001All right, let's get the show going. Um, I'd like to welcome welcome everybody to the October 15, 2025 regular board meeting. Um, some housekeeping matters. Uh, pursuant to board policy 1B.5, all meetings of the Salisbury Township School District are audio and video rec recorded. Mouthful. Um this evening we did hold an executive session uh immediately before this for the purposes of war training and personnel matters. Um and with that said, I'd like to stand for the pledge of ali pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance 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. All righty. Can I have a roll call, please? >> Yes. Mr. Gates here. >> Here. >> Mrs. Glennister. >> Mr. Gal
002>> here. >> Mr. Hoffman >> here. >> Mrs. Clinger >> here. >> Mrs. McKelie >> here. >> Mrs. Nemits >> here. >> Mr. Rickabani >> here. >> Mr. Spinner >> present. >> All right. Thank you very much. Any special recognitions or presentations this evening? No. >> All right, we'll keep moving right along right into the fun part of the evening. Uh, student representative reports and we're going to start this evening off um with the high school followed by uh um also from the high school LCTI. Um so we'll start with Phoebe Balac and Michael Warter. >> Nick Warter. I'm sorry. >> I know. And I'm >> correcting you. We want to make sure we get it right. >> Hello everyone. I'm Phoebe. >> And I'm Michael Mcuarter. It's a pleasure to be back. >> Just
003keep it in the stand. >> Might be easier. Okay. >> This past weekend, the high school hosted our annual homecoming festivities. We had a spirit week leading up to our pep rally, which involved games like humansized hungry hungry hippos, knockout, tugof-war, um the three-legged race, and a cheering contest. Each grade decorated their section of the gym in a theme. We had the sweet seniors, jackpot juniors, sophomore slumber party, and freshmen. On Fridays, we wear pink. >> On Friday night at the football game, we announced our homecoming court and revealed the king and queen. So, congratulations to our court members, Giana Ciro, Olivia Amore, Naen Perez, Reagan Trescott, Anthony Jarus, Dylan Jarju, Jesua Kaban, and Jamani Cruz. And of course, a special congratulations to our homecoming king and queen, Steven Lazada and Sarah Beckage, respectively. >>
004You're doing this part. Good. >> Okay. On Saturday night, we had our homecoming dance hosted by the 2026 class of advisory. We had a great turnout for a fun night of dancing under the lanterns. And the Salsbury Theater Department will also be performing Harvey from November 6th to 9th starring me. Make sure to buy tickets now at homecoming ticketing to come watch the very funny show. I'm sure you all will love it. >> Our fall sports our fall sports season is wrapping up with a few of our sports moving on to postseasons. >> Our field hockey team finished with an 18-1 record and a top seed in both district and colonial leagues. So, congratulations to our field hockey seniors as well, Gwen DeFasio and Kendra Morgan, who have both broken the school record, scoring over
005a 100red points throughout their four-year careers with Gwen also on track to score over 200 points in just a few more. >> Cross country is competing in the league championship tonight, or they just did, and will compete in districts later on. Football has two more games to round out their season with a home game against Northern Lehigh this Friday, which will also be their senior night, as well as a game against Palisades next Friday. Be sure to cheer them on. >> Our winter sports will begin on November 12th. >> Our National Honor Society will be hosting a blood drive on November 11th at the high school auxiliary gym. Be sure to stop by at some point and donate blood for a good cause. I promise they're not vampires. The Stars Club will be hosting Red
006Ribbon Week, a campaign about drug abuse prevention and awareness and including October 29th where all students are encouraged to wear red in support of mental health and suicide awareness as well as a raffle you can enter by wearing red that day. There will also be a red ribbon scavenger hunt for prizes among many other activities throughout the last week of October. The allnew Painting Hearts Club will begin running on the day six falcon periods, being founded by junior Aaliyah Ross and advised by Mrs. Dos Santos with 26 student members already and more constantly signing up. Be on the lookout for more of their upcoming endeavors for great causes. >> Sophomores enrolled in AC2 or honors AC2 will be taking a trip to the Holocaust Museum on Tuesday, October 28th to learn more about World War
007II. The Salsbury debate team, including both of us, will be going to our first competition on October 28th, and we will be debating the resolved the United States federal government should significantly increase public funding for transportation. Be sure to wish us luck. >> On a less exciting note, the juniors will be able to take the PSATs next Wednesday on the 22nd. >> I don't know. I think PSATs are pretty exciting. The Sewing for Charity Club has extended their lanyard sales until tomorrow, selling lanyards in a variety of colors for just $5 each and raising money for the Salsbury Angel Foundation. They're very close to reaching their $500 goal and we're looking to make their donation next week. Be sure to support them. >> The first quarter will be coming to an end on Wednesday the
00829th, and quarter 1 report cards will be issued shortly after. >> Thank you all for listening, and we hope you have an amazing week. >> [applause] >> Thank you very much. And uh with that, we'll move right into the middle school. Uh um Kadaliss Perez and uh I'm sorry, >> Eterene Tahada. >> Yeah. >> Good evening. My name is Eternine and I'm in seventh I'm a seventh grader at the middle school. I'm in the Falcon 5 club. We have many exciting things going on at the middle school. Today the eighth grade student council members went to DELS University for a leadership and ethics conference. They got to work with other student leaders from schools in Lehigh Valley. Our blog club has also been busy spending time with students from the autistic support classroom from by
009reading together, going on walks, and soon they will be decorating pumpkins and cookies. It's been a heartwarming experience to see the joy that's brought to everyone. Next week, the sixth graders will be going on their annual trip to Bake of a Knob where they will enjoy the outdoors, look for birds of prey, and bond with their classmates. It should be a lot of fun. We are also having a successful spirit week at SMS. The week dressups, the week dress up days that brought out everyone's creativity and school spirit. Friday is meme day and we can't wait to see what students and teachers come up with. Yesterday, we had an anti-bullying assembly. There was a presenter that shared the message of recognize, refuse, and react when it comes to bullying. This was combined with guys doing
010sense on bikes. It was really engaging. Lastly, the seventh graders went on the Renaissance Fair on October 9th, allowing us to experience life from that era and learn about history in an engaging way. There's always something exciting happening at the school, and we're happy to share it with you tonight. Thank you for listening and supporting our school community and we appreciate your interest and hope you join us in our celebrating achievements. Thank you. [applause] >> So, Eene, were you there in the one that I sat on the top of the ramp for? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, fun fact, I'm in the middle school just, you know, walking around, checking things out, and Mr. Parliament says, "I need you for a moment. can you come here? So, I walk into the into the gym and
011I get in there and they're all chanting, I don't know, get on this on this ramp. I don't remember what you were chanting, but the bottom line was I had to get on top of this 10-ft ramp and sit there while a BMX bike jumped over me doing tricks. And um very fun assembly, very engaging, great message about bullying and um it was really fun to see how excited the kids were. Oh my god, there was so much screaming. >> All right. Uh, so that takes us to the elementary school. Uh, Riley Borger and Jack Divers. >> Good evening. My name is Riley Borgle >> and my name is Jack Divers and we are both in third grade. >> SCES has been busy since the last board meeting. We celebrate health and wellness week from
012September 29th through October 3rd to kick off the PTO color one. Students wore different colors of the rainbow all week and students also had the opportunity to try healthy colorful snacks during lunch. On September 30th, pieces of mine came to SCES when assembly called your emotions on ocean to help kick off health and wellness week. During this week, students also had the students also participated in an obstacle course in our whole school walk-athon. Mr. Moore's third grade class and Mrs. Acriman's first grade class raised the most money for the color run and had a blast covering multiple staff members and color powder. The SCES color run was held on October 4th. The PTO did a great job running this event. Fun was had by all that attended. The school raised over $15,000. October 10th was
013Heavenly Hat Day at SCES. Students were invited to wear their favorite hat to school. Donations to Heavenly Hat help purchase hats for people who lose their hair due to cancer or medical treatments. Schools closed October 13th for staff professional development. [snorts] We will have a 1:15 early dismissal on October 17th. Thank you for your time. [applause] >> Thank you. And that doubles as my student activities report for this evening. Um so we'll move on to our next stop. Um if you guys want to um stay for the whole meeting, you're more than welcome to. If you guys want to get home and do homework or whatnot, um, Xbox, >> the dishwasher, [laughter] >> you're more than for more than welcome to head out now. >> First job ever. >> No, the kids can leave. The
014parents have to stay. [laughter] >> I have homework. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Thank you to the parents, guardians, family members who brought brought the students out. Appreciate that. >> [clears throat] >> Okay, >> they're swimming to Leo. All right, so we'll continue on here. Um, next up, any changes or additions to the agenda this evening? >> No. >> All right. Seeing none, can I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? >> I >> opposed. Thank you very much. And then with that, we will move into citizens inquiries and comments. Um, we have uh three individuals who have signed up tonight. Just so everybody's aware, we'll go in the order that they ca that they came in. So, I'll call your name. I'll ask
015you to come up to the mic so everybody at home can hear. Um, as well as myself. Um, and um, we'll go from there. So, first and and and again, I every everybody has seen my ability to pronunciate pronounce >> what? >> Maline Dillyard. >> I know, but there's other I'm just saying. >> I'm just trying to help. >> You see what I got to deal with up here? I mean, >> all right. Go. You have two laptops. Three laptops. Just work on those. >> Okay. All right. So, first up is uh Maline Dillard. >> Good evening. My name is Maline Dillard, a senior at Salsbury High School and I've been in the district since third grade. As a graduating senior, I felt compelled to bring a situation occurring to your in the high school
016to your attention. As you may be aware, intro to statistics is being taught by a new teacher. The class was previously a dual enrollment opportunity through Moravian University and taught by an approved Salsbury High School teacher. Doula's staffing changes in mid August. This year's statistics course is no longer a dual enrollment option as the current teacher is not approved and does not have the credentials. That information was not shared with the 46 students taking the class prior to the beginning of the school year. As the opportunity was no longer an option for any of these students due to the approved teacher no longer being in the math department, there was no options for changing the teacher schedules to fit my or the 45 other students needs. This was devastating for me to learn as I
017had only taken the class because of the college credit. In the past, Salsbury's intro to statistics was approved by Moravian University because of its similar rigor and expectations to their course taught on campus. While I had signed up for the class, I was expecting a college level math class. The class thus far has not met that standard. In emailing the superintendent, I have been told that the district will quote be reviewing their scheduling and communication processes to ensure that course designations such as dual enrollment, advanced placement, and honors are clearly confirmed and shared with the students earlier earlier in the semester in the future. End quote. While I'm glad this will happen in the future, it does not address the current problem. Out of only 17 students I had questioned in the out of the
01846, 11 of them said they would have taken the dual enrollment credit and five of them were interested in learning more about the opportunity. While not all of them had taken the class solely for the credit like I had, many of them had extreme interest or intent for it. Knowing the class was no longer a dual enrollment option or a college level course would have affected my or the 45 other students decision to take the credit. [snorts] the course. I mean, on Monday, October 6th, I began to fill out the form to sign up for a different dual enrollment credit, Spanish 5, and noticed that intro to statistics was listed as an option for this year, which had not been an option the previous week when I had opened the form originally. After speaking with
019my school counselor and the principal about what I had found, On a side note, while I was emotional in addressing my concerns about this unjust, unfair, and inequitable opportunity, I do not think the response I received from principal was warranted or professional. I was told that I was being quote snotty and demanding end quote in both my email and in person. It is unjust that this opportunity was not presented to everyone. I have been given some options by the principal to remedy this situation, such as dropping the class for a study hall, which typically would not be an option this late in the semester, taking a dual enrollment statistics course through LRYC, or taking a dual enrollment course through Cedar Crest College. Salsbury currently does not have a partnership with Cedar Crest, but they're willing
020and currently expediting the process for the spring semester. With Cedar Crest College being my top option for secondary education, I have a suspicion this option was created to entice me and encourage me away from the current situation. However, Cedarrest does not offer a statistics course. They only offer a general math elective for dual enrollment credit. All of these options fail to address the main problem of the situation, the inequitable education currently being offered. I would hope that in the future the district will find a solution for the majority and not the minority. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you very much. So our next um speaker this evening uh Paul Dornney. >> All right. Good evening. Thank you. Uh came here to ask you to consider moving your high school varsity co-ed rifle team
021into the range that is built into the high school. Uh currently you practice at an offsite location. The logistical implications of this are difficult at best for your team. It would be similar to, let me explain it to you, like I heard some of you ask about a football game this weekend. Here's what your rifle team has to deal with. If your football team played every game away from home, if they could not practice any weekend days, if they could not practice any Wednesdays, and the days that they did practice, they had to leave by 5 or 5:30. I'm not real clear on that one. Okay, I know pretty much about your rifle team. Basically, I coach in the league. I had coached for Salisbury for several years. I'm also a league officer in the
022league. So, if you need to get a hold of me to verify any of this, feel free to contact me through Freedom High School's athletic department or through the league. But here's a couple of things for those of you that don't know. They shoot and practice an Olympic style sport. It is Olympic prone. Okay, this has nothing to do with anything beyond that. Okay. Um, some of your students in over the past several years, well, over since the existence of the program, I've gotten college scholarships for this, we've had two people actually had the honor of serving in the presidential honor guard. The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts used to routinely use your range with filling out all the permissions. um to use this facility. So, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, primarily from the troop up
023um Jerusalem Church used to use this. And quite honestly, we league, the school, nobody's ever had one incident, one injury, nothing. It's never been that way. I did share some information with the president and uh so he would have situations and understandings of what we've worked under. For those of you that aren't real familiar, the way we used to have to do it to ensure safety of everything was all ammunition was stored in a safe in the general office. Okay? Locked away. Coach would pick it up at the end of the day before practice. The bolts were removed from the location and stored offsite. Okay. At times they were with coaches and other times they were up at the uh police. The police were uh Salisbury was you know very compliant in that made it
024accessible. So quite honestly, if there was any fears about non instructional people or you know outsiders getting into it, basically you would have just a piece of metal or wood. That's it. Similar to what your baseball team probably stores their bats and stuff with. Okay. Um just a couple of the things the impacts of this. Uh you had some uh people talk students talk about the VOTE the way your busing and stuff is set up with your vote students cannot really participate in this sport your students that are sharing sports or not using the right term here I apologize for that but say you had a wrestler who wanted to participate in that they can't logistically do this in the past it was always a part of Salisbury athletics right try to get kids doing
025more than one sport, right? Some of them it would help a lot. Um, like I said, you've got a really good coach. Your participation numbers were excellent last year. Judging from the final PIAA roster, you had 24 students, co-ed students there. That's a pretty big size for a team that's not football or soccer or something where you're, you know, putting 11 people on the field. Uh, safety shouldn't be an issue. Your range is real good quality air air quality system is excellent and stuff like that. It's my understanding that uh you know the range is either used for storage or an office. I ask you this, you have an empty building, right? when I took my grandkids to uh cross country practice, uh um the c the whatever you're storing down there, I'm sure doesn't
026really seem to be worried about air quality, right? You have a whole western elementary building. Why not use it? the cost of what you're doing. I mean, I appreciate that you have this team, but the cost of what you're doing, you could save a whole lot and put a lot of money into something else by just letting them be on campus. Like I said, they're good kids. They're great kids. Actually, I ran into uh some students at a parents of the students at the cross country meets down at uh Southern Lei into sales. their son and daughter can't do it because of logistics, you know. So, all I'm asking is that whatever safety issues you would need, you know, consider putting them back in the school. I mean, as a competing coach, you know, of
027of a Bethlehem team and as a township resident here, like I said, your coach is excellent. He's a great guy. He's great with all your kids. I mean, how many co-ed sports, you know, I think we got to support them. I think you got to support them. Give them a chance to win because the conditions they're under. I'm impressed that they win like four four a year, which is pretty good considering what they're up against, you know? So, it's it's not the boogeyman out there and like I said, how many other sports have could you say since like the school district was open have never had one injury and that's them cuz as people in the league know and all the students are truly changing the safety is that you can't ever afford one injury.
028Nobody's ever had one. Not in our school, Salisbury ever. So, you know, I mean, and whatever things you would need for to feel comfort, I'm sure, you know, the league and whatever would go along with, but just to consider it. Like I said, you would save a considerable amount of money. So, thanks for your time. I appreciate that. One last comment off off topic if I may. >> Sure. >> I've had experience with your uh bus drivers that run the uh elementary and middle school runs on Cidersville Road. They're excellent. So, I'm sure you get a lot of complaints, but quite honestly, at least the ones I've dealt with there, excellent job. And so, very good. Thank you. >> Thanks, Paul. >> Um, our third and uh uh final um Adam Sagal. [clears throat] Good
029evening everyone and thank you for your time. I'm here to talk to you about something that I've noticed over the years. The way our children experience learning in our schools today, screens have become nearly constant companions. They're used for instruction, assignments, free time, library periods, substitute days, and even for watching movies at the end of every single school day. For many of our students, school has become a place where eyes are on screens far too often. Now, I'm not here to condemn technology. I use computers every day at work. They're essential tools for analysis, communication, and innovation. But what I've seen both as a former teacher and as a parent who cares deeply about our students development is that this balance has been lost. When I taught for 11 years between the years of 2010
030and 2021, I found that the more we leaned on screens, more something irreplaceable began to fade. Students stopped looking up as often. They ask fewer questions. The spark of curiosity that comes from real dialogue, from hearing a teacher's passion started to dim. I've had students tell me that they used to hate math, hate physics, until we had real conversations that brought those subjects to life. That kind of connection does not happen through a Chromebook or an iPad. And the research backs this up. A 2023 study from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Media and the Young Minds, found that children who spend more than two hours a day on screens outside of instructional necessity showed significantly lower attention spans and self-regulation skills. A Harvard University report in 2022, Children and Screens, Understanding the Impact of Digital
031Media on Learning, emphasized that over reliance on digital learning tools in elementary grades can reduce motivation and hinder the development of deep conceptual understanding. And according to Common Sense Media's 2023 census, the Common Sense Census, media used by tween and teens, the average screen time for children ages 8 to 12 has risen to over 5 hours a day. Much of it during or directly tied to school work. These aren't abstract numbers. They represent real effects on how our kids think, focus, and relate to the world. Screens are not the enemy, but excessive screen, excuse me, but excessive screen use absolutely can be, especially when screens are used as filler during free time in the library, or when a substitute is present. Those moments could instead be chances for creativity, collaboration, or reading. Experiences that build
032minds and character in ways no device can replicate. Our children deserve to experience thing learning that's alive, human, and connected. They deserve teachers whose voices inspire them. Classmates they can truly engage with and classrooms where screens support, not replace the essence of education. So tonight, I'm asking that the board take a thoughtful look at the role of screens in our elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Our children's attention, creativity, and connection to the real world world are worth protecting. Let's give them back what technology has quietly taken, the joy of truly engaging with life and with learning. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. And thank you all three of you for for uh sharing your thoughts and um and comments tonight. So with that we will move on to uh can I have a
033motion to approve the following minutes? Uh the minutes for uh the curriculum and technology committee meeting from 7 September 17th regular board meeting September 17th and the ops and finance committee meeting October 8th. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? All in favor? I >> opposed. Thank you very much. Um, moving on to uh payment of the bills. Um, so tonight we have uh total general fund expenditures, food service, student activities fund, laptops, capital projects funds, and two bond proceeds funds. Uh, can I have a motion to pay the bills? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> All in favor? I >> opposed. Thank you very much. Uh treasures report. Um we have uh several documents in there. Um capital account breakdown, treasures report of September 2025, uh treasury report expendure revenue
034and as well as the investments. Can I have a motion to approve the treasures report? >> So moved. Can I have a second? >> Okay. Any questions? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> or no. >> I'm sorry. I'm a nay. >> Opposed? >> Oh, yes. Nay. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Report to the secretary of the board. >> Okay. I just have one little piece of information to share with you all. I don't mean to be doom and gloom, but uh if you all recall, I um spoke regarding the law firm that was soliciting uh homeowners to do appeals. Uh we did have two large ones that just recently came up that uh Jonathan from Kingspry represented us at. Um, one of the properties, uh, it consists of five properties. It's a professional
035park. Uh, all the buildings have less than 25% capacity filled in that. Used to be a lot of doctor's offices in there. And as the doctors, as the hospitals are putting up all their own buildings, the doctors are moving into those buildings. So, um, they did propose a very low market value. Uh if that does get approved, we will lose $54,000 in revenue from that property alone. Um this property was in foreclosure and is in receiverhip um all of those properties. So it is likely that it's going to come in pretty close to what they estimated on there. And Jonathan feels within it's valued at $90 million right now. They're saying 46 million. Um he's feeling it'll come in in the $5060 million range. So we're anywhere from like $350 to $54,000 lost on that.
036Uh he did attend another hearing that also came up on another property with a market value of almost $3.5 million. This one did have um appraisals. The appraisals came in anywhere from 2.8 to 3.4. Uh they're recommending 2.3 million. So it's um like $1.1 million loss there. If that's approved, we're stand to lose uh 13 almost 14 million $14,000 on that property. Those are the two that have recently come up and had board um hearings. So, we're going to wait and see how these proceed um and possibly um do an appeal ourselves if we need to. But I just wanted to make you all aware that we're looking at over $500,000 possible loss in our revenue. And if you all recall last year, our tax increase only brought us in 1.2 million. So half of
037that is gone if these are approved. >> Uh a clarification question for you. You mentioned the first building is largely unoccupied. Does occupancy affect how it's assessed? um the maintenance and the care of the property and the fact that they cannot pay their taxes and probably the mortgages. It's five buildings, five parcels it consists of and they did uh they are in foreclosure and it is in a receiverhip state. >> So it's an indirect Yes. but indirectly. >> Yes. So they're showing their hardships and what they're having. So, it's potential and highly likely it's going to be decreased significantly from its current value. And if at the high end of what Jonathan is estimating, it's a $350,000 loss. If they get what they're asking for, it's a $55,000 loss. >> So, go ahead. Oh, sorry.
038So, in regards to the potential, are we looking at contingency plans on how we're going to handle this? >> Um, this was just brought Okay. >> to my attention the hearing they just had it. There hasn't been discussion on it, but um I did make you all aware that there's like uh close to 30 appeals that were filed. Um these are six six separate each piece of property was a separate appeal uh put into one hearing date. So that's six of maybe 30 that we've just had. Um and these are the two of the larger most of them are homes anywhere with uh residential. These are commercial properties that just went. The residentials are anywhere from 500 to 1.5 million in those ranges. >> Are there other commercial properties on that list still or are
039the rest of them home? >> All of them are residential. Um the commercials came up first on their hearing dates. >> You know what that those potentials are for the rest of >> I'm sorry. The potential for the rest of those homes might be. No, we do not know until they present what their appraisals came in at. Um [snorts] what kind of uh proof that they have. So that will be something that you know is going to have to be heavily discussed at the time when we when we know more of what's going on here. Uh this hearing did just take place. It usually does take several weeks before the board of appeals hands down their ruling. So at that point then I'll have more information to share. >> So So again, follow-up question on
040this, right? So for right now, we have an anticipated range of what um the attorneys are saying that we could see. Are we starting to look I know yet the plans and start looking at that and see what recommendations are going to come from the administration later on? So it would be during the budget process. >> Okay. >> Because we would have a better sense of um increased revenue based on um you know maybe even the South Mall. And then we also have the decreased revenue based on potential appeals. >> And when does this take effect if it gets approved? Uh it all depends on the date that the board of appeals sets. Sometimes they set it for J. A lot of times they follow the county and the municipality schedule with January 1st. So
041that means we would have to go retro six month refunding for January through June. So, we would have to in this current year refund 6 months backwards. >> Uh, if they would if they would receive it, it would say it would go into effect for probably January 1st. It all depends on the date that they initially placed their appeal when they filed it. And I know several of these were filed a while ago. And I think they're just inundated with appeals. So they are taking several months to come up. >> Any other questions? >> Sorry for the bad news. >> Sorry. >> And in terms of a plan, we wouldn't be looking to reduce anybody or cut anybody midy year if this comes to fruition. That's why I'm saying next budget cycle. >> Okay. Yeah.
042because I that's where I was more or less getting to is that that's why I asked the >> it could be an implication potentially for this year but we're not >> okay >> you know we're not we're not planning to reduce staff to cover that 500,000 midyear thank you >> allrighty uh curriculum and technology Mrs. Klinger >> okay um I have I am going to move tonight items 2.1 through 2.4 4 2.1 is a special education settlement agreement and release regarding one of our students. Uh 2.2 is approve a temporary med medical excusual instruction for a student for a specific amount of time and this was uh the time was designated by the students physician. 2.3 is a letter of agreement between Valley Youth House and the district to support our students and their families.
043And 2.4 is to approve the district and buildingwide technology software applications. U I think we saw them at the curriculum meeting the last time, the whole list. So with that, I will move 2.1 through 2.4. Do I have a second? >> Second. Any questions? Okay. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> Okay. Thank you. [panting] [snorts] >> Alrighty. That takes us to section 3 operations committee. Mr. Spinner. One uh one note. Uh Tom, I'm going to ask that 3.1 be a roll call. >> Yep. All right. So, all right. So, good evening everyone. Uh as Mr. Gal just noted we're going to save item 31 for another uh vote. But uh tonight we're bringing forward uh four items for approval tonight. Uh one being 3.2 for the engagement letter with uh Fox Rothschild. Uh
044the other item will be let's see here. As I'm jumping my eyes are crossing tonight. Apologies. One of those days. We got per capita changes and item 3.3. 3.4 is a notice to proceed in regards to the CHA uh with the Salisbury Township School Districtwide uh site concrete improvements. And the other notice to proceed is for CHA for paving improvements for the district. So at this point, at this time, I'd like to move items 32 through 35. >> Second. Any questions? All right. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. I'm also an I. >> All right. Moving back to 3.1, the resolution to withhold a portion of charter school payments until state funding is restored. At this time, I'd like to move the item 31. >> Second. >> Any questions? Do we do we want
045to give a little bit of an explanation of what this is just so the public is aware? >> Sure. Do >> you want me to? >> Yeah. >> Um given that we are well past the 100th day of having the state budget passed um 20 approximately 21% of our funding comes from state revenue. So without a budget we do not receive that. uh therefore we cannot pass that on to the charter schools. We feel that it's only fair that if uh we are not receiving the funding that they should not be able to receive the funding. There are a lot of different um perspectives going on amongst all of the school districts, but we believe this is fair and equitable both to the charter schools as well as to the school districts. We can only
046uh pass on what we do have, which would be the local portion. So, we're um recommending withholding 21% of our revenue and that's based on the revenue as of June 30th. Uh the breakdown that we received for the prior year. I also want to be explicit that there's nothing in school code that says you can do this. We are recommending this as a fair way of withholding some of the money that we are not getting. And once the budget is passed and the state releases funding, we will immediately make each charter school whole. So we will be tracking all of this and we will be sending it as one payment to them when we receive the funds. >> Quick question. If they decide the state decides to give us less 20% versus 21, what do
047we respond to that? I doesn't this doesn't have any bearing on what the state gives us. This was based off of what we're holding off of a bill amount that we're set to that we have to pay to them. So regardless of what we get for the upcoming year for has no bearing on the amount that we pay annually per student for the charter school for students. So we're withholding 21% of that amount and then we will be giving that to them. you. >> I'll also note that we're not the only district that is taking this approach. Um, and I believe, and I guess this is me speaking as myself, it's it's also a message to the state that, hey, get your budgets in line. I'll say it. I mean, we have to we have
048hard fast dates where we have to have ours. It's only fair. So, don't expect us to pick up the weight. Um, and if anybody wants to talk about that from the state, you know where to find me. Um, >> no. Uh, any other questions? All right. So, at this time, I'd like to ask for a roll call vote, please. >> Sure. Mr. Gates here. >> Agreed to pay or not to pay. I'm sorry. >> Yay. >> What's a yay? >> Nay. >> Yay. >> So, the motion is to approve the resolution that will withhold the dollars. I approve the resolution to hold with [laughter] >> Okay. >> Yes. [gasps] >> Mrs. Glennister. >> Mr. Gal. >> Yay. >> Mr. Hoffman. >> Yay. >> Mrs. Clinger. >> Yay. >> Mrs. McKelby. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Nemits.
049>> Yes. >> Mr. Ricabani. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Spinner. >> Yes. >> Eight yeses. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> That's all I have for tonight. >> Thank you, Mr. Spinner. Um, let me catch up here on my agenda. >> Just like I did. >> What's that? >> Don't get crosses at once. I got five. >> Um, finance committee, Mr. Ricabani. Um, you're up. >> Yes. Um, I'd like to move 4.1 to the floor. And I can I guess I should explain that first before I move it. Is that correct? Move first. >> Move first. Okay, >> there we go. Okay, I'd like to move 4.1 to the floor. >> Second. >> Okay. Uh 4.1. There was discussion about uh reviewing our business office, our business practice. Um we received a proposal.
050Um and that is located in our notes and documents. It's from Paspo. It's for 6,500 and that would incorp encompass an all-around review of the business office and practice including in-depth interviews, review of our processes and systems. Um at the end they would provide a detailed report making recommendations and so that was a uh you know discussion based on you know the some of the great work Dawn's been doing but also um some of the maybe concerns that we've previously had about the treasurer's report. So it's a combination of both. Um so should we take a roll call on this also or is this >> so open for discussion? And I know the board wanted to talk about it previously, so not sure if people still want to talk about it. If not, you can.
051>> Any questions? Any comments. >> Personally, for $6,500, I think it's worth bringing in somebody from the outside just to kind of check us out. I know, Don, you've done a lot of work to try to change processes and procedures, and I give you a lot of credit for that, but I think you know as well as I do that, um, you know, staffing is an issue in your office. So, if we can make anything go smoother for you. I'm hoping, you know, that they can they can uh, you know, find find anything for us, you know, and I'm I'm worried now, too. we're going to have less money, you know. So, it's just, you know, trying to look for any efficiencies and that's not just monetarily. It's also in terms of, you know, time
052efficiencies. [snorts] So, I I think it's a good idea and it's such a a low like it's a low cost in the scheme of things. >> Yeah. Yeah. I kind of agree with Laura here. I mean, Don, I know you've done a tremendous amount of work and we've made huge steps forward. You know, again, something like this for that low of a cost, just to have someone do a help to do like a check and balance on work processes or anything we can do to find efficiency, help you out, reduce some of your paperwork. Anything we can do there, I think, is worth its weight in gold. But I do acknowledge all the hard work you've put in. Okay. Any any further questions or comments? Would be completed within 30 days of its initiation. Okay.
053All right. All in favor of 4.1 >> I was I as well. Any any nays? Okay. >> All right. Thank you very much, Mr. Rigmani. That takes us to uh personnel committee. Uh Mrs. McKelie. uh a number of items uh kind of the usual though. So the hiring authority for Lynn um some resignations uh two IAS and a coach we have the retirement of our uh one of our middle school custodians who's I believe been with us for a while. Um and then employment of IAS uh and some coach employment as well. Uh additionally two items pertaining to um circumstances with students uh medical excusal and home tutoring and some sub additions. Um I'd like to move items 5.1 to 5.13. questions or comments? >> I I have a comment actually and result it's around
054the resignations. Um item 5.2 for u for those who don't know uh Mrs. A uh who was an instructional assistant that had a lot of experience when it comes to um dealing with special ed children in particular. you know, based off of the letter that she wrote, I I'm kind of surprised that we would let that much knowledge kind of walk out our door for that. You know, I you know, given the fact that we're expecting some of our hardest and heaviest loads ever since we brought a lot of special ed students back into the district, uh when we made as a board a conscious decision to to go ahead with that based off the recommendations from Tracy Jacobe and the administration, I'm I'm really kind of surprised and taken back by that. So, I
055I just wanted to to make that note there because um again with that many kids coming up to the high school here probably in very short order and to lose a high school IIA that had that training um it's just a real surprise. >> I'm happy to discuss that with you offline. >> Okay. Thank you. I appreciate >> feel free to reach out and as any other time if anyone has any questions about any of the personnel items I'm always willing to discuss it but obviously we're not going to discuss anyone's position or potential positions publicly at a board meeting. Um I do kind of want to second this and I know the I know some of the background here. Um for those of you that don't know Aaron Alulis was Lucas's uh TSS which
056is a behavioral support person. they're called something else now, but for many years, uh, she literally is decades of experience working with kids with behavioral issues. Um, and while I think we do a reasonably good job training our IAS, training never beats experience. And, um, she is not the only IIA I'm aware of this year that has resigned because, um, long-term IAS, right? IAS with lots of experience, a lot of time here. She's not the only one I've heard of resigning because, you know, we have decided this is the thing and then there's no wiggle room there. And I understand unions are involved. I understand that um, you know, sometimes you really need somebody over here and you do not need somebody over there where they would prefer to be. And I get all those
057pieces work together, but I think we really need to be examining, you know, whether or not we're doing enough to retain our people, especially the ones that are really good. And, you know, I know a lot of IAS and most of them are okay, but you know, [clears throat] the purpose of an IIA isn't just to be a body that we can get there. you know, that experience, you know, that training, um, the love that some of these people have for these kids, you know, they're like their kids. Um, that really is valuable to this district. And you know, for some of our longerterm employees, I think we need to, you know, we we do have a better starting wage, which I'm really glad we do, but we need to look toward retention as well
058and and where we can be flexible uh to meet the needs of, you know, of of our instructional assistants. So, I'm just going to follow up with that to make sure everybody understands to to be flexible to meet the needs of our instructional assistants might look like some instructional assistants want to work certain days of the week. Some instructional assistants might have second jobs, some instructional assistants might want to work additional hours. We were accommodating a lot of additional hours during COVID because we didn't have all of the positions filled. So, we might have had a student or an assignment that had two or three people with an hour here, an hour there, and those instructional assistants um had the opportunity to pick up more hours. When we were able to increase the wage, the
059natural consequence was we were able to increase the number of employees we were um able to hire. We're just about full at this point, and we were able to go back to our four hours per person for the most part. um and two people together gave us eight hours. So we have some overlap uh between those those um IAS 448. There's a little bit of overlap over the student day of 7 and a quarter and that gave us time for um lunch duty and some other you know paperwork things for IAS. So if an IIA wanted extra hours, we can't just provide extra hours. we would have to post a a five-hour position or we would have to come back to the board and say we want to create full-time positions instead of part-time positions.
060Then, you know, the challenge of that is you add the health benefits and um so there are a lot of factors as Laura alluded to it and certainly retention is very important and we don't want to lose any of our IAS. They're here not because we just need a need a body, but because we need them to provide services to kids and um support them in classrooms. Many of them support and allow for the level of inclusion that we have, meaning they go from a special education classroom into a regular education classroom to support students or even up to LCTI. We have some who go to LCTI. So, I recognize that challenge. I'm, you know, really happy to say that we have almost all of our IAS filled. So, we have been able to um
061hire some quality people uh based on that increase in wage. Can I ask a question? I know that most other school districts have at least semi positions that are 29 hours a week. Um you know, because I've looked around um quite a bit and at least schools in the area, there's I think [snorts] possibly all of them except us. I but don't like hold me that to that do have at least some positions that are 29 hours. Why don't we opt for that? >> So we would be paying approximately 30% more for every one of our if we increase them from 20 hours to 29 hours. >> That's not quite what I'm saying. I'm saying that you know could we have some of both? Like I I don't know like other people make the schedule
062work. That's That's I'm not trying to We could absolutely. Believe me, if I told the principles, "We're going to make everybody five hours instead of four," they'd say, "Yes, Tracy Tracy would jump up and down, but we have to pay for it." >> No, that's I mean, we could reduce the number of employees, too, which would make staffing easier, right? If we could find ways to, and I understand that doesn't work in every case, right? I'm not trying to pretend that it does, >> but in certain situations, you know, we might be able to take, >> you know, 420 hour employees and turn it into three 29-hour, you know, employees. It's just something to consider because it would also attract um you know some people probably only want the four hours a day but some
063people may want a little bit more and may want the extra money and you know would be more interested in the job you know and then we'd be competing a little bit more directly with you know east pen down the street from my house and you know all that Bethlehem up the street from Joe's house and >> you know it's just something for us to think about like are there other patterns that we could utilize that would address some of these issues. >> Yeah. And I'm not opposed. We're we're always open to thinking about different things. Um and we're fortunate at this point the positions are filled. So regardless of, you know, the challenges that we've experienced and we've lost a couple of really good people. There's no doubt that you've lost some experience and
064some training. And we've had an opportunity to gain a couple of some really good people, too. So, we're glad that they're they're coming to us. I don't want to get us too far in the weeds here of of how the administration leadership is kind of picking and choosing, but I understand Laura's point and Tom's point greatly. Um, and I think it's great that we bring it to the awareness of Vigari. Let's look at things a little differently. Um, I just if they have a need, let's talk about it. Um, right now the the administration seems to be saying this is what's working. But I do understand what Laura is saying. If we want to make it a position more attractive, let's look at adding hours to it so it could be a little bit more
065competitive out in the marketplace. So I just don't want us to get too far in the weeds here. Um, and unless anybody else has any other questions that are that are at a high level, >> just one question and hopefully make this simple, but with more IAS, less hours individually, doesn't that give you greater option to use them when there's an absentee and stuff like that versus put them longer term and now they're now available when they take time off? That's the other side of the coin, I think. Yeah, more people does give you flexibility. Um, you know, every situation we come up with could have pros and cons, but certainly it does give us flexibility. We do have times where people um do cover. We try to work with IAS to give them assignments
066that are um, you know, rewarding and and that they want to do. Um, certainly some assignments are more desirable than others. And when people express concerns, we also try to work with them at um about their assignments and even about alternate positions that might be available in the district. >> All right. I think we need to vote here, don't we? >> Okay. >> Second. >> No. Hold on. Do we >> still discussion? Yeah, >> I second it. Yes. >> Any any other comments, questions? Okay. So, uh, and this, as a reminder, was items 5.1 to 5.13. All in favor? [clears throat] >> I'm also an I. Any opposed? All righty. >> All right. Um, for the record there, we were just we were checking to make sure we had a second. I was the second
067on that just so so it's it's documented out there. Um, since since uh Mrs. Glennister is not here this evening. I will handle the policy committee uh portion of the evening. Uh so we have uh several policies up for final reading and adoption. Um we're in the 200s here people. So we're making our way through things quite nicely >> slowly. It feels [clears throat] very slow. >> Do I need to read all these? >> No. Okay. >> They're all public. >> So there's a bunch of them on here. Um, and so, uh, I will move, uh, item 6.1. I have a second. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Thought, >> sorry, I just have a quick one just to make sure I'm reading it correctly. So, uh, policy 218.3, which is on the discipline of
068student convicted, adjudicated of sexual assault. Um, just to be make sure I'm understanding, if the student is convicted of some sort of sexual assault on another student, the board is going to be essentially required now to either put the student somewhere else or expel them and they will not be in the same building as the victim. Is that correct? Okay. Yeah. Um I think >> I'm sorry. Say that again. >> Microphone extracurricular. >> Sorry [laughter] for the people at home. >> My apologies. Um we need to keep them separated in toto uh transportation, extracurricular activities and in the school school building itself. And I may have just missed this and I apologize if I did. If we're in an intermediary period where there has been an accusation made but no conviction yet, how is that
069handled? Like we don't do we have a policy on that I guess is my question. Is it typical to have a policy on that? >> Um in my experience you don't have a policy on that but you do have a procedure. Okay. um where you may have um safe plans to keep the students separated. You might have them um sit at different parts of the cafeteria or maybe walk different ways to class so that they don't come in frequent contact with each other. But in terms of um having to physically separate them out of the building, we need an actual conviction and it's not a conviction on every sex offense. It's only on those that are specific. >> Okay. No, I appreciate that. But I just wanted the clarification for my own, you know, knowledge.
070>> Sure. Thank you. >> No problem. >> Any other questions? That's a great question now. Thank you for asking that. Um, any other questions, comments? Okay. Uh, all in favor? >> I >> opposed. I was an I. Sorry. >> That's all right. Generally, if we don't hear any nays, we assumed everybody's an eye. Um, so that takes us to the first reading, 6.2. two. Um there's um there's a I can't say we're in the 200s anymore because we're in 100s, 200, 300s, and 600. So, we're all over the place on these first readings. And there's um across several areas here um ranging from extracurric extracurricular activities to diabetes management, fiscal objectives, budget planning, budgets, budget stuff all all around um tax collection, bank accounts and tuition. So we're this this is kind of a smattering
071of a bunch of different policies. Um so I will move 6.2. two. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Oh, we don't have to. No, we don't have to vote on this. I'm sorry. >> First reading. [snorts] >> First reading. So, it's so they have been read. Um, >> the nil. >> You don't say it that way >> when you could say it however you want. >> 123. >> It's an acronym. >> Okay. >> Just move on. >> No. Okay. So, >> no, no, no, no, no. We're so policy 123. correct um is actually something I just wanted to point out to everybody. Um this is something that is the world we live in today. But we will now have a policy on NIL. Um so uh which is name, image and likeness. Um
072which is interesting just so that this is something that we have to we have to plan for. Um, so if anybody has any questions or um wants to dive deeper in that, please feel free to talk to me, talk to Mrs. Glennister. Um, but it is it is a uh um the policy that we're using is actually uh was originally written by PASBA. So it's something that we're adopting that other schools are doing as well. [snorts] So any other questions about that? Okay. So then that jumps right to the student activities report which I mentioned before the kids took care of it for me. So thank you very much kids. Um and that takes us to the uh reports section of the evening and that's the uh uh first up there is the CLIU and
073Mrs. McKelie. >> Uh because of the timing of things the IU has not board has not met since our last meeting. So I do not have a report tonight. >> All righty. And next up uh and I believe we have Mr. Senator Frank online. Um, >> yes. Yes, you do. Joe, I'm here. >> How you doing, Sam? >> Good. Good. Uh, in regards to LRYC, as Lori said, the quirk of the schedule, I only had one meeting that was uh on October the 9th. My next meeting will be a committee meeting uh next Monday on the 20th. At our meeting, we reviewed fall attendance, which happened report headcount was up 1.5%. hours uh count was down 0.5%. But the growth was due to dual enrollment and guest students. Guest students are students that actually attend
074LRYC that are not going there for graduation. Otherwise, we were flat and believe it or not flat is actually positive and improvement. So, we continue to look at things we're doing to get students to return and attract new students and are investing in that. And it seems we're seeing some uh positive momentum on that front. The other big part we talked about and dominate the conversation is really the state budget and the latest offers from the governor is at 50 uh25 billion versus 47.6 uh 47.7. But the problem with that is if you wait long enough estimates become real revenue uh dollars. And it seems uh the latest revenue estimate from what the state has received has now gone down to 46.6 6 billion, actually $1.1 billion less than estimated. Uh the problem with that
075is we seem to be stuck at a stalemate. Republicans said they're willing to spend 100% of all revenues received and nothing more. So at this point, there seems to be no movement on either side. uh the feedback we got from our contacts in Carisburg where if there's not a deal done by this week, Columbus week, by the end of it, by the weekend, we won't see anything until after Thanksgiving. So, we'll see what transpires in that front. Uh not good news, but it is what it is. Uh we also discussed uh reviewed our middle states uh project which is proceeding successfully. Everything has gone extremely well. at the end of this program will be in two years in the spring of 2027 we have a mil states on campus to go through that process for
076certification. We also did have an executive session where we uh reviewed quarterly legal matters uh for the for the prior quarter and that's my report. Any questions? >> Thank you. >> Actually I think we got one question Sam. >> Hey Sam. >> Sure. Go ahead. >> This is Ian. Was there any resolution to the ghost student issue that you talked about where they there was the false enrollments that were >> well that that continues what we've done our is we have uh actually bought computer programming as well as set up uh processes. So we feel that this headcount is good. Now we would go back to 2024 where we feel our numbers are clean and you got to get the clean and then you can actually measure the programs you have at that time. So
077we feel our numbers are clean or as clean as they can be. I mean we reject uh it's in the thousands the number of students that we find to be ghost students are not real not there. uh this is a plague and if other uh colleges are not working diligently uh they're left with a lot of receivables that they'll never be able to uh uh get collected. So we have an act actu active program. We actually invite other uh colleges and university to come to our uh uh school and learn from us and show them what we're doing and how why we think where we're at is a very good point. So, but we have a really good uh partner and we use our software plus there's >> physical practices you can do to help
078identify them that we have down that combs through it a second time. So, yeah, we have resolution for that at LRYC as as far as other universities or colleges, they have to speak for themselves, but it is a it is a problem that's out there and hasn't gone away yet. Does that address your question? >> It does. Thank you. >> You're welcome. Thank you for asking that. Any other questions? >> All right. >> Well, thank you. >> Thanks, Sam. Um, so that takes us um to LCTI. Um, and Mrs. Nemits. >> Hey, thank you. I don't I just have a few things to share tonight. Um, our last meeting, what month is this? This is October. Our last meeting was at the end of September. Um, as of the August 30th um, enrollment data, Salisbury
079has 115 students at LCTI this year, which is about 4.5% of the student body. So, we're right about where we typically are. Um, and we also have 12 students that remain on the weight list for um, seats and programs. Um, last month, we also uh, reviewed the calculation of all of the JOC seats. So there are 21 members of the JOC from the nine sending districts. Um the distribution is based on the state tax equalization boards market values. Um so we just received the 2024 data in July of 2025 and we didn't make any changes. So the um allocation of seats is the same. Parkland has six, Allentown and East Penn have four. Southern Lehigh has two and all the other districts have one seat. And then um for everyone to mark their calendars, open
080house is Thursday, November 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and senior recognition night will be Thursday, May 28th. That's all I have. >> All right. Thank you. Uh Mrs. Glennister is not here this evening, so we won't get a update on from the uh PSBA. Um Miss Rodic, do you have any? >> No report. >> All righty. And that takes us um we could skip over the superintendent report. [laughter] >> Why not? >> Take it away. >> All right. So, celebrating our our facilities team. October 2nd was National Custodian Day. Um October is also thank a principal month. So, recognizing our building leaders. Thank you for being here tonight and being with us in our schools. >> Which one's your favorite? >> Oh, I I'll never tell. They're all my favorite. Just like your children,
081right? >> [laughter] >> Um we're very we're very lucky to have a team with a very diverse diverse skill set. So glad to have them. Um I had a chance to one of the things that Kingspry offers is um every year education webinars for their clients. So I found these really interesting and we typically send somebody to attend and then um we take the slideshow and load it up and share it with everybody else. So so everybody gets a benefit. It's only in the district, Christine. Only in the district. Um, but we, Don and I were on what related to residency and homelessness and updates and changes in our obligations. So, um, important to show that continuing education. Um, also had a chance to participate in algebra tiles. Did you all know there were such
082a thing as algebra tiles? So if you look in that picture, those red and blue um manipulatives, sort of like the base 10 blocks with the singles and the tens and the hundreds, that y that blue one, the largest one there is an x squared. So really interesting professional development related to math, trying to make math visual for our learners. um also participated in the Lehigh University Study Council where we um I attended a session related to um collaboration and a collective effort in our in our current landscape of education. Thanks to all of you. Um >> is that a familiar face on that slide? >> Which slide? >> This one >> the the the Lehi University one who's speaking. >> No, he is not a familiar face. >> Okay. >> He's um an outside
083consultant. >> [laughter] >> These are all these are all familiar faces. Um, thanks to everybody who participated in the homecoming and to the high school um team who put it together, the the building leaders. Um, Mrs. Salaby. Who else should I be mentioning? Miss Morning Star. >> Mrs. Zeteler and Mrs. Adams. Yes. So, thank you to the team. It was a lot of fun. Um, love this. the music, our music got a little, our marching band got some love from Tamakqua on one of their Facebook pages. Um, and Chris shared it with us and it was just, it made us proud. They mentioned how their our marching band came over to see them and supported them. Um, I participated in the Salbury Township Comprehensive Plan stakeholder survey. So, I don't know if any of you
084participated or signed up to participate. >> Um, >> but you didn't already. Great. So, if you haven't, you can still give um input. So, encourage our residents to do so. They, you know, ask some questions. What makes Salisbury a great place to live, work, and learn? Um, wanted to talk about what would you want to see as improvements in the township? Um, how does the township and and district work together? We talked about that. Um this was the you heard about the uh bullying anti-bullying assembly. So um that's the guy that jumped over my head. [laughter] Um want to also make the board aware that we are going to implement three-hour delays for keystones. Did that go out already? I wasn't sure. Not yet. So not till December. Okay. So, um, lots of challenges with
085a 2-hour delay and and Heather and the team said, you know, can we can we go to virtual days and, um, you know, or are there other options? So, we're going to try a three-hour delay. There are several other districts who have tried this with success. It allows the kids to still go to LCTI. It allows us to still serve lunch. Um, it does it may it may not solve our coverage issues for the Keystone exams. Um, we may be looking at an alternate plan, but we're going to try that for this year. Uh, we had a we hosted coffee and conversation here this morning. So, thanks to Dawn for participating in that. The township, you can see um the township manager there, Kathy Gorman, as well as Don Sabbo. Um, we also had Lieutenant
086Casey and Officer Officer Nostein. And we had quite a few residents show up to talk about a variety of topics. So, thank you to them for participating. Um, bless you. And that is all I have. >> Lyn, can can I just say one thing again? I just wanted to give credit to uh Heather Morar and the group that put homecoming together. Did another fantastic job this year. The parade was a lot of fun. The pep rally was hysterical as always. Um, they do a great job and I just want to let them know that they, you know, deserve some props. >> Thank you for that, Tom. >> All righty then. Um, that takes us to new business. Does anybody I have something for new business unless anybody else says something first? >> I actually have
087a question. Um, do we monitor automatically how many hours an individual machine is being used? Like, you know, I have a thing on my phone. I know how long my children are on their phones, tablets. >> So, you're talking about like the laptops? >> Yeah. Do we know how long the kids are on the laptops a day? Like is that something? >> I don't I don't know how how long every kid is on a laptop. >> I'm not asking you personally. I'm saying is that information that we could get? >> I don't know. I'm not sure exactly what we could get. Let us let us talk about internally and see what we might be able to do. >> All right. >> Mm. >> So people can't hear you at home and >> Yes. So or
088or we could just take this question later and we'll come back to it and I just answer back to >> that might be a good piece of information to have to even look at it, you know, by grade, you know, because I think >> I don't know. This is my opinion. It's one thing when 11th graders are on their computers doing work. It's a different thing when it's a second grader. So, you know, I'm just curious about it. >> Yeah. So, when we first rolled out the um implementation of the one to one, and I want to say this goes back to like >> it's like 2015. I was going to say 16. When we did that, we implemented walkthroughs. So, every administrator visited every classroom for 10 minutes um every month. And we took
089a sampling. I mean, it wasn't scientific. It was just this is what we can do. And when we and the question was were we using the technology too much at that time? And it came back that students were using it about 50% of the time. And that was based on a pretty large sample set. So, you know, we haven't done that since then. >> Yeah. I just think it would be interesting. And I I did earlier this year talk to a charter school parent who said that one of the reasons she sends her kid to a charter her actual multiple children to a charter school is because of the amount of screen time that's spent at Salisbury. >> That is so interesting because I have no parent has said that to me. >> No. Yeah.
090I I can >> that's I mean that's a one individual >> no and I know but I'm just saying like you know I think most parents are concerned about screen time with their kids you know going back to uh citizen comments and just if it would be >> easy for us to get that data I think it could be useful >> we'll talk about it internally >> all right so that anybody else have anything else for new business otherwise I'll take the floor on this one um so everybody's aware or if you're not aware the uh um the uh municipal election is forthright coming in the beginning of November. Um several board seats are on up for uh election. Um there is the chance due to how the ballot is written and how the people
091that multiple positions that are on there um that will leave us with one seat vacant. Um so in preparation and this is not by any means we we're just trying to be ready to op operate um right away and and expedite the the the procedure after after the election is uh we're we'll have questions ready if anybody would like to apply for the open seat. I'm going to let Lynn speaking because I could already hear staring daggers in my eyes saying I'm telling me I'm doing it wrong. Um so go ahead. Why don't you just >> So, just to clarify, it is possible as a result of this election that when you hit board reorganization in December, there will be a vacancy on the board. So, after there is a vacancy on the board, you
092have 30 days to appoint someone. So, you could wait until that vacancy exists and then start the process of trying to appoint someone. You have to do it in 30 days, so you'd have to realistically do that before the before the winter break. Um or you could say tonight if we have that vacancy, if that actually does exist as a result of the election on December 3rd, we could have um after the election, we could anticipate the vacancy and we could send out an interest um survey to people who may want to apply to be interviewed as candidates. Last time we did this um we allocated 15 minutes for each interview. We shared the questions ahead of time. Tell us why you're interested in serving on the board. What are challenges and strengths of the
093district? Describe your decision-making process. And is there anything else you would like to share at this time? So, if we wait until November to see the official unofficial results, we could then send this information out and have interviews um that night, the night of the reorg. Everybody good? Okay. So, one of the things they don't tell you when when you when you're president of a school board is you have to have really good peripheral vision. So, you can tell when when your superintendent is giving you the evil eye about saying something incorrectly. Um anyway, so there are a host of other reports here for everybody to uh review at their own leisure leisure and time. Um our upcoming meetings uh we have an ops and finance November 5th. We have an uh curriculum and techn
094we have an executive session on the 19th of November and then we have a curriculum and technology meeting on followed by the regular board meeting on the 19th as well. Um so with that I will adjourn. Thanks.