001If we could all please stand and join in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> I believe it's a summer meeting and We're all here. >> Um, do we have the need for an executive session at this time? >> We do not. >> Okay. Um, resignations. Um, Abigail Oakley, effective July 24th, 2025. May I have a motion? >> I have Molly and Tom. Any questions or comments? Abby was serving as a special ed teacher in her high school and she's relocating >> that's too bad. [Laughter] >> Look out for that. >> Yep. >> Anybody anything from the board? All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Any
002abstain? Resignation of Annayiah Brigham, special education teacher effective August 31st, 2025. May I have a motion? >> Thank you, Benny. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Chris, any questions or comments. So, uh, Anya is also a special ed teacher and, um, but she was in the TR, she is going to be with our friend Amanda Burns working in virtual learning. >> Yes. >> Have to compete with >> Yep. You only have to get dressed from the waist up if you're doing Just saying pajama bottoms rule. All those in favor? Any opposed? Any abstain? Resignation of Heather C. bus driver um effective August 14th, 2025. May I have a motion? >> Thank you, Chris. In a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Benny. Any questions or comments? Offer her letter, her reasons why. Sad
003to see her, too. >> All those in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? Okay. Appointments. Um Emily Worter, term substitute for the 2526 school year effective September 1st, 2025. We have a motion. >> Thank you, Aubrey. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Molly. >> Any questions or comments? So Emily um has done a really nice job with us as a substitute um and she's filled many positions, but this is actually going to be for Sabrina Hamak who's taking a year leave of absence. Um and it's a special ed position, which is, as you can see, very hard to fill. >> I have no worries about her ability to teach. She's an amazing lady, an amazing young teacher. Um, I just, um, I saw in her letter that she was getting her teacher
004certifications done. I just would encourage her to get that done. And I do have a link that I can share with her. She has expired the ability to do anything with the college because of she's not in our programs anymore, but I do have a link I can share with Joanne and encourage her to go ahead and get that done. >> Great. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? >> Appointment of Nicole to is it Totten? >> Toten. >> Toteen. Term substitute effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? >> So move. >> Thank you, Benny. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you. Uh so we have two backtoback um leaves um everybody's having babies these days um in the CA both special ed. So um
005Nicole is going to be filling both of those through the first term through the end of January. >> She's going to do she can do both at the same time. >> They're back toback. So one person is the beginning of the year then right after that person is done then the next person is going to be on leave. So she's going to fill both of them back. I should find that out that way first. >> Sorry, that didn't connect with me when you said that. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? Three-year probationary appointment of Stacy Martin, teacher literacy instructional coach in the reading teacher tenure area, effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? So move. Thank you, Tom. And a second. >> Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions
006or comments? See, she's coming um with lots of experience. Um so, we're happy to have her in this position. She's filling the um the role that was vacated by K. Blackola Weser who went into English, which is actually her tenure area and her primary certification area. And so, then we had an opening as a reading letter literacy specialist. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? Any abstain? >> Four-year probationary appointment of John Herzog, math teacher in the math teacher tenure area, effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? >> Go ahead, Benny. >> I have Benny and Chris. Any questions or comments? So, John is um is not really new to us because he actually um very sadly when we lost our technology teacher right at the beginning of the school year, John stepped
007in. >> He was supposed to be a math student teacher >> and ended up teaching technology the whole year for us. Um and then we, you know, we gave him some opportunities to grow and then he had another placement afterwards. And so he's come back and he's going to teach math. It's going to be Sam Driscoll's old position. Okay. Excellent. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? The four-year probationary appointment of Leo Monte Leon, music teacher in the music teacher tenure area effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? >> Thank you, Molly. And a second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Aubrey. Any questions or comments? So Leah's coming to us. I think she knows um she's outside of Philadelphia, but she's from here. She went to Itha College,
008so she's very familiar. >> But she um and we had a vacancy in the coral music. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? the four-year probationary appointment of Caitlyn O'Neal, special education teacher in the special education teacher tenure area, effective September 1st, 2025. May I have a motion? >> Okay, I didn't catch who it was. >> Second. >> Okay, thank you. Aubrey and Chris, any questions or comments? >> So, somebody want to say something before me? You guys, Chris? Um, no. I I I actually know this student also quite well and she did get to student teach up at Seymour and I know she's done other things and got married like three years ago and stuff like that. So, um, everything I've ever seen from her has been very positive
009and I think she'd be a good hire for us. >> So, she's going to be filling Anya Bigham's um, position. >> Just her personality. She does very well with special education students and I'm happy. >> I hope she'll be happy not driving too far. It's not too far. >> I think that's her motivation. >> Yeah. >> So, it'll be a little bit less. >> And she has a little one, too. So, >> yeah. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? All coaching recommendations for modified girls field hockey coach Caitlyn O'Neal and modified a football coach Patrick Borelli. May I have a motion? >> Thank you, Chris. A second. >> Is that you, Michelle? >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> I don't think this is online. >> I'm just not
010seeing this one online. That's one. >> No, it's um start as a new one. Yeah, start as a new Any um questions or comments on this one? >> Right in huh with your time. >> All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Any abstain? >> Okay. Um memorandum of agreement between the chief executive officer and the assistant superintendent, Shannon Kohler. May I have a motion? Thank you, Tom. And a second. Thank you, Benny. Any questions or comments? >> Uh there's no changes to her contract. It was just the raise that she needed to have and it's consistent the same as everybody's been getting. >> Okay. Didn't think it needed a pre meeting. >> Not nothing's changing. No. >> Any comments from the board or questions? Okay. All those in favor? >> Any opposed? and
011he abstain. >> So, I'm just gonna say something really quickly about that position that Shannon holds, having done it. >> Um, it is like I just want to say that I'm very thankful that she wants to work here because in in many other places in districts our size actually they have many people that do jobs that do that she does. You know what I mean? So she which I always think is great um because you get to learn lots about how all systems function within the school district but it's a lot and she works hard and and so that's why I said when you said earlier I thought you know go home. >> Yeah. No >> worked really hard a lot of hours >> and and it's going to be a 15minute meeting. So, no,
012I I totally agree with you and >> we were very grateful when you were in that position because of the way that you were able to >> easier for me just because I had, you know, >> years of experience. >> Yeah. And in this district, but >> she's done a great job. >> Yeah. So, we definitely appreciate everything she does. Everybody in the district office, we do >> because usually you guys only get the uh >> Yeah. >> bad stuff. So, just pass on that we all appreciate the whole district office though. Okay. Um, do we need an executive session at all? >> We don't. Um, there's not really superintendent comments on here. I just will tell you that, um, we are still looking to hire. Um, we, uh, as you can see, we had
013reservations, so we're looking for, um, secondary special ed teacher. if anybody knows one or if you want to just put that out in the world. Um we're also looking for a high school math teacher. Um and it it's been very very challenging. So um other than that, we've done a pretty good job because it is very competitive right now. But um those are two special ed continues to be um challenging and we're going to look to see whether we can encourage people to get you know secondary certifications. I was very surprised to see that you had a music teacher. >> Yes. >> Because we had such we had such difficulty >> last year that >> Yes. It it's it's hard. >> Joanne, did we already take care of the prek teacher that resigned? >> No,
014because we don't need one right now. >> Oh, okay. >> So, um, our enrollment, just going to put it on your radar. Um, our enrollment in the lower grades is is low. Okay. >> Um and uh just because of the nature of our aid and what's happening the federal level and we you know a lot of things have been unknown. So we we've been very conservative um and sort of let positions go through attrition but we are doing that very comfortably because the numbers are low and it is a challenge at prek because we get paid per student. Um so uh we were you know I was just meeting this morning going through the budgets and um it's really very tight and opportunities for broom and sheneno um want to have full enrollment and so
015it's a little precarious right now. So again, if you know anybody with young children out there and they're waiting to enroll, please let them know. We really need to know that their intent is to come so that we can we can hire arts people and our partners can also maintain their pro their programs. So right now we have um 36 in uh prek3. We can have up to 75. I mean we have and um we have uh 61. We have actually 59 but 61 people who are in the process for preK4. That is lower than we've ever ever had. >> So I don't know. But >> what numbers do they have to keep down there to consider themselves four? >> They would like to have 15 in each of their sections. So there's two at
016opportunities for room and there's two at um the daycare. And they would each like to because we pay them a per child amount also. So they have to you know >> um they would like to have 15 in in each of the sections. So that's 60 students down there that they would like to have and we only have 61 in the >> Yeah, it's much lower. Like we can have we could have a hundred uh we have funding if we had the students for 100 uh four year olds and 75 uh three-year-olds. So our numbers are very very low. And I we know that there's more children out there. I'm not really sure. It's hard especially for three-year-olds because at this time of year they could be two and it seems like I'm gonna send
017my child to school at two but as you know but we need to know to plan. It's a hard way to it's a hard way to manage things because you can't you don't get the funds >> and I'm assuming that you've talked with the PAL center and have asked them >> they were at the fair um promoting for us but they said most people were not from our district. >> Yeah. Yeah. But I mean voice there. >> No, they they have and our community schools people have been out and trying to get people. >> I assume that, but it's always better to >> um the health department has been helping us to promote our program too. I don't know. >> But I will tell you that the numbers are the cohorts are lower than they've
018ever been even in kindergarten, first um and second grade. So kindergarten only has 75 students. So it's pay attention. We're getting to the probably we are finding the 2020 2021 postco because people stopped they really didn't want to have children then because they didn't want to go through the frustration of everything that was happening. That's exactly what I was thinking. >> But there's definitely also a housing issue here. People often say that they can't find housing, you know, and so >> anywhere. >> Yeah. So the population I don't know whether it's the population has aged a little and they don't have young children and but they have the housing because people often say us you know ask us if we know of anything they can rent or anything they could potentially buy and >> yeah
019there's not that much >> and anything that's been up for sale is going fast. >> Yes. Really fast. >> Very fast. >> Yes. I mean, good for the sellers, but everybody's house weeks. >> Sounds like three weeks. Did you ever find out what was I would entertain a motion to Oh, yeah. Um, do we want to just make sure we're all on ready for the retreat >> on Tuesday of next week? Right. >> Yes. Tuesday of next week. >> Yep. So, um, I am going to, um, consolidate the board evaluations and I'm going to ask Stacy to make sure everybody gets a copy. So, I'll do that um tomorrow morning so that we have that all set so that you have the opportunity to look at it ahead of time um because we have to
020set up our goals for next year. You won't be somebody who's had to evaluate, but everything comes anonymous. So, you'll be able to see, okay, what the review is, okay? >> And then, um we will then make sure we work with our during our retreat to set our goals for next year. And if I can at all get it done tonight, I will since I get to go home early >> earlier than I have ever had ever the last three months. >> I think that's all I had. And I am heading to the law conference tomorrow. It's always a bit of a boring thing, but you learned something. >> Yeah. >> And then the leadership conference on Friday. So I'll bring back as much as I can for you. I was going to say we
021appreciate that you take one for the team to attend all these and bring the stuff back to this. >> Okay. So, a motion to adjourn at 6:19. >> Second. >> Yes. >> All those in favor? I >> thank you so much for coming in. >> Well, I'm still not I'm getting in. I've got everything and I don't know if it's because of Safari. Maybe I have to download Google Chrome. Maybe I don't use Safari at all. >> Well, I don't use Safari either. It's on iPad because it just makes sense on iPad. But >> man, it is hot. >> Um, I just want to let you know like why it's so important for us to meet right now because people have to give 30 days notice and it and the other district could hold them
022into the school year. So like this is key tonight. Thank you everybody. >> So J, I am in filing. >> Oh, >> and everything looks just like it does on my computer. >> Okay. >> And I can see all the attachments and everything. I guess Boseies asked to be able to supply every board member with a lap with an iPad >> because I guess other districts find them easier to use during the board meeting >> and so I was just making sure we could get into board docs and see every >> Okay, great. >> So, so at our retreat I think they're going to have them set up for you. >> Is that like a security thing? They do they not want us using our personal um computers? Well, I mean, we we I guess
023we talked about this more in the past, but yeah, anytime and especially because if you download any of the documents, then it's on your device and it has information. >> So, stop using your personal devices. >> It's probably better. >> It seemed to have worked. So, once I got the once I got the password for sure. >> All right. >> Okay. >> Thanks everybody. >> Have a good night everyone. >> Well, don't we like an oven? Yeah.