadder, remember that name, being honored here at PBE. Um, I promise you that he is going to do amazing things. So, the story is to be continued. So, give it up for
008everybody. Congrats. All right, I have one more cutie coming. All right, so I would like for second grade two month Paisley Hall to come on up with the family. Come on up, everybody. And [Applause] Unfortunately, Mr. Marty could not be here, but she gave some notes for Mrs. Pompella, who's actually Paisley's academic tutor. So, after school program. So, go ahead, Mrs. Hello. Um, I was very honored to uh speak with Miss McCartney when she couldn't be here that I would get to present this to Paisley tonight. So, I do work with Paisley on the tutoring. So, I get to get to see her on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So, uh, Mrs. McCartney sent a little statement that I'd like to read right now. Paisley is a very uh uh hard worker. She always tries her best
009and puts forth her best effort. She gets along well with others and is a role model in the classroom. She is kind, friendly, and patient. She is very deserving of this award and I am so proud of the work wonderful character character quality she has shown in school this year. Keep up the great work, Paisley. [Applause] Whoops. When I went to tell Mr. McCartney when we were doing this, it was recess in second grade. Miss Adams, I go to the room. Paisley at recess sits in the chair potentially doing interactive readout with all the kids. She's like, "Hey guys, you might be a teacher someday." Um, a few things before I go. Uh, I want to talk about sports staff member of the month, Maline Inado. Power professional. Been with us a long time. Flies
010on the radar. Amazing. Carol do anything for any kid. Awesome person. Um, also professional staff member of the month, Candace Ba. She's my librarian. Um, she's been hosting books and bagels all month uh at PBE and she's all about the kids also. So, I love her. Um, a few highlights for PBE. We have music. Uh, my music teacher and my sponsor is doing the performances. I've seen sex with some of these parents there. Um, where the parents come in, they get the music with the kids. Um, it's been very well attended. Just great. Once again, another nice community, uh, togetherness activity. Um, the academic fair, the wax museum on Tuesday night was a major hit. Uh, I miss some of you guys though. Um, but it it was awesome. Uh, the attendance was um, top-notch.
011And what was really cool, you guys remember Jake Star War, the reporter that went to TV. Well, Fox 56 did a piece. He had made me so proud just himself his report. Anybody didn't see it. Fox 56 do anything. I mean, go, we are on WNP too, both channels, but Fox 56. You go to that website and you look at the guy big Star Wars report on what happened at PBE. He's grown to this awesome reporter. You might see him on Good Morning America someday or today's show. Who know? But he's I'm just so proud of him, too. I know he was he left the high school a while ago, but um just a just such a great job he did and he's so proud. He had two of my three teachers on PBE still.
012He talks about them in visits. Um last thing, I'm proud of this too. Uh I know we adopted a new reading program and PBE is off and running. We have a committee, three teachers from each grade level. We're meeting regularly. We're set up to the end of the year. I hope to have next year's planned out before we say goodbye for the summer. So, and the staff's been really all about it. So, I appreciate the staff and Miss Albbright, all you PBI. All right, good evening everybody. Um, so we are going to showcase three more awesome students from PB. Um, our third, fourth, and fifth grade students of the month. Um, we are going to kick it off with Lindsay Huckman who is our third grade student of the month and is going to be
013presented by Mrs. McI. I'm thrilled to be here tonight to share just how truly wonderful Lindsay has been as a student. Lindsay is an exceptional third grader with a big heart who gives 110% to everything she does. Not only is she a conscientious and hardworking student, but she also stands out as a great role model for her peers. Lindsay actively participates in class, listens attentively, and shows deep respect for both her teachers and fellow students. Her caring and kindness towards others are commendable and she is always willing to lend a helping hand to those in need. I am truly grateful to have Lindsay in my class and it has been an absolute pleasure to be her teacher. I'm happy to be part of celebrating her achievements tonight and sharing a little bit about her contributions
014to our class and [Applause] community. All right. And then for fourth grade, we are recognizing Amaya Ralden. And she will receive some words from Miss [Applause] Wowski. Good evenings, ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages. Good evening to my board members. I'm here to introduce you to Amelia. Amelia is in my class and I'm proud to have her as a student. Oh, sorry. I'm so nervous. I know it's Amaya. Sorry, Maya. Maya Jaya, my little poo. Anyway, Amaya is in my class and I'm proud to introduce her. She is a student who exemplifies what it means to be a bear. She is being always responsible. She comes, she's prepared for class. Her Chromebooks charge. She's got her agenda. She's got her books. She's got her pencils. They're sharpened. She's ready to learn. But not
015only is she ready to learn with her tools and equipment. She comes e engaged. She is engaged actively in her learning. She uses her mind. She uses in class what she's learning. She's not a student that sits there and says, "I cannot do this. I can't figure it out." She's a student that sits there and says, "What is this about? How can I solve it? And how am I going to find the answer?" She perseveres in all she does. Then we have a action and attitude. Her attitude, she wants to learn. She cares about her learning. And she wants to do her best. She always does. She always makes all of us so proud in class. She also, I'm sure, makes her parents so proud because she strives to do her very best. And that
016attitude with her actions go hand in hand. Her actions show that she wants to learn, that she wants to be doing her best, that she is going to go far in her life. And last but not least, we have R. Be respectful. Amelia is respectful to everyone she meets, whether it's teachers, substitutes, adults, monitors, or her students. She cares about her peers and she has a heart of gold. She is there if they're down. She will be the lending hand, the hug that if they're crying or having a bad day. And not only that, she will also always be there for them no matter what they need. I am very proud to be here with her. It is a genuine honor to have her in my class and to present her to you because I
017know Amelia, you will be seeing these board members again. You could have seen them many months before because she would be here any months prior to this because I would gladly nominate her. So you will see her, I guess, many years to come and I expect to see many good things from you. Thank you. [Applause] And then moving on to fifth grade, we are recognizing Eliza Hayes who is presented by Miss Wever. I have the honor of speaking about a truly exceptional student, Eliza. When I think about what it means to be hardworking, polite, and dedicated, Eliza embodies these qualities perfectly. Eliza's work ethic is nothing short of inspiring. Whether it's a challenging assignment or a complex project, she approaches each task with focus, determination, and a desire to give her best effort. Her ambition
018is something we can all admire. Eliza doesn't just meet expectations, she exceeds them. She sets high goals for herself and works tirelessly to achieve them, never settling for anything less than excellence. But it's not just her academic success that makes Eliza stand out. What truly makes her a remarkable individual is her kindness and generosity. Eliza is always willing to lend a helpful hand to her classmates. If someone is struggling with a problem or needs clarification, Eliza is there, offering guidance with patience and a smile. She creates a positive environment, making her a wonderful example of teamwork and compassion. In every classroom, there are students who work hard and achieve great things, but few do so with the same blend of ambition, respect, and generosity that Eliza brings every single day. She's not only a role
019model for her academic accomplishments, but for her character she demonstrates as a person. Thank you for being an inspiration to all of us. You remind us that with hard work, we can achieve great things. Keep shining because the world needs more people like you. [Applause] And then in addition to some awesome students, we also recognized some staff members this month for also being awesome. Our professional staff member of the month was Leticia the Tippy and our support staff member of the month was Robin Circus. Um, looking at the building this month, um, just this past week, we also had our academic showcase. Um, extremely well attended. I think parking got a little invented. Let's just say that. Um, but we're so happy that everybody was flexible with that and showed up um, for our band
020concert. The bleachers were completely filled. We were so happy to have great attendance and it was really awesome. our our staff worked really hard along with our students to have projects, artwork, essays all throughout the building and it was really great to see everybody walking through and seeing all the hard work that we've done this year. So, um, great turnout and we're very happy that that night was so successful and um, moving on to Mr. McCussen of Middle School. Good evening everyone. I'd like to say congratulations to all of the students and their families. And without further ado, I would like to introduce Mrs. McMaster, the sixth grade student of the month, Paul. Hello. Um, it's a true honor to present our sixth grade student to um, Paulie Alvarez. This is a special recognition, one
021that highlights a student who truly embodies the qualities that we strive for as a middle school. Paulie is someone who shines brightly in so many different ways. When we think about what makes a great student, several things come to mind. We look for someone who's dedicated to their learning, someone who puts in an effort to achieve their best. And Polly is absolutely undoubtedly hardworking. She consistently approaches all her tasks with focus and determination. She understands that success comes through effort and she's never afraid to put in the time and the energy that's needed for her to succeed. But being a great student is not just about being academically great. It also is about how we treat others and the kind of person that we are inside. And Paulie stands out for her kindness. She's always
022kind to everyone. Her actions demonstrate a true understanding of compassion and respect for others. She makes our classroom and our school more positive and a supportive place to be in. Paulie also possesses a wonder wonderful artistic spirit. She is a unique way of seeing the world and expressing herself creatively. Whether it's through drawing or music or writing or any other form of artistic expression, she brings that special flare and imagination to everything that she does. Paulie, your dedication, your compassion, your creativity make you truly a role model for all of us. I'm incredibly proud of your accomplishments this year and the positive impact that you've had on our school. And I just have to end by saying that you're like one of the first people in my room in the morning to greet me good
023morning and hello. And you are definitely the last person at the end of the day because I have a period the last one out the door to say have a great night. And I truly appreciate that and I will miss you. You have to come visit me next year. Excited to see what you're going to do. Congratulations. [Applause] Next, the seventh grade we have Miss Aurora Zach. Miss Aurora, come on up. And to make the presentation to Aurora is our very own Miss Gower. Miss Gower. [Applause] [Music] I have a lot. So, hello members of board and families school district. I'm here today to celebrate a remarkable individual, Aurora, as a representative for our seventh and eighth grade team. Aurora's home room teacher, Mrs. Wton, was not able to be here to honor her tonight,
024but I sent her regards and congratulations. In a room full of bright minds, Aurora shines with a unique brilliance that comes from her insatiable curiosity. It's not just about asking questions. It's about diving deep, exploring every angle, and never settling for a superficial understanding. Even when sometimes, in her own words, it goes in one ear and out the [Laughter] other. She embodies the true spirit of learning, always meeting every new challenge with an open mind. But Agora is more than just a scholar. She possesses a charismatic nature that draws people in. Whether it's a group project or cap casual conversation. Her presence elevates the entire atmosphere. She has a way of making everyone feel seen and valued. Fostering a sense of community that's truly special. Honestly, her ability to strike up a conversation with anyone
025is commendable. I need to take notes. And let's not forget her unwavering desire to do her best. Aurora doesn't just aim for average. She strives for excellence in everything she undertakes. is a testament to her dedication and her commitment to personal growth. She understands that true success comes from hard work and perseverance, and she embodies that principle every single day. Even when she makes mistakes or falls behind, she knows that she always has a team of family and teachers ready to help her out and isn't afraid to say that she needs help. Perhaps most importantly, Aurora greets each day with a smile. It's a smile that radiates warmth and positivity, a beacon that brightens even the most challenging moments. It's a reminder that even amidst the pressures of academic life, there's always room for joy
026and optimism. Even when I'm trying to be the serious scary teacher, I know that if I just so much look at her in her direction, she'll just give me this loopy grin and I'm like, "Oh, I can't be serious anytime." I lose it. It's great. I love it. Your curiosity fuels our intellectual spirit. Your charisma connects us. Your dedication inspires us and your smile reminds us of the beauty in every day. You are a true asset to our community and we are incredibly fortunate to have you among us. Thank you for being here. [Applause] Little fun fact about Oh my god. We have one day in the campus. She's talked about. All right, moving on to our eighth grade. I present to you one of the middle school's finest, Mr. P, who will present our
027eighth grade March representative, Zoe video. [Applause] Good evening. I have Zoe for home room. Uh every morning she's one of the first students in in the room. Uh always with a smile on her face. Um you know, it's great to see every day start the day like that. So Zoe's an outstanding student who embodies hard work, kindness, and dedication to academic success. She constantly puts forward her best efforts in the classroom, demonstrating a strong work ethic and a genuine enthusiasm for learning. Her friendly and personal nature makes her a joy to have in the classroom. Uh as she is always willing to collaborate with peers and contribute to discussions. Zoe commitment to her education is evident in her conscientious approach to her grades and her determination to succeed. uh she is truly deservable of this
028uh March award for student of the month and all of your teachers are looking forward to what you can do in high school next year nth grade. [Applause] I'd like to close with uh recognizing our employees of the month at the middle school. Our support staff and employee of the month was Miss Shelley Cuan. I am my very par professional. And our professional staff employee of the month was is the phenomenal, the outstanding, the incomparable Rick Rick. Um some highlights from the middle school this month. Um we continued with our proud rewards. Um earlier in the month of March, all eligible students participated in dodgeball trivia games. I want to encourage all of our students to keep up the good work for April's awards. And it was at an event that some of the students
029mentioned that they thought Mr. Rodriguez would win a dance off. There may be an end of year administrator contest. Um I'd also like to give a shout out to our fantastic sixth grade six sense team and Miss Nadia Gansky. um we won like we it was just it was a blowout. We crushed the competition those both days. We are very proud of all their efforts. Um I'd also like to highlight um Miss Santiago um who hosted her annual Spanish culture event on Thursday, March 20th. It was an amazing event that celebrated all cultures in our community. On Friday, March 21st, the middle school was also visited by Mr. Jake SR at Fox 56 and WNEP uh for Mrs. Hinton's life skills class and their second meet the authors event. The authors shared their newly published
030recipe book and provided samples of their recipe for faculty, staff, and students to try. I'd also like to close with our academic challenge at the middle school. It is a trivia competition uh that happens once a week um with trivia topics and a combination of academic questions and pop culture and the culminating event will be a teachers versus kids trivia showdown. So, lots of exciting things happening at the middle school and I'll turn it over now to the high school. Uh good evening to all of our board members and Dr. Conrad. It is our pleasure to introduce our high school students of the month. Juliana Mihan is our ninth grade student of the month. She was nominated by Mr. Tim Hitten who will speak on her behalf. Good evening. Thanks for having me here. Um,
031it's my pleasure to be able to teach Juliana in in my wound one class. Um, she's the epitome of a student, which um, I think all of the student of the months would say the same thing about all of them. Um, but Juliana is always on task. Um, she's always definitely prepared. Um, she aces all the tests and quizzes. Again, always prepared. uh goes above and beyond uh what she needs to do to uh make that happen. Um she's respectful and helpful to everybody in the room, especially me. So, I appreciate all your help. Um she is very productive. Um she always keeps herself busy. Uh when we roll out a new project, um I give the students a couple options and the first thing she did was come up and say, "Can I do
032both?" And she did. She made both projects in the amount of time most kids do months. Okay. Um so yeah, she she does an excellent job. Again, my pleasure to have you in class and congratulations. Keep up the good work. Next up is Gavin Bates. He is our 10th grade student of the month. He was nominated by Miss Amanda Alimos who will speak on his behalf. [Applause] Good evening board members, families, students. Um it is an honor to speak on um about Gavin Beatates who I get to teach in my 10th grade and honors English class. Um the one of the main reasons I nominated you was because you have such a positive attitude. Seventh period you walk in, you're raring to go. Yes, let's do this. We're good. You know, and I appreciate you
033always saying, you know, good afternoon, have a great day. and it's just really refreshing. You're so respectful to yourself, to your peers, to your teachers. Um, and it it does not go unnoticed by anybody that you come in contact with during the school day. You're very involved. You're on JV on varsity baseball. You play as a pitcher and you are also a first baseman. That's fabulous. You also came here from practice. shows your dedication to not just being an academic uh student and doing well in the classroom, but also being involved in the school community and you're just overall an excellent student. And um we're excited, you're excited that your picture's going up in the hallway next to mine because I was nominated earlier in the year. So, you know, I it's an honor to
034um have you and I'm excited to see what happens the rest of your high school career and looking forward to see what you accomplish as an adult. So, [Applause] congratulations. Next up, we have Emily Hernandez. She is our 11th grade student of the month. She was nominated by Mr. Bill Mariello will speak on her behalf. [Applause] [Laughter] Is this here for decoration or this actually work? All right. Um, good evening, Pleasant Valley community. Um, I'm very happy here to be here tonight to speak on behalf of Emily. Um, I even gave up watching the end of my beloved New York Yankees game day to come uh yeah, I even gave that to come tell everybody what an amazing individual Emily is. It's well worth it to see Miss Hernandez uh get the acknowledgement that she
035deserves. Um, I always tell my students that in class that I'd rather see them get the wins in life. Um, more than I like to get to see my favorite sports teams win. So, I'd rather see that. I root for them. Uh, Emily is new to our district and I'm very glad to have say she's a pleasant valley. Um, I always preach the importance of work ethic to my high school students and Emily has that drive and determination. Uh, she scored a 100% in health too. She has high A+ um averages in her other classes and she's been a distinguished honoral student um since the beginning of the year. Uh the work that she puts into her assignments is phenomenal. Um there's advanced to the point where I could use them to instruct a health
036class. They're that good. You know what, Emily, I was thinking too, everyone else was going, there's a site called Teachers Pay Teachers. We could we could be partners and and no teachers sell their work and and and I guess they get paid for it. So you could be partners and they laugh for grocery prices. But anyway, um there Yeah. But anyway, I currently have Emily in physical education class and I know she's going to do a phenomenal job. Uh Emily's one of the friendliest positives and has a kind attitude of any student and educator can have. Um I can even guarantee you uh class is better and more pleasant with Emily. Her presence alone helps uh create a fun and sweet atmosphere that is valuable and I appreciate it. Uh Emily's a fantastic representation of
037a well- behaved, respectful and courteous student. Uh Emily's going to go accomplish great things in her life and I'm very content to know that I was a tiny tiny part of her academic journey to get where she wants to go. Um no matter what the task is, Emily will be ready to accept the challenge and do the best that she can. Um last thing I just want to say to Emily's parents, thank you. Um you're doing an amazing job raising her. Um and I'd like to tell Emily thank you and I'm honored to be one of your instructors at PV. Um and I'm glad to have had the opportunity to nominate you. Um, I was think I was looking this morning when I was finishing this up. Um, I wanted to share a quote with
038you that I read. Um, I guess it was by uh, Henry David Thorough, if I'm pronouncing his name correctly. Um, the quote says, uh, go confident, go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life. Congratulations, Emily. You deserve it. [Applause] Next up, we have Danielle Bolan. She is our 12th grade student of the month. She was nominated by Mrs. Payton Gregory Storms, who could not make it tonight. And I don't think Danny's here tonight either. Um, but I will still read what Mrs. um Payton Gregory Storms wrote. This past month, Danielle has turned in numerous scholarship applications. She has shown great dedication to achieving her post-secary goals. She also continues to be a role model for other students by balancing and prioritizing academics and school involvement. She is currently ranked both in the
039class while also excelling in track and cross country. In addition, Danielle intentionally makes time to serve others and give back to the community through being a member of the Leo Club and participating in Minithon. Danielle, you make us all PD proud. [Applause] Um, our staff member this month was Mr. Steven Crepple. Um, he is one of our special ed teachers for math. Our support staff of the month was Miss Lean Jacobson. She's one of our life skills pair of professionals. We have a few high school highlights tonight. So, the Pleasant Valley High School Musical Drama Club performed Schoolhouse Rock Live this past weekend. We want to thank Dan and Marcy Mulligan, Donna Morris, and all drama club participants for their dedication and hard work. The musical was fantastic and we had great audiences including our
040second graders from PBE that attended for a special preview show. It was it was adorable. We um had an announcement go off during the um play. The entire second graders got quiet and they were listening and Mr. Bole and I were like, "Oh my goodness, like do you guys want to join? Like come on. Be the new students up here." Like they fabulous. So it was awesome. Um, our next high school highlight, we would like to give a shout out to Miss Kimberly Keyort, who was recognized as the local honore in Ghana's amazing teacher contest for February. A parent nominated Miss Keyboard and stated, "These past two years with Miss Keyboard have been a breath of fresh air, and we are so grateful for her." Our last high school highlight this year, Pleasant Valley was
041awarded four $30,000 scholarships instead of the normal three. We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Singer Scholarship Award recipients are Brianna Paul Mary, Liliana Hehart, Annayia Silian, and Zachary Prader. [Applause] Is that everybody? You don't. Okay. All right. I'd like to congratulate all our March students of the month and also great job parents. Way to go. Um, if you'd like to stay for the meeting, you're more than welcome, but I don't think you want to. But I know they want to take some pictures. So, if you could go out to the lobby, um, I'm sure Lewis will tell you what you need to do. No, that's right. They did extra seventh. Really? Seven though. Yeah. Yeah. But they did win. Oh, good. I was listening to contemplating the scenario, you know, will Bryce under
04229 and a half, you know, will win 89 and 12 games, you know. Yeah. Still, you know, out and walk. We saw a walker. Oh, like one good. That's the one you Oh, yeah. Yeah. But Philadelphia sports fans, you should all be very satisfied. Absolutely. First of all, there's Thank goodness I didn't need to cover earlier today. It is amazing what that sometimes that's it. It was like the the curtain. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Louisis. All right, we'll continue on our agenda. Uh Dr. Conrad, community questions, please. Yes. Uh good evening, everyone. So, uh before I answer community questions this evening, I want to address uh the middle school furniture that is on the board agenda for this evening. At the last working session meeting, we discussed and presented the need
043for updating middle school furniture, which is part of our capital improvements priority list for the district. The majority of this purchase will be paid for with ready tolearn grant money. The decision to allocate allocate grant funds is to improve learning environments for our students. This includes updates to the classroom and common spaces to ensure students have comfortable, functional, and flexible uh spaces that support their education and support our staff. By making this investment, we are ensuring that our students have a better learning environment, which contributes to their academic success and overall well-being. I'm not sure if you're aware, but most of this furniture in the middle school is more than 30 years old, and some of the furniture poses a safety concern. In the future, there will be uh sorry, we will be looking to
044enhance uh furniture in both the intermediate school and the elementary school. And our goal, as always, is to continue to use grant money to save our taxpayers from additional expenses. In this case, we saved taxpayers $719,000. With that said, regarding the gaming furniture from esports, which ties into our STEM focus, we are not purchasing the $800 chairs, but that is the quote that we received when we asked for a quote with the PV logo. This amount will be replaced with a lower amount of about $267 per chair. The $800 that is on the agenda is what we were provided when we were given the new quote. Okay, moving on. Um, there are six community questions that were submitted this evening. There were two questions submitted by Donna Yosak from Chesnutville Township. First question was regarding
045the JC Mil sign outside of the high school and when it will be put back outside. The sign was removed for the road work on 115 and 209 and the sign was actually missing letters. With the upcoming construction on the high school, there are no plans to put it back outside. It will I'm sorry, it will continue to be referred to as the JC Mills wing, but it is part of Pleasant Valley High School. There is a plaque dedicating the wing to JC Mills that is located inside the doors when you walk up the steps and to the right of JC Mills. The second question was regarding um Pleasant Valley applying for the safety school safety and mental health grant program and when it will be used for phone pouches. We did receive a grant
046for the 2425 school year. This money is being used for behavioral analysts for our students and to rekey all of our school buildings from a security and safety standpoint. There were three questions submitted by Denise Hopeley of Chestnut Hill Township. The first two questions were regarding the comprehensive plan and when they met and what input students had. The steering committee met in September and February of this school year, once in person here at the district office and then once virtually due to an inclement weather day. The students attended both meetings and shared their thoughts and ideas and discussions uh and discussion time along with everyone else that wanted to share. In addition to that, our students continuously provide us with feedback at the high school and the middle school and through our SAC meetings that
047we were having monthly in the beginning part of the school year. The third question was regarding the tennis courts being in disrepair. So, not sure if you're aware, but on Friday, March 21st, uh there were high winds that unfortunately lifted the playing surface of the courts uh and they buckled uh the tennis courts. We're currently in contract with a company to come out and assess the courts. All of the home games for tennis have been scheduled away and we have made arrangements with Pocono Mountain West to use the courts to practice on and we appreciate uh them helping to support us during this u you know unforeseen circumstance. The last question was submitted by Janet Duner from Pulk Township. She asked what the vendor bondless uh federal funding was and what the $2,000 invoice provides.
048This vendor assists the district with using money. So, - money are funds that are going to be used to pay for uh technology, equipment, supplies, and etc. Uh they've reimbured the district 80% of the large technology purchases. So, it's very helpful to have uh -ate money for um the utilization within our district. And that is all I have for this evening. Thank you, Dr. Conrad. Uh secretar's report, Mrs. Smail, please. Good evening. Tonight I request approval of the minutes of the meeting on March 13, 2025 and approval of the March 27, 2025 board meeting agenda, including the change to item 16B sports chairs with logo $9,687.50 should be changed to these sports chairs without logo $3,2760. So move second. I have a motion by Mr. Walter, seconded by Mr. Burgerer. Is there any discussion? I
049have. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. At this time, are there any Pleasant Valley citizens that would like to address the board? If so, please come to the podium. State your name, the township you reside in. Again, it's on agenda items only and there is a threem minute limit. Good evening everybody. Um, Chestnut Hill, in terms of the furniture that's coming out of middle school, do you know what you're going to do with that furniture? Um, what are we going to do with it? Um, and I guess if we're good stewards of good readers, we may want to be able to give it to another poorer school that may be in need of it. So there look carts in the boards, etc. Um, so I
050have a question about that. Um, the other ones they pertain to the comprehensive plan number 11. Okay. Um, there's strengths and weaknesses, but this one is pertaining to STEM. Um, expanding the elective offerings to better align STEM careers is needed. Is PBS PBSD going to provide opportunities for relevant teacher professional development? What will that look like? Will PB addressing the ever changing and increasing mental health needs of students and what will that look like? Will PBSD seek time for relevant teaching professional development and how will be done? Um then there's analyzing challenges and priority challenges. It's about social emotional learning. Um the question is where is the application of knowledge project based assessments utilized in crosscurricular programs at all the levels and what would you say to someone who argues that focusing on emotional regulation
051skills may overlook the importance of addressing external factors that contribute to behavior issues such as socioeconomic status or family environment. How would you address critics who claim that measuring success solely through behavior related to referrals does not capture the full impact of emotional regulation on student wellbeing? And have you considered the possibility that a strict focus on reducing referrals might inadvertently pressure students to press their emotions rather than generally develop emotional regulation skills? Um, have you considered the viewpoint that teachers may not have the necessary training or resources to evaluate emotional dysregulation in students effectively? And what evidence do you have to counter claim that other interventions might be more effective in decreasing referrals compared to existing systems? Um, what would you say to someone who argues that increasing students and specialized areas may lead
052to a reallocation of existing resources rather than hiring more teachers? And have you considered the possibility that returning students to alternate programs like Senica Valley or Bear Academy could be more efficient than hiring additional teachers? And how would you address those who argue that the need for teachers? Oops. address the music teachers resources depending on funding which may not incre funding which may not increase the funds with Okay, thank you. Three minutes. Anyone else at this time? Okay, seeing no one else approach the podium. Uh Mrs. Surface, uh treasures report, please. Yes. Tonight I'm seeking approval of item 4 through E. I have a motion by Mr. Kazinski, seconded by Mr. Burger. Is there any discussion? Did you get that to Mr. Kazyski and Mr. Burgerer? Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please
053signify by saying I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. Uh, unfinished business, Mr. Fitzgerald. Uh just briefly and not sure if it's unfinished business or new business, but I I do think it's important to update the board and the community. Um the board has had a negotiating team u engage in discussions for successor collective bargaining agreement with the Pleasant Valley Education Association. The parties have been meeting uh for the last three months beginning in January. Uh the contract expires on June 30th. We've had about five or six meetings to date. We have another meeting in about uh I'd say 10 days. Uh talks have been um collaborative um and the parties are working through a number of issues. Uh so we just wanted to give you an update now that uh talks continue. Thank you.
054Uh is there any other unfinished business? Okay. I do have one item that I'd like to bring up. Um and that has to do with our citizens advisory committee. Um, as you know, it was open for anyone that wanted to submit their name to be on the advisory committee. We did have 36 individuals um, sign up on the Google form and um, now we have to determine how we're going to do possibly a selection of the members to sit on that committee. So, I do have a proposal here that I'd like to um, go through with you and get your thoughts on. Um, so we thought maybe we'd sort the individuals based on the township that they live in, uh, so that we can have equitable participation. Uh, due to Chestnut Hill being the largest,
055uh, township, they would have five of the 12. Again, that's what uh, the AR is suggesting, although the board can decide whatever they would like, but that's what these numbers are based on that. Uh again, Chestnut Hill would have five uh members. Pulk would have three and then followed by Elder and Ross who would each have two. Uh because people took the time to express an interest in sharing their thoughts with the board of education, I believe that individuals should be randomly selected. So, um, we thought about, um, using, uh, taking the list, listing them alphabetical by last name in the township that they reside in. And then once we have that list, we could assign a corresponding number. Say there's 12 from Chesna Hill, 1 through 12 alphabetically. And then at a public meeting,
056um, I, as board president, would ask Siri to give me a number between since we need like uh five, you know, or if there's 12 from excuse me, if there's 12 from Chesa Hill, you know, give me a Siri. Hey Siri, give me a number from 1 to 12. And then that would be, you know, and we'd continue till we have the individuals uh on that we need to fill for that selected uh township. Um and then um once we have the individual selected um the board could then continue on and consider a a topic just that the committee could address and we could move forward. Um the other thing that I have had a couple of individuals mention to me that um possibly um I know that a two of the individuals are have
057put their names in to run for the school board. whether or not um you wanted them on that committee or not. So there are a couple things that we do need to you know set parameters. So I don't know what you think about this uh process but you know uh again um trying to be fair and equitable um you know kind of like a lottery system maybe you know it's how we kind of determined that we thought maybe this would work. So what do you think? I don't know. You don't know? I don't I mean I the to answer the last part, I think somebody who is running should be able to be on the committee. I think that's not going to be an issue. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I like the random picking series because
058I looked at those names and there's quite a few on there with a lot of great background. I I personally I know you mentioned me being chairperson. I would have a heck of a time trying to pick repercussions. form. Can we leave it to the chairperson of this committee to do that randomization instead of instead of you? Oh, absolutely. I asked him to do this. Did I He said, "No, you don't." So, I tried to I do think I do think a random I think a random number generator is a great idea. No, I mean I read that and I thought it was fair. I mean, that's that's what we want. We want fair. And like I said, I know I I asked before that we, you know, have equal amount for the all the
059townships and stuff like that. Yeah. Yeah. Did the interest list that we got, did the interest list that we received correlate statistically sort of close enough with the numbers that we have per township? Oh, I have that somewhere if you hang there, I believe six. I have it in Ross and Eldridge or around about five and six correlation number. So that correlates maybe besides Chesn Hill at the largest of about 19 or 20 19 from 19 from Chesn Hill, six from Ross, four from Elder, and seven from Pulk. So do kind of cool. So that's Yeah. I would also like to have it brought up at our next board meeting because I'm putting you on the spot right now, but I believe you said there's 36 applicants. I'd like to the public to be able
060to know for the next meeting the breakdown of those 36. How many are current parents of kids in the system? Yeah. How many are graduates of the system? How many are business owners of the system? And how many are retirees of the system? And I want that out there for the public to know for the next meeting. Yeah. I think we didn't actually ask that question, but I some of them based on what they put in. Yeah. Some of them you can Yeah, you can tell. They did tell us. Yeah. Because it's we have to make sure our community is represented in all aspects. I want to make the committee know if the committee gets set up a certain way, if one of those groups is not represented, this is why just to have the
061turnout from that area because again, our whole goal of this is to have our community represented in in its entirety. Okay. So, I'm hearing the random the way I read is acceptable. So, I'll turn it then over to the chairperson and uh we'll continue on. now. No, you don't have to do it now. Next meeting. The one the one thing the one thing that I do think and I I think it was just your last bullet. Okay. Um the last bullet was related to topics. Yes. I feel like those should come from the first meeting. I feel like you have to have the first meeting and hear the topics before you decide on the topic. Or you can pick from what they put on the Yes. Because I did notice that too. Like there there
062was some themes in in the the question that was topics of interest you find that are most important to discuss in this committee. So that's here. Yep. So I mean I started to tally that but I kind of gave up to be honest with you. So what I'll hear is the next board meeting we will pick committee and then move on with the next we will actually meet right and are we going to have a date are we going to figure out as a whole the time and the date I know there was suggestion in it but I'm just I know some were yeah you're going to we still need two board members since Rob has uh graciously decided to do the IU He he so you still need two committee members. So again, if
063anyone wants to volunteer, please let John know and we'll leave it at that. And okay, we good. Okay. I'm sorry. And that's all right. I'm sorry. Were um the four topics that you asked for parents, graduates, retirees, business owners. Got us. Were teachers able to put in or No. Um, what did we We had past employees. We had past employees. I know on there. I don't know if there's a couple employees. They had PG emails that they put down. Did they? Yeah. There's one or two, I believe in that category. Yeah. I know there's one that put in that's a a parah, but she's retiring. But again, did we exclude that? No, we can't. Can't remember off time. No, we did know. I would like to nominate Ryan O'Keefe as a second member of the
064committee. [Laughter] Wait, we are really You can reach out to me, John. Okay. I think I think he was interested, but he due to work travel. Let's ask him. Let him answer that. Yeah, you'll have to talk to him. That's why I'm saying you can reach out to him. All right. Um that anything else under unfinished business. Okay. Moving on to new business. Monro Career and Technical Institute. Mrs. Surface. Nothing this evening. Our next meeting will be April the 7th. Okay. Mr. Galler, Colonial IU. Two items. Uh last night we had our board meeting. So for the next meeting here, I will have board available. But I did want to highlight that recently Dr. Wolf uh Dr. Bartekch and his crew took while they went out to Harrisburg for to meet with all the Pennsylvania
065IU directors for a a summit out there and Dr. Wolf had taken two of our stellar ambassadors from the IU20 and did something brand new out there and got to meet all the legislators, the senators and everything and pretty much made a huge impact out there. The kids did uh with everybody out there and set the precedent. That was the first time that the NEIU has taken students out there for this this summit and uh it's going to be something all the other IUs are jumping on to. So, props to to Dr. Wolf on that. It was it was a fantastic presentation and it really put the IU 20 and Eastern Pennsylvania on the map again out of Harrisburg. So, it was really really nice. Thank you. Uh PSBA liaison. Uh nothing new this week.
066Okay. Um this evening under education I just wanted to touch base on our ready tolearn grant. Um we receive approximate well a little over $3.5 million in our ready our state ready tolearn grant. This money um does have specific things that it can be spent on and it also needs to be spent each school year by June 30th. So again this evening um furniture for our middle school is coming out of this ready tolearn grant. Now I know it's taxpayers money but if we don't use this money we lose it. Somebody else will somebody else will get it. That's correct. So um we have spent this money on various things. If you've been at board me board meetings, excuse me, you've know we just bought uh a new reading program with uh these dollars. We
067did uh NWA, which is a mapping skills. Help me, John. Growth mapping growth. Academic growth for our students. We've purchased teacher supplies to the tune of $750 each, right? $225,000 total. $225,000 total. There is a list of things that we have so far spent this money on. Again, if we don't use it, we lose it. And I know this hasn't been adjusted. I don't think Tammy with the reduction right of that of the e-chairs, but um even after taking out the middle school furniture, we still have o $400,000 that we need to spend by June 30th. So I I really think I you know I just really wanted to make everyone aware of the value of this state grant money and how much we receive and it is it's wonderful money for us that again
068we can do things for certain areas um that we don't have to ask our taxpayers to support. So I just needed to say that moving on finance Mrs. surface. I'd just like to piggy back on what you just said. Sure. I just want you to be aware that when we use grant money like that and we're using a percentage of our capital funds reserve, that money is not coming from the taxpayers. We are reducing our expenses by that 719,000 it is approximately. Just so you understand how that all that all works. Um uh the finance will be uh come up later on in the agenda. Okay. Thank you. Uh Mr. O'Keefe's not with us this evening, but his athletic report is attached for you to look at. Um this is it. Policy. We have policy
069915.1 for the school district logo is on the board agenda for first reading. Thank you. Capital improvement. Mr. Burgerer. Uh the capital improvement committee met uh today to discuss um items related to the renovation and related contracts. Um schedule was one of the areas um that we focus some of our energy on. Um just a reminder to everyone uh the auditorium becomes off limits in April. Uh in miday the area around where the sand mound next where the buses are parked is going to be uh made available for access by our contractors. We reviewed the general schedule overall and and how that uh might impact uh activities in the future including spaces that are available for a variety of reasons. Uh one of the issues that uh we need to address is we got a
070lot of uh material that needs to be stored somewhere uh when it's not currently being used but it will become available once the those areas have been reached. We also did some focus on contractual worker protocols on how they will be moving around in our building. Our next meeting is scheduled for April 24th. We will have additional meetings in uh the May through our time frame. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Burgerer. Uh security, Mr. Walters. No, no, no new information technology. Oh, I missed you. I'm sorry. Also, no. Okay. Thank you both. All right. Uh letter K is Chestnut Hill Township um park. Um, I have been approached by uh Mr. Albbright, who's the township manager, um, looking for our security to help open the gates or close the gates, excuse me, each evening at
071the Chesn Hill Township Park. They would like the gates closed at 10 p.m. Um they have uh had increased vandalism and um they would like our cooperation uh with this and I would like to ask the board to consider this. Um uh give me your thoughts. Um they have been very cooperative with us on two things. um and that one being our C crossc country course that uh we use now um they do not charge us anything for uses of that and also with the high school renovation they have been very fair uh with us as far as permits and uh the cost of those items. So again um they're looking for um us to close the gates each evening at 10 pm and I know Dr. Conrad ha has spoke to chief and doesn't
072feel that it would be any undue. I I I think the feedback we got from security that it would not be a major issue for them to do so. So, right. It is uh something that we've done in the past uh working together as a community to our general mutual benefit I think is worthwhile. So, I I think it's the right thing to do. I think it is too. But I'm just wondering if Mr. Cheryl, was there anything that What I probably suggest is going I do you want to go first? Well, I should have read this. Um because it does say about in here that, you know, if there's bad weather, you know, we wouldn't be held responsible. Go do that. Also, if there's uh when they get there and there's individuals there, they
073should just call the state police. You know, that we wouldn't be, you know, needed to do anything. But I know you would. Yeah. I I mean in terms of what I'll consider the the guidelines by which we we will will or will not go out that can be worked out by the administrations of of both the township and the district. Uh for our purposes and probably for the purposes of ensuring insurance protection for our own staff when they do something like that. What I'll probably ask the board simply to do is is we'll have some sort of authorizing resolution at the next meeting just just to to cover our basis in that regard because there was a history of us doing this in the past under kind of an intergovernmental cooperation agreement that doesn't exist
074anymore. But we'll we'll we'll set something up to make sure it it covers it. So yeah, okay. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. And the only other thing I wanted to um tell you about, which I think I saw Diane, you had one of these. So I don't know if everybody got a postcard concerning the 12th annual economic outlook summit. Uh it's Friday, May the 16th at Kalahari. Um so if not, if you haven't received it, I can pass this one along, but if anybody's interested, go. All right. Superintendent Dr. Conrad. Okay. Uh tonight I'm seeking approval for items 8B and 8 C. Items 7 A and 8 D areformational. So move. I have a motion by Mr. Walter, second by Mr. Gaziski. Is there any discussion? Yes. I'd uh like to make a
075motion to add uh Monro County uh commissioners as the one of the addresses for receiving a copy of the resolution. So moved. an addendum just to that. Yes, just to All right. So, we just we'll vote on the addendum. Okay. So, I have a motion uh by Mr. Burgerer and a second by Mr. Walters to add the Monroe County Commissioners to the resolution. So, all in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Okay. Anyone opposed? Okay. So, that has now been added and now could I have a motion? I think we have the motion just to vote now on the Okay. Who did the mo the original motion? The original motion. Okay. Mr. Mr. Mr. I said that. Oh boy. All right. So, back to the original motion which was made by Mr. Kazyski and
076seconded by Mr. Walters. Uh, other way. Whatever you want. Whatever I want. Oh, boy. All right. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? I'm sorry. Yell at me. Yeah, I'm sure she will yell at me, too. All right, moving on to human resources. Uh, this is Lori Paul. Good evening. Seeking approval of items 9B through 9D. Items 9E through 9G areformational. So move. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Galler, seconded by Mrs. Zip. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. I'm seeking approval of items 10B through 10G, items 10H through 10 are so move. Second. I have a motion by Mrs. Zip, seconded by Mrs. Surface. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by
077saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. Moving on to curriculum. Dr. Howard. Good evening. Tonight I'm seeking approval for items 11B through 11F. So second. I have a motion by Mr. Burgerer, seconded by Mr. Walters. Is there any discussion? Yeah, I have a couple questions um on the comprehensive plan. This is the one coming up and it states in there what our expectations are, our challenges and stuff like that. So for our 20 our last one from 22 to 25 is there we have documentation that says what our challenges did we meet our challenges any of our challenges something that is that we we do have documentation how we have some of our our academic things where we are accessible for us I just want to make sure that the comp plan is
078still online if we had 10 things that were planned on it from 22 through Do we eliminate any of those for this upcoming one or do we just copy and paste those and still have it coming up? We we we like looked at it and compiled some of it some pages. Yeah, a lot. This was we looked at um the survey that we provided from you know when we got from the community and uh uh and the staff and that's kind of like where we were looking at and then we analyzed our PA future ready index and that data that because it is lagging so it doesn't lag as far back which would be of the previous uh comprehensive plan. So we kind of took all that data and put it in here analyze it
079and move it. That's where you got your starting line for this upcoming one. Okay. I I just like I know the one place here it says here um all students at PBI had to score 100% science. What is what is that? I mean you can't improve on that mentioned on page 10 and 12 all student groups scored 100%. I sorry to I just read that when I finished about 4:30. So for the uh where was this page 10? Yep. PB8 PDI all student groups scored 100% for science. So that was that that's a um a strength based on the future to me that means a strength we already have that yes correct for science. So we actually have 100% because another place that we that PBI needs to as one of our challenges we need
080to increase our science score. So, I was kind of confused on that why it says because it's going from fourth to fifth grade for our science. So, we need to make sure that we're still keeping it up for that next grade level. But we have 100% all for fourth grade, right? So you're talking all groups have 100% where you're you only test scoring all 100% took the test. Now I'm confused. John is 100% academic growth. So they had academic growth not participation. Oh okay. So the students shown growth. They showed growth. It wasn't that they wasn't achievement. Yeah. That's what I thought. So all students they didn't all achieve. So the new goal is for achieving. Okay. And then Netherlands is uh on page 14 it talks about increasing student STEM increasing the electives in
081STEM. Did you not do away with the number of STEM programs in the test? We're looking for STEM programs that are more current. So we are sending teachers actually they're going programming um we're looking at uh Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi. We have teachers from the middle school from PBI and the high school are going to go to programming and um things like that. We took out with the times with our STEM programs. Well, I guess I so I know we're saying increase in the STEM program, which you just stated we're going to need the staff to do that. So, I mean, not that I didn't bring it up in the past, but we had issues with staff members going to these get these trainings and how they were compensated for it. So, is this already
082taken into consideration how we're going to um educate these new teachers or not new teachers, but these teachers are going to be teaching these classes. Is that something we do ahead of time and then we're going to have the classes or are we just saying here's the classes and now we're going to try to get our teachers ready for it? I I mean I I know I'm not at the meeting so I'm sure that was addressed but I want to know. We're doing a little bit of both. I guess we've added some classes for next year. The teachers are already currently being trained and are already currently writing curriculum for those courses and we're also looking at the training we can provide to offer future courses in the future. I know we want more but
083you have any idea like what other classes we're looking for. We want more programs and we're looking at how the programs now align from um PBI to the high school so that we're growing on top of one another. So, and this is the last one on page 26 and this the so this a bunch of challenges or challenges I guess and then it gives this true false item false means we we're not able to do that consideration in the plan okay just like we 21 things that we're not able to do and there's only two we're able to do I'm think wow that's a lot of challenges we have to to accomplish reach Um, I guess that's why I was asking what was previous to this comprehensive plan because if we got 21 falses, what
084the heck did we have before the last three years? Did we not do anything this last three years to, you know, get our kids more educated? I mean, academically up what it would be. I mean, it just I I mean, I there's a lot of paperwork to me. I had student teachers that could write the heck out of a lesson that could teach a darn. And then other people that can teach like the heck but they could write the paperwork. To me, I want the ones that can teach. I I don't want to see a bunch of this, you know, I can see this there this 41 pages here and I'm like great. Is it somebody going to act on that? Are we going to actually see the progressive? I know you talked about getting
085that $400,000 program that shows us that we're going to track it along the way. I don't want to track. I want I want people in the classroom. I want to see results. I think Mr. Chiski, I think um to answer your question too, I I agree with you. We want to see results. I think what we're seeing is growth throughout the district, but I think from a setting a bar of where we need to be for achievement, we're falling a little bit short. I understand what we're really trying to go. Okay. Yeah. Right. Right. I understand, but I just want did we did we do anything in the last three years to get I I believe so. And I I'll be honest. I mean, we have our administration team in front of us and I
086know that they're getting into the classes because what we don't want is um you know, high level planning but poor level execution. And so I know they're doing an excellent job with getting into the classes, you know, uh providing feedback in in, you know, certain domains that we're trying to um help our uh educators improve on and and some of them are obviously doing phenomenally well, but there's always that opportunity for growth. Uh so they're giving them the feedback during those walkthroughs, comprehensive observations. Um but I think too, you know, trying to get our our teachers together to say, hey, you know, what are some best practices that are working? you know, how are we um not um lecturing for 45 minutes because we all know students probably lose, you know, a lot of what's
087being taught after the first five or 10 minutes. So, you know, I think one of our big uh focuses as a district is how are the students interacting with that new knowledge and connecting it to new experiences and prior knowledge to new experiences. So a lot of what we're really trying to emphasize through this comprehensive plan is what's happening in the class which is exactly what you're addressing and um how do we get more opportunity so that way students are interacting and kind of building on that knowledge. So huge part of like obviously what our growth trajectory is for the district. Right. I see it and I heard like I said I like what you said about that we're teaching our educ getting our teachers ready now just throwing the course out there. They're learning
088while the kids are learning that type of thing. Um because I see you in there also talk about a lot of professional development you're looking into and hopefully it's you know a lot more beneficial. I mean I'd like to talk about what happened with this last staff day because I know the big thing was the push to get this reading program through through so we could start doing a reading program at this last staff development. But from what I'm hearing last staff development was all about the NDA or NWA. You know, we've already started the reading staff development. We've met twice at PBP mapping it out. We start at PDI. Um, we wanted to use the last two inservice days for that, but we are using the April 2nd uh day. We have an hour,
089a two-hour delay. We're using that time. We have uh eight other days still in throughout the school year. Plus, we have the last two days of the school year. And I think when we looked at it today, we were looking at hours, I think. Okay. Bernie, correct me if I'm wrong. Every building will have 21 to 22 hours with the new HM right before the end of the school year. So, you're saying built in? Wait a minute. You're not stating that. I need to interrupt here. This isn't comprehensive plan now. Okay. This is reading program. So, let's hold that off until later. Okay. Okay. Anything else on the items that Good. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Okay. All right. Anyone else? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that
090motion carries. Oh, and I also have I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm also seeing approval item 12 A. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Kazinski, seconded by Mrs. Zip. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. Uh, moving on to operations. Um, Mission approve item 13A. So move. Second. Have a motion by Mr. Galler, seconded by Mr. Gazyski. Is there any discussion? All those in favor, please signify saying I. Anyone opposed? That motion carries. Um, it was great hearing from the uh the building principles and administrators about some of the great things happening in the district. So, thank you for providing us that information. Keep it up. Is there like comments about the bill for now or wait for the end? No. Well, okay.
091I just wanted I know I brought this up last time. How about the tutoring? I saw that PBI you extend your ting to May 8th. Did you able to extend it to that? That's great. Um PBI I kind of what's your big progress monitoring monitoring? What what is that? Is that testing you were doing or Yes, that's the star and I ready progress monitoring. That was a day or so that you did that just to see how the kids Yeah. So, we do we do the benchmarks three times a year, but then we um to get new data on students. We'll continue to make adjustments for differentiated instruction. Um the teachers will progress monitor in between those big diagnostic tests to get more information on how the students are growing and then make adjustments to
092their instruction. Okay. Thank you. And uh I also saw your band concert which I heard was really great. I it just triggered something I heard the one time when we saw the presentation from the high school. They talked about all the instruments that we bought for the high school. Do we do the same thing for PDI? Those like they had instruments bought like the last couple years or so. I bought them instruments. That's cool. I'm just kidding. It was last year running high school. Oh, thank you for buying almost um middle school. Um you dance in February and March Middle School. Yes. And did you have any issues with chaperons? I mean, not at all. I know we had that problem with the high school, but I was I was really impressed that everything went
093wild and you didn't have any. That's great. That's great. Mostly parents or staff or great Mr. I'm definitely looking forward to that dance short. I saw it was scheduled for the next for your camera. We're all coming. That's cool. Three new staff members. I'm guessing that means now we have less people doing the online that the parents were always That's right. Yes. It definitely helped us out in the science department. That's good to hear your students versus staff basketball. No injuries was the biggest thing and the staff. staff. There was some debate whether we ended in a tire, whether somebody snuck a basket in there in the last I was I we were very happy with the group of our staff that participated in seeing some new faces um from you know paras I mean
094everybody participated it was awesome. But Mr. there. He's good at basketball. We'll take He's pretty tall. I am pretty tall. And one more question for you, sir. I saw you have all these offers for these people to attend their family to attend all these events happening at PB, PBI, North School, High School. like do you have a number on how they actually take you up on that? Um no, I wish I did. Uh not an exact number because once we extend the invite, they actually do go to their home schools and participate in those events. Um we do have student athletes participating in our sports teams. We have students who recently we honored at MCPI. Um we do have students who go and participate in some of the activities in middle school, PD, PDI. Uh
095especially PE and PPI. We do have students going for the open library days. So there are students that are still connected to the district. Um I do not have exact numbers on each event. I usually just get a quick followup of hey just let you know. I just like I know Dr. Con our parent like to see what people are doing and I appreciate that. We actually did just receive an email this past week. Uh I'm going to give a shout out to Andrea Moore. Every week she does something called the weekly growl. It's it's a compilation. It's a lot of work. It's a compilation of every single building's calendars and their activities and what they have coming up and every Friday she sends out to every single PDBA family member so they know exactly
096what events are happening in their home buildings. You think that's what gives them the ability to participate in the dances and stuff like that. Additionally, all the scholarship information is in there that's available for PBHS. So, it's it's completely inclusive including the awards the students recently won. So, uh the community is involved. Great. Oh, thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Yeah. Okay. All right. Uh business management this is requested approval by 15 actual. So move. Second. I have a motion by Mr. Walter, seconded by Mr. Clark. Is there any discussion? Yes, please. uh 15 balance is higher than the end. Sometimes it comes right at the end of the month, sometimes and then 15 seated contract. Um, I heard Chuck's presentation on those three items that were and was my
097understanding that it was a decrease the amount of spending we have because I which contract I'm sorry the one with the um Aruba stuff. So, so generally speaking, the way it works is uh the initial investment is a little bit higher than the Cisco devices, but because of the way they do their annual licensing structure, it does come out to be cheaper than also the uh the master library. Sure. So, master library is going to be uh currently program. Thank you. Go ahead. School dude is currently what we're using for like outside organizations to do uh calendar events and stuff like that including athletics. They're all using school dude to basically organize that. Um school dude is changing over uh they're shifting over to being uh brightly. Um and what we did is basically looked
098at is this the most efficient investment for Pleasant Valley moving forward. Uh I worked with Randy Snail technology department and also uh athletic department to to seek other options and in doing so we found a more effective and more cost effective uh solution for us moving forward and that's what that is for. So, this is going to basically help when he has game changes or facility uses that it's easier for him to click it in like change it in one spot and that's it, right? But does it have an extra feature that you have to make that change to send an email for the people that need to be uh it's supposed to like you said Mr. Walters brought up about the youth program that they have to be kicked kicked out because something with
099their varsity sport. Or is there an email that sends out to that organization saying, "Hey, guess what? We had a change of schedule. You guys can't come in because our sports team has to so and I believe if I'm correct, the the homepage is a calendar of events and currently going that day, too." So when when people go, they don't have to put in their date and then it kicks back if it's available or not. They can literally see what priority. I'm just saying that they already put in for tomorrow night and the sale the rep did say it would generate a automatic email to say your event has been cancelled as soon as it's put in by the person here. Great Mr. Wal about that before not being thankful. Anyone else? All those in
100favor please signify by saying I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. Motion requesting approval of item 16. So move second motion by Mr. Walters and seconded by Mrs. Zip. Is there any discussion? Oh me back. Um I I understand the furniture. I really appreciate the information you gave on that because I was really really not in favor of spending that kind of money. I know it's grant money. I just think that what you say when I look at a comprehensive plan, we have all these things that we need to accomplish and it's like could we have spent that money elsewhere to immediately show you know turnaround in our kids academic versus chairs. I mean, we've gone from the fact that we sit on the floor. I mean, the office probably still sits on the floor
101and stuff like that. So, it's it's important to have some of that, but I just think that there's is there other ways we could have spent that money more productively, more direct control of the kids? And I understand, you know, right now we're in a time, but hopefully in the future we could find something more beneficial. Um, so on on C, item C, which is the Bay Image um contract, I would just like to I don't know if it's an amendment, but I would like to see um our solicitor has not looked at this um contract yet. So I would like to add that um I'll approve after solicitor review. Is that an amendment? I think we should just amend it to note that. Yeah. So, is everybody okay with that? Adding that person? Yeah.
102Purse solicitor review. Okay. Okay. Thank you. And then um on the furniture, I do have a couple questions. I'm sorry. Um warranty. Is there a warranty? [Music] Mr. We spend a great deal of our our grant money to support students both with the school supplies and all of the programs in the building and all of the professional development and curriculum writing for the district that all comes out of grant money as well. So we are doing all those things to support. So the so the VS company they have a 10year limited warranty um and they basically share what a limited warranty is. the the KI products here. They have anywhere from a lifetime on certain items um that identify under seating which would be uh some of which what we have in there like the
103Ruckus, My Place, uh the Cognney uh but all the way down to 15, 12, 10 um fiveyear for the esports chair. So it really depends on the product um you know that item that is but they have they do have um a wider range for example fabric has a threeyear I mean that's similar you know probably actually better than some other companies and they are the better quality car when you say like oh you get that's what my next qu one of my question I have a number of questions but so if I for me is it a Cadillac model or is it a Chevy model these are the two Okay. Best quality. Quality. Okay. So, we're getting very high quality. Okay. Um I need to understand um on the teacher one. Oh, where is
104it? There is a me. No, that's that's the chair. There is 64 modesty panel and they're $815.40 a piece. What is that? That's that's the front. So it when So those podiums are adjustable. So So it's a podium. It's not the desk. It's not on the deskium, but it's adjustable. So you can go over and like sit down with the kids and work with the group, but it's so you don't. So I did see I did see something like that somewhere. I saw that it it goes down. So So what we're trying to encourage here is right here is that it'll go up ergonomically. Okay. Okay. So that's the the whole thing then this whole thing. That's correct. Yes. All right. So then what where else is the um so an adjustable lectern then that's
105that too the same thing. So each of those so that piece there is costing us um 815 plus $1,500 just for that. Okay. I will say that we have the we have the items in the room and we ask the teachers what they would like. We survey the teachers. Um they a lot of them have something in their classroom that they stand at and teach some like maybe was made some maybe they bought on their own but this is something that they said that they would like to have during classroom instruction. Okay. So Tammy's gonna love the next question. She probably knows what it is already. So there is on the music and on I guess it's the STEM. I don't know if it's the STEM and the studio. There are freight charges on those
106items. I can tell you that I talked to the group about it. we're spending this amount of money and for 28 $2,900 they won't they won't probably six months ago the tariff that's tomorrow say that again increase on Monday I It was 2 on the whole the whole thing. Yeah. The whole thing. Yeah. 200,000 which equ Yeah. Okay. Um I mean Okay. $20,000 on Okay. The only other thing I would I'm not So I'm not surprised by that. No, I'm not either. No, I'm not either. Yeah, I'm not either. But um the only other thing I if you could I mean I do know the answer to this question but I think it's important for the public to hear this. Could you explain the process uh that we went through and the teacher involvement and
107the te I maybe Tim can even instead of you I don't know but it would be we started even before we brought I believe the furniture was brought to the buildings in January. Yeah, it was in January because I went in before that had contacted um vendors and we were four different Yeah. So, we reached out to school specialty educational furniture solution lakes shore and premier environments and we allowed time for the furniture to be in the buildings. The teachers were given time to go and and look at the furniture. Um I even had some students who stopped me in the hall in the morning and said, "Hey, can I go in and look at that?" Sure. I said, "Sure, go in. Give me feedback." We provided a survey to our teachers about the furniture.
108We took the teachers to a showroom to see the types of furniture. Uh we h I feel that we had a lot of teacher involvement, administrative involvement. Um we took several months to do this. uh we really wanted to provide something that would last for our students and sort of help us with where we want to go in our vision of getting kids more hands on working in small groups collaborating. Um so this is it was an extensive process. Can I ask what the does the four companies that we vetted um are there the grant specifies what companies you're able to to purchase from. Is that correct? No, I can purchase from anybody. Okay. I just didn't know the answer. It depends like if they you know found those co-stars also co-stars. Yes. And I
109I do want to say because I I'll say because it was brought up. We are looking at the furniture at the high school and the middle school right now. We've had the company come in that we're working with. They uh walk the building with us. They look at what furniture we have. They let us know which furnish would be good to be repurposed, which they think they could uh sell and get us money back and if it's just totally not reusable, they'll help us donate it or um dispose of it. Uh they've already done the high school. Um we're doing the same thing with the middle school on April 9th. So, we will look at what we we can repurpose throughout the district. I know we've already given some things to PBI um and what
110we could sell and then donate. So we are doing that as well. Thank you. Um I just wanted to mention one other thing and that had has to do with the grant and I know it doesn't have to do with furniture but you know we did just purchase the math program through the grant and I know that we're also looking at the science and not math, excuse me, I said that wrong. We did just purchase the reading program. um this with the money for 2425, but we are looking at um doing a math program too with grant money. But again, we can't overload our teachers um you know with new programs all at the same time. So again, we are going to continue to I'm sorry. I'm done. I just want like and we talked
111about we had problem getting money for tutoring that had to come out like what so like for saying we're doing tutoring after school for students that's something you can't do that something you can't there are things that we can do but it's like each grant is very specific you know we have the title grants um and then we have ready to learn title grants are federal grants ready to launch is a state grant there are specific buckets and then even in the title there's a percentage what we can use for different So there's in there's help we could have used to to offset the tutoring that we have in the past, but that's part of the supplemental contract and it gets it's get um it gets a little dicey when we can't say we can
112get that all that money every year and be able to offer that. Right. I'm just saying like you said you have 400 left. Why couldn't we have like push that into trying to get more teachers involved stuff like that this year? ready to learn was actually budgeted for items that came under budget because we have to budget that the year before like 2526 is already budgeted. Um so some of those items came in under so the ting program already started it back in October furniture. Tim could you just explain why you had to take some out of the capital fund. Um the teacher furniture is not a lab in the ready to learn grant. Um it just has to be student based because it's a priority in our capital project. We can use capital. So
113basically your swapping is good. You originally spent students out there but you got the money that you save. No all the money was in the capital project from the capital. Cool. That's right. Capital reserve money is taxpayer money. Yes. Right. I have one more question um for 16B. It was brought up by one of the community members about the removal of the old furniture, the removal of the old furniture and where that kind of is distributed, is thrown out and everything like that. Would it be as as far as like the furniture being old, wouldn't it be would it be irresponsible of us to to do that or is there some type of salvage situation where we would be able to donate some old furniture? That's what we're doing. That's why that company's coming in
114telling us they're going to that's the assessment aspect, right? Because some of the stuff would be safe. Yeah, of course. They're doing that for us. get it ready for the bonfire next year. We actually have we are required to go through an auction process before we can throw that chair out or anything because it is public money. I do remember us talking about that last. So we are required to do an auction if it does not sound auction we can donate it and then or we can dispose of Thank you. Okay. Anyone else? So, the total cost I'm sorry. Um, just one one quick question. Are you close to figuring out what you're going to do with the residual money and when will we will we see that in April? Uh, depends how it's purchased.
115Well, then the reason I'm asking because in the commitment part, do you have do we have to take delivery on it or do we just have to commit it? It has to be has to be here by June 30th. So So that's by the by June 30th. Yes, we have to receive it. receive it and and based on your proposed plan moving forward, does that all fit if we don't get it done in April? It will it will be it will all be today. Okay. Okay. Anyone else? All right. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Anyone opposed? And that motion carries. Uh, Mr. Fitzgerald, anything under new business? There is no new business. Okay. Pleasant Valley citizens, does anyone like to address the board? And if so, please come to the
116podium and state your name, township you reside in, and you have a three minute limit. Hello again. Good evening. So township. Is there any money for mics? These don't work. We can't hear you guys when you're talking here over there. Just as an aside. Okay. So, good luck and congratulations to PBFA and all the states of nursery and to the FBA advisor. Um my question here is now that the budget um is it arms arms length away, do you see any new teaching positions or any cutting administration positions? And then the other question I have is how are you planning a budget where the president of the United States is sending federal money back to Harrisburg? How will you get the share of the pot? And will special education money come from that sum to
117Harrisburg since it's staying with HHS? That's my question. One sec. We're going to switch the microphone out that way we can hear you. I don't know what's going on with this mic. We heard you though. I think you have to be super close to it. I think there certain things. Is there a special purpose for these funds? I mean can it be allocated to anything or is there just no limitations? So with that being said, is there any timeline for the technology refresh for the uh computers and all the technology for the high school? I know that's in desperate need. So is there a timeline for that or you know you can get some information and some transparency on that? Um Dr. Howard, I know you talked about furniture and now just at the high
118school. Where are we at with the tiles for the high school? The ceiling is has that already been closed in. There was a lot of holes in the in the high school. Is that a refresh? Is that construction or is that already completed? Okay. Can we use some of those funds for that or where we at with that? That's another question. Um, let me see if I pass over here. I know we they just had the keystones and that was actually I just want to commend them on that. That orientation was actually very good. Unfortunately, uh only four people showed up. So kind of disappointed to see that. Um citizen advis uh kind of like I don't know surprised by the decision of the panel on how they want to roll it out or make
119decision. on that I heard Dr. heart say it was extensive uh you know research and a lot of you know fully writing out for the furniture you know so with the school board you know since advisory board why why is that not going to be like an election process within the community or something done by this board because I would think something that important would be I mean I fill out the form and I know there was something in there about qualifications. So, what was the purpose of requesting qualifications if it was going to be left in the hands the capable hands of Alexa or Siri? I'm trying to understand that. That doesn't seem to make sense to me. What was the purpose of of having everyone fill it out, putting qualifications, and I don't
120know if that's being fully vetted, but now it's just going to be random. So I would think the community should have some way into that or not. I don't know if that's something that you guys would entertain, but I would think that that should Okay. Thank you. Three minutes and gravel P Township. I'm going to go off what Ron said. Citizens advisory. Let's take that word citizens. That is us. 37 people want to be on the board. I think 37 people should come to the meetings. If you only want 15 people to make decisions, then fine do it. But I think all 37 of us should be allowed to be here to be citizens. And as far as topics, I think that should be discussed amongst us citizens before I understand only doing one at
121a time, but the school board should have no say of what the citizens would like the school board to do. As far as um all this money we are spending on the right to learn, what guarantees are you giving anybody? The last time I was here, the reading program, three to five years before we see results. That is ridiculous. We are failing our students. We are failing these kids. I want if we're going to do something like this, I want to see the results from beginning to end within the first year. And if it's not working, do we get a refund? Okay. Last um time I was here, you had a student, a little elementary kid who moved up five reading levels with a program we have. Do I understand we need to have a
122reading program? Yes. If they could do it with the reading program we have, and I understand you spent the money already. Okay, this is absolutely ridiculous. And I saw on there that you're looking at a $7 a month increase in our taxes. We could have more than $3. and I went through it last time and now you're going up to seven. Where do you think people in this area with a $50,000 income are going to get the money? And Mr. Galla was very nice to say yes. 75% of our money goes to our school board. Yes, we have to pay appers. Where in this in this contract are you getting rid of our double paying appeasers? The taxpayers not only pay the teachers who put their money into appeasers by their contract, but we also
123match it. It's still my money coming out. I don't get double insurance. Okay, double on my retirement and I have to pay for my own insurance. Maybe those things should be looked at to try to reduce the amount of money and as well as the administrators. If it's good for the teachers, the administrators should also go as well because I'm sick and tired of having all you guys spending all this money getting all this money and I'm really tired of hearing, "Well, we have a shortage." Okay, enough's enough. We don't have the money to spend on this. But yet here you are spending more money with no guarantees. Our reading scores are still in the toilet. Our math score is still in the toilet. And our science is still in the toilet. We are seeing
124no progress. We are not moving up anywhere. And none of you are held anybody responsible. If you go on the PA website, you can find out just how bad Pleasant Valley is. And I think people need to start being held accountable. Thank you. Okay, seeing no one else come to the podium. Pleas, sorry. I apologize. Um, I'm sorry. Just real quick, I forgot one point. Do we know the um you mentioned the math is going to be refreshed. Do we know what that is? What program that is? elected. Okay. The reason I I wanted to address that because as before and I know we spoke about this extensively with with I Ready and I I know I've been reading the I Ready to But there's a tremendous amount of learning loss with I Ready and
125that's not coming from me. That's coming from your teachers. I don't work for the district so you know I I can say whatever I want because you know I don't have any fear of being dismissed or or for fear of any type of retaliation not seeing that that would happen but that's the reason why your teachers are not vocal they won't speak on certain topics because of the very reason that they fear that there may be some recoil but there is learning loss and just like I talk to parents in the community I also talk to teachers and that learning loss is being passed through the buildings. This is the reason why I feel that I already from the beginning even during the days vendor back you know Dr. Bender friends with her and she's
126great but we've had conversations about this and she has been aware of I already and the problems that come along with it. So with this new program, I'm hoping that it's not anything remotely close to that. Seeing no one else, Pleasant Valley School directors, does anyone have anything? I guess um first of all, I want to congratulate and thank uh Shannon Meis. I see she retiring. She's a great teacher. I've known her through the years as well as a lot of things she did with her clubs and activities at high school. but also Mary Claire Host who did one of her jobs in terror and also working with our all sports club throughout the many many years. Um I just another thing I just Dr. Connor maybe I I know we got notices before but
127when's the last time our student advisory committee met and I know I sat in that one time but when's the last time they do they still meet? Is that something that's still happening? We we are um we we are still meeting. We have one that we're scheduling for April. The last time we met, I want to say was probably December or January. But the nice thing about um you know where it has worked from was uh involvement with the superintendent to actually kind of grow uh organically within each of the buildings. So what's happening in the buildings is there's a lot of administrators that are meeting with students more frequently um whether in small groups or larger groups and they're actually um kind of being stewards of change within their buildings. Are they are they
128reporting back to you? So you can the the principles are they're telling me basically some of the things that the students are bringing up some of the ideas like um you know the u the the student staff basketball games the power things like that that you know they want to maintain or things that they have new ideas for. Um and certainly I mean I love having the opportunity to talk to our students especially in the middle school and high school. So that will always continue but it's nice to see how it's um shifting from that top level to more um centralized within the buildings. Yes. And the last thing um and I don't want to start this right now, Mrs. Gretzky, but uh as far as the advisory committee, um we are doing the best
129we can as a board to try to figure out what is the most fair way to pick a committee because as you said, you say, well, qualifications. Well, I've seen mothers that are stay at home mothers that do a fantastic job with their kids. And you're telling me that just because they're not a business owner, they're not, you know, part of this or that, they shouldn't be part of that committee. So, it's kind of hard to say just because you have all this list of all, you got your MBA, you got your doctor, you got all this that you're any more qualified on what the education of a student is than than a mother or father or something like that. So we as a group we we there's a lot of discussion of what all
130this and that was one of the more push for this as well. It's been pushed over the years and the reason it hasn't come sooner is because people are making it look like we're the bad guys already. We didn't even get it started. I mean we're we're going to try to do are we going to be successful? Probably not. But we we're going to try. And the last thing we do is people coming in there screaming and yelling at us because yeah, I'm the chairperson and most of you know me. I got big feets. I got big mouth. And I'm not afraid of anybody. All right. I want us to be a community. I want us to be all there. Everybody can come to these meetings. We didn't say anybody can. We're just saying there's
13112 people that are carrying on the conversation so that it doesn't get out of control. And and and I'm hoping that we I hope we fill the room and we have our 15 people sitting up here and we can talk about it and and you know, help the community come along. We're not trying to throw anything away. I'm not trying to hide anything and that's part of it that we pushed this far to come and I'm happy that we're getting just to be clear. No, no, no, no, no, no. This is this is comment. This is board comment time. I'm sorry. I just I'm sorry. You're done. I'm done. I just think we're trying to do the best. I agree. So, I do I just want to add a couple things on that because I
132had the homework to research the advisory committee. I reached out to several school districts. The average size of the committee and recommended size is 12 to 15 people. Um because beyond that it it's unmanageable. It is intended to be a diverse scope of individuals. I think asking and we did say the last time in the meeting, we know that the policy isn't perfect, but if we wait for it to be perfect and what everybody wants, it will never happen. So, we need to start, we need to learn, and we need to adjust. Not everybody can be on the committee. Um I I think we just have to get started and we have to figure out what's going to work for us and what's not. other other school districts that I've researched. Some of them they
133have just an ad hoc committee once a month. They talk about problems and then some of them have very specific. You are the safety committee. You are the education committee. Um so we're trying to get something started. We can't wait to be perfect or it will never happen. And I think you just have to kind of be patient and bear with us. I do think, you know, we talked about um the qualifications on the form because I understand that point as well. um we don't we want it to be kind of an unbiased and random selection but I do think it helps to understand the people that are willing to help what can you offer so that if we get to a topic where we need insight where you have a specialty like I because
134we talked about having ad hoc members um I think that that's helpful information for us to have so I just I want to put that out there. Um, on the reading program, feel like we talked about this too. We didn't have a program. We didn't replace a program. We didn't have a dedicated program. Now we do. I think learning doesn't have you don't you just don't see progress right away. Um, and it it I think it's going to take time and that's it. That's that's all. Sorry. That's fine. relative to uh the subject of just general open form for which there are no rules. I call that jungle. uh what what I have experienced in my past uh with a number of organizations if you don't have some structure of what you want to address
135at one specific time. You're going to come to a meeting, you're going to spend a lot of time talking, you're going to go home, nothing will been accomplished. You come to the next meeting, you're still going to be more frustrated because nothing has happened and you're going to keep doing it. So we're going to have you as community at large submit topics. We'll work on we going work pick one topic at a time. We'll work on that topic and we'll try to work that to uh solution. We may have some going at incremental because some things take a period of time for which there's going to be feedback to revisit that topic again. So, we're not planning to squash anything. We want progress as much as you want progress. And if we can address things
136that help community at large, we're all winners. So, we're trying to become winners. So, be patient. Two things, Mr. Krosinski. Did we find anything out about the turf? Um the company is either tomorrow or Monday. Okay. Mr. report to me today. Okay. Very good. Um I want to thank um whoever led the uh or if it was building le um the reading um on the 19th the professional development. I guess we didn't have anybody come in but they started as a team got their team together at your at your building and I know Sabrina was there. So, I think we're off off to a good start. So, I really appreciate that. Um, just something um I know when do we expect the materials and I know I asked you this Bernie and I can't remember
137the answer. The um there's some updates that the company is doing currently. So, the digital materials are projected to be completed with all of the revisions in May. Oh, okay. And so the digital ones like the teachers manuals etc should be available for our our June professional development at the end of the year actual printing and shipment is scheduled for mid July but I am trying to uh express to HMH that because we are not one of the school districts that they're dealing with that are just waiting for revision that already have materials that were a new customer that if there are material materials that are printed early, like they're printing the modules in in order that they could ship them early. So, they're trying to pass that up that the change. So, they're keeping
138me posted with that. Okay. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay, Dr. Pra. Sure. So, um just a couple of quick comments. Uh first one is uh in regards to assistance advisory committee. So, as we've talked about, um, you know, and I don't think anything has changed since then, that the, uh, the citizens advisory committee meetings would be open to the public. And, you know, it was really exciting to see that there were about 36 individuals within the community that had expressed interest. And as I was even reviewing some of the feedback, again, there's just a wide v array of individuals that I think would have excellent contributions towards um uh the progress that, you know, we're going to continue to see in Pleasant Valley. So, you know, with that being said, I think the
139true test of uh PV commitment is whether or not those individuals who, you know, expressed interest who may not be randomly selected are actually going to be at those meetings because whether you're or not you're actually speaking at those meetings, I believe there's still an opportunity for public comment which I think would be really beneficial. But, you know, I I feel that um you know, maybe there's opportunities next year, maybe midway through the year that we can shift the um you know, the voice from different community members. So, that's something again still to be determined, but it would be really nice to see uh those other individuals or even individuals that didn't express an interest through the Google form to come out and and share their thoughts and and listen to the dialogue and and
140be part of the solutions uh for that. And I think the last thing I'll say is this. Um, you know, I I have the opportunity and the privilege to, uh, you know, obviously work at Pleasant Valley and then work with incredibly talented individuals and again the chance to interact with our kids and and interact with our parents. Um, I I want to make a couple of quick statements because I am extremely proud of our students and the work that they're doing. Um, growth is is not an end goal and a destination. It's something that happens continuously. And that being said, we have incredibly talented teachers that every single day they're here tonight, you know, on on their own uh you know, just just to be here to support the families and to the students. So,
141you know, I think as we leave here tonight, we should think about how dedicated our staff are. Um our administration team that's here sometimes till 11 o'clock at night and and you know, back at it the next morning. Um our board that you know, many of them have jobs and they're committed to the great things that are happening. I'm proud to be a part of the Pleasant Valley family and I see a lot of incredible progress being made. I know that we have a lot of goals and aspirations as a district to move us forward and we're going to continue to do that and we need you all to be part of it and I don't think it should be a divide. I would say if you can't hear or like want to come over
142like there's seats right here. Come on over. Like we need to be in this together. There can't be like this ripped of the naysayers and then the progress makers. It actually has to be one body coming together and saying, "Listen, we know that we can always grow and improve." And individually, I feel like we should be reflecting on what actions or um thoughts am I projecting that's actually contributing to the success of Pleasantville. It's very easy to to tear down something. It's a lot harder to have the commitment to build something up. So, let's build it up. Okay. Um a couple one last thing. Promise it'll be quick. Uh so our March administrative employees of the month uh was PBE assistant principal Sarah Adams. So congratulations to her and our administrative assistant Holly Torres who
143works right out here and does a fantastic job. And again I'll just end with this. I'm just so grateful to work with such a great team of dedicated individuals, board members, administrators who are here. So need to buy you some coffee tomorrow. But also our teachers too. You know we and our all of our staff. I mean staff that I saw Mr. Hinton walking past at six o'clock. So I know they were doing some support events. I mean, people are constantly committed throughout the district. So, um, you know, continue that great progress and, uh, just remember that you're making a huge difference in all of our kids' lives. So, thank you. Thank you. Could I have a motion to second? All in favor? Anyone opposed? We are journ. Have a nice evening. Thanks.