001One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Mr. Pioner, would you please call the role? Mr. Christensen, here. Mrs. Feice here. Mrs. Hedley here. Mrs. Hoppy here. Mrs. Janisk here. Mr. McGregor here. Mr. Scowzo here. Mrs. Turner here. Mr. Mojack here. Nine present. Thank you. I'd like to announce that uh on today on April 8th here we have executive session covering legal and personnel matters. Um at this time we're going to have a presentation for our facilities reuse subcommittee. I'm going to step up and Mrs. Walsh and I will be on that side. different to be on this side. Um the subcommittee that was put together when Mr. Christensen was at the time the chair um was to look at the reuse of the current elementary buildings, NAMS, possibly even
002this building. Um so they did not sit like those of us remember Logan sat for a very long time like I went to school, I went to college, I moved back and Logan school was still there. Um same with um Park Avenue. So that's the purpose. You already know about two of them. We're going to give you some options again tonight for several others. Do you want to start with memorial? Let's introduce. Okay. Let me introduce the subcommittee first. Um Mr. Andy Amarine, Mr. Jim Jenkins, Mr. Tim Mari, Mr. Joe K Magno, Mr. John Lenzi, Mr. Justin Gdelli, and Mr. Mike Festuka, and Mr. Russuza. And not here tonight is Justin Pamprio. The is also on the committee. So, let's start. So, just one one of our goals as we uh got together as a
003group and knowing the situation we're in with the construction and the opening of the new school is how do we sit there and look at these buildings that we have available to us and what is the best interest and more importantly is the best interest of the community as a whole. So, uh, we'll have two of our colleagues come up here tonight and kind of give a little rundown from their perspective and their experience on the why the suggestions we are to move forward uh, as a school district. So, anybody else will chime in. Thank you, sir. It it is more fun on this side, just so you know. No, thank you. Uh first off, I just want to thank this board, the administration, the previous board uh for their courage to stand up once
004they made a decision on to decentralizing one school is what to do with the remaining schools. Uh, number one is I don't want to show my age, but I recall what happened many years ago with Park Avenue and what happened with Logan that there was decisions made on the schools on closing them and they had no plans for what to do with them. So, in many cases, the buildings sit vacant uh become an eyesore, become a code enforcement as well as a financial drag on the school district. So number one, I do want to thank you for taking this initiative to put this group together once the decision was made to consolidate into one building is what to do with the other facilities that are out there. And the number one issue that came up
005or the number one directive that the the group got was what suits the community. What are the the the needs of our community was the number one priority. uh two years ago, I guess a little more than two years ago, the municipality uh depends a lot on the school district for use of facilities for a recreation program. Not just the gyms and indoors, but the outdoors, the fields, and I think we're very fortunate that the municipality and the school district have a really good working relationship on many aspects, but in particular on recreation because in many communities, the two elected bodies don't always uh get together and work together. they're more kind of adversaries. So I think the leadership on both sides came together and we first looked at the municipal needs with our recreational
006programs and we knew going to one facility we're going to lose field space and we were going to lose gym time. So uh Mr. Council Magno and Mr. Jenkins were part of the group that really looked at what the municipality what their needs are not just for what we had but all our recreational groups and I believe it's two years ago uh be in August when there's an agreement between the school district and municipality to take over uh Ben Franklin and Washington I believe schools and really to preserve for green space for parks for you know uh recreational opportunities. I think at the time the discussion was to take the buildings down and then come up with a master plan on what to do so we can maintain those facilities. So one of the things
007the group also did is started to look at the other buildings and what to do and where the community where the needs are and we reached out maybe Andy can touch upon a little bit about the groups and the vision that this group had and the different people we brought in. We left no stone unturned. the the group's been meeting for I guess close to three years now. Uh we've toured the facilities. We've met with a lot of different groups. We've listened to proposals. Hopefully now we're refining it. We're getting it done to a point where we have a a a pretty solid recommendation on what we uh can suggest. We understand it's the board's decision ultimately on what happens here. But I think it was really great to seek community input. The group I'm
008working with has has been great. Some of them are here tonight or most are here tonight and they spent a lot of time and dedicated uh Bethl Park people as they come in and they're like what can we do to make Bethl Park better? So hopefully you're going to see some of the things we we have planned, some of the ideas, and we look forward to working with you. And like I said, number one, I'll go back to where I started is we do appreciate the the district and the leadership you've shown on really looking at the community and trying to address needs we have out there with the facilities you're not going to be using. So, thank you. Hi. Um, thanks Tim. Um, I just want to agree with uh Tim, this has been
009um I've thoroughly enjoyed this entire process and I'm thrilled that the board itself uh put together not just this committee but uh starting back uh quite a few years ago when uh Dr. Walsh asked me to be on part of the strategic plan and I'm like why in the world would I want to do that? uh the time and energy and everything that it took to put that together. But after we moved forward with it, it was a uh eyeopening um experience for me along with hundreds of people in the community that got together to be part of that strategic plan. And as you know, I'm in the community a lot. I talk to a lot of people. I do a lot of speaking engagements around not just Bethl Park, but all over Pittsburgh. And
010in talking to the community is doing that strategic plan, it really pushed the idea of the single elementary center, but then on top of it, what are we going to do with the rest of the other properties and the buildings itself? So after the strategic plan was put into place and this amazing committee was put together with uh these individuals and meeting as often as we have and still talking to the people in the community, it really showed us the path that we wanted to do for the community and guide the the school board into making the decisions that are best not just for the school district but for the community itself. And like Tim was saying that the two schools that are uh the property is going to be uh in the hands of
011the municipality. The rest are the other buildings, but the um William Penn and Lincoln it are have been earmarked to be auctioned off and the buildings go to the different builders developers as to what they plan on doing with it. But part of the strategic plan was to help secure funds for the district, not just for the general funds, but for the facilities. And part of the facilities committee itself was trying to help ensure that the district has the money to maintain the rest of the school district itself and the buildings. So having those properties auctioned and having the district maintain the money for it for the facilities is huge for the general uh funds and well-being of the district itself. And one of the most outstanding things that came out of it was the
012Memorial School property itself and the idea that that stay a building, stay in the district's hands for anything that may develop, but also being used and rent to do uh nonprofit organizations for adult daycare, uh youth daycare, um the Meals on Wheels programs, and different items that the district really really needs. So it's not just selling a building, running a building to whoever whatever the biggest bidder is. It's actually using the facilities for the betterment of the community and the betterment of the school district itself. So I've really enjoyed working on not just the facility side of it, but also on the strategic plan side of it going back many years ago. And I just want to, like Tim said, I want to thank this board. I've born and raised in Bethl Park. I've been
013here 65 years, graduated in 78, and I have to say I have really enjoyed working with this board itself. Um, you ladies and gentlemen, my hats off to you. You are doing a fabulous job for this district and this community, and I'll continue to help whenever asked as long as you remember bedtime 7 o'clock. So other than that, thank you very much and the board's here to answer any questions you may have for us. Thank you. Thank you, Andy. Uh, one of the things that Andy brought up was about Memorial School. Uh, as in process, we were approached by a service provider here, and Andy touched based a lot on it, the adult daycare. Uh, as we know, we have a very high senior citizen population in this community and one of the providers is
014a Christ Methodist church up there in on Highland Road in Bethl Park. Actually, the other one has an adult daycare and according to the pastor Morgan up there that their numbers have gone through the ceiling. They don't have no more space. and the timing of it. He had kind of heard about it through our his networking and our networking is that the possibility a building would come open and then we had multiple conversations. We're still in the process of getting things finalized with them because in that partnership you're also going to see relationship with Shim which our community has already have and we're also looking to and other partners with the Jefferson Foundation which we just had a a little tour uh meeting with them uh over this weekend. So that was part of the
015goal was was been stated here earlier is how do we serve our community best. So to repeat, we have Washington and Ben Franklin which we already did publicly here as goes over to the municipality for their uses in the recreational program. We reviewed all the other buildings that includes this administration building and also includes Neil Armstrong uh how it sits in its future. Uh we thought there may be a future outside the district for this building. Uh but based on our panel here and some other experts we brought in to take a look at it and working with our own staff and I'm going to speak out for Dr. Kinski himself uh specifically we come to the realization that this is an asset that's going to be kept in the district. It needs some work
016done to it. There's no doubt about it. Uh but it's an asset we want to keep here in the district. Also along those lines, it came about to Neil Armstrong and its future. Um, we have a service provider that provides uh daycare program or preschool and afterchool programming. Uh, they kind of approached this also about what their future would be within the district. And we kind of did a walk through at Neil Armstrong and it meets a lot of their needs which again it meets the our famil family's needs and our students needs. So we're working on developing a formal relationship with that group uh we Lois Johnson uh to sit there uh when the school opens to then uh accommodate their needs to help our families and help our students provide them with a
017good safe uh location. Also with that too, going back to the feasibility study we did, Neil Armstrong, even though on its age, it's it's we're told it's it's its structure is still very good. Uh but it has a few problems as we come to realize this past week on the federal floor and we're working on. But it's worth an investment because again, it it it has a good bones. It gives us good structure and also meets some other needs within the community, aka our recreational needs with a nice gym down there. And we're also looking for other uses for internally within some of our program or from any extracurricular activities and we're trying to develop some more partnerships. Uh so as repeating um also we we found that the best market at this time for
018public and I'm repeating was said before was William Penn and Abraham Lincoln. Uh we've had uh developers approach us and say hey what's your future plans for that? we see a future for us and again we have to go through our process and said well more than likely we'll put it up for auction which we will work through the legal process to get to that point and that's probably the next steps we have to go through as we kind of discuss is with the state uh department of education rules are along those lines and through the auction process Dr. Kazinski's done some preliminary work on that and to getting those steps uh ready to go. And I don't have we have a concrete date yet to say when these things take place, but I think
019by the end of this school year uh we will have concrete dates in regards to our public meetings and some auction dates that we will have available for the public to go for these properties. So any other you want to add? I think that's those are the committee's recommendations to all of you. Again, you know, there's the ability of Dr. Cororinski to do additional research. I know that people have reached out. there were a lot of people that have reached out um to more the gentleman and Jess who is not here sitting in the audience um about options and can we come present and can we come talk to you and can we tour um which was really good because that means Bethl Park is a community that people still want to want to come
020to and want to come into and that was the whole goal of the committee is what's best for the community. So, any questions from our colleagues? Yes, Mrs. D. Um, thank you. Thank you all. I love the ideas for the properties. I think those are things definitely um and particularly obviously George Washington and Ben Franklin because things change significantly in a very short time um with fields and gyms. Um, I think my questions are about um, ownership of the property, ownership, renting it, someone purchasing it, who's maintaining it, what are the ongoing costs to the district, like those kinds of things. Those need to be worked out, right? Because I mean originally when we had all talked about um the future of the buildings, it was important that we sell them to regain some funds
021um as well as eliminate that ongoing maintenance and utilities and all those things. So for me, I think that is the biggest question. So to to respond to the board, um it really this is tied to a timeline. I'm not going to put any pressure on Misero RC, but it really is pivotal to when we get into the building because of logistics and transition and things of that nature. Um some of the things that we're going to have to consider, one, um it'll go to our facilities committee and we start doing our internal um due diligence. Um, some of the things that we have to consider, um, insurance companies will not insure us if our buildings are empty. And so that's that's a a really big factor, uh, even if we had a security guard
022there, you know, for vandalism, whatever happens. Um, the other one is that, uh, we really have to be prepared for market shifts. Um we had appraisals done 2022. Uh and so we want to make sure that we uh present um our properties to the best ability to get whatever revenue it is and wherever we put that whether it's debt service uh down payment or paying for X Y and Z. um we really just have to be cognizant of again no pressure RC is that whether it's the July 29th date uh because there are contracts that are going to be involved that will really have to we're at the point where now it's we're going to be meeting with lawyers and lawyers to put down lease agreements and things of that nature because the district really
023doesn't want to be in I would not recommend being in the landlord business. um so that we're not holding the liability of that but still supporting the community. So, right. Um so that's where we are going to go next um to committee is to start looking at those dotting your eyes and crossing your tees. Right. And and I think the only question I have about the potential uses for NAMS, not so much with Lois Johnson because people coming to drop off and pick up obviously by definition are not there when school's in session, but considering the parking situation there. Um if we're having a lot of activities at that school, which we probably will, um because it would be we don't have the parking to do like a whole schoolwide event. it would be repeated
024for different grade levels or grade level combinations. Um what how are we making sure that there is parking to use the gym? Do you know what I mean? N is not NASA is not a recommendation yet. There is no recommendation or option. We haven't that's been a that's been out there. I mean, it's so that's one of my concerns with that is like it's it is a property that has space inside to use, but I worry about the parking ramifications and um trying to schedule use of it when something isn't happen happening at the elementary school, right? And that kind of like conflict over how many vehicles can be over there. So your question is point on um that would be further the head in the scope that we're at right now. Uh part of
025our goal coming here today was to answer some questions that some of our members and some of us all of us are getting as we get closer to the new school is what are we going to do? So this was kind of give our community a vision of what we're seeing right now. It's not clear. It's not focused. We haven't haven't talked to our solicitor yet in regards to what we need to be doing, but that will be taking place here soon because PDE does have a process for relieving of buildings. We know that. Uh, and then the next thing is if we do bring a cons a a 5031C type of group in there to one of our schools as we're referring to as memorial, you know, we have to get that lease agreement,
026that contract all worked out, approved by them as our solicitors group and then approved here as a board. But I'm not saying we're brewing that next week. Obviously not. But it was just a little site where where we're heading to. All right. Uh, we've talked over a couple years with this. We've had at least 13 meetings uh among this group over his last few years and at least 10 presentations and some site visits. That's what I was going to ask. Did did didn't didn't um Christ United came here, right? That was a Yeah, it was great. I think weren't you here? I think you were here, Jim, with them when they came. It was awesome. The little the presentation is that who would be taking one of the Oh, that's good. And that's in the
027plans. You know, again, they're they're not ready to present to us an agreement. they're getting closer. They're just trying to build their partnership up ship up a little bit. Uh but we're seeing that vision that came across is like we still have needs in this community and we have some properties that may meet some of those needs and that was part of our ultimate goal. Well, now I'm a little confused because I want to back up because you were saying like you wouldn't recommend that we be in the position of owning the property and leasing it out being the landlord. So, are we talking about a 501c3 buying it and then they lease it? Now, I'm confused at that point. Okay. Dr. Walsh from the very beginning we started had said and what Dr. Kazinski
028said, we really don't want to be in the landlord business. All right. But we have to get to this bridge and we may not have that choice again. Then it comes back to the nine of us to decide whether yay or nay. But I have nothing to present. Okay? you know, just we have a group. They're forming themselves. They're looking at one of our facilities. We've been approached by three contractors who were interested in these other properties when they go up for a public auction. All right. So, you know, we we benefit because we have a competitive bid is my understanding. The process is an open public auction, not a not like contractor where it's sealed. That benefits us. All right. And the whole goal is that we have a timeline coming in based on
029what we get a date, a firm date of when we're take over the new elementary center. So again, I thank this group here. Uh you may recognize some of them. Other ones are born and raised here. They're business owners in town. They're parents. They have children in this district. and uh kind of we pulled them together from their perspective how they've been part of this community longer than I know myself uh and their view of what they want to see for Bethl Park in the future. All right. So, gentlemen, anybody else to add? I thank you. Any other question? I had just one question and I know some of it depends on RC and we'll hear on the uh the date, but do we have a Yeah. Not not not to put all this on
030you RC, but have we been thinking about what some of the milestones are in terms of you know when when we want to have these recommendations firmed up when the board needs to vote and we push that over to our you know attorney contracts to look at we for all intents and purposes Franklin and Washington have been start that process has been started with theou with the municipality I think the next two we need to look at in the recommendations for for William Penn and for um Lincoln and those can be taken up in the next couple of okay sessions um for the for the two where I already have anou what else do we need to do to finalize that because I don't think theou is finalization or doesn't transfer ownership Rebecca question it
031is the Rebecca question and I have to say my predecessor Yeah. Um has been handling that. So I am going to check in with her exactly. I don't want to miss today and I will report back. I apologize. Yeah. I mean that one we've already we we've at least already cleared a path. We should probably get that off the table now. It keep moving that forward. And so we'll get that timeline because the the you have to have the public hearings, public forms before we uh vacate the buildings. I think there is a specific timeline. Okay. So, we'll we'll get that from her next meeting. If not, definitely for uh May. Yeah. There's going to be a lot of balls in the air that we got to keep moving. So, I I think if we
032kind of work backwards and figure out all the decisions that have to be made, I think that'd be a good thing. Just again to repeat a lot of this here tonight was there was a lot a lot of questions within the community that members have been getting. We just want to give some everybody a little vision of what's will be taking place here. Sure. We'll tie in those specifics coming up every next month or so. Yeah. Okay. I thought of another question and it might be part of maybe this Jefferson Foundation. I don't know. But was there conversation about a need for a space for teens to have a bonafide teen program like with supervision and mentoring the rec department with the other building situations going on? have they had with the rec department more
033than right with other municipality. Awesome. School district building. Okay. Department library. It occurred to me if like that sort of need and I know the libraryies out of right we do know that the the people that are looking the 501c3 that has been formed I believe all the paperwork has been put in. Um we're really looking at the grants that they could get to consider going larger in adult daycare and that is a need we all know in the community. Oh yeah, that is large. So I believe he's focused more on that and then the other components of that with shim and meals on wheels that adults in this community really need. So that's his main focus compared to there's been other discussions about where teens can go and those kinds of things. Okay. One
034of the things that um I I need to advise the board is just a consideration and this is pressure on RC is if again if we do not get our substantial completion if we do not get our substantial completion for July of 26 or August of 26, there's a lot of detail work in the contracts that we would have to put in that is a contingency. And so a consideration that you know we're not going to give up these buildings in August then oops what do we do right and Megan is aware of those situations she has had conversations that have been related to that committee just being realistic RC RC okay so so just to sum up then the board will then in the next couple of months be taking some action u first
035of all thank you I'm just wondering And how many of you are signed up for the adult daycare? I wasn't sure if it was a self-s serving move on your part to do it. Don't worry, I still enjoy my story. I know. Couldn't resist. But uh thank you all for shephering this this process. I'm sure that you were um inundated with ideas and suggestions on what should happen and please don'ts and oh I wish it would kind of thing. So you fielding that and then bringing us some of the end result that's been distilled is is really helpful. And where we're going to go from here of course is we have to decommission these buildings according to state law. So that'll happen in the next couple of months effective July or August of 2026. And
036then um the uh we we'd like to be able to make sure that the buildings are also moved into other people's responsibilities uh whether it's um going to auction and sold or going to the municipality. they'll they'll take ownership of those buildings and become responsible because it's it's important part of our long-term goals is to is to have plans and carry these through so that in August 1 we have just three building campuses and not eight. So I'm really pleased that we have this much information to go on and and we're going to take it from here. Yeah. and we look forward to having you guys cut some ribbons with us. Yeah. Thank you. Okay, we just have Mr. Cromy had a request. So, gentlemen, come up here. It's right here. We're here. back saying
037that that we have to keep these buildings basically not done is going to put the community in aquaplexi. I guarantee it's on social media right now that we're not going to be done. Awesome. Thank you so much. You're like the most interesting. [Music] Hey, how's the uh Turn the mic on. Thank you. I think at this time we have site logic with a little update on IMS project. Thank you. Yep. Good evening. I'll make this short and sweet. It sounds like it's RC's night, so we'll give him the mic as soon as I am done. So, just an update on phase three. We are actually still down in the lower level. We had some issues with the ceramic tile in the corridors. Once it went up, we realized that the dolot did not really match.
038It was very splotchy. So, we ripped it all off and along came the drywall. So, we had to start all over again. So, we are going to be a couple weeks late turning over um downstairs. However, we did get a jump into the um music suite to start some of the data storage room and we have gotten into the auditorium. So, we will still be done in August even though we are going to be a couple weeks late turning over um again the lower level, but we wanted to look good and um it was the what we needed to do. So, we tiled and retiled the corridor walls. As I mentioned, we are tiling currently the locker rooms and the showers. Um, starting the plumbing fixture installation in there. Also, we've completed the health rooms
039and I believe they're getting ready to put the flooring down in the fitness room. Um, in the auditorium, we've have we moved out the stuff on the stage. We have started demoing the seating and we again started the framing of the data storage room in the music suite because that actually supports some of the rooms downstairs as well and that's why we had to kind of get in there early. So just some pictures for you um showing you some of the finished locker rooms and then the actual showers um and restroom facilities within those locker rooms. Again, these are the walls that we tiled and retiled. So, um again, a lot of um work down there and coming along and coming together very nicely. Uh these are one of the um health rooms that are
040done. And that's an older room of one of the other an older picture of one of the other health rooms. So, that is ready to go. Just doing some final cleaning. And then this is the auditorium. and them again starting to remove the seating in there. And then the picture at the top right is some of the framing that we're doing in the music um area. And then as soon as we're down done downstairs, the district will flip the music department downstairs um while we do the upstairs and they will become the health rooms at the beginning um of the new school year. So uh the roofing project we have started we did however start in a different area than intended to just because of some existing conditions. So we are actually um doing roofing
041over the academic area. We are relocating classrooms as we go so that the work that's being done um on the roof uh there are no classrooms or kids below that is being coordinated on a weekly basis with the district. um had a few bumps in the road. Um some drywall did get damaged, some casework did get damaged and we will replace that um over the summer. We've worked out and found what the issue was. So um should not have that issue again. So continuing over the academic with the testing that is coming up, we will jump to the auditorium then so that there will be no disruption to the testing and we will work with um Raquel on that for all the timing. Again, this is just a picture of one of the areas that
042has started again over the academic area and Garland is there every day inspecting and they do issue reports on a weekly basis that we do send to the district as well. So again, they're there inspecting um for the year 30-year warranty. Any questions? How long do you expect? You're saying like a two week delay in the tile, the retile, the all of that. We're about the music department will move over. I'm guessing probably the third week in April is when they'll probably do that flip. Um, we have the movers set up to help move some of the stuff downstairs. So, again, um, I know my project manager is working closely with Raquel on that. So, that's what I'm estimating right now. But like I said, we've already gotten a jump in there and got into
043the auditorium. So I don't see anything on the back end of it not getting done on time. Dr. Walsh, we don't see like where we have to have any No. Okay. And like any missings? Okay. Thank you. I don't. Nope. Any other questions? Nope. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Thank you. O RC the good news part, right? I lost your presentation. What's that? Do you want me to say that I lost your present? Yeah. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is John Doe. I don't know who this RC character is you're referring to, but okay. So, uh, a picture update of what we have been working on. Forget what button to hit. Here we go. And I apologize for these pictures. The day we took them, the lighting was weird. We They
044were kept washing out, so they kind of look weird, but that's what I got. So, just overall building uh progress. What you're looking at here, obviously, is uh classroom wings, ENF. Here's the uh front portion of the building, LGI, cafeteria, gymnasium area. So the um exciting thing here is all the foundations are now in the ground. It's been a long road to hoe, but um it's a milestone that that we did hit. um classroom wings as you can see here. Um the exterior and interior framing, but the making a big push for the exterior building to get the building envelope on and wrapped up so we can start drying the building out. Um so that that has begun and that is moving along really well. Um all the uh slabs are now poured in these
045two classroom wings and this portion of the connector there. This slab down here in these pictures is not poured but that was poured today. So classroom rings have all all their slabs in in uh interior framing and MEP roughens have started. So, okay, in this picture, here's the gymnasium storm center. Uh, the scale of this picture can seem kind of awkward, but that those walls are about 50% of the way up. They're about 12 15 ft. They go to about 28 30 feet. So, that's moving along. Here again is um in the background there's the gym. So, here's your LGI space um cafeteria. There's our mud. There's more of our mud. There's more of our mud. So, here's the here's the exciting stuff that's that's really happened since we last met. Um, all the all
046the prime contractors other than the kitchen equipment uh installer have mobilized and are on site actively working. So, all the MEPs, the roughins are are going in as I race past a couple pictures. Um this is area A in the ground floor obviously. Um so you can see that the sprinkler guys are in copper and duck work for the HVAC HVAC systems looking down into um area C which is Main Street I believe. Um area D again action going on there and area E. Uh this is where a lot a lot of the work has progressed the fastest. So interior walls are going in um wall rough in above ceiling rough in topping off the uh areas in the corridors. The corridor ceilings have most of the mechanicals in them. So it's hard to get
047the drywall up when all the mechanicals are up. So we're topping off now. So that's what you see there. Again, another shot down E. Another E. So, looks looks like a 10 pounds of crap in a 5B bag, but that's that's what we got to do. Um, area F again, we're moving in. You can see some of the MEP mechanicals starting to go into the other wing as well. Um, as I mentioned before, our final uh foundation systems and parts and pieces have been installed finally. Um, stair tower and area C complete. I know we've seen this picture before, but um, our main electrical roughins undergrounds have started and all the kitchen undergrounds. This picture is kind of neat. I included just to get a scale. This is the kitchen area and all those little
048white pipe stub ups are all the plumbing undergrounds and sinks and floor drains and whatnot. So that that's a lot to get in there. Again, 10 lbs in a 5 lb bag. So, uh that was a challenge. We're glad to get past that. And you can see this monstrous pile of duck bank here for the main electrical feed into the building, too. So, Again, gym walls. This this is a little bit better picture. You might get a scale of the gym. I mean, that's that's a crane that's sitting in the middle of your gym floor and it looks like a toy. So, gym walls, first floor area. E I try to get a picture of all the slabs. So, that again, that's that's kind of a um um milestone is getting the slabs poured. you
049know, it opens up a ton more work. So, like I said, all the slabs, as of today, all the slabs in the classroom wings are poured. Um, shot of your courtyard. Um, want to include one picture of the courtyard every time cuz it's kind of neat how to see, you know, it looks big, then it looks small, then it look big, then it looks small. Uh, repainting wall three. We're back filling it. Um the back fill we're doing now is just the area between this the stone or the wall the earth wall and the uh concrete panels. There's like 18 inches of stone back there. But um included a picture of this machine here. This is a high reach excavator. You don't see one of them every day. So it's kind of cool. Uh upcoming
050work, as I said, uh we're we're running hot and heavy on um mechanical roughins. Um the steel erection will resume next week in the upper level areas where we seen by the gym and then the cafeteria and the LGI. Um and then we'll start pouring those slabs on grades up in that area. And then uh hopefully uh by next time we meet we're putting roof on on area E. Um so uh we have just to give you a scale we have any any day we have anywhere between 60 and 80 workers down on site. So we're um we're we're full boore. We're hitting we're hitting the summer running now and we are over 300 days without a recorder voice. Any questions on the pictures? Completion date. Completion date. So I don't we are in a
051mode of recovery schedule. Um up until like now it's been hard to get to hit where we are exactly. Well, we all knew we were behind schedule because of pyite. Um we were still dealing with the pyite and that's another milestone. We we are out of the the building footprint. We're done with pyite. We're still going to encounter some around the building as we finish the site utilities. There's about 800 feet of water line we got to put in in the uh new main power feed into the building. Um so we're not out of the pyite completely, but we're out of the footprint of the building. So now we could gauge, okay, there'll there'll be no more delays, knock on wood. Um, but I can't tell you right now. Um, we're looking at like end
052of October date. I know that's scary. I don't want anyone to get scared. Um, we are in recovery mode and I will tell you right now, we've sucked out about eight weeks in a little bit of work on the schedule. We've done some of the things we've done like I said when I was going through pictures is um changing the sequence of how we're we're finishing out the building. Instead of going floor by four, we're kind of taking it area by area now because that's kind of what's available to us. So just by doing that, we already picked up quite a bit of time. So I'm still confident we can hit our date. Okay. All the all the primes are still confident we get to hit our date. We just got to work through the
053schedule. We got to do it intelligently and I just want to make sure it's possible. It is possible to get that date. It's possible. And I don't want to I don't want to go any further than that because I don't I don't want I understand everything that's riding on this and I I don't want to give any bad information at this point. So hopefully in a month from now after we run through, you know, we're meeting weekly to to massage this schedule and develop a recovery schedule. Hopefully a month from now I could we could confidently and say that we're going to hit our July deadline and I'll have the schedule and everyone sign all the prime sign off to to prove it. Okay. But 30 years in construction, I I think I I'm confident
054we'll get him. Um, can we talk about a few of these change orders that are on our agenda? You bet. Maybe uh you have the best information. So, there's probably three in particular. There's the nurses uh suite revisions, which I thought we already addressed some of those before. I'll take full responsibility for that. Um, I was kind of processing them as they were coming in from the different primes. I should have bundled them all together so it didn't seem like unions were kept getting punched for the same reason. So we we have approved the electricians and the mechanicals change order for those for this ASI and this is the general contractor's portion of that. So after this there'll be no more nurses revision ASI4 change order. Okay. So the that's what the first one is
055associated with is is the revisions for uh the nurs's suites and ASI 4. Okay. So that's finally put that ASI to bed. Okay. And then there's down below there's the ASI 11 mechanical two two there. That's for mechanical and electrical revisions. Is that also related to the nurses station? No, this is a a separate ASI. Okay. Um the mechanical port the uh herannics portion of that HBAC-004 um the majority of that was for an additional um call brain fart. Um the unit your heating element in in the room. I I can't believe I'm drawing a blank here, but that that majority of that was for one of those was missed. It was added. It had to be wasn't on the bid documents. And the electrical portion, uh, a lot of that those monies are related
056to the speaker revisions and um some circuitry that had to be um routed to the emergency power system. Okay. for some those re revisions we made or they just were omitted in the design? They were omitted from the design. Okay, that's a big number to be omitted from the design. Over $26,000. Any more of those red ones coming in? Yeah, you want us complete. I'm working on them. Yeah, we ain't complaining about that one if you noticed. Yeah, she skipped over. Can I Can I give my two cents on that one? Yeah. Yeah, please. Anyway, yeah, so that that that uh dedduct one there um the bid drawings showed the use of a um an edge plate on the steel beams to pick up some steel the steel decking support to steel decking. During shop
057drawing review, um they were deemed unnecessary because the width of the beam flange itself was enough to make up the distance to pick up the edge of deck there. So, um that explains that one. Can I ask a question regarding budget since he's standing here? Um, on the back of one of our things, we got a summary and the change net or the ones, three, and four included in the change numbers on the back of this summary. It's where the change orders are. It's the last page back side, [Applause] the change order summary. Yeah. So, we have um net change by change order line two. Last page, M. Mhm. So it is divided by I'm going to guess subcontract. Um the projected total is 2.1 million. Is that including tonight's changes or does that not
058include tonight's changes? That includes tonight's changes. That total and then that means we're on we're only at about 1.1 million left. Correct. Roughly. We're between 1 and 1.1 million. Yeah. How much more do we I mean, are we through the drawings to make sure that there's no other issues on those? I I would I I can't sit here and say have 100% know, but I would imagine so. Yeah. Okay. There there are still change orders out there that uh rough numbers have not been uh calculated but reviewed for um the pyite work and um some of the bigger items from the pyite. So that you're still going to have some change orders that are coming through. Anything else? Any other questions? Anybody else? RC. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. At this time, we're open
059for public comments on the agenda items. Go once. Please. All right. Move on to curriculum committee. Mr. Scalzo. Thank you, gentlemen. Thanks. Okay. We have one item. Uh, the board of school directors approves administration's recommendation to permit Elizabeth Wells to attend the 2025 annual Pennsylvania Association Federal Program Coordinators Conference at Hershey, PA from May 11th through the 14th, 2025 at the cost of $1,790.37. Does anybody have any questions? I'd like to move this to the consent agenda. Thank you. All right. Personnel committee, Mr. McGregor, sir. All right. Tonight, there are six items underneath uh personnel. I'll read them all. Number one, acceptance of resignations. Number two, appointment of personnel. Number three, change of assignment. Number four, approval of unpaid leave of absence. Number five, approval of summer help for the custodian uh custodial maintenance department.
060And number six, approval of job description. There any discussions, questions? Hearing none, I'd like to move these six to the consent agenda. Okay, hearing none. So, so be it. Uh, we have facilities. Mr. Christensen, sir. So, under facilities, we have two items. One is a permission to issue a bid request uh for two projects and another one is related to the change orders that we just discussed. Um on the uh request for bids, just one question on this um the um the paving. So Blackhawk Drive, there's the um Church Road parking lot. Is that the YMCA, the part of the YMCA that we own or which one is that? That's the one that is parallel to the turfs, not the YMCA. Oh, okay. Because we we own portion of the YMCA parking lot. That is
061not part of the bid. That will be a separate project probably later date when we maybe look at IMS or so forth. Okay. And then the other one is the athletic entrance and by the stadium then. Correct. That's the Broad Street parking lot. Main parking lots. Correct. Okay. Are we not doing perky? We're we're not doing perky until we uh decide or figure out what's happening with behind the stadium and and whatnot. It's not in a bad condition. Okay. Okay. Any other questions on these two items? Just trash removal. So, is there no consortium with districts? No comp. No. and nothing with municip municipalities contract that more a favorable rate. Not that I'm aware of. Okay. So, it's an independent. We're on our own state. We'll send out an RFP, see who responds and so
062make sure we're it'll be in the RFP in terms of complying with the ordinance with the municipality. Um, but it's a open market. We'll anticipate probably paying more since everybody else is We'll wait and see. Wait and see. Thank you. Any other questions? Not, I'd like to move these to the consent agenda. Okay, very good. Uh, finance committee, Mrs. Walsh Turner. Um, we have April 2025 salary and bills, March 2025 financial report, budgetary transfers, payment for the new elementary school project, um, number invoices 1 through nine. None are the change orders we just approved. Um, payment for Independence Middle School phase three renovations um, to Site Logic. Payment for Independence Middle School Phase 2 to Site Logic. Approval of student services contracts with Cares of Western Pennsylvania, Keystone Education Staffing, Independent Speech Language Pathology, and
063Presence Learning, Inc., an agreement with substitute teacher services. Um, acceptance of remake learning days mini grant items declared unused and unnecessary and Kennedy driving school. I have a question on number eight. Are we changing services? Yes, that is the recommendation. So um we met with multiple subservices. Uh right now we are in a position where we need to streamline our substitutes. Um STS gave us the best option. They have a program where they'll actually run every morning the subs and where they go throughout the building. Right now that's in-house. It's on us. We do that. So by them doing that, that frees up a lot of time for our administration team. So that was a big um reason why we're going with this. Yes. And they're going to also do the paras and those correct
064everything that uh precision does right now they will take on and they will be meeting with our current subs who work for precision to see if they want to come over. So they will do all that leg work as well. So that won't be on us. Okay. That's a great that'll that'll free up administration and secretarial staff in the morning. And that that's uh that was the number one goal. Yeah. And then with this with this provider, our former employees who are subbing still have the same ability to do that. There's no conflict with no conflict with peasers or retirement. They are still a third party company where they can sub and it will not affect their pension. Okay. Okay. And then the other one is Kennedy Driving School. We're just allowing them to use
065the parking lot or the classroom. Yeah, this actually is just uh because of the state law that we're we're the licensed or certified agency by which students can earn their driver's license, but we don't provide the service. It's Kennedy School. So, because of that connection, we have we're obligated to accept or board has to approve these candidates to provide that service. So you you have all of the um all of the instructors certifications to approve and then they do the the coursework either online or at the community center. Correct. So we're not providing buildings either. No, this is just uh just approving the approving the instructors. Okay. Um if anybody else has any questions still I move one to 11 to the consent agenda. All right. No other questions. We'll move on then. Policy committee,
066Mrs. Hoppy. Okay. Uh we have three items only one. Uh number one, the revision to policy 252 uh concerning dating violence. We'll move to the consent agenda or to the to the agenda next week for voting. Second item is revision to policies and there is an exhaustive list of policies. Um I'm not going to go through them all. And the third item is the discussion of a cell phone policy. And um I'm not sure why it looks like this on there because there's only a section of it displayed. I just posted the part that you and I talked about this week. So, it was there was a a discussion in our last month's meeting about this policy, got some feedback, and then you and I exchanged emails about the fact that students already have onetoone
067devices in the high school. So, we should just make sure we're explicit saying that you can't use your phone in the instructional areas because you already have a device for that for all the same purposes. Got it. So, basically what's in front of us is the revision to what we had last week. I have a question on number two. These are all PSBA. We're not adding to them or distracting removing from them. They're all PSBA recommendations. Most of these are revisions. So, wherever they came from, I do not believe we are adding to them by ourselves. And the only one that would have some modifications would be the AR number 241 AR. Uh we're trying to continue to refine procedures related to the changes uh that the board has approved last year to pay for
068field trips K to8. And uh so we we um we just as this has rolled out this year, we've tried to make sure we put some guard rails up so it doesn't get to be a little bit out of control like taking 10 adults for one field trip. Those kinds of guardrails. So, we're just putting these into administrative policy so teachers have some guidelines. I guess that was one of the ones that I saw that was like out of differentiation. Yes. And then 8:15.2 the educational use of studentowned technology and smart devices that is incorporating the new cell phone policy within that policy. And I think is 105.1 something we're Yes, thank you. That's the other one. Uh that one has uh uh the board's aware of some issues we've had this year with curriculum
069decisions teachers have made that nobody else was aware of and parents were objecting and concerned about. So we we've tightened up this uh policy. So it's very specific about how the process by which you can use instructional supplementary instructional materials in the classroom. As long as you follow the process, we shouldn't have any objections or concerns moving forward. Thank you. Any other questions, discussion? Is the one on fraud a new policy for us or is that also a revision? It's it actually did not exist. Uh so it is new. It did. Um, it's a PSBA policy, but we never adopted it for whatever reason. Oh. And it was recommended by our auditors recently that we should have this policy in place. So, it's we just received it from PSBA and put it out there for
070for public reading. Yes. Thank you. Yes, we should have it. We definitely should have that in place. Very important. Thank you. That's all I have, Mr. Moto. So it's easy. Thank you very much. Uh we have one section for other Mrs. Janisac, would you mind? Sure. Uh selection of voting delegates for the 2025 PSBA delegate assembly. So because we are a secondass district, we can appoint up to three individuals to attend this assembly. I do want to point out that um in prior years there was always an option to do this virtually. This year there is no virtual option. Whoever is going to be the delegate needs to be at the conclusion of the PSBA conference in the Poconos on I think it's October 21st. Um they do not necessarily need to attend the entire
071conference but that is quite a drive for one day of voting. It is my intention to request that I be allowed to go to the PSBA conference. Um, I have been recently asked by the PSBA president to serve on the governance and policy committee and the platform committee and I think both of those committees are related to the delegate assembly. So it would make sense unless there are objections or four others of you would like to go. I would so it would be my intention to say that I would like to go to the PSBA conference as well as stay uh for the delegate assembly. I vote to send you to the poker. There you go. One way voting. What about bringing her back? There you go. You know what? runway expenses. If you just
072keep sending if you keep buying me the $30 cheeseburgers, I'm happy to stay. That's no problem. Um, so if anybody else wants to go, like I am always prepared to take vacation if I need to to attend the PSBA conference. So I'm it's not a problem on my end, but if anybody else would like to go, I know Christina, you were thinking about it at one time. It is it is really great. I think it would be really beneficial if we did have two people there because there's so many conflicting sessions, right? You have a session time and there's like 10. You can't possibly even though I try to be bop everywhere, can't possibly get everything. So, if if someone would like to go, it is it is a very good event. You learn a
073lot. There's a lot of networking with our colleagues. There's a lot of interaction as well with the PSBA staff and leadership and a lot of information. there's a lot of networking um and talking with other school directors about what's going on in their districts and the challenges they're facing and how they're handling them and so so many good ideas because of the a lot of the superintendents um are attending the PASA conference which Dr. Walsh, I would say if you'd like to go to it, that would be a wonderful thing for you to go to. Um, bring it back. There's all kinds There's always someone there talking about what's happening in that um leadership group of the superintendents who were doing like the um portrait of graduate and all of that. like the new way
074of looking at high school and how it relates to careers and what employers need and the skills employers need and how do we adjust what we do um and all kinds of things about the future of education. So trying to sell somebody on going to the conference volunteers it's it's I just can't believe Go to the conf. Come to the conference with me, Buffy. We'll put our names in the hat. Conferences are great. I can't believe nobody wants to go. It's awesome. Okay. Anyway, so I volunteer to be our delicate assembly and make the arduous journey at huge, huge, huge personal expense and inconvenience even though I don't want to to go to the Poconos and be your delegate. Turn a little bit more. Okay, we we'll put that up for uh next month and
075and we'll bring you back to Thank you. public comments. I got to offer. I'm told I have to offer. He yells at me if I don't. Board comments. Uh oh, we quick. No, I just share some condolences. Uh Leah Nagel, our secretary, Don Ben Franklin's mother passed away last week. Just on behalf of the board and districts, extend our condolences and sympathy to her and her family. Motion to adjurnn.