001Good evening. I'd like to welcome everyone to the Monday, June 30th, 2025 business board meeting. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The board met in executive session prior to this meeting to discuss personnel and legal matters. This meeting lasted approximately 30 minutes. And now um is there any public comments on any items on tonight's agenda? Uh is it related to something on the agenda personnel? Is it related to the swimming situation? There'll be another comment period at the end. You're welcome. Thank you. Uh then I will turn it over to Dr. Christian for the superintendence report. Thank you. Motion to approve the personnel
002report as presented in 3A. Board action is requested for the attached personnel changes. Appointments for promotion employment or transfer are subject to the presentation of valid credential employment verification documentation and statemandated requirements. May I have a second, please? Sharon, any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Uh Rick Motion to approve the non-bargaining unit rates for the 2526 school year as presented. May I have a second, please? Gail. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. This is a motion to approve agreement with substitute teacher services for continued substitute services for the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2027 as presented. May I have a second, please? Will. Any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Motion to approve an agreement with Dr. Carl Poland of Cedeline Pediatrics to provide student
003physicals at Colonial Middle School for the period July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 in the amount of $4,000. May I have a second, please? Rick, any questions or comments? This is for all of our students in the middle school who want to participate into in PIAA sports this coming season. It's just a new position. Great. Thank you. All in favor? Thank you. And Gail, this is a motion to approve the separation and release agreement between the Col Colonial School District and employee number as presented. May I have a second, please? Chris, any questions or comments? All in favor? Thank you. Uh, and now we will move on to public comment. Um, you can approach the mic and please state your name and place of residence. testing. Uh, good afternoon everybody. My name is Phil
004Morvc. I'm a resident of Plymouth Township, 6turn Circle, Plymouth Meeting, PA 1 19462. My wife and I have been residents of Plymouth Township in the Colonial School District for 20 years this point. And my family, the Moravex, have been Plymouth residents for 75 years since 1950. I also have three children in the district who all go to Colonial Schools. a rising third grader at Plymouth Elementary, a rising sixth grader going to Colonia Middle School, and a rising high schooler going to 9th grade in Plymouth White Marsh High School. All three of them are also swimmers competitively and have been swimming since the age of seven. They all currently swim for Plymouth White Marsh Aquatic Club, PAWAC. Um, one of them has also swam for Colonial Community Aquatics, CCA, as well. And we do have other
005parents um here. Uh and some of them also have uh kids who swim in both or do diving for one and swimming for the other. Um historically, I don't understand why we have two teams when we've got other uh swim programs throughout the area like North Pan and Upper Dublin that seem a lot bigger and only have one. But I'm just a parent. That's not my choice and it's really not my decision. What I do know is that for many years they seem to coexist. Again, I've been on both and we always seem to get pool time for everybody. We'd be at the high school, they would be at the community center. They're at the community center or the high school and we'd be at the other. And it all seemed to work out until
006last year when all of a sudden it all fell apart and it didn't work that way. And we found ourselves going all over the place for swim time. And when I say all over the place, I mean Arcadia University, Fort Washington, Whistening High School, where my kids would ask, "Daddy, aren't we PW? Why are we going to Wahhicken High School?" So, well, they can't take us right now. I don't understand why, but I do know as we also do run track for Kchock and Electric Force. So, we're at the high school that often that pool was sitting empty while we could have been swimming in it. Um, something happened last year and it changed. And this year, we now know that the community center, Plymouth Community Center's pool is going to be closed for 6
007months of the year for renovations. And I'm sure those renovations are very important and are well needed. But it brings up a a bit of a scheduling crisis. So I come to the board asking for two things. One, just to warn everybody of this impending scheduling crisis. And it sounds like Dr. Christian is aware of it already. So I'm, you know, happy to see that school district cares. But also to, you know, ask for a commitment to fairness and transparency regarding how we allocate pool time. Plymouth White Marsh Aquatic Club's been around for 50 years now. is a class one organization by community standards here at CSD and we'd like to make sure that, you know, we're treated fairly. We're not asking to take away from CCA. I don't have anything against them. Again, I've
008been a CCA parent. We have other parents who do CCA, too. But just making sure that, you know, next year we're not as stressed trying to run around everywhere outside of our district to get pool time. It's very inconveniencing. It's very expensive. And also, it's uh it's difficult to manage, especially when you have three swimmers all going to different places. And we know that because this community center is going to be closing the pool that there's going to be a huge crunch on that, you know, very singular resource. And I know that our two clubs are not the only two that are going to use this pool, that they also have Special Olympics and other organizations that need to use it as well. So, I'm just asking for some fairness and and some transparency. And
009I know behind the scenes everybody's working together on it, but I'm asking for transparency to parents so we can actually understand, you know, what's happening and when and why because we are trying to plan our years as well. And you know, kids for everyone's awareness swim 3 to 5 days a week often. So it's not a small commitment for kids who are in any of the swim programs in our area. So I just wanted to make sure that you know everybody's aware of that and that um you know ask for some transparency around it. Thank you. Thank you. Uh after we exchanged emails this weekend, uh I did talk to Mr. Lai this morning from facilities and I asked him to send an email uh to all uh user groups that used the pool last
010year. We understand with the community center being under construction this fall and your need to get schedules uh created for families uh we asked everybody submit their requests no later than August 1st so that we can uh allocate pool time as equitably as possible and I also ask them to send to each of the user groups policy 707 so that each of the organizations who submit time can adhere to those policies. You're welcome. Is there any other public comment this evening? Any further board comment? All right, seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.