001744 thank you all in favor let's stand for the United States of America to the rep good evening everyone okay we'll start out with board announcements anybody have anything to share I'll go first I went to both plays and they were amazing this they did great and I have to tell you I did get emotional I went to okay I went to the high school play twice because my daughter really loved it and it was great just there so much talent so much talent and I hope they those students that were that put themselves out there and that were able to do that I hope they continue doing that cuz I know I believe some of them are seniors right some so much talent I cried I cried and I'm not a crier I just
002want everybody know that I have videos of her crying dancing and then asking everybody to join in with her um it was absolutely amazing I seconded that my son has been begging to go to a Broadway plan I tried to avoid the city as much as possible um he was he my kids don't say usually a wake past like 9:30 and he was going hard hours after and my daughter still singing mam Mia song it was they both were great they were just both plays were phenomenal um I uh attended the pro River Day St Patrick Day parade and I was amazed to see how many um District students and parents and teachers were there I mean the the amount of people were there this year was incredible so I think we're starting to make
003strides back towards normal numbers since covid but I couldn't get over how packed the streets were with this District students it was really cool to see another town um absolutely want to say mama mia because I've been hearing it for a week um I've looked it up on YouTube for my children many times and now they know all about ABA and uh no it's it's wonderful I mean they they really um they got right into it and I definitely see both of my children you know possibly wanting to get involved and and that's where it it it really shows me the value of getting um children of all ages to just go there and and and see a little bit older crowd but still still kids up there on on the stage uh risking it
004all and uh it was a wonderful play so thank you for that and uh also want to just um show my appreciation for everyone that was able to come out for the St Patrick's Day Parade in PA River it's definite ly a core memory of my own as a child and I see a lot of the kids of this District out there um and then creating relationship with a lot of the other kids from other districts and um it was great it was a great day so thank you so I was not make the high school play this music time around and I think that it is wonderful that we um show our love and appreciation for our very talented students but I think that we cannot forget the staff that also supports them um
005in those Endeavors it takes weeks and weeks ands a lot of um personal time to be sure that our students are up there prepared and ready to perform um as spectacularly as they are so in addition to um saying kudos to all the students I say kudos to all of those who supported all right if that's it for announcements we have the superintendent's report thank you good evening everyone so today our family engagement Center hosted its second annual World Down syndrome day walk it was this afternoon at the tapen high school track it was really great to see so many of our students families and staff and our new SEPTA unit participating despite the chilly weather it was very windy and cold what a great turnout thank you Dr Tess and AJ Walker for helping
006to coordinate and put that event on uh was a very good turnout I also had the opportunity the past two weekends to go to the SS Musical and the taeny High School Musical Bugsy Malone and Mama Mia I have been to a lot of plays in this school district in both schools and I was blown away from the set design to the performance of the kids to the pit um incredible uh outstanding I just want to give a special thank you to our directors and other staff for doing such an amazing job so from mam Mia Doug gipple was our director we had Nicole Farish one of our teachers as the assistant director Donna grao did makeup and hair design um our musical director Dr Russell Wagner for vocal music um and we had our
007Orchestra conductor uh Mr Bill use uh our set design was also done by Doug gipple and our business business director Annette HTS one of our teachers and I just want to point out that Mr use who happens to be here tonight um hand wrote the entire score so that more students could participate in the pit even wrote parts that didn't exist for instruments and it was amazing I mean if you didn't know where you were you could have been on Broadway for Bugsy Malone I want to just thank denell green she directed the play she's one of our music teachers a choreographer Beth FOX also one of our teachers the music director Bob Bennett is one of our music teachers here at SS our set director and Stage manager this year was Phil Sanger our
008head custodian at SS and costumes that are always done by one of our former parents La Lenor mesibov so I want to just um thank those folks because uh to Dr sly's Point um it's a lot of time that our our staff puts in to to put these performances on and our kids also spent an incredible amount of time practicing and and the were just amazing I'd also like to acknowledge that the sound in both auditoriums was outstanding and over the years that hasn't always been the case so thank you George thank you Jack row who's not here I know that was a huge undertaking over the years to get the sound to where it is with the stage mics it wouldn't didn't matter where you sat in either Auditorium it was phenomenal moving on
009to robotics uh our taeny high school soots team is headed back to the first robotics World Championship which is being held in Houston this year last weekend at the fingerlakes first robotics competition Regional judges presented team 69 6911 with the engineering inspiration award which celebrates outstanding success in advancing respect and appreciation for engineering with a team school organization and Community Regional winners of the award qualify for the World Championship which again will be held in Houston and that's coming up April 17th to April 20th earlier this month the team was the finalist at the Hudson Valley Regional and they're currently up in Albany for the tech Valley Regional this weekend this will be soots third trip to Worlds since the teams 2018 Rook SE rookie season and this is Quite a feat they'll also be
010visiting with the board of education at an upcoming meeting to present in other news uh and I think I I might know this child tapen High School senior Molly kulot and Junior Cassidy Ang our national Center for Women and information technology Regional winners of the 2024 award for aspirations in Computing and kulot earned a national honorable mention the ncwit AIC honors women in grades 9 through 12 who've demonstrated interest interest and achievement in computer science leadership ability strong academic performance and intent to pursue a related career through postsecondary education since 2019 seven tapen high school students have earned the NCW recognition congratulations to tapy high school history Honor Society members Anna coffee noala Mahar and Sophia terth who won their division of the lower Hudson Valley History Day competition last Saturday with their website on
011the Cold War the team will compete at the state competition at Sunni Oni an on April 14th but moving on in my superintendent report Mr Kern and I are going to just give a high level overview of where we are with the draft budgeting process and also address some of the discussions and questions that we had at our most recent board meeting this is our yeah you all right sounds good you want to take this with you we got a microphone up here right yep okay so this is our 2024 2025 draft budget for next year so we are at 110 M59 $9 5,35 the overall budget to budget proposed increase is $1,784 or a 1.63% budget to- budget increase and what that translates to in the tax levy is$ 1, 59218 or a 1.86%
012uh tax levy increase for next year so last board meeting we had a conversation and discussion about what it would look like if the tax increase was 1% as opposed to uh the 1.86 and so Mr karna developed some models that he's going to share with you to show what that would look like one of the things we discussed last time with this budget is that we would use fund balance $397,000 worth of fund balance to um come in at the 1.86% is the current going to share with you what it would look like if we went at % with $1.1 million and then we can talk about everything in between the other thing Mr ker will show you is what it would look like in consecutive years if we were to do this okay
013good evening last week we had talked about the uh Revenue overview uh with u with the project that using tax cap as the um uh as the full tax cap as on property tax as part of a revenue stream uh showing a uh 1. 1592 um uh dollar increase to 1.86 if we went to a 1% if you're looking at an $877,000 $87 increase and to balance that we would take out of uh fund balance 1 uh 111 million in order to balance the budget uh the money would be coming out of undistributed fund balance and from the TRS and the ERS Reserve this kind of is this is a good time to use uh uh reserves uh we've put money aside for the last couple of years in the TRS and ERS anticipating the
014increase in the percentages so this is a good time for uh operational to borrow from the savings to take care of the the budget going forward one of the things we careful careful on this about is that cumulative impact of the tax levy less than cap in year one so I just ran this as one year you went uh 1% instead of the 1.86 you're looking at a uh difference of $714,000 in the second year you're losing that 714 plus whatever the increase in the tax rate is over the course of several years uh through 28 29 you're looking at a reduction in Revenue coming in from taxes of $3.7 million um if you do this every year which some districts have done uh in the past I will I will name an Upstate District
015uh Niagara Falls and they're really in financial hurt as to um every year they went out at 0% increase on the tax pluging they U smok and uh smok and mirrors was basically what they what they used there um using the reserves in a controlled manner is fiscally responsible doing it and and every year just to just to keep the tax base low I would I would highly recommend against that but using it as a as a revenue source and a long-term uh Financial resource yes that's what reserves are there for um and I would just add that the tax Reserve at 4% would still we would still have our 4% tax Reserve this summer we' still be able to put money into the um other reserves or capital reserve um and then as as
016we talked in the last meeting taking money out of the tax search reserve and and going forward with a capital project is a wise use of one-time revenues uh in in the uh in the budgeting process again going through just from last week you know uh the pie chart of how everything is broken out this is based on the tax cap I didn't uh put new uh items together if the board wants to go that way we'll update our presentation to make uh all the uh charts fit with what either Revenue source that you're that you're looking at using break the expenditures down by components um the uh General support instruction instructions our biggest uh part of it uh employees benefits uh Transportation Debt Service transfers and minor projects the difference there is the 1.7
017we're now pushing through on a resolution instead of pushing it through operations component Pi pie chart uh you can see the biggest part is the instruction second biggest is employee benefits my expense uh categories salaries and benefits equipment contractual supplies Transportation Bose Bosey services our in fund going to Capital our in fund going to our special uh uh special Fund in cafeteria and Debt Service that for these are all the different bonds that we have floated in the past again the pie chart showing that the biggest part of the district's expenses are salaries and benefits key cost drivers um salary they're up about 1.5 million health insurance is up 1.2 uh Transportation uh cost up about a half a million and then your benefits with your f your ERS and your TRS up about 275
018talk about the grants because this is part of our budgeting process we do have about uh uh 12 FTE in the um uh in the um uh grants this year here we will be shifting uh from the um um cersa grants the uh Co grants of five um staff members to put them back into general fund uh for um uh in order to keep the uh the um progam s running student demographics and just a little you know I want to revisit this slide because even though the enrollment has changed has has remained stable over the years and you can see we've kind of flattened out I just want to draw your attention to a few things on the enrollment slide so while we're not adding positions overall and I had mentioned that uh a
019few weeks ago so over the past several years we have added positions in this District social workers counselors uh um psychologists um business teacher for example so when we see a need we've done that this year we're really trying to keep things stable the one area or two areas that I want to draw your attention to where you will see a shift in the demographics is special education and English language Learners that is always a fluctuating moving Target um and is something that's mandated by the state so if we see an increase in students with special needs or we see an increase in our English language Learners those are areas where we may be um needing to they have to support those students but overall as Dr Lloyd shared with you two weeks ago we
020are pretty much net net Staffing wise going from one year to the next as Dr kulot said this is the uh Staffing fiveyear look back um pretty much the same from the 2223 to the 2324 school year even though there are changes in the uhu uh in the book we've had reductions and we've had additions to uh to Staffing 463 is the number of bodies and the other term we'll use is FTE or full-time equivalent and that'll be a lot less there are some part-time uh staff members in the in the district Staffing breaking down by buildings uh between the uh four uh buildings in the what we call the district ride staff um there an idea of where everybody is again uh budget is a is a balance between long-term uh fiscal strategy your
021uh student needs and your affordability take questions or do you want to wait for we can take questions I have a question regarding the Staffing so last year we hired two or one k k teachers because the in the um students were that we had more students than normal right the kindergarten for kindergarten wer were we increased last year I think we added a section last year we added yeah a second so looks like we might be going down yeah that's what that's yeah yeah right now what happens to first grade next year so those classes are moving up we didn't yeah but we increas in Staffing in first grade or do we have enough yeah we would just shift those staff up with the kids from pay to one yeah every every year we
022look at what the demographics are I know this as as it ships you you might have let's say you might have 30 teachers at schaer and there might be you know 10 10 10 one year it might be 11 nine 10 another year so it all depends on what we need for for how many k teachers do we have now 10 and how many first grade teachers do we have nine I believe right nine 10 n and nine next year right now we're projecting nine kindergarten sections that could even depends on first grade we're projecting 10 I appreciate you doing the work up with the uh 1% after I put that to you the last meeting uh I'm not trying to give you more work but I'm trying to evaluate more options okay um I
023guess Mr ker my question to you is if we were to seriously consider the 1% would that adversely affect any services that the school provides right now not are you talking 1% on the tax levy or you talking 1% increase on the budget so there's two different in on the budget I'm sorry okay pardon I forgot I was dealing with the numbers and this is your expertise yes so on the budget side you're talking so on the expenditure side if you're looking to go to 1% we would be looking at a decrease from the 110 595 to 109 9031 171 or about 692 000 get the 1% increase but we would use the fund balance to offset that we're talking two different things here so there's two sides of the budget there's the expenditure side
024okay is what we spend right okay if you go up 1% from where we are at one 108 85021 that takes us to 1099 right okay so that's a cut to the 110 that we are talking about that would be a cut that would be a cut to cut cut the services yes so without without using fund balance if you're doing on the revenue side yes okay you only want to go up 1% on the tax levy all right do you want to back fill with um um fund balance yes okay then this is what then there would be no cut to servic there would be no cut to Services that's what I'm getting at and I'm just just want to make sure that uh this is getting across to you in a crystal clear
025way that we wouldn't be cutting any Services we wouldn't be cutting any staffing nothing would be adversely affected there would be no diminishing of anything that is presented to our students right now what we have today is projected into the 110 59535 budget uh how we pay for it that's what the revenue side okay no I understand that I just want to make sure that we're clear and every was on the same page because fortunately or unfortunately for us the taxpayers don't often see the minutia and the different levels that are involved in the budget and it is is very diverse subject I mean you guys could probably go on for hours with things that are just going to blow our minds but it's it's hard to go back to people and explain things the
026way they are or how we're voting when they only see figures and they only understand certain things and increases are hard to sell to people especially sign incre significant increases so that's why I want to make sure that nothing was going to be affected in a negative way for our student body our teachers Etc oh we've accounted for all the staff and the programs as yeah that 110 10 a half million was to cover and preserve all the programs that we have and not have any cuts to services or anything um I have two questions in hard first one is in hard dollars estimating whatever the average household is worth what's the difference between the 1.6 tax levy and the 1% i' I'd have to go to the spreadsheet figure that out so yeah I
027I'll have that now put that out I'll put that out tomorrow to the board so you have that and then on the cumulative impact um English tell me what the cumulative difference in the tax levy means okay so so I know what it is so every every year that you're below the cap that's the dollars that you're not going to have every every year so if you're let's let's say you're you and just use round numbers let's say we go out a million dollars short of what we can go out for the tax you're not going to be able to you you have to make that million dollars up the second year plus the difference in what the first year cap percentage is why would we have to do that well because um it's a
028Once you raise the tax cap to a level you collect that every year go flat that's the the amount that you're getting you're not getting that extra dollars in but that becomes cumulative because in year two you don't you're starting a million dollars short of where you were supposed to be for your same amount of services programs and stuff you you're looking for the extra money someplace El along the line right this is where you have to get into the uh the the plan of how you use your your um reserves and what the board wants to have in reserves going forward I recommend you always have the 4% I recommend you always put money into your tax Reserve to make sure that you in the in the event that something does happen that the
029courts award uh a a business a reduction that you have the money on hand that you're not taking it out of regular funds we also keep a reserve for the um um the um vacation time and Si time that we pay out to people when they retire those are things that you definitely have to have it's a good idea to put extra money aside into capital reserve so when you do projects you've got cash on hand that you don't have to borrow money one and two it it's uh money that you've saved over the years in order to do a project it's just like being at home you're going to put a uh do a remodel you're going to save a couple thousand do a year for three years in order to do a remodeling
030project you know instead of going out to the bank and borrow um it's uh operation uh piece there after that you want to make sure you have uh put money aside for ERS and TRS just in case the rates go up and down uh when I first got into the business uh uh TRS was 17.8% of payroll we're right around 10% now but those were big jumps in in those years that we didn't have the money for for um operationally you had to raise taxes at that time there there was no tax Gap so this way here you have to take be a little more strategic going down the next four or five years is taking a look at what what needs to be done on the other side of the house on the expenditure
031side we always have to be able to look and see where we can make efficiencies on the budget so you stop the growth of the budget being exponentially last year's tax levy was what um was sorry I'm asking you all this stuff that it's just remember not I don't remember either all right I was just trying to get a 1.63 at the I at the was under two tax levy you asking yeah and the other thing is we are building a contingency positions we always do that for emergencies or for unexpected needs so have needs in special education or English they're also accounting for that so we going over I just going to um add to that that I think that a zero rate increase is is a bad policy over time you were talking
032about the the school Upstate and I don't think anybody's advocating for that I think that we're just trying to consider you know what can we do this year differently since last year was on the high side um I think it's more less trying to get a win for the district because you know always want to exercise fiscal responsibility you know we're all here for the kids but the board is here at the behest of the taxpayers so I think that a 1% was an idea to bring home a win to the district it's not sustainable obviously because budgets are going to fluctuate but I I think when this was brought up the idea was like is this possibility is it going to adversely affect anything if not I think we should consider it and it's
033not a permanent move going forward I think the school board should look at it every year as to what's going on in the finances of the district uh again I'll I'll tell you that the um state budget isn't final um I have three different um projections of state aid um they have a November they have a February the final one will be our uh based on the um the March um state state runs um we're up a little bit in February we could be down in March um so it's a one of those things with caution till we get the final numbers in around the 1st of April to see where we land here also um the board will have an a second opportunity in August when we when the tax rate is set as
034if they want to before we put all the money into the reserves as to if there's um they want to do something different at that time there but that again whatever you do there and you go with a lower tax levy that carries over to next year and that's the starting point for the uh for the for the taxes for for the tax get an increase in Foundation a from the state this year and it's possible come April 1st that number could be go even higher so and then Brian if you could share this this was done by the board previously yes so this district has used unassigned fund balance in the past um to make the budget balance and um strategy that many many districts use it's just not a good idea and to
035Mr Kern's point it depends on the year and it also depends on um that you're not doing it every year or that you're not doing it in consecutive years I mean something like like Greg said something that you look at every year but you don't do every I've been here almost 16 17 years this district has done used unassigned fund balance several times I I don't I can't give you an exact number oh that was not the year I been 2012 I know it was one year for sure that it was done right but that was not the same year I don't think where we lowered the tax levy no that was only a few years ago by a little bit that might have been like three or four years ago came in under yeah
036right e yeah I think that's why I was asking if we had an our dollars what's it really what does it look like to my pocket and we can run the numbers on that like we do for um in August um but average household yeah yeah but it'll be I'll have probably 20 disclaimers on it because not everything's up to date yet right so yeah tax Lev is only a portion of the uh of the um of the equation you know we could also consider using fund balance in between the 1.1 and the and the 397 have to be one or the other we can have that we are we are recommending to use the 397 of unassigned fund balance that's a very thank you all right thanks thanks Mr great job okay no one
037showed up today for public commentary so we're going to move on to board discussion any committee reports a saate committee meeting hey you want to talk about you want me to talk about it trying to find print out that I just got which was actually much better than the notes at okay here we go uh we had a state committee meeting on on March 14th that Katie and I both attended um I have to say it's nice to see the committee with so many different local residents uh stakeholders I think it's a very diverse group right now with a lot of experience um we discussed a couple things uh as far as training CPR stop the bleeding that kind of stuff that's offered to the staff um we talked about uh trying to get the
038cellular coverage fixed in the area um it's going to be uphill battle but I think that the letter to the CEO Verizon is a good start um as long as you include the bullet points to show all the work they been done so far because that's they're going to come back to you and say what have you done and you guys have done an insane amount of work so I think you need to put that out there so they can't say you haven't done this yet um we talked about other things as far as security I think that uh Mr gleno has got a good handle on it and the Buy in from the group was great the input was excellent I think that the school is doing well with his security program we can
039always get better but it's really it's a very good meeting and I think we get a lot of input on different discussions I think it's also great to hear that they have access to the cameras now dur oh OPD yeah yeah we're still working on contingencies with OPD and I think that our our partnership with them is only to get better and I think it's a great resource that we have that we can work with and our s are plugged in and it's nice to see that it's getting better and better each week so all right I just have a few notes from the facilities meeting um just regarding work that's being done work to be done uh right here I have the high school and so sound and lockdown are complete working on final
040cost reports we have the summer of 2023 bathroom at the high school and Cottage Lane complete working on final cost reports we have the smart Schools project districtwide final items that committee for decisions we have the bond phase one at William O schaer K Lane and the high school Under Construction work has begun taking advantage of District breaks during March and April Bond Phase 2 at the high school at s facilities project is now under review uh the tempy high school boiler replacement is going to be put up on the May 2024 vote project will be sent to S with Phase 2 comments we have Bond phase 3 at SS user groups meeting to discuss scope for classrooms and outside fields and we have the summer 2024 projects SS nurses office still at s the
041camera project is complete the William O Schaefer sound and lockdown started with phase one work and then we have summer of 2025 work that will be put on the May 2024 vote we have the SS bathrooms we have the high school wait room and we have the high school and Min and security space and any other reports I don't last very last thing you said yep um so work for summer of 2025 that's going to go out on the May 2024 vote uh the SS bathrooms the TZ High School wait room and the TZ High School admin and security space three projects that they're going to put on the vote along with the boiler replacement I just want to say thank you to the facility committee and for those people that have been serving on
042it we've gotten a lot of work done this year um and I feel like we're in a very good position to to go into this Bond project this summer and I'm as I'm hearing you talk about these projects some of them we've been talking about for a very long time so it really feels good thank you all right we can move on to policies for review we have four policies for review we have policy 43 21.5 confidentiality access to IEP in its first reading policy 5710 school safety and educational climate s sec in its first reading previous title was violent disruptive incident reporting then we have policy 8131 pandemic planning and its first reading and we have policy 8636 social media in its first Reading had a question about policy 5710 the school safety educational
043climate reporting first off I want to apologize by not being at the last policy meeting it is is hard for me during the day to make these meetings I'm hoping next year it works out a little better but I would have asked this if I was there live so I apologize um where it talks about additionally building principles are required to provide regular report on data Trends related to harassment bullying and or discrimination to the superintendent at least once during the school year so my question with that is we are trying to get more information as a board as to Trends in different schools and we had a report recently which we appreciated uh how can we work that into this policy because I I I'm glad that the superintendent is getting these reports but
044I feel like the board should also be plugged in so we have an idea if there's something going on in a school that we're not caught off guard if if a voter asks us could add language that says end to the board and we could do a quarter at least that in the policy I would just ask something like that because I just want to make sure that we get even I I know it's going to be a lesser amount of information and we quarterly now anyway right in particular is a yearly report that's sent up to the state it is very report it we placed the Vader report about now that school climate the safety piece and categories with all due respect that typically our district has zero reports in okay I just wanted
045to share that so so this policy speaks to that um so when you see that piece Additionally the building principl required to report it's it's a part of collecting the data for that new report have systems in place that um been here for quite some time at least since I was a principal we submit monthly discipline reports uh that currently go to my office um requested and and they actually requested it last year um right we had an end of the year report you will get a copy of the uh about sharing uh that the essence of that report out with the board at least once a year after it is submitted to the state that's what's in this report you're referring to is more of our discipline report this policy I mean we could
046adapt it any which way you want but this policy really talks to that other report which goes to the state goes to the state and and the things that they're looking for be they're very highlevel criminal um we talk about physical assaults we talk about weapons and things like that those those things right now if they happen in our buildings are immediately reported to superintendent um God forbid there's a weapon on campus the board is you know we have that open relationship I'm happy to take it back no I think I think you explain it perfectly I think that it makes a lot of sense when you put it that way I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't confused with this and those quarterly reports that we get but no that makes absolute
047sense I don't want it I don't want to get confusing I don't want people thinking we're going to give you this because it's not going to be of any value to the B no we're more about Trends that's all it is and I saw bullying that's what I I HED in on I wanted to make sure because God forbid something one of the schools becomes an issue where it's ongoing that we always want to make sure we know maybe we could add state report instead of regular report or something like that so it's clear that it's referring to the state report I I have a question on policy um 21.5 so last mon last meeting we discussed that we would push this to we bring in a member of the SEPTA to review or to
048be on the committee as well because we started the SEPTA and but we needed to update the policies of creating policies or updating policies correct Dana so are we has that policy been updated or corrected yet before see that next meeting so we can so two separate things having a sepa member on the policy committee we have a policy that talks about the policy committee this is directly related to IEPs so we would have to bring that policy back and then that's what we discussed last amend it right so we have to bring that to policy committee policy meeting policy committee did not meet between but we will at the next policy meeting have that discussion and then we can add the sepa member to the policy committee policy is that as the administrator who
049goes to SEPTA or myself or would be just like building principles go to their ptas um I had reached out at the recommendation of the last board meeting to the new um and I've asked them to keep a standing agenda item called administrative uh share out SL policy review so you wouldn't have to change your policy it would be something that as the lead administrator in that department who goes to those meetings I would typically share those policies out prior to the first read so but we're always than have someone on the policy rather than right so you didn't have to change the other policy right so we do that we currently you know if there's a policy that impacts the Middle School uh the principal brings it to the PTA um PT have access
050to everything we do they're part of our our monthly meeting attendant we could certainly bring it there so then this policy would be brought to SEPTA right and so I've asked them in the future because I thought that was a great suggestion and also something that they can start to um understand how how this is all playing out and they were very open to it and very receptive and and actually grateful that we're thinking of doing that so I think it's just going to be more procedural um I don't policy that again we don't need to update the policy I don't I wouldn't only if you wanted to have a Septa member on the policy committee but tell that the SEPTA needs to make that decision I think it's just best if we the lead
051ad mens we'll take that to the to the leadership team like any other policy that was impacting any any certain group within in The Next Step the first I should say official sepa meeting or uh is April yes we're looking at that that apparently has a conflict with a Middle School uh fifth and sixth grade transition night but Dr Corey has allowed the uh has allowed the building request to go through we'll use up here the only thing that may be a little tricky is parking um I just had it April April 17 thank you so it's after the next board meeting so this will be read again they have it second reading I've already I forwarded it to them I included it as a sample policy because it is public information since it goes
052out with our it's on our website I felt it was important to you know again just to help them with understanding how they can be involved with policy making I think and they were very grateful great thank you I appreciate that e back on policy 86 that back to the next policy meeting for the discussion on the policies um everybody is um okay to move on we can move to board discussion on agenda items every anyone has any questions concerns the wrong what uh what number is this Personnel the uh the sports positions talking about this uh briefly offline there's two assistant directors that were split and now they're full-time positions speak to that specifically in the winter going to merge with another school district so we rescinded that position and then right and Mr
053pillow shared that when his budget presentation he uh a while back so we're just correcting um from the last board meeting these two positions would have been here but because there was no hockey team that's why we ended up having this this split here that's why I'm not following if the split was just it was a mistake from the R office we should have had these positions our part and we're asking to fix it so they're PID yeah I'm getting yeah this is what they should have been yeah this is just a pilot but in the contract there's only one position well it's a position that you could utilize so it doesn't mean you can only have one position stiped within the contract and we added two more the ability to score EV how many
054are we talking about contract right now just States one contract has one position in there but it's like teacher or so um and when Mr B pill presented he shared that he had was doing this all with in his budget he wasn't adding he was repurposing and he had used uh the money from the hockey team that he had already had allocated to Pilot this one thing we've seen over the last five years just to give some more context with that comes the and pairs of hands to help him out I can understand that and appreciate that I just hope that uh Mr pillow will give consideration to the scoreboard being available for the JV events that was one of the things that he had talked about I think that would be with these positions
055thing to bring up again if we're going to Green Light a new position yeah he Shar he shared yeah no I got you I heard the scoring part of it that's what made me think of it but this was a was a pointing attention to me in the fall when I saw a scoreboard not being utilized for different events and I got the little song and dance and I think that we should figure out a remedy for that whether it be through the PTA if it's a cost issue but back in ask yeah he did he shared that no that's fantastic I I look forward to seeing how he fixes the problem it should be nice I'm sorry I'm just I'm looking at the contract right now and there's only one position here that's the
056amount that we're increasing this too right it's it's right because we didn't have a hockey coach we hockey this year we split it y the rest of the school year for not but not next but what are we going to do in the spring is my question because this will be next school year what are we GNA like what if we have so we don't know what we'll have next year Well we don't know what we'll happen the spring I mean I'm sorry the the the fall I apologize spring in full question the ballot proposition 10B uh we talked about there were a couple additions with the facility committee uh specifically here we're talking about the replacement for the boilers that taby High School uh is there any way that we can include some verbiage
057or maybe some way that the taxpayers know they're not incurring more costs I know I know what it says but I don't have faith in all the people that I know to understand what it means you know I just want to make sure to be transferred from I mean maybe we leave that up to no that that's the kind of stuff that's great for for people to read because we have to deal with the pool questions and the roof questions and now the boiler questions and when you guys do stuff like that that's perfect because that takes all the uh stress off us yeah um no that's good I appreciate that uh the calendar did we cross reference the calendar for the next year for the Board of Ed that there's no conflicts I think
058Tuesday was a win for everybody but no so we thank you for uh Tuesday board meetings I think it's going to help the workflow a lot better in terms of board reports and having those meetings on Tuesdays and also being consistent with most of the other districts in the county um as far as the the district calendar we are in the process of going very diligently through that uh over the next two weeks to make sure that we have as little conflict as possible of course there's a lot going on in the district as you know but we are in the process of doing that seems like Thursday is a hot day for this District so Tuesday I think we're safe right yeah I think we are okay um looking at everybody looks like we're
059okay to move on to motion to approve consent agenda categories 7 through2 motion thank you do I have a second Diana Oh Katie oh sorry I couldn't tell all right all in favor thank you everyone any new business to discuss um yes just briefly um I know that the um diversity equity and inclusion committee is not a formal board committee but I think it would be great have um some sort of reporting out from the Comm okay okay perfect thank you thank you so much that's actually something we were talking about anyway so thanks I don't know if this is the right time to talk about it uh but something that um I was speaking to concerned parent in the district um on Sunday speaking about an eighth grade um trip and making sure that
060the volunteers that were needed were found so anybody know if we have found all the volunteers needed to make that trip um working on it still it's the Washington Washington DC trip that we do every year for eighth graders um I would say and Dr Tessa could speak to this even better because she was the principal at SS that is always a challenge to to get chaperon to go on overnight trips but we have never had an issue with a shortage of chaperon and they are working diligently to find enough people to go I know they're making progress do you have any update or okay now if I can just uh inquire some more information about um the trip so the chaperon it's a volunteer it's and it can be staff they have a dance
061it's a up and it's a whole thing extra this is something that just has has been ongoing here for many years happens to be a unique year quite a few teachers at now a maternity leave various family um and typically their colleagues will will step up and help I I just want to um commend any volunteers that um would stay overnight like that with uh many children not their own and be responsible for them um I I definitely um I definitely want to know that it's it's handled and if there's any way that the board can support it um because I have heard it's it's a trip that the kids look forward to speak about P trips um and it's a lot to ask someone to do that but I I get there's reward in
062it as well um but I just uh I thank everyone for for their effort want to make sure that we're clear so there's no type of financial incentive it's just their salary they're going above and beyond the ones that volunteer checks greet students get out um they then re back to the hotel uh buffet dinner dance that night uh sometimes our kids will DJ themselves out um we try to keep the cost um next day it's the eth grade faculty and then back here typically Friday nsh traffic somewhere between 5:30 and 6 faculty there was no time sheet work or anything is they're doing it for the Love of the Game there any way they could get a day for a day or something or a bumper CER at the minimum I don't know I'm
063just saying I wouldn't sign up for this so I'm just wondering is there is there something oh got the high and the low I'm just trying I'm just trying to find a way in it comes out sometimes I guess no no no we'll keep you guys updated as it gets closer was all right I'm sure we'll have further discussion on this topic and um I guess that's that's all for today right so let's have a motion to adjourn the meeting to a budget workshop at 8:47 someone thank you do I have a second thank you all in favor all right have a good night everyone